Example sentences of "[noun prp] do [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The A four one three in Buckinghamshire at Dunton turn between Winslow and Whitchurch did see two mile tailbacks earlier on this afternoon , at that was Aylesbury-bound due to the accident involving a car on fire . |
| 2 | It would have surprised Claudia if Dana did have any money ; she earned a great deal but spent it as fast as she made it , and , while it made sense for Roman to bring her under his wing , Claudia resented it fiercely . |
| 3 | At about this time Mr. Tee did have some connection with Winchester , but the extent of that connection and what was to remain of it are matters in dispute between the parties . |
| 4 | Yes , WordPerfect does have drop-down menus , but they 're accessed via an unmemorable key combination — Alt plus the = key , although you can change the default to something more sensible , like plain Alt — and the keyboard shortcuts are equally forgettable . |
| 5 | Her poetry indicates that Leapor did have some friends before meeting Freemantle ; Octavia , for example , respected her enough to listen to her advice , even if she probably did not accept it . |
| 6 | The view for which Katib Celebi 's list forms the basis thus differs , broadly , in two important respects from the traditional account based on Mustakimzade : first , on the question of the origins of the office , by naming Hizir Bey , in Istanbul , as the first Mufti and by implication denying the Muftiliks of Molla Fenari , Molla Yegan and Fahreddin Acemi ( though d'Ohsson does make some attempt , if an inaccurate and and unpersuasive one , to take account of the tradition of an earlier Muftilik ) ; and second , on the question of how and when Molla Husrev became Mufti , this question involving also the circumstances of the Muftiliks of Abdulkerim and Molla Arab . |
| 7 | But despite the fact that he has been ‘ steadily critical ’ of successive governments ' housing policies , Prof Greve does see some hope for the future — and even for some of the tower blocks . |
| 8 | Even where Darwin does mention natural selection , he also mentions inheritance of acquired characteristics . |
| 9 | Although the last thing we want is a return to rigid central control , the NHS does need some coordination to ensure that scarce resources are used to best advantage and not wasted by the unsupervised duplication of facilities . |
| 10 | Wilson did put some flesh on the bones in a television interview with Norman Hunt , only to have it torn off in strips by the venerable Bridges , long since retired but still a determined advocate of a unitary Treasury dominating economic policy from the centre . |
| 11 | We are here to serve people of Cambridge and it 's quite clear that the people of Cambridge do want good services , they want , they want services which which improve the quality of life in in in the cities and this is precisely what is erm spending is there to do . |
| 12 | However , Webern 's Six Orchestral Pieces and Berg 's Songs to Picture Postcard Texts by Peter Altenberg did pose acute problems for listeners . |
| 13 | Jackson did promise some attention to the matter but it seems that nothing was granted . |
| 14 | Arnold Kaech did have one advantage denied to William Arbuthnot ; his monument could be landed on the spot by helicopter . |
| 15 | So far , most discounters have stuck to selling food , though Aldi does use one-off promotions of clothing to attract customers . |
| 16 | She had been right to say it was people like that who do terrible things , and if Timothy Gedge did do terrible things it would not be because he was different and exotic but because he was possessed of an urge to become so . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , during the operation , Rose did suffer further distress and bleeding into the brain , and was left with a very severe left hemiplegia . |
| 18 | With a couple of exceptions , the separate numbers ' are actually inseparable from their context while , on the other hand , Britten does use Wagnerian leitmotifs as part of a rather more generalised system of motivic transformations . |
| 19 | Indeed the BBC does send urgent tapes in taxis and you are supposed to avoid tube trains but the story I was told gave a different explanation . |
| 20 | But Huxley did envisage that selection acted on genes that had more than one effect on the form ( morphology ) of an animal , so that although the large body size would be adaptive , the extra large antlers were simply a consequence of prolonged growth . |
| 21 | Chisholm does make that move , and provides no new reason for believing in infallibility . |
| 22 | Joe does earn some money on the after-dinner speaking circuit , and has addressed an assortment of lawyers , writers and bankers since his release . |
| 23 | What Meredith Jones did took some months and what he did was unprecedented . |
| 24 | ‘ So Ryan did have some uses . ’ |
| 25 | Although Hildyard and Olson do cite this literature in their article , they do not confront the arguments it raises but simply respond to them with ‘ alarm ’ . |
| 26 | The CLRC did give serious consideration to dividing indecent assault into two grades , so the idea of grading is not entirely alien to England . |
| 27 | It is clear that Dworkin does make this assumption . |
| 28 | If Petrey does hold this view , then it is an extremely significant claim which should have been made explicitly , especially since many speech act semanticists have based their semantic analyses on a link between linguistic forms and illocutionary forces . |
| 29 | Bull does have another transaction processing product , BOS/tp , which is Bull 's Unix implementation of Tuxedo — this has nothing to do with CICS ; it enables existing Bull and RS/6000 customers to run Unix applications with Oracle and so on . |
| 30 | We have heard various explanations of who these people might be and Lord does take some comfort erm from Amendment number twenty-seven in the Bill , but looking at that Amendment , I 'm afraid My Lords it does n't really take us very far . |