Example sentences of "they tend [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tend to see people as unthinking dupes who arc simply pushed and pulled around by the needs of capital . |
| 2 | The way the media cover abuse , they tend to sensationalize events , but the emotional effect is much worse than the actual abuse . |
| 3 | ‘ The way the media cover abuse they tend to sensationalize events , but the emotional effect is much worse ’ |
| 4 | The result is that although prosecutors may direct investigations , they tend to leave matters to the police . |
| 5 | Deep wounds must be stitched together to help the healing process and they tend to leave scars . |
| 6 | One reason that he ruled out was the argument , derived from earlier cases , that fights in public should be prohibited because they tend to create disorder . |
| 7 | They tend to treat language as an unproblematic expression of women 's experience , and they are too directed by the need for feminist change to do justice to the unconscious . |
| 8 | ‘ The fact is they tend to watch TV after 9pm when they 're back from the pub . ’ |
| 9 | Parasites such as tapeworms are enemies of their hosts , and hosts are enemies of parasites since they tend to evolve measures to resist them . |
| 10 | However , they are not always offered study leave or proper in-service training to achieve these qualifications , and so they tend to use school hours to do their own work rather than concentrating on their students . |
| 11 | As most actors are looking for someone they 'll be happy to hang around with for years to come , they tend to choose subjects they like and approve of . |
| 12 | Rather , they tend to turn people in on themselves , which certainly makes the devil happy . |
| 13 | And indeed as people get old or ill I find again from personal experience that they tend to give things to several people . |
| 14 | ‘ Girls come up against an obstacle or two , maybe on tour , and they tend to give way instead of trying to overcome them . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Girls come up against an obstacle or two , maybe on tour , and they tend to give way instead of trying to overcome them . ’ |
| 16 | Many would readily accept the limitations of subjects as a basis for analysing the curriculum because , for example , they tend to emphasise cognition while ignoring affective aspects of education . |
| 17 | In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct . |
| 18 | They tend to ask questions in t in an attempt to find out what is going on . |
| 19 | I arrange a special thing for them , and they tend to do things very quickly , and take only one or two lessons . |
| 20 | They [ theoretical differences ] are not resolved really ; they continue as quite big arguments ; and there are quite big camps really of those who believe in theory and those who believe in scholarship , I suppose ; and we pretend that you can just muddle along and it does n't matter , but the crunch comes at things like marking exam papers , because if you 've got a student who 's heavily into theory , writing for a marker who 's heavily not into theory , then they tend to say things like ‘ oh , he 's just read Terry Eagleton , so blah blah blah ’ or ‘ she 's just read Cate Belsey and regurgitated that ’ so someone can get a bad mark because they 've written for the wrong person . |
| 21 | Unless stomach acids have a job to do in digesting food they tend to cause discomfort , and dieters often find themselves turning to extra food to quell that unpleasant acidic feeling when the stomach is largely empty . |
| 22 | The head of the figure at the extreme left of the Demoiselles is , like that of her companions in the centre of the picture , expressionless and impassive but now has about it a mask-like quality that recalls a wide variety of African tribal masks in which the component parts of the head and face have about them exactly the same quality of definition , although here the similarities may possibly be simply affinities rather than derivations ; the heads of many of the paintings of late 1906 had also been severe and mask-like although they tend to resemble sculptures in stone , whereas the head of the demoiselle in question looks more wooden in both colour and texture . |
| 23 | I 'm sure there are lots of responsible Rottweiler owners , but they tend to put dogs before children . |
| 24 | I know they tend to like match reports sent in ( ‘ white watching ’ ) . |
| 25 | ‘ States of mind , ’ Richards says ( 1967 : 45 ) , ‘ are valuable in the degree in which they tend to reduce waste and frustration . ’ |
| 26 | They 're done because the old-fashioned way of doing a , putting something together is a paste-up job , you 've got all these stories filed about all sorts of things , and then some editorial chap or chapess sits down with sort of paste and scissors and cuts the things off , and they tend to cut things off the bottom to make it all fit until it feels about right . |
| 27 | For small cichlids it is possible , for example , to use nylon net curtains as gravel tidies , but these would be no good when it comes to large cichlids as they tend to get hold of the soft material and pull it out of place . |
| 28 | No , but , even , even some of those erm the only thing is they tend to get work and they tend not to tell you they 've done it . |
| 29 | They tend to regard grammar as the touchstone of all language performance . |
| 30 | They tend to admire people for how they hold themselves and what they say and then blame them more for being found out than for what they do . |