Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In explicating this model , managers tend to emphasise the goodness of relationships such as one would find in a happy family . |
| 2 | CFCs tend to inhibit the flow of infra-red radiation through the atmosphere ; and they help to catalyze the breakdown of the ozone layer . |
| 3 | Some dietary components , including vitamin C , tend to inhibit the reaction . ’ |
| 4 | Nevertheless , two factors tend to inhibit the use of private certification in many areas of health and safety . |
| 5 | In Chapter 14 we saw how moral hazard and adverse selection tend to inhibit the setting up of insurance markets to deal with risk . |
| 6 | The researchers intend to monitor the progress of cases through the various legal stages . |
| 7 | In I made him eat his potatoes , similarly , where the realizer of eat is " him " only , the person referred to by the direct object is represented as being involved in eating at the same time during which he is the object of the causation denoted by make : since make evokes the idea of " producing an effect " , it is impossible to conceive the making as being under way before the effect has started coming into existence . |
| 8 | ( 188 ) can be compared with ( 154 ) — ( 156 ) above : make evokes the production of an effect for which the " maker " is wholly responsible , there being no other factor but the behaviour of the agent " you " involved in bringing about this effect ( contrast ( 182 ) in this respect , where room is left for other factors to intervene ) . |
| 9 | Chromosomal DNA was isolated and purified from each isolate using the guanidium thiocyanate reagent method . |
| 10 | And if you intend to erect the garage yourself , you will of course receive comprehensive instructions that tell you where everything goes . |
| 11 | ‘ Exclusive ’ fostering , where the foster-parents tend to treat the child rather as though he [ or she ] were their own or they had adopted him [ or her ] , is thought to be damaging to the child 's identity , as well as hindering restoration to the natural parents . |
| 12 | But I intend to drive the strategy that is already in place and leave my successor to drive it even further . ’ |
| 13 | With regard to what you owe me , I intend to cancel the debt . |
| 14 | A few seconds later as the aircraft gains more speed , it will need more forward movement to prevent it from unsticking with the tail-wheel or skid touching the ground , and climbing away too steeply . |
| 15 | I mean given the size of China I mean th there 'd be |
| 16 | In their enthusiasm to criticize economistic assumptions concerning utility , both works tend to overstress the autonomy of the features they assert . |
| 17 | ‘ Unbelievable ! ’ cried a media unused to hearing from singers who habitually hate to see the sun go down or sleep in hollow logs . |
| 18 | Unless you have any objections I intend using the report as evidence to support your case . |
| 19 | Father Hugh Mcaleese said : ‘ We are devastated , but we intend to restore the church to its former glory . |
| 20 | If the maximum number of cells in a row of the grid is 30 and if there are 30 rows , a dice could be thrown six times and the outcomes totalled to get the row coordinate , and six times for the column coordinate using the convention that the six on the dice is interpreted as zero . |
| 21 | The three remaining companies deny breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act . |
| 22 | Negotiations are still continuing for other locomotives or unite to attend the event . |
| 23 | Anne was right in saying that ‘ you tend to lose the origin of it ’ ; the origins are a long way from what remains , but it does not really matter . |
| 24 | Criticisms of the view of auditory deprivation ( Bench , 1979 ) and of bilingualism ( Arnold , 1982 ) tend to miss the point that language acquisition occurs through interaction . |
| 25 | Functionalists tend to see the relationship between social groups in society as one of cooperation and interdependence . |
| 26 | Proponents of this view tend to see the idea of parental possession as one that is still protected and upheld by the law and by social agencies ; and they believe this state of affairs to be damaging to children , given that parents ' and children 's interests sometimes conflict . |
| 27 | Feminist psychologists tend to see the significance of gender differences much as conventional psychologists do . |
| 28 | Radical analysts of welfare development tend to see the imposition of mandatory retirement , encouraged or enforced by state pension schemes , as pan of the process whereby , in late industrial societies with highly specialized divisions of labour , elderly people are marginalized into a condition of ‘ structured dependence ’ . |
| 29 | We tend to see the history of art as an ordered succession of works appreciated for and judged by their conceptual content . |
| 30 | In fact , those who support the introduction of a Bill of Rights tend to see the state in essentially " negative " terms : it is regarded as the only real threat to individual freedom and liberty ( apart from that posed by the collective activity of trade unions ) because freedom itself is defined negatively as simply involving an absence of public and legal restraint on individual action . |