Example sentences of "behave [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humphrey 's research on workers in the Brazilian motor industry in the 1970s shows that , in this particular case , a group of relatively highly paid workers in a modern sector of the economy did not behave as a labour aristocracy , but took on a vanguard role in providing political leadership for the working class as a whole ( Humphrey 1982 ) . |
| 2 | The Cabinet did behave as a Cabinet and although I said earlier about the Treasury being forced to disgorge information when the DEA existed , that was n't the case to the same extent in 1976 . |
| 3 | Sir : If , after the return of the Archbishop of Canterbury from Rome , the Church of England , without the concurrence of the Orthodox churches and of the Church of Rome , alters the nature of the Sacred Ministry , which we claim to hold in common with them , it will behave as a sect and will become a sect . |
| 4 | If the covert researcher is not to arouse suspicion , then he or she must behave like a believer , not stepping out of line by questioning or exhibiting too much curiosity about the functioning of the organisation . |
| 5 | Others may find their essential needs met by acted-out fantasy , as with the man who insists that his adult partner should dress and behave like a child . |
| 6 | ‘ I did behave like a fool , ’ he admitted at last . |
| 7 | He really can behave like a monster . ’ |
| 8 | Did he behave like a guest or did he take his jacket off and sit in front of the fire like one of the family ? ’ |
| 9 | Ian Wright really does behave like a shithead . |
| 10 | You could behave like a pig and they would simply think how sweet and original you were , whereas if you were wildly in love you would be on your best behaviour , nervously uncertain and consequently lacking in charm . |
| 11 | " The boy do n't behave like a zombie for nothing . |
| 12 | they 'll behave like an animal . |
| 13 | This does not mean you should behave like an automaton . |
| 14 | Why ca n't I ever behave like the person I want to be ? |
| 15 | It was disconcerting to his whole thesis that Branson did not behave like the enemy enough . |
| 16 | These are solved to predict how it will behave under a set of prescribed conditions . |
| 17 | Umm , err … to make it more fun for both of us , we could perhaps have dinner and you could show me how you 'd behave in a date situation . |
| 18 | The managers might behave in a way that benefits themselves and does not maximize shareholders ' wealth . |
| 19 | However , you will go no further than two miles from the barracks , you will behave in a manner that befits a Royal Fusilier and you will report back to the guardroom sober as a judge at one minute before nine . |
| 20 | When we are hurt by someone 's behaviour , all that is happening is that we are disappointed because they do not behave in the way we expect and the reality conflicts with our ideals . |
| 21 | The second entails a projection as to how the pupil will behave in the unit but this is often obliquely expressed and reworked in terms of the first . |
| 22 | The more supple a line the more natural a bait will behave in the water . |
| 23 | Such simulations , based on observed system behaviour , can tell us how things might have been if we are looking at unrepeatable , past , events or how the system might behave in the future , if the transition probabilities remain unaltered . |
| 24 | It involves making judgements about how people will and should behave on the basis of gender stereotypes believed to be determined by their sex . |
| 25 | In a quantum theory of gravity , as we saw in the last chapter , in order to specify the state of the universe one would still have to say how the possible histories of the universe would behave at the boundary of space-time in the past . |
| 26 | If you are going to fly your glider efficiently while turning steeply in thermals with other gliders , you need to know how it will behave at the stall . |
| 27 | Suppose that the increase in the money supply is announced in time to be included in that agents fully believe the central bank , and that the central bank behaves in period t in the way that it announced it would behave at the end of t - 1 . |