Example sentences of "it tend [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not advocate using a glossy varnish , because it tends to give false readings as you try to shot the float down . |
| 2 | To some types of mind work at the Chancery Bar appears dull and repellent , because it tends to lack human interest . |
| 3 | Modern archaeology is much more scientific and it 's , it tends to excavate entire layers , layer , by layer and every little thing is relevant , you know , they , the little pot shard , erm , even bits of excrement , apparently are very interesting to archaeologists , because they 're sure people were eating , and things like this , er , you know , remnants of fire was charcoal , everything . |
| 4 | Important as this is , it tends to ignore other histories . |
| 5 | But I think it tends to save any type of … any misunderstandings that may later take place as a result of it being a one-on-one deal . |
| 6 | If it examines them separately , it tends to reiterate dominant discourses of working-class social or even biological deviance , by studying working-class subjects ' inadequacies at work , their problems when unemployed , and their failures in education . |
| 7 | It tends to encourage any tendency to the suppression of initiative , and to foster cautious conservatism , perhaps to the point of atrophy . |
| 8 | But it tends to achieve each draw with a high , shared score . |
| 9 | It tended to replace teacher-imposed activities in which the whole class joined . |
| 10 | Together with the Reichsjugendgerichtsgesetz ( RJGG , Juvenile Court Act ) of 1923 it tended to replace punitive measures with pedagogical , child-oriented principles and to set standards for national youth departments in every part of the country ( Sachsse and Tennstedt , 1988 , p. 99 ) . |
| 11 | Selection for technical education continued to take place , generally at thirteen , but it tended to reflect existing patterns set by two years of secondary schooling so that grammar school successes were unlikely to change in mid-stream . |
| 12 | Propaganda actions , such as Christmas sales of excess butter , failed to stop the complaints about the policy : that it tended to help large farms , which could adopt intensive production methods , rather than the needy ; that it distorted world markets and upset the US , which threatened a trade war with the EC over CAP in 1986 — 7 ; and that it harmed the environment by encouraging the use of chemical fertilisers . |