Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the most powerful of the British pressure groups tend to have an established relationship with one or other political party . |
| 2 | Thus polar groups tend to encourage a higher T g than non-polar groups of similar size , as seen when comparing polypropylene , poly ( vinyl chloride ) and polyacrylonitrile . |
| 3 | There are a number of reasons why meetings tend to have a poor reputation . |
| 4 | The heterogeneity of labour and the job-specificity of skills tend to create a strong linkage between workers and their employers and , in some cases , cause firms to fill as many of their vacancies as possible by means of internal promotions . |
| 5 | In proportion as its acts tend to promote the same end , its conduct may be termed organised and its several actions correlated . |
| 6 | In the end , only the action is viable , so that all these essays tend to match the inside ethnography and are nullified by neglect or have any contentious matter treated as ‘ privileged information ’ , for as Templeton ( 1980 : 904 ) argues ‘ the police fear that if you have a better understanding of society , you are in a better position to change it — the very exercise [ they ] are reluctant to engage in ’ . |
| 7 | Anemones tend to dribble a little water from their centres if you press them . |
| 8 | Broadly , the declines in the concentration ratio have tended to occur during periods of market growth , while the rises have corresponded to recessions , suggesting that high levels of bond issues lead to a more even spread of issues between firms as well as new entry , while in slack periods the dominant houses tend to take a larger proportion of issues , smaller houses being squeezed out . |
| 9 | Rugby Union : New rules make scouting a positive option for clubs |
| 10 | The ambivalences generated for many white youth by the attractions of Afro-Caribbean , Afro-American and African musical forms , and their admirations for some aggressive forms of Afro-Caribbean masculinity , have resulted in alliances in particular schools and neighbourhoods between white and Afro Caribbean youth against Asian youth , while in some schools where black white conflicts remain submerged the dominant form of racist insult occurs between different ethnic minority groups , for instance Asian and Afro-Caribbean or Cypriot and Vietnamese ( Cohen , 1987 ) . |
| 11 | In Rome , central areas such as the Piazza di Spagna , Via Condotti and Via Veneto are particularly well decorated , while in Piazza San Pietro [ St. Peter 's Square ] crowds flock to see a big Christmas tree — a gift from Austria — together with a Nativity scene . |
| 12 | The first category includes those small towns where the defences appear to rationalize an extensive urban scatter and to enclose a suitable urban core . |
| 13 | If these so-called rugby experts want to relive the monotonous and tedious forward battles that culminated in England 's Grand Slam then they can keep their memories . |
| 14 | Supermarkets , including Tesco 's store in Banbury and the Co-Op in Kidlington , were also found to be selling ham , which experts say had a high risk of food poisoning . |
| 15 | The material researchers provide makes a great safety net . |
| 16 | Too many coaches want to impose a technical straightjacket on their pupils , which can destroy them more than it improves and helps them . |
| 17 | Classical periods of literature are judged severely since they represent a moment of complacent self-satisfaction in which the movement of history is artificially suspended , in which social formations and institutions appear to have a permanent position in a fixed , hierarchical structure . |
| 18 | Assume that the authorities want to operate a tight monetary policy . |
| 19 | Peer groups appear to have a dynamic role , the function and influence of which shifts across adolescence . |
| 20 | Heavier weight synthetics tend to use a double layer of wadding with the outer layer quilted to the shell and the inner to the lining . |
| 21 | In practice professional valuers tend to prefer the comparative method and builders the residual method , but for valuations for annual financial or management accounts it would perhaps be prudent to take an average of the result obtained using both methods . |
| 22 | When an idea starts , perhaps only a slogan or a headline will be produced , but in the end the writer is going to have to write all the words in the ad ( though most clients tend to write a few themselves , sometimes over the agency 's dead body ) . |
| 23 | The emphasis is again on a parent-child partnership and sessions tend to have a special theme . |
| 24 | It is easy to show that these two steps combine to give the required result . |
| 25 | The river is ‘ sacred ’ , the trees ‘ incense-bearing ’ , the forests ‘ ancient as the hills ’ , together with the exoticism of Xanadu , these words combine to lend an uneasy sense of overbearing power to the scene , an uncomfortable mist of the religious and the natural . |
| 26 | Boys from unskilled , working-class homes tend to have the hardest time ; at 11 years , 36 per cent were beaten with an implement by the father , the mother or both . |
| 27 | Drivers tend to have a nasty habit of cutting corners without a thought for the cyclist on the inside . |
| 28 | ‘ Diesel car drivers tend to have an ideal profile for insurance companies , ’ says Rod Alcorn , the motivating force behind the launch of the new policy . |
| 29 | The share account was paying up to 8.75 p.c. net in 1979 , the monthly savings account paid a top rate of 9.5 p.c. net and up to 12.5 p.c. net was paid on term accounts . |
| 30 | As teenagers tend to get a bad name for being moody , rude and irresponsible — to name but a few choice descriptions often used — I 'd like to tell your readers about my teenage son . |