Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In general , the rules leading to higher rates of survival and reproduction tend to increase in the population . |
| 32 | The Government intend to comply with the Commission 's directive and have an exceptionally good record of compliance with directives on environmental assessments . |
| 33 | The 30 youngsters from Keldholme School took up plastic sacks and gloves as part of a three-day litter pick to learn about the environment as they help to protect it . |
| 34 | Early results have already proved some theories ; for example that plutonium tend to settle in the liver and the bones ; the peaks picked out here . |
| 35 | Early results have already proved some theories ; for example that plutonium tend to settle in the liver and the bones ; the peaks picked out here . |
| 36 | Gas bubbles in any liquid tend to rise to the surface , so in any basalt lava flow , it is only the top part which is likely to have a honeycomb texture . |
| 37 | This is when pomposity and pedantry seem to get off the leash . |
| 38 | And those who get past the door seem to agree with the policy . |
| 39 | These days , the Government pretend to care about the environment . |
| 40 | And he propounded evidence that a great many of the ailments we have in modern society have to do with the way we construct our buildings . |
| 41 | This Government has decimated the housing stock of this country and the Tories in this Chamber dare to talk about the right to choose and the power to buy . |
| 42 | You could argue that some of them work outside the home because they have to , for financial reasons , but I think it 's indisputable that a ever-growing number want to work outside the home and I think it 's very important that they should be allowed the scope to do so . |
| 43 | It is the trick one uses to make one 's own answer seem to come from the child . |
| 44 | With the departure of one Secretary and the arrival of another , the office staff — apart of course from the members of the Signet Office — normally changed completely ; not until the early seventeenth century did a permanent bureaucratic organization begin to appear beneath the Secretary of State . |
| 45 | Graham Greene sarcastically remarked of the latter that ‘ Both the director and the star seem to labour under the impression that they are producing something important ’ , and the film 's success was enough to assure Wilcox that Hungarian naughtiness should give way to solemn patriotism . |
| 46 | For any teaching to be effective , learning and understanding have to occur on the part of the pupil or student . |
| 47 | I shall be brief , as I understand that the Opposition Front-Bench spokesman and the Minister want to reply to the debate . |
| 48 | I SUPPOSE I should be cheering myself hoarse that Britain has finally produced a heavyweight fit to challenge for the championship of the world in the person of Lennox Lewis . |
| 49 | And her spectacles and peaked cap seem to add to the image of a beauty with brains . |
| 50 | The research is still continuing but conclusions to date seem to point to the fact that , although powers of reasoning are not necessarily enhanced , the speed at which the subject is able to reason or recall certainly is . |
| 51 | However , if you are to write the feature remember to check on the editor 's requirements as to length , the number of illustrations , the date of issue of the article and the copy deadline . |
| 52 | This equivalence with the dominant " be aware " sense of know may explain the tendency for operative-sense know to occur in the perfective . |
| 53 | How much this matters in practice depends on the significance that levels of attainment come to acquire in the grouping of children within and between schools , and in the perceptions of pupils by their teachers . |
| 54 | Members of the public have to depend on the press for information on which to base their opinions ; but if allegedly indecent films are always shown in closed courtrooms the press can not give the public the information which it may want and which is necessary for the formation of public opinion … |
| 55 | see so if th if they get time off and they want extra men , they phone 'em up or somebody with a boat got bloke in the erm radio tower , cos you got a radio tower on the dock now which every ship that come into port or leave the port have to go through the radio tower and that man 's employed twenty four hours a day , seven days a week . |
| 56 | He may for instance need to intervene at the modification stage of the structure plan , or it could be that he will have to deal with appeals against non-determination of applications made by prospective developers . |
| 57 | What might theology for its part have to say about the direction that world seems to be taking ? |
| 58 | Everton offered better personal terms but hit man Harford settled on Chelsea because he and his family want to stay in the South . |
| 59 | The origins of this marital-rape exemption seem to lie in the notion that the wife is the husband 's property , or that the wife promises intercourse on demand , but it has been defended in modern times on the basis that such cases raise essentially family matters , better suited to examination in a non-criminal court , and that in any case proof would be difficult . |
| 60 | I realized that I had made a mistake : the no boundary condition implied that disorder would in fact continue to increase during the contraction . |