Example sentences of "tend [to-vb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British tend to sneer at American house-building methods . |
| 2 | We suggest you find out where your newly-acquired friends and acquaintances tend to gather at different times of the day . |
| 3 | It means that the stressed syllables in an utterance tend to come at regular intervals with a varying number of less stressed syllables in between . |
| 4 | A lemming ( given his suicidal tendencies for giving away games last year ) A bat Any bird ( as they all tend to flap at thin air ) |
| 5 | Land in this category tends to sell at inflated prices , over the current use value , varying from a marginal surcharge , to perhaps 50% over the value of building land , depending on the degree of hope that the site will receive planning approval in due course . |
| 6 | In this case it is syllables ( rather than stressed syllables ) that tend to occur at regular intervals , thus giving the language a staccato rhythm . |
| 7 | The theory also claims that while some languages ( e.g. Russian and Arabic ) have stress-timed rhythm similar to that of English , others ( such as French , Telugu and Yoruba ) have a different rhythmical structure called syllable-timed rhythm ; in these languages , all syllables , whether stressed or unstressed , tend to occur at regular time-intervals and the time between stressed syllables will be shorter or longer in proportion to the number of unstressed syllables . |
| 8 | Mr Stitt pointed out that mountain accidents tended to happen at similar times — during hard winter conditions , at weekends or in holiday periods . |