Example sentences of "tend [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus scientists in many fields tend to emphasise the practical pay-off of their research . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Within lesson structures of this kind , teachers do not , in fact , orientate themselves so much to the needs of individual students , but tend to treat the whole class as a kind of ‘ collective student ’ . |
| 4 | Durability is still a point of concern because most tend to lose a certain amount of loft with extended use . |
| 5 | Elderly people , with those in later middle age , are more likely to be shocked or outraged by sexual practices which they consider undesirable — and tend to see a wider range of sexual practices as such . |
| 6 | Firstly , despite the functionalist tendencies already mentioned , The History of Sexuality does offer an alternative view of seeing the relationship between sexuality and wider social forces to the traditional functionalism of many ( particularly ) left interpretations , which tend to see a direct relationship between the nuclear family and organisation of sexuality , either in the interests of capitalism or as directly responsive to the urges of ‘ modernisation ’ . |
| 7 | There will , however , always be those who tend to see the negative side and may well suggest you ‘ do n't lose weight too quickly or you 'll look old ’ or ‘ you 'll only put it back on twice as fast if you lose it quickly ’ . |
| 8 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |
| 9 | In proportion as its acts tend to promote the same end , its conduct may be termed organised and its several actions correlated . |
| 10 | If we progress past the 2nd playing round in either — we tend to go a long way … otherwise we tendto get caught cold as it were … and in the FA cup draw the finalists/winners … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Small shopkeepers tend to support the Liberal Democrats , but Mr Kaifu wants to please a more important supporter , Mr Bush . |
| 13 | Such results as are available tend to support the associative view . |
| 14 | Politicians tend to support the traditional approach to budgeting . |
| 15 | Professor Nils Shakkabaek of Copenhagen University , who co-ordinated the study , says that a corresponding increase in genito-urinary abnormalities and incidents of testicular cancer tend to support the environmental conclusion . |
| 16 | i ) Films of risky junctions tend to contain a great deal of information related to risk . |
| 17 | Thus polar groups tend to encourage a higher T g than non-polar groups of similar size , as seen when comparing polypropylene , poly ( vinyl chloride ) and polyacrylonitrile . |
| 18 | More unusual makes , such as Eastern-bloc cars , tend to suffer a steeper decline in value , fuelled by fears about cost and availability of spare parts . |
| 19 | Here are some examples which confirm that professional Japanese and Chinese translators are sensitive to the difference in function of the passive in English and in their target languages and generally tend to replace a large number of English passive structures with active structures in their target texts in order to avoid negative connotations . |
| 20 | Legal principles tend to reflect the basic values that the legal system is committed to uphold . |
| 21 | International comparisons are of relatively little value because they tend to highlight the different priorities and practices of different countries . |
| 22 | For example , edges tend to activate the visual system more than areas of uniform brightness . |
| 23 | They tend to receive an unsatisfactory education , harbour poor employment prospects and have few ways of creating a positive self-concept . |
| 24 | The heterogeneity of labour and the job-specificity of skills tend to create a strong linkage between workers and their employers and , in some cases , cause firms to fill as many of their vacancies as possible by means of internal promotions . |
| 25 | When a bloke has been sexually excited , his ‘ love juices ’ tend to create a slight blockage in the urinary pipe for a little while . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Detainees included women and children , and were virtually all civilians , tending to confirm the numerous reports of shooting of prisoners of war [ for UN report by Tadeusz Mazowiecki see p. 39035 ; for statements by Non-Aligned Movement on Yugoslavia issue see pp. 38937 ; 39122 ] . |
| 28 | It is not simply that the former communist societies in Eastern Europe were characterized , to a greater or lesser extent , by relative economic backwardness and political authoritarianism , and consequently had little appeal as models for the future development of any advanced industrial society , but that the democratic socialism of social democratic and labour parties in the capitalist world , despite its real achievements in improving the conditions of life of the working class , has come to be more critically judged as tending to promote an excessive centralization of decision making , growth of bureaucracy and regulation of the lives of individuals , and has lost something of the persuasive character it once had as a movement aiming to create a new civilization . |
| 29 | It does n't here , that 's fine , it 's great here , but , at the bottom because it , it 's not being lit quite so well as the top you 're tending to lose a little bit of quality , especially there . |
| 30 | These qualification courses form a greater proportion of the total training carried out by the libraries who listed only a few programmes for 1984/5 ( see Table 9 ) , in general tending to constitute the main type of development training for non-professionals , especially in smaller libraries . |