Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always work a sample for tension with these lace patterns , fabrics with holes in them tend to need fewer stitches because the work becomes more elastic . |
| 2 | There are few places on the globe unmapped , but there are millions of people in the world who have never seen the sea , or mountains , or a desert , or a snow-covered landscape , and many of them want to experience such places because the unknown is one of the great pleasures of travel . |
| 3 | All of them seem to have different ideas about what should be done to get Britain out of recession . |
| 4 | Social workers can manipulate their ‘ system ’ in favour of some clients because their agency grants them licence to deploy such commitments . |
| 5 | Patrick Wintour adds : Motorists in London wanting to take their car into capital should be required to buy a £ 4 a day licence which would also give them access to free public transport in the City , The Liberal Democrats yesterday recommended a £4 a day central London charge , to include free out-of-centre parking and a public transport pass . |
| 6 | There would be times for tenderness , and one such time came later , in the aftermath of passion enriched by the knowledge of love , a bonus as they lay touching each other languidly and lovingly , luxuriating in the freedom of being able to express their feelings in this alternative way , confidently but without urgency . |
| 7 | So that when they sit facing each other on either side of their fire-place , both grins take off in the direction of the mantelpiece , as if drawn by the draught . |
| 8 | The companies also announced that they intend to develop additional products designed with tighter integration , enhanced functionality and multi-protocol support . |
| 9 | It is on such schemes that they intend to bring regional levels of unemployment back down to at least the June 1990 low point of 107,000 and lower . |
| 10 | And how do you know for a fact that they intend to bring these sorts of techniques in to Britain ? |
| 11 | The event is organised by Greenpeace in a bid to stop whaling and campaign against Norwegians who have announced they intend to resume commercial whaling this summer . |
| 12 | Thirdly , they tend to see human behaviour as shaped by the system . |
| 13 | Unless we release our emotions , they tend to create unpleasant realities . |
| 14 | Even if , like Cox ( 1981 ) , they represent Hispanic , Native-American , Asian-American and Afro-American women 's experiences , they tend to treat these categories as equivalent , and ignore differences within them , which may be more important than differences between them . |
| 15 | Because the home is a workplace for women , they tend to spend more time there than men or children . |
| 16 | In brief , he reports that as children of average and above-average ability mature as writers they tend to produce writing of increasing length ; they write longer and more complex sentences ; they employ a greater variety of clause types ; and they tend to use personal pronouns less . |
| 17 | They tend to use formal information systems through assistants and secretaries who act as preliminary filters . |
| 18 | Many commentators have suggested that non-manual workers enjoy considerable advantages in employment over their manual counterparts : they tend to enjoy more job security , work shorter hours , have longer holidays , more fringe benefits , and have greater promotion prospects ( Table 7 below illustrates some of these points ) . |
| 19 | They tend to take existing tranquility for granted — until it has gone . ’ |
| 20 | She said : ‘ The purpose of the grant is to extend choices for working parents , mainly women since they tend to take most responsibility for childcare . |
| 21 | They tend to regard each others ' markets as their own ‘ home ’ markets , whereas UK companies still tend to regard selling to EC countries as exporting . |
| 22 | Random sampling , it can be argued , makes rather few concessions to the fact that human populations are not normally socially well-mixed : indeed , they tend to develop distinct homogeneity within subgroups . |
| 23 | This suggests they tend to pay more attention to cigarette advertising . |
| 24 | Conventional wisdom suggests that agreed takeovers in the financial services sector are preferable since they tend to avoid mass defections of staff in the target company . |
| 25 | They tend to avoid US-style controls for damping sudden speculative movements by closing down a market for a particular period . |
| 26 | In particular , they tend to find collective expression , as with the medieval dances of St John and St Vitus ; the wild and orgiastic festivities of ancient near-Eastern religion , with their song and dance and sexual licence ; and , in Greece , the choruses that sang and danced in the worship of the fertility god , Dionysus . |
| 27 | And , as people get older , they tend to attach greater significance to the home in providing such security . |
| 28 | They tend to forget these interests when using predominantly middle-class women psychologists ' arguments , for example . |
| 29 | ‘ What is advantageous about cheaper guitars is that they tend to have one sound , and when you plug 'em in you either like the sound or you do n't . |
| 30 | Character models are less likely to be hit as they tend to have higher initiative values . |