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

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1 Forecasts about the course of democracy tend to swing from optimism to despair with alarming speed .
2 Like most radio services , paging is limited by the regulatory authorities ' allocation of frequencies , which tend to differ from country to country .
3 Few things are consistent in the social services : each service tends to be financed differently ; the statutory basis , the context of the central/local government relationship and distribution of control , and the underlying social principles all tend to vary from service to service .
4 Given the significance of regular heroin use , the psychological and physical dependency often associated with the drug , and the all-embracing nature of the lifestyle usually required to secure funds and supplies , users tend to live from moment to moment and find little time for reflecting upon their situation .
5 The non-dipole terms give a site dependence to the VGP paths ; they tend to move from east to west if the site is northeast or southwest of the point 0°N ; 90°E and from west to east if the site is northwest or southeast of it .
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