Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb past] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the courts did give this construction to the term law they would be applying a very different thesis from that originally conceived by Gould . |
| 2 | The authorities did seek reserve powers by making all land subject to compulsory purchase , although they intended to leave most of it in the developers ' hands . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the parties did undergo some transformation as they adapted to a changing political climate . |
| 4 | However the judges did order that margin notes made by the so-called nymphomaniac on their genital size , sexual skills and bedroom fantasies would remain secret . |
| 5 | However , the searches did find related sequences . |
| 6 | I wanted to tell him that the proletariat of the suburbs did have strong class feeling . |
| 7 | ‘ The investors did commission some initial market research before they invested their money , ’ says former Institute president Mike Lickiss , who is currently ATV 's independent chairman . |
| 8 | Yet the point of this short section has been to establish that where the jurists did face similar problems in coping with defective trust dispositions , they proceeded in very much the same way as they had done with legacies . |
| 9 | In addition to this breach of the moral duty of fidelity , the court appears to have been concerned with the risk of confidential information being passed to competitors , because it was satisfied that the plaintiffs did own certain business secrets of which the employees had knowledge . |
| 10 | Generally , most of the men did feel some guilt and disliked fiddling , but said , ‘ I do n't like it but I have to ’ . |
| 11 | Psychologist Professor Barbara Tizard of the Institute of Education found that , although about 16% of the children did feel unhappy and that they ‘ did n't belong ’ , three-quarters felt perfectly at ease with their peers and reckoned that Afro-Caribbean culture , music and ‘ style ’ were generally admired . |
| 12 | In families where the mother tended to intervene often in the first observation period , the children did have longer quarrels and more frequent physical fights in the second observation period ( six months later ) than in families where she intervened less . |
| 13 | But on the whole the ex-slaves did acquire some land ( though not the '40 acres and a mule' of which they dreamed ) and the ex-serfs , though losing some of the land to the lords , especially in the regions of expanding commercial agriculture , remained peasants . |
| 14 | The Jesuits did convert one king , whereupon the Abuna absolved his subjects from their allegiance ; and in the subsequent rebellion the king was killed . |
| 15 | But besides the lull in firing the rains did bring one advantage ; the spectators were driven away from the hill above the melon beds . |
| 16 | In spite of their general conservatism the bivalves did produce some short-lived , bizarre forms with no living survivors . |
| 17 | The Tories did come near to letting Neil Kinnock steal the election from us , but if the party either blames it all on Chris Patten or just forgets the matter as a bad dream , it would not deserve to win next time . |