Example sentences of "tend [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Cross , speaking at a press conference to mark the publication yesterday of The Military Balance 1989-90 , the institute 's authoritative annual survey of world armed forces , said that the cuts under way in the Warsaw Pact ‘ do tend to support Soviet claims of new thinking ’ . |
| 2 | The devolution of responsibility for funding higher education with the establishment of separate English , Scottish and Welsh Funding Councils will tend to emphasise regional priorities . |
| 3 | My view is , and it 's been all along , that that will put pressure on your budget rather than decrease it , because it will tend to emphasise high cost residential er , solution . |
| 4 | However , the salesforce composite method also has a number of disadvantages , which include : limited perspectives — salesforce estimates may tend to over-emphasise prevailing conditions , reacting ( or overreacting ) to localised or short run trends . |
| 5 | When one is aiming simply to identify an entity for a hearer , in the nature of things one will tend to find enduring characteristics more reliable as the means of doing so , although there will certainly be a proportion of cases where some " occasional " property is just as useful . |
| 6 | One would also tend to accept verbatim reports of judicial court proceedings , evidence given before special committees of enquiry , so long as one can genuinely believe that the people keeping the record were quite impartial and skilled in their work and that all they took down has been printed without editing . |
| 7 | Knowledge of risk-related information from non-risky junctions will thus also allow films seen in the judgment phase to be identified in the recognition phase , however , it will also tend to cause false alarms because the information may be shared by distractors . |
| 8 | Research has shown that over long periods of time , the stock market does tend to exhibit semi-strong efficiency . |
| 9 | However , because their gain is high at high frequencies they do tend to exhibit high-frequency instability . |
| 10 | The subject-matter of the problems dealt with by a law centre will tend to reflect local community conditions and housing , employment , social security and consumer problems are likely to be predominant . |
| 11 | By contrast , ‘ larks ’ might tend to avoid late-night parties in favour of early morning exercise : a matching of their chosen life-style and the properties of their body clock . |
| 12 | If activities have to be organized through the state , then advocates of public choice theory would tend to favour decentralized delivery systems rather than those organized through the departments of central government . |
| 13 | Even if used sensibly , capital-budgeting procedures will tend to discourage major initiatives and indicate strategies aimed at short-term returns . |
| 14 | Equally important is public confidence or acceptance of coinage ; as coinage is a convention , in the sense that its value is conventionally fixed by the authority of the state with the agreement of the public , it can only function if the value of the coinage , as fixed by the state , is accepted by those who use it ; otherwise , market forces will tend to discount overvalued coins towards their individual bullion values . |
| 15 | Companies dispersed in this way will tend to use local firms more than they do today , reinforcing a trend towards small-scale enterprises . |
| 16 | They will tend to stress long term objectives such as growth in assets , profitability , the degree and nature of diversification , earnings per share and social responsibility , and may specify the mission statement . |
| 17 | A short selection of some of these complementary groups is given in table 8.5 , where a polymer containing groups or composed of units from column 1 will tend to form miscible blends with polymers containing groups or composed of units from column 2 . |
| 18 | He certainly does tend to separate new techniques and technologies out from the total matrix of forces playing on production and reproduction , and to exaggerate their as it were naked power ; and he does underestimate the capacity of the capitalist media industries to channel the use made of them to suit their own interests , nullifying radical potential . |
| 19 | Advances in medical science , surgery , and sex hormone therapy should tend to reduce involuntary childlessness . |
| 20 | Thus , if a large proportion of cases , but no controls , have received radiotherapy , there will also be a systematic bias that will tend to exaggerate relative risks . |
| 21 | A region dominated by branch assembly facilities and devoid of senior decision-makers , in contrast , is likely not only suffer from a sense of remoteness from those who control its destiny , but will also tend to lack social diversity and cultural vitality . |
| 22 | Under these circumstances , market forces will tend to re-establish large firms again . |
| 23 | Of interest to us , however , is his attempt to address the question why , if the time of bleeding is the most fertile time , do women tend to shun male company just at this part of the cycle ? |
| 24 | They do tend to have single nylon that 's a single strip that just folds round . |
| 25 | It also involves a consideration of the interrelationships of class , gender , and ethnic inequalities , of the way in which , for example , black people may tend to have working-class jobs . |
| 26 | Concentrating finance at the ‘ short ’ end of the spectrum will also tend to raise short-term interest rates relative to long . |
| 27 | Clarke goes on to argue that Industrial Democracy as currently envisaged would actually tend to suppress industrial militancy and weaken entrenched working class resistance to capitalist control , thereby reducing the chances of ‘ genuine ’ workers ' control over production at some future date . |
| 28 | We found that older individuals showed less variability ; in other words , they became more ‘ set in their ways ’ and this would tend to stabilize daily rhythms . |
| 29 | This at least will tend to improve informal quality control and provide the care and attention to the goals of the work that may be missing from contract analysis . |
| 30 | The sufferer from alcoholism may or may not hide bottles but will very rarely run out of stock altogether " because you never know when you might need to entertain someone " — All sufferers from Chemical Dependency will tend to spend scarce money on alcohol or drugs rather than on food , clothing , housing or on unpaid bills . |