Example sentences of "[noun pl] tends [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enthusiasm generated by this approach can , however , blind ; the simplicism , the ‘ nothing butism ’ as Julian Huxley would have said , of reducing all functional explanations of complex behaviour to calculations concerning the relative fitnesses ( see p. 42 ) of gene-bearers tends to miss the major significance of human beings to other human beings . |
| 2 | This integration of production across national borders tends to increase the overall volume of world trade because a good changes hands at various levels of production and not just at the final stage . |
| 3 | THE physics of tiny particles tends to attract the big : big machines , big budgets and big personalities . |
| 4 | Middleclass youths are often ‘ mouths ’ but rarely become gougers because the latter require an element of ‘ pure badness ’ , which from the view of the police tends to exclude the middle classes , for ‘ pure badness ’ derives from being ( or appearing to be ) educationally subnormal , coming from ‘ bad homes ’ , or having a history of crime . |
| 5 | Kyle and Allsop ( 1982a ) examined how recent research on deaf children tends to confirm the usual findings of poor speech and reading performance . |