Example sentences of "tends [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps possible to say that a particular child tends towards introversion and , further , that he or she is therefore more likely to engage with characters such as Tom in Philippa Pearce 's Tom 's midnight garden , Max in Pauline Clarke 's The twelve and the genii , or Tolly in Lucy Boston 's Green Knowe stories , than a more extrovert reader . |
| 2 | Paradise still tends towards blandness in places but overall this is a strong , proud piece of artistic solidarity which merits notice beyond the middle-of-the-road bargain bins to which it has already been consigned . |
| 3 | Curtly Ambrose : in the second and third figures the front knee tends towards hyper-extension |
| 4 | Sommer ( 1972a ) determined that with increasing substitution of Mn 2 + into Mg 2 + rather than Ca 2 + sites , the colour tends towards red ( see also Amieux , 1982 ) . |
| 5 | As the number of phases increases the reduction factor tends towards unity and the system inertia has less effect on the low-speed pull-out torque . |
| 6 | Regular movement tends towards monotony , giving the effect of a hymn-tune . |
| 7 | In peacetime military technology tends towards inertia . |
| 8 | The resultant strain tends towards symmetry as the crystal grows , so that although snow crystals exhibit great variety of detail , little difficulty arises in their recognition . |
| 9 | The danger of this opinion is that it tends towards Manichaeanism , the heresy which says that Good and Evil are equal and opposite and the universe is a battlefield ; however the Inklings may have had a certain tolerance for that ( see C. S. Lewis 's Mere Christianity , Book 2 , section 2 ) . |
| 10 | The continued addictive use of any substance or behaviour tends in time to lead to problems and to damaging consequences of use . |
| 11 | Notturno indiano tends in fact to a conciliatory posture . |
| 12 | Where data do exist on support between kin across households , this tends in effect to be limited to documenting the networks through which support flowed and the kind of support which was given , and can give very little direct evidence about the underlying structure of social relations which supported these exchanges . |
| 13 | Tends to git over-excited . ’ |
| 14 | His book is not particularly well arranged , and tends to heaviness and repetition . |
| 15 | Fudenberg and Levine ( 1988,1989 ) have established that in an infinite horizon reputation game , as the discount factor tends to unity , any type 's payoff at a Nash equilibrium is bounded below by the payoff to masquerading as a dominant strategy type . |
| 16 | As the discount factor tends to unity , so the equilibrium alters to make it harder to acquire a reputation as a z = 0 type , by extending the length of the temporary reputation which all types enjoy . |
| 17 | If , the intersection between the origin and ω approaches zero as ta ; tends to unity . |
| 18 | Whilst , for the cases the intersection on the other side of a ) becomes unboundedly large as δ tends to unity . |
| 19 | We can use these properties of the intersections to deduce the changes in the equilibrium strategy as δ tends to unity , because our method of constructing the solution ( see Fig.2 in the Appendix ) relies on the properties of these intersections . |
| 20 | In particular , as δ tends to unity the above implies that approaches zero if and approaches infinity if . |
| 21 | As ta ; tends to unity the types become progressively more far sighted , so to ensure that it is still not worth engaging in the permanent imitation of z = 0 the benefits from following the equilibrium strategy are increased . |
| 22 | The temporary reputation achieved by the other types lasts longer and is more profitable as the discount factor tends to unity . |
| 23 | And while the settings are evocative , Dick tends to street-drop as if advertising an A-Z . |
| 24 | In a letter to Henry Savage on 2 December 1913 he writes : ‘ I should like to know why nearly every man that approaches greatness tends to homosexuality , whether he admits it or not ’ ( Letters , 1 15 ) . |
| 25 | The first is that the wind tends to lift the upwind wing-tip and the second is that the glider tends to weathercock into the wind . |
| 26 | The state earnings related pension ( SERP ) scheme also tends to disadvantage women as much as the basic pension , and recent changes to the SERP scheme have worsened their position . |
| 27 | From eqn ( 9.4 ) it is quite clear that as r tends toward rO then t tends to infinity . |
| 28 | If , the elasticity is ; where , the elasticity increases with the number of firms and approaches as n tends to infinity . |
| 29 | If we assume , as seems reasonable , that the total salary bill declines with the grade in the organization , this implies that ; in turn this means that the average cost approaches as G tends to infinity . |
| 30 | An asymptotically efficient and more fruitful estimation procedure would involve the estimation of all coefficients jointly , imposing the cross-equation restrictions ( ‘ asymptotically' means ‘ as the sample size tends to infinity ’ ) . |