Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] [vb infin] a " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Having stumped up £250 to help sponsor a general practitioners ' management meeting in Nottingham , the Royal Bank of Scotland saw fit to leave it at that .
3 Five people helping lead a convoy of aid from Oxfordshire are missing feared dead .
4 . Can I just ask the other question perhaps which is relevant when people do make a contribution if they actually identify themselves so that may be useful if actually know who people are representing themselves or representing an organisation .
5 and if you leave a message it will be dealt with and people do leave a message , whereas before when it just said I 'm sorry I 'm not available they did n't they just put the phone down .
6 Needless to say , nobody knew , but the bidding went up in units ( people do like a nice round unit for this type of speculation ) of £500,000 .
7 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 .
8 The fact that people do get a lot of .
9 Even if young people do obtain a home in the privately rented sector , it is nearly always a transient tenure whether they are married or not .
10 It is clear from the evidence on British kinship that people do acknowledge a wide range of uncles , aunts , nieces , nephews and cousins as forming part of their kin network in some sense , but whether these people place a significant part in structures of support is quite another matter .
11 How many of you people do use a lot of written communications ?
12 People do have a fascination with that , do n't they ?
13 But then people do have a thing about first albums . ’
14 The American experience makes it reasonable to expect that , as the effects of the new advertisements and quotations regulations take hold , awareness of typical APRs will slowly climb so that in maybe seven or eight years ' time most people do have a reasonable idea of them .
15 And of course , some people do have a large block of time do n't they , because you know , they , they have very severe illnesses , and it builds up .
16 In practice , all media do have a limited life .
17 Public exposure on television and the continual attention of the rest of the media did have a marked effect on Hannah Hauxwell .
18 ‘ People accuse us of being a chain hotel with a standardised product , but we believe our staff do make a difference , and that our systems should never be unwieldy . ’
19 There , each of the three species does have a very different and highly distinctive pattern of markings .
20 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 .
21 Ethics do have a place in the boardroom , and our employees , er employees in I B M , would expect them to have that place .
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