Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other acts sought to prohibit as far as possible corrupt practices and limited the amount of money a candidate could spend on election expenses . |
| 2 | The report shows that employers tend to have only extremely vague notions as to what examinations in particular subjects actually involve . |
| 3 | Thus even the earliest and most modest collection of phrase structure rules would have been pregnant with new output ; and as the rules became entrenched so too would innovative effort and diagnostic insight become more relaxed and automatic , as words appeared newly combined in well-understood syntactic contexts . |
| 4 | Moreover , lower income groups tend to spend more propor-tionally on their housing than higher income groups ( Ginsburg , 1979 , p. 5 ) . |
| 5 | Negative attitudes tend to spread more easily amongst individuals than from group to group because members of a group can argue more effectively amongst themselves than can an individual . |
| 6 | This is because capital flows tend to respond more rapidly to changes in relative interest rates than trade flows tend to respond to changes in relative prices . |
| 7 | The sight of violent confrontations on the streets of major cities helped to stimulate yet further the acrimonious political debate about how to regenerate depressed inner-city localities ( Robson , 1988 ) . |
| 8 | The cost of claims for theft particularly in the larger towns and cities has increased quite noticeably . |
| 9 | Since then , as has previously been noted for interregional migration , the composition of migration streams from the cities has become even more highly skewed towards the better-off . |
| 10 | Now that Microsoft has launch it 's rival TrueType font family , and embedded the same in Windows 3.10 , Adobe 's price for PostScript fonts has become far more reasonable — lets hope this co-incidence continues . |
| 11 | The use of health services by the different socio-economic groups has become slightly less unequal during this period . |
| 12 | Research is , of course , carried on outside the corporate sector in universities and other institutions of learning ; even so , these bodies are increasingly dependent on commercial sponsorship , and corporate funds tend to flow more readily into projects identified by , or otherwise of interest to , the sponsor . |
| 13 | His figures show that very many students from working-class homes tend to do less well in their ‘ A ’ levels than the rest . |
| 14 | But if our managerial hierarchical organizations tend to choke so readily on debilitating bureaucratic practices , how do we explain the persistence and continued spread of this form of organization for more than 3,000 years ? |
| 15 | Roosevelt , at the beginning of the 1930s and at the height of World War II , may have briefly approached such a position of pre-eminence , but none of his successors has come even close to such a situation . |
| 16 | Further , the arms race between the superpowers has escalated still more . |
| 17 | Originally the Irish FA considered spending the entire period on tour but making the two trips has proved more financially viable . |
| 18 | To stick to the motor car analogy , the design of cars has improved more rapidly because a designer can incorporate in a single design a synchromesh gearbox that originated in one model with fuel injection that originated in another . |
| 19 | The debate among trade union tutors has concentrated almost entirely upon the content and organisation of the TUC day-release scheme . |
| 20 | The second of these aspects has emerged only relatively recently in the published literature on the postwar Labour government , but it is now a commonplace , certainly among Imperial and colonial historians . |
| 21 | The resulting emphasis on personalism and personalised relationships has become very much a feature of social life in the New World , too . |
| 22 | I teach guitar as well and a lot of kids want to learn straight away on electric and I think that 's really bad for them . |
| 23 | The text of warranties has become much longer because solicitors have included very many specific warranties as well as general warranties . |
| 24 | The strange boy 's eyes seemed to penetrate so deeply into Willie 's that he felt sure he could read his thoughts . |
| 25 | The remedies adopted reflected very strongly the work of Heath 's backroom team of the late sixties and were intended to ‘ remove the need for continual changes for a considerable period in the future ’ . |
| 26 | But the notion of distinct provinces seemed to smack too strongly of the old pre-evolutionary approach . |
| 27 | As this list also reminds us , journalists seem to worry as much as sociologists about their proper analytical role . |
| 28 | And yet a few kinds of frogs manage to live even here . |
| 29 | Moreover , each of these characteristics tends to change rather rapidly over time , as the monetary authorities try to establish controls that are more or less effective . |
| 30 | Some of the combinations seem to go together automatically — e.g. the apprentice will be low status , somebody who needs to be taught — but often it 's useful to think beyond the obvious . |