Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make easing cuts at external and internal corners . |
| 2 | Partly for financial reasons , students now tend to attend university in their home town rather than travel to a city with a better department . |
| 3 | ‘ You tend to treat life as if it were a game of cricket , for one thing . ’ |
| 4 | They tend to treat language as an unproblematic expression of women 's experience , and they are too directed by the need for feminist change to do justice to the unconscious . |
| 5 | Although moral philosophers tend to treat aesthetics as a poor relation of their own discipline , it is in aesthetics that we arrive at the central problem of evaluating the activities which we pursue without thought of serving a purpose , in particular the one traditionally regarded as not merely good in itself but in some mysterious way improving to the agent , the contemplation of beauty . |
| 6 | Paradoxically , although surrounded by water , dolphins , like other marine mammals , tend to lose water from their bodies to the sea . |
| 7 | Would you say that managers tend to lose sight of labour relations and concentrate on the market ? |
| 8 | 95% Political — perhaps necessary for subject , but tend to lose vision of whom we serve |
| 9 | ‘ In Europe we tend to hit our irons better than the average American but we tend to lose shots around the greens . |
| 10 | They therefore rarely see ‘ the complete picture ’ and tend to lose track of an issue once discussion of it has been concluded . |
| 11 | Most of us tend to see things as wholes or else to analyse them into the obvious parts . |
| 12 | At the very least , it says a great deal about the conspiratorial mentality which the leaders of the Communist system have created that so many defectors tend to see deception at work everywhere . |
| 13 | But unfortunately , professionals are often deeply mistrustful of advocacy organizations and tend to see advocates as intruders creating a barrier to communication between the professional and the service-user . |
| 14 | Organizations that adopt the marketing concept also tend to see marketing as a very diffuse activity , shared by many , and not just the preserve of a specialist group called Marketing & sales . |
| 15 | You should be able to go into turns and make centring movements without having to refer to the slip ball , yaw string , or ASI . |
| 16 | As a part of that we intend to arrange excursions from time to time , and there will be winter lectures . |
| 17 | It is ironic that the media tend to promote individuals in this last group — the autonomous but less creative — as the superstars of the business world , yet many of them are not actually very productive in our economic system . |
| 18 | Since these two tend to go hand in hand , anyone whose home is worth less than the mortgage on it , would welcome a little inflation . |
| 19 | Embed magnifying glass in lower right hand ? he wrote . |
| 20 | They also intend to encourage groups of inmates at the prisons they are visiting to hold their own fundraising events to further support their efforts . |
| 21 | If he ca n't provide it , then we intend to obtain prints from er an external source and get the invoices sent to him . |
| 22 | It is noteworthy in this regard that cumulative sciences , such as descriptive geology , tend to contain papers with very long reference lists , whereas the more theoretical disciplines , such as geophysics , focus on a smaller number of critical references . |
| 23 | Foods tend to contain mixtures of these fatty acids , but obviously some foods have higher proportions of some than others . |
| 24 | These factors tend to increase speed of weekly weight loss on a diet |
| 25 | In perception , you tend to find models of perception that 're based on top down or bottom processing . |
| 26 | Although they feel and look good on the skin at the time , by attracting water from the air , they also tend to attract water from within the outer layers of the skin too . |
| 27 | And it follows the announcement that Vauxhall intend to increase prices on all ranges from between three and five per cent at the end of this month . |
| 28 | They also intend to increase yields by providing tractors , pumps and other machinery with their project aid . |
| 29 | Yet if Richard Armstrong was writing according to a tried formula , concrete detail and well-conceived plots and the firm line of his character drawing helped him to achieve a special , moderate , even low- keyed reality in his books . |
| 30 | The horrors of eighteenth-century madhouses engender disbelieving revulsion in the twentieth century , yet throughout the last thirty years scandal after scandal has been reported in the press with depressing regularity and without the concern that might have been expected in an apparently liberal and caring society . |