Example sentences of "tends [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Botulism tends to remain in one location , so it 's not a threat to Slimbridge . |
| 2 | This research is of particular importance for a consideration of prevention because the findings demonstrate a clear link between a very similar notion of childhood lack of care to that of Brown and his colleagues , premarital pregnancy and later emotional vulnerability and psychosocial difficulty , but also show that the chain of adverse experience tends to continue into successive generations . |
| 3 | How each person tends to proceed through the design process will be unique but the overall constraints imposed on whoever tackles the job will be identical . |
| 4 | It tends to proceed by a process of analogy . |
| 5 | Too many of the minor roles become cameos , and a cameo is either an ornament or a blot , but in either case tends to detract from the momentum of a film . |
| 6 | I do n't think it 's a er maybe it 's because the background , I think , I 'm just trying to make up my mind why it loses a bit of interest , and I think what happens is , that the background being , having all this foliage which is lots of light pouring on er , all this sort of twiggery round here is er picking up lots of highlights and that tends to detract from the fairly plain shapes and smooth surfaces of the gourds . |
| 7 | It tends to go on strike by pulling a muscle or twisting a joint . |
| 8 | This is part of public law but tends to go under the name of constitutional law . |
| 9 | 1983 ) , the allocation of referrals concerning elderly people tends to go to untrained social work assistants or students . |
| 10 | When we discussed it , it became clear that there is a wide spectrum of response to the whole issue of private care , that the response from within the statutory services tends to be one of suspicion , tends to be one of sometimes a fairly moralistic approach and this is quite at odds with the response we are seeing from the government which tends to go to the other end of the spectrum and be promoting private care as the solution to many of the problems of service provision and volume that are being encountered at the moment . |
| 11 | If we listen to music which continues for too long without change the mind tends to go to sleep , and at best listening becomes an effort , so that in spite of our concentration other thoughts tend to slip in . |
| 12 | The local authority committee member tends to go in dread of anything which may scandalise the electorate , voluntary organisations look to the man in the street for approval and funding . |
| 13 | However , there is a study which tends to go against this common sense reasoning . |
| 14 | Unlike chlorine which tends to kill at all concentrations , but takes longer , QACs are bactericidal only when reduced to a certain concentration after which they inhibit cell reproduction without killing . |
| 15 | According to the judge , the ‘ decency clause ’ another compromise with Congressmen who threatened to dissolve the NEA was so vaguely worded that it tends to impinge on the First Amendment 's guaranteed right to freedom of speech . |
| 16 | This is a most entertaining position , which tends to appeal to couples with a sense of humour — but do n't fall backwards — this could fracture his organ ( see overleaf ) . |
| 17 | The fact is that Schubert 's Symphonies are appallingly badly served at present , with the exception of the ‘ Unfinished ’ and ‘ Great ’ , although there too my heart tends to sink at the memory of even some of the established ‘ best buys ’ . |
| 18 | He noted that ‘ communication tends to flow into and out of the Pacific islands , but there is very little dialogue between the islands ’ . |
| 19 | When solution is added to the top-half of the cell , solvent in the lower-half tends to flow into the upper section to equalize the chemical potentials . |
| 20 | In bays , the tide tends to flow around the bay in one direction as it rises and then reverses as it falls . |
| 21 | Since then Jodie tends to sit at a separate table for interviews . |
| 22 | In talk directed towards specific participants , such as Brenda 's father and her brother , Brenda tends to accommodate to the addressee 's preferred variety . |
| 23 | This first object is therefore not a whole , coherent form , but is split between two forces which the infant tends to see as uncomplicated ideals : one wholly good object and one wholly bad object . |
| 24 | My own taste for formal furniture tends to fall between the ‘ Arts and Crafts ’ and ‘ Modern ’ , rather than ‘ Repro ’ , and yet looking at modern designs you see in exhibitions , I doubt their ‘ long-sit ’ comfort and , personally , I feel that the limits of acceptable elegance are frequently passed by many , in the cause of being different . |
| 25 | The futures price tends to fall over time towards the spot price , equalling the spot price on the delivery day , at which time the basis is zero . |
| 26 | But by distinguishing clearly between them in this methodological fashion it is possible to explore how far local state action tends to fall into one type rather than another when action on any one policy is considered . |
| 27 | A kitchen tends to fall into one of three categories depending on its physical limitations and your life pattern : it may be designed purely as a work room when all the other family activities go on in other rooms ; or it may be a room where the work is done and some or all family meals are taken ; or finally it may bc the real centre of the house , where work is done , meals are taken and where the family congregates . |
| 28 | After some experience at the fluid level the design tends to fall into a pattern of application areas and sales volume begins to increase . |
| 29 | After some experience at the fluid level the design tends to fall into a pattern of application areas and sales volume begins to increase . |
| 30 | The fact of taking charge or taking responsibility for a vulnerable elderly relative requires considerable moral courage which tends to fall to women ( Graham , 1983 ; Ungerson , 1987 ) . |