Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | They tend to fall within a broad category of exploitation , a genre characterised by a simplistic ethos of violent action . |
2 | Despite this , we still tend to cling to the traditional . |
3 | They also have broad noses and sideways facing nostrils , and tend to sit in a hunched position when at rest . |
4 | There are relatively few territorial sites , which the strongest male ruffs occupy ; these sites , called leks , tend to remain in the same place every year . |
5 | The corollary is that if they eventually return to the UK , their foreign domicile will be retained until it can be ascertained that they intend to remain for an indefinite period . |
6 | Since a given project is very rarely repeated , project management is the business of managing variety ; benefits tend to flow from the effective exploitation rather than the reduction thereof . |
7 | ‘ Not sure , really , though the little ones tend to go for the easy stuff . |
8 | The mites tend to go for the smaller workers , probably because of their safer and passively fed lifestyle . |
9 | MPs who on the whole tend to be rather casual about going to meetings organised for their benefit by pressure groups tend to go to the nuclear forum , because it is always well-structured and organised , and because they can then say to constituents who work in either the nuclear industry or the nuclear supply industry that they have been , and still are , taking an interest in the decisions that affect those particular electors . |
10 | The introduction of lead-free petrol and the reduction of industrial emissions in North America and Europe is causing cleaner , and whiter , snow to fall in the Arctic . |
11 | It is the way we intend to proceed in a whole range of different market areas . ’ |
12 | Tubifex is collected by scooping up the mud patch containing the worms , and then washing the mud away to leave clean worms which tend to gather in a tight ball . |
13 | Existing tagsets tend to agree about the major word class categorisations but there are often differences in the sub-categorisations used . |
14 | Yet most tend to agree with the right-wing slogan , ‘ the boat is full ’ , meaning Germany has too many foreigners . |
15 | Rule-based parsers tend to work on a sentential basis which appears to be too much delay for users . |
16 | Despite being generally unlicensed these tend to work alongside the regular staff usually in the larger urban abattoirs . |
17 | The decreased total protein and amylase turnover rates are probably a result of a reduction in synthetic rates as the time taken for labelled total protein and amylase to appear in the duodenal juice was significantly longer in the the post-acute pancreatitis patients . |
18 | Here users tend to come from a wide variety of backgrounds , and press for an equally wide range of requirements . |
19 | Although both groups tend to appear as a limited disease , most cases being in stage I-IIE , the morphohistological subtype seems to be a decisive factor in dissemination , as only one case ( 5% ) of low grade/mixed grade compared with 20% of the patients with high grade were classified as stage IV . |
20 | Whilst physical infirmity may make physical care of great significance to the old person and mental infirmity may limit their capacity to give and receive other kinds of care , the efforts we make to relate to the whole person are critical if we are to avoid the stigmatising and depersonalising processes which insult the integrity of the old person . |
21 | I intend to concentrate on the two subjects of today 's debate , education and employment . |
22 | Because of time , I intend to concentrate on the European dimension . |
23 | Target-oriented programmes tend to concentrate on a small number of permanent or semi-permanent methods ( sterilisation or IUD ) to minimise dropout rates . |
24 | They can advise their clients [ customers ] on all aspects of the law although many tend to concentrate on a particular area . |
25 | They can advise their clients [ customers ] on all aspects of the law although many tend to concentrate on a particular area . |
26 | They can advise their clients [ customers ] on all aspects of the law although many tend to concentrate on a particular area . |
27 | They can advise their clients [ customers ] on all aspects of the law although many tend to concentrate on a particular area . |
28 | This has meant that many studies tend to concentrate on the objective assessment of a fiscally quantifiable reality . |
29 | Although psychological explanations tend to concentrate upon the individual worker within the organisation , we can also examine the role of individuals as members of groups and note how the existence of different groups , both formal and informal , have an important role to play in developing our understanding of organisations . |
30 | So too with the body clock : it might be that several outputs with different periods are possible and that we tend to concentrate upon the daily or circadian clock because this is the period that is most useful to the organism and which has naturally been accentuated by the environment with its 24-hour period . |