Example sentences of "[noun] tend [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , young Christians often face a crisis in their faith , because employers tend to discriminate against the country 's Christian minority . |
| 2 | Their problem is their flower buds tend to swell in the winter and can be damaged by frost or winds . |
| 3 | Initially , the chemical potential µ 1 , of the solvent in the solution , is lower than that of the pure solvent , µ 1 ° and solvent molecules tend to pass through the membrane into the solution in order to attain equilibrium . |
| 4 | Irish scrum-halves tend to arrive on the scene than at 22 . |
| 5 | Proposals to limit the sovereignty of parliament tend to centre on the introduction of a written constitution with judicial review and the entrenchment of a Bill of Rights as some kind of " higher " law beyond easy parliamentary repeal . |
| 6 | The SFO only becomes involved in cases where more than £1 million is involved , and most cases tend to come from the DTI . |
| 7 | The majority of funds tend to come from the banking sector , although commercial bills are also important . |
| 8 | Given these factors , in particular the fact that default premia tend to vary over the trade cycle , it is not a trivial task to isolate factors related to competition in the new issue market . |
| 9 | Mostly , however , Mn and Fe tend to co-precipitate in the lattice of carbonate minerals and varying degrees of quenching occur , reducing the intensity of Mn 2 + emission and inducing a brownish colouration according to the quenching . |
| 10 | If allowed to go overripe , barley ears tend to fall off the stems , and heavy losses can occur . |
| 11 | Because proteins are made of amino acids , if protein synthesis is blocked by giving an inhibitor , amino acids which would otherwise have been converted into proteins tend to accumulate in the cell . |
| 12 | Remarkable special effects tend to get in the way of the story . |
| 13 | ‘ Midlife is a time when suppressed emotions tend to come to the surface . |
| 14 | The adjustment to the rise and fall is difficult because it is always sticky , the wood chips tend to collect on the travel of the sliding table making the action very bumpy , the sliding table is always out of adjustment for one reason or another . |
| 15 | When it comes to trade-in value , dealers tend to judge against the price a car costs new , rather than the list price before a heavily hyped discount . |
| 16 | One contained business matters of the sort that households — even households in the depression years tend to accumulate over the years . |
| 17 | The reason for the fall in later years is that costs tend to increase as the product ages — apart from production costs there may be increased costs in selling against more up-to-date competition and sales tend to decrease . |
| 18 | The reason for the fall in later years is that costs tend to increase as the product ages — apart from production costs there may be increased costs in selling against more up-to-date competition — ; and sales tend to decrease . |
| 19 | Guests tend to congregate in the lounge for a chat over a drink from the ‘ snug ’ bar , or to watch TV . |
| 20 | Consequently pineapple mint plants tend to vary in the shape of the leaves . |
| 21 | Vertical packages tend to be of a pioneering nature , whereas horizontal packages tend to result from the development of existing ideas . |
| 22 | So the whoopers tend to congregate on the lochs near the sea , many of which are fertilised by nutrients draining from the surrounding croft — and farmland . |
| 23 | ‘ Most people tend to gather at the track and do the group session , without even stopping to think what the training effect is doing to their body , or how they are going to progress next week , or the week after . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ These are more the sorts of descriptions that people tend to use about the experience of working for me . ’ |
| 25 | Having become established , people tend to work within the tradition for reasons which are never properly articulated . |
| 26 | ‘ We are treading very cautiously because it is a very vexed question , and people tend to react from the gut , rather than the head , ’ he said . |
| 27 | In general , the rules leading to higher rates of survival and reproduction tend to increase in the population . |
| 28 | Locals tend to stick to the pleasures of eating out in the evening , but there are a few spots in town for night revels . |
| 29 | Embryos tend to stick to the surfaces of micropipettes and cavity blocks when 70% alcohol is reached and it may be more practical to remove and replace the alcohol rather than transfer embryos between cavity blocks . |
| 30 | However , animal experiments have shown that , if tobacco extracts are painted on rabbits ' ears , cancerous growths tend to appear on the skin of the ear . |