Example sentences of "[pers pn] tend [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The animals within them are therefore extremely vulnerable , mainly because the populations within them tend to be too small for safety . |
| 2 | Both pulls are strong and theories which purport to reconcile them tend to be fragile , even though they capture a stout commonsense conviction that , as Marx put it , ‘ Men make their own history but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves . ’ |
| 3 | I tend to be rather disorganised when packing gear , so anything that helps me keep things in the right place has got to be a bonus . |
| 4 | I tend to be guilty of deviating from the subject matter , this being tantamount to stealing the thunder from the individual under scrutiny . |
| 5 | ( 1 ) B : I must say I tend to be … |
| 6 | You can change the tension on either or both of the carriages , though I tend to be lazy and change only one ! |
| 7 | Unless it is an easy switch-on or switch-off I tend to be lost . |
| 8 | I tend to be a little formal because you 're my boss . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ She 's a real feisty northern woman and that was nice for me because although I 've done a lot of different work , because of my television work , I tend to be thought of as the rather middle-class , bouncy , girl next door type . |
| 10 | I tended to be real critical . ’ |
| 11 | It is important that the senior management is briefed to be as open as possible at such meetings , otherwise the value of them tends to be diminished . |
| 12 | You know that you tend to be bronchial . |
| 13 | If you tend to be a ‘ hard-liner ’ , you will be attracted to punishment as a way of controlling people 's behaviour . |
| 14 | If it rains when you are driving , you tend to be drenched by the time the hood has been erected and are the laughing stock of every MX-5 driver in the neighbourhood . |
| 15 | If you tend to be inaccurate off the tee , remember that a tailwind usually reduces the effects of side spin on the ball so here 's your opportunity for the long drive . |
| 16 | DECEMBER may be a hard-working month when you tend to be carrying more than your share of responsibilities . |
| 17 | In group meetings , if you tend to be hesitant then get in early with your proposal . |
| 18 | ‘ The other thing is that wherever you go , restaurants or hotels , you tend to be met with a nice smile , because if people have laughed at you , they have warm feelings towards you — there 's no question about it . |
| 19 | You tend to be rather poorly which is why they 've given you the blood transfusion . |
| 20 | Alright so you tend to be at work . |
| 21 | I know that you tend to be inundated with questionnaires but hope you will agree that this is a vital area of concern and will help us find ways of reaching new ways of assisting young people in and into sport . |
| 22 | Thinking about the various stages you go through and then once you 've reached the level of department managers at , on a lot of issues you tend to be at this stage but it 's important to remember that a number of your staff may be down here somewhere . |
| 23 | Well one of the problems you see , i if you are perceived as one of the best , you tend to be in the top three or four or so on , you know , the , the people know who you are , but when you are perceived as being the , you know , that sort of effort you sort of find it , find it pretty difficult . |
| 24 | Well , I did , or you tend to be , you used to be Claire , when you used to wax your legs . |
| 25 | Self-confident , yet cautious , she tends to be a loner . |
| 26 | And it is interesting , as Toril Moi ( 1985 ) points out , that in her discussion of literature , Millett concentrates almost wholly on male authors , with the exception of Charlotte Bronte , of whose work she tends to be very dismissive . |
| 27 | She tends to be |
| 28 | She tends to be seen as bossy and interfering — a favourite target of comedians and a figure of fun on seaside postcards . |
| 29 | If in doubt over the value of the answers provided , would n't you tend to be generous to the candidate whose work is neat and tidy and easy to follow ? |
| 30 | She tended to be over-indulgent with Victoria , partly because she could see herself in the child and partly too , in some perverse fashion , to make up for what she considered to be her own harsh upbringing under Jonadab 's strict rules . |