Example sentences of "[noun] tend [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MPs who on the whole tend to be rather casual about going to meetings organised for their benefit by pressure groups tend to go to the nuclear forum , because it is always well-structured and organised , and because they can then say to constituents who work in either the nuclear industry or the nuclear supply industry that they have been , and still are , taking an interest in the decisions that affect those particular electors . |
| 2 | In rural areas the school frequently serves as a focal point for the local community — its removal can have a detrimental effect in that it may become increasingly difficult to attract new families to settle , the younger age groups tend to drift towards the neighbouring towns and the average age of the remaining inhabitants goes on rising . |
| 3 | These groups tend to locate in the older urban cores as a result of factors examined earlier . |
| 4 | Autobiographies , ghosted or not , and ‘ humorous ’ essays tend to lurk in the literary equivalent of shark-infested waters . |
| 5 | There are a number of different conflict perspectives and their supporters tend to disagree about the precise nature , causes and extent of conflict . |
| 6 | Overall , however , our studies showed schools tending to cluster towards the following main types : |
| 7 | The top layer of fabric tends to slip over the bottom layer while under the pressure foot , so carefully machine the seam over the needles and tacking , following the direction of the nap ( i.e. , the direction in which the pile is lying ) . |
| 8 | So as less salty water comes into contact with more salty water , the two water masses shift ( the fresher mass tending to float on the saltier mass ) . |
| 9 | This is not to say music programming does n't attract money — it does — but money tends to congregate around the celebrity-strewn rock extravaganza , which is not our line at all . |
| 10 | The new social divisions in the rural community tend to cut across the old class divides of the former occupational community . |
| 11 | Although psychological explanations tend to concentrate upon the individual worker within the organisation , we can also examine the role of individuals as members of groups and note how the existence of different groups , both formal and informal , have an important role to play in developing our understanding of organisations . |
| 12 | Crowds were composed of groups of family , friends , or work-mates tending to go to the same part of the ground and recognizing those around them . |
| 13 | In suburbia , however , the scourge of the skips tends to descend on the public highway in spring and summer . |
| 14 | Auxiliary need tends to occur in the same syntactic environments as at all , ever and any , which are typically found in so-called non-assertive sentences . |
| 15 | Surprisingly , the ‘ pig ’ graves tended to lie with the long axis pointing north-south and the ‘ sheep ’ graves east-west . |
| 16 | The tradition whereby legislators tended to defect to the governing party following an election , however , meant that such assessments were liable to frequent change . |
| 17 | This has meant that many studies tend to concentrate on the objective assessment of a fiscally quantifiable reality . |
| 18 | Perhaps because horses are relatively large , and therefore hard to ignore , people tend to behave in the same way in the presence of a horse . |
| 19 | This increase has clear policy implications since these elderly people tend to live in the worst accommodation , and owners often have difficulties in undertaking their own , or paying for , maintenance . |
| 20 | Existing tagsets tend to agree about the major word class categorisations but there are often differences in the sub-categorisations used . |
| 21 | Myopia tends to progress throughout the growing period and spectacles may have to be changed every six to twelve months . |
| 22 | It is a matter of common observation that shingle tends to accumulate on the higher parts of the beach while the lower parts are essentially sandy . |
| 23 | The former case is an aspect of connected speech that will be encountered again in Chapter 14 : the main effect is that the stress on a final-stressed compound tends to move to the preceding syllable if the following word begins with a strongly stressed syllable . |
| 24 | To begin with , in the evenings and mornings , during stroll time ( the suit , the stick ) , all the people tended to gather at the sharp end of the ship , looking at where they came from , as people do . |
| 25 | Er I , I suppose if we 're going back something like forty , fifty years where people tended to live in the same area most of their lives , and their families in the area , people did n't move very far , they were probably born in an area , went to work in the area and died in the area . |
| 26 | Whereas Lawrence and his colleagues had suggested that patients suffering from chronic schizophrenia might have drifted away from Worcester and Kidderminster , one of the major concerns about community services in London was that such patients tended to relocate in the inner city areas of the capital . |
| 27 | Yet even on this issue both the US State Department and the Joint Chiefs of Staff tended to sympathize with the British and to object — however ineffectively — to any move which threatened American or Western relations with the Arabs . |
| 28 | It is observed that the maria and the large unfilled basins tend to lie in the equatorial regions of the Moon . |
| 29 | The mites tend to go for the smaller workers , probably because of their safer and passively fed lifestyle . |
| 30 | The changes in mediators tended to correlate with the clinical score . |