Example sentences of "in [noun] [adv] tend to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is moderate reduction in lung cancer risk associated with lower tar cigarettes but research in the UK suggests that the assumed health advantages of switching to lower tar may be largely offset by the tendency of smokers to compensate for the reduction in nicotine ( cigarettes lower in tar also tend to be lower in nicotine ) by smoking more or inhaling more deeply [ 4 ] . |
| 2 | Given the dire state of the rouble , computer sales in Russia now tend to be mostly to those pockets of the economy still generating hard currency . |
| 3 | Thus industries in Britain today tend to be clustered together . |
| 4 | The use of subordination as a syntactic device for marking given information may be a common feature of information structure in many languages : for instance , Maynard ( 1981 ) suggests that given information in Japanese also tends to be subordinate . |
| 5 | Sanctioning strategies in fact generally tend to be associated with incidents of deviance . |