Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh pn] did [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Sun/Star readers were more likely than others to have no preference at all in 1986 ( despite voting in 1987 ) , and at the same time , those Sun/Star readers who did have a preference in 1986 were more likely than others to change it during the next year ( Table 8.16 ) . |
2 | Whilst a little over a third of employers thought there was no difference , those employers who did state a preference were , in almost all cases , more likely to prefer other recruits to young people . |
3 | Perhaps a more sensitive test would be to examine the writings of puritans who did take an interest in science in seventeenth-century England to see what connections they did make in their schemes for reform . |
4 | The few feminists who did consider the problem of women 's domestic labour came up with a collectivist solution similar to that of Beveridge . |
5 | To the region 's Labour MPs who did support the Bill , the compliments of many ; a conscience brickbat to those ( my own included ) who just could not find time to do so . |
6 | The spokesman said Tories who did meet the South Africans should remember that white minority rule still existed there . |