Example sentences of "[noun pl] tend [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A substantial number of miscible blends have now been discovered using this principle and it is possible to identify certain groups or repeat units , which when incorporated in polymer chains tend to enter into these intermolecular interactions and enhance the miscibility . |
| 2 | Guerilla campaigns and non-established religions tend to operate in this way . |
| 3 | He was however er reasonably clear as to the speed at which local authorities tend to deal with these matters , he said that it always takes a long time and getting any answer out of the local authority might well take somewhere between six months and up to two years , he thought that perhaps eighteen months was a reasonable guess before he would actually manage to get somebody if Paul were to move as er , it maybe well occur to here or a different local authority then of course the application would just go back to square one and that would lead to more delay . |
| 4 | Most referees will tell you that when a new directive comes out on a particular law , referees tend to concentrate on that law , sometimes at the expense of refereeing other laws . |
| 5 | It might be fair to say that the paintings Picasso executed during the following eighteen or so months tend to look like all tribal art , an indication that he was ultimately interested and immersed in its spirit and its formal principles rather than in any of its individual manifestations . |
| 6 | In the crystal these rods tend to roll over each other and change position when thermally agitated . |
| 7 | Indian companies tend to allocate at most two per cent of turnover to R&D as against 15 per cent by US firms . |
| 8 | I mean if you ask what happens when electrons drop down from one orbit to another inside the atom , the emit light , which is the thing we are familiar with , but erm physicists tend to think of this as particles which they call photons . |
| 9 | Moreover , cost-push writers tend to subscribe to several versions of the same basic hypothesis at one and the same time . |
| 10 | If one activity is not taxed and everything else is , resources tend to shift to that activity in excess of what would happen if people had free choice . |
| 11 | Apart from a few straightforward effects ( slow motion , freeze frame ) , art movies tend to fall outside this area , because by and large SFX are expensive and time-consuming , whereas art movies of limited appeal tend to be made on relatively low budgets . |
| 12 | As you might expect from such headlong cross-breeding and hybridizing in the incessant search for something different and new , the various types are so widely stretched that the edges tend to run into each other and merge , and the dividing line becomes ever more difficult to discern . |
| 13 | Slugs tend to concentrate in such refuges , presumably because they give protection from desiccation . |
| 14 | Men tend to talk like that do n't they ? |
| 15 | Brummies tend to shrug off such prejudices comments . |