Example sentences of "tend [prep] [be] [vb pp] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Yet this is precisely how the problem tends to be approached by official bodies . |
| 5 | In addition , under bureaucratic hegemony the state machinery tends to be colonized by outside interests , preventing government from being directed towards a genuine ‘ national interest ’ . |
| 6 | Direct democracy has tended to be replaced by representative democracy , and political parties , pressure groups and others have sought to provide the information needed by the electorate . |
| 7 | By itself this might not be a bad thing , but elderly inmigration has tended to be accompanied by youthful outmigration , leading to a deteriorating age-sex structure . |
| 8 | Little is known of Herle 's character and qualities and comments tend to be coloured by financial altercations . |
| 9 | There are a number of textual features that tend to be ignored by generative parsing systems . |
| 10 | Casework loads tend to be dominated by short-term ( or even crisis ) work ; service development — which demands long lead times — is easily squeezed out . |
| 11 | The reasons adduced by Hare include the facts that fluvial processes tend to be dominated by extreme events rather than balance relationships , so that stochastic methods and extreme-value theory are closer to the reality of geomorphic processes than is energy-balance climatology ; and that the geomorphic time scale is longer than that utilized by the climatologist . |
| 12 | Hare ( 1973 ) has suggested ( see also p. 111 ) that this is because fluvial processes tend to be dominated by extreme events rather than balance relationships , and that the geomorphic time-scale is very long compared with that appropriate for climatic processes , although glaciology is in a very different situation . |
| 13 | As we have seen , such organisations tend to be dominated by formal rules and by committees which may lend themselves to the more autocratic style of leadership . |
| 14 | Generally , the effects of stable stratification tend to be underestimated by simple order-of-magnitude considerations ( cf. |
| 15 | Barro 's argument for the inclusion of this variable is that if government expenditure is equal to its normal level , it will tend to be financed by orthodox taxation , but if it is , say , abnormally high it is more likely to be financed by measures which increase the rate of monetary growth . |
| 16 | Interest groups that are large and diffuse will tend to be dominated by small , tightly knit groups that have a lot to gain ( Peltzman , 1976 ) ; thus these will often , though not inevitably , be the producers ( for a counter-example see Wenders , 1986 ) . |
| 17 | Sewel 's study ( 13 ) into the economic and social effects of centralised education in the rural areas of the Highlands and Islands found that ( a ) the structure of secondary school provision was not a crucial factor in migration , although the types of organisation most favoured by parents were the local two-year comprehensive school and the all-through comprehensive , located in the West , and ( h ) expectations and aspirations of both parents and pupils tended to be influenced by general social and economic conditions rather than specifically educational considerations . |
| 18 | In practice the ideas of state and government tended to be determined by political criteria typical of the period since the era of great 18th-century revolutions , but the idea of ‘ people ’ and ‘ nation ’ largely by pre-political criteria which were helpful in the creation of the imagined and imaginary community . |
| 19 | At the same time , however , discussion tended to be dominated by certain sets of people ; by academics , by Americans , by mathematicians and scientists , by people with little experience of younger children or of the teachers who normally guide them , by scholars whose passionate concern for their own disciplines and the elegance of thought within them may have outweighed their concern for the school curriculum and the balanced development of school children . |
| 20 | Accordingly , the regular demand and supply of currencies in the foreign exchange markets tended to be dominated by current account transactions , which were expanding quite rapidly as international trade grew faster than domestic growth rates . |