Example sentences of "tends to [be] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , the ‘ unfairness ’ in an unfair dismissal tends to be of a procedural , rather than a moral , nature . |
| 2 | Thus , although youth unemployment is high , it tends to be of shorter duration than that among the older age groups . |
| 3 | Achieving regular employment has been one of the most difficult targets for people who have left institutions and there is a marked descent through the occupational and class structure so that , especially where they have suffered illnesses such as schizophrenia , the work they are able to get tends to be of an unskilled or semi-skilled kind . |
| 4 | Black people can be denied eligibility by rules which were originally drawn up for completely different purposes ; property let to ethnic minorities tends to be of lower quality than that allocated to the white population ; and black families , which tend to be larger , may not find council accommodation which is large enough for their needs ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 5 | As such , they may be more appropriate for urban areas , where most of the housing in any area tends to be of a similar age and type and the blanket effect of the area-based policy will at least have some logical basis ( although even in inner cities problems do not necessarily come in a spatially concentrated form — see Smith 1979a ) . |
| 6 | The net result is that prices are often higher for houses in attractive and accessible villages , and much of the new housing built tends to be of a more expensive kind which maintains this feature . |
| 7 | Much teacher-training material currently being produced tends to be of this kind . |
| 8 | The position is still worse because , in many schools , most of the RE time available is spent on content only marginally linked with religion : on moral and cultural education of one kind or another or social studies in which the information conveyed about different religions tends to be of a largely sociological nature , describing other people 's customs and beliefs . |
| 9 | Erm if you look at er at a standard sort of table , look at a standard sort of rectangular table y'know person sitting here relative to ones sitting there , tends to be of higher status . |