Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commentators in this school tend to emphasise class and economic variables as factors producing poor standards of child care , and to de-emphasise parental culpability and personal inadequacy . |
| 2 | Many would readily accept the limitations of subjects as a basis for analysing the curriculum because , for example , they tend to emphasise cognition while ignoring affective aspects of education . |
| 3 | I mean using rave music cos it 's got a beat in n it , it 's got a lot of beat in it . |
| 4 | At least Jeremy Seabrook 's cut-out cardboard teenage figures of abject horror and pity know , as they sit sniffing glue and planning how to knock off a video recorder , that the world owes them something , that they have a right to the earth , an attitude at least as subversive as the endurance " that is the result of not being ever given very much . |
| 5 | Partly for financial reasons , students now tend to attend university in their home town rather than travel to a city with a better department . |
| 6 | ‘ You tend to treat life as if it were a game of cricket , for one thing . ’ |
| 7 | They tend to treat language as an unproblematic expression of women 's experience , and they are too directed by the need for feminist change to do justice to the unconscious . |
| 8 | Although moral philosophers tend to treat aesthetics as a poor relation of their own discipline , it is in aesthetics that we arrive at the central problem of evaluating the activities which we pursue without thought of serving a purpose , in particular the one traditionally regarded as not merely good in itself but in some mysterious way improving to the agent , the contemplation of beauty . |
| 9 | Presenting four pieces to music by k d lang , Penguin Cafe Orchestra and Arvo Part , they display electrifying energy , brilliant technique and extraordinary dynamism. ‘ … they 're glorious ’ Pittsburg Press |
| 10 | But this kid goes haywire and a lot of them do I mean he 's all crash bang wallop is n't he ? |
| 11 | Her philosophy is clear : ‘ I hate wasting time . |
| 12 | Cos you just lose lose concentration . |
| 13 | They are most malicious when they prey on liars , murderers and thieves , for they hate to see injustice . |
| 14 | However , Sage feels the system has its attractions for small businesses , particularly if they intend to network Sage software and want guarantees of system compatibility . |
| 15 | Your local butcher or supermarket boast new , versatile cuts of English , Scottish and Welsh lamb which avoid waste and maximise eating pleasure . |
| 16 | Suck squeeze bang blow . |
| 17 | Some organized petitions which urged parliament to initiate reform , while most employed their money and influence to promote godliness . |
| 18 | Paradoxically , although surrounded by water , dolphins , like other marine mammals , tend to lose water from their bodies to the sea . |
| 19 | Would you say that managers tend to lose sight of labour relations and concentrate on the market ? |
| 20 | 95% Political — perhaps necessary for subject , but tend to lose vision of whom we serve |
| 21 | Fairly strict diet and periods cos women tend to lose iron and certainly women who are actively dieting can actually become iron deficient . |
| 22 | ‘ Women lose confidence being out of the labour market , men tend to lose confidence if they 've been out of work ’ , says Michaels . |
| 23 | They therefore rarely see ‘ the complete picture ’ and tend to lose track of an issue once discussion of it has been concluded . |
| 24 | ‘ When they go onto these so-called new diets , people tend to lose weight because they automatically restrict themselves without realising they ought to be eating more bread , cereals , fruit and vegetables . |
| 25 | Look out for products such as Visio , a drop and drag drawing package which utilises job-specific stencils ; WinDesk , a customisable desktop for Windows ; ProtoView , a screen management facility for Windows ; Star Trek the Screensaver , a screensaver program for Star Trek fanatics ; Office Accelerator , a program to run your office from within your favourite word-processor ; Color Tools , a multimedia graphics solution ; Labtech Vision , a program that produces dynamic graphics that automatically update in real time , and CameraMan , which records and plays back Windows routines . |
| 26 | If you intend to discontinue storage you must notify your intention in writing to this office , in accordance with the conditions of your existing licence , in order that the necessary safety measures may be seen to . |
| 27 | At the very least , it says a great deal about the conspiratorial mentality which the leaders of the Communist system have created that so many defectors tend to see deception at work everywhere . |
| 28 | But a lot of women tend to see Christmas through because there is pressure on them to keep the family together . |
| 29 | Organizations that adopt the marketing concept also tend to see marketing as a very diffuse activity , shared by many , and not just the preserve of a specialist group called Marketing & sales . |
| 30 | Pluralists tend to see politics as analogous to an idealised economic market place of free and fair competition . |