Example sentences of "[noun pl] tend [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , natural fibre such as bran products tend to bind to calcium , making it difficult for the body to use the calcium , making supplements more necessary than ever . |
| 2 | Polymer solutions tend to fall into category ( iii ) and the non-ideal behaviour can be attributed not only to the existence of a finite heat of mixing but also to the large difference in size between the polymer and solvent molecules . |
| 3 | Southerners tend to drink at home . |
| 4 | it is possible to write large and use the camera to reduce the size , but I find it better to do all artwork at the finished size because thin lines tend to disappear on reduction . |
| 5 | Girls on mountains tend to come into contact with more amphibious life than our men folk , on account of our toilet arrangements . |
| 6 | Boys are expected to be assertive go-getters , so parents tend to approve of aggression in their male offspring as ‘ manly ’ . |
| 7 | Eating disorders tend to come from childhood , or problems , or ways people have approached food in the past and the pressure is on women to be slim to fit into these categories are er , just more pressures that make it very difficult for somebody who has an eating disorder to sort the problem all these pressures just make it more difficult . |
| 8 | High technology industries are not tied down by transport costs : one tonne of microchips is worth anything up to 100 000 times a tonne of steel plate , so chips tend to travel by air . |
| 9 | Subject Public libraries tend to budget by subject only if the staff is organized into subject specialist groups . |
| 10 | Western economists tend to talk at length about theory ; the easterners are mainly interested in practice . |
| 11 | These black bands tend to fade with age . |
| 12 | Costs tend to decrease as expertise in accessing data develops . |
| 13 | Pups tend to lengthen in body as they grow . |
| 14 | In academic psychology , black psychologists tend to work in administration , counselling , and ‘ race'-related research , areas which traditionally lack status . |
| 15 | Psychologists tend to focus on behaviour as the expression of certain psychological propensities while sociologists tend to see human behaviour as shaped in its course by the social context of human life . |
| 16 | The larger quantities tend to go to engineering firms — probably for degreasing in their test labs ’ . |
| 17 | If you miss breakfast , energy levels tend to crash by mid-morning , with symptoms including craving for sweet foods . |
| 18 | Feminist psychological theories tend to gloss over class relations , too . |
| 19 | A word of warning here : although video recorders have tape drives which are speed-controlled to high standards of accuracy , sound recorders tend to drift in speed . |
| 20 | An unusual aspect of these dreams is the cautious attitude that dreamers tend to adopt to flying — a rare example of commentary within a dream , of insight or lucidity . |
| 21 | Conventional conditioners tend to add to hair causing build-up . |
| 22 | Given the significance of regular heroin use , the psychological and physical dependency often associated with the drug , and the all-embracing nature of the lifestyle usually required to secure funds and supplies , users tend to live from moment to moment and find little time for reflecting upon their situation . |
| 23 | This is mainly due to the cost of preparing quality materials , bureau typically charge £20 for a fairly simple text-only slide and so users tend to stick with hand lettered foils or the flip-chart . |
| 24 | The Treasury employs sections which monitor the expenditure of the various departments and go over their estimates , the role of the Treasury being to insist on certain overall policies and ceilings on expenditure while the spending departments tend to argue in favour of certain policy objectives or programmes , hoping that if these are accepted , the necessary funds will be forthcoming . |
| 25 | Ballet simply does not figure in black or working-class lives ; such children tend to go into dance through rock music , reggae , discos — and that means modern dance . |
| 26 | Children tend to come into care after upsetting events at home , such as a mother 's illness or following the trauma of eviction and homelessness . |
| 27 | The brain 's control systems tend to deteriorate with age so that , for instance , our balance gets less good . |
| 28 | More importantly , Weberian approaches tend to concentrate on occupation and neglect wealth as a crucial element in the class structure . |
| 29 | The same trends tend to occur at work . |
| 30 | All of the studies which have looked at the effect of maturity on mispricings ( Bhatt and Cakici , 1990 ; Klemkosky and Lee , 1991 ; MacKinlay and Ramaswamy , 1988 ; Twite , 1991a ; Strickland and Xu , 1992 ; Yadav and Pope , 1990 ; 1992b ) have found that mispricings tend to decline in size and frequency as delivery approaches . |