Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] [vb past] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the potential for profitable production did improve , as the post-May 1968 expansion demonstrated . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Because er as far as I 'd concerned I 'd never heard of air raids before hand you know , know I had n't and I was , as I say , I was only nine and a half I know but er , I did use to speak to a lot more people than most , er lads of that age did like , you know . |
| 4 | But this is misleading in the sense that much of this expenditure did generate purchasing power in recipient countries , which led to demand for dollar goods , demand which was not effectively curtailed by the exchange controls . |
| 5 | Kenotic christology of this sort did have its own internal problems : on closer examination it is not easy to understand what exactly it can mean to speak of this ‘ self-emptying ’ , and attempts to make the matter more precise tend to fade into a tangle of artificialities and contradictions . |
| 6 | Men they for sudden joy did weep |
| 7 | A policewoman with long experience in dealing with sexual abuse did express the opinion that policemen can sometimes be more effective than women in encouraging very young male victims to talk about their experiences : and this policewoman was in favour of male colleagues joining her at the RUC 's specialist sexual abuse unit . |
| 8 | ‘ Though maggoty meat and people with one eye did come into it at one point . |
| 9 | And those families which were the worst , being inns and alehouses , usually some persons in each house did seem to be religious . ’ |
| 10 | Moreover , the economic cleavage that was perceived to be developing in this society did appear to correspond to the religious tensions that were generating party strife , and to anxious High Church Tories seemed to be yet another part of the process whereby Dissenters were thriving in the changed political climate after the Revolution at the expense of the Anglican interest . |
| 11 | If Pound in this way did bypass Aubeterre , he missed something after his own heart . |
| 12 | Certain developments in seventeenth-century science did prove more difficult for Catholic authorities to assimilate . |
| 13 | What , of course , the failure to achieve the desired curbs in local spending did produce was an inevitable increase in the burden upon the ratepayer . |
| 14 | One common Note on either Lyre did strike , |
| 15 | Writing the software was somewhat tedious , but having to work at this level did help the designers to get away from preconceptions about interaction which they might have had if they had been working within the input/output facilities provided by a conventional mini or mainframe operating system ( for example , that it needs a RETURN to terminate user input or that the operating system can properly handle the echoing of characters to the terminal ) . |
| 16 | The county at first stage did try of course to produce some exceptions and and I think all the districts found ones they liked and ones they did n't like and I think quite reasonably the county said well er possibly the role of E two is simply to produce this broad policy goal and er this will er and as Richmondshire see it it 'll be er for us to refine it as we see fit at district level . |
| 17 | ‘ Having so many Subject Assessors in at one time did prove disruptive ! ’ admitted Depute Principal Roy Beavis . |
| 18 | However , in the world of Orwell 's 1984 there may be people who although sure that the events abolished by official historiography did happen , are not so sure that the experiences treasured in memory keep the value which official propaganda degrades ; they might be happier for the assurance that , in the sense that it remains true that an event happened even if universally forgotten an experience remains good even if in universally shrinking awareness there will never again be anyone capable of appreciating it . |