Example sentences of "it tend [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it tends to elongate the whole process . |
| 2 | The dominant medical perception becomes ‘ official knowledge ’ ; it tends to ignore the complex interaction between mind and body and the social and economic realities of people 's lives and environment . |
| 3 | Unfortunately this is the least glamorous of any of the activities of a busy public relations office and it tends to receive the least attention . |
| 4 | This is usually extremely wasteful and it tends to reinforce the inefficient image of PR executives . |
| 5 | Irrespective of any causal link , the additional personnel in joint assessments presumably comprised men who elsewhere would have been returned as wage earners or young and poor , but except in Kerrier , where it led to 880 native assessments comprehending as many as 1,179 individuals , it did not add greatly to the numbers of poorer men ; and if it tends to raise the true proportion to a clear quarter in a couple of hundreds , it hardly made any difference in West and Trigg . |
| 6 | Otherwise it tends to make the whole picture , like , I went to er er one club once and there was a very nice portrait , not unlike this , there was a girl sitting on a stool , rather less clothes on than this girl has got and it was very nicely done except she was sitting on a painted stool and all the paint was chipped and that to me looked really tacky ! |
| 7 | The problem is that although the beliefs and feelings are " always concerned with matters at the heart and root of existence " — which does suggest or give opportunity for something which is not just subjective in interpretation — it tends to subsume the religious view of life under what we might call a humanist umbrella . |
| 8 | This type of alteration in the appearance of the eye goes on all day , as the animal moves from light to shade and back again , and it is so common a shift that it tends to obscure the other pupil changes that are taking place . |