Example sentences of "tend [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If normal good sleepers are woken from Stage I sleep or Stage 2 sleep , and asked whether they were awake or asleep , they tend to report definitely feeling asleep only In Stage 2 sleep , " 2 although this is not necessarily true for poor sleepers , who may deny they were asleep even when the EEG traces show clear signs of Stage 2 sleep . |
| 2 | Throughout the 1980s , it battled to achieve two crucial , strategic shifts : to reduce its dependence on bulk , low-margin , commodity chemicals which tend to swing wildly with the economic cycle — in favour of high value-added , high-margin ‘ effect ’ chemicals ; and to cut the share of sales accounted for by the UK . |
| 3 | Words about words tend to float off into a mysterious space of their own — though I hope most of those we have used have been firmly pinned down . |
| 4 | The idea of a flying continuum becomes even more persuasive when we remember that very small animals tend to float gently in air , whatever their shape . |
| 5 | I have a streak of economy in me , even when contemplating how to épater les bourgeois , and recipes that make their sauce out of a stock made at an earlier stage tend to appeal most . |
| 6 | Soft , weighty fabrics tend to fall easily into gentle folds ; an obvious example is cotton velvet which is both soft , supple and heavy . |
| 7 | Under pressure , when some horses tend to fall apart , Milton responds by jumping even better , while John stays cool and professional . |
| 8 | Dried peas , beans or shells stored in durable containers can be much more satisfying than empty packets which , unless regularly replaced , tend to fall apart so easily . |
| 9 | Patterns of dots from a painting program tend to fall apart when enlarged or coagulate into muddy puddles if reduced . |
| 10 | These currents keep all the ash thoroughly mixed up , but inevitably , as the ash cloud drifts away down-wind , the heavier particles tend to fall out , leaving the finer ones behind them . |
| 11 | In the main , they are instilled with the pragmatic games of pursuit they play with the local petty thief ; and if asked to consider the wider nature of their role , they tend to fall back on protestations of political neutrality . |
| 12 | For example , desperate politicians tend to fall back on it to appease working class voters in the United States and the United Kingdom . |
| 13 | For the term obtained from equations ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) , in the real image term of equation ( 6 ) , if r is not equal to a substrate atom position β i in a transform , the summations give rise to a small value because the scattering factors and the exponents are oscillating complex functions in the transform ; when r is equal to tend to cancel out the scattering path length contributions and the scattering factors to unity , and summations should produce a large value . |
| 14 | In a famous book entitled Your God is too Small J.B. Phillips ( 1932 ) drew up a list of twelve inadequate concepts of God which people tend to carry around with them . |
| 15 | Yet its methods tend to treat only men as individuals , and women , simply as women . |
| 16 | You can use a hot air gun for this , or a chemical paint stripper , but both tend to strip off more paint than you might want . |
| 17 | The Old World monkeys tend to sit upright when at rest and many have special thick-skinned sometimes brightly coloured pads on their rear ends . |
| 18 | I tend to sit there going funny colours . |
| 19 | The latter relax annoyingly when not in use and tend to slide out of place . |
| 20 | I tend to paint very quickly , so the paint is always rather damp as I flit round the paper , putting a colour here and one there , and at first it all looks a bit of a jumble . |
| 21 | Any transgression or hidden resistance in films by women directors is , it is argued , in the end always contained by the characteristic movement of narrative closure in Hollywood films made during the studio period , in which women tend to lose out or are victimised . |
| 22 | HEAVYWEIGHTS , it is said , take a while to mature but tend to remain longer in the sport . |
| 23 | What sorts of people tend to become politically active and who tend to remain relatively inert ? |
| 24 | However , even when legal principles are committed to one constitutional document , set out in legal codes or reiterated by judges over time , they tend to remain highly ambiguous and not worth the paper they are printed on until somebody — the judiciary — interprets and defers to them in their judgments , and somebody else — the executive — enforces those judgments . |
| 25 | er and in any , in any event there are a number of things I tend to miss altogether if I want to er keep to timetable which I and I , I 'm sure you 're , all the , the audience or group or whatever you like to call it that will welcome an extension of the talk . |
| 26 | The fish tend to spawn all around the same time and pay attention to their own broods — equally the parents will see off any attempt by another pair to eat their brood . |
| 27 | ‘ Those nondescript spots and blotches of fur and feathers are the wildlife we tend to see most often , ’ he writes . |
| 28 | Part of the problem is that most of us do n't know very much about mental illness and we tend to see very negative images around us and on television . |
| 29 | Research is , of course , carried on outside the corporate sector in universities and other institutions of learning ; even so , these bodies are increasingly dependent on commercial sponsorship , and corporate funds tend to flow more readily into projects identified by , or otherwise of interest to , the sponsor . |
| 30 | And the West peal comes appeal and the West 's heard becomes a heard and the one sort of difference that 's still there and it may take quite while to go is that the East Mainland when they 're saying a sentence they tend to go up at the end of the sentence the voice rises . |