Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [to-vb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Non-educational criteria almost invariably have priority in recruitment over educational ones and employers tend to have only the vaguest notions as to what particular qualifications entail or imply . |
| 2 | The smart or intelligent chargers tend to take over the user 's responsibility , detecting the amount of charge needed and eliminating any memory problems , but as stated previously , they are many time more expensive than the standard chargers . |
| 3 | Costings of domestic expenditures in industrial countries on reducing emissions tend to brush away the minor irrelevancies of the millions and concentrate on refining estimates to the nearest billion . |
| 4 | Things have changed now of course , but acts tend to tour just the Eastern side , so Western Australia still misses out because it 's such a bloody hike from Adelaide to Perth . ’ |
| 5 | Third World states tend to take over the foreign investments that they consider to be important for national development . |
| 6 | In the first part of this project , the researchers intend to investigate how the choice of estimation method affects statistics used to test assumptions about such models . |
| 7 | A members ' voluntary liquidation usually happens because a company 's shareholders want to close down the business and get their money back . |
| 8 | UNFORTUNATELY the majority of memorial dedications tend to receive only a fraction of the publicity they deserve . |
| 9 | Manufacturers tend to state only the input wattage especially on mains powered tools , but it is the power at the cutting edge that counts . |
| 10 | " Other candidates tend to write out a plan which is lengthy in the extreme , only to write out in sentence form the plan as an answer . " |
| 11 | Meanwhile the supporters want to set up a petition encouraging Flashman to go . |
| 12 | They may not all want to leave the Soviet Union ( indeed , whatever shape it takes in the future , Mr Yeltsin 's Russia will expect to be leader of the pack ) , but neither do the union 's supporters want to hand back the new economic and political freedoms that they have won . |
| 13 | Residential homes seem to cut down the use of hospital care ; they probably also reduce the need for it , but this is less certain . |
| 14 | In the final analysis , organizations have to weigh up the anticipated benefits of particular media against the costs involved . |
| 15 | Here again organizations have to weigh up the relative gains of this approach against the extra costs . |
| 16 | It has been suggested that the prevalent west and south-west winds tend to set up a longshore drift towards Portland , so that the majority of coarse material accumulates at that end . |
| 17 | The report concluded that : ‘ Most of the advantages appear to benefit directly the builder or developer , whereas the consumer is left with a dwelling which must have some inherent risks , however small . ’ |
| 18 | Characteristic of his style is his intensely naturalistic carving of man and nature ; the carved drapery folds seem to take on a life of their own . |
| 19 | Rovers stand to pick up an extra £25,000 if their former player makes the Great Britain side . |
| 20 | Sub-headings seem to take up an inordinate amount of space ; do we really need separate headings for ‘ What is Tincture of Benzoin ’ , ‘ How to use Tincture of Benzoin ’ , ‘ How to carry Tincture of Benzoin ’ , and ‘ Where to buy Tincture of Benzoin ’ ? |
| 21 | Cunningham ( 1982 ) reports that if parents decide to give up the baby permanently , it is ‘ for the parents who make it , the right decision , . |
| 22 | The staff will stay on until the parents arrive to pick up the children . |
| 23 | A huge land-grab is going on in Bosnia-Herzegovina today as Serbs and Croats fight to divide up the country . |
| 24 | Sudjic implies this when he explains how architects of office blocks have to dress up the imperatives of mechanical engineers , and when he examines , and rejects , attempts to tie the design of tower blocks to the social ills they can contain . |
| 25 | The Reptilons plan to take over the Earth , and the bimbos are up for nasty experimental surgery . |
| 26 | Vineyardlaced fields are brilliant and vibrant in promise and delivery ; dusky grey-green olive groves dress the hillsides and pines and cypresses appear to point out the landscape . |
| 27 | A situation where at least 27% of libraries appear to provide virtually no systematic training at all ( see Table 2 ) is inefficient and inequitable . |
| 28 | If these governments want to win back the access to international capital markets that they need in order to expand and prosper , they will have to come up with some ideas of their own . |
| 29 | These courses are run over several months , giving participants time to try out the suggestions over a period of time . |
| 30 | Especially when all the lenders seem to have roughly the same mortgage interest rate on offer to borrowers most of the time ? |