Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many experts advocate rewarding your child for good behaviour , but Deborah Jackson has a dim view of this . |
| 2 | The plants from countries with hot dry summers tend to put their roots down very deeply into the soil , especially if they are growing in rocky soil on exposed " hillsides , so containers with as much depth as possible are advisable . |
| 3 | Both France and West Germany intend to double their reprocessing capacity by 1990 — when the THORP plant at Windscale should be in business . |
| 4 | And we feel that both of those policies combine to establish what is in effect a presumption against erm any form of significant employment development away from the the county 's main settlements . |
| 5 | LIKE BEAUTY , tawdriness is in the eye of the beholder , and on their country 's 40th birthday East Germans tend to see it through the cruelly unblinking eyes of thoroughly Westernised consumers . |
| 6 | Where the winters are warm , both the broadleaves and the conifers tend to keep their leaves in winter , as with the evergreen oaks and cypresses of the Mediterranean ( though the swamp cypress of Florida is unusual among conifers , in shedding its leaves ) . |
| 7 | For example , would a Scottish Parliament want to spend its limited resources on renationalisation , rather than on the pressing problems of homelessness , joblessness , or lawlessness ? |
| 8 | Shall we have just a quick Lisa and Dean want to tell us what 's going , cos they 've had you , had the first meeting now , have n't you ? |
| 9 | Don ? t expect to understand everything at a first reading . |
| 10 | the French are convinced that the Germans want to preserve their monetary hegemony as EMU approaches : the more dominant the Mark is , the more Germany will be able to dictate conditions and draw up plans for a European central bank based on the Bundesbank . |
| 11 | It is not merely a question of its vastness ( it is the second largest country in the world , measuring 9.2 million square kilometres ) , but its breathtaking grandeur : God 's own country , as the Canadians delight to call it . |
| 12 | And why should any brother of Shrewsbury want to see our best patroness carted away to Ramsey ? |
| 13 | Once assertiveness starts coming more naturally to Germany , as naturally it will , might the Kohl sort of Germany want to make its political weight in the Community match its economic power , and be more protective of German minorities across its borders ? |
| 14 | Like a lot of weekends you 'd leave , you 'd leave the T A centre about eight and then from eight o'clock Friday night too about , well you 'd be working until about three o'clock Sunday afternoon , and you are lucky if you 'd got three or four hours sleep working you do n't notice , you get tired but you do n't feel that bad and it was only like I used to come home on a Sunday crash out about sleep about . |
| 15 | When researchers want to understand what it is like to be , say , a Moonie , they can submit themselves to the sorts of conditions that a Moonie experiences — so far as these are social ; but the real Moonie can , quite legitimately , protest that if the researcher does not have a personal experience of God or actually know in their heart that it is the Unification Church which has discovered the best way to live , they can not really understand what it is like to be a Moonie . |
| 16 | F. When firms in the UK and the EEC want to expand their businesses with extra new branch factories they consider carefully the special advantages which there are in Northern Ireland . |
| 17 | You 've found the pot of gold , and your greedy little fingers want to scrape it out — ’ |
| 18 | Pound and his kind want to ignore them . |
| 19 | As The Times headline put it : ‘ Bournemouth old ladies shocked . ’ |
| 20 | As more people find themselves in the same position , men stop mocking each other for doing housework and mothers-in-law cease criticising their sons ' wives about going out to work . |
| 21 | I do n't know whether it would be a bit better having someone like Ted ? |
| 22 | ‘ IMC want to market it , ’ Legion corrected . |
| 23 | Because he is constantly handling , tasting and eating fungi the spores tend to work their way into the shaman 's skin , penetrating his bloodstream and saturating his body . |
| 24 | You ca n't put standards or Bosses with Squig units because the Squigs tend to eat them , or you have to put the Bosses at the back where they ca n't do anything . |
| 25 | Ben Nevis really needs no introduction , and as most walkers intend to climb it at some point it 's worthy of inclusion . |
| 26 | First , hypertensive subjects tend to increase their weight as the disease progresses ( Chiang et al , 1969 ; Tyroler et al , 1975 ) . |
| 27 | In addition , husbands tend to see their participation in domestic work very much as helping their wife rather than the assumption of definite and perhaps permanent responsibility for some domestic duties . |
| 28 | Their political candidates tend to do their traditional rounds of local shops , market places and cafes almost incognito , with no party rosette to show who they are . |
| 29 | The warm-blooded supporters tend to ally themselves with the supporters of a theory about the relationships of the dinosaurs . |
| 30 | At Barclays we understand that choosing the right savings account to suit your own particular needs can be confusing . |