Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " 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 | We notice that the words tend to fall into natural sets : |
| 3 | Some certificates tend to lapse into impersonal references to ‘ the rectory ’ or ‘ the chaplain' . |
| 4 | Clovers , being of prostrate habit , tend to thrive in close-cropped swards . |
| 5 | The TV items are being selected on the criteria of level of interest and validity as examples of authentic spoken English ie. we tend to go for ordinary people speaking to camera rather than voice over or straight presentation to camera . |
| 6 | Despite corporate financial officers ' best intentions , firms tend to go through various stages of growth . |
| 7 | We suggest you find out where your newly-acquired friends and acquaintances tend to gather at different times of the day . |
| 8 | As we noted , nominal predicates tend to agree with actual number and person , finite verbs with the morphological person and number encoded in the polite form of the pronoun , with language-specific decisions on predicates of intermediate kind . |
| 9 | ‘ I tend to work with up-and-coming guitar bands because that 's the music I like listening to and that 's what I understand better . |
| 10 | Fancy designer labels tend to come with fancy price tags to match . |
| 11 | Some have right-wing parties like Germany 's Republicans that stir racial hatred and exploit the tensions that tend to come with large-scale immigration . |
| 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 | They tend to come in large groups , but there are singletons and couples as well . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Hooligans tend to come from social backgrounds where masculine aggression is highly valued . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , most bureaucracies tend to concentrate on small details , sacrificing the overall picture . |
| 19 | Another criticism is that UK banks tend to concentrate on short-term lending , causing a shortage of long-term funds for investment . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Stories told about Burton at this time are necessarily retrospective and tend to suffer from retrospective grandeur and glamour . |
| 22 | Those who gossip about him tend to meet with nasty accidents . ’ |
| 23 | Whereas unit production costs tend to benefit from increased volume of production , distribution costs tend to worsen . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Although a backbencher he is currently the politician the voters most want to see as prime minister . |
| 26 | So this letter which refers to our processes in this county council , it 's talking about people who want to go into residential care and to use public money . |
| 27 | There are many clinical features in common among these treponematoses and some of them appear to go through similar stages and periods of latency . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 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 | If you want to work with young people , |