Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Fighting begins when they learn the Daleks intend to pollute the atmosphere with even more radioactive fallout , which will kill the Thals . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Functionalists tend to see the relationship between social groups in society as one of cooperation and interdependence . |
| 7 | The researchers intend to monitor the progress of cases through the various legal stages . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Usually , the study points out , the creditors expect to get the lion 's share of any debt relief . |
| 11 | There are dissenting voices among the 360 women undergraduates at Somerville , but the vast majority want to preserve the college 's single sex status . |
| 12 | There are dissenting voices among the 360 women undergraduates at Somerville , but the vast majority want to preserve the college 's single sex status . |
| 13 | Recent movements of the dollar and yen by contrast appear to reflect the absence of international policy coordination . |
| 14 | Such patterns appear to reflect the way in which the lithosphere fractures as magma forces its way up to the surface . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Hereford want to end the season on a winning note . |
| 18 | Moreover lists tend to facilitate the election of women . |
| 19 | Since people 's self-assessments tend to reflect the way they wish they spoke , Trudgill took it that women wished to identify themselves with a higher social class , and thus that their status aspirations were higher than men 's ( with male informants he found the opposite tendency , which will be discussed later on ) . |
| 20 | These considerations tend to blur the distinction somewhat . |
| 21 | They are aware that designer labels are no passport to instant glamour and that designers tend to recycle the past anyway . |
| 22 | Labour tend to regard the health service as some enormous trade union . |
| 23 | In fact , very large waves , whatever their frequency , tend to erode the beach , while small waves tend to build the beach up . |
| 24 | Documents declassified under the 30-year rule tend to confirm the wisdom of his early years in politics . |
| 25 | It did n't take journalists long to catch the drift of Krushchev 's remarks and reports started to circulate that a British frogman had tried to spy on the Russian ships . |
| 26 | Quite often all these sorts of considerations interact to influence the operation of discretion , as illustrated by the following incident , which concerned a road traffic accident ( an RTA ) towards the end of a shift . |
| 27 | A MORI poll of members of the big six published on May 17th showed that 65% want to keep the union/Labour link . |
| 28 | Labour want to take the shadow of gloom away . |
| 29 | The theoretical models reflect the strengths and weaknesses of modern game theory : they provide a rigorous characterization of what ‘ credible punishment ’ might mean , and a formal analysis of the way in which discount rates and demand , capacity , and cost parameters interact to determine the sustainability of tacit collusion . |
| 30 | The college want to make the sale , sanctioned by the Charity Commissioners last summer , to set up an endowment fund for maintenance , restoration and refurbishment of Royal Holloway 's Founder 's Building , as well as for the upkeep and security for the remaining pictures . |