Example sentences of "[adv] tend [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , children who are doing badly tend to expect failure and criticism , since it may have little effect on them except to confirm their worst beliefs about themselves and reduce their efforts . |
| 2 | This chapter deals mainly with optical ( or visual ) effects that involve construction in three dimensions , a stage beyond matte painting , and therefore a step nearer to physical , or mechanical , effects , which mostly tend to involve live action shooting on set or location . |
| 3 | If they had served small areas , the CMHTs would have had great difficulty in liaising with the specialist facilities and organizations ( statutory and non-statutory ) which characterize the mental handicap field and which necessarily tend to cover large areas if not regions . |
| 4 | honourable friends join me in condemning the non-sensible advice given by liberty to truanting school children that they should defy police and is n't it absolutely typical that the party opposite tend to support them . |
| 5 | The second ( which I prefer ) is to say that , difficult though the task is , one must try to find a way of writing rules that express what native speakers naturally tend to do in placing stress ( while acknowledging that there will always be a substantial residue of cases which appear to follow no regular rules ) . |
| 6 | In both Britain and America , the educational preparation of librarians includes all these aspects and more , although individual librarians naturally tend to specialize in depth in only a selection . |
| 7 | People who are denied political privileges like this on the ground that they are not standard items naturally tend to reply that the charge is false — to claim that they are actually just as standard as everybody else . |
| 8 | In their headlong rush they naturally tend to get their corners knocked off at each bounce , so they end up as peculiarly smooth , rounded lumps , the smoothness being the result of mechanical abrasion . |
| 9 | Those with one additional electron readily lose it and become positively charged ions ( cations ) ( for instance , K + ; , Na + ; ) and those with one less tend to gain an electron and become negatively charged ions ( anions ) ( for example , F- , Cl- ) . |
| 10 | We inadvertently tend to reinforce individuals for keeping their ideas to themselves . |
| 11 | people who work together tend to spend their non-work time with persons from the same industry . |
| 12 | Both processes constantly tend to become perfunctory , routinized and burdensome . |
| 13 | Variegated plants will start to make more chlorophyll in their leaves in response to restricted sunlight , and so tend to turn green in the shade . |
| 14 | They do not share our sense of causality , and so tend to view events as discrete and unrelated . |
| 15 | I go to night schools and force myself to mix , but I only tend to socialise with my present or former care assistants , former Le Court friends and a few other people . |
| 16 | Moreover , we do not wish to give the impression that the cello and bass always work in double harness : on the contrary , they can be used independently to a quite large extent , though discretion and careful thought are very necessary in this matter , since the basses when used alone tend to sound rather dry , and if their part lies low and is far removed in pitch from the rest of the harmony it is too indeterminate in pitch to give satisfactory support unless it consists of a sustained or better ( since the bow is short ) a reiterated pedal note . |
| 17 | A rich fatty diet not only tends to make you overweight , it can also raise the level of cholesterol in the bloodstream — a predictor of heart disease . |
| 18 | Bryony especially tends to drink small amounts . |
| 19 | That he has not done so tends to confirm that the firing was a spontaneous action triggered by the unexpected escalation of Mr Buchanan 's attack on the NEA . |
| 20 | This makes them move away from each other and so tends to make the star expand . |
| 21 | Attention has hitherto tended to concentrate on the significance of the higher ranks , for both the Kent and South Wales coalfields show successive zones progressing to anthracite grade . |
| 22 | With tight budgets , most SSDs have naturally tended to concentrate on clients with higher levels of need . |
| 23 | Since the French have long tended to regard the British as a doggedly upright people rather than an artistically discerning one , a critic in Diapason describes this accuracy in terms of probity ( ‘ voix droites comme la justice ’ ) ; another , writing in Compact , speaks of performances that are millimetrées , as if they were mathematical exercises . |
| 24 | The rubble of solid chilled material overlying the hot core naturally tends to insulate it , and it does so very efficiently . |
| 25 | This requires you to delay your body clock , which tends to be comparatively easy since it naturally tends to run rather slowly . |
| 26 | Though interest rates have also been very high indeed , the support which North Sea oil has given sterling has perhaps tended to stop them rising so high as they might otherwise have done . |
| 27 | All that is required is a little local clustering , of a sort that will naturally tend to arise in natural populations . |
| 28 | On the other hand , there is a reservation to be entered : that if the verb of the construction has a lexical meaning involving a change of state through time , then the two types of anteriority — constructional/linguistic and external/situational — will naturally tend to march in step . |
| 29 | In moving towards a satisfying identification of some entity , the mind of a speaker will naturally tend to describe it initially by matching its roughly perceived whole against those properties that are most common in use and perceptually basic . |
| 30 | A retriever or pointer will naturally tend to sit and stay , whereas a Beagle or Afghan Hound is bred to run , and pursue game relying on scent or sight . |