Example sentences of "tend [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corporate approach favours ‘ those less committed to service departments … groups interested more in policy analysis than in professional standards , and … those who tend to emphasise local circumstances rather than national standards . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Although some liaison takes place with the school 's link person , the DCSLs tend to perform these functions independently . |
| 4 | ‘ In no sense , though some diocesan clergy tend to treat parochial clergy as though they were their inferiors . |
| 5 | Even if , like Cox ( 1981 ) , they represent Hispanic , Native-American , Asian-American and Afro-American women 's experiences , they tend to treat these categories as equivalent , and ignore differences within them , which may be more important than differences between them . |
| 6 | I blush to admit it , but those of us who were born into the trade tend to disdain these crossovers as an inferior breed . |
| 7 | Captive-bred Pretty Tetras , have a much more brighter colouration than wild-caught specimens , the latter of which tend to lose this brightness over a period of time when kept in an aquarium . |
| 8 | Adults tend to lose this enzyme unless they continue taking cow 's milk and milk products from the time they are weaned onwards . |
| 9 | You tend to see individual intervention . |
| 10 | They were looking for the principles of organisation , how it is that we organise things like dots into a meaningful whole Why is it that we tend to see two lines crossing in the middle rather one two than two V's ? |
| 11 | The ‘ society-as-parent ’ protagonists , on the other hand , tend to see parental rights as a force still to be reckoned with in law , agency practice and social attitudes . |
| 12 | At present employers tend to see joint degrees as second class . |
| 13 | Thirdly , they tend to see human behaviour as shaped by the system . |
| 14 | Psychologists tend to focus on behaviour as the expression of certain psychological propensities while sociologists tend to see human behaviour as shaped in its course by the social context of human life . |
| 15 | However , conventionally , which is not to say correctly , modes of social scientific explanation tend to see these elements as analytically separate orders of phenomena and , accordingly , data . |
| 16 | Naturally those anthropologists who grant culture such imperative force tend to see social relations as the product of cultural patterning and conditioning , and thus tend to concentrate on child-rearing practices , enculturation , and socialization . |
| 17 | When we do make up our minds to lose the excess , however , we tend to sacrifice long-term benefits for short-term success : our aim is to get to our target weight as quickly as possible . |
| 18 | Such groups tend to wield greater power in conflict situations than their members , and indeed the very existence of the groups may be seen to anticipate and perpetuate conflict , to harden and formalise a set of attitudes and values that their individual members may not themselves have recognised or expressed . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | Moreover , FoE also criticizes the authorities for alerting the public only to short-lived peak incidents , whereas it is the sustained eight-hour incidents which tend to affect vulnerable groups . |
| 21 | If you quite enjoy a writer 's work , if you turn the page approvingly yet do n't mind being interrupted , then you tend to like that author unthinkingly . |
| 22 | He has been a very high profile MP and the voters tend to like that sort of thing . ’ |
| 23 | To a large extent , however , Wright thinks people tend to refresh each other . |
| 24 | Women tend to uphold social traditions and conventions and are more comfortable with stability . |
| 25 | The older conurbations , cores tend to accommodate larger proportions of the unemployed . |
| 26 | Duncan says ‘ the brute fact remains that democratic politics can not prevent the creation of remote , state-entrenched centres of power which tend to promote general apathy , cynicism , and ignorance about politics among the masses of the people ’ . |
| 27 | It must be admitted that concepts referring to unseen processes tend to acquire additional meanings that are not suggested by the evidence they are intended to explain ( see MacCorquodale & Meehl , 1948 ) . |
| 28 | This tendency to a kin-based preference in the distribution of associations naturally biases the distribution of ranks among group members so that close kin tend to acquire similar rank as their genetic elders . |
| 29 | She was aware , too , that certain couples tend to acquire single men like Preston , or women for that matter , like pets , almost as a kind of catalyst for their own uneasy , brittle relationships . |
| 30 | Trolls tend to acquire physical attributes as a result of what they eat , and Stone Trolls are craggy with cracked flesh like weathered stone . |