Example sentences of "they tend [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who initiate racialist talk ( without referring to a racist ideology ) may be a minority too , but since they are rarely contradicted or opposed they tend to shape the norms of the group . |
| 2 | Because Bem and other gender schema theorists assume that rationality and cognitive unity characterize psychological subjects , they tend to see the break-up of gender schemata as hindered by dominant social relations , but still as fairly straightforward in itself . |
| 3 | One disadvantage of general library skills workbooks is that they tend to teach the use of the library and its resources in isolation from other studies . |
| 4 | The failure to come to terms with this task casts light on , though it does not excuse , the hectic character of the final part of Braudel 's Méditerranée : even when connections are traced between conjonctures and the actions of individuals , they tend to leave the actions heavily under-determined — so much so , in some cases , that they are barely explained at all . |
| 5 | But before players go out they tend to kick the wall to make sure their boots are on properly . |
| 6 | They tend to restrict the causes of criminality to hereditary characteristics and overlook the effects of environmental influences and cultural traditions . |
| 7 | you see them with A's , they tend to do the A and then they join it at the top |
| 8 | The use or significance of ‘ stills ’ and long shots in this context is that they tend to lessen the impact of the coverage , making it less attractive and exciting , thus diminishing , so the argument goes , the likelihood of imitation . |
| 9 | That 's the thing about heroes — they tend to reflect the goings-on in your life , and that 's why I 'm always interested to know who others like . |
| 10 | The disquieting feature of the pronouncements of the House of Lords is that by flatly insisting upon the literal rule without expressing any qualifications , they tend to repress the use of the traditional tools by which the judges have in the past introduced rationality into the statute law . |
| 11 | They make sure they can do the basics well before experimenting , where in Wales they tend to spin the ball straight away . |
| 12 | By contrast they tend to exaggerate the unacceptability of proposals from the other person , ‘ a derisory offer ’ , ‘ completely unreasonable ’ , ‘ laughable ’ and so on . |
| 13 | They tend to throw the ball rather than kicking it 60 yards up the park . ’ |
| 14 | When people guess at the calorie content of a portion of food they tend to underestimate the calories in meat and cheese , mainly because there was such a deeply entrenched fallacy , persisting for so many years , that ‘ protein foods ’ like this could not possibly be fattening . |
| 15 | An example often quoted is that of Bernard Bloch , who defined the style of a text as " the message carried by the frequency distributions and transitional probabilities of its linguistic features , especially as they differ from those of the same features in the language as a whole Such definitions appeal to the empiricist , who would like to reduce a subjectively perceived phenomenon to something objective , but they tend to alarm the student of literature . |
| 16 | So relaxed in Italy , according to one anonymous wag , that they tend to build the house first and apply for planning permission later . |
| 17 | These assumptions about ourselves in relation to others are called life positions because they tend to dictate the positions we take up throughout life . |
| 18 | By contraction they tend to compress the segment and are therefore important in respiratory movements . |
| 19 | When they are given a chance to take a big decision about reform they tend to make the right — meaning the most reformist — decision . |
| 20 | Because the prevalent methods of handling seasonality , in particular the use of seasonally adjusted variables , are ad hoc they tend to distort the structure of these models . |