Example sentences of "behave [prep] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They behaved towards each other like boys who had been educated at rival private schools . |
| 2 | They behaved towards each other like a couple of newly-frozen ice-cubes . |
| 3 | She endured his company , that was all ; he told himself that she behaved in all ways like a young lady : it would not have been proper for her to show more feeling . |
| 4 | Approved modules do not behave in this manner with respect to inheritance . |
| 5 | For in matrilineal societies where kinship is traced through women on the mother 's side of the family , the mother 's brother does not usually behave in this fashion towards his sororal nephew . |
| 6 | For a start you do n't expect me to behave like some sort of stud . |
| 7 | To behave with such lack of physical balance takes the toughness and control of an athlete or ballet dancer . |
| 8 | Such a girl is being asked to behave in many ways like an adult ( mother ) in that she is being asked to carry out the nurturing and supervisory procedures which properly belong to adulthood and , traditionally , to motherhood in particular . |
| 9 | There are examples in some countries of such candidates being elected and of pressure-group members of parliament being sufficiently numerous and permanent to share in office and to be regarded as a permanent parliamentary group — in other words , to behave in many ways like a party . |
| 10 | It is contemptible for a Government to behave in that way about an important and constituent part of the United Kingdom . |
| 11 | You should try to prevent this situation arising , possibly by exercising the dog on the leash for a day or so if it has shown a tendency to behave in this fashion in the past . |
| 12 | Bell , on the other hand , might start wanting to pretend to behave in some sort of pseudo British Council evenhanded way over published materials . |
| 13 | The attempt to do so leads to abstraction in which societies , or systems , seem to behave without any reference to actual people . |
| 14 | The Code enjoined members to trade fairly and responsibly , to behave at all times with integrity , comply with all relevant legislation benefiting consumers , act responsibly and prudently in their marketing and advertising , ensure that its debt collection procedures conformed to the highest ethical standards . |
| 15 | The reason for chlamydia 's comparatively late arrival on the microbiological scene is that , although behaving in many ways like a virus , it is in fact a highly specialized and adapted bacterium . |
| 16 | The term ‘ blindsight ’ was coined by Larry Weiskrantz at Oxford to describe perhaps the best known example of this dissociation , in which patients with damage to the visual areas of the cortex deny being able to see a visual stimulus while behaving in some respects as if they are processing it , for instance by moving their eyes in its direction . |
| 17 | The soil between bedrock and the surface behaves like those plates of jelly on the table . |
| 18 | Equally , Heisenberg 's uncertainty principle implies that particles behave in some respects like waves : they do not have a definite position but are " smeared out " with a certain probability distribution . |
| 19 | It is an excellent way of improving your windsurfing skills , as you learn how the board behaves in all sorts of weird conditions . |