Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such groups tend to wield greater power in conflict situations than their members , and indeed the very existence of the groups may be seen to anticipate and perpetuate conflict , to harden and formalise a set of attitudes and values that their individual members may not themselves have recognised or expressed . |
| 2 | Wars tend to prompt religious reawakening in a populace . |
| 3 | I tend to wear black suits in the evening although I must admit I 'm getting slightly bored with black now . |
| 4 | ‘ They want to see economic development in the local area for them ’ . |
| 5 | We expect to stimulate significant improvements in NHS performance , particularly on waiting times , as a result . |
| 6 | First , however , I want to compare two ways in which we can look at evolution . |
| 7 | Our estate agency loss has been reduced and we expect to see some improvement in this business as the housing market responds to lower interest rates . |
| 8 | Allowing for intersubject variability , one night still expect to see marked changes in the histology of the small bowel after infusion of 100 mg of pure peptide . |
| 9 | They want to find some way in which having a brain like that improves gene survival . |
| 10 | We expect to secure more work in 1993 for specialist areas of activity in particular with HV Fox and Satellite DGPS and there will be closer operational links with Aberdeen . |
| 11 | I expect to find rich pickings in the Ministry of Defence , with its townships , its airfields , its office blocks , its country houses , its sailors ' hostel in South Kensington and its acreage of land which would make up an English county . |
| 12 | Many potential purchasers expect to find fitted wardrobes in bedrooms these days . |
| 13 | Crime , vandalism and delinquency are confined to a minority , handful they said , in a district where the majority of folk want to lead decent lives in peace and quiet . |
| 14 | The five-year MEng honours degree course is for particularly able students who expect to assume responsible positions in industry immediately after graduation . |
| 15 | Right , when you , off you go then dear , you want to put that stuff in ? |
| 16 | Yeah , and they 're only out for a few minutes and they 're fed up out there as well , and backwards and forwards like a fiddlers elbow go on I want to put those lupins in |
| 17 | okay , round the base of your thumb , basically what we want to do is we want to clamp these fingers in so they ca n't come un unstuck , we want to push them together because she ca n't keep them shut like that , but the next thing is that you come round to the back where the little finger is , the next time you come round here , you 're gon na come round to about the first thumb joint okay and then you 're gon na go over the top okay and if you come round again the little thumb , by , by the little finger , you come round again to the thumb joint okay , come over the top again , round , we 're just making really like the figure of eight , but all the time we 're keeping off of this wrist here and I 'm keeping her fingers in , are you alright still ? |
| 18 | Okay this is the fourth in our series and the second on the presidency and I want to do two things in this lecture . |
| 19 | So it seems to me first of all that we should maintain a state of military preparedness , not because the Soviet Union is likely to attack us , but , simply because it represents this huge area of instability on our Eastern Frontiers , but I think also we should be more positive , I do n't think we want to do secret deals in C I A style , er , in fact I think we want the maximum of open diplomacy . |
| 20 | Some 40%–50% of UK academic libraries appear to use these devices in one way or another . |
| 21 | Erm , that should go at the very front of your binder , if you really want to keep that information in your binder . |
| 22 | That you propose to keep this baby in your laboratories and investigate him — ’ |
| 23 | He said : ‘ I want to score two goals in the next game with Roma , including one like the one I got against Pescara . ’ |
| 24 | Thus the arguments for easier maintenance and greater longevity of plastic windows appear to have little foundation in fact — an argument often ignored by the brewers . |
| 25 | The two indices appear to have equal validity in measuring the relative change in price or quantity levels between two periods . |
| 26 | Quite understandably , the Commission objected to this procedure , which made UK tapwater appear to have less lead in it than the consumer experiences . |
| 27 | In addition , the clergy appear to have considerable difficulty in recognizing the transformation which theoretical positions on Christian belief and morality undergo as they are concretized in historical human relationships , doubtless also because of the strong essentialist bias in their perception of socio-ethical issues . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , those people who want to develop Labour politics in the province and to change things for the better should at least be given the chance to try . |
| 29 | The corollary is seen where alien plants , contrary to expectation , appear to oust native plants in species-rich environments , where every ‘ niche ’ would appear to have been filled by species evolving more or less in situ to fit those environmental factors . |
| 30 | Clearly , if we want to deliver long-term reductions in tobacco consumption , we need to ensure that the smallest possible number of children — preferably none — take up the tobacco habit . |