Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But these extensive discussions failed to provide a common area of agreement , mainly because of divergent national interests and unfavourable economic developments such as inflation , recession , and the oil crisis . |
2 | Choose styling products formulated to give a natural-looking hold for casual styling . |
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 | The capital fund ( £140 ) was deployed to help offset the deficit , and plans made to expect a further £300 deficit in 1916 . |
7 | Anemones tend to dribble a little water from their centres if you press them . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | The government also pursued policies designed to encourage a commercial ethos in the remaining public enterprises . |
11 | Too many coaches want to impose a technical straightjacket on their pupils , which can destroy them more than it improves and helps them . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Peer groups appear to have a dynamic role , the function and influence of which shifts across adolescence . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | The emphasis is again on a parent-child partnership and sessions tend to have a special theme . |
16 | Drivers tend to have a nasty habit of cutting corners without a thought for the cyclist on the inside . |
17 | However , both parties agreed to form a transitional government and agreed that the Czech and Slovak regional parliaments would work out the future constitutional set-up by Sept. 30 , 1992 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | There are many ways to beat the machines , but losses tend to follow a common pattern . |
20 | Rothschild and his successors tried to take a fresh look at issues too remote , politically inconvenient or otherwise ignored , and come up with clear , concise proposals for action , if possible on a single sheet of paper . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | British Waterways expect to complete a national feasability study within a year . |
23 | The distal papillae appear to form a continuous series with the superficial tentacle scales of the second oral tentacle pore . |
24 | 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 ) ) . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | This E S R D really is the bible and we have specified the aircraft to meet that E S R D and not anything extra , er obviously if one of the four nations wants to build a nuclear role into the aircraft that becomes a very big political question first and foremost and we have just not considered it at the technical level at all because it 's er it 's not in the requirement . |
29 | Our lives in their various aspects entwined to form a selfless love . |
30 | Apart from the bike messengers , that was , and these were easy to distinguish because they were young and wiry and bizarrely dressed , and their eyes seemed to have a certain glaze on them from being on a permanent adrenaline high . |