verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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also
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It also tends to be grown locally so that less fuel is wasted on transporting it.
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They also tend to be physically removed from the world around them.
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The very presence of the media also tends to alter the relationships between the political and social institutions which they link up.
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Community colleges also tend to have stronger ties to businesses than do either high schools or four-year institutions.
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Rents also tend to be higher, particularly for smaller premises, and this differential has, if anything, increased.
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Babies born to women who did not abstain from drinking during pregnancy also tend to exhibit abnormal sleep patterns after birth.
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Much buying takes place under contract and this also tends to limit the search and investigation of alternative suppliers.
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The fact that people who stop smoking also tend to gain weight muddles the conclusions on weight and longevity even more.
■ NOUN
group
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At staff functions at Burleigh, little groups tended to form.
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These groups tend to locate in the older urban cores as a result of factors examined earlier.
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Focus on certain muscle groups for sports that tend to overuse specific muscles.
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The losing group tends to splinter: conflicts come to the surface; blame is allocated.
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Such groups tend to treasure their secrets.
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Reviews in both groups tend to be very full and by authorities on their subjects.
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But he is also respected by groups that tend to gravitate toward the Democratic Party.
people
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The frequency of published reports has actually declined since 1960 because people tend to dismiss loud explosions as merely military sonic booms.
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Male speaker Most burglars prefer to go to an empty house and elderly people tend to be at home all day.
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Do hearing people tend to occupy more influential positions in technology than do deaf people?
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Most people tend to do better work-or at least to enjoy it more-when they work for some one who likes them.
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They are not taking things lying down as many other Third World people tend to do.
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About his inability to build a chair, Jasper observed that people tend to get tired of chairs.
woman
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Their cultural background is that of a small rural community where women tend to go out with family members or neighbours.
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I think women tend to be more accepting and open.
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In women , warts tend to go unnoticed unless they are quite large.
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Since women voters tend to decide late in the campaign, one wrong remark can cost a candidate dearly.
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With the arrival of a child a woman tends to see herself as parent first and partner second.
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In spite of the protection offered by equal opportunity laws, women tend to be overlooked and receive fewer promotions.
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Men and women both tend to put on weight in middle-age, when exercise becomes less frequent.
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In hunting and gathering societies, men hunted and women gathered while tending hearth and children.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It tends to be the brighter kids who get all the teacher's attention.
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Jose was outside tending the garden when the fire broke out.
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Mom was usually busy tending to my younger sisters.
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What tends to happen is that the poorest families end up in the worst housing.
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Young children tend to get sick more often than adults.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Departments with an eye to the ratings tend to appoint established researchers with proven records, rather than younger, unpublished candidates.
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First, he tends to have relatively better visual-spatial abilities.
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In other words, your transcription tends to become more phonemic without being systematically so.
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Jose Aburto Cortez, 57, was outside tending the garden when the fire broke out.
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Smaller, start-up companies last year tended to be in the business of technology.
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Such people tend to perform marginal tasks and to enter and leave the workforce at random intervals.
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The process of distillation tends to alter the aroma to a degree.