Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A boat did arrive last night , after Hector Luath had gone to his bed . |
| 2 | I mean supposing women 's football did get more support and i wen and i it did become more widespread , more popular at every level , there was time , the resources to do it , do you think the things that people complained about football at the top of this programme er , the bigotry , the aggression , the rowdiness , do you think they would begin to overwhelm women 's football in the way that some of you think they 've overwhelmed men 's football ? |
| 3 | Some 60,000 people in Srebrenica , in eastern Bosnia , have received no aid at all by road since December , though the US air force did drop some supplies by parachute into the area on Saturday night . |
| 4 | In Vienna the Secession did win representative status from the Austrian government and was , for example , able to mount exhibitions in foreign expositions . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , this particular Conservative administration did offer social policies which were designed both to indicate its commitment to dealing with social problems and to undermine the challenge of Labour . |
| 6 | Er , Professor did say final words of aspiration , and I sha n't talk on aspirations , I was interested in it , and although I talked the empirical linguis linguisism . |
| 7 | He subjected quantities of quartz crystal to pressures similar to those occurring in active fault zones in the Earth 's crust , and he found that the piezo-electric effect did induce visible ionisation of the surrounding air , just as Persinger predicted . |
| 8 | The Democrat-controlled House budget committee , therefore , had little opportunity to redraft the budget in a radical fashion , although overall its budget proposal did redirect some $13,0000 million of the spending embodied in the Bush plan . |
| 9 | Section 19 of the Act did protect rural areas from the immediate profiteering resale of houses in attractive areas , for example in small rural estates or in lone rural settings . |
| 10 | After several hearings between November 1817 and April 1818 the court decided that the appellee did have this right . |
| 11 | stated that in his opinion that if the Institute did recommend such action and an embalmer became infected as a result , the Institute could be open to legal action . |
| 12 | Although these measures were not especially radical in themselves , the Act against pluralism did infringe ecclesiastical immunity from secular jurisdiction , as offenders were to be prosecuted in royal rather than ecclesiastical courts . |
| 13 | ‘ As the Sun now recognises , the publication did cause personal offence to the Queen but it also caused offence amongst those who prefer to hear or see Her Majesty 's Christmas Message for the first time on Christmas Day . ’ |
| 14 | planning applications , erm the sort of locational aspects are important , the the existing policy in the structure plan did have some sort of control over the the number of jobs , but it 's as as David Potter has said , it 's been very difficult to monitor er the level of jobs being provided , and in practice it 's been really impossible to implement that aspect of of the policy . |
| 15 | Germany 's trade surplus with the rest of the European Community did shrink last year , to DM65 billion ( $40 billion ) from DM94 billion in 1989 . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , this roughly delineated period did see major transformations in the role of sexuality , and the book , as a whole , traces some of the major shifts in this process . |
| 17 | Despite this , the Labour Group did persuade some schools to delay implementation of the L M S Initiative and I rather suspect that some of these schools regret this decision today . |
| 18 | Some of the patients assigned to prednisolone did receive this drug for more than four weeks . |
| 19 | The perspective may not have developed antagonistic elements to the extent to which , at a generalised level , it could have been a genuine challenge to extant political power , but the populism did articulate working-class interests and demands assertively and independently . |
| 20 | The new package did contain some measures to alleviate the economic cost of adjustment for the poor . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the company 's financial controller said that , if one looked at the methods used by the cost accountant at the pre-investment ( i.e. product-design ) stage , it was clear that the notions of activity-based costing did receive careful consideration , before approval of the product design and projected product prices used in the investment appraisal . |
| 22 | They found that more than half their sample did have previous admissions within the preceding year . |
| 23 | The final effect of the First World War was less tangible , the impact of war on the attitudes of Unionists themselves , but there is no doubt that the holocaust did leave lasting effects . |
| 24 | In the case of Camden and Islington , the authority did have good officers , and they did have the capacity to plan for a future district based provision . |
| 25 | The British Monopolies and Mergers Commission did review these bids but dismissed fears that the deals were tantamount to backdoor nationalisation . |
| 26 | Our test tractor did have some difficulties in keeping the revs constant down at the 700–1,000rpm mark , but this was an early model and Same UK says the problem has been cured on current machines . |
| 27 | Three-figure assessments were altogether lacking , though a certain amount of cloth working did support reasonable groups of the second rank in Hungerford and Wantage . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , the Court of Appeal in Proctor and Gamble Philippine Manufacturing Corpn v Peter Cremer GmbH and Co ( The Manila ) [ 1988 ] 3 All ER 843 , pointed out that promissory estoppel may be relevant here if there is a representation which carries a strong implication that the representor did have full knowledge of the facts . |
| 29 | His research suggested that while the " Explanation approach " had little impact on infants , the technique did yield measurable benefits with 7 to 9 year olds . |
| 30 | The sparseness of fur did have one advantage — no mass of hairs to obscure the charming pose . |