Example sentences of "tends [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we discussed it , it became clear that there is a wide spectrum of response to the whole issue of private care , that the response from within the statutory services tends to be one of suspicion , tends to be one of sometimes a fairly moralistic approach and this is quite at odds with the response we are seeing from the government which tends to go to the other end of the spectrum and be promoting private care as the solution to many of the problems of service provision and volume that are being encountered at the moment . |
| 2 | According to the judge , the ‘ decency clause ’ another compromise with Congressmen who threatened to dissolve the NEA was so vaguely worded that it tends to impinge on the First Amendment 's guaranteed right to freedom of speech . |
| 3 | When solution is added to the top-half of the cell , solvent in the lower-half tends to flow into the upper section to equalize the chemical potentials . |
| 4 | Although native to Scotland , it is evergreen , darker in appearance than most trees , and tends to stand above the general canopy . |
| 5 | The top layer of fabric tends to slip over the bottom layer while under the pressure foot , so carefully machine the seam over the needles and tacking , following the direction of the nap ( i.e. , the direction in which the pile is lying ) . |
| 6 | Experience during the past decades has shown that every acquittal tends to lead to the greater exposure to public gaze of what previous generations thought seemly only in private , if seemly anywhere . |
| 7 | Myopia tends to progress throughout the growing period and spectacles may have to be changed every six to twelve months . |
| 8 | This tends to focus on the physical symptoms of soil erosion and finds its expression in maps of soil loss or erosion hazard , but it also includes other spatial , tangible variables such as land use , stocking densities and the geographical expression of the flow of energy between people and the biosphere . |
| 9 | In suburbia , however , the scourge of the skips tends to descend on the public highway in spring and summer . |
| 10 | As I said before , the risk of collective action of this sort , which is regretted by many teachers ( as reflected in the rise and fall of the memberships of the different unions over the last few years ) , is that it tends to reduce to the lowest common denominators of more pay on the one hand and a narrow-minded , knee-jerk resistance to change on the other . |
| 11 | It is a matter of common observation that shingle tends to accumulate on the higher parts of the beach while the lower parts are essentially sandy . |
| 12 | In general even if the price of a holiday goes up extortionately , the number of people going overseas tends to stay about the same . |
| 13 | It is a process analogous in some ways to story-telling , where the point is made precisely through a sacrifice of the kind of literalness and explicitness which the logician , by the nature of his training , tends to regard as the ultimate requirement of clarity , and indeed an intrinsic feature of truth . |
| 14 | The former case is an aspect of connected speech that will be encountered again in Chapter 14 : the main effect is that the stress on a final-stressed compound tends to move to the preceding syllable if the following word begins with a strongly stressed syllable . |
| 15 | Each union follows its own policy , makes its own rules and regulations ( and tends to bicker with the other five ) . |
| 16 | With the Swiss themselves it is a great favourite as one of the most varied and beautiful walking areas in the country ; in addition when it comes to food , the country towns and inns of the Emmental enjoy an exceptional reputation even for Switzerland , a reputation that one tends to link with the Emmental farming communities ' repute as the foremost pioneers of Swiss agriculture . |
| 17 | As for Unix , here Cognos has been able to make use of third parties ( it has no direct sales force for Unix products ) but says the going has been tough because of the recession as a PowerHouse Unix sale tends to occur with the new purchase of a Unix box with applications . |
| 18 | Auxiliary need tends to occur in the same syntactic environments as at all , ever and any , which are typically found in so-called non-assertive sentences . |
| 19 | This is not to say music programming does n't attract money — it does — but money tends to congregate around the celebrity-strewn rock extravaganza , which is not our line at all . |