Example sentences of "which tend [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( n contrast both to the genetically based view of literary history which tends to ignore questions of form , and to other formally-biased approaches which tend to ignore history , the Russian Formalist view is that it is history itself which allows the specificity of literature to be established . |
| 2 | Companies may intensify production , improve productivity or reduce output — all of which tend to reduce employment . |
| 3 | He says that there is an alternative to the flood relief scheme , and that is to improve the drainage capacity of the Thames itself by removing obstructions and restrictions to flow which tend to increase river levels , especially when the watercourse is bank full and the weirs fully open . |
| 4 | This seems especially the case in single-employer estates , which tend to become enclaves , small social universes characterised by patterns of restrained sociability such as stage-managed dinner parties for couples and women 's coffee mornings . |
| 5 | Thus , for example , the various oxides of sulphur and nitrogen may be turned briefly but importantly into radicals ( charged components ) of acids , sulphuric and nitric , which tend to make rain more acid . |
| 6 | These tidal forces are opposed by the internal gravitational forces which tend to make bodies spherical , and by nongravitational intermolecular forces which resist the separation of molecules . |
| 7 | To do so it is necessary to examine the origins of our literary expectations which so frequently assume that the best literary experience deals with individuals capable of making moral distinctions and to question the pejorative critical formulations which tend to accompany assessments of characters as vehicles for ideas : caricature , static , incompletely realised , and so on . |
| 8 | And it also shows the special circumstances which tend to tie women into the sort of close personal relationship with a weekly credit caller which can mean they are using a relatively costly form of credit almost automatically — see chapter 5 . |