Example sentences of "tends [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Literary history will be discussed in greater detail below , but , briefly stated , a historical view of literature follows inevitably from the recognition of the fact that the perceptibility of given literary conventions or devices tends to decrease over time . |
| 32 | The historian compiling a critical edition of Burnett , for example , requires text critical apparatus and thus tends to rely on software tools and computational methods which are on the whole developed by and for literary scholars . |
| 33 | The market index tends to rise over time , and this will cause the size and hence the variance of price changes to rise over time . |
| 34 | It follows first that there can be no measured change in productivity , irrespective of whether government productivity grows in practice , and secondly that the relative price of government services tends to rise over time . |
| 35 | The futures price tends to rise over time towards the spot price , equalling the spot price on the delivery day , so again the basis is zero at delivery . |
| 36 | Not such a great idea on long flights as it tends to cut off circulation in several different places . |
| 37 | Whatever the case , non-insulin dependent diabetes in Europeans tends to occur in middle or older age , after completion of the reproductive phase in women , and contrasts with the early age of onset and severity of the disease observed in populations such as Nauruans . |
| 38 | One was a spontaneous mêleé of the kind that tends to erupt at pub closing times or in dance halls . |