Example sentences of "tend [to-vb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet its methods tend to treat only men as individuals , and women , simply as women . |
| 2 | Oh , do n't really know , they tend to go up sort of two |
| 3 | The arrowed peaks show clearly how weights tend to concentrate around multiples of a basic weight unit . |
| 4 | I tend to set up 50Mb partitions on every drive as this helps to maintain high performance on the system by restricting the range of travel of the heads for each logical drive . |
| 5 | ‘ It is not easy playing game after game even for fit players it becomes a chore and you tend to pick up knocks . |
| 6 | They also tend to rule out Ramapithecus , a fossil hominid dated at 8.14 million years . |
| 7 | Erm looking now at page three hundred and fifty seven er paragraph seven three two oh seven three one and seven three two , page three hundred and fifty seven where the report makes the point that er when legal proceedings are entered into they tend to create further barriers and make it m less and less likely that th there can be conciliation between estranged partners erm and paragraph seven three two points out a growing need fo or speaks of a growing need for conciliation . |
| 8 | A mild night just about everywhere , with temperatures no lower than nine celsius , forty eight fahrenheit , with those fairly light winds tending to turn more south easterly . |
| 9 | In the strict or dictionary sense The Lord of the Rings evades that concept totally , for according to the OED ‘ defeatism ’ is a straight borrowing from French défaitisme , recorded in English for the first time in 1918 and meaning ‘ Conduct tending to bring about acceptance of defeat , esp . |
| 10 | However , it does appear that the notion of language teachers joining a profession with its own history does not figure largely in tutors ' conceptions of their work , that English tutors do not see ‘ language ’ as something requiring separate attention , and that all tutors tend to play down aspects of language policy or language in society . |
| 11 | Much subsequent work has tended to confirm both Thorns 's theoretically based and Pahl 's empirically based conclusions . |
| 12 | Units have tended to fall not rise , so the value of many endowments has not grown as expected . |
| 13 | This means that if you are a male diabetic smoker with a high cholesterol level , your blood tends to churn out atheroma like a Jersey cow makes cream . |
| 14 | That high demand tends to push up prices . |
| 15 | I accept that , at present , they are high — only slightly below unleaded petrol prices — but , as the hon. Gentleman knows , that is because the demand for gas oil , which is equivalent to diesel , is high at this time of year as it is used for heating and high demand tends to push up prices . |
| 16 | The advantage of a Statutory Demand over the filing of a High Court writ or County Court summons is that it tends to bring on matters at a faster and more urgent rate . |
| 17 | As adult Christians we believe that we are dependent for everything upon God — so if the priest in some sense ‘ represents ’ God for us , then he tends to bring out feelings of dependence . |
| 18 | In fact , we already thought that sex might fit into this category : it is likely to be associated with status ( women tend to do lower status jobs ) and absenteeism ( domestic commitments might make women more absence-prone than men ) . |
| 19 | Men and women both tend to put on weight in middle-age , when exercise becomes less frequent . |
| 20 | At present , boots with a Gore-Text bootie tend to cost about £20 more and have a one-year guarantee of waterproofness . |
| 21 | It comes in lengths that tend to vary around 2440mm ( 8ft ) . |
| 22 | They come from all parts of the country , although it 's true that a function organised by one particular branch will tend to attract mainly members from that area . |
| 23 | On the production side , labour constraints in the context of rapid accumulation will tend to pull up wages as capitalists compete for workers . |
| 24 | This would tend to slow down capital turnover of old , inefficient equipment , exactly the opposite effect that is required . ’ |
| 25 | Whatever goes wrong , do not try to punish yourself or start feeling guilty , because then you will tend to seek out food as a comfort . |
| 26 | Whilst they may not take too much notice of advertisements which promote goods and services used in that trade , readers will tend to notice when advertisements by their suppliers are absent . |
| 27 | It is certainly the case that the rapid increase in materials prices would tend to push up investment goods prices ( which include an imported materials element ) faster than output prices ( which are defined to exclude the impact of import prices ) . |
| 28 | Consequently , sentences for black youth tend to move up tariff ( receive too severe a sentence for the offence ) in the criminal justice system too early on . |
| 29 | Now erm how have we got er I 've next thing on the handout is something I 've stuck on about the way in which erm er well it 's what I 've just covered about the the way in which some sorts of therapies for people who 've been abused as children tend to embody rather heterosexist assumptions which has been stated by Jenny Kissinger for example . |
| 30 | They tend to make only statements which ‘ steer far wider of the unlawful zone ’ . |