Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And because the basis tends to zero as the delivery date of the futures contract approaches , it also requires the futures price to increase over time . |
| 2 | At about three weeks the kittens start to engage in rough-and-tumble actions with their litter-mates . |
| 3 | In applying the test , the courts have to bear in mind the balance between the plaintiff 's investment in the product and the protection of free competition . |
| 4 | If we are going to have Policy E two then it does need to be very clear as to the direction that the the strategic direction that the districts need to take with regard open land and that is the the subject of the the other questions that you 've put before us . |
| 5 | Half the kids stay to wait in line . |
| 6 | Having opened the doors an hour late , the stewards proceed to examine in detail every bag and every pocket of Pop Will Eat Itself 's thousand-strong audience , wasting a further 45 minutes of everyone 's time while they play at being customs officers . |
| 7 | Having opened the doors an hour late , the stewards proceed to examine in detail every bag and every pocket of Pop Will Eat Itself 's thousand-strong audience , wasting a further 45 minutes of everyone 's time while they play at being customs officers . |
| 8 | In Portugal , the dog-whelks appear to live inside mussel clumps ; in New England , fucoids and crevices offer the necessary shade . |
| 9 | For each rocket , there is a set of five questions which the teams have to answer in order to reach Mars . |
| 10 | Erm , since the wider range investments on the whole tend to increase in value more rapidly than the narrower range investments , then as the investments in the normal course of management are bought and sold , the proportion which you have invested in the wider range tends to increase faster than the proportion that you have invested in the narrower range . |
| 11 | The waiters do n't have menus , they come and shout at you and if you 're sitting ‘ upstairs ’ on the ground floor , as opposed to the much more plebby basement , then they turn the lights off every twenty minutes or so and all the diners have to dance by candlelight for two minutes whether they want to or not . |
| 12 | Most begin by asserting their commitment to democracy , yet few would commit themselves completely to the notion that if the people want to wallow in sin , they should be permitted to do so . |
| 13 | Once stage three gets underway , however , the librarian finds that bibliographies of the subject tend to cut across classification boundaries with impunity , particularly in the humanities and social sciences , and a too rigid adherence to classification numbers means that a good deal of the material which is not easily pigeon-holed can escape the selection net . |
| 14 | The promises on human rights seemed as tenuous as the Declaration on Liberated Europe , issued at Yalta 30 years before , and it was difficult to reconcile the Helsinki pledge to refrain from interference in other countries ' affairs with the Brezhnev doctrine . |
| 15 | This will depend on how much work the pupils have to do in class before using the library . |
| 16 | Another local said : ‘ Normally the police have to travel by convoy into the area for the sake of safety . |
| 17 | An alternative would be a huge gift , something large which the drag brides have difficulty getting through the door , such as a golfing umbrella , or a garden umbrella if the couple hope to move from bachelor flats into a house . |
| 18 | All visitors to the company have to report to reception and are issued with security passes ; all the proofs are sent out in securities ; all stacks of printed brochures are protected with security covers . |
| 19 | Despite this interesting parallel with our own cultural heritage , the emphasis and indeed the trust which the Zande appear to place in witchcraft as a prime mover seems bizarre and even absurd . |
| 20 | The class have to plead for mercy on his behalf , but the King 's envoy will only accept written pleas . |
| 21 | The view is excellent from all seats , although the two passengers in the middle of the benches have to lean from side to side to make the most of it . |
| 22 | The cells seem to jostle for position and about 40 cells leave the wall and enter the hollow interior . |
| 23 | The cells seem to compete for survival factors released by target cells that the nerve cells contact ; about half get enough to survive , the rest kill themselves . |
| 24 | With a heart fit to burst through tension , at last , a noise . |
| 25 | Since all the females in a group tend to come into oestrus at around the same time , the male goat will have a busy two or three days . |
| 26 | Though definitions of what is the appropriate methodology for a subject tend to shift over time , at present , teachers of certain subjects — modern languages in particular — seem strongly inclined to a transmission approach to teaching . |