Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Such groups tend to wield greater power in conflict situations than their members , and indeed the very existence of the groups may be seen to anticipate and perpetuate conflict , to harden and formalise a set of attitudes and values that their individual members may not themselves have recognised or expressed . |
| 32 | Many commentators have suggested that non-manual workers enjoy considerable advantages in employment over their manual counterparts : they tend to enjoy more job security , work shorter hours , have longer holidays , more fringe benefits , and have greater promotion prospects ( Table 7 below illustrates some of these points ) . |
| 33 | Moreover , FoE also criticizes the authorities for alerting the public only to short-lived peak incidents , whereas it is the sustained eight-hour incidents which tend to affect vulnerable groups . |
| 34 | If you quite enjoy a writer 's work , if you turn the page approvingly yet do n't mind being interrupted , then you tend to like that author unthinkingly . |
| 35 | He has been a very high profile MP and the voters tend to like that sort of thing . ’ |
| 36 | To a large extent , however , Wright thinks people tend to refresh each other . |
| 37 | To resolve the problem that most organisations have multiple networks that communicate using different network protocols , the multiprotocol networking software in Oracle7 is designed to enable any client computer to communicate with any server or group of server computers in the network , regardless of network protocol . |
| 38 | Example ( 126 ) , however , is perfectly normal English , as confirmed by the following contexts where make denotes unintentional causation : ( 127 ) Oops ! |
| 39 | Advertise sell that hole and er just basically supply the tee markers free of charge . |
| 40 | Women tend to uphold social traditions and conventions and are more comfortable with stability . |
| 41 | The older conurbations , cores tend to accommodate larger proportions of the unemployed . |
| 42 | Duncan says ‘ the brute fact remains that democratic politics can not prevent the creation of remote , state-entrenched centres of power which tend to promote general apathy , cynicism , and ignorance about politics among the masses of the people ’ . |
| 43 | ’ Yes sir , ’ the leader said , ’ we intend to interview that person before he leaves . |
| 44 | It must be admitted that concepts referring to unseen processes tend to acquire additional meanings that are not suggested by the evidence they are intended to explain ( see MacCorquodale & Meehl , 1948 ) . |
| 45 | This tendency to a kin-based preference in the distribution of associations naturally biases the distribution of ranks among group members so that close kin tend to acquire similar rank as their genetic elders . |
| 46 | She was aware , too , that certain couples tend to acquire single men like Preston , or women for that matter , like pets , almost as a kind of catalyst for their own uneasy , brittle relationships . |
| 47 | Trolls tend to acquire physical attributes as a result of what they eat , and Stone Trolls are craggy with cracked flesh like weathered stone . |
| 48 | Wars tend to prompt religious reawakening in a populace . |
| 49 | Africans unite to promote independent press |
| 50 | In what circumstances would the Prime Minister contemplate using nuclear weapons ? |
| 51 | I tend to wear black suits in the evening although I must admit I 'm getting slightly bored with black now . |
| 52 | When does the Prime Minister intend to implement that part of the treaty in respect of Wales and Scotland ? |
| 53 | We do not peer review advertisements as we peer review scientific papers , and I do not know of any medical journals that do . |
| 54 | The rich tend to work 18-hour days , and some of them burn themselves out at bond desks and on trading floors before they are 30 . |
| 55 | In fact the staff tend to work longer hours , midweek and weekends , serving breakfast , lunch and evening meals to delegates , as well as function buffets , often working from 7.00am until late at night . |
| 56 | Introduce opening full airbrakes after the final turn to check the situation ( unless obviously low ) . |
| 57 | We tend to know each other pretty well , and to share a lot of things — goals , objectives , commitments . |
| 58 | These ties bear hardest on those who tend to accept moral responsibility for caring roles . |
| 59 | They are prepared to fund raise to provide new equipment . |
| 60 | ‘ And if you intend to come this way regularly wear more sensible shoes , ’ he added curtly . |