Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present employers tend to see joint degrees as second class . |
| 2 | Where business executives are concerned , employers tend to have considerable discretion in the way that they implement redundancies . |
| 3 | Regarding staff becoming involved , initial discussions tend to involve senior staff but once the programme of work is signed up it will involve staff at all levels . |
| 4 | Eurosterling bondholders tend to prefer protective covenants that prevent a deterioration in credit quality , whereas eurodollar bondholders prefer the put-at-par option . |
| 5 | Such economic transformations tend to undermine both the national independence of Third World countries , and the autonomy of women where this is based on some degree of control over land . |
| 6 | It would be interesting and potentially lively to engage in maths or history or music in the midst of a project on ‘ Warwick Castle ’ ( say ) , or ‘ Myself ’ , or ‘ Transport ’ , but projects tend to contain inherent biases to one subject area or another . |
| 7 | In a period of strong social stratification , objects tend to reflect given social hierarchies . |
| 8 | The result with present 3-D pictures is that foreground objects tend to look flat — ‘ cut out of cardboard ’ is the common expression — because the viewer can not look round an object by moving his head . |
| 9 | However , this is not a great disadvantage , for in an insect 's world , significant objects tend to loom large and close . |
| 10 | The point at issue is that both sets of disciplines tend to have different conceptions about the domain and status of proof in the pursuit of knowledge . |
| 11 | These patterns tend to stay stable over time and most patients had the same strain of Helicobacter in the stomach and duodenum . |
| 12 | Such groups tend to wield greater power in conflict situations than their members , and indeed the very existence of the groups may be seen to anticipate and perpetuate conflict , to harden and formalise a set of attitudes and values that their individual members may not themselves have recognised or expressed . |
| 13 | Group size — small groups tend to be more cohesive than larger groups ; small groups tend to encourage full participation ; large groups contain greater diversity of talent . |
| 14 | It is striking how even when certain minority groups tend to achieve mean levels of attainment above those of the white majority , they still remain heavily disadvantaged in employment terms . |
| 15 | However , in practice the courts tend to impose higher sentences for assaults on the police , and it is therefore worth noting that this offence is committed even though D was unaware that he was striking a police-officer . |
| 16 | Since cultures tend to go sour after about two or three weeks when they are best thrown out , it is best to start a new culture every ten days or so . |
| 17 | Sometimes , earthworks of ridge and furrow or narrow early enclosed strips remain to give some clue to the course , but elsewhere the boundary itself must be the clue to the former existence of such an arrangement . |
| 18 | Erm , having said that , I think lecturers tend to accumulate these things over time and this is the first year I 've run this course so I do n't have a great stock of things I can I can show you . |
| 19 | Surveys of attitudes tend to confirm this . |
| 20 | As McLean points out , under Mrs Thatcher , ‘ Legislative proposals tend to reflect undiluted political programmes rather than a compromise between competing interests . |
| 21 | The draft proposals tend to emphasize advisory structures and roles . |
| 22 | The point here is that techniques get evaluated and researched but programmes and policies do not , with the result that the ‘ social factors ’ which block policies tend to go unresearched too , or at best identified piecemeal , although lip-service to their importance is sometimes paid . |
| 23 | Owls tend to take most of their prey from the ground and therefore feed mostly on mammals , but smaller owl species will take roosting small birds and invertebrates . |
| 24 | As a result , controversial local plans tend to attract numerous objections which are then tested at a local inquiry . |
| 25 | In the tropics , where day length varies only slightly , birds tend to use other guides , particularly rainfall . |
| 26 | refers to the way in which lexical meanings combine to produce complex semantic expressions . |
| 27 | Yet whatever the actual characteristics imputed to the mystical powers selected , seemingly arbitrary , for a given role , most religions appear to possess two complementary categories . |
| 28 | While software house MMT Computing Plc is still ticking over , it believes that attempts at broadening its skills base to cover open systems as well as its traditional mainframe business will help restore margins to pre-recession levels . |
| 29 | Regarding the pattern of these physical changes over time , different kinds of impairments appear to have different ‘ trajectories ’ , although there is also a certain degree of overlap in this . |
| 30 | East End working class attitudes have been parodied by Alf Garnett as portrayed by Warren Mitchell , yet his strongly loyalist , anti-socialist , anti-foreigner , anti-intellectual , male chauvinist opinions appear to reflect real attitudes , only exaggerated for the purposes of the comedy . |