Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [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 | If you want to know more about the Aquarian electronic thermostat drop me a line at |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Subject : ‘ Youre going home in a Swedish Ambulance ’ |
| 8 | The basic assumption of geometric perspective is that although parallel lines never meet , they appear to do so at a vanishing point , on a distant backcloth . |
| 9 | I 've forgotten my troubles ; now I want to climb just for the good performance itself . |
| 10 | And then a rite of reconciliation for those who 've lapsed from church membership , or from the practice of their religion , and want to start again in a purposeful manner . |
| 11 | Now , are there any aspects about the isomerism you want clarifying apart from the whole lot ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , the northern geometric deigns , again , appear to owe little to the latter . |
| 14 | I 'm quite keen to make a distinction between what you might call victimless crimes and crimes with victims , and that it is , it seems to me , we want to move away from an older pattern in which the university had its ideas of how people should behave and tried to make them conform to those ideas , towards a much more complaint activated system of response , so that it 's the kind of behaviour find objectionable that the authorities may get drawn into looking at . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I propose to begin therefore with a terminological clarification . |
| 17 | Tap Enter twice after the first paragraph |
| 18 | We intend to participate fully in the promised review of housing revenue account expenditure which is er coming later in this year . |
| 19 | She wanted to eat her cake and have it , put Georg away in a little box for the future , when she 'd finished having a good time . |
| 20 | The sources of gravitational radiation that experimentalists hope to detect directly in the near future are supernovae occurring in our Galaxy . |
| 21 | Samuel Rhodes , the viola player of the Quartet , has had a larger size instrument made which enables the normal viola range to extend downwards by a fourth . |
| 22 | It is a poem which , although at first in its language and meaning I admittedly find a little daunting , I enjoyed pondering over very much and genuinely hope to read more by the same , as yet , anonymous author . |
| 23 | I hope to stay here for a long time . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I hope to get home at a reasonable time tonight , but it rather depends on what Kegan wants . |
| 25 | We hope to feature more about the Advisory Group in a future NOTES article . |
| 26 | The public tend to focus more on the one penny than on the quarter of a million illegal profit and conclude that the incident is insignificant . |
| 27 | People do n't seem to moan on but tend to look more at the positive angles . |
| 28 | They are the teeth that stand to benefit most from the conservative approach advocated by Dr Anusavice and like-minded practitioners . |
| 29 | Sri Lanka 's existing network of community-based newspapers and periodicals stand to benefit substantially from the proposed new media legislation . |
| 30 | Val Williams points out that the busy and accomplished women Edis portrays ‘ seem to function forever in an organised unflurried context … her control of light and shade invests interiors with a luminosity which sometimes serves almost to sanctify the participants in her photographs ’ . |