Example sentences of "tend [to-vb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Most people tend to gather at the track and do the group session , without even stopping to think what the training effect is doing to their body , or how they are going to progress next week , or the week after . ’ |
| 2 | We tend to play at the point of the evening when the temperature drops , so I tune up just before Bryan goes on and then after three or four songs they 're all sharp , because the temperature has dropped . |
| 3 | Yeah and the thing is also being new to driving you tend to look at the headlights rather than look away from them . |
| 4 | There are still areas where we tend to look at the other as ‘ the resident expert ’ , or at least more expert than we consider ourself to be . |
| 5 | ( Most handlers tend to look at the horse instead , which merely makes him point more agitatedly . ) |
| 6 | The fact is that Schubert 's Symphonies are appallingly badly served at present , with the exception of the ‘ Unfinished ’ and ‘ Great ’ , although there too my heart tends to sink at the memory of even some of the established ‘ best buys ’ . |
| 7 | About 700m ecus are still waiting to be collected , partly because spending tends to bunch at the end of a period and partly because Britain 's system of local-authority finance means that some councils can not use the money . |
| 8 | Compromise tends to occur at the level of implementation ’ . |
| 9 | A reduction in bone density tends to begin at the menopause . |
| 10 | In essence , when the body is relaxed and the mind is stilled , the brain waves ( EEG ) tend to run at a frequency of 7–14 Hz with a mean of 10 Hz — the same frequency as that of the Earth 's magnetic field ! |
| 11 | In the more seasonal forests , hummingbirds may be migratory , but in all forests they tend to breed at the time when the flowers on which they depend are most abundant , though as with the thrips and the Shorea species , there is some staggering of flowering times and avoidance of competition for pollinators between plants . |
| 12 | she said what , what agenda do you want , so I said just the same and so she put the same venue , we tend to alter at the meeting she said |
| 13 | Top service brass , diplomats and the intelligence community all tended to look at the world in more interventionist terms than a decade earlier . |
| 14 | As long ago as the 1880s , W. Pfeiffer , in Germany , dipped a thin capillary tube containing glucose into a drop of liquid containing bacteria , and observed that the bacteria tended to collect at the mouth of the capillary . |
| 15 | Subsequent events tended to recur at the time of intercurrent infections , at which time the flow rate of oxygen was increased ; none subsequently required cardiopulmonary resuscitation . |