Example sentences of "tends [to-vb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a consequence , their student body becomes increasingly homogeneous and tends to contain only the ‘ normal ’ , that is university , proportion of the sons and daughters of manual workers , a process that Pratt and Burgess regard as running counter to one of the original intentions behind the setting-up of the polytechnics . |
| 2 | This is partly because the word itself tends to conjure up the picture of performing some type of vigorous sport . |
| 3 | But its treatment of sexuality and violence , its treatment of the single working woman as if she were a virus ( which is then set as polar opposite against the ‘ healthy ’ family unit ) tends to position rigidly the spectator ( Williamson 1988 ) . |
| 4 | This tends to bear out the point raised above about the level of Phase 3 staffing . |
| 5 | In the immediate vicinity of the vent , ashes and lapilli pile up to form a mantle many metres thick , which blankets the countryside like a dirty snow fall ; like a snow fall too , the ash tends to smooth out the earlier irregularities of the ground surface , ultimately producing a landscape of soft , gently moulded hillocks and hollows . |
| 6 | Also , says Perera , the government tends to play down the importance of prevention and of synergism ( different chemicals in the environment working together ) , while they call for more epidemiology — or , as many environmentalists put it , ‘ counting the bodies ’ . |
| 7 | Even so , his discussion of the contradiction between progressive forces of production and reactionary elements in the relations of production arguably distinguishes between rock and the older ‘ bourgeois hit ’ too starkly , for he tends to play down the survival of older elements in rock production , form and performance , as well as neglecting divergences of social use and interpretation , and differences of content . |
| 8 | Freud tends to confuse here the notion of ‘ oldest ’ with that of ‘ logical priority ’ . |
| 9 | So the insistence of some employees on cash payment tends to slow down the trend to cheque or transfer payment , and therefore to that wider use of bank accounts which we see as bringing considerable advantages to consumers in money management and cheaper credit availability . |
| 10 | This tends to slow down the body 's metabolic rate , and for that reason weight-loss diets should have plenty of protein . |
| 11 | Now this will affect a vast area of atmosphere , because the air moving over that sea surface tends to take up the characteristics and if the temperature 's higher on the sea surface than normal , the air becomes warmer than normal , and this sets up all sorts of reactions , it will probably produce a lot more clouds , for instance , and erm this in turn will cut off the sun 's rays from that area of atmosphere , and this will have an effect on the whole erm heat engine of the atmosphere as we know it so erm we 're now studying how far afield this is affecting the weather . |
| 12 | Because urinating tends to wash out the urethra , and because the urethra can be such a rich source of diagnostic material , the doctors will always prefer a male patient to have held his urine , if possible , for three hours or more before attending for tests . |
| 13 | The water hyacinth grows in profusion and tends to choke up the local rivers . |