Example sentences of "is that it tends " in BNC.
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| 1 | One problem which remains , even in Dearlove 's formulation , however , is that it tends to present options in rather too clear-cut a fashion . |
| 2 | The advantage of a Statutory Demand over the filing of a High Court writ or County Court summons is that it tends to bring on matters at a faster and more urgent rate . |
| 3 | The danger of this opinion is that it tends towards Manichaeanism , the heresy which says that Good and Evil are equal and opposite and the universe is a battlefield ; however the Inklings may have had a certain tolerance for that ( see C. S. Lewis 's Mere Christianity , Book 2 , section 2 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | … is that it tends to make us perceive and evaluate formula literature simply as an inferior or perverted form of something better , instead of seeing the ‘ escapist ’ characteristics as aspects of an artistic type with its own purposes and justification . |
| 6 | The flaw of monism is that it tends to view a text as an undifferentiated whole , so that examination of linguistic choices can not be made except on some ad hoc principle . |
| 7 | The problem with this ‘ high ’ structuralism is that it tends to offer only an extremely objectivist account of social action , in which the human actor is merely a vehicle for the autonomous working of certain ordering principles . |
| 8 | Obese people tend to have higher levels of insulin than those of normal weight , and the disadvantage of insulin is that it tends to further encourage the body to deposit rather than burn up fat . |
| 9 | is that it tends to be women who do more of it . |
| 10 | One problem with dependency reversal is that it tends to take development strategies for granted while it assesses the benefits , or costs , of particular activities . |
| 11 | The main difficulty with the HCF approach , however interpreted , is that it tends to jettison most of what is distinctive of religion . |
| 12 | A further criticism which has been levelled at the Keynesian model is that it tends to understate the influence of money on the real variables in the economy . |