Example sentences of "tends [verb] these " in BNC.
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| 1 | A series of papers by Quigley and his associates ( e.g. Quigley et al. , 1976 ) tends to confirm these differences in syntax knowledge and handling . |
| 2 | The socialisation process tends to emphasise these conventional views . |
| 3 | Destroying the connections in a computer tends to isolate these colonies and leave them vulnerable to stimulation by spurious signals . |
| 4 | The fact that deafness is an emotive area of practice anyway tends to heighten these factors and can determine the eventual success of the learner . |
| 5 | Scientists disavow the Space Station as irrelevant , but Capitol Hill tends to bunch these things together as ‘ science ’ , and insists that we ca n't have it all . |
| 6 | The fact that English tends to make these ‘ order errors ’ is not particularly surprising since its system of tenses and conditional structures allow easy reference to events out of sequence , for example : |