Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 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 | ‘ In Europe we tend to hit our irons better than the average American but we tend to lose shots around the greens . |
| 9 | They therefore rarely see ‘ the complete picture ’ and tend to lose track of an issue once discussion of it has been concluded . |
| 10 | Most of us tend to see things as wholes or else to analyse them into the obvious parts . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But unfortunately , professionals are often deeply mistrustful of advocacy organizations and tend to see advocates as intruders creating a barrier to communication between the professional and the service-user . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As a part of that we intend to arrange excursions from time to time , and there will be winter lectures . |
| 15 | It is ironic that the media tend to promote individuals in this last group — the autonomous but less creative — as the superstars of the business world , yet many of them are not actually very productive in our economic system . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They also intend to encourage groups of inmates at the prisons they are visiting to hold their own fundraising events to further support their efforts . |
| 18 | If he ca n't provide it , then we intend to obtain prints from er an external source and get the invoices sent to him . |
| 19 | It is noteworthy in this regard that cumulative sciences , such as descriptive geology , tend to contain papers with very long reference lists , whereas the more theoretical disciplines , such as geophysics , focus on a smaller number of critical references . |
| 20 | Foods tend to contain mixtures of these fatty acids , but obviously some foods have higher proportions of some than others . |
| 21 | These factors tend to increase speed of weekly weight loss on a diet |
| 22 | In perception , you tend to find models of perception that 're based on top down or bottom processing . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And it follows the announcement that Vauxhall intend to increase prices on all ranges from between three and five per cent at the end of this month . |
| 25 | They also intend to increase yields by providing tractors , pumps and other machinery with their project aid . |
| 26 | I want to see evidence of both of them , that is my purpose , that you may be like me . |
| 27 | So if you want to see Lundy in its relatively unspoilt present state , go soon . |
| 28 | And yet she 's jealous if I want to see Dad on my own , Caro thought . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Erm want to see expansion in half a million there . |