Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At present employers tend to see joint degrees as second class .
2 Where business executives are concerned , employers tend to have considerable discretion in the way that they implement redundancies .
3 Regarding staff becoming involved , initial discussions tend to involve senior staff but once the programme of work is signed up it will involve staff at all levels .
4 Eurosterling bondholders tend to prefer protective covenants that prevent a deterioration in credit quality , whereas eurodollar bondholders prefer the put-at-par option .
5 It would be interesting and potentially lively to engage in maths or history or music in the midst of a project on ‘ Warwick Castle ’ ( say ) , or ‘ Myself ’ , or ‘ Transport ’ , but projects tend to contain inherent biases to one subject area or another .
6 The point at issue is that both sets of disciplines tend to have different conceptions about the domain and status of proof in the pursuit of knowledge .
7 Such groups tend to wield greater power in conflict situations than their members , and indeed the very existence of the groups may be seen to anticipate and perpetuate conflict , to harden and formalise a set of attitudes and values that their individual members may not themselves have recognised or expressed .
8 Group size — small groups tend to be more cohesive than larger groups ; small groups tend to encourage full participation ; large groups contain greater diversity of talent .
9 It is striking how even when certain minority groups tend to achieve mean levels of attainment above those of the white majority , they still remain heavily disadvantaged in employment terms .
10 However , in practice the courts tend to impose higher sentences for assaults on the police , and it is therefore worth noting that this offence is committed even though D was unaware that he was striking a police-officer .
11 By working together , Objective Software and Brio intend to develop complementary data access and data analysis technologies , so that users can undertake business modelling in a client-server environment .
12 Sometimes , earthworks of ridge and furrow or narrow early enclosed strips remain to give some clue to the course , but elsewhere the boundary itself must be the clue to the former existence of such an arrangement .
13 Erm , having said that , I think lecturers tend to accumulate these things over time and this is the first year I 've run this course so I do n't have a great stock of things I can I can show you .
14 The draft proposals tend to emphasize advisory structures and roles .
15 He included in his review a summary of eight characteristics which were consistently associated with successful school management and , in summing up , he pointed the way forward very clearly ( Clarkson 1988:273 ) : In schools , changes in legislation , organization and curriculum tend to attract considerable attention when they are first introduced .
16 As a result , controversial local plans tend to attract numerous objections which are then tested at a local inquiry .
17 In the tropics , where day length varies only slightly , birds tend to use other guides , particularly rainfall .
18 Although some liaison takes place with the school 's link person , the DCSLs tend to perform these functions independently .
19 While software house MMT Computing Plc is still ticking over , it believes that attempts at broadening its skills base to cover open systems as well as its traditional mainframe business will help restore margins to pre-recession levels .
20 Vegetable grow guide Sweet Peppers
21 East End working class attitudes have been parodied by Alf Garnett as portrayed by Warren Mitchell , yet his strongly loyalist , anti-socialist , anti-foreigner , anti-intellectual , male chauvinist opinions appear to reflect real attitudes , only exaggerated for the purposes of the comedy .
22 However with 95% ile river flow upstream of the wroks discharge of 77.9 l/s ( ref 1990 Report by Almond Study Group ) giving a dilution ratio to dwf of 2.5 and a Class 4 classification the FRPB propose to impose higher consent standards .
23 Students taking degree courses involving field work ( eg Architecture , Ecology , Geography , and Geology ) can incur expenses of £200 plus , spread over the three , four or five years of the course , but can in most cases expect to receive some help from University funds in meeting these .
24 This entry may now be compared with the entry in the domain-specific dictionary : access[ addition build combine confident exception exception facility future good knowledge manager month mortgage notice society sum time want world give high instant instant interest money ]
25 Musicians want to make new sounds so you start adding strings : you get seven , nine , even 11 strings .
26 Instruments change when musicians want to produce new effects .
27 The authorities want to make wealthy pensioners pay their hospital costs .
28 At the same time , the protectorate 's authorities want to maintain high standards of financial propriety with strict rules .
29 The two indices appear to have equal validity in measuring the relative change in price or quantity levels between two periods .
30 The simple hedges described in Fig.7.3 are essentially insurance operations in which profits and losses on each investment tend to offset each other to some extent .
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