Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assuming that you decide that you wish to take things seriously and intend to acquire suitable equipment , you should look for a helicopter radio which has two idle-up systems , plus a throttle hold switch , with separate collective pitch adjustments on each . |
| 2 | The corporate approach favours ‘ those less committed to service departments … groups interested more in policy analysis than in professional standards , and … those who tend to emphasise local circumstances rather than national standards . |
| 3 | REM sleep is thus even more clearly associated with dreaming in so-called " non-dreamers " than regular dreamers , who tend to report dreaming whenever they 're woken up ! |
| 4 | People tend to invest more time deciding on a house purchase or what car to buy than deciding what to do with their lives and how to develop themselves . |
| 5 | Cities do not simply reflect their employment structures : they tend to perform worse than their economic constitutions would suggest . |
| 6 | Although some liaison takes place with the school 's link person , the DCSLs tend to perform these functions independently . |
| 7 | Neo-Marxists have gone much further and tend to claim that , in advanced capitalist societies , the state and its various bureaucracies have distinctive levels of relative autonomy from the different fractions of the bourgeoisie and , indeed , on occasion state functionaries can successfully play off one section of the bourgeoisie ( as well as competing classes ) against others , domestically or transnationally , in their own interests . |
| 8 | They are certainly effective , and make using high-power binoculars much easier . |
| 9 | It sets out the ways we intend to support various groups of people in the community and their carers . |
| 10 | The pivot row is determined by the PRS rule and it may be an explicit row , in which case we pivot as usual , or an implicit row , in which case we write down the complete row using ( 7.2 ) or ( 7.3 ) and pivot using this row . |
| 11 | Korg make much of the A2 's alleged versatility , and I was tempted set myself a challenge : how small a rack could I put together ? |
| 12 | British politicians tend to treat one another in a studiedly off-hand way . |
| 13 | ‘ In no sense , though some diocesan clergy tend to treat parochial clergy as though they were their inferiors . |
| 14 | Even if , like Cox ( 1981 ) , they represent Hispanic , Native-American , Asian-American and Afro-American women 's experiences , they tend to treat these categories as equivalent , and ignore differences within them , which may be more important than differences between them . |
| 15 | They are directed primarily at feminists , and so they tend to treat conscious and unconscious subjectivities as discursive artefacts , granting them no autonomous analysis . |
| 16 | I blush to admit it , but those of us who were born into the trade tend to disdain these crossovers as an inferior breed . |
| 17 | Push push push all the time . |
| 18 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 19 | ‘ You mean you intend to continue this search ? ’ |
| 20 | South Korean President Roh Tae Woo dismissed two members of his Cabinet and the governor of North Chungchong province on Sept. 19 , after holding them responsible for the massive damage which resulted from severe flooding earlier in the month in Seoul and the central region of the country . |
| 21 | I have n't actually got a , a poem for this , I was saying to you that I would use this , I intend using this as a writing exercise , because the , the colour of her mouth and the colour of the piece of boot in the background , just stands out to me , it says , its about to me hidden desire of some sort , either the artist 's or hers or mine I do n't know |
| 22 | upset got killed . |
| 23 | Yeah , I mean got one and |
| 24 | I mean got lovely places they do n't do they ? |
| 25 | Many favour using massed war engines to rain doom down on the enemy , while others prefer fast-moving cavalry armies able to respond to any threat . |
| 26 | One of those points is n't right so let's have a look check them again zero zero that 's alright . |
| 27 | The Mancunian dance team are the first band to host an all-nighter at the venue and intend to perform two sets , one at 10pm and the other in the early hours . |
| 28 | For these reasons we intend to perform future studies on DNA fragments containing isolated actinomycin binding sites . |
| 29 | There would be times for tenderness , and one such time came later , in the aftermath of passion enriched by the knowledge of love , a bonus as they lay touching each other languidly and lovingly , luxuriating in the freedom of being able to express their feelings in this alternative way , confidently but without urgency . |
| 30 | I 'm sure you 've got one of these really strange chest infections , and these are the ones that tend to hit young , healthy , fit , young adults . |