Example sentences of "[Wh det] did the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A possible explanation for this apparently delayed effect of the Black Death is that the first onset , despite its virulence , did not harm the economy as a whole as much as might have been expected , and that it was the continuing effect of later outbreaks which did the greater damage . |
| 2 | At roughly the same time Adobe Systems introduced the PostScript page description language which did the one thing that had been though impossible or , at least , impractical ; real time font generation . |
| 3 | It seems to have been the tenth raid which did the greatest damage , when the ‘ sea island , with its H-jetty was hit and a Korean tanker loading there set on fire . |
| 4 | What I did expect to see was an improvement from a somewhat disappointing Ards and a Linfield team which did the Irish League proud with an excellent performance against Dinamo Tbilisi the previous Wednesday evening . |
| 5 | What did the rival Carolingians themselves believe ? |
| 6 | Once the party had shown itself , in the 1929–31 Parliament , unwilling to support Lloyd George 's programme of national reconciliation , it had no answer to the question : What did the Liberal party stand for ? |
| 7 | Rosenblum that day in the queue at Camisi 's : What did the good Lord create us for if not to be fathers ? |
| 8 | What did the other children have ? |
| 9 | Observe the completely different effect produced by replacing the adjectives in ( 1 ) by the corresponding adverbs , as in : ( 28 ) Ellen shook the keys loosely muzak drives them madly And contrast the two sentences of ( 29 ) ( b ) : ( 29 ) ( a ) what did the new system do to the motors ? ( b ) the new system made the motors quieter the new system made the motors more quietly 5.4 Let us now return to the matter of the resultative nuance which can indeed be observed in all the examples we have given , reproducing the structural diagrams ( 21 ) and ( 22 ) to do so : ( 21 ) ( 22 ) If these diagrams represent the relations actually used in constructing such expressions , it follows that the entity of the noun phrase , as initially present to the mind of the speaker ( and to that of the listener in the final interpretative phase of comprehension ) lacks the property of the adjective since it is structurally separated from it ; however , since that property is expressed by an adjective , then ex hypothesi it will apply to the entity of the noun phrase when the construction is taken as a whole ; if not , then either the property would be expressed by an adverb , and apply to the verb , or the whole construction would be literally incoherent . |
| 10 | What did the Soviet newspaper Red Star call Mrs Thatcher in 1976 ? |
| 11 | what did the Catholic policeman say , give me a boy until he 's seven and I 'll give you the man |
| 12 | " And what did the great Daybog say to you ? " the old man asked Martin . |
| 13 | Then the old man turned to Mihal and said , " What did the great Daybog tell you , my child ? " |
| 14 | What did the German writers of the century preceding Nietzsche 's book hope to find in Greek antiquity ? |
| 15 | What did the social workers expect to find ? |
| 16 | What did the big chimney say to the little chimney ? |
| 17 | What did the big chimney say to the little chimney ? |
| 18 | What did the big chimney say to the little chimney ? |
| 19 | When , when the censorship was operated , in Hollywood , what did the amorous couple do to prevent a film from being censored ? |
| 20 | What did the old gentleman think ? |
| 21 | What did the little bastards want ? |