Example sentences of "[noun pl] tended [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general pattern of pausing in this experiment proved to be very similar to that found in the earlier experiment ; subjects tended to pause at clause boundaries . |
| 2 | If we can trust the figures which suggest that Christians tended to marry at a notably higher age than their pagan contemporaries , Christianity would appear to have reinforced these shifts towards marriage as a more personal and free partnership of equals . |
| 3 | Mr Stitt pointed out that mountain accidents tended to happen at similar times — during hard winter conditions , at weekends or in holiday periods . |
| 4 | Trends were mixed throughout the 1970s : in one half of these countries , women tended to marry at increasingly older ages , in others , earlier . |
| 5 | As long ago as the 1880s , W. Pfeiffer , in Germany , dipped a thin capillary tube containing glucose into a drop of liquid containing bacteria , and observed that the bacteria tended to collect at the mouth of the capillary . |
| 6 | Subsequent events tended to recur at the time of intercurrent infections , at which time the flow rate of oxygen was increased ; none subsequently required cardiopulmonary resuscitation . |