Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When I paint , I tend to see a colour , put that down , then move to something else and put that down , hopefully with a bit of shape as well . |
| 32 | that people tend to see a meeting as having to be really , oh it 's got ta be at ten to five , it 's got ta |
| 33 | Below the photic zone oxygen is consumed by biological activity so immediat from immediately below the photic zone you tend to see a decrease in oxygen with depth reaching a minima somewhere between five hundred and a thousand metres depth |
| 34 | Functionalists tend to see the relationship between social groups in society as one of cooperation and interdependence . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Feminist psychologists tend to see the significance of gender differences much as conventional psychologists do . |
| 37 | 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 ’ . |
| 38 | We tend to see the history of art as an ordered succession of works appreciated for and judged by their conceptual content . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Because Bem and other gender schema theorists assume that rationality and cognitive unity characterize psychological subjects , they tend to see the break-up of gender schemata as hindered by dominant social relations , but still as fairly straightforward in itself . |
| 41 | As a theory it is common enough : in the Italian Constitution the family is the only association among people which is designated ‘ natural ’ , and contemporary British conservatives tend to see the family as a possible counterweight to the power of the state . |
| 42 | Tax administrators often see tax theory as a luxury to be indulged in in any odd moment they might have to look up from their files , while tax theorists tend to see the administration and practical aspects of taxation as an easily coped with minor irritant , or deviation , from their ‘ grand design ’ . |
| 43 | Americans , with no colonial history in the Middle East , tend to see the war against Mr Hussein as a police action against an international thug . |
| 44 | Equally , we tend to see the learning of a foreign language as mastering a skill , thereby perhaps doing ourselves a disservice . |
| 45 | Moreover , male criminals tend to see the crimes they commit as too dangerous for women , or too difficult , or their masculine pride may not be willing to accept women as organisers of crime , as ‘ bosses ’ . |
| 46 | If we live on continents , we tend to see the world as land inconveniently dissected by expanses of water . |
| 47 | Earlier this year they threw a party and got their mates round to sample the goods . |
| 48 | Such a clause is not attractive to the seller , because he loses control of the conduct of the claim of infringement , and it is often a difficult clause to persuade the buyer to accept unless there is a problem which is so well-known in a particular industry that many sellers tend to include a reservation relating to it . |
| 49 | Education , of course , does not end at the school gates : the home is one of a complex of factors which combine to affect the child 's chances at school . |
| 50 | Neither dispenser can be used with corrosive fluids as these materials tend to corrode the return spring and cause discoloration and contamination of the chemicals . |
| 51 | Having their receptors overstimulated is something people tend to like a lot . |
| 52 | Not only that : benefits for children tend to confirm the link between biological mothering and social mothering . |
| 53 | The Judicial Statistics figures tend to confirm the conclusions of the Winn Committee , which reported in 19689 that ‘ … of all personal injury claims asserted about 20–25 per cent . |
| 54 | Finally , all these remarks tend to confirm the view that the infinitive is the most virtual form in the system of the verb ( cf. |
| 55 | Documents declassified under the 30-year rule tend to confirm the wisdom of his early years in politics . |
| 56 | It is a good idea of Lewis Carroll to think of the March hare because in March hares tend to go a bit potty and they stand on their back legs and box each other . |
| 57 | In addition , they intend to lease a horse to run in the race and this should provide a novel angle if nothing else . |
| 58 | I hate to miss the battle between Bill Beaumont and Ian Botham , and I always want Bill to win . |
| 59 | Although no firm decision has yet been taken , the Commissioners for Transport and Environment have indicated that they intend to enforce the EC directive which makes assessments compulsory . |
| 60 | Administrative structures tend to mirror the problems which that organization encounters routinely ; each sub-organization has responsibility for different factors or problems . |