Example sentences of "tend [to-vb] from the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We tend to work from the Centre in the friendly critic role .
2 My examples tend to come from the part of the world where I live , but the same principles apply wherever you happen to be .
3 Too many of the minor roles become cameos , and a cameo is either an ornament or a blot , but in either case tends to detract from the momentum of a film .
4 This dichotomy of surplus extraction and extra-economic coercion in the capitalist mode of production , although giving rise to a variety of state forms , has tended to detract from the role of the state , ideology and all other aspects of the ‘ superstructure ’ within the totality of this mode of production .
5 Vertical packages tend to be of a pioneering nature , whereas horizontal packages tend to result from the development of existing ideas .
6 Because police procedurals , though they tend to have from the nature of their subject matter rather more social content than the straight murder puzzle , are still books written primarily as entertainment .
7 The strongest evidence of awareness of the importance of analysing needs tended to come from the libraries with the most developed training programme , usually the larger libraries :
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