Example sentences of "and tend [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They therefore rarely see ‘ the complete picture ’ and tend to lose track of an issue once discussion of it has been concluded . |
| 2 | Men may , for example , both see themselves as ‘ stronger ’ than women and tend to see women as more weak and passive , but also see women as having a power over them that can seem to engulf the man in forms of emotional dependence by which he may feel threatened . |
| 3 | But unfortunately , professionals are often deeply mistrustful of advocacy organizations and tend to see advocates as intruders creating a barrier to communication between the professional and the service-user . |
| 4 | I mean in my opinion that 's a good thing , but it 's had the effect of school governors , not having had any training in appointing people , have this sort of stereotyped model in their mind and tend to give promotion to men rather than to women . |
| 5 | The appointment of Oleg Lobov , a former construction engineer and close friend of Mr Yeltsin , as a deputy prime minister responsible for the economy had shifted the balance of power within the government towards the Gosplan-types , who favour a return to central planning and tend to dismiss budget deficits as no more than an accountant 's fancy . |
| 6 | Librarians working in the various educational institutions see their work and their libraries in an active light , and tend to dismiss classification and indexing as necessary but tedious backroom tasks of a housekeeping kind . |
| 7 | Experimenters , who approach an experiment with a belief that their hypothesis will be borne out by the experiment , tend to make mistakes of interpretation that favour their hypothesis and tend to overlook interpretations which are unfavourable to it . |
| 8 | Another conclusion must be that if we as teachers are relative experts in our own subjects , and tend to read textbooks in our own subject area with the same skills as the Cornell students , then we may be insensitive to inadequacies in those textbooks . |
| 9 | It should not be forgotten that any crops sold off the land are ‘ extractive ’ and tend to lower fertility . |
| 10 | Burnt sites improve grazing and tend to concentrate herbivores such as elephant and buffalo or antelope , some of which , in turn , attract concentrations of carnivores . |
| 11 | Russians are robust and tend to avoid circumlocution ; he therefore said the figures were wrong and the American was a liar . |
| 12 | People communicate mainly verbally , and tend to expect horses to understand not only precise commands like ‘ whoa ! ’ and ‘ trot ! ’ , but also words with a more abstract meaning like ‘ steady ! ’ and ‘ easy ! ’ . |
| 13 | The genealogist has a job to sort it all out , so it is no wonder that many rose lists get into a mess and tend to lump types together more for brevity and convenience than for strict botanical clarity . |
| 14 | Taxes are generally distortionary and tend to reduce efficiency . |