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

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1 While a lack of entry qualifications did not rank as the most important reason overall for not doing a course , the 14% who did need entry qualifications may suggest that some of the non-enrollers had insufficient information about the courses they were applying to and , consequently , applied to courses for which they had insufficient entry qualifications .
2 It is therefore all the more significant that , among the few statistics it does contain , data on variations in performance between providers feature so prominently — 50% variation in acute hospital treatment costs , for example , or 100% variation in general practitioner prescribing costs .
3 Some people you do hate yeah
4 We leave you tonight with a look through the seasons and a special mention for all the people who help bring our programme to your screen .
5 In every community there are groups of people who help form your opinions about a whole range of things .
6 PEOPLE who help buy the homes they live in but whose names are not on the title deeds should be able to stop the legal owner selling over their heads , the Law Commission for England and Wales recommended yesterday .
7 Those people who do transgress social and sexual boundaries in loving fat women may punish their fat lover with ambivalence ( for example , by wanting to be with them privately but not in public ) .
8 Those people who do manage to stay slim but who are eating average foods , highly processed , high in fat , sugar , and salt but low in fibre , are likely to be damaging their health in the long term .
9 Yes , I mean we obviously feel that there are people who ca n't sit and listen or watch continually , and people who do dip in and out , but they still nonetheless want to know exactly what 's going on .
10 And who gives a damn about the people who do care ?
11 But I have friends — people who do care about me .
12 jobs to go around the people who do migrate to the urban skilled enough to jobs .
13 People who do want to use credit
14 I have no interest in the fundamentalists on either side , I 'm just interested in the people who do want to get one .
15 ‘ I do n't think anyone , who either has children or who does n't want them , can understand the state of mind of people who do want them .
16 I know people who do make money from their knitting and they usually concentrate on a particular line .
17 … And I think you 've also got to have people who do bear in mind that they 're about one of the few parts of the authority that are in the forefront of the people and are basically representing the authority .
18 To people who do eat pork , the Sulawesi warty pig is so good that it was worth domesticating , and it is the only pig besides the Eurasian wild boar to have become part of the human farmyard .
19 In some cases population intermingled there 's bound to be conflict whatever happens , it seems to me that these problems can only be solved , first of all by ensuring that all eth ethnic groups have the right to their own culture , their own language , their own religion and so on and to exercise them in their own territory , but they 're not discriminated again in jobs and housing and education , er and then also as you say to help with state sponsored finance people who do decide that they want to migrate , that they do n't want to live in somebody else 's Republic , that they do want to move across the border into , as it were , their own Republic .
20 People who do shift work often choose far longer hours than the basic hours that the Labour party would have them work .
21 One piece of research which I contemplated some years ago , but did not actually carry out , was a comparison between people who do go to the theatre and those who do not .
22 A remarkable number of MPs attend BNF 's annual autumn meeting , arranged precisely for people who do speak out and argue the toss on nuclear issues .
23 I ca n't believe knowing er some of the people who do hunt , that their motive is actually that they want to see a fox torn to pieces .
24 But for people who do suffer head injuries like Mrs Asmoyah , it 's not uncommon for them to suddenly come round a week or even ten days later and be perfectly okay .
25 Well we 've also heard the the the , the paradox that , as Moira said , there 's a growing stigma now attached to people who do smoke
26 And I would like to find some way of saying to people who do smoke , for instance , even on the top of buses where it 's now banned , you know , please do n't !
27 It seems to me the only people who do persist in that phase and make something tenable out of an unsatisfied , unsettled life , are rock musicians , and rock critics .
28 Yes , the three artists will mingle with the guests at the buffet supper which we hope will be by candlelight , and the whole evening will be rather intimate and rather special to people who do come .
29 Moreover , as Gordon and Newnham ( 1986 ) recently emphasized , ‘ Black people who do find jobs consistently earn less than white people and are in lower level jobs , even when differences in qualifications , work experience and language difficulties are taken into account .
30 There are still roughly the same amount of people who do get drunk and create a problem , but we are now dealing with the street offences they cause at two or three o'clock rather than ten till midnight . ’
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