Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Organisations tend to emphasise the benefits of policies rather than their costs , looking at the objectives to be achieved rather than the resources available .
2 In explicating this model , managers tend to emphasise the goodness of relationships such as one would find in a happy family .
3 From the waist-down I intend to wear a pair of blue jeans with the possible added attraction of whatever I manage to spill down them tonight in the pub .
4 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 . ’
5 CFCs tend to inhibit the flow of infra-red radiation through the atmosphere ; and they help to catalyze the breakdown of the ozone layer .
6 Nevertheless , two factors tend to inhibit the use of private certification in many areas of health and safety .
7 The researchers intend to monitor the progress of cases through the various legal stages .
8 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 .
9 Such corporations tend to usurp the functions of local elected authorities which are simultaneously subjected to greater central control .
10 In their enthusiasm to criticize economistic assumptions concerning utility , both works tend to overstress the autonomy of the features they assert .
11 Father Hugh Mcaleese said : ‘ We are devastated , but we intend to restore the church to its former glory .
12 He swept his arms round to include every cranny of the well-stocked kitchen .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 You tend to lose the origins of it , but it 's a shame to let it go altogether .
16 ‘ You tend to lose the origins of it ’ , was what Anne Smith said about Bellerby Feast , but the observation could apply equally to a number of events whose origins are lost in the ‘ mists of time ’ .
17 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
18 Functionalists tend to see the relationship between social groups in society as one of cooperation and interdependence .
19 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 .
20 Feminist psychologists tend to see the significance of gender differences much as conventional psychologists do .
21 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 ’ .
22 We tend to see the history of art as an ordered succession of works appreciated for and judged by their conceptual content .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 Equally , we tend to see the learning of a foreign language as mastering a skill , thereby perhaps doing ourselves a disservice .
28 Not only that : benefits for children tend to confirm the link between biological mothering and social mothering .
29 The Judicial Statistics figures tend to confirm the conclusions of the Winn Committee , which reported in 19689 that ‘ … of all personal injury claims asserted about 20–25 per cent .
30 Documents declassified under the 30-year rule tend to confirm the wisdom of his early years in politics .
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