Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [to-vb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dolphin groups tend to travel in specific formations , exhibiting refined and developed skills in working and cc-operating as a group . |
| 2 | Guerilla campaigns and non-established religions tend to operate in this way . |
| 3 | Simply nervous trainers tend to stand in one spot , feeted feet rooted like a tree to the ground . |
| 4 | It is as if strict legal considerations seem to pull in one direction , while supposedly practical policy considerations point in another . |
| 5 | So metropolitan councils , and here 's where the confusions begin to creep in metropolitan councils and some non-metropolitan councils , I E district councils so they 're in a separate ca separate category with this electoral sequence . |
| 6 | International : KGB signs up for Hollywood After the success of JFK , Russian spies start to trade in undercover past for over-the-counter assets |
| 7 | Individual Compacts should refuse membership to any anti-union organisation , because Compacts aim to develop in young people as wide an understanding as possible of the opportunities and choices available to them when they leave school . |
| 8 | The Hollywood heartthrob , who directed and starred in the Oscar-winning Dances With Wolves , will team up with Prince Of Thieves director Kevin Reynolds to make Waterworld , in which survivors have to live in undersea domes . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's exactly why Limnititzkers have to survive in this world . |
| 10 | From the information available , infections seem to develop in two ways . |
| 11 | Even when repetition is used for emphasis , the effects seem to vary in different examples . |
| 12 | Far Eastern companies continue to invest in promising fledgling US companies , and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has taken a 20% stake in Colorado Springs , Colorado-based Array Microsystems Inc ; the value of the investment was not disclosed . |
| 13 | ‘ The goodies have to travel in one coach , the baddies in another , ’ Harvey Goldsmith admitted . |
| 14 | D-i-y kits tend to come in separate sections , forming two sides of each arch , one on each side of the wall , sometimes with a separate soffit section which can be used for wider walls . |
| 15 | The neutrinos appear to come in three varieties , one associated with each of the electron , muon and tau . |
| 16 | The troops have to sleep in cramped conditions on the floor with up to 20 in a single room . |
| 17 | He declared that the economic and political crisis had nothing to do with the " war of laws " with the republics [ see above ; pp. 37862-63 ] , commenting : " Republican governments refuse to work in blind obedience , but the central government has failed to see this , and by inertia it has pursued its policy of diktat . " |
| 18 | This would explain why such faults tend to lie in certain directions . |
| 19 | But as one leading ecologist pointed out , close-knit communities and their traditions tend to stay in greater harmony with the environment than modern urban society . |
| 20 | ‘ We have to get back to a position where investors want to invest in unquoted companies and believe they 're still getting a good return , but I do n't think that will be the 30% they might have been promised . ’ |
| 21 | That infants fail to search in these situations — although they clearly have the motor skills to do so — is one of the empirical bolsters to the view that what develops is the ability to relate actions to experiences ‘ of ’ them ( again : whatever ‘ of ’ means in this context ! ) . |
| 22 | And if the new owners wish to allow in personal friends as members , why not . |
| 23 | Evaluating the options will involve you in trying to make sense of builder 's estimates and technical specifications , but this is very much what managers have to do in real life , and we make no apology for getting you to do it too . |
| 24 | If you are involved in a business with overseas investments — and more and more businesses have to think in global market terms — you need to be conscious of the very rapidly changing international scene . |
| 25 | The jury will be ‘ death qualified ’ ( in the case of Alabama capital law ) : all jurors have to believe in capital punishment , and be prepared to sentence someone to death . |
| 26 | The system is also generally successful in keeping prisoners under control — except when prisoners decide to engage in collective protest action or riot . |
| 27 | Cones tend to come in two shapes — some , either cardboard or plastic , with a pointed top and others with a gap of about one to one and a half inches at the top . |
| 28 | Sulphide ores tend to oxidise in aerobic conditions , consuming oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide . |
| 29 | Newton replaced Galileo 's law of circular inertia with his own law of linear inertia , according to which bodies continue to move in straight lines at uniform speed unless acted on by a force . |
| 30 | Accepting that subordinates need to participate in objective setting since this produces motivation and commitment . |