Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 Mrs Donaghy and Patricia McKeown , deputy regional secretary of health service union , UNISON , agreed that management do not do enough to support staff .
2 Repton is a case in point , and perhaps Mansbridge would have done better to omit works such as Repton 's Sarsden in Oxfordshire that has nothing to do with Nash except for stylistic associations .
3 And erm they are doing whatever they can do just to keep people aware of the need to maintain safety margins .
4 The database packages themselves , available on 5.25 or 3.5 inch disks , are simple to use and do not require staff training .
5 HOUSE builders in the North West are looking for the Government to do more to stimulate sales and economic growth .
6 Du n no people have said like that will last a really short time or a really long time , but what 's considered a short time I know what a long time is , a long time is like sort of four months three sort of four months onwards in n it for like people our age , what would a short time be they ?
7 They 've only been elected to nineteen ninety two , so they 're , they 're really , what there doing there forcing people to take some action now , because at Kathy says , she 's afraid of being left out , if there should be a , another Tory Government , so a lot of people are in the same position , they will be putting in eh , I think they just call it best of interest , not a proper application , but then if the whole lot , hundreds of us come along , which is quite likely they will , the Government will say well this proves that everybody wants to become you see , so it 's rather clever move , erm , as , as far as I 'm concerned , what 's happening with that she is eh here within the hospital , the consultant 's and the worker 's in the hospital .
8 Cherishing port as a special occasion drink was certainly flattering , but it did rather inhibit sales .
9 They do so to replace people who are off on longer term absences , to undertake special one-off jobs , to provide extra cover during holiday periods and to meet seasonal demands for output .
10 However , RENFE , like BR , did greatly reduce staff from the 1960s , largely as a result of technological modernization ( see ch. 5 ) .
11 Frequently , the scientific understanding needed for the progress he wanted to make was not available to him and the work he began did not bear fruit until after his death .
12 I was glad to see there were no towns here , because I did not want people to question me or pity me .
13 It did not contain £3 million but it was , Yarranton said , a token of the Sports Council 's commitment to make the games ‘ a success story for Britain ’ .
14 Surprisingly , his library did not contain works for flute .
15 On the whole , outpatient clinics catered for a less severely ill group of patients and did not reach people with severe mental disorder .
16 The question , posed by the Tobacco Advisory Council , was asking if readers knew that if smokers did not pay £11.5 million a day in tax , the basic rate of income tax would rise by about 5p in the pound .
17 For the record , Stephanopoulos insisted the president did not pay £130 for the haircut because the president and his family have a personal service contract with the Beverly Hills hairdresser to the stars .
18 Only this weekend , I had a telephone call from a distressed daughter who pointed out that her mother , who was widowed 18 months ago , had just received a threatening letter saying that , if she did not pay £11 for the 16 days between 1 April and 17 April 1989 , during which her husband had been alive , poinding action would be taken against her .
19 I did not think £9 too much for a fine steak , or £150 too much for the sort of weekend that would cost £200 in Edinburgh or London .
20 He did not think people wanted harmless fun on Sunday .
21 Lear must have found this side of Gould the most frustrating and hurtful ; he could not understand someone who did not think people were important .
22 The addition of 0.5 to 50 µg/ml SASP to the three types of cytotoxicity assay did not alter % cytotoxicity .
23 Charles was acting quite legally in initiating the quo warranto proceedings against borough charters , and his primary aim appears not so much to achieve royal control over the borough electorate — boroughs which did not return MPs were also subject to attack — but rather to drive Nonconformists and their sympathisers out of the local magistracy and to secure the empanelment of juries who would be prepared to act against the Dissenters .
24 Mike Sheron did not cost £1.2 million and he does n't speak French but no-one in the Premier League has made swifter progress this season .
25 ‘ I had rather you did not feed sheep . ’
26 Ian did not collect £200 for his efforts , but picked up a deluxe Franklin Mint Monopoly set .
27 In some cases the psychiatric service did not admit people to hospital early enough .
28 He did not hold staff meetings , and hardly consulted those who expected to be consulted , like the suffragan bishop or the archdeacons .
29 The package adhered to Bush 's election campaign pledge not to raise taxes , whilst also ensuring that , in theory , the budget deficit did not exceed $64,000 million , the legal requirement stipulated by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit reduction law .
30 Finally came men who did not own freehold land : husbandmen , servants in husbandry and the servants of artificers — anyone whose estate in goods and chattels did not exceed £10 .
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