Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] [be] more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think other people are finding it difficult , but it 's mostly boys and they tend to be more practical and keep calmer about it and also not worry about it , which does help . |
| 2 | Cylinders rely primarily on suction , so they tend to be more powerful than uprights . |
| 3 | They tend to be more clingy and less competent , both socially and intellectually . |
| 4 | In the second phase they tend to be more regional , although they are still dispersed over considerable distances , up to 200 km apart . |
| 5 | Politically , the judicial conception of the public interest tends to embrace the promotion of certain views normally associated with the Conservative Party and there is a greater likelihood that Labour Governments will encounter challenges through the courts if only because they tend to be more interventionist and to challenge the status quo . |
| 6 | Er they tend to be more sophisticated and slimmer and nice looking , but we have quite a few craftsmen around now , no blacksmiths as such , but even in the old days er you had rather cheaper versions made with wooden handles and just a nice piece of light Tinwooey bent over to form the board , the mould board and that . |
| 7 | The dinner , a rite of the Washington spring , has always had its share of visitors from the west coast ; they tend to be more fun at your table than a deputy assistant secretary in the Veterans ' Administration . |
| 8 | Keep a close eye on wild fish , as they tend to be more aggressive than their tank-bred counterparts . |
| 9 | It seems likely that they will make little impact , one reason being that they appear to be more concerned with targeting existing jobs rather than creating genuinely new ones . |
| 10 | ‘ My dear , not about your ideas , about your circumstances — they appear to be more unusual . ’ |
| 11 | Because well I do n't know they seemed to be more active . |
| 12 | In Yip Kai-foon the Privy Council rejected the solution which has been adopted in some jurisdictions of directing the jury to convict of the offence which they consider to be more probable . |
| 13 | They say that the flabby reaction to the Gulf War ( and the lack of reaction to their vague anti-Gulf War B-side ‘ Riding On Through ’ ) made them realise they needed to be more specific . |
| 14 | But their two aims conflicted because on the one hand they 're trying to protect production and to allow erm er capit private enterprise and capitalism to develop but on the other hand they 're erm trying to redistribute all the land er because the May the fourth directive was n't going far enough , they , they needed to be more severe upon landlords |
| 15 | They appeared to be more aware of the misery and realities of war than might otherwise have been expected . |
| 16 | They had to be more specific about the traditionally accepted forms of behaviour , customs , occupations and particular national characteristics . |
| 17 | The need for flexibility in plan making was stressed ; something more than land use maps were required and they had to be more responsive to the rapid changes then being experienced in the 1960s in terms of economic and social trends , population forecasts and traffic growth . |
| 18 | There are less of them , so they have to be more general and ’ domain-free ’ in their use . |
| 19 | Also to make them more user friendly especially for mums with toddlers in tow , they need to be more roomy . |
| 20 | It is , of course , very easy to pay too much attention to the famous names in Nonconformity , partially because of their importance , partially because information about them is more readily available and partially because they tended to be more involved in politics . |