Example sentences of "tend to be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where this has already happened , particularly in the case of automobile parts , it tends to be connected with local content requirements . |
| 2 | For now , the point I wish to make is that in regard to the notional/functional syllabus , although there is a change in the way of describing the content units for language teaching , this change tends to be assimilated into traditional and well-established ways of thinking about the syllabus as a pedagogic construct . |
| 3 | Rural manufacturing tends to be polarized into two main types . |
| 4 | At the other end of the scale , one of the poorer vegetable sources of fibre is cucumber , which contains only 0.4 per cent of dietary fibre and tends to be consumed in modest servings . |
| 5 | Even the political system , however strong the attachment to it , tends to be justified in pragmatic terms . |
| 6 | This is because each tends to be written from one of three main analytic standpoints , each of which is extremely convincing — in its own terms . |
| 7 | From time to time the Soviet authorities have expressed determination to counter ‘ bureaucratic perversion ’ within the state machine , though as Bettelheim has noted , the problem tends to be seen in organizational rather than political terms — ‘ improvement ’ in the machinery , ‘ simplifying ’ it , reducing costs , defining responsibilities more precisely , overcoming inertia , red tape , bureaucratic suppression and indifference , and so on . |
| 8 | The organisation of the planning process tends to be done in corporate head office by a central corporate planning department . |
| 9 | Modern planting tends to be done in large blocks , not for shelter , but as a crop in its own right . |
| 10 | Perhaps because different agencies have been involved , the term ‘ international judicial assistance ’ tends to be replaced in this new context by ‘ mutual assistance in criminal matters ’ or simply ‘ mutual legal assistance ’ . |
| 11 | Another important example of the way in which the criminal law reflects ruling-class interests is the way in which the ‘ crime problem ’ tends to be equated with working-class crime , often of a very trivial nature , rather than the more important , in terms of money , white-collar crime . |
| 12 | The infamous Clause 28 , forbidding teachers to ‘ promote ’ homosexuality , tends to be supported by those who believe there is such a thing as classical sex — one proper , heterosexual way of doing it , which should be drummed in like a correct French accent . |
| 13 | ‘ it tends to be supported by those who wish to constrain the redistributive potential of state welfare and thus it has always been part of a broader conservative view of the aetiology of social problems and their correct solutions ’ ( Macnicol , 1988 , p. 316 ) . |
| 14 | Without an understanding of consciousness , of the linguistic appropriation of experience , the link between structure and action tends to be conceived in mechanistic terms . |
| 15 | Backing small growth companies is extremely risky in terms of possible failure of the companies , but this risk tends to be counterbalanced by high rewards in the form of long-term capital gains . |
| 16 | It tends to be noticed in simple literary-historical terms as representative of the fabliau genre in thirteenth-century English , and presented simply as a work of little art . |
| 17 | Unemployment tends to be concentrated within certain families . |
| 18 | Another disadvantage of this type of system is that where several copper wires carrying different signals lie close to one another , current tends to be induced from one wire to adjacent ones . |
| 19 | Paradoxically , the disease concept ( that Chemical Dependency is a disease that is not the fault of the sufferer ) tends to be resisted by those who will happily accept " stress " or " depression " or " weak will " or " upbringing " as possible causes . |
| 20 | One of the most obvious symbols of this is in the public houses ; if there is more than one pub , each tends to be patronized by different social classes , while a single pub will usually have socially segregated ‘ lounge ’ and ‘ public ’ bars ( Newby 1979 ) . |
| 21 | It is an important question how far political change , which almost always involves some kind of conflict , also tends to be accomplished by violent means . |
| 22 | A great deal of emphasis tends to be put on personal contacts , as though knowing a journalist personally somehow puts him or her in your pocket . |
| 23 | This last because illness tends to be attributed to supernatural causes so that the art of healing is , from another aspect , part of the more general art of communicating with supernatural powers . |
| 24 | It is a field that is full of mythology , but also of research ; but the research tends to be compartmentalized between individual media , so that it is difficult to find meaningful material covering a combination of media in any very useful way . |
| 25 | Connected with these studies , though quite different in emphasis , is the rise of consumer protection and associated legislation , which is more concerned with the implications of goods , but tends to be restricted to functional efficiency and safety , rather than wider social relations . |
| 26 | This method can only be used for non-porous and crystalline rocks ( particularly limestones ) , as the lead tends to be forced into any pores and , unlike powdered abrasives , it can not be washed away . |
| 27 | One of the constraints it suffers is the dominance of a history which tends to be reduced to that of either missions or colonial discovery , with the implications that the Solomon Islanders themselves were a stagnant and unchanging people prior to the arrival of Europeans , a view reinforced by some of the dominant synchronic traditions in social anthropology . |
| 28 | Yet this is precisely how the problem tends to be approached by official bodies . |
| 29 | According to Gilligan , women 's morality tends to be rooted in human relationships , in the concerns of daily life , rather than in abstract moral principles . |
| 30 | Dependency theory provides a ‘ Southern perspective ’ which tends to be overlooked in other theoretical explanations . |