Example sentences of "tend [to-vb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the term obtained from equations ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) , in the real image term of equation ( 6 ) , if r is not equal to a substrate atom position β i in a transform , the summations give rise to a small value because the scattering factors and the exponents are oscillating complex functions in the transform ; when r is equal to tend to cancel out the scattering path length contributions and the scattering factors to unity , and summations should produce a large value . |
| 2 | Things have changed now of course , but acts tend to tour just the Eastern side , so Western Australia still misses out because it 's such a bloody hike from Adelaide to Perth . ’ |
| 3 | However , if the arbitrage portfolios tend to contain roughly the same subset of shares , there will be little direct pressure on the prices of the remaining constituents of the index . |
| 4 | Manufacturers tend to state only the input wattage especially on mains powered tools , but it is the power at the cutting edge that counts . |
| 5 | Journalists rarely investigate , tending to report only the words and actions of others . |
| 6 | Lastly , it may be noted that the male skull is less rounded , the female skull tending to retain more the adolescent form . |
| 7 | The reason for this is that as the core begins to saturate , the voltage available for saturation falls , tending to slow down the approach to saturation . |
| 8 | Established firms are tending to scoop up the talent in the market which is still in second-tier houses — without which they will not survive . |
| 9 | Scientists have rather a bad press in these lists , as well as tending to drag down the market value of their places of study , or so it seems to the editors . |
| 10 | But , on the other hand , this perspective produces global strategies which have little purchase on concrete instances , and tend to assume instead the burden of a messianic project in which the enemy is supposedly being smashed , crushed , or stamped out for ever . |
| 11 | Egon Zehnder consultants tend to play down the headhunter image , now freely accepted by most of the Big Four's directors , and see themselves , like their European colleagues , as management consultants . |
| 12 | But egalitarian feminists tend to play down the value of biological explanations . |
| 13 | At the present time the English tend to play down the significance of affinal relationships but , even so , the statement " she has made a good marriage " is more likely to refer to the social and financial standing of the husband 's immediate kin than to the personal qualities of the husband himself . |
| 14 | The official reports , produced by the Census Offices , such as the County Monitors and the User Guides , tend to play down the difficulties and in particular have been coy about the extent and the method of imputation . |
| 15 | As a consequence , their student body becomes increasingly homogeneous and tends to contain only the ‘ normal ’ , that is university , proportion of the sons and daughters of manual workers , a process that Pratt and Burgess regard as running counter to one of the original intentions behind the setting-up of the polytechnics . |
| 16 | This is partly because the word itself tends to conjure up the picture of performing some type of vigorous sport . |
| 17 | But its treatment of sexuality and violence , its treatment of the single working woman as if she were a virus ( which is then set as polar opposite against the ‘ healthy ’ family unit ) tends to position rigidly the spectator ( Williamson 1988 ) . |
| 18 | This tends to bear out the point raised above about the level of Phase 3 staffing . |
| 19 | In the immediate vicinity of the vent , ashes and lapilli pile up to form a mantle many metres thick , which blankets the countryside like a dirty snow fall ; like a snow fall too , the ash tends to smooth out the earlier irregularities of the ground surface , ultimately producing a landscape of soft , gently moulded hillocks and hollows . |
| 20 | As a corollary , AI-workers have tended to play down the importance of neurophysiological knowledge about the brain . |
| 21 | By the same token , revisionist work has tended to play down the extent to which the intelligentsia set the goals and moulded the aspirations of peasants and workers . |
| 22 | Also , says Perera , the government tends to play down the importance of prevention and of synergism ( different chemicals in the environment working together ) , while they call for more epidemiology — or , as many environmentalists put it , ‘ counting the bodies ’ . |
| 23 | Even so , his discussion of the contradiction between progressive forces of production and reactionary elements in the relations of production arguably distinguishes between rock and the older ‘ bourgeois hit ’ too starkly , for he tends to play down the survival of older elements in rock production , form and performance , as well as neglecting divergences of social use and interpretation , and differences of content . |
| 24 | English law has tended to confine narrowly the situations in which a mistake is held to negative the consent apparently given by the woman : only where the victim was made to believe that the man was her husband , or that the act to which she was being asked to consent was not sexual intercourse , is the mistake sufficiently fundamental to convert the apparently consensual sex into rape . |
| 25 | Freud tends to confuse here the notion of ‘ oldest ’ with that of ‘ logical priority ’ . |
| 26 | So the insistence of some employees on cash payment tends to slow down the trend to cheque or transfer payment , and therefore to that wider use of bank accounts which we see as bringing considerable advantages to consumers in money management and cheaper credit availability . |
| 27 | This tends to slow down the body 's metabolic rate , and for that reason weight-loss diets should have plenty of protein . |
| 28 | Now this will affect a vast area of atmosphere , because the air moving over that sea surface tends to take up the characteristics and if the temperature 's higher on the sea surface than normal , the air becomes warmer than normal , and this sets up all sorts of reactions , it will probably produce a lot more clouds , for instance , and erm this in turn will cut off the sun 's rays from that area of atmosphere , and this will have an effect on the whole erm heat engine of the atmosphere as we know it so erm we 're now studying how far afield this is affecting the weather . |
| 29 | Because urinating tends to wash out the urethra , and because the urethra can be such a rich source of diagnostic material , the doctors will always prefer a male patient to have held his urine , if possible , for three hours or more before attending for tests . |
| 30 | The water hyacinth grows in profusion and tends to choke up the local rivers . |