Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here pockets of ancient semi-natural woodland , unafraid wildlife and a sense of history and heritage combine to offer a peaceful retreat from the coast . |
| 2 | The Physical Education Department and the University of Edinburgh Sports Union combine to provide a comprehensive service . |
| 3 | Thus polar groups tend to encourage a higher T g than non-polar groups of similar size , as seen when comparing polypropylene , poly ( vinyl chloride ) and polyacrylonitrile . |
| 4 | There are a number of reasons why meetings tend to have a poor reputation . |
| 5 | The heterogeneity of labour and the job-specificity of skills tend to create a strong linkage between workers and their employers and , in some cases , cause firms to fill as many of their vacancies as possible by means of internal promotions . |
| 6 | Anemones tend to dribble a little water from their centres if you press them . |
| 7 | Broadly , the declines in the concentration ratio have tended to occur during periods of market growth , while the rises have corresponded to recessions , suggesting that high levels of bond issues lead to a more even spread of issues between firms as well as new entry , while in slack periods the dominant houses tend to take a larger proportion of issues , smaller houses being squeezed out . |
| 8 | In Rome , central areas such as the Piazza di Spagna , Via Condotti and Via Veneto are particularly well decorated , while in Piazza San Pietro [ St. Peter 's Square ] crowds flock to see a big Christmas tree — a gift from Austria — together with a Nativity scene . |
| 9 | Too many coaches want to impose a technical straightjacket on their pupils , which can destroy them more than it improves and helps them . |
| 10 | TWO scientists from Stirling University expect to shed a few tears at tonight 's United Kingdom premiere of a Hollywood film that tells the extraordinary story of Augusto and Michaela Odone 's love for their son Lorenzo . |
| 11 | Classical periods of literature are judged severely since they represent a moment of complacent self-satisfaction in which the movement of history is artificially suspended , in which social formations and institutions appear to have a permanent position in a fixed , hierarchical structure . |
| 12 | Peer groups appear to have a dynamic role , the function and influence of which shifts across adolescence . |
| 13 | Heavier weight synthetics tend to use a double layer of wadding with the outer layer quilted to the shell and the inner to the lining . |
| 14 | The emphasis is again on a parent-child partnership and sessions tend to have a special theme . |
| 15 | Drivers tend to have a nasty habit of cutting corners without a thought for the cyclist on the inside . |
| 16 | As teenagers tend to get a bad name for being moody , rude and irresponsible — to name but a few choice descriptions often used — I 'd like to tell your readers about my teenage son . |
| 17 | There are many ways to beat the machines , but losses tend to follow a common pattern . |
| 18 | Huggett ( 1976b ) also noted that the systems of the atoms-to-planet and the atoms-to-societies hierarchies commingle to produce a third hierarchy which is the hierarchy of environmental systems . |
| 19 | British Waterways expect to complete a national feasability study within a year . |
| 20 | The distal papillae appear to form a continuous series with the superficial tentacle scales of the second oral tentacle pore . |
| 21 | In practice processions appear to have a favoured place providing there is no actual obstruction , that they are peaceful and that police directions are observed ( see Hirst v. Chief Constable of West Yorks ( C.A. , 1986 ) ) . |
| 22 | Neil Kinnock will be in his Islwyn constituency in South Wales where local Labour supporters expect to arrange a small party before he heads for London . |
| 23 | Rectangular and square panelled designs appear to show a higher incidence of figured work than do lozenge designs with distributed panels , for example , but this is not especially significant . |
| 24 | All of these designs appear to show a common taste for a specific type of geometric ideal ( often the forms of interlaced squares and saltires are joined — in an all-over pattern — as in the pavement from Broad Street , London : pI . |
| 25 | In 1993 , the year that brings an open market to Europe , the European nations seem to take a similar view of Britain , regarding it as a strange and ultimately negligible country . |
| 26 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 27 | These days the emphasis seems to be on ground speed rather than aerial abilities for modern strikers — Id like to see a fast/quick centre back . |
| 28 | Fans set to make a cool £1,000 |
| 29 | Would his new French subjects pay to continue a civil war against their compatriots ? |
| 30 | This is the more necessary , the Commission believes , at a time when the bias in schools has shifted towards instrumental music and composition , although a fair number of state secondary and senior independent schools continue to maintain a strong tradition of choral singing . |