Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The plans referred to are short-term plans for periods of from one week to one month . |
| 2 | ‘ Your Uncle Nathan has wanted her with him in Leeds ever since Christie planned to be married . |
| 3 | This may be because burrowing forms tend to be rare in areas of frequent flooding , even when common in the surrounding country ( Sheppe & Osborne , 1971 ; Andrews et al . , |
| 4 | In 1967 Abel-Smith and Stevens asserted that ‘ solicitors tend to be active members of rotary clubs , golf clubs , rugby football clubs and to become freemasons and leading churchmen ’ ( Abel-Smith and Stevens , 1967 , pp. 142–3 ) . |
| 5 | The cows have red freckles on the face and neck in particular , while those of the bulls tend to be greyish . |
| 6 | The hexachloroantimonate , , is easier to obtain — from , and sulphur — but its reactions tend to be slow due to its poor solubility in most solvents . |
| 7 | If , therefore , the acts relied on are incapable of being made part of any cause of action — e.g . |
| 8 | Rhythmic patterns tend to be sober and square-cut , and that liking for the C mode — as such , e.g. in Clemens 's Missa Misericorde , s or transposed to F with a B flat key-signature — which we have already noticed in Josquin , becomes very pronounced . |
| 9 | Inefficiency in the clinics and the universities is compounded by the fact that research groups tend to be small and isolated , shunning collaborative links with other small groups , either locally or nationally . |
| 10 | ‘ Both groups tend to be calm and function well under pressure . |
| 11 | Its meetings tend to be jolly occasions , though coloured by the perennial frustration of the children 's book world : why ca n't we all get together and promote children 's books generically ? |
| 12 | Criminal acts tend to be antisocial rather than conscious acts against " the state . " |
| 13 | Housewives tend to be busy all the time but they 're not really doing anything constructive , are they ? |
| 14 | Where marine action is relatively stronger deltas tend to be cuspate with concave outlines in plan , for example the Tiber , though one wonders whether these differences in plan might not be due primarily to the frequency and location of distributaries : the Tiber has only one . |
| 15 | Where sediment is abundant and wave and current action limited , deltas tend to be lobate , the classic example being the Nile . |
| 16 | For AMS , the upper age limit is determined by other factors such as machine stability and the degree of modern contamination introduced in the processing of very small samples ; the values tend to be similar to those for conventional radiocarbon laboratories . |
| 17 | In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct . |
| 18 | And the most general principle is : nominals occurring before the main verb of a sentence tend to be definite while those occurring after the main verb can be either definite or indefinite . |
| 19 | Thus , for example , left-wing authorities go out of their way to ban what seems to be racist matter , and right-wing authorities tend to be careful to exclude what may be regarded as homosexual literature . |
| 20 | Visible garnet-edges tend to be smooth , which may suggest wheel-cutting , but if rougher methods were used the slices could be polished afterwards to remove any roughness ( Bimson 1985 ) . |
| 21 | Russians tend to be smug about the complexity of their native tongue . |
| 22 | Technical Division confirmed that their view was that such income ceased to be relevant income . |
| 23 | The high speed flight of birds demands good eyesight , and so birds tend to be diurnal . |
| 24 | WEEKEND TV HIGHLIGHTS by Graham Keal TV music shows fronted by established entertainers tend to be predictable affairs . |
| 25 | These digital and digitally remastered recordings date from the late ‘ 70s and '80s and information/presentation/quality are up to the usual Chandos high standards , although playing times tend to be short . |
| 26 | Of course , if the linker needle is bent the same applies , but machine needles get bent more frequently than the linker needle , the weighting needs to be correct . |
| 27 | Perhaps that is sufficient reason for claiming that postmodern organization forms appear to be implicit in these developments . |
| 28 | The bike has to be roadworthy and under 20 years old . |
| 29 | THERE are still bargains to be found among the terraced property and this one on the books of J Trevor & Sons looks to be worthy of closer inspection . |
| 30 | The text has to be short , not more than two thousand words . |