Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corporate approach favours ‘ those less committed to service departments … groups interested more in policy analysis than in professional standards , and … those who tend to emphasise local circumstances rather than national standards . |
| 2 | Although some liaison takes place with the school 's link person , the DCSLs tend to perform these functions independently . |
| 3 | They are certainly effective , and make using high-power binoculars much easier . |
| 4 | It sets out the ways we intend to support various groups of people in the community and their carers . |
| 5 | ‘ In no sense , though some diocesan clergy tend to treat parochial clergy as though they were their inferiors . |
| 6 | Even if , like Cox ( 1981 ) , they represent Hispanic , Native-American , Asian-American and Afro-American women 's experiences , they tend to treat these categories as equivalent , and ignore differences within them , which may be more important than differences between them . |
| 7 | I blush to admit it , but those of us who were born into the trade tend to disdain these crossovers as an inferior breed . |
| 8 | South Korean President Roh Tae Woo dismissed two members of his Cabinet and the governor of North Chungchong province on Sept. 19 , after holding them responsible for the massive damage which resulted from severe flooding earlier in the month in Seoul and the central region of the country . |
| 9 | I mean got lovely places they do n't do they ? |
| 10 | The Mancunian dance team are the first band to host an all-nighter at the venue and intend to perform two sets , one at 10pm and the other in the early hours . |
| 11 | For these reasons we intend to perform future studies on DNA fragments containing isolated actinomycin binding sites . |
| 12 | They were looking for the principles of organisation , how it is that we organise things like dots into a meaningful whole Why is it that we tend to see two lines crossing in the middle rather one two than two V's ? |
| 13 | The ‘ society-as-parent ’ protagonists , on the other hand , tend to see parental rights as a force still to be reckoned with in law , agency practice and social attitudes . |
| 14 | At present employers tend to see joint degrees as second class . |
| 15 | However , conventionally , which is not to say correctly , modes of social scientific explanation tend to see these elements as analytically separate orders of phenomena and , accordingly , data . |
| 16 | Naturally those anthropologists who grant culture such imperative force tend to see social relations as the product of cultural patterning and conditioning , and thus tend to concentrate on child-rearing practices , enculturation , and socialization . |
| 17 | The duke and his close associates saw this small office as ‘ some mean to treat those folks who Club together and are disposed to believe that I 'm incompatible wt them ’ . |
| 18 | When we do make up our minds to lose the excess , however , we tend to sacrifice long-term benefits for short-term success : our aim is to get to our target weight as quickly as possible . |
| 19 | Moreover , FoE also criticizes the authorities for alerting the public only to short-lived peak incidents , whereas it is the sustained eight-hour incidents which tend to affect vulnerable groups . |
| 20 | Women tend to uphold social traditions and conventions and are more comfortable with stability . |
| 21 | The older conurbations , cores tend to accommodate larger proportions of the unemployed . |
| 22 | It must be admitted that concepts referring to unseen processes tend to acquire additional meanings that are not suggested by the evidence they are intended to explain ( see MacCorquodale & Meehl , 1948 ) . |
| 23 | She was aware , too , that certain couples tend to acquire single men like Preston , or women for that matter , like pets , almost as a kind of catalyst for their own uneasy , brittle relationships . |
| 24 | Trolls tend to acquire physical attributes as a result of what they eat , and Stone Trolls are craggy with cracked flesh like weathered stone . |
| 25 | In what circumstances would the Prime Minister contemplate using nuclear weapons ? |
| 26 | I tend to wear black suits in the evening although I must admit I 'm getting slightly bored with black now . |
| 27 | We do not peer review advertisements as we peer review scientific papers , and I do not know of any medical journals that do . |
| 28 | The rich tend to work 18-hour days , and some of them burn themselves out at bond desks and on trading floors before they are 30 . |
| 29 | In fact the staff tend to work longer hours , midweek and weekends , serving breakfast , lunch and evening meals to delegates , as well as function buffets , often working from 7.00am until late at night . |
| 30 | Introduce opening full airbrakes after the final turn to check the situation ( unless obviously low ) . |