Example sentences of "tend [to-vb] is [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Now one of the things that you tend to find is that if you were to ask about groups then people regurgitate all the stuff about groups but with most questions you can usually see links to other parts of the syllabus .
2 So what you tend to observe is that when protectionism , when everybody protects , or when a lot of people protects , the world market erm , becomes a sink right , for any excess production .
3 Another suggestion one tends to hear is that animals should live on our farms but not be killed , only providing us with milk , wool and manure .
4 What tends to happen is that bands which are good have also got a bit more wit and charm than the regular outfit
5 And where defining requirements is difficult what tends to happen is that we do n't bother .
6 So what tends to happen is that females invest in parental , i in their offspring , males put their effort into mating success .
7 Right , it 's not impossible because what tends to happen is that you can erm , you can change the product mix of what the consumer receives .
8 It 's quicker to sort those rather than those because what tends to happen is that you process them as an entity rather than as single figures .
9 What they tend to overlook is that the very idea that kinship can be thought of as a dimension of the total society , analogous to , yet quite distinct from , both " economics " and " politics " , is an invention of the anthropologists themselves .
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