Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tend to fall within a broad category of exploitation , a genre characterised by a simplistic ethos of violent action . |
| 2 | Hydrogen 's the one we tend to treat as a a metal . |
| 3 | They also have broad noses and sideways facing nostrils , and tend to sit in a hunched position when at rest . |
| 4 | ‘ I may be old-fashioned , ’ Alec sighed , ‘ but I hate experimenting in a lonely spot like this . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I hate to sound like a detective , but there was a puddle outside the front gate and only one new set of tyre-marks between the Saturday night and the Sunday night . |
| 6 | The corollary is that if they eventually return to the UK , their foreign domicile will be retained until it can be ascertained that they intend to remain for an indefinite period . |
| 7 | The investment they make goes into a fund combining equities , fixed interest and cash . |
| 8 | I use it normally on a clean setting , but if I want distortion I tend to go through a BOSS Turbo Overdrive pedal and then into the Rock Box . |
| 9 | I mean to compare with an elephant dropping , it 's small . |
| 10 | The electors intend to proceed to an election to the Coulson Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry , which falls vacant on 1 October 1994 upon the retirement of Professor N.H. March , and invite applications by 26 July 1993 . |
| 11 | It is the way we intend to proceed in a whole range of different market areas . ’ |
| 12 | Lectures about this type of library material tend to sound like a catalogue of unfamiliar names — the ‘ catalogue aria ’ . |
| 13 | Tubifex is collected by scooping up the mud patch containing the worms , and then washing the mud away to leave clean worms which tend to gather in a tight ball . |
| 14 | Rule-based parsers tend to work on a sentential basis which appears to be too much delay for users . |
| 15 | The upshot of these economically balanced budgets within species is that arms races between species tend to come to a mutually stable end , with one side ahead . |
| 16 | All timbers tend to come to an equilibrium with the relative humidity of the surrounding air . |
| 17 | Here users tend to come from a wide variety of backgrounds , and press for an equally wide range of requirements . |
| 18 | Severed human limbs , heads and trunks lay scattered over a wide area ; other human remains , accompanied by tattered shreds of uniform , hung grotesquely from the remaining tree branches . |
| 19 | A pile of boxes lay scattered like a demolished chimney . |
| 20 | Kenotic christology of this sort did have its own internal problems : on closer examination it is not easy to understand what exactly it can mean to speak of this ‘ self-emptying ’ , and attempts to make the matter more precise tend to fade into a tangle of artificialities and contradictions . |
| 21 | Although both groups tend to appear as a limited disease , most cases being in stage I-IIE , the morphohistological subtype seems to be a decisive factor in dissemination , as only one case ( 5% ) of low grade/mixed grade compared with 20% of the patients with high grade were classified as stage IV . |
| 22 | I still intend to train as a doctor , because I feel there is no more interesting and worthwhile way to spend my life , but how many other people will be able to or want to in the future ? |
| 23 | The begetters of the whole event are artist Chris Garratt and writer Mick Kidd , who will be running a practical workshop in the Dovecot tomorrow , when they intend to work to a deadline to produce a complete comic strip . |
| 24 | Maintenance grants remain frozen at a maximum of £2,845 for students in London and £2,265 for those studying elsewhere . |
| 25 | They can advise their clients [ customers ] on all aspects of the law although many tend to concentrate on a particular area . |
| 26 | They can advise their clients [ customers ] on all aspects of the law although many tend to concentrate on a particular area . |
| 27 | They can advise their clients [ customers ] on all aspects of the law although many tend to concentrate on a particular area . |
| 28 | They can advise their clients [ customers ] on all aspects of the law although many tend to concentrate on a particular area . |
| 29 | Target-oriented programmes tend to concentrate on a small number of permanent or semi-permanent methods ( sterilisation or IUD ) to minimise dropout rates . |
| 30 | After all , if ‘ the system ’ really was bent upon the form of totalizing control that according to Foucault psychoanalysis , for example , enables , it is worth recalling that psychoanalysis has never been adopted by the state as such and that its activities remain confined to a few very limited districts in a handful of prosperous cities round the world . |