Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employers tend to use a range of recruitment strategies employing a number of devices . |
| 2 | Today beaches are not quite so safe , for hordes of gulls and small wading birds congregate to share the prodigal feast . |
| 3 | Despite their differences , both views tend to support a tightening of the law on pornography . |
| 4 | It is the consonant sounds which make speech intelligible ; therefore it is not surprising that people who lose the high frequencies tend to hear the voice but not to be able to distinguish words . |
| 5 | However , if farms remain profitable , yield-increasing technologies tend to mask the effect of soil degradation and erosion and make up for declines in fertility that would have occurred if land had been cultivated with a constant level of technology . |
| 6 | Animals that are too aggressive , too daring , or too timid for their own good in terms of reproduction are gradually eliminated so that in a stable environment the median values tend to become the population norms . |
| 7 | Functionalists tend to see the relationship between social groups in society as one of cooperation and interdependence . |
| 8 | The researchers intend to monitor the progress of cases through the various legal stages . |
| 9 | So many groups want to visit the plant , which was stricken by a now notorious accident to its reactor in 1979 that its owner , General Public Utilities , has a waiting list . |
| 10 | In my work with church groups on the subject of bereavement , I have repeatedly found that such groups Want to discuss the subject of suicide . |
| 11 | The sessions involve boys that Spurs want to have a look at and among the 16 taking part tomorrow will be two already signed — Paul McVeigh and Jason Carlisle . |
| 12 | At present the new authorities appear to display a mixture of helplessness within the Russian Federal democracy and cynical enjoyment of a position of power . |
| 13 | Usually , the study points out , the creditors expect to get the lion 's share of any debt relief . |
| 14 | In other words , if a majority of member states want to adopt a piece of legislation which has the effect of transferring sovereign powers from national governments to the European Community institutions , that is at one and the same time an expression of national interest . ’ |
| 15 | Will Compact employers expect to have a role in the management and curriculum of the school ? |
| 16 | A number of other values appear to play a part , although these are less overt . |
| 17 | Such patterns appear to reflect the way in which the lithosphere fractures as magma forces its way up to the surface . |
| 18 | Thus in Figure 17.4 , if the authorities want to raise the rate of interest from r 1 to r 2 , their actions in the discount market outlined above will reduce money supply from Q 1 to Q 2 , to ensure that r 2 is an equilibrium rate of interest . |
| 19 | First , the constitutional authorities want to limit the sovereignty of Parliament by law ; second , they want to reinvigorate the various checks on the power of a democratically elected government through changes designed to bolster a more " balanced " constitution ; and third , they look to the checks implicit in a genuine revival of Parliament and parliamentary government . |
| 20 | ‘ Our research shows the vast majority of clubs want to retain an element of terracing . |
| 21 | The organization grows , project and task groups appear creating a need for good liaison . |
| 22 | The organization grows , project and task groups appear creating a need for good liaison . |
| 23 | But an elderly man who lives nearby said the illegally parked cars make crossing the road extremely hazardous . |
| 24 | Firstly , a purely ‘ efficiency ’ view of how organizations develop ignores the possibility that the nature of transactions is not completely exogenous : the development of technology and the kinds of production techniques used might depend on whose interests they promote . |
| 25 | Moreover lists tend to facilitate the election of women . |
| 26 | Since people 's self-assessments tend to reflect the way they wish they spoke , Trudgill took it that women wished to identify themselves with a higher social class , and thus that their status aspirations were higher than men 's ( with male informants he found the opposite tendency , which will be discussed later on ) . |
| 27 | Water flowing over the ground surface as overland flow cuts channels , and these channels combine to form a stream network . |
| 28 | David Taylor examines how words and pictures combine to tell a story |
| 29 | The results of these contradictions tend to follow a pattern . |
| 30 | Linguistic units tend to form a hierarchy of extent . |