Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In proportion as its acts tend to promote the same end , its conduct may be termed organised and its several actions correlated . |
| 2 | Anemones tend to dribble a little water from their centres if you press them . |
| 3 | TWO scientists from Stirling University expect to shed a few tears at tonight 's United Kingdom premiere of a Hollywood film that tells the extraordinary story of Augusto and Michaela Odone 's love for their son Lorenzo . |
| 4 | When an idea starts , perhaps only a slogan or a headline will be produced , but in the end the writer is going to have to write all the words in the ad ( though most clients tend to write a few themselves , sometimes over the agency 's dead body ) . |
| 5 | The arithmetic alone shows that this Government is only prone to defeat when there is an issue over which all the non-government parties intend to vote the same way ( ie including the Official and Democratic Unionists , plus the self-styled popular Unionist , Sir James Kilfedder ) and where that total is topped up by a dozen or so Tory malcontents . |
| 6 | Here , ants and fungi race to make the most of good , organic matter and the rotting trunks themselves play host to an assortment of bright green epiphytes . |
| 7 | These designs involve slipping the same needle for between two and four rows . |
| 8 | At the top end there are the programs that seek to reproduce the environment found within a traditional art studio ; PageMaker , XPress and the now defunct Harvard Professional Publisher most closely fit this category , while products such as Ventura seek to provide the same typographic quality through a stylesheet and coded tags so appealing to the business user who needs an easily produced document which follows a common format . |
| 9 | One of the sad things about history is that nations keep making the same mistakes . |
| 10 | There is some repetition as the authors backtrack to report the same developments from different points of view and new characters are introduced ; the detailed mathematical discussions do become daunting for the non-specialist reader . |
| 11 | For Europe , the nineteenth century was the great time when languages were identified and codified in single forms , minority languages in part eliminated , consciously national literatures and musics invented , and the territory mapped ( appropriately described as a ‘ father ’ or ‘ mother ’ land , even though very few peoples have occupied the same territory for more than a thousand years ) . |
| 12 | The Pilot Survey showed some monitoring , further standardisation of the equipment was essential , mainly though , I 'm going to make sure all schools have got the same pipes and connector and I 'm going to give them some solutions to test because there was a bit of variation between schools , and there will be variation geographically , so I want to be able to have a measure of any error that will be involved as well . |
| 13 | The bookies are quoting us at 40–1 and you can bet one or two of the lads have got a few bob on us at those odds . |
| 14 | Some manufacturers have overcome the latter factor by placing the batteries in a compartment separate from the control box ( eg Fisher 1266-X and C-Scope CS4ZX ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Those who still have homes have to take no more than a suitcase each . |
| 16 | Different fields of research have disclosed the many different factors that can affect both physical and mental behaviour . |
| 17 | Despite the over-arching presence of a sizeable clutch of masterstrokes , the Inspirals manage to deliver a few turkeys — ‘ This Is How It Feels ’ , for all its anthemic pretensions , still sounds like cloying Radio 2 fodder , and arty pieces like ‘ Flood ’ are prone to descend into unseemly pomposity . |
| 18 | The so-called modern values bring about a convergence of culture through improved mass communications , the elites of Third World countries come to share the same culture as those in the industrialised world . |
| 19 | All of the ways in which the design of the Williamson scheme differ from the design of the ERM serve to make the former more durable — largely , it must be admitted , by making it less ambitious . |
| 20 | Many people confronted with a crash have done the same thing . |
| 21 | And the tame descendants have kept the same views on this matter . |
| 22 | Given the fundamental importance of demography for any assessment of a pre-industrial economy , it is not surprising that economic historians have pressed the surveys into service ( historians of medieval England have done the same sort of thing with Domesday Book ) as sources of demographic data . |
| 23 | Notice that throughout the 1980s , the objectives of the MTFS have remained the same : that is , to control inflation , to reduce the government 's budget deficit and to lay down the foundation for sustainable economic growth . |
| 24 | But with the other companies that have been established , and all water companies have done the same , the way to increase profits is to go into er a business which you 're in competition with other businesses and you stand or fail as to how well you do on that . |
| 25 | By comparable mechanisms , an animal ( or human ) will find a task easier to learn if others of the same type have learned the same task before . |
| 26 | So one seems to have perfect control ; both mice have received the same number of shocks , but one learns how to avoid the shock , the other can not , for there is no escape ; the number of shocks it receives is entirely governed by the behaviour of its learning partner . |
| 27 | Adjectives seem to need the same rule , to produce stress patterns such |
| 28 | It can only be hoped that the newly aggressive financial players of the Thatcher era manage to avoid the same errors . |
| 29 | Wild animals tend to hide away when they fall ill or are injured , and those in captivity try to do the same , but it 's almost impossible for them . |
| 30 | Of course , these things can happen really , er especially if er , one of two of the guests , I 'm not suggesting your mother 's guests er over-imbibed , but one or two of the guests do have a few jars over Christmas and they get up to all sorts of things in the house do n't they ? |