Example sentences of "[noun sg] tend see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally those anthropologists who grant culture such imperative force tend to see social relations as the product of cultural patterning and conditioning , and thus tend to concentrate on child-rearing practices , enculturation , and socialization . |
| 2 | Where a woman fails to perform her expected role properly the GP tends to see her ‘ either in terms of the conventional models of their own social background ( she must adjust to her situation ) , or in terms of individual personal inadequacy ( that she must be referred to the psychiatrist ) ’ ( Barrett and Roberts , 1978 , p. 46 ) . |
| 3 | This first object is therefore not a whole , coherent form , but is split between two forces which the infant tends to see as uncomplicated ideals : one wholly good object and one wholly bad object . |
| 4 | Radical analysts of welfare development tend to see the imposition of mandatory retirement , encouraged or enforced by state pension schemes , as pan of the process whereby , in late industrial societies with highly specialized divisions of labour , elderly people are marginalized into a condition of ‘ structured dependence ’ . |
| 5 | With the arrival of a child a woman tends to see herself as parent first and partner second . |
| 6 | In Japan the government tends to see academics as a useful way of influencing public opinion : how handy if they can be persuaded to open public discussion of a policy change the politicians want to make . |
| 7 | THE British government tends to see itself as a bastion of common sense where European environmental policy is concerned , weighing benefits against costs which more dogmatic governments ignore . |
| 8 | However , conventionally , which is not to say correctly , modes of social scientific explanation tend to see these elements as analytically separate orders of phenomena and , accordingly , data . |
| 9 | She is equally fascinated by the stone as a specimen and as a phenomenological object , but whereas those of us working in drama who might agree with the wisdom of this position tend to see ‘ personal engagement ’ with the world through dramatic action as a proper way of helping the child to know the world , Dorothy Heathcote tends to delay the phenomenological process by a deliberate depersonalising of objects . |
| 10 | The long-wave school tends to see historical phases more cyclically , and to encounter repetitions and similarities between cycles . |
| 11 | Proponents of this view tend to see the idea of parental possession as one that is still protected and upheld by the law and by social agencies ; and they believe this state of affairs to be damaging to children , given that parents ' and children 's interests sometimes conflict . |
| 12 | Like many young children her granddaughter tends to see detail rather than the total picture . |
| 13 | Each party tended to see its own central ideal and to look at the others concerned as a perverse distraction from it . |
| 14 | Her mother tended to see all expenses as a sign of innate vulgarity , and had tried to instil into her children the view that the truly refined can manage without toys , clothes and entertainments . |