Example sentences of "tend [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People tend to invest more time deciding on a house purchase or what car to buy than deciding what to do with their lives and how to develop themselves . |
| 2 | Many commentators have suggested that non-manual workers enjoy considerable advantages in employment over their manual counterparts : they tend to enjoy more job security , work shorter hours , have longer holidays , more fringe benefits , and have greater promotion prospects ( Table 7 below illustrates some of these points ) . |
| 3 | Such basic considerations , however , tend to provide more information about what was impossible than about what occurred , and their explanatory power is therefore limited . |
| 4 | and the final year I think there 's sort of less on the timetable but people tend to do more work for it and do a project as well but in the , in the first year erm you know it 's not that difficult to , to pass it erm er and there are always the , the , the referred papers in September so if you 're , if you 're keen |
| 5 | And terms like information professional , at this early stage , often tend to do more harm than good . |
| 6 | Women tend to use more questions which sort of softens the effect of what they 're saying , so they 'll say things like , There we go and the men say things like , Let's go . |
| 7 | But I tend to eat more chicken and fish and things like that now |
| 8 | For preference , choose one that is on its own in a hedgerow rather than one in a wood with many other trees , as single trees tend to have more galls on them . |
| 9 | London and the South East tend to have more psychiatrists , teachers , medical social workers , etc. , than other regions but shortages of lower-paid staff such as nurses and prison officers , largely because of inflated housing costs . |
| 10 | They tend to have more empathy towards anything foreign and are more aware of language learning difficulties — having struggled to master English to a fairly high level . |
| 11 | Women tend to have more foot problems than men from years of wearing fashion shoes . |
| 12 | Erm some women tend to have more pitch variation and they 're more emotional so they 're more likely to use encouraging tones er which can sometimes be seen to be slightly patronizing , whereas boys think it 's soppy to be emotional or expressive way , so that if you 're in school and you 're asking people to read out in class , erm a girl would be more likely to be more expressive , whereas a boy would be a little bit more monotonous , and just sort of read it out and not put any emotion into it . |
| 13 | The married men did , after all , tend to get more consideration . |
| 14 | The summer breeding season extends between November and February , so we would have to come back again earlier in the season to have a look at some of the other birds , such as the smaller land birds , which tend to present more problems to the photographer . |
| 15 | This suggests they tend to pay more attention to cigarette advertising . |
| 16 | ‘ DEC is a fairly enlightened company generally but certainly women here tend to take more time and are not so stressed by interruptions . |
| 17 | This is because young dogs , from six months old , tend to need more exercise than other individuals . |
| 18 | However , the TNC-dominated export industries tend to employ more women than men.The reasons for this have stimulated a great deal of argument and it is not always possible to generalize cross-culturally . |
| 19 | Ring-tailed Lemurs tend to spend more time on the ground . |
| 20 | Men tend to spend more time analysing their own thoughts and motives , and reflecting on others ' behaviour . |
| 21 | Because the home is a workplace for women , they tend to spend more time there than men or children . |
| 22 | Other researchers , such as Clarricoates ( 1978 ) and Stanworth ( 1981 ) , found that teachers tend to spend more time talking to boys , and that they have more difficulty remembering girls ' names . |
| 23 | In fact in times of recession , sugar producers tend to produce more sugar , in the hope of earning more currency . |
| 24 | Both groups strongly identify with their professional bodies and tend to feel more allegiance to their profession than to their individual employer . |