Example sentences of "[noun pl] did [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While some schools did evaluate in committee the development of the library in the context of the project — and it is clear that developments in pedagogy were attributed at least partly to the project — we were not made aware of any which specifically monitored the number of times children and teachers borrowed or read books purchased specifically with project funds . |
| 2 | As the evaluation of both the Major and Minor Projects shows , teachers in project schools did argue with force that the use made of the library by both teachers and pupils had increased in volume and changed in kind . |
| 3 | Individual schools did enter into correspondence with the TES over its reporting of the full HMI report , and over the findings themselves . |
| 4 | For an instance where one of the parties did object to the principle , see Chelsea Man plc v Vivat Holdings plc ( 1989 ) unreported , Court of Appeal , 24 August discussed at 13.8.2 : and for two examples of how an expert dealt with points of law , see 13.8.3 . |
| 5 | Speaker variables were used to interpret the results of the analysis rather than as an input to it , and in fact speakers did fall into ethnic , status and age groups ( cf. |
| 6 | On the other hand it would be so much simpler for explanatory purposes if animals did behave like the rational egoists of classical economics . |
| 7 | On this occasion , in fact , a reply of sorts did occur to me as I stood up there on the ladder ; a reply to the effect that those of our profession , although we did not see a great deal of the country in the sense of touring the countryside and visiting picturesque sites , did actually see more of England than most , placed as we were in houses where the greatest ladies and gentlemen of the land gathered . |
| 8 | In the early 1790s , however , like canals , the trusts did feature in a general investment boom , as they did again in 1809 – 12 . |
| 9 | In his view Tom was being used as a pawn in the relationship between his parents and unless his parents did come to an arrangement whereby ‘ a more stable home situation ’ was provided , Tom would benefit from a residential school placement . |
| 10 | Surely if the judges did come to their decision on the grounds of relative merit , they should be prepared to defend it ? |
| 11 | The two areas did differ in the level of statutory service provision ; in Ipswich , home help input was available only two or three days a week for up to one and a half hours at a time , and a financial assessment and payment for home help had recently been introduced . |
| 12 | Though Arabs did emigrate to Egypt , the large majority of the population was unchanged , and indeed a significant minority of some 10 per cent remained committed Copts . |
| 13 | The Court decided that although the hours thresholds did amount to indirect discrimination , they were not contrary to European Community law since they could be ‘ objectively justified ’ on policy grounds . |
| 14 | Distinctive directors did emerge at the end of the decade . |
| 15 | Finally whilst it is true that prices and costs did increase between 1978 and 1987 , none of this was directly attributable to expenditures on the Mahaweli Project , which was financed by outright grants and concessionary loans from friendly governments : basic social services and food subsidies were never curtailed . |
| 16 | The universities did bid for the students , but all at the same top price , and the system was consigned to the UFC file marked ‘ fiasco . ’ |
| 17 | Moreover , despite the conservatism in design , the capital cost per MW of generating stations did decline in real terms , by more than a quarter in the period affected by the BEA 's decisions in its first five years , a decline almost as rapid as that achieved later . |
| 18 | Further , when the Visigoths did return to Gaul , it was to an area where Athaulf had once established his court . |
| 19 | What studies did contribute to was its amendment , its clarification , its reinterpretation , its revision , its incorporation and almost replacement by other perspectives , in light of accumulating evidence from a wide range of studies . |
| 20 | Where a claim arises allegedly due to storm damage it has to be established that storm conditions did occur in the area , on the date of the alleged damage . |
| 21 | Pre-tax profits were down 94.2% at £5.2m , but last year 's figures did benefit from a distribution from the UK pension fund , worth £90m — actual profits in 1992 were £200,000 . |
| 22 | In spite of the social dislocation and consumer privations that Stalinism wrought , it must be said that the ruthless and heavy-handed mobilisation of human and economic resources did succeed in achieving impressive growth rates and in building up a solid industrial infrastructure in what , with the exceptions of Germany and Czechoslovakia , had been largely agrarian countries . |
| 23 | The support of school managers did emerge as a key factor in library success . |
| 24 | In eighteen , between eighteen fifteen and eighteen eighteen er the great powers did intervene in France . |
| 25 | Ooooooh , how her leg muscles did ache from holding her skirt in this proper fashion — with blue flowers on it . |
| 26 | Then , since this House in Thomas 's case had accepted that judicial review by way of certiorari did lie to the visitor at least to restrain an abusive process , they held that there was jurisdiction to correct errors of law since ‘ illegality ’ is one of the accepted heads of judicial review . |
| 27 | Overall these indicate that while the rate of victimization recorded in the annual surveys did increase in the 1970s and 1980s , this was at a substantially lower rate ( 1 per cent on average ) than the officially recorded crime-rate ( 3.5–5 per cent average annual increase ; cf. |
| 28 | Every moment of their spare time had been spent cleaning and painting , and , with the help of Helen 's handyman , they had put up shelves and partitions , and the gleaming , spotless rooms did credit to their hard work . |
| 29 | What the murders did reflect in an odd way was the convulsing extremism — at both ends of a polarized spectrum — that existed between right and left , counter-culture and establishment , in 1969 , when Easy Rider was released . |
| 30 | Thus Sir Archibald Geikie ( of the Geological Survey ) in an address at Birmingham in 1898 deplored the idea of splitting schools into two sides or sections ; but the trend towards specialization proved hard to control , and to some the sciences did seem to be all that needed to be known . |