Example sentences of "tend [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Coloureds and Indians have tended to support the National Party — one estimate is that 60% of them gave it their backing in mid-1992 — because they saw it as a bulwark against black domination . |
| 32 | Middle-class voters have tended to support the Conservative party in Britain , and working-class voters the Labour party . |
| 33 | Whereas Gregory had tended to see the malign influence of Fredegund as the origin of many of the problems of his own day , for Fredegar Brunhild was the evil genius of the period from 575 to 613 . |
| 34 | it tends to elongate the whole process . |
| 35 | This may suggest that our ideas about wakes should undergo similar evolution , but recent experiments have tended to confirm the earlier picture . |
| 36 | The enthusiasm generated by this approach can , however , blind ; the simplicism , the ‘ nothing butism ’ as Julian Huxley would have said , of reducing all functional explanations of complex behaviour to calculations concerning the relative fitnesses ( see p. 42 ) of gene-bearers tends to miss the major significance of human beings to other human beings . |
| 37 | Kyle and Allsop ( 1982a ) examined how recent research on deaf children tends to confirm the usual findings of poor speech and reading performance . |
| 38 | On these grounds ( but not on others ) , the implications of objectification have much in common with a whole series of critical writings which argue that representation or symbolism , as a relation between signifier and signified , tends to promote the unproblematic assertion of the signified ( for example , the modern conception of the self ) rather than investigating the mechanisms by which these are constructed in the symbolic process itself ( e.g. Coward and Ellis 1977 : 122–52 ) . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Discretion may have tended to appear the better part of valour , and certainly better than defeat and its resultant loss of prestige . |
| 41 | But this approach tends to neglect the monetary effects of budgetary decisions . |
| 42 | Fig. 9 : a toroidal core tends to concentrate the magnetic field tangentially producing the same sensitivity pattern as a pair of bar cores . |
| 43 | This integration of production across national borders tends to increase the overall volume of world trade because a good changes hands at various levels of production and not just at the final stage . |
| 44 | Middleclass youths are often ‘ mouths ’ but rarely become gougers because the latter require an element of ‘ pure badness ’ , which from the view of the police tends to exclude the middle classes , for ‘ pure badness ’ derives from being ( or appearing to be ) educationally subnormal , coming from ‘ bad homes ’ , or having a history of crime . |
| 45 | They would have therefore had an advantage and would have tended to replace the original macro-molecules . |
| 46 | Unfortunately this is the least glamorous of any of the activities of a busy public relations office and it tends to receive the least attention . |
| 47 | Subsequent debates have tended to favour the Hobbesian view , arguing for institutions of authority , and dismissing Rousseau as a romantic utopianist who simply did not accept people for what they ‘ really are ’ . |
| 48 | It seems likely that permits are increasingly being given for non-manual occupations , which has tended to favour the white inhabitants of developed countries such as the USA and South Africa . |
| 49 | Well what they 're doing actually it 's quite right because they 're they tended to play the long ball to Steve Walsh so that he could head it down and what they 're doing actually they 've got two four foot eight forwards in Jochim and Speedy and a nine foot seven winger Ormanroyd |
| 50 | The adoption of this form of reification in legal reasoning tends to conceal the distributive aim behind a rhetoric which is superficially compatible with liberalism . |
| 51 | This type of alteration in the appearance of the eye goes on all day , as the animal moves from light to shade and back again , and it is so common a shift that it tends to obscure the other pupil changes that are taking place . |
| 52 | I told the National Farmers Union that I did not believe that unilateral action would help , because if it is taken , the British housewife tends to buy the cheaper product from the rest of Europe and , therefore , we export animal welfare problems to the rest of Europe . |
| 53 | The average over-weight person tends to imagine the slim person 's day to go something like this . |
| 54 | Perhaps unsure of exactly what to expect from Alsace wines , it seems British wine drinkers have tended to give the whole lot a miss . |
| 55 | This is usually extremely wasteful and it tends to reinforce the inefficient image of PR executives . |
| 56 | Existing structural policy has encouraged farm modernisation and this has tended to exacerbate the surplus problem . |
| 57 | Many historians have tended to stress the instrumental nature of sexual relationships and the conflicts inherent in working-class patterns of life , and no doubt much of this was often true ; but because we can not now identify with the exact meanings given to activities , this does not mean that strong feelings of warmth and mutual support did not exist . |
| 58 | Nowadays , if staying overnight far away from any of the royal residences , she tends to use the royal train , but lord lieutenants continue to be drawn from the same big houses . |
| 59 | On the other hand , the differential tends to reduce the right-hand side of ( 7–10 ) , and there is clearly a value ( greater than I ) such that . |
| 60 | News coverage tends to reduce the complex process of strikes down to a single issue . |