Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern biologists tend to agree with Wagner . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Many women drivers seem to agree with Judith . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Despite all this , doubts continue to exist on Germany 's real commitment to EMU . |
| 8 | New boss demands end to ban on ITV mergers |
| 9 | In France , his fans prefer to dwell on Mr Depardieu 's street-to-screen success story . |
| 10 | It is said that Ferdinand made all three brothers promise to defer to Rodrigo del Bivar , putting him virtually in loco parentis to the infantas , though he was still only of an age with them . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | If the commissioners vote to proceed against Microsoft , they may move quickly , the magazine says . |
| 13 | Winter visitors start to arrive in September , perhaps August in some years , and peak numbers are present in December , after which there is a steady decline through to March and April . |
| 14 | Winter visitors start to arrive in October , occasionally September , and peak numbers usually occur in January or February . |
| 15 | Does he agree that those companies choose to come to Britain because our taxes are low , our industrial relations are good and , most of all , our Government understand business ? |
| 16 | She says too many talented youngsters have to go to London . |
| 17 | Some 20 Japanese companies plan to invest in Motorola Inc 's Iridium low earth orbit satellite global cellular telephone system , Reuter reports from Tokyo : the companies include Sony Corp , Mitsubishi Corp , Kyocera Corp and Daini Denden International Corp , the long-distance telephone carrier whose investors include Sony and Kyocera ; the Japanese partners will form a $130m joint venture late this month to co-ordinate investment and policy in the project ; Motorola says it will cost $3,370m , half coming from investors , the rest to be borrowed . |
| 18 | But de it 's been done deliberately that other contracts extend to end of June because , we knew that by round about mid May we would know what our financial situation was , in that what I understand are termed out-turn figures for the , our pre the previous financial year , will have been erm audited as a result of the end of the financial year . |
| 19 | All roads seem to lead to Hewlett-Packard Co these days , and the company has now won Fujitsu Ltd as a licensee for its SoftBench framework for creating open integrated software development environments — the first licence on the thing in Japan . |
| 20 | All roads seem to lead to Hewlett-Packard Co these days , and the company has now also won Fujitsu Ltd as a licensee for SoftBench — the first licence on the thing in Japan . |
| 21 | Since planes tend to fly by Greenwich Mean Time , it is convenient to say it took place on the evening of the Friday . |
| 22 | Such readings or misreadings tend to originate in Nietzsche . |
| 23 | Today , for example Unix applications expect to run over TCP/IP using the sockets programming interface , where Systems Application Architecture programs expect to be sitting on SNA networks and consequently use one of IBM 's proprietary application interfaces such as CPI-C . |
| 24 | Similar buildings seem to predominate at Cambridge and Dragonby , and , interestingly , at accepted ‘ village ’ sites like Catsgore , a fact which must be important when trying to define the function and status of individual sites close to the town-village threshold . |
| 25 | ’ There is indeed an opaque quality to the memories that Palestinians like to tell of Palestine . |
| 26 | A POLICEMAN was injured in his patrol car yesterday in an accident as he waited for a nuclear weapons convoy to pass through Glasgow , writes Alan Forbes . |
| 27 | All cricketers love to go to England . |
| 28 | The National Council for Civil Liberties ( Liberty ) believes that it is unacceptable that we have no legal right to privacy in this country and that individuals have to look to Europe — waiting many years for a result — for protection against arbitrary interference with this right . |
| 29 | Carolyn Alexander , a parent with two daughters at the Downs School , is in Moscow finding out if the orphans want to return to England : |
| 30 | ‘ From the King 's first words : ‘ What bloody man is that ? ' ugly questions begin to stick to Macbeth . ’ |