Example sentences of "[det] [vb base] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chemists know that oxygen-free climates like this tend to foster the spontaneous synthesis of organic compounds . |
| 2 | Not all students wish to specialize in one area of Art and Design ; some seek to make an informed study of several aspects of the disciplines . |
| 3 | Football clubs and debt go hand in hand but few seem to go the same way as the hundreds of small businesses biting the dust every day . |
| 4 | Many would argue that the idea of permissiveness has been overstated , exaggerated or misapplied , but few seem to doubt the underlying reality of this supposedly permissive Britain of the 1960s . |
| 5 | Some try to get the legal approval ; others simply ignore it . |
| 6 | Some prefer to have a regular time when they purposely sit down and talk about themselves , their feelings and their hurts . |
| 7 | These combine to provide a reasonable degree of accuracy , although it 's not perfect , and allow the user to ‘ shoot-em-up ’ from the comfort of an armchair . |
| 8 | Erm , it 's again recognized in the S S As that it is more social factors that impact on the need to spend on children 's services , and therefore things like single parent families , the level of family income and these tend to have a greater impact , but it would be foolish to assume that with a higher child population you are not going to get more demands on children 's services , and therefore we have provided a fifty thousand pounds ' provision within that to take care of problems . |
| 9 | There are also good reasons for associating it with rich clusters ( groups of several hundred galaxies ) as these seem to have a collective halo , possibly formed from the material in the original haloes of the constituent galaxies . |
| 10 | These seem to have the curious property that , although they can move fairly freely within a hadron , it appears to be impossible to obtain just one quark on its own ; they always come either in groups of three ( like the proton or neutron ) or in pairs consisting of a quark and antiquark ( like the pi meson ) . |
| 11 | We all intend to continue the same sort of programme for the next couple of years and I have said I would like to call in next term and on a periodic basis until our responsibility ceases . |
| 12 | The excellent benefits and the close co-operation between our representative in resort , Traveller 's Insurance Association and our GESA emergency assistance service all combine to make a winning team . |
| 13 | The vagueness of Poulantzas ' definition , and his motive for positing the term at all combine to produce a considerable gap between theory and explanation which is by no means confined to this case . |
| 14 | Where members of the group all tend to think the same way , you do n't get new id , new ideas are challenged . |
| 15 | Generally speaking , wild antelopes , sheep and goats all tend to have the right-hand helix ( as defined above for the screw ) on the left side of the head and vice versa ( heteronymous ) , whereas the opposite is often true for domesticated sheep and goats ( homonymous ) . |
| 16 | We all want to do a mighty work for God , but do not realise that we are living on privatised religious estates on the outskirts of the city of the world . |
| 17 | The altered states , the plangent electronic keyboards , and her use of Biblical text all conspire to create a portentous sound . |
| 18 | Thus the archaeocyathids ( or Pleospogia ) of the Cambrian , certain brachiopods and forams in the Permian and the rudistid bivalves in the Cretaceous all seem to parallel the present equator . |
| 19 | People without any education at all seem to offer the best hope . |
| 20 | The words " receiving " " undertaking " and " arranging " all seem to suggest a positive act , but " assisting " covers omissions , provided that there is a legal duty to act : Brown [ 1970 ] 1 QB 105 ( CA ) — allowing another to place stolen goods on his property . |
| 21 | Bonnington Resource Centre is all set to make a dramatic impact at this year 's Edinburgh Festival Fringe with two shows by the Pisces Theatre Company between 16 and 28 August . |
| 22 | Lotty 's pompous lawyer spouse Mellersh ( Alfred Molina ) , Rose 's unfaithful writer husband Frederick ( Jim Broadbent ) and half-blind castle owner George Briggs ( Michael Kitchen ) all arrive to find the redemptive power of love or romance . |
| 23 | The things we all do to earn an honest living . |
| 24 | There is an unbelievable variety of skeg shapes available which all aim to do the same job , namely , keep the board sailing in a straight line . |
| 25 | Desks in lines , streamed classes , sets of identical textbooks through which children move from term to term and from year to year all serve to confirm a particular belief . |
| 26 | The large size of the Cabinet ; the increased activity of the state ; and the limited time for " efficient " Cabinet debate , all serve to encourage the Prime Minister to by-pass the Cabinet in favour of informal talks with individual ministers and a keen reliance upon an inner Cabinet of particularly trusted and sympathetic colleagues . |
| 27 | Dealing with guilt for past behaviour by making direct amends to those who have been harmed , dealing with shame by accepting one 's self as having an illness and therefore worthy of self-forgiveness , and dealing with damaged relationships by being honest , open-minded and willing , all help to reestablish the general sense of well-being that is the hallmark of someone in recovery . |
| 28 | We all wish to see a peaceful transition . |
| 29 | When you all have to wear the same uniform , there is n't a great deal you can do to make yourself stand out from the crowd , but we did our best , washing and setting each other 's hair and sharing out what precious bits of makeup we owned . |
| 30 | The charter , which effectively signalled the postponement of any move to introduce a multiparty system , also confirmed Déby 's own position as President . |