Example sentences of "tend [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Another criticism is that UK banks tend to concentrate on short-term lending , causing a shortage of long-term funds for investment . |
| 32 | Most referees will tell you that when a new directive comes out on a particular law , referees tend to concentrate on that law , sometimes at the expense of refereeing other laws . |
| 33 | The tendency for current research to make use of multi-disciplinary approaches is increasing , although theses themselves tend to concentrate on smaller units of research . |
| 34 | However , since management courses tend to concentrate on basic tasks and procedures , there is a risk that the much larger matters signalled here will be treated rudimentarily at best . |
| 35 | Slugs tend to concentrate in such refuges , presumably because they give protection from desiccation . |
| 36 | Stories told about Burton at this time are necessarily retrospective and tend to suffer from retrospective grandeur and glamour . |
| 37 | Those who gossip about him tend to meet with nasty accidents . ’ |
| 38 | Whereas unit production costs tend to benefit from increased volume of production , distribution costs tend to worsen . |
| 39 | Infantry tend to march in deep blocks with as many ranks as possible . |
| 40 | I mean , as a guitar player you always tend to listen to other guitar players , and you can spend a lifetime just doing that , but once you start translating from other instruments , then that 's a whole other thing . |
| 41 | ‘ I tend to listen to odd things they do but not in any depth . |
| 42 | Models imported from Europe tend to aim for higher levels of fuel saving , a wider range of feedstocks and a greater degree of automation in their operation . |
| 43 | Women tend to talk about real things , whereas Nigel and I like to sit in a restaurant retelling old stories . |
| 44 | During counselling we tend to talk about physical symptoms . |
| 45 | Then you have the problem of reconciling that with other duties , such as your legal duties which tend to lag behind best practice . |
| 46 | A lemming ( given his suicidal tendencies for giving away games last year ) A bat Any bird ( as they all tend to flap at thin air ) |
| 47 | It is noticeable how Dynasty , Dallas , and many other soaps on TV tend to focus on this kind of human weakness , often exploiting covetousness . |
| 48 | The arguments therefore tend to focus on three borderline questions : What is the minimum fault required for conviction of murder ? |
| 49 | Instead , they tend to focus on formal job descriptions , as these are key to performance appraisals . |
| 50 | Less able older readers tend to perseverate with grapho-phonemic approximations , whereas the younger , better readers use more mature strategies . |
| 51 | Er being on the dole and having friends who were long term on the dole , we tend to buy from each other a lot . |
| 52 | Boys tend to play in large groups organised hierarchically ; thus they learn direct , confrontational speech . |
| 53 | As criminals tend to specialize in certain crimes , so corrupt politicians normally specialize in their corruption : the sexual blackguards stick to fucking , the bribe-takers to graft . |
| 54 | The factory workers tend to stick to one task — neck shaping , spraying , buffing , kerfing etc. — and , with the exception of ‘ star pupils ’ who are groomed for higher things ( and therefore shown most processes ) , it stays that way . |
| 55 | But perhaps the most worrying , if most ephemeral , comment is that researchers are unwilling to take risks to open up new lines of research ; they tend to stick to piecemeal additions to well-established paths . |
| 56 | Of trees with Laurasian affinities , almost half of the families represented have wind pollination , while none of the Gondwana ones do ; many of the northern-Andean ones are hummingbird-pollinated , while those with pollination by large-or medium-sized bees tend to belong to Amazon-centred groups . |
| 57 | This transmission of culture is aided by the tendency to recruit in ‘ one 's own image ’ where members of interview panels tend to look for similar qualities that they themselves possess when recruiting new members . |
| 58 | In other ways the activities of the councils tend to conflict with regional policy and weaken its effects . |
| 59 | Church growth theorists have observed that churches tend to grow within homogeneous units . |
| 60 | New entrants to the venture capital industry are now low in number , probably reflecting the size and strength of incumbents in attracting the available funds , and it is likely that concentration will occur , creating larger institutions , possibly to the detriment of independent venture capitalists who tend to specialise in particular markets . |