Example sentences of "they [modal v] tend to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The national economic and political environment is likely to be far more important for most companies , particularly since they will tend to be nationally or even transnationally organized . |
| 2 | If ideas sound good and meet the needs of a current state of affairs , they will tend to be accepted in some simple assimilable form without being subjected to scrutiny . |
| 3 | In the case of bankruptcy , partnerships clearly feel more constrained , since their unlimited liability means the owner/managers have more to lose than in any other case ; they will tend to be risk-averse . |
| 4 | Where risks are present they will tend to be single and are likely to be shared by other stimuli ( e.g. the driver going too fast ) . |
| 5 | I do not think that the jobs that people in Harrogate will want to find will be jobs in the industrial area and they will tend to be office jobs , and |
| 6 | Moreover they will tend to be Catholics from just the sort of background the universities here have for years wished to see represented more adequately among students . |
| 7 | They will tend to be richer and from richer countries , rather than erm than , than the kind of cross-section that we would have liked to have before . |