Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Partly for financial reasons , students now tend to attend university in their home town rather than travel to a city with a better department . |
| 2 | ‘ You tend to treat life as if it were a game of cricket , for one thing . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Paradoxically , although surrounded by water , dolphins , like other marine mammals , tend to lose water from their bodies to the sea . |
| 6 | Would you say that managers tend to lose sight of labour relations and concentrate on the market ? |
| 7 | 95% Political — perhaps necessary for subject , but tend to lose vision of whom we serve |
| 8 | They therefore rarely see ‘ the complete picture ’ and tend to lose track of an issue once discussion of it has been concluded . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Embed magnifying glass in lower right hand ? he wrote . |
| 13 | These factors tend to increase speed of weekly weight loss on a diet |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They make electroplating equipment for other manufatcturers . |
| 18 | I want to see evidence of both of them , that is my purpose , that you may be like me . |
| 19 | So if you want to see Lundy in its relatively unspoilt present state , go soon . |
| 20 | And yet she 's jealous if I want to see Dad on my own , Caro thought . |
| 21 | Whenever one of the family is seen responding to their dog 's demands , he or she must pay 10p ( or 50p if you really want to see motivation at work ! ) into the other 's boxes . |
| 22 | Erm want to see expansion in half a million there . |
| 23 | If you want to see hell on earth go to the condemned hole the night before execution day . |
| 24 | This causes problems er , if I may say so , er but erm , it , the paragraph does n't make any reference to the date , it 's paragraph five point three , now I want to see debate in the point in erm , implementing it before the first of April . |
| 25 | and I said to my husband why people want to go paradise of heaven , I says look down , how beautiful , it is really beautiful all green is |
| 26 | if you decide you want to go sort of four , fourish or threeish |
| 27 | SPAG LAUNCHES PROCESS TO SUPPORT INTEROPERABILITY FOR INTERWORKING |
| 28 | I want to paint sunlight on children 's faces , or flowers in a hedge or a street after April rain . |
| 29 | The officials want to promote innovation in traditional industries , such as steelmaking and clothing , to the tune of £210 million over four years . |
| 30 | And also given the nature of the kind of people who want to wield authority over others they ca n't bear being out of the limelight , it gives them one last throw . |