Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Although both groups tend to appear as a limited disease , most cases being in stage I-IIE , the morphohistological subtype seems to be a decisive factor in dissemination , as only one case ( 5% ) of low grade/mixed grade compared with 20% of the patients with high grade were classified as stage IV . |
| 4 | Target-oriented programmes tend to concentrate on a small number of permanent or semi-permanent methods ( sterilisation or IUD ) to minimise dropout rates . |
| 5 | Criminal laws aimed at regulating corporate activities tend to refer to a specific rather than a general class of behaviour . |
| 6 | Autobiographies , ghosted or not , and ‘ humorous ’ essays tend to lurk in the literary equivalent of shark-infested waters . |
| 7 | On the back of Wall Street 's overnight strength , the FT-SE 100 cash index rose 33 points at the outset and , with the futures index opening at a hefty premium , looked poised to turn in a record-setting performance . |
| 8 | These results indicate that index futures appear to conform to a general pattern of leptokurtosis . |
| 9 | The author of those words lay slaughtered beside the gimballed plasteel chair . |
| 10 | There are a number of different conflict perspectives and their supporters tend to disagree about the precise nature , causes and extent of conflict . |
| 11 | ‘ Is nice , ’ said Adam , lapsing into broken English like foreigners tend to do in a strange land . |
| 12 | Case 2b — where none of the candidate words seem to fit with the syntactic processing of the sentence . |
| 13 | Ice creams and lollies seem to benefit from the sharp wit of its frosting . |
| 14 | After joining , the Liberals and even the Labour supporters seem to drift into the Conservative way of thinking . |
| 15 | Royalties vary depending on the perceived value of the artist to the record company . |
| 16 | ‘ You would not believe the way French cultural tsars try to meddle in the musical life of the country . |
| 17 | There are also major problems with compaction and the abandoned ranches become covered in a stunted tangle of indigenous pioneers and exotics . |
| 18 | The Order shall be considered a contract made in England and shall be governed in all respects by the law of England and the parties agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts . |
| 19 | Once a note is drawn higher than that middle line the tails start to go in the opposite direction . |
| 20 | My designs aim to appeal to the style-conscious young , whereas yours are strictly for retired country ladies . ’ |
| 21 | Instead of a single central processor autocratically controlling a whole computation , large numbers of autonomous computing units cooperate to arrive in a communal state which reflects the outcome of the computation . |
| 22 | The accident estimates from Study 2 as shown in Table 4.6 make it clear that subjects do rely on the precise conditions in the film viewed when making accident estimates for a junction , even though most subjects previously knew the junctions concerned . |
| 23 | Walker 's images do reverberate with the classical and much of this is due to her ‘ expressive ’ use of figures in careful poses to create harmonious compositions , which makes us think of Hellenistic relief work as well as Renaissance paintings . |
| 24 | Some learning resources are cheaper than others , and British primary schools have improvised for a long time with the very simplest materials including the discarded packaging of the consumer society . |
| 25 | TWO Ashington schools have benefited from a green scheme run by students on a health studies course at Northumberland College . |
| 26 | BAD debts incurred by exporters have soared in the past five years , a survey has revealed . |
| 27 | CCG 's schools experience helped towards the smooth operation of the huge logistical effort in getting ready , not least recruiting and training hundreds of staff . |
| 28 | Unstereotyped , of striking beauty and enduring strength , the north Wales castles have survived as a unique and lasting monument to their age and their creator . |
| 29 | Whereas Marxism-Leninism does not always take a wholly positive attitude towards the peasantry , identifying petit bourgeois tendencies — particularly amongst the less impoverished — which can make them a sometimes unreliable ally , Mariátegui and subsequent Latin American Marxists have pointed to a dual oppression — both economic and racial . |
| 30 | In the latter case , it will meanwhile have the effect of turning literary study into something much closer to the sociology that Marxists have colonized in the modern academy . |