Example sentences of "tends [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It tends to go on strike by pulling a muscle or twisting a joint . |
| 2 | If we listen to music which continues for too long without change the mind tends to go to sleep , and at best listening becomes an effort , so that in spite of our concentration other thoughts tend to slip in . |
| 3 | The local authority committee member tends to go in dread of anything which may scandalise the electorate , voluntary organisations look to the man in the street for approval and funding . |
| 4 | The futures price tends to fall over time towards the spot price , equalling the spot price on the delivery day , at which time the basis is zero . |
| 5 | Like all liquids , water that is less dense tends to float upon water that is more dense . |
| 6 | The ‘ map ’ also shows that the construct ‘ light ’ tends to stand in opposition to this major dimension of judgment and is instead more closely associated with the sense of ‘ civilization ’ and aspects perceived as being ‘ horizontal ’ . |
| 7 | The narrowing of the arteries which can lead to angina and heart attacks tends to increase with age . |
| 8 | The importance attached to family relationships tends to increase with age . |
| 9 | But even the political market tends to increase in autonomy from the social field during the process of modernization — the Michelsian oligarchic mass party was one step in this direction ; its recent supersession by politics as presentation through the media is a further step . |
| 10 | But surveys show that the nutritional status of patients tends to deteriorate during hospitalisation , and that many fail to receive the quality of food necessary to meet their needs in terms of energy , protein , vitamins and iron . |
| 11 | Exploring , explaining , and analysing the actual working of the overall set-up in a self-conscious , critical , and systematic way tends to slip from concern . |
| 12 | While English tends to modify by use of adjectives or adverbs , BSL tends to use inflection especially in relation to the verb and it is this which makes its story formation rather different . |
| 13 | The two issues are frequently discussed together , but this tends to lead to confusion . |
| 14 | Their application to mergers therefore tends to lead to uncertainty and instability , instead of providing the orderly framework and timetable essential for the conduct of public share acquisitions and takeover bids . |
| 15 | We remarked in chapter 3 , however , that within the vowel system as a whole ( including /a/ ) , length tends to co-vary with quality , that is , long-vowel realizations are usually noticeably qualitatively different from short-vowel allophones of the same phoneme . |
| 16 | Parallel to this contrast is another , that while the long-wave school tends to focus on production the regulationists see the wider social and political structures of society as being necessary to the maintenance of particular regimes of production . |
| 17 | When coalitions fall the country tends to revert to decisiveness . |
| 18 | The casing is much wider than it needs to be , I suppose bigger looks better , and although the top is made of a substantial plastic the base is n't and tends to give under pressure . |
| 19 | Naturalists shower us with intriguing accounts , both anecdotal and experimental , and their range tends to put in perspective the sense , if any , in which we might wish to claim that some were consciously purposive and others not . |
| 20 | The rights and duties of individuals towards each other are together known as private law which in Anglo-Saxon countries , such as Britain and the United States , tends to derive from custom as incorporated by judges through time in what is known in Britain as the common law . |
| 21 | He tends to opt for change merely because team A have had a go and it is time to give team B a chance . |
| 22 | Webs without stabilimenta are more delicate ; the spider tends to build at night and take the web down before dawn , recycling the silk next evening . |
| 23 | Excess alcohol intake tends to contribute to obesity with increased VLDL production and an associated reduction of HDL levels . |
| 24 | Our desire for food tends to vary from day to day . |
| 25 | The reasoning here is that renal function tends to decline with age and renal elimination is important in preventing accumulation of metformin , at least theoretically increasing the risk of lactic acidosis ( Luft et al , 1978 ) . |
| 26 | Rates on domestic property are essentially a regressive tax : the value of the house or other property occupied by a taxpayer tends to decline in relation to increased income . |
| 27 | Trade turnover with other countries , such as Colombia , Bolivia , Peru and Uruguay , still tends to fluctuate from year to year , lacking a coherent pattern of expansion . |
| 28 | Firstly , when one thinks about using computers in schools , one tends to think of technology , and you think of people with white coats and dials and sort of science and technology and so forth , whereas I think in schools the big interest is in using a microcomputer as a teaching aid and as a support to other services and other ways of doing things , so it is just as relevant in a primary school as a secondary school . |
| 29 | Though money may follow the patient , postoperative morbidity tends to stay at home . |
| 30 | The gold price therefore tends to move in parallel with bond yields , which also reflect expectations of inflation . |