Example sentences of "[noun sg] tend [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proposals to limit the sovereignty of parliament tend to centre on the introduction of a written constitution with judicial review and the entrenchment of a Bill of Rights as some kind of " higher " law beyond easy parliamentary repeal . |
| 2 | Given these factors , in particular the fact that default premia tend to vary over the trade cycle , it is not a trivial task to isolate factors related to competition in the new issue market . |
| 3 | The top layer of fabric tends to slip over the bottom layer while under the pressure foot , so carefully machine the seam over the needles and tacking , following the direction of the nap ( i.e. , the direction in which the pile is lying ) . |
| 4 | Your face will become pinker because of increased blood circulation — when masks dry , they ‘ pinch ’ the skin and blood tends to rush to the surface . |
| 5 | Massively symbolized by the uniform itself , as Douglas ( 1973 : 16 ) indicates , this obsession tends to focus on the body , for ‘ the more value people set on social constraints , the more value they set on symbols of bodily control ’ . |
| 6 | Whereas the disorder associated with violent demonstrations , riots or industrial confrontation tends to focus on the defence or assertion of ‘ rights ’ which are perceived as being violated or denied , football hooliganism is an issueless form of activity , pursued primarily for pleasure and excitement , and to achieve the status and respect of one 's peers . |
| 7 | Given the fact that soil conservation as a government policy was a colonial phenomenon , it is perhaps not surprising that in post-colonial Africa at least , foreign aid tended to move into the vacuum left by the colonial administration . |
| 8 | So as less salty water comes into contact with more salty water , the two water masses shift ( the fresher mass tending to float on the saltier mass ) . |
| 9 | Personnel : Salary differentials 20–30 per cent over comparable civilian work tend to siphon off the better qualified . |
| 10 | Competitiveness tends to creep into the work in ways which frequently blind the participants to the real issues being worked on . |
| 11 | For although works were still passed to productive intermediaries , their general ownership tended to remain in the producer 's hands . |
| 12 | There were important divisions over tactics — the older guard tended to disapprove of the wave of terrorist attacks mounted by younger members between 1901 and 1907 . |
| 13 | Decision-making tended to centre on the issuing of directives and instructions . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | In bays , the tide tends to flow around the bay in one direction as it rises and then reverses as it falls . |
| 16 | This is not to say music programming does n't attract money — it does — but money tends to congregate around the celebrity-strewn rock extravaganza , which is not our line at all . |
| 17 | Shareholder apathy tends to work in the bidder 's favour because the 75 per cent majority is based on those who actually come to the meeting and vote ( or vote by proxy ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If income is over £100,000 accounts will be fully audited , but for many charities income tends to fluctuate around the £100,000 mark . |
| 20 | The new social divisions in the rural community tend to cut across the old class divides of the former occupational community . |
| 21 | Because of the workings of the housing market the local working population tends to congregate on the village council housing estate ( where one is available ) , where the closely knit patterns of neighbourly association which were part of the occupational community are retained . |
| 22 | Both schools of thought defined here , then , would claim to have as their central focus the child 's welfare , although it appears that the ‘ society-as-parent ’ school more often uses this phrase or phrases like it , while the other group tends to talk about the family . |
| 23 | Can I just say from a practical point of view , primary classes are fairly static sort of places , you 've got the teacher in the class all day , and if they say well let's have a micro in our classroom today that can be done , whereas a secondary teacher tends to wander round the school with a load of books under one arm and a bag of equipment under the other arm , and they 've also got to carry a micro round or move a micro from one classroom to another — it 's physically difficult , so in practice the primary teachers seem to find it easier to fit in with micros . |
| 24 | Auxiliary need tends to occur in the same syntactic environments as at all , ever and any , which are typically found in so-called non-assertive sentences . |
| 25 | ( The French population tended to shift to the towns much more slowly ; we are told the rate was about 3 per cent per decade down to 1911 , and this had been true for a century . ) |
| 26 | Psycho-social stress tends to occur in the form of debilitating negative emotions — anger , guilt , jealousy , fear , worry and resentment . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Compromise tends to occur at the level of implementation ’ . |
| 29 | Myopia tends to progress throughout the growing period and spectacles may have to be changed every six to twelve months . |
| 30 | Characterising the individual speaker 's topic as ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ incorporates both that element which the conversational analyst tends to abstract as the ‘ topic of conversation ’ for the participants ( 'What we 're talking about' ) and the individual speaker 's version ( 'I think' ) , as he/she makes a conversational contribution . |