Example sentences of "they tended [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About ideas and practices other than their own they tended to be contemptuous , dismissive or hostile ; usually such attitudes were grounded in ignorance of , rather than engagement with , the ideas in question . |
| 2 | Social issues , which between them were the subject of almost a fifth of the courses , accounted for only 9 per cent of the total number of teacher-days : they tended to be short , workshop-style courses with few participants . |
| 3 | They tended to be raw kids with a self imposed need to get rich quick . |
| 4 | But one of the earlier findings which began to cause problems was that the sound of the letters , as well as the features , determined whether or not they were confused so B and D , for example , sound similar therefore they tended to be confused . |
| 5 | You could also find some letters that were confused , they did n't share common features but they sounded the same and they tended to be confused as well There was a lot of enthusiasm from the work of the neuro-psychologist th with the discovery of cells which appeared to be sensitive to particular features . |
| 6 | We also booked hotels in advance , since the guidebooks said that they tended to be busy . |