Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flounder are the principle species taken from this shallow venue although bass , eels , pout , rockling , plaice and the odd cod do show . |
| 2 | There is some doubt about whether historical data do show the existence of a regular cycle of approximately fifty years , but the idea has attracted much attention in the 1980s . |
| 3 | Interviewing confused old people does take longer , and may well require more imaginative ways of gaining information than through a standard questionnaire ( see for example Willcocks ( 1984 ) ) , but surely an attempt should have been made ? |
| 4 | Fortunately most old people do get a satisfactory service from their general practitioner , finding that he will go to great trouble to see that they get all the medical and social help that is available to them . |
| 5 | The fact is , as we shall see , that different media do tend to be rather better for different things — you can not get a lot of information into a 30-second TV commercial , for example . |
| 6 | Er and solicitors well they 're there the point is about the solicitors among other things they can er mediate when you have the sort of family who are going to fallout and I 'm afraid people do have families that are going to fall out . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , quantitative data do provide some guide to changes in the subject balance of first degree courses over recent years . |
| 8 | The Leominster based Border Oak construction company — has taken on thirty two extra staff to help complete the six months contract . |
| 9 | It includes the employing of up to five hundred extra staff to help speed up the initial determination of claims . |
| 10 | However , early people did study those heavenly cycles which were easily discernible within their lifespan . |
| 11 | Because that is the aim , razzamatazz , music , flags , balloons , streamers and placards are appropriate means to help achieve it . |
| 12 | Murdered people do haunt their murderers , I believe . |
| 13 | Feeding on carrion might seem strange behaviour for a bee , but in fact many tropical species do supplement their pollen-and-honey diet in this way . |
| 14 | Although many of the stories are exaggerated accounts , and were once thought to be only legends , there is now proof that giant squid do exist . |
| 15 | threatened and awed the jurors to give a verdict for the King , and by unlawful means did surprize the county , that they might not make defence , and did use several menacing wicked speeches and actions to the jury and others , for obtaining his unjust purpose aforesaid . |
| 16 | Wenger ( 1984 ) , in discussing her North Wales data , argues that elderly people do turn to their children for support , but they do so reluctantly . |
| 17 | And enough elderly people did survive as chronically sick , physically maimed , or mentally impaired , to sustain the most negative seventeenth-century images of old age as ‘ a perpetual sickness ’ , ‘ a disease ’ , a time of impotence in the widest sense , ‘ the dregs … of a man 's life ’ . |
| 18 | Further work on the short-term memory paradigm by Poizner , Bellugi and Tweney ( 1981 ) produced confirming results that deaf people do use serial processes in a way similar to hearing people . |
| 19 | No well normal people do have milky coffee |
| 20 | And I know a lot of Labour people do agree with that . |
| 21 | Despite squeezes on capital expenditure in this sector , total sales did increase slightly to £9.3m from £8.3m in 1991 . |
| 22 | Choosing to get pregnant means letting go of control . |
| 23 | depressed people do kill themselves . |
| 24 | The latter is unacceptable because non-religious people do talk about the " spiritual " . |
| 25 | In the fourteenth century the Fabian tactics of the chevauchée found greater favour on both sides , although there were notable exceptions when the heavy cavalry did play a major role . |
| 26 | To a remarkable extent , blind people do cope with the many hazards to personal safety which exist but they are likely to be more vulnerable in an unfamiliar environment . |
| 27 | But Chinese people do have an inbuilt respect for the natural balance of things . |
| 28 | Many of these growth-seeking people do manage organizations . |
| 29 | Launching the network , David Trippier , minister of state for the environment and countryside noted that plenty of environmental data exists in isolation but that the ECN will ensure the collation of good quality compatible data to help develop a framework for future policies . |
| 30 | Some Canadian tinned salmon did reach the shops but it was very expensive . |