Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NEC is to develop a special version of its UP 4800 server series for Control Data , with shipments expected to begin in the second half of 1993 . |
| 2 | MPs who on the whole tend to be rather casual about going to meetings organised for their benefit by pressure groups tend to go to the nuclear forum , because it is always well-structured and organised , and because they can then say to constituents who work in either the nuclear industry or the nuclear supply industry that they have been , and still are , taking an interest in the decisions that affect those particular electors . |
| 3 | In rural areas the school frequently serves as a focal point for the local community — its removal can have a detrimental effect in that it may become increasingly difficult to attract new families to settle , the younger age groups tend to drift towards the neighbouring towns and the average age of the remaining inhabitants goes on rising . |
| 4 | These groups tend to locate in the older urban cores as a result of factors examined earlier . |
| 5 | In return the states agreed to co-operate with the federal government in reducing duplication of health and welfare services , cutting losses in state-owned businesses , co-ordinating infrastructure spending , and harmonizing regulations in areas such as environmental protection and professional qualifications . |
| 6 | Autobiographies , ghosted or not , and ‘ humorous ’ essays tend to lurk in the literary equivalent of shark-infested waters . |
| 7 | A similar campaign finance bill ( including the honoraria ban and limitation on outside income ) was passed by the Senate in 1990 but was lost at the end of the congressional session when the two Houses failed to agree upon the final form of the legislation . |
| 8 | The N terminal pentapeptide of pancreatic procolipase is highly conserved in nature with only three forms found to occur in the higher vertebrates , VPDPR , VPGPR , and the APGPR form found in humans and chickens . |
| 9 | Unless those eight masked High Masters were sufficiently confident in their associates to try to journey to the next galaxy and back — in some incredible megaship — to take advantage of time-compression ! |
| 10 | The result meant that both parties failed to capitalise on the widespread disaffection with the mainstream parties and in particular with the ruling Socialist Party ( PS ) which had been discovered in recent months to have been involved in a number of scandals . |
| 11 | Because several tutors failed to keep to the new time table for applications the Board has decided that they will have to revert to the original dates for the Written Examination entries . |
| 12 | In a way that is all too typical of both the English Left and the English lesbian and gay movement , Positive Images failed to draw on the parallel developments around local government funding of lesbian and gay projects in the USA . |
| 13 | There are a number of different conflict perspectives and their supporters tend to disagree about the precise nature , causes and extent of conflict . |
| 14 | Gallup for The Daily Telegraph gave the Conservatives a hair 's breadth half-point lead over Labour , with the Liberal Democrats in danger of being squeezed as the two main parties battle to emerge as the largest party in a possible hung parliament . |
| 15 | Already people who cancelled in January and February are back in our shops booking to go within the next two or three weeks . |
| 16 | Sobibor was the scene of the biggest prison escape of the Second World War when six hundred Jews rose against their guards to try to escape to the surrounding forest . |
| 17 | Overall , however , our studies showed schools tending to cluster towards the following main types : |
| 18 | Their voices faded into the background as Isabel 's eyes came to rest on the third horse . |
| 19 | His eyes came to rest on the tear-stained face of Mrs Bennett , whose baby had so recently died , and he suffered a pang of pity for her . |
| 20 | Investigations are continuing to discover how the two cars came to collide at the Great Stainton crossroads on the narrow road . |
| 21 | The opposition parties threatened to withdraw from the next meeting of the all-party conference on Oct. 12 unless some of their demands were met [ for first talks , on Sept. 13 , see p. 36893 ] . |
| 22 | Case 2b — where none of the candidate words seem to fit with the syntactic processing of the sentence . |
| 23 | Ice creams and lollies seem to benefit from the sharp wit of its frosting . |
| 24 | Another area of major concern to the police and the judiciary is drug smuggling and the methods used to deal with the huge profits it generates . |
| 25 | As has been firmly documented in much of the British press , Paris was divided into those designers attempting to proceed through the Nineties and more or less disappointing our expectations , and those who have love bombed straight back into the Seventies . |
| 26 | After joining , the Liberals and even the Labour supporters seem to drift into the Conservative way of thinking . |
| 27 | As kite rallies began to get into the full swing of a tightly packed annual diary of events from the early 1980s , so a new trend developed . |
| 28 | that a culturally sensitive arts education risks failing to exploit to the full its potential to culturally enrich the lives of its pupils by being , largely , ‘ gender blind ’ ; |
| 29 | ‘ You would not believe the way French cultural tsars try to meddle in the musical life of the country . |
| 30 | The bourgeoisie became a source of state functionaries as the sale of offices increased to pay for the ever-growing cost of armies . |