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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Much subsequent work has tended to confirm both Thorns 's theoretically based and Pahl 's empirically based conclusions . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | At present , boots with a Gore-Text bootie tend to cost about £20 more and have a one-year guarantee of waterproofness . |
| 7 | It comes in lengths that tend to vary around 2440mm ( 8ft ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They tend to make only statements which ‘ steer far wider of the unlawful zone ’ . |
| 11 | They tend to make only statements which ‘ steer far wider of the unlawful zone ’ . |
| 12 | From 1955 onwards , working class people tended to watch more ITV programmes and middle class people more BBC . |
| 13 | Their original function was to represent the welfare needs of children and young people separately from the general poverty alleviation system ( Armenfürsorge ) , but they tended to develop mainly programmes in preventative medicine ( Sachsse and Tennstedt , 1988 ) . |