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 | Apart from a few straightforward effects ( slow motion , freeze frame ) , art movies tend to fall outside this area , because by and large SFX are expensive and time-consuming , whereas art movies of limited appeal tend to be made on relatively low budgets . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I I tend to agree that the criteria tend to fall into two sorts . |
| 5 | We notice that the words tend to fall into natural sets : |
| 6 | ‘ We will not develop the business where there is no emphasis on quality , and we intend to continue in that framework . |
| 7 | Some certificates tend to lapse into impersonal references to ‘ the rectory ’ or ‘ the chaplain' . |
| 8 | Clovers , being of prostrate habit , tend to thrive in close-cropped swards . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Despite corporate financial officers ' best intentions , firms tend to go through various stages of growth . |
| 13 | We suggest you find out where your newly-acquired friends and acquaintances tend to gather at different times of the day . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | I tend to work by this rule : for a big painting I paint very thinly and a small one I use thick impasto , although of course the rule can be broken . |
| 17 | I tend to work by this rule : for a big painting I paint very thinly and a small one I use thick impasto , although of course the rule can be broken . |
| 18 | So er I , I b basically go to the office one day a week , that 's my admin day , and the rest , I , I tend to work within this area . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | Fancy designer labels tend to come with fancy price tags to match . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They tend to come in large groups , but there are singletons and couples as well . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Hooligans tend to come from social backgrounds where masculine aggression is highly valued . |
| 29 | Simply nervous trainers tend to stand in one spot , feeted feet rooted like a tree to the ground . |
| 30 | In the rat brain there are regional differences in the structure of the cortex , but the areas that can be identified tend to blur into each other . |