Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Assuming that you decide that you wish to take things seriously and intend to acquire suitable equipment , you should look for a helicopter radio which has two idle-up systems , plus a throttle hold switch , with separate collective pitch adjustments on each .
2 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 .
3 People tend to invest more time deciding on a house purchase or what car to buy than deciding what to do with their lives and how to develop themselves .
4 Although some liaison takes place with the school 's link person , the DCSLs tend to perform these functions independently .
5 They are certainly effective , and make using high-power binoculars much easier .
6 It sets out the ways we intend to support various groups of people in the community and their carers .
7 The pivot row is determined by the PRS rule and it may be an explicit row , in which case we pivot as usual , or an implicit row , in which case we write down the complete row using ( 7.2 ) or ( 7.3 ) and pivot using this row .
8 ‘ In no sense , though some diocesan clergy tend to treat parochial clergy as though they were their inferiors .
9 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 .
10 I blush to admit it , but those of us who were born into the trade tend to disdain these crossovers as an inferior breed .
11 ‘ You mean you intend to continue this search ? ’
12 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 .
13 I mean got lovely places they do n't do they ?
14 Many favour using massed war engines to rain doom down on the enemy , while others prefer fast-moving cavalry armies able to respond to any threat .
15 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 .
16 For these reasons we intend to perform future studies on DNA fragments containing isolated actinomycin binding sites .
17 There would be times for tenderness , and one such time came later , in the aftermath of passion enriched by the knowledge of love , a bonus as they lay touching each other languidly and lovingly , luxuriating in the freedom of being able to express their feelings in this alternative way , confidently but without urgency .
18 Captive-bred Pretty Tetras , have a much more brighter colouration than wild-caught specimens , the latter of which tend to lose this brightness over a period of time when kept in an aquarium .
19 Adults tend to lose this enzyme unless they continue taking cow 's milk and milk products from the time they are weaned onwards .
20 I think both principles remain given this system .
21 You tend to see individual intervention .
22 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 ?
23 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 .
24 At present employers tend to see joint degrees as second class .
25 Thirdly , they tend to see human behaviour as shaped by the system .
26 Psychologists tend to focus on behaviour as the expression of certain psychological propensities while sociologists tend to see human behaviour as shaped in its course by the social context of human life .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 ’ .
30 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 .
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