Example sentences of "tend [prep] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theorists of the ‘ regulation ’ school , such as Aglietta ( 1979 ) , regard Fordism as something which will increasingly be con fined to the less developed industries , themselves tending to be located within less developed areas of the world economy , as capitalism becomes ever more institutionalized . |
| 2 | In some cases Christian names were adapted , possibly where father and son had the same Christian name , these then tending to be used in the same way as nicknames . |
| 3 | According to Hermann , working in the late eleventh century , this happened because Edmund 's popularity was increasing , and this tends to be confirmed by the entry of his feast-day in calendars produced in Winchester and Canterbury at about the same time , and by the inclusion of a special mass for him in a sacramentary probably written in Ely . |
| 4 | Second , the matter in the belt is largely ionized , and therefore tends to be swept around with the dipole field as Jupiter rotates . |
| 5 | The assumption tends to be made that principles of normalisation , the self-advocacy movement , and professional/client relationships will somehow remain in tune with each other . |
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| 7 | In other countries , such as France , where central government has more extensive authority over teachers , the opposite assumption tends to be made that teachers will conform to national policies and regulations in their practice . |
| 8 | His KL collection is in a sense a continuation of the looks he designed for Chloé in being soft , rather sexy and highly individual and tends to be worn by women who do not need the reassurance of the double C on gilt buttons . |
| 9 | Physics was chosen as a representative subject , not only because it is studied by so few women , and is therefore a typically masculine discipline , but also because it tends to be regarded as the most objective , rigorous and , indeed , successful of the pure sciences . |
| 10 | So it seems to me that the , the problem is that , that Freud 's explanation of how human beings acquired an innate , evolved sense of guilt , about murdering their relatives and committing incest , tends to be rejected as Lamarckism . |
| 11 | It tends to be grown for its foliage . |
| 12 | It also tends to be grown locally so that less fuel is wasted on transporting it . |
| 13 | Chemical apparatus tends to be broken , or reused in new arrangements ; but the historian may hope that even here laboratories may have had capacious cupboards into which unused pieces have been stuffed and thus preserved . |
| 14 | An explanation for this may lie in the way that children are treated in these two cultures : Western conditioning tends to be based on the idea of guilt . |
| 15 | Religion tends to be based on the need of people to believe in something more important than their own trivial lives . |
| 16 | This preference for speech tends to be based on a logocentric assumption that speech directly expresses a meaning or intention that its speaker ‘ has in mind ’ . |
| 17 | Adherence to the limit tends to be checked only by chance observation from police cars or by targeting a specific street about which residents have complained . |
| 18 | Where this has already happened , particularly in the case of automobile parts , it tends to be connected with local content requirements . |
| 19 | This tends to be skewed towards the favoured end and you should aim to be at the front of the bulge . |
| 20 | It tends to be defined , for example , in terms of auditors not being officers of the PLC or not being involved with the officers otherwise than in the capacity of auditor . |
| 21 | The availability of surplus cash for financing fixed asset investments tends to be limited , since it is often used to meet working capital requirements . |
| 22 | But the mind-stretching impact of the historian 's research tends to be limited by the fact that ( usually at least ) he is working within his own cultural tradition . |
| 23 | Since this strategy requires monitoring emissions from individual sources , it is a strategy which tends to be limited to the larger industrial emission sources . |
| 24 | MAS 's involvement in investigations tends to be limited to briefing the investigating accountants on the outcome of the key features review and studying with the purchaser the due diligence findings , to consider how these may impact on the heads of agreement and the client 's warranty and indemnity requirements . |
| 25 | As explained at our meeting , MAS 's involvement in due diligence tends to be limited to briefing the investigating accountants on the outcome of the key features review and reviewing with yourselves the due diligence findings , to consider how these may impact on price and your warranty and indemnity requirements . |
| 26 | However some dirt , or soil as it tends to be called , is not dissolved by water . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In the case of ‘ universality ’ , whatever the authority ( ‘ cross-cultural studies ’ are popular ) the claim tends to be belied by the fact that different writers have arrived at rather different ( though by no means completely different ) lists . |
| 29 | For where rapes are not differentiated , it tends to be assumed by police and prosecutors that true rape is rape with clear indications of violence . |
| 30 | Although greater attention tends to be lavished upon Leo Fender 's 6-string designs , in the time between the releases of his Telecaster and Stratocaster , Leo demonstrated his ability to create without precedent , inventing from scratch the electric bass guitar . |