Example sentences of "[vb -s] tend [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the model he develops tends to distort the past in order to exaggerate the extent of change . |
| 2 | It is only a couple of years ago that Jenkins rejected out of hand the Wales involvement he has now taken on , and — until Davies and the Wales manager , Robert Norster , beat their path to his door — he has tended to use the expression ‘ poisoned chalice ’ whenever anyone sounded out his interest or rather the lack of it . |
| 3 | In contrast , conventional medicine has tended to emphasise the treatment of specific physical lesions , by means of drugs and surgery , with a minimum of conscious involvement on the part of patients . |
| 4 | Each has tended to discount the work of the others as the product of brainwashing , special pleading or wishful thinking . |
| 5 | The internal organization of state policy-making has tended to reflect the lines of cleavage within dominant economic groups of civil society . |
| 6 | Before examining these propositions I must make good the comment that the concentration on the moment of charging has tended to lead the inquiry in the wrong direction . |
| 7 | Often ill-informed and repetitive , the debate has tended to ignore the interests of the client and has frequently been conducted by those whose minds are already made up on the issue . |
| 8 | The literature on factories in rural areas has tended to over-emphasize the role of the Development Commission , for there are a number of other agencies that provide industrial premises . |
| 9 | John Wakeham said : ‘ TV has tended to trivialise the campaign . |
| 10 | So though modem research has tended to discredit the idea of a medieval aristocracy ‘ of service ’ , to insist on blue blood for the great lines of the tenth and eleventh centuries , and to see in the later eleventh and the twelfth centuries an ever-sharper patrilineal descent obliterating other considerations in family history , it should not be forgotten that at least one great princely house was encouraged to view its progress in quite other terms . |
| 11 | In general , it is fair to say that the legally-sensitive nature of the statutory audit has tended to encourage the auditing profession to deflate shareholders ' expectations of audit . |
| 12 | A series of French-established puppet governments has tended to enhance the prestige of Ho 's government and to call in to question , on the part of the Vietnamese , the sincerity of French intentions to accord an independent status to Vietnam . |
| 13 | In this latter respect , government policy ( or the threat of intervention ) would seem to be the most significant factor tending to remove authority over collective bargaining to the national confederations.9 Attempts to align the outcome of wage negotiations with macroeconomic policy objectives have been one factor which has tended to raise the level of bargaining and it has played a significant role at certain periods in countries such as Holland , Norway and Austria . |
| 14 | In general the larger libraries engage in more structured training and much more training as a whole , than small libraries , and perhaps their domination in this field has tended to obscure the problems faced by smaller authorities who never could — or increasingly , no longer can-base their training programmes on the assumption that staff can easily , or frequently be released from their normal workplace : |
| 15 | We are , therefore , critical of the constitutional approach that has tended to dominate the field of constitutional study and the textbook accounts of British politics . |
| 16 | Chadwick was the first to attempt a general work on the origins of the Anglo-Saxons combining historical and archaeological evidence , a theme which has tended to dominate the subject to the present day . |
| 17 | His later work has tended to modify the distinctness of each of these , as well as exploring problems which arise with particular forms of knowledge ; for example , the fact that the social sciences may involve truths of several different logical kinds , or the difficulties of explicating the kind of knowledge embodied in literature and the arts . |
| 18 | ( i ) Mouse development has tended to become the paradigm of pre-implantation mammalian embryogenesis . |
| 19 | Firms supplying technically complex products that require technical service and advice often place a sales engineer in the market on a semi-permanent basis , which does tend to obviate the lack of commitment criticism somewhat . |
| 20 | Sport does tend to thrust the begging bowl at politicians , when it would be better employed preparing an unanswerable case for substantial state aid . |
| 21 | Anecdotal evidence does tend to support the view that owners exercise control but these instances are anything but the basis for generalizable statements across fields and decades . |
| 22 | The main strength of the theory is that it directs attention to the entrepreneurial or innovative personalities who seem to be so important in the developmental process , but even here the theory does tend to ignore the inconsistencies and contradictions that are inherent in explanations based on individual characteristics . |
| 23 | Erm the fact it 's now burning Australian coal does tend to undermine the arguments er but nevertheless it does have a good rail connection down to the coast , the p ports on the south coast where it can , can er take the stuff in from the er from the ports . |
| 24 | While this saves the lenders thousands on administration bills , it does tend to take the thrill out of falling interest rates . |
| 25 | Gain-up does tend to make the picture look rather grainy , though , so it is best to look on it as a last resort and reserve it for those times when a grainy picture is better than no picture at all . |
| 26 | Where as a functional group might be , for example , a no age group which does tend to dictate the properties of that compound . |