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

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1 I am wondering , I suppose , although I hate to sound impossibly naïve , whether there might be anything in your religion , in your beliefs , or your understanding of belief , that might help me with this , that might help me to come to terms with it ?
2 What sorts of people tend to become politically active and who tend to remain relatively inert ?
3 However , even when legal principles are committed to one constitutional document , set out in legal codes or reiterated by judges over time , they tend to remain highly ambiguous and not worth the paper they are printed on until somebody — the judiciary — interprets and defers to them in their judgments , and somebody else — the executive — enforces those judgments .
4 Part of the problem is that most of us do n't know very much about mental illness and we tend to see very negative images around us and on television .
5 Indeed , I intend to remain very close to the development of the trust and to its inception on 1 April to ensure that all that has been promised will be delivered .
6 We also intend to interview both male and female employees in order to explore their career aspirations and their perception of company policies and opportunities .
7 Site finds therefore tend to under-represent more valuable coins .
8 Moreover , we do not wish to give the impression that the cello and bass always work in double harness : on the contrary , they can be used independently to a quite large extent , though discretion and careful thought are very necessary in this matter , since the basses when used alone tend to sound rather dry , and if their part lies low and is far removed in pitch from the rest of the harmony it is too indeterminate in pitch to give satisfactory support unless it consists of a sustained or better ( since the bow is short ) a reiterated pedal note .
9 If you intend to tile over existing tiles , you will have to drill holes through them for the masonry pins .
10 This declared that the two sides haveagreed to launch more extensive discussions on anti-satellite weapons and other space arms issues .
11 ii ) Films of non-risky junctions tend to contain relatively little information related to risk .
12 This , however , assumes that because we tend to process more semantic knowledge than non-semantic knowledge , it therefore follows that semantic processing is equivalent to making use of previous knowledge to interpret presented stimuli in a meaningful fashion .
13 The contested cases — which tend to attract more extended coverage — are very particular types of cases .
14 Theories of socialization also tend to provide implicitly biological explanations of social relations other than gender .
15 We want to see both occupational and personal provision expand much further in the course of the 1990s .
16 I see the school writing a self-appraisal and want to see how far it is doing what it said in practice . ’
17 You want to , want to see that separate ?
18 We want to see more dual use of school playing fields and halls and will give schools more freedom in their management .
19 We also want to see more transatlantic flights , particularly to regional airports .
20 Few want to remain financially dependent on a former partner unless absolutely necessary , and may see no reason why he should not have his share of the proceeds from the house sale .
21 I want to remain exceptionally thin , because then I am never likely to get fat .
22 As we have seen , children staying longer in formal education appear to acquire more political knowledge than those leaving school earlier .
23 environmental constraints if the organization is big enough to qualify as strategic , and I am really concerned about the planning er application in which I know that Da Professor Lock is interested that I think developments of that scale have nothing to do with the employment needs of the district , that they would in fact involve bringing in large numbers of people from other areas who as I have said before , might appreciate jobs nearer their present places of employment , and it would also unbalance the Harrogate housing market and put on pressure for more land to be taken in and around Harrogate for housing for the people who 'd come to that development .
24 Provisional , expect to sound as good
25 New guidelines just issued by the government mean that the NCC and national park authorities will soon have to pay landowners huge amounts of compensation if they want to preserve scientifically valuable sites from intensive farming .
26 I want to know why Froggy was so confident that his financial ship was about to dock .
27 And we want to know how far is it between Carlisle and Glasgow , between Manchester and Glasgow and between Euston and Glasgow .
28 I want to know how important the jade is to you .
29 I want to know how high I 've gone .
30 For example , if you want to know how big a kiwi fruit is , I can outline its shape with my fingers , or show you another object which I believe has similar proportions .
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