Example sentences of "tend not to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Socialists or social democrats in Eastern Europe tend not to be doctrinaire in their answers . |
| 2 | Overweight individuals tend not to be so relaxed about fluctuations in body size as slim people . |
| 3 | However these products tend not to be as rich in calcium as dairy products and red fish . |
| 4 | The team processes cases more quickly and closes them earlier ; of those that remain open , relatively few are reassessed , but cases tend not to be kept open for ‘ monitoring only ’ . |
| 5 | Senior civil servants , the privileged connoisseurs of prime-ministerial style and procedure , tend not to be purist about the operational implications of Cabinet conventions , except when routinely deploying them in the occasional public lecture or dismissing requests for the early declassification of harmless material . |
| 6 | We still have a fondness for unreasonably tall cakes and showers of rice , but contemporary brides tend not to be hedged about by garlands of orange blossom ( signifying chastity ) and smilax pinned to their dresses like a comelier version of the Queensferry Burry man . |
| 7 | I 've heard that Chinese carrots tend not to be as reliable as some Eastern European ones … |
| 8 | ‘ Palace are strong and fit , but when you have mixed with Gladiators you tend not to be intimidated by physique or intensity , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Fourteen partial or complete sets are known , especially from graves in Kent , but also from the upper Thames valley where they tend not to be complete . |
| 10 | Geographically the first phase of brooches tend not to duster in any particular region and are found dispersed over much of England . |
| 11 | It is n't their height but their shapely form that attracts discerning hillgoers , and since many of the tops are not included in tick lists — some of the Scottish ones do n't even get Corbett status — they tend not to be as popular as their loftier neighbours . |
| 12 | This group , of parasites tend not to be such a problem in young dogs as roundworms . |
| 13 | These men tend not to be rich . |
| 14 | If it is agreed that project work has a great deal to offer in terms of developing reading , but recognised that these opportunities tend not to be exploited to the full , it is necessary to examine ways in which project work can be designed to make fuller use of its potential . |
| 15 | These dreams tend not to be about sudden drops or stumbles , but of long drops from high buildings or down deep holes , ending in collisions with the ground , or perhaps with miraculously soft landings . |
| 16 | Established companies , concentrating on defending what they already have , tend not to counter-attack when a newcomer challenges them . |
| 17 | Well we tend not to what you 've just said , pull them in . |
| 18 | Possibly the saddest cases are in the consumer credit field , where exactly the same rules apply as in business , but tend not to be fully understood by many of the general public . |
| 19 | New MPs tend not to pair and will attend most sittings , he said . |
| 20 | There is perhaps only one point worthy of note : where the observation of teachers had featured in the review , teachers tend not to be in favour of a second round . |
| 21 | As you will appreciate , the best and possibly the only time to carry out such projects is the spring/ early summer period , partly because of the weather , partly because volunteers tend not to be available in the summer . |
| 22 | Once again these costs tend not to be strictly linear in reality . |
| 23 | Farmers wo n't even bother to harvest it , right , simply because , the bulk of it , the total production costs , will be labour , will be the labour costs of harvesting , and if they ca n't cover those labour costs of harvesting by selling their produce , which they wo n't be able to if there 's been a bumper harvest because prices are very low , they 'll just leave the things rotting on the trees and er , that is , that is what , what happens quite regularly in horticultural markets which tend not to be markets that are supported through the Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 24 | Well programmers tend not to be precise in this , in this kind of er context er Mr Campbell . |
| 25 | Erm , if you look at organisations then if you if you go and er visit somebody of low status , you tend not to be kept waiting very long at all . |
| 26 | Overseas financial institutions often come from a far different system in which rules and regulations are far more explicit , and tend not to be fully conversant with a less transparent form of control as operated by the Bank . |
| 27 | The thing that you you have to remember , which you tend not to at the beginning is that Ceefax is B B C for instance , so on one and two now if you change channel if you 're on teletext and you want to go onto Oracle which is on three |