Example sentences of "they [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each knows the weaknesses in its own and in the other approaches and therefore debates between them tend to result in predictable discussions within a well-trodden terrain . |
| 2 | There are many clinical features in common among these treponematoses and some of them appear to go through similar stages and periods of latency . |
| 3 | Estate agents will now have to give consumers more information , with specific requirements to write to clients informing them of services they intend to offer to prospective purchasers , and to explain in writing terms such as ‘ sole agency ’ , ‘ ready , willing and able ’ , and ‘ sole selling rights ’ . |
| 4 | Most editors and journalists are perfectly honest about the fact that when they need help they tend to go to those PROs who have been helpful in the past . |
| 5 | But they tend to diverge into two types with respect to the information about features that is thought to be important . |
| 6 | Consequently they tend to opt for conservative technologies . |
| 7 | Japanese firms prefer long-term reliable and exclusive business relationships and they tend to turn to established channels to develop new business initiatives . |
| 8 | They tend to come in large groups , but there are singletons and couples as well . |
| 9 | But perhaps the most worrying , if most ephemeral , comment is that researchers are unwilling to take risks to open up new lines of research ; they tend to stick to piecemeal additions to well-established paths . |
| 10 | Even when people do go for walks , they tend to keep to public paths and these are often also severely eroded ( Coleman , 1981 ) . |
| 11 | Conceit , because they tend to attribute to human beings a position in the world to which , a position of importance in the world , to which they 're not entitled . |
| 12 | Get you some victims to be included because presumably they want to appeal for more members |
| 13 | Many other countries have announced that they expect to proceed towards democratic elections in the coming year — Angola , Cameroon , Kenya , Liberia , Madagascar , Nigeria , Seychelles and Sierra Leone . |
| 14 | The Greens won 10–30 per cent in some 1977 municipals , so they expect to get onto some councils . |
| 15 | The organisers say they hope to cater for all tastes at The Belfry , and they 're certainly trying their best . |
| 16 | In addition , at the level of somatic cell hybrid and FISH mapping , they seem to cluster in certain regions of the genome , and one such cluster was proposed for human chromosome 10 ( 12 ) in the pericentromeric region ( 5 ) . |
| 17 | The rocks beneath the castle , on account of the form they seem to have in high seas and foam , are called Macleod 's Maidens . |
| 18 | Where insects are preserved they seem to occur in large numbers and in variety , so that a few famous localities have yielded a disproportionate number of the fossil species . |
| 19 | The end result is that pupils switch off any interest in the school , and how they manage to go through five years of their school years still amazes me . |
| 20 | In their more usual homes they like to live in huge colonies around cracks in the ocean floor where hot mineral rich larva or oil and gas leak from the sea bed . |
| 21 | If the sale is of part only of the land affected by the notice of deposit , a simple letter of consent to the transaction from the bank or other person protected by the notice , addressed to the Chief Land Registrar , is sufficient ; but some banks have their own form , which they like to use in such cases . |
| 22 | After all , they pay to look after old ruins , and I 'm of historical interest . |
| 23 | Despite the government 's commitment to bring water up to EC standards , she claims , some water companies have been told that they need not fear prosecution if they continue to fall below these levels . |
| 24 | When their numbers reach a peak , like bees in a hive , they decide to migrate to better pastures . |
| 25 | Is not it disgraceful that the Government are destroying living standards , yet they claim to believe in human values ? |
| 26 | In the refectories they try to cater for all tastes with vegan and vegetarian dishes daily , Halal meat for students in hall . |
| 27 | They make remarks about an unmanly attitude , and they pretend to look for yellow streaks . |
| 28 | While fuel duties are by far the most attractive tax and are virtually impossible to avoid , they fail to discriminate between casual users , such as city centre dwellers , and essential users , such as country dwellers who have no alternative means of transport . |
| 29 | They would highlight certain characteristics of human beings , such as emotions or the capacity to make moral choices , as characteristics that they wish to value above all others . |
| 30 | Progress is being eased by the EC Common Agricultural Policy 's set-aside rules , which require farmers to take 15 per cent of their land out of use if they wish to benefit from guaranteed prices . |