Example sentences of "they [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | Users should provide their own benchmarks , preferably an emulation of the sort of application they intend to run with comparable workload . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But they tend to diverge into two types with respect to the information about features that is thought to be important . |
| 5 | Consequently they tend to opt for conservative technologies . |
| 6 | Japanese firms prefer long-term reliable and exclusive business relationships and they tend to turn to established channels to develop new business initiatives . |
| 7 | Conversely , they tend to converge in higher-status speech on a much narrower phonetic area , but are less responsive to environmental constraints . |
| 8 | Mothers and babies are suitable cases for treatment because they tend to stay in one place , there are only two subjects at a time , and their behaviour together is relatively stereotyped and uncomplicated . |
| 9 | Instead , they tend to focus on formal job descriptions , as these are key to performance appraisals . |
| 10 | They tend to come in large groups , but there are singletons and couples as well . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Even when people do go for walks , they tend to keep to public paths and these are often also severely eroded ( Coleman , 1981 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mostly about the film — and they want to talk about another book . ’ |
| 15 | So we look for situations where our learners will really have something they want to say to each other . |
| 16 | That speakers do introduce what they want to say via some form of personal reference has a noticeable effect on the structure of contributions in conversational discourse . |
| 17 | Get you some victims to be included because presumably they want to appeal for more members |
| 18 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 19 | They want to share in big-match atmosphere . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Secondly , they say we must refuel the plane because they want to fly to another country . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Greens won 10–30 per cent in some 1977 municipals , so they expect to get onto some councils . |
| 23 | They appear to rely on temporary work schemes that will be rewarded by a ’ proper rate for the job ’ . |
| 24 | Now , Becker and Stich will be the doubles pairing chasing an Olympic gold , providing they can mask the thinly disguised antipathy they appear to have for each other . |
| 25 | This balance is important , since , for example , some accounts whose critical focus is the rise of the individual , private , property-owning self , almost appear to conspire with that reification of the self which they seek to criticize in contemporary culture , by isolating and concentrating on this single factor . |
| 26 | The Ekeko 's fair is where dreams and wishes are sold , where even the city 's poorest inhabitants can buy , in miniature , what they hope to obtain in real life during the course of the coming year . |
| 27 | The organisers say they hope to cater for all tastes at The Belfry , and they 're certainly trying their best . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | While the major political parties are at each other 's throats over most areas of policy , they seem to agree on one idea to aid innovation — probably it is from an independent body . |
| 30 | The rocks beneath the castle , on account of the form they seem to have in high seas and foam , are called Macleod 's Maidens . |