Example sentences of "they tend [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most editors and journalists are perfectly honest about the fact that when they need help they tend to go to those PROs who have been helpful in the past . |
| 2 | But they tend to diverge into two types with respect to the information about features that is thought to be important . |
| 3 | Consequently they tend to opt for conservative technologies . |
| 4 | Japanese firms prefer long-term reliable and exclusive business relationships and they tend to turn to established channels to develop new business initiatives . |
| 5 | Conversely , they tend to converge in higher-status speech on a much narrower phonetic area , but are less responsive to environmental constraints . |
| 6 | Mothers and babies are suitable cases for treatment because they tend to stay in one place , there are only two subjects at a time , and their behaviour together is relatively stereotyped and uncomplicated . |
| 7 | Instead , they tend to focus on formal job descriptions , as these are key to performance appraisals . |
| 8 | They tend to come in large groups , but there are singletons and couples as well . |
| 9 | But perhaps the most worrying , if most ephemeral , comment is that researchers are unwilling to take risks to open up new lines of research ; they tend to stick to piecemeal additions to well-established paths . |
| 10 | Even when people do go for walks , they tend to keep to public paths and these are often also severely eroded ( Coleman , 1981 ) . |
| 11 | Conceit , because they tend to attribute to human beings a position in the world to which , a position of importance in the world , to which they 're not entitled . |