Example sentences of "tend [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can do too much of this if you are not careful and as I tend to paint with sharp stabby strokes it can be a fault with me to look rather bitty . |
| 2 | Generally speaking , more positive attitudes to rated concepts of the deaf community tend to go with better skills , but these relations would not meet statistical criteria . |
| 3 | As we noted , nominal predicates tend to agree with actual number and person , finite verbs with the morphological person and number encoded in the polite form of the pronoun , with language-specific decisions on predicates of intermediate kind . |
| 4 | ‘ I tend to work with up-and-coming guitar bands because that 's the music I like listening to and that 's what I understand better . |
| 5 | Fancy designer labels tend to come with fancy price tags to match . |
| 6 | Some have right-wing parties like Germany 's Republicans that stir racial hatred and exploit the tensions that tend to come with large-scale immigration . |
| 7 | Those who gossip about him tend to meet with nasty accidents . ’ |
| 8 | People tend to sympathise with those who can not talk rather than those who can not hear . |
| 9 | Less able older readers tend to perseverate with grapho-phonemic approximations , whereas the younger , better readers use more mature strategies . |
| 10 | In other ways the activities of the councils tend to conflict with regional policy and weaken its effects . |
| 11 | These statutory instruments tend to deal with limited and technical matters : they fill in details and offer opportunities for second thoughts . |
| 12 | Formal studies of code switching thus tend to deal with idealised or edited data , to which syntactic theories are applied : e.g. Phrase Structure Grammar ( Joshi 1985 ) ; Government and Binding ( Di Sciullo et al. |
| 13 | He was however er reasonably clear as to the speed at which local authorities tend to deal with these matters , he said that it always takes a long time and getting any answer out of the local authority might well take somewhere between six months and up to two years , he thought that perhaps eighteen months was a reasonable guess before he would actually manage to get somebody if Paul were to move as er , it maybe well occur to here or a different local authority then of course the application would just go back to square one and that would lead to more delay . |
| 14 | In general , then , males tend to compete with one another for females . |
| 15 | Journalists who shared Herr 's enthusiasm for the whole experience , if enthusiasm is the word , tend to quote with wistful nostalgia one particular line from Dispatches : ‘ I think Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods . ’ |
| 16 | Do lists and coordinations ( eg lists of nouns ) tend to occur with two , three or more than three members ? |
| 17 | The police tend to operate with different expectations of individuals from different social backgrounds . |