Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And since the rich tend to sit in their own gardens , public parks help redistribute enjoyment towards the poor . |
| 2 | The rich tend to want to be away from the poor , but the poor want to be in the same jurisdiction as the rich . |
| 3 | So you 've got twenty nine students in the class and fifteen want to go to Whitby , and eight want to go to Scarborough , and three little piggies want to stay at home . |
| 4 | Naturally , the fair-minded British tend to side with the underdog . |
| 5 | The British tend to sneer at American house-building methods . |
| 6 | Cut carefully through the leaves at the top of the pineapple so that some remain attached to each half of the fruit . |
| 7 | Few intend to stay beyond a year or two . |
| 8 | Some branches go in for quite lavish posters , some make do with local draughtsmanship . |
| 9 | Some say cooking in aluminium foil presents a risk of the metal depositing in the food , not a pleasant prospect in view of the evidence of aluminium poisoning resulting in premature senility or Alzheimer 's Disease . |
| 10 | He joined the Scholars ' Movement in 1907 , was arrested , and some say imprisoned on the notorious island of Pulo Condor , where political prisoners were exiled . |
| 11 | Some want to invest in the island and get some kind of tourism going . ’ |
| 12 | Some want to chat about their problems : their upcoming court cases , where they can get an Aids test , how they can get into drug treatment . |
| 13 | Some suggest tinkering with the tax system : raise the ceiling for tax-free earnings , or boost the earned-income tax credit for low-earners . |
| 14 | Of course , if you have even a distant eye on a whole series of books featuring one detective ( and the late Margery Allingham once pointed out to me that the advantage of this is that half your potential readers want to read you and half want to read about your sleuth ) , then you are likely to land in difficulties if you hit on , say , a Victorian governess who happens to deal in the course of her scholastic career with as many as twenty or thirty " orrible murders . |
| 15 | As a result the DST is able to operate a huge computerised identity-card system associated with equally large and efficient telephone-tapping centres which the French appear to tolerate without concern about their civil liberties . |
| 16 | Some appear to fade at 35 , some at 45 , some at 55 , while others are still highly motivated to achieve at 70 . |
| 17 | Moreover , some appear to consist of little more than the ‘ active constituents ’ of the dietary regimen we have already described — a regime whose effectiveness is not accepted by all research workers . |
| 18 | Some stop to talk to the hunger strikers . |
| 19 | At this point we noticed some fry scattering towards the far bank , so I retrieved and cast to the spot . |
| 20 | He is the former production manager of British Die Casting which in 1973 employed 143 at Chirton and was quoted in The shields News Guardian on 26 May 1988 as saying : ‘ We are producing double the output of the old British Die Casting with half the work force . ’ |
| 21 | A rather unpleasant and damp flog came in its place . |
| 22 | Mainly the sparks fly down off the wheel , but some seem to cling to the circumference all round then fly up into the operator 's face . |
| 23 | The reasons for this seem to fall into three categories : ignorance of what solicitors can do on the part of potential clients and a lack of preparedness in pursuing legal action , that is apathy ; the public image of lawyers ; and barriers against use , in particular cost and accessibility . |
| 24 | The control movements needed to achieve this vary according to the configuration of the undercarriage . |
| 25 | When the Orioles ' designated hitter lifts a three-run homer over the right field fence in the ninth to wrap it up at 9–3 , the resigned Sox faithful begin heading for the exits . |
| 26 | Not all bureau have all the fonts and while most have a good range from the Adobe/Linotype collection few seem to cater for the other vendors such as Monotype , Compugraphic , etc , etc . |
| 27 | Although most children remain well as long as they stick to their diet , a few seem to relapse after a few years for no apparent reason . |
| 28 | But this does n't answer the more important question : how , and when , did a simple ( if magnificent ) living bird of the 1830s get turned into a complicated , transcendent parrot of the 1870s ? |
| 29 | ‘ Some like to know for sure and some do n't . ’ |
| 30 | It would not be in the serpentine shape in which local tradition and the folklore of sea monsters tend to cast the creature , nor would it be the individual guardian of the loch , the watery Cerberus , which some like to think of Nessie as being . |