Example sentences of "tend [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British still tend to treat him with a faintly hostile embarrassment : as well they might , since for the past four years , his principal message has been condemnation of their duplicity in , as he sees it , backing away from promises to introduce democratic government by 1997 . |
| 2 | Secular books on the New Age tend to treat it as the latest fad ; the ‘ in thing ’ of the eighties , full of Alternative Types and quaint ideas about the ‘ good life ’ down on the organic , backyard farm . |
| 3 | Foreigners tend to see him as a ‘ whingeing pom , brit etc. ’ and do not like the program . |
| 4 | Western historians tend to see them as alienated intellectuals motivated not by the interests of any major section of society but by a host of heterogeneous ideas , romantic and modernizing , dictatorial and democratic . |
| 5 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 6 | LIKE BEAUTY , tawdriness is in the eye of the beholder , and on their country 's 40th birthday East Germans tend to see it through the cruelly unblinking eyes of thoroughly Westernised consumers . |
| 7 | We tend to see it from perhaps sort of Heathrow that you want to go in , into London because that 's where , where the links are , by roads an and then the part of the link we 've got is at Piccadilly line . |
| 8 | The analyst contended that " studies that find age differences ( among teenagers ) tend to find them in measures that are sensitive to socio-economic factors such as the prenatal complications of toxaemia and anaemia , rather than in biologically constrained outcomes of labour and delivery " . |
| 9 | When psychologists study them specifically , they tend to observe them in a social , family or work context which loses sight of their individual subjectivities . |
| 10 | With machine knitting we tend to restrict it to a maximum of three stitches over three stitches because the machines are supplied with triple transfer tools . |
| 11 | Our dominant motivations are those of rational self-interest and they tend to lead us into crime because crime , however defined , involves self-restraint . |
| 12 | Since Caliban is often performed in the modern theatre as if he were a later version of Thersites , we tend to expect him to be a prose-speaker . |
| 13 | There 's a small band of enthusiasts who devote an enormous amount of time and energy to experimenting with it and who sometimes tend to hail it as the solution to every problem . |
| 14 | Of course many speakers have continued to use it casually , and in some spoken contexts almost invariably , but they tend to prefer he in writing . |
| 15 | The idea that large sums of money must be awarded to compensate people for words which " tend to lower them in the estimation of right-thinking members of society " smacks of an age when social and political life was lived in gentlemen 's clubs , when escutcheons could be blotted and society scandals resolved by writs for slander . |
| 16 | And I tend to draw , most o , most of us tend to draw them as straight lines with branches coming off they may actually show the chain as a twisted chain or zig-zag chain or going in to form a square or something ! |
| 17 | If girls deviate , they tend to do it in a way that causes far less disruption than boys , such as pretending to write when they are bored . |
| 18 | because I might want to play somewhere else anyway get caught , I just tend to leave it in the car . |
| 19 | I tend to keep them in the originals cos then I if I need to . |
| 20 | The problems with unwanted feelings are that they tend to hinder us in the here and now even though the feelings are often associated with past or future events . |
| 21 | They are , indeed , reported by people who have been brought back from the edge of death — though mundane scientists tend to attribute them to the effects of oxygen starvation on a failing brain . |
| 22 | The few who , influenced by psychoanalysis and poststructuralism , take a more serious approach to it , tend to address it within an orthodox social cognitivist framework , to treat it as an illustration of larger , more obviously social discursive structure , or to ground it finally in an idealized unconscious subjectivity . |
| 23 | Even those firms who have modern machines , tend to run them with software designed for earlier models . |
| 24 | They usually run them at below peak efficiency , they run The Russian reactors they tend to run 'em at maximum efficiency which is you 're very very close to the critical level where it could run away with a little mistake and whoops , you got Chernobyl . |
| 25 | Black immigrants form part of this class structure , having jobs which tend to place them at the bottom . |
| 26 | ‘ There are least three shops in Norwich I really like , and I tend to ring them in advance and say ‘ I 'm coming in for half an hour . |
| 27 | Then I mention that the only people who really use notebooks to the full , who worry about weight and battery life , are journalists because most other notebook users tend to take them from the car to an office or home , often using the mains and probably doing little more than running a spreadsheet . |
| 28 | Beer seems such a simple drink that we tend to take it for granted . |
| 29 | However , with fewer breaks pilots tend to take it for granted that they will not get a cable break , and this makes them more vulnerable when one does occur . |
| 30 | Within the Western tradition of art we tend to take it for granted that much can be learned from the study of the art of the past and , traditionally , copying from the works of the Great Masters was one of a young student 's most important tasks . |