Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also have broad noses and sideways facing nostrils , and tend to sit in a hunched position when at rest . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is the way we intend to proceed in a whole range of different market areas . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By impacting with neighbouring particles they vibrate about a locus , and only appear to remain in a fixed position . |
| 8 | Alan Pretty , a team leader in personnel services at Lincolnshire SSD , believes it is very much a management move and is not for social workers who want to continue in the caring role . |
| 9 | But it is far from certain that all the fish in every corporate shoal want to swim in the same direction . |
| 10 | Well , I 've got , if you you just bear with me a moment , I still have one foot dragging in H one , but I thought we 'd got to the stage where in order to try and clarify thinking on the matter we ought to progress onto H two , erm , that just let me reveal the thinking , erm that , before I do that can I just say in terms of mechanics those of you who have just joined us for the first time , could you turn your name boards round so I can see them , thank you , and when you want to come in the normal practice is to put your name board on end , so it will attract our attention . |
| 11 | As the genes in question appear to work in the same way in mice and people it should be possible to develop ways of detecting the genes in people at risk and discovering methods of implanting cells with the normal genes or blocking the action of the defective genes . |
| 12 | Fight the flab with fat-burning aerobic dance which is another alternative for those who only want to shake in the right places . |
| 13 | Geographers who want to work in the environmental sciences must be willing to learn the methods of these sciences , lest we lose the respect of our colleagues in such fields . |
| 14 | There are members of the European parliament who s s support Strasbourg as a meeting place clearly , but the majority do not , the majority want to meet in a single city and in so doing the majority have accepted that there should be a new European parliament building in Brussels and that European parliament building now operates . |
| 15 | If you are between 8 and 14 and want to participate in a dark journey of the imagination come to the VALLEY OF DOOM . |
| 16 | If you are between 8 and 14 and want to participate in a dark journey of the imagination come to the VALLEY OF DOOM . |
| 17 | In August Najibullah claimed that the PDPA would even countenance ‘ settling up a government that would include representatives of the political forces now outside the country , but who sincerely want to participate in the nationwide process of building a new Afghanistan ’ . |
| 18 | All Muricaceans ( see Appendix 1 for the classification ) that have been studied closely appear to feed in a similar manner ( Carriker , 1981 ) . |
| 19 | What I want to explore in the next chapter , then , is the question of the cultural boundaries between different subjects . |
| 20 | However , since much of the research which we want to discuss in the following section is concerned with the formulation of sentences , we will use this term in order to avoid confusion . |
| 21 | I want to play in the first competition match and then make sure of my place in the NSW team . |
| 22 | ‘ I have had a great time at Sunderland , but I am ambitious and want to play in the Premier League . |
| 23 | The West has simply ‘ rediscovered ’ in Africa ( despite the diversity and complexity of that continent 's cultures ) fundamental values that we imagine were lost or repressed in the high noon of civilization and progress : values like ‘ natural ’ well-being , spontaneity , conviviality , uninhibitedness , everything we long for and want to relearn in the 1980s . |
| 24 | of the value of the scholarship and not bother to apply in the first place , but the major scholarship was worth at its maximum a hundred and fifty pounds |
| 25 | ‘ Sometimes I forget to put in the right things . ’ |
| 26 | Just as the Festival of Britain symbolically moved the country into a postwar era of affluence , so the Garden Festivals appear to usher in the post-industrial economy : a green age of leisure . |
| 27 | At Dragonby , spacious plots appear to predominate in the excavated areas , but at Ilchester , they seem to be confined to the extramural frontages in the form of a double row of plots 20 by 50 m ( 66 by 165 ft ) in size . |
| 28 | That you still want to compete in a young man 's race , even though it might kill you ? ’ |
| 29 | However , most of us either no longer want to believe in the Ruskinian and Poundian relation between craftsmanlike performance and civic health , or else we tell ourselves ( perhaps with Pound 's fate before us as a cautionary tale ) that we can no longer afford to believe it . |
| 30 | At the same time , however , there have been developments which appear to run in the opposite direction and which reinforce the appearance of employee status . |