Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The Japanese , who once provoked riots , tend to invest in higher-tech operations and are seen as relatively generous . ) |
| 2 | These may in turn be sub-divided ; goods possessed may comprise either the results of private purchase or goods allocated by the state , while goods not possessed tend to fall into two categories : first , those we encounter as material forms , in particular the built environment , the goods of our acquaintances or those in the high street shop , and secondly , goods we do not experience directly , but which appear to us through the media — for example in television , magazines and advertising . |
| 3 | I I tend to agree that the criteria tend to fall into two sorts . |
| 4 | We notice that the words tend to fall into natural sets : |
| 5 | Some certificates tend to lapse into impersonal references to ‘ the rectory ’ or ‘ the chaplain' . |
| 6 | Clovers , being of prostrate habit , tend to thrive in close-cropped swards . |
| 7 | Generally speaking , more positive attitudes to rated concepts of the deaf community tend to go with better skills , but these relations would not meet statistical criteria . |
| 8 | Most editors and journalists are perfectly honest about the fact that when they need help they tend to go to those PROs who have been helpful in the past . |
| 9 | Despite corporate financial officers ' best intentions , firms tend to go through various stages of growth . |
| 10 | We suggest you find out where your newly-acquired friends and acquaintances tend to gather at different times of the day . |
| 11 | Yes , I find it a lot easier actually not to know what they 've done , when you start work there you tend to come over these cases , which to do |
| 12 | It means that the stressed syllables in an utterance tend to come at regular intervals with a varying number of less stressed syllables in between . |
| 13 | D-i-y kits tend to come in separate sections , forming two sides of each arch , one on each side of the wall , sometimes with a separate soffit section which can be used for wider walls . |
| 14 | Cones tend to come in two shapes — some , either cardboard or plastic , with a pointed top and others with a gap of about one to one and a half inches at the top . |
| 15 | They tend to come in large groups , but there are singletons and couples as well . |
| 16 | New moves tend to come from middle-class artists who have had the opportunity to absorb a great deal early and feel sufficiently confident in an educational and financially secure context to move it along . |
| 17 | Research proposals therefore tend to come from established departments , and also tend increasingly to consist of safe , conservative projects which have possibilities for future income-generation for the universities . |
| 18 | Hooligans tend to come from social backgrounds where masculine aggression is highly valued . |
| 19 | I intend to concentrate on two issues in the Queen 's Speech — the commitment to continue to prepare for the privatisation of the British Railways Board and the commitment to introduce a new council tax and to establish a review of local government structure in England . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , most bureaucracies tend to concentrate on small details , sacrificing the overall picture . |
| 21 | The tendency for current research to make use of multi-disciplinary approaches is increasing , although theses themselves tend to concentrate on smaller units of research . |
| 22 | However , since management courses tend to concentrate on basic tasks and procedures , there is a risk that the much larger matters signalled here will be treated rudimentarily at best . |
| 23 | Slugs tend to concentrate in such refuges , presumably because they give protection from desiccation . |
| 24 | Those who gossip about him tend to meet with nasty accidents . ’ |
| 25 | Many other countries have announced that they expect to proceed towards democratic elections in the coming year — Angola , Cameroon , Kenya , Liberia , Madagascar , Nigeria , Seychelles and Sierra Leone . |
| 26 | There are many clinical features in common among these treponematoses and some of them appear to go through similar stages and periods of latency . |
| 27 | ‘ We have to get back to a position where investors want to invest in unquoted companies and believe they 're still getting a good return , but I do n't think that will be the 30% they might have been promised . ’ |
| 28 | Get you some victims to be included because presumably they want to appeal for more members |
| 29 | ask your Social Secretary office for form AG 5 ( and form AG 1 if you want to claim on low-income grounds and you do not hold a current AG 2 or AG 3 certificate ) , fill them both in and send them where the form tells you . |
| 30 | ‘ I want to know about any girls reported missing since yesterday . |