Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today beaches are not quite so safe , for hordes of gulls and small wading birds congregate to share the prodigal feast . |
| 2 | The Roman authorities intend to refurbish the Casina delle Civette at Villa Torlonia , which already has splendid Art Nouveau furnishings and stained glass , to house twentieth-century decorative arts , whilst the Ministry has decided to allocate the Villino Boncompagni , near Via Veneto , to the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna for a similar museum . |
| 3 | It is the consonant sounds which make speech intelligible ; therefore it is not surprising that people who lose the high frequencies tend to hear the voice but not to be able to distinguish words . |
| 4 | Most of the later graptolites had only a few branches and , in the Silurian , species with only a single branch tend to dominate the assemblages . |
| 5 | Her mother Diana , who five months later set up the Suzy Lamplugh Trust to publicise the dangers of women working alone , fears the worst . |
| 6 | Although these classifications and their spatial patterns tend to confirm the generally accepted view of rural population already discussed here and in Chapter 4 , Webber and Craig admit that multivariate classification is a subject on which virtually no two practitioners agree either in the UK or in other countries like France ( Chapius , 1973 ) and therefore argue that the crucial test should not be the methodology but whether the classifications are useful . |
| 7 | Gill and Jackson had the ideal opportunity to demonstrate how the phenomenon of identity confusion could be understood through the process of racial discrimination in society , a path whereby children of minority groups tend to internalise the values of the dominant society , and internalise derogatory values about themselves . |
| 8 | However , if farms remain profitable , yield-increasing technologies tend to mask the effect of soil degradation and erosion and make up for declines in fertility that would have occurred if land had been cultivated with a constant level of technology . |
| 9 | In proportion as its acts tend to promote the same end , its conduct may be termed organised and its several actions correlated . |
| 10 | Fighting begins when they learn the Daleks intend to pollute the atmosphere with even more radioactive fallout , which will kill the Thals . |
| 11 | Animals that are too aggressive , too daring , or too timid for their own good in terms of reproduction are gradually eliminated so that in a stable environment the median values tend to become the population norms . |
| 12 | In the end , only the action is viable , so that all these essays tend to match the inside ethnography and are nullified by neglect or have any contentious matter treated as ‘ privileged information ’ , for as Templeton ( 1980 : 904 ) argues ‘ the police fear that if you have a better understanding of society , you are in a better position to change it — the very exercise [ they ] are reluctant to engage in ’ . |
| 13 | The Brownings have no room in the Casa Guidi should they ever be willing to shelter him and in any case intend to follow the Storys for another winter in Rome ( entailing another in Florence alone for me ) . |
| 14 | In one field , the East Germans tend to sweep the West Germans out of sight . |
| 15 | Functionalists tend to see the relationship between social groups in society as one of cooperation and interdependence . |
| 16 | The researchers intend to monitor the progress of cases through the various legal stages . |
| 17 | So many groups want to visit the plant , which was stricken by a now notorious accident to its reactor in 1979 that its owner , General Public Utilities , has a waiting list . |
| 18 | In my work with church groups on the subject of bereavement , I have repeatedly found that such groups Want to discuss the subject of suicide . |
| 19 | If these so-called rugby experts want to relive the monotonous and tedious forward battles that culminated in England 's Grand Slam then they can keep their memories . |
| 20 | We used the Mann-Whitney U test to compare the results of different groups . |
| 21 | Soon he was hammering on the door , thud after thud , a noise fit to wake the dead . |
| 22 | We used Student 's t test to compare the basic data of age , volume of blood transfusion , haemoglobin , and length of hospital stay ; χ 2 test with or without Yates ' correction and Fisher 's exact test when appropriate to compare the haemostatic effects among the two groups of patients . |
| 23 | 7.2.3 For elderly people , the proposals appear to overlook the difficulties which they may face if , for instance , the contract for cataracts or hip replacements is placed at a hospital some distance away . |
| 24 | Furthermore , we used a Wilcoxon signed ranks test to test the in vivo reproducibility of steady state rectal CSA values . |
| 25 | Britain , West Germany and the Netherlands want to reduce the scientists ' pay by 4½ per cent over the next three years . |
| 26 | Usually , the study points out , the creditors expect to get the lion 's share of any debt relief . |
| 27 | There are dissenting voices among the 360 women undergraduates at Somerville , but the vast majority want to preserve the college 's single sex status . |
| 28 | There are dissenting voices among the 360 women undergraduates at Somerville , but the vast majority want to preserve the college 's single sex status . |
| 29 | Recent movements of the dollar and yen by contrast appear to reflect the absence of international policy coordination . |
| 30 | Such patterns appear to reflect the way in which the lithosphere fractures as magma forces its way up to the surface . |