Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today beaches are not quite so safe , for hordes of gulls and small wading birds congregate to share the prodigal feast . |
| 2 | The Roman authorities intend to refurbish the Casina delle Civette at Villa Torlonia , which already has splendid Art Nouveau furnishings and stained glass , to house twentieth-century decorative arts , whilst the Ministry has decided to allocate the Villino Boncompagni , near Via Veneto , to the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna for a similar museum . |
| 3 | It is the consonant sounds which make speech intelligible ; therefore it is not surprising that people who lose the high frequencies tend to hear the voice but not to be able to distinguish words . |
| 4 | Most of the later graptolites had only a few branches and , in the Silurian , species with only a single branch tend to dominate the assemblages . |
| 5 | Her mother Diana , who five months later set up the Suzy Lamplugh Trust to publicise the dangers of women working alone , fears the worst . |
| 6 | Gill and Jackson had the ideal opportunity to demonstrate how the phenomenon of identity confusion could be understood through the process of racial discrimination in society , a path whereby children of minority groups tend to internalise the values of the dominant society , and internalise derogatory values about themselves . |
| 7 | However , if farms remain profitable , yield-increasing technologies tend to mask the effect of soil degradation and erosion and make up for declines in fertility that would have occurred if land had been cultivated with a constant level of technology . |
| 8 | Fighting begins when they learn the Daleks intend to pollute the atmosphere with even more radioactive fallout , which will kill the Thals . |
| 9 | Animals that are too aggressive , too daring , or too timid for their own good in terms of reproduction are gradually eliminated so that in a stable environment the median values tend to become the population norms . |
| 10 | The Brownings have no room in the Casa Guidi should they ever be willing to shelter him and in any case intend to follow the Storys for another winter in Rome ( entailing another in Florence alone for me ) . |
| 11 | In one field , the East Germans tend to sweep the West Germans out of sight . |
| 12 | Functionalists tend to see the relationship between social groups in society as one of cooperation and interdependence . |
| 13 | The researchers intend to monitor the progress of cases through the various legal stages . |
| 14 | So many groups want to visit the plant , which was stricken by a now notorious accident to its reactor in 1979 that its owner , General Public Utilities , has a waiting list . |
| 15 | In my work with church groups on the subject of bereavement , I have repeatedly found that such groups Want to discuss the subject of suicide . |
| 16 | We used the Mann-Whitney U test to compare the results of different groups . |
| 17 | 7.2.3 For elderly people , the proposals appear to overlook the difficulties which they may face if , for instance , the contract for cataracts or hip replacements is placed at a hospital some distance away . |
| 18 | Britain , West Germany and the Netherlands want to reduce the scientists ' pay by 4½ per cent over the next three years . |
| 19 | Usually , the study points out , the creditors expect to get the lion 's share of any debt relief . |
| 20 | There are dissenting voices among the 360 women undergraduates at Somerville , but the vast majority want to preserve the college 's single sex status . |
| 21 | There are dissenting voices among the 360 women undergraduates at Somerville , but the vast majority want to preserve the college 's single sex status . |
| 22 | Recent movements of the dollar and yen by contrast appear to reflect the absence of international policy coordination . |
| 23 | Such patterns appear to reflect the way in which the lithosphere fractures as magma forces its way up to the surface . |
| 24 | Thus in Figure 17.4 , if the authorities want to raise the rate of interest from r 1 to r 2 , their actions in the discount market outlined above will reduce money supply from Q 1 to Q 2 , to ensure that r 2 is an equilibrium rate of interest . |
| 25 | First , the constitutional authorities want to limit the sovereignty of Parliament by law ; second , they want to reinvigorate the various checks on the power of a democratically elected government through changes designed to bolster a more " balanced " constitution ; and third , they look to the checks implicit in a genuine revival of Parliament and parliamentary government . |
| 26 | Hereford want to end the season on a winning note . |
| 27 | The tidal forces between M and m tend to distort the bodies from their spherical shapes , producing elongations along the line joining the two bodies as shown in Figure 6.2 ( a ) . |
| 28 | Herbal remedies tend to treat the symptoms , even if the actual cause is not known . |
| 29 | The Georgians tend to start the lifts only when they have to , so if you are first up each lift , you ask them to open the next one ! |
| 30 | Moreover lists tend to facilitate the election of women . |