Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In explicating this model , managers tend to emphasise the goodness of relationships such as one would find in a happy family . |
| 2 | Cooke said : ‘ You hate to lose a game like that , especially when it is so tight and when two decisions go against you in that manner . ’ |
| 3 | CFCs tend to inhibit the flow of infra-red radiation through the atmosphere ; and they help to catalyze the breakdown of the ozone layer . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , two factors tend to inhibit the use of private certification in many areas of health and safety . |
| 5 | The researchers intend to monitor the progress of cases through the various legal stages . |
| 6 | Also higher property transfer taxes and commision rates make selling a house a much less attractive option in Europe so people tend to treat a house as a long term home rather than as an investment . |
| 7 | In their enthusiasm to criticize economistic assumptions concerning utility , both works tend to overstress the autonomy of the features they assert . |
| 8 | Father Hugh Mcaleese said : ‘ We are devastated , but we intend to restore the church to its former glory . |
| 9 | He swept his arms round to include every cranny of the well-stocked kitchen . |
| 10 | A more serious problem is the bias of the sources , which reflect the views of the ruling class rather than those of the rebels and therefore tend to paint a picture of disorder rather than to record the grievances which prompted the revolt . |
| 11 | Anne was right in saying that ‘ you tend to lose the origin of it ’ ; the origins are a long way from what remains , but it does not really matter . |
| 12 | Below the photic zone oxygen is consumed by biological activity so immediat from immediately below the photic zone you tend to see a decrease in oxygen with depth reaching a minima somewhere between five hundred and a thousand metres depth |
| 13 | Functionalists tend to see the relationship between social groups in society as one of cooperation and interdependence . |
| 14 | Proponents of this view tend to see the idea of parental possession as one that is still protected and upheld by the law and by social agencies ; and they believe this state of affairs to be damaging to children , given that parents ' and children 's interests sometimes conflict . |
| 15 | Feminist psychologists tend to see the significance of gender differences much as conventional psychologists do . |
| 16 | Radical analysts of welfare development tend to see the imposition of mandatory retirement , encouraged or enforced by state pension schemes , as pan of the process whereby , in late industrial societies with highly specialized divisions of labour , elderly people are marginalized into a condition of ‘ structured dependence ’ . |
| 17 | We tend to see the history of art as an ordered succession of works appreciated for and judged by their conceptual content . |
| 18 | In fact , those who support the introduction of a Bill of Rights tend to see the state in essentially " negative " terms : it is regarded as the only real threat to individual freedom and liberty ( apart from that posed by the collective activity of trade unions ) because freedom itself is defined negatively as simply involving an absence of public and legal restraint on individual action . |
| 19 | Because Bem and other gender schema theorists assume that rationality and cognitive unity characterize psychological subjects , they tend to see the break-up of gender schemata as hindered by dominant social relations , but still as fairly straightforward in itself . |
| 20 | As a theory it is common enough : in the Italian Constitution the family is the only association among people which is designated ‘ natural ’ , and contemporary British conservatives tend to see the family as a possible counterweight to the power of the state . |
| 21 | Americans , with no colonial history in the Middle East , tend to see the war against Mr Hussein as a police action against an international thug . |
| 22 | Equally , we tend to see the learning of a foreign language as mastering a skill , thereby perhaps doing ourselves a disservice . |
| 23 | Not only that : benefits for children tend to confirm the link between biological mothering and social mothering . |
| 24 | Documents declassified under the 30-year rule tend to confirm the wisdom of his early years in politics . |
| 25 | I hate to miss the battle between Bill Beaumont and Ian Botham , and I always want Bill to win . |
| 26 | Now they intend to seduce the world with more jazz hip hop , more samples — ‘ Cantaloop ’ itself used six , all from the Blue Note archives , built around Herbie Hancock 's ‘ Cantaloupe Island ’ — and fistfuls of new British talent . |
| 27 | I like to look smart so I tend to wear a lot of jackets with trousers or skirts . |
| 28 | And could I just say that I think that the issue of sustainability does also touch upon the need for the new settlement to be be located on a public transport corridor , preferably an existing public transport corridor , and I think again that argument for for s for somewhere where a rail link , preferably , could be provided , and that of course would tend to support all those factors tend to support a location on the Northern side of York rather than the Southern side of York . |
| 29 | Despite their differences , both views tend to support a tightening of the law on pornography . |
| 30 | Along the way they intend to write a book of their experiences , most of which will undoubtedly be totally unprintable . |