Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , natural fibre such as bran products tend to bind to calcium , making it difficult for the body to use the calcium , making supplements more necessary than ever . |
| 2 | Modern biologists tend to agree with Wagner . |
| 3 | Planning policies tend to run behind developments and trends , and all too often the planning machine has given the impression of existing more for the benefit of those who run it ( professionals and politicians ) than those who are served by it . |
| 4 | The birds tend to stay in Shetland longer because there is much more food available in the form of seeds and insects at the end of the summer , than at the end of the winter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In relation to the association of District Council 's erm proposition , that was a development package , and obviously groups want to meet in time to look at that , so we 'll see if we can find some more information on that one . |
| 7 | In real life , we move our heads , and foreground objects appear to move in front of background objects because of parallax . |
| 8 | It 's O K if your headmasters that run the school change I mean schools tend to change with headmasters do n't they ? |
| 9 | Why do most modern readers tend to think in terms of ten to thirty men ? |
| 10 | Polymer solutions tend to fall into category ( iii ) and the non-ideal behaviour can be attributed not only to the existence of a finite heat of mixing but also to the large difference in size between the polymer and solvent molecules . |
| 11 | Gangs tend to pick on houses rather than businesses , torturing a family until it hands over its money ( many Vietnamese keep all their cash at home ) . |
| 12 | All that it demonstrates , through a three-hours-seeming 75 minutes , is that counter-stereotypes tend to harden into stereotypes in their turn . |
| 13 | Where both parties intend to rely on experts there should be mutual exchange , medical for medical and non-medical for non-medical . |
| 14 | Roger Boaden , director of the Shopping Hours Reform Council , said : ‘ Shoppers want to shop on Sunday , shopworkers want to work on Sunday and retailers want to open their shops on Sunday . ’ |
| 15 | In a democratic system political parties expect to alternate in office . |
| 16 | Other two-syllable words such as adverbs and prepositions seem to behave like verbs and adjectives . |
| 17 | Chauvinism , local and national , lies at the heart of hooliganism and England fans seem to find in foreigners a convenient target fur a vague resentment at Britain 's diminished place in the world . |
| 18 | Much more frequent mentions of captivi seem to refer to nobles , and one writer explicitly says that the reason the Vikings having arrived by boat then used horses was " so that they would be able to capture some nobles for the sake of money ( ransoms ) " . |
| 19 | Similar confusions seem to account for Marian Dawkins ' difficulty in pinning down objective criteria of animal suffering beyond obvious pain reactions like tail or limb-biting ( 1980 : 110–11 ) . |
| 20 | But when funding stays level and subjects begin to compete for resources , the system breaks down . |
| 21 | Many women drivers seem to agree with Judith . |
| 22 | New shops set to open in Scarborough 's £30m Brunswick Pavilion shopping mall by Mothercare , Microbite Computers and outfitters Maze , will take the number of new jobs created in the centre to more than 200 . |
| 23 | Despite all this , doubts continue to exist on Germany 's real commitment to EMU . |
| 24 | Where conditions of poverty and dependency and harmonious and pervasive personal relationships continue to predominate in agriculture then a source of ambiguity is present in the farm worker 's perceptions of the world around him . |
| 25 | ‘ Ratings continue to benefit from management 's conservative financial policies , the agency said . |
| 26 | And in Bosnia-Herzegovina journalists continue to work in circumstances which are so threatening that most foreign correspondents covering the conflict have fled . |
| 27 | Half the kids stay to wait in line . |
| 28 | New boss demands end to ban on ITV mergers |
| 29 | It is what management and business schools try to eradicate through education and training . |
| 30 | For the minor channels , and here we may include BBC2 and Channel Four , and may in the future add local cable stations , considerable opportunities exist to report on developments in the field of mental handicap . |