Example sentences of "tend [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( If you 're standing , you tend to fall towards the front rather than the back of the train now . ) |
| 2 | They give better support at the edges than a sprung base so they 're a practical choice if you tend to sit on the bed . |
| 3 | Those who are brave enough to hope for one of the few lectureships around tend to go for the astronomy or nuclear physics . |
| 4 | Sometimes it is awkward because with all the excitement you tend to go to the lavatory a number of times before the race , which leads to difficulty later on . |
| 5 | I use it normally on a clean setting , but if I want distortion I tend to go through a BOSS Turbo Overdrive pedal and then into the Rock Box . |
| 6 | If the kick is too hard the crampons tend to rebound from the ice , and a hard kick can be painful on the toes . |
| 7 | Lectures about this type of library material tend to sound like a catalogue of unfamiliar names — the ‘ catalogue aria ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Most people tend to gather at the track and do the group session , without even stopping to think what the training effect is doing to their body , or how they are going to progress next week , or the week after . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Gottle a geer ’ Gazza would undoubtedly be a tremendous asset to the team , but after Silvers recent professions of poverty , I tend to agree with the Guardian that this is a ‘ We are still a big club ’ smokescreen . |
| 10 | Denis Healey is another politician I admire , and I tend to agree with the view that he is the best leader the Labour Party never had . |
| 11 | We tend to work from the Centre in the friendly critic role . |
| 12 | Having become established , people tend to work within the tradition for reasons which are never properly articulated . |
| 13 | Initially , the chemical potential µ 1 , of the solvent in the solution , is lower than that of the pure solvent , µ 1 ° and solvent molecules tend to pass through the membrane into the solution in order to attain equilibrium . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Ideas , materials and methodology used all tend to come into the country from outside . |
| 16 | All timbers tend to come to an equilibrium with the relative humidity of the surrounding air . |
| 17 | ‘ Midlife is a time when suppressed emotions tend to come to the surface . |
| 18 | My examples tend to come from the part of the world where I live , but the same principles apply wherever you happen to be . |
| 19 | The majority of funds tend to come from the banking sector , although commercial bills are also important . |
| 20 | Kenotic christology of this sort did have its own internal problems : on closer examination it is not easy to understand what exactly it can mean to speak of this ‘ self-emptying ’ , and attempts to make the matter more precise tend to fade into a tangle of artificialities and contradictions . |
| 21 | However , animal experiments have shown that , if tobacco extracts are painted on rabbits ' ears , cancerous growths tend to appear on the skin of the ear . |
| 22 | The reason for the fall in later years is that costs tend to increase as the product ages — apart from production costs there may be increased costs in selling against more up-to-date competition and sales tend to decrease . |
| 23 | The reason for the fall in later years is that costs tend to increase as the product ages — apart from production costs there may be increased costs in selling against more up-to-date competition — ; and sales tend to decrease . |
| 24 | In general , the rules leading to higher rates of survival and reproduction tend to increase in the population . |
| 25 | ‘ They live , or they 're supposed to live , in the paddock between the Rectory and the House , but the fencing needs seeing to , so they tend to wander round the Rectory when they want . |
| 26 | Local authority loans for house purchase are more likely to be made to manual groups and they tend to concentrate on the purchase of older dwellings . |
| 27 | As is the case with most areas of text-linguistics , linguists tend to concentrate on the analysis of signalling devices in English and extrapolate from that to other languages . |
| 28 | Their problem is their flower buds tend to swell in the winter and can be damaged by frost or winds . |
| 29 | They tend to communicate in a form of shorthand based on this common database and can to some extent predict each other 's reactions to normal situations . |
| 30 | The routes to satisfaction are patterned by internal or dispositional constraints so that the behaviours concerned tend to lead to an end that is characteristic of a species . |