Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These images also interact with other texts , particularly newspaper accounts of similar conditions , and combine to confirm for many White spectators that the truth is that housing and employment problems and so on will not go away unless Blacks are sent away or at least have their entry to Britain severely restricted . |
| 2 | Unfit to drive . |
| 3 | Assuming that you decide that you wish to take things seriously and intend to acquire suitable equipment , you should look for a helicopter radio which has two idle-up systems , plus a throttle hold switch , with separate collective pitch adjustments on each . |
| 4 | I do , however , have some minor reservations about their approach to individual movements ( the Finale of Op. 51 No. 1 strikes me as a little lacking in urgency , for example ) and the recordings tend to emphasise a rather compressed dynamic range . |
| 5 | In explicating this model , managers tend to emphasise the goodness of relationships such as one would find in a happy family . |
| 6 | Commentators in this school tend to emphasise class and economic variables as factors producing poor standards of child care , and to de-emphasise parental culpability and personal inadequacy . |
| 7 | The corporate approach favours ‘ those less committed to service departments … groups interested more in policy analysis than in professional standards , and … those who tend to emphasise local circumstances rather than national standards . |
| 8 | Many would readily accept the limitations of subjects as a basis for analysing the curriculum because , for example , they tend to emphasise cognition while ignoring affective aspects of education . |
| 9 | Organisations tend to emphasise the benefits of policies rather than their costs , looking at the objectives to be achieved rather than the resources available . |
| 10 | Thus scientists in many fields tend to emphasise the practical pay-off of their research . |
| 11 | Check beforehand if you intend to wear a badge because , if the rules are being strictly interpreted , only a single national or association badge will be permitted . |
| 12 | When you go to buy your boots or shoes , take along the socks you intend to wear for walking . |
| 13 | From the waist-down I intend to wear a pair of blue jeans with the possible added attraction of whatever I manage to spill down them tonight in the pub . |
| 14 | ‘ For some reason I hate to lose , ’ said Chang , ‘ and that makes me more of a fighter . |
| 15 | They have to come to terms with the fact that there is a rival in the camp , a rival they would both love to remove but hate to lose because of his separate contributions to home life . |
| 16 | ‘ I hate to lose you , but we 'll meet again soon , ’ she said . |
| 17 | Cooke said : ‘ You hate to lose a game like that , especially when it is so tight and when two decisions go against you in that manner . ’ |
| 18 | Frog eggs are about one to two millimetres in diameter and , like the chick , have enough yolk to enable them to grow to a stage when they can feed themselves . |
| 19 | I hate to burden you with this . |
| 20 | If normal good sleepers are woken from Stage I sleep or Stage 2 sleep , and asked whether they were awake or asleep , they tend to report definitely feeling asleep only In Stage 2 sleep , " 2 although this is not necessarily true for poor sleepers , who may deny they were asleep even when the EEG traces show clear signs of Stage 2 sleep . |
| 21 | REM sleep is thus even more clearly associated with dreaming in so-called " non-dreamers " than regular dreamers , who tend to report dreaming whenever they 're woken up ! |
| 22 | I mean using rave music cos it 's got a beat in n it , it 's got a lot of beat in it . |
| 23 | I hate to agree with you here but yes , I think the leagues gone now . |
| 24 | People tend to invest more time deciding on a house purchase or what car to buy than deciding what to do with their lives and how to develop themselves . |
| 25 | ( The Japanese , who once provoked riots , tend to invest in higher-tech operations and are seen as relatively generous . ) |
| 26 | Aficionados of the finest wines tend to invest in en primeur purchases — buying by the case before the wine is even bottled . |
| 27 | We expect products that sell to go on selling . |
| 28 | Forecasts about the course of democracy tend to swing from optimism to despair with alarming speed . |
| 29 | Throughout the 1980s , it battled to achieve two crucial , strategic shifts : to reduce its dependence on bulk , low-margin , commodity chemicals which tend to swing wildly with the economic cycle — in favour of high value-added , high-margin ‘ effect ’ chemicals ; and to cut the share of sales accounted for by the UK . |
| 30 | The next real challenges lie in natural language processing — enabling the machine understand exactly what is meant by the rambling , illogical verbalisations in which humans tend to indulge . |