Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Tizard does acknowledge that the issue is complicated by social inequality — children who come into care tend to come from the most powerless sector of society . |
| 2 | The report also criticised the current boom in real-life crime re-enactments , which again tend to concentrate on the most violent crimes . |
| 3 | Personnel : Salary differentials 20–30 per cent over comparable civilian work tend to siphon off the better qualified . |
| 4 | This is then rotated and scaled , making the ‘ ball ’ appear to bounce in the out of the screen ( Sounds like you 've been at the loony juice again to me — Ed ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Welcome to Sleep of the Just , ’ intoned a warm and sympathetic voice from all around , ‘ home of the Chosen Frozen . |
| 6 | ‘ Welcome to Sleep of the Just , ’ began the ambience again . |
| 7 | We visit the timeless villages of Meganisi , stop to picnic on the prosaically named ‘ beach north ’ or ‘ beach south ’ , orbit Skorpios ( gawping at Onassis ' green lawns ) , or anchor off brilliant white beaches on the Greek mainland . |
| 8 | Whatever their own political persuasions , journalists tend to look for the most interesting outcome of any given set of circumstances . |
| 9 | They seem born to the hard sell ethos although new severe regulations against cold-calling and for " knowing the client " are forcing changes in their attitude . |
| 10 | ‘ I always manage to land in the least desirable areas . |
| 11 | Its undemanding vocabulary and flat rhythms seem suited to the very young , for whom it is unnecessarily long , yet a five year old , who would still delight in the pictures , would be disappointed by its lack of wit and thin story . |
| 12 | Where differences arise , they are likely to stem from decisions that begin to vary from the previously agreed business plan . |
| 13 | The shadow budget 's tax bands gave Labour the look of punitive vindictiveness : it drew the line where , realistically , it reckoned people could afford it , forgetting that in post-Thatcher Britain , people calculate their tax liabilities not on what they actually earn , but how much they hope , desire or aspire to earn in the very near future . |
| 14 | You get upset in the most florid ways , the most extreme hyperbole . |
| 15 | As training and hire costs are comparatively low int he USA and certain other countries , it 's not altogether surprising that our young , impecunious hopefuls feel frustrated at the much higher prices asked in the UK . |
| 16 | Are we all prepared to accept these price increases for the sometimes dubious advantage of seeing our environment improved ? |
| 17 | This conditioning idea , absent in the that-clause construction , is what I believe accounts for the less factual tone of the infinitival structure : explicitly evoking one 's knowledge as the condition allowing one to assert something ( rather than flatly stating one 's awareness of a fact ) tends to suggest that what one is saying is a personal opinion rather than a matter of objective fact . |
| 18 | Erm , I do n't know whether you claim to belong to the socially under privileged . |
| 19 | There was still a faint hope that the ILP would accept " organizational unity " , and become submerged in the more unified and efficient Communist Party . |
| 20 | With regard to women in canoeing , Lesley has some strong ideas on the subject that tend to contrast with the more feminist view . |
| 21 | Although the printer interface provided on the Spectrum is a parallel one it does n't conform to the industry standard for such connections , often called Centronics after the firm who invented it , just as the internal character codes used by the Spectrum fail to conform to the Internationally accepted ASCII codes . |
| 22 | I think we should er , minute our approval of thanks to the Tayman team , they are , I think accepted as the most efficient and the best training managers in the County , and it 's nothing we do , it 's everything that the officers and the staff do . |
| 23 | Gender is a key source of variation as is ethnicity , which cross-cuts gender because ideas about men 's and women 's roles in the family do vary among the ethnically diverse groups of which the British population is now composed ( Anthias and Yuval-Davies , 1983 ) . |
| 24 | What would be the first thing , people tend to do when they 've met for the very first time ? |
| 25 | It does n't in any way claim to be an absolutely up to the minute report of absolutely everything that we 've done in the previously twelve months since last Congress , and quite frankly , it just could not be that . |
| 26 | So the more overtime you work as I 've said before the less efficient we become . |
| 27 | Personally , for want of a better alternative , I 've resorted to the rather shameful practice of sanctimony-baiting . |
| 28 | He never really reached top form last night , but had enough fight to hold off the mentally tough , but physically drained Hlasek . |
| 29 | I WISH to complain about the dangerously increasing practice by many uncaring motorists to park their cars directly in front of bus stops . |
| 30 | Javed Miandad 's team have developed into the most powerful combination on the international scene in any form of the game . |