Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rich tend to work 18-hour days , and some of them burn themselves out at bond desks and on trading floors before they are 30 . |
| 2 | Those in the higher socio-economic groups and consumers over 45 years old tend to have higher net savings relative to their outstanding debt . |
| 3 | The duke and his close associates saw this small office as ‘ some mean to treat those folks who Club together and are disposed to believe that I 'm incompatible wt them ’ . |
| 4 | The French want to stop British imports and argue that subjecting Russian catches to a minimum import price would cut the cross-Channel trade as more British fish would sell in the UK . |
| 5 | Kerlin et al were the first to use the rice flour breath H 2 test to study complex carbohydrate malabsorption in deases of the pencreas and small intestine . |
| 6 | Some hope to provide one kind of course with the intention of killing the two proverbial birds with one stone . |
| 7 | Simple answers like this seem to delight younger kids , who demand a reason for everything . |
| 8 | Men could equally well try this career route but few seem to take secretarial courses . |
| 9 | The phase-out has been brought forward , some believe to curb potential unrest prior to the 1992 elections . |
| 10 | 2 Continue to monitor vital signs . |
| 11 | 12 Try to involve potential troublemakers as much as possible in the classroom activities and never threaten what you know you can not do . |
| 12 | Generally , companies can not do much to help , although some try to employ relocated employees ' spouses or inform them of job vacancies in other firms in the area . |
| 13 | Some try to keep some manna overnight early in the week . |
| 14 | Some come to study other societies . |
| 15 | Once an infection takes hold it is difficult for antibiotics to destroy all the bacteria , so some survive to start more trouble later . |
| 16 | In fact , this need to turn contemporary life into drama had been the defining characteristic of his work since " Portrait of a Lady " . |
| 17 | Not surprisingly , it has often been said that foreign learners of English need to learn English intonation ; some have gone further than this and claimed that , unless the foreign learner learns the appropriate way to use intonation in a given situation , there is a risk that he or she may unintentionally give offence ; for example , the learner might use an intonation suitable for expressing boredom or discontent when what was needed was an expression of gratitude or affection . |
| 18 | All the same , in order to look good as well as feel good , men and women over forty need to take extra care to overcome the outward effects of wear and tear on most parts of the body . |
| 19 | Lévi-Strauss on primitive need to cover whole surface , he wrote . |
| 20 | In 1995 Japan will own a tenth of all American assets , a figure brought about in part because of the weakness of the dollar against the yen , but also because the Japanese manage to save three times as much as do the Americans , and have that much more spare money to invest . |
| 21 | Well , they each seem to do one thing well enough , but fail to realise that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time . |
| 22 | Now , of course , when you put restrictions on that seem to deny any group of members any rights , you must be very careful . |
| 23 | These tend to cause offshore movements of surface water and either a return movement along the bottom or in certain restricted zones . |
| 24 | These tend to resist human development the longest but will in the end , no doubt , succumb to the all-conquering technology of the world 's dominant species , Homo sapiens . |
| 25 | These tend to have different ways of positioning women presenters and viewers . |
| 26 | Paradoxically , both dominant and subordinate seem to sustain each other in a reciprocal fashion . |
| 27 | There is good evidence that it is associated with individual galaxies as these seem to have dark haloes which extend well beyond the visible stars . |
| 28 | Since it has been introduced 43 people have been cut off the dole and 21 continue to receive reduced rates of social security in the North of Ireland . |
| 29 | Until now we have considered practices within a society , and allowed that if these fail to complement each other they are said to be contradictory . |
| 30 | These serve to provide Disabled people with a positive cultural identity and impetus for continued campaigning as well as communicating to the non-Disabled arts and general community what being Disabled is really about . |