Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Although some liaison takes place with the school 's link person , the DCSLs tend to perform these functions independently . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I blush to admit it , but those of us who were born into the trade tend to disdain these crossovers as an inferior breed . |
| 6 | ‘ You mean you intend to continue this search ? ’ |
| 7 | Adults tend to lose this enzyme unless they continue taking cow 's milk and milk products from the time they are weaned onwards . |
| 8 | Captive-bred Pretty Tetras , have a much more brighter colouration than wild-caught specimens , the latter of which tend to lose this brightness over a period of time when kept in an aquarium . |
| 9 | However , conventionally , which is not to say correctly , modes of social scientific explanation tend to see these elements as analytically separate orders of phenomena and , accordingly , data . |
| 10 | Usually religious people tend to see these as different , Sri Ramana 's being an experience of enlightenment and awareness of the Oneness of being , whilst St Francis 's conveyed a sense of communion with God — a sense of a Presence revealing itself . |
| 11 | Incomers tend to see this in class terms as well — pilots are generally upper crust , while engineers are more down to earth ( socially as well as literally' ) Since many incomer workers are ex-military the distinction is often phrased in military terms : officers and ‘ other ranks ’ . |
| 12 | I mean do , do people find , tend to see those as being a plus or not ? you know , |
| 13 | The duke and his close associates saw this small office as ‘ some mean to treat those folks who Club together and are disposed to believe that I 'm incompatible wt them ’ . |
| 14 | Many commentators have suggested that non-manual workers enjoy considerable advantages in employment over their manual counterparts : they tend to enjoy more job security , work shorter hours , have longer holidays , more fringe benefits , and have greater promotion prospects ( Table 7 below illustrates some of these points ) . |
| 15 | If you quite enjoy a writer 's work , if you turn the page approvingly yet do n't mind being interrupted , then you tend to like that author unthinkingly . |
| 16 | He has been a very high profile MP and the voters tend to like that sort of thing . ’ |
| 17 | To a large extent , however , Wright thinks people tend to refresh each other . |
| 18 | Surveys of attitudes tend to confirm this . |
| 19 | Many of today 's spreadsheets and word processors possess extremely advanced presentation capabilities and the launch of programs like Excel , Wingz , Word for Windows , Ami ( NB that 's i acute as in the French for friend ) and WordPerfect 5.1 all tend to confirm this . |
| 20 | Whole-class teaching , usually seen as the device most likely to keep children on task , may well reduce distraction ( or at least distraction of an undisguised kind ) but it may also increase the time children spend awaiting attention , and indeed our own figures on group sizes tend to confirm this . |
| 21 | Courses tend to accommodate all these categories of biological , social , and political experience under the idealized name of ‘ women ’ , and to gloss over the differences and overlaps between them . |
| 22 | ’ Yes sir , ’ the leader said , ’ we intend to interview that person before he leaves . |
| 23 | Does the Secretary of State intend to thank those who have given service to Queen and country by making them not only jobless , but homeless ? |
| 24 | Get your friends round to see this one today . |
| 25 | We have no hidden gifts and no hidden donations to the Labour Party we have an open and upfront relationship with them and we intend to carry that through . |
| 26 | When does the Prime Minister intend to implement that part of the treaty in respect of Wales and Scotland ? |
| 27 | It is a good idea to turn the cannon round to indicate this . |
| 28 | Since many books that I have read on eating disorders tend to lump all the ‘ patients ’ together , ignoring their differences , I thought it might be more useful to let two girls tell their own stories . |
| 29 | We tend to know each other pretty well , and to share a lot of things — goals , objectives , commitments . |
| 30 | As they do so we tend to know fewer of the people we see in them . |