Example sentences of "[noun sg] tend [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly in the course of the inter-war period work carried out by the Review tends towards the production of extremely specialized and exclusively academic scholarship . |
| 2 | Victor Vince , the Company 's General Manager has been with the firm for the past twenty years , Victor served five years in the RAF as an Aircraft Electrician tending to the needs of Bomber Command 's Halifaxes and Lancasters . |
| 3 | As time passes C t increases to ω and this period of temporary imitation dwindles away as play tends to the full information limit . |
| 4 | This principle is questionable when it comes to more opaque varieties of literary language , where the writer tends towards the innovative techniques of poetry . |
| 5 | Perhaps surprisingly for a conductor who is also a singer , Jacob 's direction tends towards the fast and furious style of Handel interpretation , with dramatically accentuated rhythms and strongly articulated bass lines . |
| 6 | Those who are in the right tend in the end to win : those who are in the wrong to let them win . |
| 7 | If your skiing tends towards the spring rather than the bleak mid-winter , the versatility of a shell is preferable to a padded suit . |
| 8 | The conclusion we are entitled to draw from these findings is that , in general , female usage tends towards the more ‘ careful ’ end of the stylistic continuum and male usage towards the more ‘ casual ’ , and it seemed at this stage of our research that we had some justification for the claim that in linguistic variation , sex-differentiation is prior to class differentiation and need not be interpreted as subsidiary to class ( as it normally has been ) . |
| 9 | He is learned , but his learning tends to the practical . |
| 10 | ‘ Lovat was enquiring about you earlier on , Piper , ’ shouted one of the medics who had come out of the barn to tend to the wounded . |
| 11 | Modern society tends towards the latter end of the spectrum , feeling that it has to ‘ control ’ nature in all its many aspects . |
| 12 | Lastly , if tails become forked ( when closed ) through elongation of their outer feathers , lift initially increases more rapidly than drag ( as the spread tail tends toward the optimum triangular shape ) , so that aerodynamic costs are lower for long shallow forks than for simple tails . |
| 13 | Wolff 's approach tends to the empiricist view . |
| 14 | More formally , if equations ( 3.6 ) — ( 3.8 ) are the ‘ truth ’ and we carry out an ordinary least-squares regression of C t on Y t , as shown in equation ( 3.9 ) , then , assuming that we have a very large sample so that we can use population variances in place of sample variances , our estimator of will tend to the conventional formula : where is the covariance between C and Y and is the variance of Y. |
| 15 | And as often as you tell yourself she 's not your type , that you do n't like blondes , your taste tends towards the browns , even redheads but not blondes , no ; and what 's more , her face is round , but you do n't like round faces ; and you 've always gone in for a bit of shape and she 's flat as a pancake . |
| 16 | Following this last point it is significant that the birthrate tended throughout the nineteenth century to be highest in areas where employment opportunities for women were lowest , for it is likely that knowledge was more easily acquired by factory workers than by those in service or those who stayed at home . |
| 17 | War communism could be defined as follows : firstly , requisitioning in the countryside ; secondly , strict rationing for the town population , who were classified into categories ; thirdly , complete ‘ socialisation ’ of production and labour ; fourthly , an extremely complicated and chit-ridden system of distribution for the remaining stocks of manufactured goods ; fifthly , a monopoly of power tending towards the single Party and the suppression of all dissent ; sixthly , a state of siege and the Cheka . |
| 18 | Rolle tends to the lyric and rhapsodic , a style which does not cohere easily with the logical demands of Latin , but the other three all express the inexpressible cogently and methodically , with a calm which approaches these extreme states of mind quietly , shrewdly and , sometimes , with irony and wry self-deprecation . |
| 19 | Woman is defective and misbegotten , for the active force in the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex ; while the production of woman comes from defect in the active force or from some material indisposition , or even from some external influence ; such as that of a south wind , which is moist , as the Philosopher [ Aristotle ] observes . |