Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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1 | Most of the women who are high on one measure are high on the other , and those who are low tend to show the same symmetry . |
2 | The rich tend to buy the services of doctors and the poor purchase mostly unprescribed medicines from pharmacists . |
3 | It is difficult to react adequately to George Woodcock 's silly comment that in Leonard 's first two books of poetry ‘ the thirties urge to relate the imagery of poetry to the world we live in , as the world we dream , might never have existed . ’ |
4 | Chemists know that oxygen-free climates like this tend to foster the spontaneous synthesis of organic compounds . |
5 | Now that IBM Corp is in long-term decline , evolving into just another big company like Xerox Corp or General Motors Corp that has seen much better days , market-makers are looking for another bellwether to signal the direction of the entire market , the Wall Street Journal reports . |
6 | Some appear to use the cash flow statement in an impressionistic way , in the words of one interviewee , ‘ to get a feel for investments and for management action ’ . |
7 | Some seek to keep the family together at all costs ; others , particularly in relation to sexual abuse , argue for the exclusion of the abuser from the home . |
8 | Discourse analysts are rather vague about what they mean by ‘ conversation ’ too , and some seem to use the term to describe any kind of oral interaction . |
9 | That was sufficient to reverse the market 's early 16.5 drop to leave the FTSE 1.4 off at 3037.2 . |
10 | IS THERE a more senseless waste of money than the annual four-yearly scramble to host the Olympic Games ? |
11 | Yet of all people the British seem to take the greatest pride in suppression of emotion . |
12 | Football clubs and debt go hand in hand but few seem to go the same way as the hundreds of small businesses biting the dust every day . |
13 | Many would argue that the idea of permissiveness has been overstated , exaggerated or misapplied , but few seem to doubt the underlying reality of this supposedly permissive Britain of the 1960s . |
14 | Some like to have the item fully composed before they begin teaching others prefer to compose and teach parts , discarding and replacing as they go along until it takes shape . |
15 | Some like to avoid the worst of city centre traffic , while those who work on tidal rivers have to time their sampling to coincide with low water , since many discharges are only accessible then . |
16 | Some try to explain the miracles away and say that they did not happen . |
17 | Some try to match the closure programme to meet the Staff needs . |
18 | Some try to get the legal approval ; others simply ignore it . |
19 | In this essay I shall attempt to show how this need to control the female permeates the ritual life of the Hindu woman . |
20 | Why this need to nudge the world into being other than it is ? he wrote . |
21 | None are exempt from this need to understand the principles of finance if they are to succeed . |
22 | The growing use of alliances in strategic industries heightens this need to understand the world scene . |
23 | It was both out of proportion to any social need to protect the impartiality of the courts and the rights of litigants , and it was not a restriction necessary in a democratic society to uphold these values . |
24 | THE ORGANISERS of the World Student Games to be held in Sheffield in 1991 intend to foot the bill for the Games , which will have to be staged for the first time without direct financial help from the host government , by raising £18m through sponsorship . |
25 | Ian , 39 , fished a bunch of lugworm on a size 4/0 hook to tempt the cod which was beached on 15 lb line . |
26 | Based on this , we propose the following transform to obtain the structural information from LEED are Legendre polynomials . |
27 | Thus left-dislocated sentences ( Ross , 1967 ) like the following seem to mark the topic of the sentence by movement into initial position : ( 98 ) That blouse , it 's simply stunning ( 99 ) Vera , is she coming down then ? |
28 | Fig 45 Aim to position the aircraft on , or as close as possible to , the outbound track prior to crossing the facility outbound . |
29 | Two more quotations of many hundreds serve to make the point that the distance between the two views is so large that they are probably not going to be reconciled by proof or disproof of the physical evidence . |
30 | Friends of Chai act as stewards as hundreds come to see the spectacle , including foreign correspondents . |