Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Associates tend to veer away from their markets . |
| 2 | But , as Bruch has pointed out , anorexics tend to deny fatigue , and my diary is full of complaints such as , ‘ felt dead tired ’ . |
| 3 | The food was always of the type that anorexics tend to shun — solidly starchy and savoury peasant dishes , followed by mounds of sweet , creamy puddings and richly decorated chocolate cakes . |
| 4 | Failed suicides tend to try again , just as ( failed ) anorexics tend to relapse , and yet both can live for years without resorting either to self-destruction or self-starvation . |
| 5 | What the quarto labels ‘ the First SONG ’ runs right through from ‘ Come all ye songsters ’ to ‘ Sing while we trip it ’ Purcell divided this into no fewer than five separate numbers : the countertenor solo ‘ Come all ye songsters ’ ; the trio ‘ May the god of wit inspire ’ — without the chorus repeat specified in the quarto , but duly followed by what it labels ‘ a Composition of Instrumental Musick , in imitation of an Eccho ’ ; a chorus which , instead of repeating ‘ May the god of wit ’ , sets the first line of the second stanza , ‘ Now join your warbling voices all ’ ; and finally a solo , ‘ Sing while we trip it ’ , this time with the specified chorus repeat . |
| 6 | Service inputs combine to deliver and define the packages of services . |
| 7 | Yet as long as France and Germany remain committed to it , the programme to give the whole European market a non-inflationary money still has bite . |
| 8 | Employers tend to use a range of recruitment strategies employing a number of devices . |
| 9 | In addition , young Christians often face a crisis in their faith , because employers tend to discriminate against the country 's Christian minority . |
| 10 | ‘ Managers and employers tend to see [ external ] short courses and internal training as different but allied ways of meeting the same basic needs . |
| 11 | At present employers tend to see joint degrees as second class . |
| 12 | Where business executives are concerned , employers tend to have considerable discretion in the way that they implement redundancies . |
| 13 | Non-educational criteria almost invariably have priority in recruitment over educational ones and employers tend to have only the vaguest notions as to what particular qualifications entail or imply . |
| 14 | The report shows that employers tend to have only extremely vague notions as to what examinations in particular subjects actually involve . |
| 15 | Many writers interested in these phenomena tend to specialise either in child play or in the arts , the former finding clues in the activity which relate to child development , the latter establishing art as an enhancement of what is good and beautiful . |
| 16 | The smart or intelligent chargers tend to take over the user 's responsibility , detecting the amount of charge needed and eliminating any memory problems , but as stated previously , they are many time more expensive than the standard chargers . |
| 17 | With its three times zoom range the FZ–3000 covers the vast majority of everyday shooting conditions . |
| 18 | In effect , each NYSE Composite index futures contract costing $100 000 comprises two parts : $80 000 of the S&P500 index , and $20 000 of the shares of the 1200 smaller companies . |
| 19 | Costings of domestic expenditures in industrial countries on reducing emissions tend to brush away the minor irrelevancies of the millions and concentrate on refining estimates to the nearest billion . |
| 20 | Protective formulae of this kind tend to become fossilized . |
| 21 | It is more like a slow process of sifting , in which , by a long series of stages , and with many pauses , grains of one kind tend to come together in a heap ’ . |
| 22 | Modern choral forms tend to avoid idioms so closely associated with past epochs , and ideally each piece should have its own particular form , which is a compromise between the form of the words and the needs of the music . |
| 23 | A West German ship with a cargo of uranium concentrate bound from Antwerp to Genoa disappeared and its cargo later turned up in Israel . |
| 24 | Your Directorate intend to use NETWORK as a means of advising staff about events which will affect the future of the Department . |
| 25 | Regarding staff becoming involved , initial discussions tend to involve senior staff but once the programme of work is signed up it will involve staff at all levels . |
| 26 | They provide unity , and help to give the planting coherence and shape , without which herbs tend to get out of hand , and look wild and woolly , especially towards the end of the season . |
| 27 | Doe sit ache much now ? |
| 28 | Eurosterling bondholders tend to prefer protective covenants that prevent a deterioration in credit quality , whereas eurodollar bondholders prefer the put-at-par option . |
| 29 | Since vegetables are an important source of vitamin C , the medical experts favour controlling nitrate intake via water rather than food . |
| 30 | The forces he would need would depend on " whether or not the Russians intend to back Tito " . |