Example sentences of "tend [prep] [be] [adj] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The market tends to be good in times of recession , ’ says Norman Murray , deputy chairman of Morgan Grenfell Development Capital , which launched its fund in 1989 . |
| 2 | Finally , because it tends to be selective in terms of the types of people involved , migration also has the power to produce substantial and rapid changes in the population composition of individual places . |
| 3 | A good heuristic function is a function f on states which tends to be large on nodes on paths to goals . |
| 4 | Much of the Press coverage of library censorship tends to be concerned with attempts to censor so-called obscene and indecent literature . |
| 5 | This may be because burrowing forms tend to be rare in areas of frequent flooding , even when common in the surrounding country ( Sheppe & Osborne , 1971 ; Andrews et al . , |
| 6 | Relatively speaking , women , therefore , tend to be involved with relatives , men with friends . |
| 7 | All these convenience foods tend to be rich in colourings , flavourings , preservatives and other additives . |
| 8 | This role meets the needs of the team for cohesiveness and collaboration , for role-holders tend to be perceptive of peoples ' needs and adept at supporting individuals . |
| 9 | Admittedly , when young , one does tend to be annoyed by remarks such as , ‘ My grandad 's older than your dad ’ , and become increasingly frustrated by mum 's , ‘ When I was young a shilling would buy ’ lectures , but this is merely a passing phase . |
| 10 | Earlier reports tended to be content with inventories of graves and their contents ( for instance , Green and Rogerson 1978 ) . |