Example sentences of "tend [to-vb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In proportion as its acts tend to promote the same end , its conduct may be termed organised and its several actions correlated . |
| 2 | Not only are we all primed to look for regularities , we tend to perceive the same regularities . |
| 3 | Theoretically , we might expect this to be so , since the same environment tends to support the same kind of organisms , but in fact the persistence of some fossils appears to go far beyond what we know at the present day . |
| 4 | The alternative name for a close relation , Hamburg parsley , is turnip-rooted , the root being the part for which it is grown , and ordinary parsley tends to follow the same root pattern . |
| 5 | The specific protests against soil conservation policies and other related issues ( such as the taking away of land for settlers , plantations or the removal of forests ) have tended to follow the same pattern — of violent , politically primitive , and usually short-lived protest involving marches on towns or centres of perceived political power of their oppressors and occasional guerrilla warfare ( e.g. the Mau Mau movement in Kenya , although the issues involved were much wider than soil conservation ) . |
| 6 | Erm again you know with the subject matter , provided you can find stuff that does tend to cover the same sort of s topics erm it does n't really |
| 7 | erm and and ladies perhaps would tend to do the same sort of thing . |
| 8 | It is quite surprising how many of my particular clients do take out that particular plan and they do tend to mention the same type of er of benefits that y that er that you just mentioned there , it is er I think it is a good plan , universally appreciated . |
| 9 | Crews and sponsors tend to frequent the same restaurants , pubs and hotels . |
| 10 | Where members of the group all tend to think the same way , you do n't get new id , new ideas are challenged . |
| 11 | Most of the women who are high on one measure are high on the other , and those who are low tend to show the same symmetry . |
| 12 | However , the classical writers tended to transfer the same principles of adjustment from the microeconomic to the macroeconomic plane , though their applicability at this level of aggregation is altogether more problematical , as Keynes was to point out . |
| 13 | We tended to have the same meal on the same day of the week : roast on Sunday , cold meat on Monday , a steak-and-kidney pie or pudding on Tuesday , stew on Wednesday , salt beef on Thursday , fish on Friday and toad-in-the-hole on Saturday . |
| 14 | They they tended to say the same thing as the government , erm but recently Tory motions , in this council , have started to say the opposite of the government f for reasons which remain obscure to me and this is just another example . |
| 15 | Some of them were politer than others , but they tended to ask the same questions as they trampled through the house . |