Example sentences of "we tend [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tend to refer to the World Church as something outside our particular constituency and we must n't forget that we must own the World Church . |
| 2 | So too with the body clock : it might be that several outputs with different periods are possible and that we tend to concentrate upon the daily or circadian clock because this is the period that is most useful to the organism and which has naturally been accentuated by the environment with its 24-hour period . |
| 3 | We tend to think of the reptiles as somehow past their ‘ prime ’ , but it would be more accurate to say that they had been displaced from the top jobs in nature , while more than holding their own in the shop floor . |
| 4 | In Britain ( with all too few honourable exceptions ) we tend to accept as the norm , prefab huts equipped with smelly loos , worn carpets or line , tatty curtains and torn seat cushions . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We tend to work from the Centre in the friendly critic role . |
| 7 | When we are anxious — and we may well be anxious about trying something new — we tend to stick with the familiar and the tried and tested . |
| 8 | But even if we tend to look for the scholarly , non-involved biography of the great man or woman we can not be sure that the work will be beyond criticism . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |