Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [prep] [be] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While mail order , trading checks and weekly credit callers or tallymen continue to be the forms of credit which most obviously meet the needs of those used to weekly budgeting , and to being paid weekly in cash , they are likely to continue to be the obvious choice for many such people — regardless of truth-in-lending regulations . |
| 2 | What do business directors consider to be the problems which have caused many factories to close ? |
| 3 | But the real problem is that no matter how reactionary their articles seem to be the writers still tend to be enmeshed in the thought patterns of the Straightworld even when deriding it , which can only work like walking on a treadmill towards the new World . |
| 4 | My favourites tend to be the beans that have a flavour of their own , especially flageolet beans which are a delicate green colour and have a subtle , fresh flavour ; they are , however , rather more expensive than any of the other varieties . |
| 5 | In most countries and in most settings , paraprofessionals tend to be the workers who have the most frequent and regular face-to-face contact with the clients of social welfare services . |
| 6 | Elsewhere , Africa 's leading industrialists tend to be the chairmen or directors of companies which are owned or managed by multinational companies . |
| 7 | Sainsbury , for example , defend the sky-high price of their organic vegetables by saying that they take less percentage profit on them , and that the wholesalers seem to be the ones jacking up the price . |
| 8 | Unless and until we find a deterministic control , presumably deep inside the earth , I can see only a series of accidents , most of these accidents seem to be the collisions of continents on the earth 's surface . |
| 9 | The main causes seem to be the activities of the Highlands and Islands Development Board ( HIDB ) , the reorganisation of local government , and North Sea oil . |
| 10 | Women tend to be the carers in a family and do n't take time to look after themselves properly , but who will look after them ? ’ |
| 11 | The rings were used in a variety of ways : some were worn on the arm or wrist ; others appear to be the frames for the mouths of pouches which are often found to contain small metal items ; a third use was as a girdle hanger . |
| 12 | The words addressed to Titius are therefore construed as setting up a trust in favour of others ; and the others happen to be the coheirs who stand to benefit from the resulting reduction in the share intended to fall to Titius . |
| 13 | Of course , the states with good measurements tend to be the ones that had suddenly realised they might run out of capacity , and taken action to avoid that . |
| 14 | For example , when we say ‘ genes are trying to increase their numbers in future gene pools ’ , what we really mean is ‘ those genes that behave in such a way as to increase their numbers in future gene pools tend to be the genes whose effects we see in the world ’ . |