Example sentences of "[noun pl] tend [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Non-educational criteria almost invariably have priority in recruitment over educational ones and employers tend to have only the vaguest notions as to what particular qualifications entail or imply . |
| 2 | The smart or intelligent chargers tend to take over the user 's responsibility , detecting the amount of charge needed and eliminating any memory problems , but as stated previously , they are many time more expensive than the standard chargers . |
| 3 | Costings of domestic expenditures in industrial countries on reducing emissions tend to brush away the minor irrelevancies of the millions and concentrate on refining estimates to the nearest billion . |
| 4 | Things have changed now of course , but acts tend to tour just the Eastern side , so Western Australia still misses out because it 's such a bloody hike from Adelaide to Perth . ’ |
| 5 | Third World states tend to take over the foreign investments that they consider to be important for national development . |
| 6 | UNFORTUNATELY the majority of memorial dedications tend to receive only a fraction of the publicity they deserve . |
| 7 | Manufacturers tend to state only the input wattage especially on mains powered tools , but it is the power at the cutting edge that counts . |
| 8 | " Other candidates tend to write out a plan which is lengthy in the extreme , only to write out in sentence form the plan as an answer . " |
| 9 | It has been suggested that the prevalent west and south-west winds tend to set up a longshore drift towards Portland , so that the majority of coarse material accumulates at that end . |
| 10 | Egon Zehnder consultants tend to play down the headhunter image , now freely accepted by most of the Big Four's directors , and see themselves , like their European colleagues , as management consultants . |
| 11 | Bonus payments tend to make up a larger share of earnings in Japan at about one-quarter of the total giving employers more room to adjust wages in line with changes in levels of economic activity . |
| 12 | But egalitarian feminists tend to play down the value of biological explanations . |
| 13 | However , if the arbitrage portfolios tend to contain roughly the same subset of shares , there will be little direct pressure on the prices of the remaining constituents of the index . |
| 14 | The early sea urchins tend to have rather a large number of plates in a much less regular mosaic than their later relatives . |