Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ In Europe we tend to hit our irons better than the average American but we tend to lose shots around the greens .
2 The biological assumptions involved in such statements are based on a series of half-truths about the ageing process , extended so that they appear to support explanations about the nature of life and health in old age that are not justified by the facts .
3 Another effect of trees is that they appear to concentrate pollutants from the atmosphere .
4 Another effect of trees is that they appear to concentrate pollutants from the atmosphere .
5 I received representations from both parties on [ Date ] and expect to receive replies to the representations on [ Date ] .
6 ‘ I want to discuss things with the owner , and it will probably be a week or so before I make up my mind .
7 THE FRENCH authorities expect to announce details of the design of the next generation of fast-breeder reactors at a nuclear safety conference next week .
8 Few appear to express problems in the system of changing GPs .
9 Grow species tulips , such as T tarda , if you want to leave bulbs in the ground to flower reliably year after year .
10 This is because they 're no good fur falconry proper — you can train them to fly free and return to you , but as they 're nocturnal it 's difficult to train them to hunt under ‘ controlled conditions ’ , particularly if you want to do displays for the public .
11 Such questions are particularly useful when the social health of the group is poor , when the group is very unused to being given responsibility , when you want to draw individuals into the decision-making process , perhaps because they are mischievous or nervous .
12 The advantages of work appear to keep women in the work-force even when circumstances subsequently become less favourable ( Joshi and Owen 1985 ) .
13 NGOs appear to present challenges to the authority of government agencies .
14 Mr Gordon said : ‘ If this happens we want to take projects off the shelf to keep up our level of investment , and we would have to look earlier at light rail transport schemes . ’
15 ‘ People ought to be able to decide whether they want to take risks on the basis of information which gives them an idea of how much risk there is , ’ says Helen Peggs , ‘ but at the moment the information they get is often distorted . ’
16 Families may have to share lavatories with other families or it may be inconveniently placed and so parents find that it is too much bother to take children to the lavatory and continue to let them soil .
17 The study aims to describe and analyse how the various actors involved in police policy-making — the Home Office , Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Constabulary , the Home Secretary , the police authorities , pressure and community groups , political parties , the media , as well as the police themselves — interact to produce changes in the style , organisation or operation of policing on the ground .
18 It 's a nice thing to know if you ever get tense , er decide that this is it , I 'll throw things Er well I do when I want to throw things at the kitchen and go away and you use aromatherapy .
19 This will be done primarily by evaluating the response of both demand and supply to tax changes in the past .
20 And , since we 're talking about it , I want to make amends for the way I treated his mother .
21 He said : ‘ I just want to introduce others to the pleasures of writing and sharing that writing with others . ’
22 We shall see that decision-makers tend to reach decisions on the basis of bounded rationality .
23 The Fundació 's maintenance costs eat up the lion 's share of government subsidy , and as the programme is expanded the directors hope to cultivate funds for the exhibition and education programmes from sponsorship and patronage .
24 They hope to find clues to the structure of the highly complicated social organisation which hints at a hierarchy with ‘ leaders ’ and ‘ subordinates ’ .
25 In fact , the whole discipline will become more applied in the sense that the emphasis will be shifted from laboratory studies , which seek to isolate variables in the abstract , towards being a social science , which examines socially shared beliefs , or social representations , in their actual social context .
26 She had promised Julie that she would be well enough to get up the following day and they would take a trip in the pony and trap to visit friends in the area who Julie had not seen for years .
27 They hope to nurture pupils in the rest .
28 The thousands of English fans arriving here hope to buy tickets from the Italians ; if they succeed , that means they will all end up in areas reserved for rival fans , another pointer to problems .
29 And persons of average political sensibility in many lands eagerly study the transformations in Hungary and seek to draw lessons from the changes .
30 Bill added : ‘ They were the first Calder team to tackle one of these events and we hope to send others in the future .
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