Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Surveys of attitudes tend to confirm this . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Students taking degree courses involving field work ( eg Architecture , Ecology , Geography , and Geology ) can incur expenses of £200 plus , spread over the three , four or five years of the course , but can in most cases expect to receive some help from University funds in meeting these . |
| 7 | Secondary schools tend to have much more community use and their community notice board could support a copy of your prospectus and their community newsletter carry details of your school 's events too ! |
| 8 | Thirdly , primary schools tend to have little formal curricular differentiation between the sexes , except in physical education ( Plowden Report , 1967 ) . |
| 9 | While the primary ethnographic accounts of life and character in such peaceful societies usually present multi-dimensional pictures of complex human beings , these pictures tend to become more and more one-dimensional as the material is employed in secondary and tertiary works , where the original complexity is often reduced to little more than caricature . |
| 10 | It is reasonably hardwearing but it lacks the springiness and suppleness of wool ; consequently , silk rugs tend to retain any creases or scuffing in the pile , and far greater care is needed to protect them from damage . |
| 11 | At each stage goals shift in importance and organizations tend to ignore this fact . |
| 12 | John Hand , BT 's 0800 marketing manager , says : ‘ British shoppers want to beat all the hassles by following the American lead and buying over the phone . |
| 13 | This may also be because those subjects appear to offer fewer possible problems with regard to reconciling our behaviour , or everyday life , our origins perhaps , with other beliefs . |
| 14 | Training methods involve repeating these combinations until the juxtaposition of foot , hip and shoulder becomes automatic . |
| 15 | We shall soon see that some good search algorithms involve remembering many states . |
| 16 | All animals appear to have some capacity to learn from experience . |
| 17 | Sixty per cent of secretaries want to develop another career but only 15 per cent feel opportunities exist . |
| 18 | Ninety four per cent of Scots want to see more Police on the beat . |
| 19 | Yet it ought not to be long before some healthy doubts begin to disturb this mood of self-congratulation . |
| 20 | Areas such as the chalklands and the Jurassic limestones seem to show little evidence of soil degradation , while the field monuments indicate that they were densely settled . |
| 21 | The economic circumstances of both parties seem to offer another important explanation of why it is more common for people to share a home with relatives at some points of historical time than at others . |
| 22 | It is not at all easy to see what it is that makes one thing tough and another brittle because the substances in each of these lists seem to have little enough in common . |
| 23 | Erm my nan remembers him , was it somebody called , no no he was another character I think he sold newspapers , but erm I do , I do remember him er They 've always erm tried to get some entertainment on the pitch though prior to the matches to try and make it a family thing you know , I , I think Watford are the best club for that you know , because they , the supporters seem to take all the family along , as my son said when they went down there to the Cup replay they are very much a family sort , they do n't get a lot of trouble at Watford either . |
| 24 | Also , attorneys may be putting themselves up for huge amounts of emotional strain , knowing that their clients stand to lose more than their liberty . |
| 25 | Cocaine is so inexpensive that most heroin injectors like to have both drugs in the mix at the same time . |
| 26 | There is also the problem that performance testing is highly susceptible to personal distractions and even though the tests and conditions of testing can be standardized , the motivation of those taking them cannot. for example , in some of our own experiments we found that subjects like to accompany each testing session with music . |
| 27 | For example , it is argued that former communist officials in the Russian provinces continue to wield much power and are in a position to render executive decisions ineffective . |
| 28 | Manufacturers continue to demand more help from the Government in the shape of increased capital allowances ( already raised by Chancellor Nigel Lamont from 25% to 40% in the last Autumn Statement ) , some form of relief from advance corporation tax and cheaper export insurance . |
| 29 | Marxists try to answer another question : how have the dominant classes or fractions in capitalist societies managed to enforce sufficient control to restrict class consciousness to ‘ safe ’ levels ? |
| 30 | that 's pretty , yeah grilled that 's really gruesome is n't it but you could , I mean really that 's the sort of ghastly thing people do is n't it in headlines which you could use it as you 've used the actual word Bacon 's in your headline you could play on words keep using that idea . |