Example sentences of "tend [to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In Europe we tend to hit our irons better than the average American but we tend to lose shots around the greens . |
| 2 | We shall see that decision-makers tend to reach decisions on the basis of bounded rationality . |
| 3 | The result is that although prosecutors may direct investigations , they tend to leave matters to the police . |
| 4 | Fibres tend to cast shadows in the beam , wave about or become incandescent , blemishing time exposure photographs . |
| 5 | We tend to treasure pillows down the years . |
| 6 | They 're done because the old-fashioned way of doing a , putting something together is a paste-up job , you 've got all these stories filed about all sorts of things , and then some editorial chap or chapess sits down with sort of paste and scissors and cuts the things off , and they tend to cut things off the bottom to make it all fit until it feels about right . |
| 7 | Erm , and I know we tend to make allowances for the operations |
| 8 | Although we tend to associate cranberries with the US , they are also a Scandinavian tradition . |
| 9 | And it also shows the special circumstances which tend to tie women into the sort of close personal relationship with a weekly credit caller which can mean they are using a relatively costly form of credit almost automatically — see chapter 5 . |