Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally , the fair-minded British tend to side with the underdog . |
| 2 | Few intend to stay beyond a year or two . |
| 3 | Some want to invest in the island and get some kind of tourism going . ’ |
| 4 | Some stop to talk to the hunger strikers . |
| 5 | Mainly the sparks fly down off the wheel , but some seem to cling to the circumference all round then fly up into the operator 's face . |
| 6 | Not all bureau have all the fonts and while most have a good range from the Adobe/Linotype collection few seem to cater for the other vendors such as Monotype , Compugraphic , etc , etc . |
| 7 | Although most children remain well as long as they stick to their diet , a few seem to relapse after a few years for no apparent reason . |
| 8 | Some like to work from a diagram where there is a brief description of technique used at the start , then the remainder of the pattern consists of the diagram of the various garment parts , with figures that relate to stitches , rows and sizes . |
| 9 | Some prefer to feed from the tank bottom , or the midwater level , however , and if we do not cater for these fish they may find all the food gets eaten before any sinks down to them . |
| 10 | Sea fishing is also taken up by many some prefer to fish from the beach and others prefer to fish from a boat . |
| 11 | Somehow people producing this , preparing this have to think of a way in which they can trap the listener , the viewer , the reader and get their interest . |
| 12 | – Some have to do with the child 's temperament ; others relate to parents ' physical and emotional resources and , of course , their methods of discipline ( or lack of them ! ) . |
| 13 | What on earth did a man on the wrong side of forty have to say to an eighteen year old ? |
| 14 | There was n't much welcome to overstay in the various snack parlours where he lingered ( and where he moreover imagined himself unfavourably recollected from his previous TLM vigils , holding with both hands the creaky Styrofoam container , and watching the light pour past the office windows . |
| 15 | There will be some serious disillusion to follow on the heels of the euphoria of freedom . |
| 16 | The mighty continue to fall at the Stockholm Open . |
| 17 | Despite being generally unlicensed these tend to work alongside the regular staff usually in the larger urban abattoirs . |
| 18 | These tend to rot in the sun and though the treads might be as good as new , they will have to be changed because of the cracks in the walls . |
| 19 | These appear to relate to an earlier phase of ocean spreading during late Triassic times , and were carried to their present positions in nappes formed during the Cretaceous , as in eastern Europe . |
| 20 | The skull seems to become translucent , and within it — and in the flesh about it — knotted cords of white begin to form into a spiral which funnels back into a single thicker cord at the back of the skull . |
| 21 | When fired at a school of fish , these seem to act like a shotgun , disorienting many fish at the same time . |
| 22 | ‘ With the 715 , ’ John reflects , ‘ Trace have gone for volume in a small box , with no hook-up opportunities — these seem to start on the next model up . |
| 23 | A Grammar of Metaphor does not , by itself , constitute a theory of metaphor , and I have therefore had to rely on theories developed by philosophers and literary critics , while indicating where these fail to account for the aspects of Brooke-Rose 's writing that seem most interesting . |
| 24 | These fail to grapple with the shifting and kaleidoscopic nature of ethnic differentiations and identities and their relation to internal divisions of class and gender . |
| 25 | Hydrangeas are very good , but these have to come from the corporation nurseries as it is too early for outdoor ones . |
| 26 | Even taking an ethologist 's view that young men are fighting animals who need to work off aggression harmlessly in play — a sweeping and contentious assumption — we st ill have to account for the specific form of football hooliganism since the 1960s . |
| 27 | The problem is that , quite understandably , we all tend to stick to the tried and true and therefore repeat over and over again the same skills . |
| 28 | Moreover , because depression , inflation , or other economic distress can bring down a government , and because jobs , prices , production , the standard of living , and the economic security of everyone , all tend to rest on the performance of business , politicians and administrators alike have to regard business as more than just another interest group . |
| 29 | Ideas , materials and methodology used all tend to come into the country from outside . |
| 30 | Television is such a visual medium that we all tend to concentrate on the images and not the words . |