Example sentences of "[noun pl] tend [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | The majority of funds tend to come from the banking sector , although commercial bills are also important . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Similarly , interest in leisure activities and hobbies tends to decline after the age of 35 . |
| 8 | Inclusion of the GFF and LPF into the bigram experiments appears to be less stable than for the trigram experiments — the number of top ranked correct words tends to drop for the bigram cases but remains almost constant for the trigram cases . |
| 9 | Our evaluation identified some of these shared features , and showed how primary schools tended to cluster towards a number of broad types in respect of certain issues bearing on the management of PNP : for example , the roles undertaken by support staff and coordinators , and by deputy heads ; the managerial styles of senior staff ; the management structures which framed the defining and implementing of school policy ; the policies themselves ; heads ' stances on the ideas and practices which have constituted mainstream primary thinking since Plowden ; and heads ' leadership styles . |
| 10 | Remarkable special effects tend to get in the way of the story . |
| 11 | ‘ Midlife is a time when suppressed emotions tend to come to the surface . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Guests tend to congregate in the lounge for a chat over a drink from the ‘ snug ’ bar , or to watch TV . |
| 17 | Consequently pineapple mint plants tend to vary in the shape of the leaves . |
| 18 | Vertical packages tend to be of a pioneering nature , whereas horizontal packages tend to result from the development of existing ideas . |
| 19 | All timbers tend to come to an equilibrium with the relative humidity of the surrounding air . |
| 20 | Moreover , when in 1870 urban administrative councils ( dumy ) analogous to the rural zemstvos were established , even the most prominent commoners tended to defer to the minority of nobles represented on the councils . |
| 21 | As to the amount left for food and clothing after rent and a more flexible sum for heat had been deducted , wives tended to act as the buffer against the needs of husbands and to a lesser extent children . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ By making your best features look good , the bad bits tend to recede into the background . ’ |
| 24 | From time to time the authorities got wind of these breaches of regulations and punished clubs , but they did not regularly inspect the books and revelations of extra payments tended to emerge as a result of other inquiries . |
| 25 | Because stylolites and solution seams are zones of preferential solution within a sediment , small fragments of less soluble minerals tend to accumulate along the solution seam . |
| 26 | The Pigou-Friedman view that competitive market economies tend to gravitate towards a state of overall full employment is now such a firmly entrenched proposition in macroeconomics that it has almost gained the status of an axiom . |
| 27 | As is the case with most areas of text-linguistics , linguists tend to concentrate on the analysis of signalling devices in English and extrapolate from that to other languages . |
| 28 | ‘ And though , strictly speaking , they are only allowed in the garden , the children tend to seep into the pub and even to fetch drinks for their parents . |
| 29 | Furthermore children tend to identify with the parent of the same sex . |
| 30 | Similarly , mothers of babies and children tend to look towards the experience and activities of those women whom they perceive as " successful " , " caring " and " attractive " in the maternal role . |