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 | 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 | I mean got lovely places they do n't do they ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For these reasons we intend to perform future studies on DNA fragments containing isolated actinomycin binding sites . |
| 9 | You tend to see individual intervention . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At present employers tend to see joint degrees as second class . |
| 12 | Thirdly , they tend to see human behaviour as shaped by the system . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | To resolve the problem that most organisations have multiple networks that communicate using different network protocols , the multiprotocol networking software in Oracle7 is designed to enable any client computer to communicate with any server or group of server computers in the network , regardless of network protocol . |
| 18 | Example ( 126 ) , however , is perfectly normal English , as confirmed by the following contexts where make denotes unintentional causation : ( 127 ) Oops ! |
| 19 | Women tend to uphold social traditions and conventions and are more comfortable with stability . |
| 20 | Duncan says ‘ the brute fact remains that democratic politics can not prevent the creation of remote , state-entrenched centres of power which tend to promote general apathy , cynicism , and ignorance about politics among the masses of the people ’ . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | This tendency to a kin-based preference in the distribution of associations naturally biases the distribution of ranks among group members so that close kin tend to acquire similar rank as their genetic elders . |
| 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 | Wars tend to prompt religious reawakening in a populace . |
| 26 | Africans unite to promote independent press |
| 27 | In what circumstances would the Prime Minister contemplate using nuclear weapons ? |
| 28 | I tend to wear black suits in the evening although I must admit I 'm getting slightly bored with black now . |
| 29 | We do not peer review advertisements as we peer review scientific papers , and I do not know of any medical journals that do . |
| 30 | 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 . |