Example sentences of "[noun pl] tend [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In proportion as its acts tend to promote the same end , its conduct may be termed organised and its several actions correlated . |
| 2 | In the end , only the action is viable , so that all these essays tend to match the inside ethnography and are nullified by neglect or have any contentious matter treated as ‘ privileged information ’ , for as Templeton ( 1980 : 904 ) argues ‘ the police fear that if you have a better understanding of society , you are in a better position to change it — the very exercise [ they ] are reluctant to engage in ’ . |
| 3 | In practice professional valuers tend to prefer the comparative method and builders the residual method , but for valuations for annual financial or management accounts it would perhaps be prudent to take an average of the result obtained using both methods . |
| 4 | Boys from unskilled , working-class homes tend to have the hardest time ; at 11 years , 36 per cent were beaten with an implement by the father , the mother or both . |
| 5 | The estimates of these contingencies tend to consider the worst outcome from the point of view of the local authorities . |
| 6 | Small shopkeepers tend to support the Liberal Democrats , but Mr Kaifu wants to please a more important supporter , Mr Bush . |
| 7 | The only major difference between such accounts and pluralist accounts is that pluralists tend to describe the specific political pressures without attempting to relate them to broader theories of the relationship between state , society and economy . |
| 8 | But , as Kapla notes of Mitchell , feminist Lacanians tend to assimilate the linguistic unconscious to ideology , and to leave ideology 's relation to the material world unclear . |
| 9 | The traditional buildings tend to reflect the considerable regional differences in types of farming and in the methods of housing and threshing the crops or housing and feeding the livestock . |
| 10 | The difference between the two groups is that slim individuals tend to get the overall balance between food intake and energy expenditure right , while overweight people generally do not . |
| 11 | What is undoubtedly clear is that during these years Henry 's power was still steadily advancing , though most modern writers tend to create the false impression of a king entirely preoccupied with the awkward domestic problem of the quarrel with Thomas Becket . |
| 12 | Legal principles tend to reflect the basic values that the legal system is committed to uphold . |
| 13 | The result of this link is that the most efficient producers tend to have the shortest development lead time . |
| 14 | Hormone changes tend to relax the cardiac sphincter and this , together with pressure from the growing baby , can result in regurgitation of fluid plus a burning pain in the lower chest . |
| 15 | There are so many on the market that many horse owners tend to use the cheapest supplement they can find , but this may not be the best . |
| 16 | CURRENT fashion trends in glasses tend to favour the continental look with neater eye sizes , particularly in metal and metal/plastic frames to the fore . |
| 17 | Crews and sponsors tend to frequent the same restaurants , pubs and hotels . |
| 18 | Hypothetical consent theories tend to share the instrumental attitudes of the Hobbesian tradition . |
| 19 | Such histories tend to ignore the extraordinary extent and longevity of certain earlier trade patterns to which Europe itself was merely peripheral . |
| 20 | For example , edges tend to activate the visual system more than areas of uniform brightness . |
| 21 | Both standard tissue culture and organ culture techniques tend to disturb the normal relationships of the tissue layers and , therefore , are applicable only where disruption to morphogenesis is irrelevant . |
| 22 | While Mexico exports food , but not processed foods , foreign food processors are net importers , and where TNCs use local raw materials the contracting arrangements tend to drive the poorer peasants off the land . |
| 23 | The first column shows that the poorest regions tend to have the highest ratios of foreign debt to social product . |
| 24 | High average wind speeds tend to stunt the upward growth of plants and encourage the lateral growth of dwarf forms , e.g. of Calluna vulgaris or Juniperus communis , though prostrate forms of the former are not encountered as frequently as expected on exposed mountain plateaux . |
| 25 | However , if the sands are mixed with silt , porosity may be low because the fine silt particles tend to clog the void dense igneous rocks can hold and transmit water if they are fractured , although the pore space is negligible . |
| 26 | Bunce is now the established outside centre and on an Australian tour the top players tend to get the big weekend games , and the new chums like Ellis play the easier mid-week affairs . |
| 27 | As a result of the bi-modal pattern of female involvement in paid employment ( reflecting the demands of child rearing ) , women tend to be absent from work during the period in which men tend to acquire the post-entry professional qualifications which are required for promotion . |
| 28 | Men tend to have the technological skills that enable command of technology , women simply to operate equipment or assemble its components . |
| 29 | Thus scientists in many fields tend to emphasise the practical pay-off of their research . |
| 30 | I am already conscious of the manner in which research students tend to plough the same predictable paths through archival sources . |