Example sentences of "[pers pn] tends [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact it tends to generate some very discordant results . |
| 2 | Whereas the parachute keeps the cable under tension as it drops , if there is a cross wind it tends to drift much more than a rope with no chute . |
| 3 | Erm , the advantage of this way is it tends to confuse most of the time , but it 's a lot quicker . |
| 4 | It tends to ignore some of the more interesting theoretical issues concerned with the ways in which Chomskyan notions of Universal Grammar interact with the immediate linguistic , cognitive and contextual features that are the properties of individual children and fails to suggest how research into language acquisition is developing in other areas . |
| 5 | But I think it tends to save any type of … any misunderstandings that may later take place as a result of it being a one-on-one deal . |
| 6 | The main difficulty with the HCF approach , however interpreted , is that it tends to jettison most of what is distinctive of religion . |
| 7 | Forestry is to a certain extent in conflict with agriculture not only because it removes large areas of land from farming for 50 or more years , but also because in its modern forms of organisation it tends to employ fewer local people . |
| 8 | It tends to encourage any tendency to the suppression of initiative , and to foster cautious conservatism , perhaps to the point of atrophy . |
| 9 | because of the way it tends to bind many poorer consumers into using just one type of credit ( considerably more costly than non-collection types ) more or less as a matter of course . |
| 10 | But it tends to achieve each draw with a high , shared score . |