Example sentences of "tend [to-vb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet its methods tend to treat only men as individuals , and women , simply as women . |
| 2 | Oh , do n't really know , they tend to go up sort of two |
| 3 | The arrowed peaks show clearly how weights tend to concentrate around multiples of a basic weight unit . |
| 4 | I tend to set up 50Mb partitions on every drive as this helps to maintain high performance on the system by restricting the range of travel of the heads for each logical drive . |
| 5 | ‘ It is not easy playing game after game even for fit players it becomes a chore and you tend to pick up knocks . |
| 6 | They also tend to rule out Ramapithecus , a fossil hominid dated at 8.14 million years . |
| 7 | Erm looking now at page three hundred and fifty seven er paragraph seven three two oh seven three one and seven three two , page three hundred and fifty seven where the report makes the point that er when legal proceedings are entered into they tend to create further barriers and make it m less and less likely that th there can be conciliation between estranged partners erm and paragraph seven three two points out a growing need fo or speaks of a growing need for conciliation . |
| 8 | However , it does appear that the notion of language teachers joining a profession with its own history does not figure largely in tutors ' conceptions of their work , that English tutors do not see ‘ language ’ as something requiring separate attention , and that all tutors tend to play down aspects of language policy or language in society . |
| 9 | In fact , we already thought that sex might fit into this category : it is likely to be associated with status ( women tend to do lower status jobs ) and absenteeism ( domestic commitments might make women more absence-prone than men ) . |
| 10 | Men and women both tend to put on weight in middle-age , when exercise becomes less frequent . |
| 11 | At present , boots with a Gore-Text bootie tend to cost about £20 more and have a one-year guarantee of waterproofness . |
| 12 | It comes in lengths that tend to vary around 2440mm ( 8ft ) . |
| 13 | Consequently , sentences for black youth tend to move up tariff ( receive too severe a sentence for the offence ) in the criminal justice system too early on . |
| 14 | Now erm how have we got er I 've next thing on the handout is something I 've stuck on about the way in which erm er well it 's what I 've just covered about the the way in which some sorts of therapies for people who 've been abused as children tend to embody rather heterosexist assumptions which has been stated by Jenny Kissinger for example . |
| 15 | They tend to make only statements which ‘ steer far wider of the unlawful zone ’ . |
| 16 | They tend to make only statements which ‘ steer far wider of the unlawful zone ’ . |
| 17 | Women — rather unfairly I feel — tend to burn up calories less efficiently than men . |