Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tend to fall within a broad category of exploitation , a genre characterised by a simplistic ethos of violent action . |
| 2 | They also have broad noses and sideways facing nostrils , and tend to sit in a hunched position when at rest . |
| 3 | ‘ I may be old-fashioned , ’ Alec sighed , ‘ but I hate experimenting in a lonely spot like this . ’ |
| 4 | It is the way we intend to proceed in a whole range of different market areas . ’ |
| 5 | Tubifex is collected by scooping up the mud patch containing the worms , and then washing the mud away to leave clean worms which tend to gather in a tight ball . |
| 6 | Rule-based parsers tend to work on a sentential basis which appears to be too much delay for users . |
| 7 | Here users tend to come from a wide variety of backgrounds , and press for an equally wide range of requirements . |
| 8 | Severed human limbs , heads and trunks lay scattered over a wide area ; other human remains , accompanied by tattered shreds of uniform , hung grotesquely from the remaining tree branches . |
| 9 | A pile of boxes lay scattered like a demolished chimney . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Target-oriented programmes tend to concentrate on a small number of permanent or semi-permanent methods ( sterilisation or IUD ) to minimise dropout rates . |
| 12 | They can advise their clients [ customers ] on all aspects of the law although many tend to concentrate on a particular area . |
| 13 | They can advise their clients [ customers ] on all aspects of the law although many tend to concentrate on a particular area . |
| 14 | They can advise their clients [ customers ] on all aspects of the law although many tend to concentrate on a particular area . |
| 15 | They can advise their clients [ customers ] on all aspects of the law although many tend to concentrate on a particular area . |
| 16 | ‘ If they want to go at a certain pace and not become a Top Five singles band you have to respect them for it . |
| 17 | I want to arrange for a commemorative postage stamp to be printed with my portrait on it . |
| 18 | BP and Shell account for a large slice of petroleum tax payments because they operate mature fields that have lost their tax shelter . |
| 19 | By impacting with neighbouring particles they vibrate about a locus , and only appear to remain in a fixed position . |
| 20 | If you wait five years it gets slightly steeper so the force to you becomes that and so on and so forth , forty five fifty and you can see at fifty five if you want to retire at a certain age er what 's the age that you actually want to retire ? |
| 21 | Syllabus makers appear to suffer from a sad tendency to measure curriculum content by what is contained in the syllabus and textbooks rather than by what is , or what can be , absorbed by the learners . |
| 22 | Most agents prefer a term of about three years , whereas bands want to work on a yearly basis . |
| 23 | If we want to work at a high level of stress , however , anywhere near the potential strength of glass for instance , we must be prepared to keep the surface free from even the most microscopic cracks for , if even one crack is allowed to exceed the Griffith length , which may be only about a thousand Ångströms , catastrophic failure will occur . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There are members of the European parliament who s s support Strasbourg as a meeting place clearly , but the majority do not , the majority want to meet in a single city and in so doing the majority have accepted that there should be a new European parliament building in Brussels and that European parliament building now operates . |
| 26 | The scanner looks at different kinds of injury than the equipment which Darlington and North Tees health authority expect to receive from a national health department package announced two weeks ago . |
| 27 | If you are between 8 and 14 and want to participate in a dark journey of the imagination come to the VALLEY OF DOOM . |
| 28 | If you are between 8 and 14 and want to participate in a dark journey of the imagination come to the VALLEY OF DOOM . |
| 29 | The crust and the immediately underlying mantle created above the asthenosphere in fact appear to behave as a semi-rigid layer called the lithosphere . |
| 30 | The forcefield is maximised and the dots appear to behave like a solar system , orbiting about their common centre of gravity . |