Example sentences of "tends [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but er it tends to go a bit out of your head . |
| 2 | The BFG by Roald Dahl NIGEL WIGMORE ( father of Ben , 8 ) Ca n't You Sleep , Little Bear ? by Martin Waddell and Barbara Firth ( Walker Books , £6.95 ) Winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal A simple , poetic tale about fear of the dark , a subject that tends to hit the spot in even the toughest child . |
| 3 | The oboe tends to impoverish the tone of the violins and to make it sound thin and pinched . |
| 4 | The criticism in question being that he tends to carry the ball under the wrong arm … |
| 5 | The axial spin of the more massive body M tends to carry the tide ahead of the orbital motion . |
| 6 | Branching in the side group tends to stiffen the chain and raise T m as shown in the series poly(but-1-ene) , ; poly ( 3-methyl but-1-ene ) , ; poly ( 3,3′-dimethyl but-1-ene ) , . |
| 7 | All of which tends to confirm a belief that General Holomisa has advanced far on a scheme to forge an informal alliance with Mr Mandela and his organisation , the African National Congress . |
| 8 | This tends to confirm the findings of psychologists who report an optimum memory faculty for five items in any one dimension . |
| 9 | This tends to confirm the persistence of unskilled labour in the workforce ; had unemployed been included ( see Chapter 4 ) the dominance would be even more evident . |
| 10 | Either way , it tends to confirm the view that collectivist reforms were doomed unless industry and commerce gave their consent . |
| 11 | As John Stubbs has written , " that backbench activism was centred in such an essentially non-landed element of the Conservative Party tends to confirm the view that the party 's centre of gravity was increasingly urbanised , commercialised and industrialised " . |
| 12 | This seems to be pitching things a good deal too high , but the current London Film Festival , which continues until Sunday , tends to confirm the impression that 1989 has been a less than vintage year for the movies . |
| 13 | The general pattern of results tends to confirm the impression that the UK is relatively poorly placed in the EC ( in these data before the accession of Spain and Portugal ) . |
| 14 | The fact that these were generally long swords tends to confirm the use of cavalry . |
| 15 | It has also become so familiar that it tends to overshadow the running , although it is the running from which the potency is derived . |
| 16 | This approach places a heavy emphasis on the institutions of the state alone ; it describes institutions and institutional relationships in suffocating detail ; and because it focuses on constitutional " law " quite uncritically it tends to see the connections between state and society formally , simply , and legalistically in a way that ignores informal patterns of power in society and economy . |
| 17 | Although there is no doubt that this view is supported in London — which tends to see the West in terms of an Anglo-Saxon axis and the ‘ special relationship ’ between Britain and the United States — France has reservations and it is clearly not shared by southern European nations . |
| 18 | Unfortunately this diagnosis is often used non-specifically ; it also tends to promote a sense of therapeutic nihilism . |
| 19 | Politically , the judicial conception of the public interest tends to embrace the promotion of certain views normally associated with the Conservative Party and there is a greater likelihood that Labour Governments will encounter challenges through the courts if only because they tend to be more interventionist and to challenge the status quo . |
| 20 | If Chafe ( 1977 ) is correct , then BSL would represent a language which tends to emphasise the storage and recall of events , whereas English requires much more superficial specificity in recall . |
| 21 | All this evidence tends to support the contention that there will be relatively few new council houses available for allocation in the more remote areas where housing need and accessibility problems may be most acute . |
| 22 | The evidence from European countries of attempts to implement these kinds of arrangements tends to support the view that while they help ease labour-management tensions they slow down decision-making and reduce management flexibility . |
| 23 | Clarke , in a review of the literature on the transition to work , says that it tends to support the view that the ‘ majority of early leavers adjust fairly painlessly to working life ’ ( Clarke , 1980 , p. 10 ) . |
| 24 | Thus , while I admire the marvellous precision of ensemble and articulation in both finales , Marriner tends to underplay the music 's irresistible sense of humour . |
| 25 | Marriner gives it fire and a certain breadth , but tends to underplay the music 's toughness and sheer explosive force — again , the crucial offbeat accents are often too tame ( as in the wind and brass at 2′27″ff ) , while the lack of real impact from the timpani means that the moment of recapitulation ( 6′54″ ) does not provide the overwhelming release it can do . |
| 26 | First , as will be demonstrated below , he tends to underplay the severity of the violence which occurred at places like Grunwick and Hadfields during a period supposedly devoid of such conflict . |
| 27 | Doing extra things that help you get back to feeling good about yourself tends to recharge the batteries for school itself . |
| 28 | The vehicle tends to wander a lot and , with a caravan on the back , is even worse . |
| 29 | It also tends to attract a lot of magic since this is about the only thing your opponent can rely on to slow it down . |
| 30 | It is obviously the aesthetics of form which tends to attract the reader 's attention here , rather than the meaning . |