Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the 1980s , it battled to achieve two crucial , strategic shifts : to reduce its dependence on bulk , low-margin , commodity chemicals which tend to swing wildly with the economic cycle — in favour of high value-added , high-margin ‘ effect ’ chemicals ; and to cut the share of sales accounted for by the UK . |
| 2 | The fish tend to spawn all around the same time and pay attention to their own broods — equally the parents will see off any attempt by another pair to eat their brood . |
| 3 | Insurance defence lawyers , however , tend to concentrate more on the legal process and procedure . |
| 4 | Skills develop and change to compensate partially for the changing capacities . |
| 5 | Er if you want to go back to the same people . |
| 6 | A magnificent bookplate of 1899 with , on the male side ( left in picture ) , twelve quarterings , some of which appear to go back to the 13th century . |
| 7 | I think , John , I want to come back to the basic one , and that is , as a customer , if you 're handed what you think is an extended warranty to cover you for all sorts of things erm then you 're very disappointed if you find that most of the things that are going to go wrong with your car are excluded . |
| 8 | If you want to find out about the better side of cruising catamarans , phone for details . |
| 9 | So what 's interesting here is that they seem to be having a conversation about un the university matters , the history department and so on but in fact there 's this kind of subtext going on here in which both of them want to find out about the other person 's children and both of them are being very mysterious and avoiding the question . |
| 10 | If you want to know more about the Aquarian electronic thermostat drop me a line at |
| 11 | However , I want to concentrate here on the technical work that the Faculty does on behalf , not only of its members , but of the Institute membership as a whole . |
| 12 | So much so that many people internal to Digital never bother venturing out into the big bad world of USENET for their kicks . |
| 13 | I 've forgotten my troubles ; now I want to climb just for the good performance itself . |
| 14 | When it goes past I want to run over to the other side of the bridge , but there 's too much traffic to cross the road , so I just watch the trail of water it leaves behind . |
| 15 | Many women , through no fault of their own , appear to start off on the wrong foot . |
| 16 | ‘ There are a few details I want to clear up with the other girls , ’ she told me . |
| 17 | Now , are there any aspects about the isomerism you want clarifying apart from the whole lot ? |
| 18 | Both Civic Forum and Solidarity want to hang on to the one-nation sense of anti-communism ( and anti-Sovietism ) . |
| 19 | A couple of miles down the road at London Irish they still want to hold on to the Irish connection , even if that leads to qualification by reading The Irish Times . |
| 20 | ‘ Unless you want to end up in the Mediterranean . ’ |
| 21 | The name of the game , ‘ Grandmother 's Footsteps ’ is already a hint : the young and fit creeping up on the old , the halt and the lame . |
| 22 | BUSINESSMEN who want to get ahead in the 1990s should move into the soft drinks , fruit and vegetables or household insurance markets , according to a report published today . |
| 23 | But the Gypsies say they just want to get on with the local people . |
| 24 | But the Gypsies say they just want to get on with the local people . |
| 25 | However , the northern geometric deigns , again , appear to owe little to the latter . |
| 26 | I think that Mr has lost his bet because we are a party who is not obsessed by ideology we are not prepared to act indefinitely like bulls in a china shop when the owners of the shop have an infinite supply of china We want to move forward and we want to move forward in the real world and the idea that a strong government and sticking to what you want through thick and thin when clearly you 're not going to get the result you want , as indeed the government did over the poll tax , in the end you have to recognise the reality the Labour group , as much as anything else , are part of that reality . |
| 27 | If you want to head off into the higher mountains , cross-country skiing is n't the best sport for children : the effort , though not strenuous , is constant , and children under ten could tire if asked to ski for longer than a half-day . |
| 28 | Tap Enter twice after the first paragraph |
| 29 | We intend to participate fully in the promised review of housing revenue account expenditure which is er coming later in this year . |
| 30 | The sources of gravitational radiation that experimentalists hope to detect directly in the near future are supernovae occurring in our Galaxy . |