Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reasons for failure in these projects tend not to lie in the technical side , though the technology is complex , nor in the economic side , though the cost of these systems is very high . |
| 2 | Such fans tend not to travel on the regular ‘ soccer special ’ bus coaches and trains , preferring to use scheduled public transport . |
| 3 | Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have . |
| 4 | Jinny felt her breath stop as her eyes swivelled automatically to look at the Hare-woman . |
| 5 | However , the parties involved were prepared to have their heads hit together to arrive at a solution . |
| 6 | Financial journalists knew how to turn on the sarcasm . |
| 7 | The black eyes shifted momentarily to take in the mortally wounded Angel Two on the Control Room floor , then back to Grant . |
| 8 | A merger is defined to be a business combination in which , rather than one party acquiring control of another , the parties come together to share in the future risks and benefits of the combined entity . |
| 9 | Some of the traps described how to arrange for the prey to fall through seemingly firm ground into a pit full of spikes beneath . |
| 10 | The recruits hurried below to pack into the on-ship chapel , where incense burned before a lambent golden icon of the Emperor and an alabaster idol of Rogal Dorn , the founding Primarch of the Imperial Fists . |
| 11 | While the band plays incidental music the recruits struggle not to sway to the tones of the well-known tunes . |
| 12 | Some of the unskilled youngsters drafted in to help with the decorating did not . |
| 13 | So parents tend not to hear about the things that really go on a lot of the time in nearly all schools and they do hear a bit about the things that are a little bit different , so they can get quite a distorted picture of , of what 's going on . |
| 14 | Strombolian activity , then , is a bit noisier than Hawaiian , but it 's still not particularly dangerous — there are two villages on Stromboli only a couple of kilometres from the ever-active vent , and the inhabitants rarely have cause to worry about whether they will live to see the sun rise on another day , or on another boatload of visitors coming across to look at the volcano . |
| 15 | Journalist Diana Hutchinson , of the Daily Mail , pointed out that it might be a question of ‘ the young baby left alone while the parents went out to play in the summer sunshine ’ . |
| 16 | Despite the fact that Gassendi and Boyle took care to find a place for God and the soul in their revivals of the theory , its adherents had perpetually to struggle against the undeniable fact that Epicurus had introduced it as a foundation for his explicit materialistic atheism . |
| 17 | Huge crowds turned out to cheer as the Prime Minister , spurning elaborate security precautions , rode through the city of Amritsar to the holiest shrine of the Sikhs , the Golden Temple . |
| 18 | Huge crowds turned out to cheer as the Prime Minister , spurning elaborate security precautions , rode through the city of Amritsar to the holiest shrine of the Sikhs , the Golden Temple . |
| 19 | The Act enshrines principles social workers fought hard to get on the statute book . |
| 20 | After the party the house guests came downstairs to eat under the arcaded edge of a courtyard . |
| 21 | The eerie lights would hang in the air for quite some time then the mortars came over to burst at the edge of the wood . |
| 22 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 23 | An outside agency , experts on tele sales , spent four days teaching how to deal with every conceivable request that a customer could make . |
| 24 | Staff will hold a series of meetings over the next few weeks to decide how to respond to the cuts plan . |
| 25 | Although the deposed Communist Party leader , Mr Egon Krenz , has been credited with countermanding orders to issue live ammunition to troops standing by to deal with the Leipzig demonstrations , other sources indicate that it was the military district commander who stepped in to avoid bloodshed . |
| 26 | Guests have only to step across the main promenade to reach the beach . |
| 27 | The illegals have only to look at the plight of the large Korean minority — 690,000 of Japan 's 1.1 million registered foreign residents — to know they will never be accepted in this xenophobic land . |
| 28 | About 40,000 brokerage accounts were transferred to Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc. in the USA , while in London the Bank of England and city institutions stepped in to deal with the consequences of the collapse on the foreign exchange . |
| 29 | Similarly , investors tend not to deal with a new house if they are doubtful about its tenacity — and skilled market staff will not join a firm even for high salaries if they are unsure that it will remain in the market . |
| 30 | For this reason hourly based fee structures tend not to include within the cost estimate any MAS involvement at the completion stage . |