Example sentences of "that tend to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repeated presentation of a given stimulus , therefore , will allow a network of links to be established among the elements that go to make it up ( particularly strong links being formed among those elements that tend to be sampled frequently ) . |
| 2 | A fixed position allows the use of a tripod and , for the first time in this Christmas video shoot , the use of an extension microphone to enable you to make a good job of recording all those fascinating speeches that tend to be made after the second or third glass of wine . |
| 3 | The expert literature tells social workers ( and other professionals in the field ) that there are certain types of injuries to , and behaviour from , children that tend to be indicative of child abuse ( Thompson , 1981 ; Johnson , 1985 ) . |
| 4 | This will stabilise the network , for the amount of positive feed-back between those combinations of neighbouring cortical neurons that tend to be active together will rapidly decline . |
| 5 | These areas tended to be socially deprived , with more unemployment , more manual workers , etc. , i.e. those characteristics that tend to be associated with a high offender rate . |
| 6 | The alternative may be prices that tend to be sticky , unresponsive to shifts in the market . |
| 7 | Also for cutting longer grass or seed heads that tend to be missed by cylinder mowers . |
| 8 | These behavioural consequences may be mirrored in changes in external appearances , in clothing and hairstyle and in various paraphernalia that tend to be associated with each particular form of addiction . |
| 9 | They recognise that not all interests in society are organised into groups and in order to explain this state of affairs they see it as important to consider two phenomena that tend to be ignored by pluralists . |
| 10 | There are a number of textual features that tend to be ignored by generative parsing systems . |
| 11 | If British evidence is anything to go by it is often large and relatively dated production units that tend to be the first to close in periods of rationalisation . |
| 12 | My amendments are not designed to cover every eventuality , which of course would be a practical impossibility , but are aimed at the provisions that tend to be common to most agreements and leases . |
| 13 | It does not suggest that the EMH is invalid , but that the market shows long-run efficiency , combined with short-run anomalous indicators of temporary inefficiency , that tend to be self-correcting . |
| 14 | With questions on behaviour such as magazines read or television programmes watched the previous week , the open question produces lists that tend to be abbreviated due to forgetfulness . |
| 15 | If you invested a pound on a horse , then the amount of money you 'd expect to get back would depend on the odds that that horse was offered at , but if you confined yourself to horses that had a reasonable chance of winning , say , the sort of horses that tend to be offered at odds of , say , six or seven to one or better , then your average rate of return might be nearer ninety per cent than thirty per cent , so putting it one way betting a pound a week on the horses is a slower way of losing your money than betting a pound a week on football pools , but football pools gives you a much greater chance of winning an absolutely astonishing sum of money . |
| 16 | The reason , quite simply , is that architects find work where the market for their skill is most lucrative , and in Britain that tends to be on sites where intensive development has taken place for generations , particularly the commercial centres and inner suburbs of big cities . |
| 17 | They may therefore be found within many other text types contained with the LOB , and used in a manner that tends to be consistent across each domain . |
| 18 | Erm that tends to be unusual but in this particular case it is very relevant . |
| 19 | No , it 's purely advisory , it , it depends , depending on which piece of legislation , it depends upon the regulatory bodies , and in most cases that tends to be the District Councils , but it 's |
| 20 | yeah it might be , I do n't know , I think usually Roy does that but I think Dave 's doing it this year or something erm er that tends to be , that tended to be something that I had difficulty with as a student because again you could n't just sort of find one book that , that covered the lecture course |
| 21 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 22 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 23 | yeah it might be , I do n't know , I think usually Roy does that but I think Dave 's doing it this year or something erm er that tends to be , that tended to be something that I had difficulty with as a student because again you could n't just sort of find one book that , that covered the lecture course |