Example sentences of "they tend [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | International comparisons are of relatively little value because they tend to highlight the different priorities and practices of different countries . |
| 2 | I do n't see them very much , they tend to use the back door , and sort of come out and then go down |
| 3 | Eliciting these principles from participants is complex , because they tend to give the prioritized principles . |
| 4 | Speeches like Bob Giles ' are all very well but they tend to obliterate the cool thinking so necessary by those who hold positions of trust . |
| 5 | We make relatively little use of the simpler DTP systems because they tend to obscure the logical/physical distinction and encourage students to invent design elements on a case-by-case basis as they create a document , leading to incoherent and inflexible document structures . |
| 6 | They tend to assert the overwhelming desire for cognitive order , and thus offer an unrealistically cohesive model of cognition itself which ignores the problems of ideology and framing . |
| 7 | They tend to identify the common good with the interests , real or imagined , of their supporters . |
| 8 | Well what they 're doing actually it 's quite right because they 're they tended to play the long ball to Steve Walsh so that he could head it down and what they 're doing actually they 've got two four foot eight forwards in Jochim and Speedy and a nine foot seven winger Ormanroyd |
| 9 | They they tended to say the same thing as the government , erm but recently Tory motions , in this council , have started to say the opposite of the government f for reasons which remain obscure to me and this is just another example . |
| 10 | Man is rational ; and they tended to see the one capacity as closely related to the other . |
| 11 | Some of them were politer than others , but they tended to ask the same questions as they trampled through the house . |
| 12 | A number of documentary collections , some of them drawing on Soviet publications , were compiled by western scholars , but they tended to bear the strong imprint of liberal editorship and to concentrate on political rather than socio-economic material . |