Example sentences of "[pers pn] tends [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tends to wear full denim skirts with lace borders and her hair falls over her face while she plays . |
| 2 | But Weir 's music does not deny us beauty — she tends to re-organise conventional sounds in her own particular way . |
| 3 | ‘ She tends to prefer milder dishes but she also really enjoys Indian food , ’ Nayab says . |
| 4 | He tends to mention antecedent events after subsequent ones , and causes after effects . |
| 5 | Here , as in his other earlier works , he tends to follow Roman models with plenty of ensembles and short instrumental pieces , e.g. Act I opens with a sinfonia infernale and includes two chiamate , one marked alla caccia , which could be for horns . |
| 6 | Second , in his writing he tends to present actual homosexuals ( e.g. Loerke in Women in Love ) as decadent others who draw off that which for Lawrence complicates the ideal homoerotic brotherhood . |
| 7 | I do not advocate using a glossy varnish , because it tends to give false readings as you try to shot the float down . |
| 8 | To some types of mind work at the Chancery Bar appears dull and repellent , because it tends to lack human interest . |
| 9 | Modern archaeology is much more scientific and it 's , it tends to excavate entire layers , layer , by layer and every little thing is relevant , you know , they , the little pot shard , erm , even bits of excrement , apparently are very interesting to archaeologists , because they 're sure people were eating , and things like this , er , you know , remnants of fire was charcoal , everything . |
| 10 | Important as this is , it tends to ignore other histories . |
| 11 | But I think it tends to save any type of … any misunderstandings that may later take place as a result of it being a one-on-one deal . |
| 12 | If it examines them separately , it tends to reiterate dominant discourses of working-class social or even biological deviance , by studying working-class subjects ' inadequacies at work , their problems when unemployed , and their failures in education . |
| 13 | It tends to encourage any tendency to the suppression of initiative , and to foster cautious conservatism , perhaps to the point of atrophy . |
| 14 | But it tends to achieve each draw with a high , shared score . |