Example sentences of "tend [to-vb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Television is such a visual medium that we all tend to concentrate on the images and not the words . |
| 6 | As with any automatic system , it is the unusual situation which can cause a problem , and here the problem is that most AF systems tend to focus on the cage bars in the foreground rather than on the animal lurking behind them — or the focus may hunt nervously from one to the other . |
| 7 | If Les Negresses Vertes tend to jostle on the stage like animals being herded down a narrow street , it is partly because there are so many of them ( 11 , when all the strays are rounded up ) , but also because , even as the show begins , several key members appear to be too drunk to be capable of motion in a straight line . |
| 8 | Commentators still tend to remark on the informality of industrial tribunal procedure ( Farmer , 1974 ; Walker , 1985 ) , but the industrial tribunal 's rules of procedure are no longer informal , and it has become an adversarial forum ( Dickens et al. , 1985 ; Genn and Genn , 1989 ) . |
| 9 | Moreover , because depression , inflation , or other economic distress can bring down a government , and because jobs , prices , production , the standard of living , and the economic security of everyone , all tend to rest on the performance of business , politicians and administrators alike have to regard business as more than just another interest group . |
| 10 | Irish scrum-halves tend to arrive on the scene than at 22 . |
| 11 | There are plenty of other gulls to be seen inland : common and herring gulls in particular , and increasing numbers of lesser blackbacked gulls , though the greaters still tend to stay on the coast . |
| 12 | Proposals to limit the sovereignty of parliament tend to centre on the introduction of a written constitution with judicial review and the entrenchment of a Bill of Rights as some kind of " higher " law beyond easy parliamentary repeal . |
| 13 | The adjustment to the rise and fall is difficult because it is always sticky , the wood chips tend to collect on the travel of the sliding table making the action very bumpy , the sliding table is always out of adjustment for one reason or another . |
| 14 | So the whoopers tend to congregate on the lochs near the sea , many of which are fertilised by nutrients draining from the surrounding croft — and farmland . |