Example sentences of "tend [to-vb] the [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 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In proportion as its acts tend to promote the same end , its conduct may be termed organised and its several actions correlated . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Small shopkeepers tend to support the Liberal Democrats , but Mr Kaifu wants to please a more important supporter , Mr Bush . |
| 9 | Such results as are available tend to support the associative view . |
| 10 | Politicians tend to support the traditional approach to budgeting . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Legal principles tend to reflect the basic values that the legal system is committed to uphold . |
| 13 | International comparisons are of relatively little value because they tend to highlight the different priorities and practices of different countries . |
| 14 | For example , edges tend to activate the visual system more than areas of uniform brightness . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ] . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Positivism in turn can be seen as a set of ideas tending to reinforce the ideological domination ( or ‘ hegemony ’ ) of the bourgeois class at a yet later stage when it had become the ruling class in Europe : if criminal actions can be described as the result of mindless pathology rather than rational choice this both absolves capitalism of any blame for crime and helps to delegi-timize protest against the existing order ( Taylor et al. , 1973 : ch. 2 ) . |
| 19 | Yet , according to Bisset , ‘ soon after the French revolution , doctrines prevailed , tending to elevate the popular branch much beyond its proportion ’ and Burke 's targets changed . |
| 20 | So most teachers are tending to ignore the national curriculum , and the tests and everything else , and teach what they 've always taught . |
| 21 | Mr Major must be a man with a beleaguered mentality — not thinking particularly straight , tending to take the wrong decisions . |
| 22 | CURRENT fashion trends in glasses tend to favour the continental look with neater eye sizes , particularly in metal and metal/plastic frames to the fore . |
| 23 | If one has to take a view of the balance between the reinforce-and-stick-with-it , or the cut-your-loss schools , I think I tend to favour the cut-your-loss brigade . |
| 24 | We make relatively little use of the simpler DTP systems because they tend to obscure the logical/physical distinction and encourage students to invent design elements on a case-by-case basis as they create a document , leading to incoherent and inflexible document structures . |
| 25 | Not only are we all primed to look for regularities , we tend to perceive the same regularities . |
| 26 | They tend to assert the overwhelming desire for cognitive order , and thus offer an unrealistically cohesive model of cognition itself which ignores the problems of ideology and framing . |
| 27 | They tend to identify the common good with the interests , real or imagined , of their supporters . |
| 28 | The bottom dwellers mentioned so far tend to prefer the shallower waters of the continental shelf . |
| 29 | In practice professional valuers tend to prefer the comparative method and builders the residual method , but for valuations for annual financial or management accounts it would perhaps be prudent to take an average of the result obtained using both methods . |
| 30 | Cash crops are always ‘ extractive ’ and tend to lower the overall fertility of the farm . |