Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sets out the ways we intend to support various groups of people in the community and their carers . |
| 2 | For these reasons we intend to perform future studies on DNA fragments containing isolated actinomycin binding sites . |
| 3 | The ‘ society-as-parent ’ protagonists , on the other hand , tend to see parental rights as a force still to be reckoned with in law , agency practice and social attitudes . |
| 4 | At present employers tend to see joint degrees as second class . |
| 5 | Naturally those anthropologists who grant culture such imperative force tend to see social relations as the product of cultural patterning and conditioning , and thus tend to concentrate on child-rearing practices , enculturation , and socialization . |
| 6 | When we do make up our minds to lose the excess , however , we tend to sacrifice long-term benefits for short-term success : our aim is to get to our target weight as quickly as possible . |
| 7 | This tendency to a kin-based preference in the distribution of associations naturally biases the distribution of ranks among group members so that close kin tend to acquire similar rank as their genetic elders . |
| 8 | She was aware , too , that certain couples tend to acquire single men like Preston , or women for that matter , like pets , almost as a kind of catalyst for their own uneasy , brittle relationships . |
| 9 | Trolls tend to acquire physical attributes as a result of what they eat , and Stone Trolls are craggy with cracked flesh like weathered stone . |
| 10 | Wars tend to prompt religious reawakening in a populace . |
| 11 | I tend to wear black suits in the evening although I must admit I 'm getting slightly bored with black now . |
| 12 | Introduce opening full airbrakes after the final turn to check the situation ( unless obviously low ) . |
| 13 | These ties bear hardest on those who tend to accept moral responsibility for caring roles . |
| 14 | It would be interesting and potentially lively to engage in maths or history or music in the midst of a project on ‘ Warwick Castle ’ ( say ) , or ‘ Myself ’ , or ‘ Transport ’ , but projects tend to contain inherent biases to one subject area or another . |
| 15 | Even official sources now accept that tall stacks tend to increase long-range transport of pollution . |
| 16 | Cost cuts lose Shell large part of oil find |
| 17 | I am in favour of some incentive beyond that represented by depreciation , because new methods tend to encourage new ideas of production , which is so important . |
| 18 | All AEA Management is committed to regular communication with staff throughout this exercise and we intend to provide regular updates on the way it develops . |
| 19 | The peace movement can not ignore international law , not merely because many existing provisions tend to provide legal support for the claim that the use of nuclear weapons would be illegal , but also because , in theory at least , it provides the means by which states can bind themselves to restrict the manufacture , storage and use of such weapons ( non-proliferation treaties and regional nuclear-free zones are examples of this ) . |
| 20 | The acoustic differences between the initial segments in gift and kift or giss and kiss distinguish lexical items from non-words . |
| 21 | ‘ They want to see economic development in the local area for them ’ . |
| 22 | According to Price Waterhouse , integrating business objectives with information technology is seen as the number one business problem , and organisations increasingly want to see tangible benefits from their investment in technology . |
| 23 | It is precisely because I want to see political changes of this kind that I support Home Rule for Scotland . |
| 24 | If you want to see dazzling feats of mountaineering , with animals leaping from ledge to ledge across gaping chasms , then look to the chamois . |
| 25 | We want to see full progress with the single market as the priority programme for the European Community . |
| 26 | Essentially the Conservative government said to family doctors , ‘ You want to remain private practitioners on contract with the NHS . |
| 27 | We expect to stimulate significant improvements in NHS performance , particularly on waiting times , as a result . |
| 28 | Many people suggest using corrugated card for pressing and indeed , most commercially made presses are supplied with corrugated card , but I have always had enormous difficulty when using this , finding that it leaves the imprints of stripes on the flowers and leaves . |
| 29 | Woods has outlined some of the constraints that appear to induce survival-based patterns of teaching in the secondary school system — the raising of the school-leaving age ( to which we would now add growing youth unemployment ) , which encourages staying-on among those not otherwise especially enamoured of their school experience ; the persistence and extension of 16+ examinations against which teachers ' own success will be judged ( more of this later ) ; continuing high levels of class size and teacher-pupil ratios that make individualized treatment and small-group work difficult ; and declining levels of resources , which make experimentation and adjustment of learning tasks to individual needs problematic and leave teachers in the position of having to rely on their own personal resources for managing the class . |
| 30 | It seems to me that for those , like myself , who want to include divine revelation with science in their total picture about the origin of life , the thought that it could have originated in one that supports their belief that God had a hand in these matters . |