Example sentences of "[noun pl] did the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farm work needed to be carefully planned so that only in extreme emergencies did the part-time farmer have to be recalled from his other employment . |
| 2 | Rude , but true , because not for another two decades did the Scottish capital get around to paying for proper effluent disposal into the River Forth . |
| 3 | Where on this conjoined road of shared experiences did the Prime Minister go so badly wrong and become a Tory ? |
| 4 | How many seats did the Liberal Party win at the next election ? |
| 5 | Heavy lorries did the big power chords and the postman whistled an old Rolling Stones number . |
| 6 | In what ways did the Nazi party attract popular support ? |
| 7 | In what ways did the Persian Empire restrict the freedom of its subjects ? |
| 8 | In what ways did the British Steel offer differ from other privatization issues ? |
| 9 | Why after the earlier failures did the military rising of 1820 , ‘ risky to the point of being ridiculous ’ in the opinion of one of the conspirators , nevertheless succeed ? |
| 10 | 62 of the 266 were , it is true , listed buildings , but in only three of these cases did demolition proceed against the wish of the local planning authority ; and in none of those cases did the Advisory Board object . |
| 11 | When in 1952 Michael Ventris announced he had succeeded in deciphering Linear B and that it was an archaic form of Greek , howls of indignant refutation were raised by the fraternity of linguistic experts as a matter of course , and when , with that beautiful sense of timing which nemesis has , a whole library of Linear B tablets was unearthed in Pylos on the Greek mainland one year later , translations of which confirmed Ventris 's conclusion , the experts did the only thing they could under the circumstances : they accused the discoverer and Ventris of having forged them . |
| 12 | Only when the Bill was amended to make it compulsory for local authorities to provide and maintain facilities for deaf children did the Liberal Government of the day allow the Bill to become law . |
| 13 | Among the Arapesh , she found very few ‘ natural differences ’ in men 's and women 's behaviour , with neither sex exhibiting aggression : women did the heavy carrying ( because of their supposedly strong foreheads ) , and the men lay with their wives during and after childbirth , ‘ sharing ’ the pain and strain . |
| 14 | Only on 3 occasions did the named individual actually appear in the dream as themselves . |