Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | Service inputs combine to deliver and define the packages of services . |
| 6 | Employers tend to use a range of recruitment strategies employing a number of devices . |
| 7 | In addition , young Christians often face a crisis in their faith , because employers tend to discriminate against the country 's Christian minority . |
| 8 | ‘ Managers and employers tend to see [ external ] short courses and internal training as different but allied ways of meeting the same basic needs . |
| 9 | At present employers tend to see joint degrees as second class . |
| 10 | Where business executives are concerned , employers tend to have considerable discretion in the way that they implement redundancies . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The report shows that employers tend to have only extremely vague notions as to what examinations in particular subjects actually involve . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | With its three times zoom range the FZ–3000 covers the vast majority of everyday shooting conditions . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Eurosterling bondholders tend to prefer protective covenants that prevent a deterioration in credit quality , whereas eurodollar bondholders prefer the put-at-par option . |
| 22 | Since vegetables are an important source of vitamin C , the medical experts favour controlling nitrate intake via water rather than food . |
| 23 | The forces he would need would depend on " whether or not the Russians intend to back Tito " . |
| 24 | Today beaches are not quite so safe , for hordes of gulls and small wading birds congregate to share the prodigal feast . |
| 25 | After all , if ‘ the system ’ really was bent upon the form of totalizing control that according to Foucault psychoanalysis , for example , enables , it is worth recalling that psychoanalysis has never been adopted by the state as such and that its activities remain confined to a few very limited districts in a handful of prosperous cities round the world . |
| 26 | Its first president is Sir John Collyear , who explained that a single institute will provide greater support and services ‘ for those members , drawn from many disciplines ( including chemistry , physics and engineering as well as metallurgy and materials science ) whose interests and activities remain centred principally in specific well-established materials , and also those whose main concern is in leading-edge technology and the exploitation of more advanced materials ’ . |
| 27 | The Roman authorities intend to refurbish the Casina delle Civette at Villa Torlonia , which already has splendid Art Nouveau furnishings and stained glass , to house twentieth-century decorative arts , whilst the Ministry has decided to allocate the Villino Boncompagni , near Via Veneto , to the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna for a similar museum . |
| 28 | The erm draft of or the advice that the local planning authorities intend to give to the secretary of state is currently out for consultation , we hope that it will be submitted by the end of the year . |
| 29 | Despite their differences , both views tend to support a tightening of the law on pornography . |
| 30 | It is the consonant sounds which make speech intelligible ; therefore it is not surprising that people who lose the high frequencies tend to hear the voice but not to be able to distinguish words . |