Example sentences of "they tend [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because Bem and other gender schema theorists assume that rationality and cognitive unity characterize psychological subjects , they tend to see the break-up of gender schemata as hindered by dominant social relations , but still as fairly straightforward in itself . |
| 2 | One disadvantage of general library skills workbooks is that they tend to teach the use of the library and its resources in isolation from other studies . |
| 3 | But before players go out they tend to kick the wall to make sure their boots are on properly . |
| 4 | In Dicey 's words it meant that ‘ whenever men act in concert for a common purpose they tend to create a body , which from no fiction of law but from the very nature of things , differs from the individuals of whom it is constituted . ’ |
| 5 | Moreover they tend to serve an audience of converts , who already have some basic understanding and who are sufficiently interested to want to know more . |
| 6 | ‘ Michael had a lot of lunches , and in New York they tend to ask a man on his own , ’ she said . |
| 7 | They te it , they tend to do a lot like in the holidays and half term , when they can get together , because obviously there are other demands on them with Brownies and Guides and stuff like that . |
| 8 | The use or significance of ‘ stills ’ and long shots in this context is that they tend to lessen the impact of the coverage , making it less attractive and exciting , thus diminishing , so the argument goes , the likelihood of imitation . |
| 9 | The disquieting feature of the pronouncements of the House of Lords is that by flatly insisting upon the literal rule without expressing any qualifications , they tend to repress the use of the traditional tools by which the judges have in the past introduced rationality into the statute law . |
| 10 | ‘ They tend to get a lot of children cutting through their grounds . |
| 11 | They make sure they can do the basics well before experimenting , where in Wales they tend to spin the ball straight away . |
| 12 | Of course , since they 're not merely ‘ buying ’ but ‘ finding ’ , they tend to develop a nose for hidden treasures . |
| 13 | By contrast they tend to exaggerate the unacceptability of proposals from the other person , ‘ a derisory offer ’ , ‘ completely unreasonable ’ , ‘ laughable ’ and so on . |
| 14 | They tend to throw the ball rather than kicking it 60 yards up the park . ’ |
| 15 | You can also get insulated socketed metal tubes , but unless there are encased in brick or stone blocks , they tend to look a bit industrial . |
| 16 | Like all Trolls they will eat anything and through force of circumstance they tend to eat a lot of rocks . |
| 17 | An example often quoted is that of Bernard Bloch , who defined the style of a text as " the message carried by the frequency distributions and transitional probabilities of its linguistic features , especially as they differ from those of the same features in the language as a whole Such definitions appeal to the empiricist , who would like to reduce a subjectively perceived phenomenon to something objective , but they tend to alarm the student of literature . |
| 18 | So relaxed in Italy , according to one anonymous wag , that they tend to build the house first and apply for planning permission later . |
| 19 | When people spend so much time seeing each other behave so well , they tend to become a bit intolerant of others less perfect . |
| 20 | They tend to have a consciousness of kind , a feeling of kinship with other group members . |
| 21 | They tend to have a quality of immediacy and interest and they are , generally , believed . |
| 22 | They tend to have a lot more disk space than memory . |
| 23 | By contraction they tend to compress the segment and are therefore important in respiratory movements . |
| 24 | When they are given a chance to take a big decision about reform they tend to make the right — meaning the most reformist — decision . |
| 25 | Because the prevalent methods of handling seasonality , in particular the use of seasonally adjusted variables , are ad hoc they tend to distort the structure of these models . |
| 26 | They tend to hamper every search for factual reality , including research in science . |
| 27 | They tend to attract a bit of attention if you 're an exhibitionist . |
| 28 | They tend to favour a minimum of two or three reporting to one man at a level above them . |