Example sentences of "a [noun sg] tend [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment , the establishment of a branch tends to require less documentation , formality and cost , while a subsidiary has the advantage of being a separate legal personality , with the result that disclosure requirements may not apply to the parent , and the subsidiary 's debts will not necessarily become obligations of its parent in the event of insolvency . |
| 2 | Destroying the connections in a computer tends to isolate these colonies and leave them vulnerable to stimulation by spurious signals . |
| 3 | That a commercial ‘ body of persons ’ has a ‘ trading character , ’ and can sue in respect of a publication tending to injure that trading character , is now clearly established … |
| 4 | The 1959 obscenity test is one of effect , which directs the jury 's attention to the extent to which a work tends to encourage such feelings of aversion or revulsion rather than of corruption or depravity . |
| 5 | A profession tends to have few members , each member possessing esoteric knowledge which sets him or her apart from their peers . |
| 6 | Such a view tends to place less emphasis on the war between two countries and more on the internal conflict between the king of France and the duke of Aquitaine , a struggle between two blocks of territory and two rather different legal traditions : the ‘ Angevin empire ’ , once ruled by the English , representing the area of customary law and local independence , the other part of France the more centralising tradition based on Roman law . |