Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Non-educational criteria almost invariably have priority in recruitment over educational ones and employers tend to have only the vaguest notions as to what particular qualifications entail or imply . |
| 2 | Costings of domestic expenditures in industrial countries on reducing emissions tend to brush away the minor irrelevancies of the millions and concentrate on refining estimates to the nearest billion . |
| 3 | Things have changed now of course , but acts tend to tour just the Eastern side , so Western Australia still misses out because it 's such a bloody hike from Adelaide to Perth . ’ |
| 4 | Third World states tend to take over the foreign investments that they consider to be important for national development . |
| 5 | For example , in examining the relationship between aggregate consumer spending and aggregate disposable income , it is important to determine whether or not , over a period of years , the spending and income data tend to fluctuate around a regular trend , or have a tendency to wander far away from their trend . |
| 6 | They may not all want to leave the Soviet Union ( indeed , whatever shape it takes in the future , Mr Yeltsin 's Russia will expect to be leader of the pack ) , but neither do the union 's supporters want to hand back the new economic and political freedoms that they have won . |
| 7 | Their data do bear out a long-term relative decline in urban manufacturing ( ibid. , Table 2 ) . |
| 8 | The American Canoe Association have set up an international pen pal scheme for children . |
| 9 | ‘ Nuclear Electric have carried out a similar study , which also showed Deferred Safestore as the best option . |
| 10 | In the final analysis , organizations have to weigh up the anticipated benefits of particular media against the costs involved . |
| 11 | Here again organizations have to weigh up the relative gains of this approach against the extra costs . |
| 12 | Some in industry have to carry out the same operation . |
| 13 | Boundary disputes have become perhaps the classic setting for the presentation of bilateral claims in which third parties may claim an interest . |
| 14 | J. Sainsbury , Britain 's biggest food retailer argues that discount shops have received only a temporary boost from the recession . |
| 15 | For example , all the earlier investigations in this chapter have used either the CED or OALD . |
| 16 | Spokesmen for the insurance companies seeking to justify this practice have wheeled out a few explanations which include ‘ the client understood that by settling for a poor return on death his ultimate retirement fund would be higher . ’ |
| 17 | Nonetheless these data have allowed both the descriptive work outlined in the next section and the explanatory work outlined in the section after that ( on the ‘ Classification and definition of rural areas ’ ) to be produced . |
| 18 | The principles of stressing and testing aircraft have remained much the same from the days of wooden biplanes down to supersonic fighters although there are many differences in practice . |
| 19 | Michael Attenborough of Hodder commented : ‘ For any publisher , losing an author all of whose books have sold over a million copies in their UK editions — and I have no doubt that As the Crow Flies will join them soon — is very regrettable . |
| 20 | It has been suggested that the prevalent west and south-west winds tend to set up a longshore drift towards Portland , so that the majority of coarse material accumulates at that end . |
| 21 | Rovers stand to pick up an extra £25,000 if their former player makes the Great Britain side . |
| 22 | Sub-headings seem to take up an inordinate amount of space ; do we really need separate headings for ‘ What is Tincture of Benzoin ’ , ‘ How to use Tincture of Benzoin ’ , ‘ How to carry Tincture of Benzoin ’ , and ‘ Where to buy Tincture of Benzoin ’ ? |
| 23 | Members in Ireland have tracked down the original carriage ; it was acting as a holiday home , and was virtually intact ! |
| 24 | Even though the certificates have taken on a different appearance , their structure remains the same . |
| 25 | I think Derbyshire have done quite a big thing and had some publicity for theirs . |
| 26 | Some have pointed out with justice that the Max Planck Institutes have bled away the best research talent from the universities . |
| 27 | The committee have set up a working party to look into the proposal . |
| 28 | But John King has stuck to his principles and Rovers have strung together an impressive home record . |
| 29 | But already the Countryside Commission and the Nature Conservancy Council have drawn up a short list of natural sites suitable for World Heritage status . |
| 30 | Called the Reptilons , these huge , scaly fiends have chained up the human inhabitants ( these by happy coincidence are the blonde bimbos ) . |