Example sentences of "it tend [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not advocate using a glossy varnish , because it tends to give false readings as you try to shot the float down . |
| 2 | In fact it tends to generate some very discordant results . |
| 3 | Whereas the parachute keeps the cable under tension as it drops , if there is a cross wind it tends to drift much more than a rope with no chute . |
| 4 | Even though the image is , to some extent , chosen and contrived , it tends to highlight genuine individual characteristics , and , like it or not , a woman is judged by her image . |
| 5 | To some types of mind work at the Chancery Bar appears dull and repellent , because it tends to lack human interest . |
| 6 | Erm , the advantage of this way is it tends to confuse most of the time , but it 's a lot quicker . |
| 7 | Modern archaeology is much more scientific and it 's , it tends to excavate entire layers , layer , by layer and every little thing is relevant , you know , they , the little pot shard , erm , even bits of excrement , apparently are very interesting to archaeologists , because they 're sure people were eating , and things like this , er , you know , remnants of fire was charcoal , everything . |
| 8 | Important as this is , it tends to ignore other histories . |
| 9 | It tends to ignore some of the more interesting theoretical issues concerned with the ways in which Chomskyan notions of Universal Grammar interact with the immediate linguistic , cognitive and contextual features that are the properties of individual children and fails to suggest how research into language acquisition is developing in other areas . |
| 10 | But I think it tends to save any type of … any misunderstandings that may later take place as a result of it being a one-on-one deal . |
| 11 | The main difficulty with the HCF approach , however interpreted , is that it tends to jettison most of what is distinctive of religion . |
| 12 | If it examines them separately , it tends to reiterate dominant discourses of working-class social or even biological deviance , by studying working-class subjects ' inadequacies at work , their problems when unemployed , and their failures in education . |
| 13 | However , the danger evident in some of the work produced here is that , like diffusionism , it tends to examine particular cultural items without an adequate appreciation of their social context , and so may give a distorted picture of what are essentially social phenomena . |
| 14 | Forestry is to a certain extent in conflict with agriculture not only because it removes large areas of land from farming for 50 or more years , but also because in its modern forms of organisation it tends to employ fewer local people . |
| 15 | Aerate the lawn if it tends to become waterlogged or growth is very poor . |
| 16 | This is typically a thin , irritant discharge with a characteristic ‘ fishy ’ odour , and any skin that comes into contact with it tends to become excoriated and sore . |
| 17 | Repeated official and unofficial enquiries have suggested that the foreign exporting sector buys very little that is of Irish manufacture , and even when it does buy locally it tends to buy low value-added goods , like packaging materials and industrial consumables . |
| 18 | It tends to encourage any tendency to the suppression of initiative , and to foster cautious conservatism , perhaps to the point of atrophy . |
| 19 | If you 're using wooden or fibrous plaster mouldings without pilaster for the arch , it tends to look better with corbels fitted to its ‘ springing points ’ ( where the arch starts on the side walls ) . |
| 20 | Of course I admit there 's an alcohol problem , but then again it tends to look worse than it is because the res is dry so everyone congregates at the nearest bar , which is two miles south , in Nebraska . |
| 21 | Non-literate music making almost demands repetitive or traditional frameworks , and — as counter-balance ? — these stimulate improvised nuance and inflection , yet transcribed into notation , with the nuances missing , it tends to look banal . |
| 22 | because of the way it tends to bind many poorer consumers into using just one type of credit ( considerably more costly than non-collection types ) more or less as a matter of course . |
| 23 | Just as the sea , on its own , can be uncomfortably tedious , or just uncomfortable , so it tends to fashion strong , often amusing , character in those who spend their working lives upon it . |
| 24 | But it tends to achieve each draw with a high , shared score . |
| 25 | Does it tend to look limp and lifeless no matter how much time you spend styling it . |
| 26 | It tended to replace teacher-imposed activities in which the whole class joined . |
| 27 | Together with the Reichsjugendgerichtsgesetz ( RJGG , Juvenile Court Act ) of 1923 it tended to replace punitive measures with pedagogical , child-oriented principles and to set standards for national youth departments in every part of the country ( Sachsse and Tennstedt , 1988 , p. 99 ) . |
| 28 | Selection for technical education continued to take place , generally at thirteen , but it tended to reflect existing patterns set by two years of secondary schooling so that grammar school successes were unlikely to change in mid-stream . |
| 29 | The Leeds role was initially , and to some extent remained , broader than either of these , though it tended to become less and less distinguishable from that of curriculum leader . |
| 30 | It tended to produce this monotonous field pattern , and it also produced ‘ a continuous sheet of greensward ’ , as William Marshall observed of Leicestershire in 1790 , instead of the multi-coloured patchwork of the old arable strips . |