Example sentences of "tend [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In explicating this model , managers tend to emphasise the goodness of relationships such as one would find in a happy family . |
| 2 | CFCs tend to inhibit the flow of infra-red radiation through the atmosphere ; and they help to catalyze the breakdown of the ozone layer . |
| 3 | Some dietary components , including vitamin C , tend to inhibit the reaction . ’ |
| 4 | Nevertheless , two factors tend to inhibit the use of private certification in many areas of health and safety . |
| 5 | In Chapter 14 we saw how moral hazard and adverse selection tend to inhibit the setting up of insurance markets to deal with risk . |
| 6 | ‘ Exclusive ’ fostering , where the foster-parents tend to treat the child rather as though he [ or she ] were their own or they had adopted him [ or her ] , is thought to be damaging to the child 's identity , as well as hindering restoration to the natural parents . |
| 7 | In their enthusiasm to criticize economistic assumptions concerning utility , both works tend to overstress the autonomy of the features they assert . |
| 8 | Anne was right in saying that ‘ you tend to lose the origin of it ’ ; the origins are a long way from what remains , but it does not really matter . |
| 9 | Criticisms of the view of auditory deprivation ( Bench , 1979 ) and of bilingualism ( Arnold , 1982 ) tend to miss the point that language acquisition occurs through interaction . |
| 10 | Functionalists tend to see the relationship between social groups in society as one of cooperation and interdependence . |
| 11 | Proponents of this view tend to see the idea of parental possession as one that is still protected and upheld by the law and by social agencies ; and they believe this state of affairs to be damaging to children , given that parents ' and children 's interests sometimes conflict . |
| 12 | Feminist psychologists tend to see the significance of gender differences much as conventional psychologists do . |
| 13 | Radical analysts of welfare development tend to see the imposition of mandatory retirement , encouraged or enforced by state pension schemes , as pan of the process whereby , in late industrial societies with highly specialized divisions of labour , elderly people are marginalized into a condition of ‘ structured dependence ’ . |
| 14 | We tend to see the history of art as an ordered succession of works appreciated for and judged by their conceptual content . |
| 15 | In fact , those who support the introduction of a Bill of Rights tend to see the state in essentially " negative " terms : it is regarded as the only real threat to individual freedom and liberty ( apart from that posed by the collective activity of trade unions ) because freedom itself is defined negatively as simply involving an absence of public and legal restraint on individual action . |
| 16 | Because Bem and other gender schema theorists assume that rationality and cognitive unity characterize psychological subjects , they tend to see the break-up of gender schemata as hindered by dominant social relations , but still as fairly straightforward in itself . |
| 17 | As a theory it is common enough : in the Italian Constitution the family is the only association among people which is designated ‘ natural ’ , and contemporary British conservatives tend to see the family as a possible counterweight to the power of the state . |
| 18 | Tax administrators often see tax theory as a luxury to be indulged in in any odd moment they might have to look up from their files , while tax theorists tend to see the administration and practical aspects of taxation as an easily coped with minor irritant , or deviation , from their ‘ grand design ’ . |
| 19 | Americans , with no colonial history in the Middle East , tend to see the war against Mr Hussein as a police action against an international thug . |
| 20 | Equally , we tend to see the learning of a foreign language as mastering a skill , thereby perhaps doing ourselves a disservice . |
| 21 | If we live on continents , we tend to see the world as land inconveniently dissected by expanses of water . |
| 22 | Neither dispenser can be used with corrosive fluids as these materials tend to corrode the return spring and cause discoloration and contamination of the chemicals . |
| 23 | Not only that : benefits for children tend to confirm the link between biological mothering and social mothering . |
| 24 | Finally , all these remarks tend to confirm the view that the infinitive is the most virtual form in the system of the verb ( cf. |
| 25 | Documents declassified under the 30-year rule tend to confirm the wisdom of his early years in politics . |
| 26 | Added to which they all tend to wear the regulation uniform in class , complete with cap very often , so that and I stand out conspicuously in our light coloured and variegated clothes . |
| 27 | And another comment was that I tend to wear the teacher 's patience talking . |
| 28 | Social historians tend to support the view that industrialisation destroyed the apprenticeship system . |
| 29 | It is often true that the oppressed tend to accept the thinking of those who oppress them , Celie told her step-son to beat his overpowering wife for she resented her pity and independent ways . |
| 30 | In the cynical world of F1 , we tend to accept the number of noughts as a driver 's way of keeping score , but the local bricklayer has an acute realisation of what he could afford to buy with £6,000,000 ! |