Example sentences of "[noun sg] tend [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( in fact , far from being considered inappropriate , the word ‘ bin ’ is now thought highly suitable among people who work with the mentally handicapped to describe large hospitals , but the irony tends to elude the general public ) . |
| 2 | The adoption of this form of reification in legal reasoning tends to conceal the distributive aim behind a rhetoric which is superficially compatible with liberalism . |
| 3 | Pure alcohol injection after an epinephrine injection tended to decrease the rebleeding rate in our series . |
| 4 | On the other hand , there are different levels and degrees of both conformity and dissent , and in a context where prevailing versions of good practice tended to emphasize the visual and organizational , a strategic surface conformity allowed the more subtle and perhaps significant aspects of practice to be retained and underlying attitudes and assumptions to persist . |
| 5 | Fig. 9 : a toroidal core tends to concentrate the magnetic field tangentially producing the same sensitivity pattern as a pair of bar cores . |
| 6 | In contrast , exploitation tends to involve the rapid diminution of resources , often to such an extent that the capacity for renewal is destroyed and optimum returns are short-lived . |
| 7 | News coverage tends to reduce the complex process of strikes down to a single issue . |
| 8 | But Nietzsche 's use of such terminology tends to mask the actual nature of the alternatives in question . |
| 9 | I told the National Farmers Union that I did not believe that unilateral action would help , because if it is taken , the British housewife tends to buy the cheaper product from the rest of Europe and , therefore , we export animal welfare problems to the rest of Europe . |
| 10 | People who work in a particular business tend to read the relevant trade and technical press , whether in the UK it be The Grocer , Marketing , Electronics Weekly , the British Baker , or whatever . |
| 11 | On the other hand , the differential tends to reduce the right-hand side of ( 7–10 ) , and there is clearly a value ( greater than I ) such that . |
| 12 | There can be little doubt that the process tends to alter the original character and ‘ feel ’ of a book , and only the owner can decide whether this should be accepted as part of the price for turning a blighted copy into a reasonably healthy one . |
| 13 | Most social and political theories formulated in the period immediately after the Second World War tended to view the industrialised societies of the West as set on a path of continuous economic and social development . |
| 14 | In other words , Labour 's ‘ pragmatic ’ response to the recurrent payments crisis tended to enhance the taken-for-granted desirability of sterling 's role as a world currency . |
| 15 | The average over-weight person tends to imagine the slim person 's day to go something like this . |
| 16 | In general , one viewpoint leans towards a class or power analysis of child care , while the other tends to take the existing social structure as given and to construe child care issues in more individualistic terms . |
| 17 | The party as a whole tended to represent the employed and the over-thirties . |
| 18 | Theoretically , we might expect this to be so , since the same environment tends to support the same kind of organisms , but in fact the persistence of some fossils appears to go far beyond what we know at the present day . |
| 19 | The pre-occupation with the delineation of a sex beast tends to mask the general reality of sex crime . |
| 20 | Of these societies ( outside those areas of disseminated settlement where the parish tended to become the first unit beyond the family and that of those neighbouring farmers who helped each other out at harvest and ploughing ) the most significant was the pueblo . |
| 21 | The administrative structure of Partnerships , with its heavy emphasis on co-ordinating different agencies , would in any case tend to inhibit the unorthodox . |
| 22 | In the other three novels frothy dialogue and sparkling wit tend to overshadow the deeper philosophical issues at stake . |
| 23 | Expressed crudely , advocates of this approach tend to locate the essential Nizan in the act of resignation itself and proceed to interpret his allegiance to communism in the light of the events of September 1939 . |
| 24 | The alternative name for a close relation , Hamburg parsley , is turnip-rooted , the root being the part for which it is grown , and ordinary parsley tends to follow the same root pattern . |
| 25 | Society tends to ignore the inherent sexuality of younger teenagers , especially girls , preferring to see them as innocent children , so consequently when girls do fall pregnant , they have few rights or benefits as mothers . |
| 26 | But this approach tends to neglect the monetary effects of budgetary decisions . |
| 27 | Natural language indexing tends to shift the intellectual effort necessary for effective retrieval to the end-user . |
| 28 | In English spelling , if a grammatical word and a lexical word sound the same , the grammatical word tends to have the shorter spelling. : e.g. for , four ; by , buy ; in , inn ; to , two ; I , eye ; etc . |
| 29 | Professor Nils Shakkabaek of Copenhagen University , who co-ordinated the study , says that a corresponding increase in genito-urinary abnormalities and incidents of testicular cancer tend to support the environmental conclusion . |
| 30 | The best example of this and of the way in which Switchboard tends to mirror the mainstream gay ( and still mainly male ) community lies in the organization 's response to AIDS . |