Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb base] to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people recruited into official positions through the parties tend to be of high social status , predominantly male , white and middle-aged . |
| 2 | The texts tend to be from old archaeologists . |
| 3 | ‘ It is quite clear that the Communists have to be in a minority in the new government . |
| 4 | From your photograph , the flies appear to be from the family Muscidae , related to the house flies Musca domestica and Fannia canicularis , but the fungus has bloated their abdomens , making precise identification difficult . |
| 5 | Without realising it , she is facing the otherwise unadmitted truth about father 's inability to assume responsibility , or mother 's suppressed craving for power , or whatever the problems happen to be in her particular environment . |
| 6 | Theoretical explanations in the sciences tend to be of an essentially hypothetical nature . |
| 7 | Indeed , all the advertisements appear to be in English , trumpeting such anglophonic necessities as the United Colors of Benetton . |
| 8 | I can imagine some unpleasant things happening with the sling , too ; the sling-bombs have to be on a pretty short fuse if they 're to detonate soon enough after they land not to be throw-backable , and I 've had a couple of close calls already when they 've gone off just after they left the sling . |
| 9 | The fibres need to be about the diameter of human hair . |
| 10 | ‘ All the men seem to be in the garden helping with the barbecue . |
| 11 | Many of the submerged banks and the bottoms of the lagoons of the atolls seem to be at a remarkably uniform depth , as one would expect if they represent an important phase of planation during a long period of preglacial stability . |
| 12 | In the case of John Wisson , the police seem to be on his side . |
| 13 | There 's a flower bed of sorts over by the fence but the flowers look to be on their last legs , as far as I can make out . |
| 14 | In this respect the sections purport to be of universal application . |
| 15 | Why do all the hooligans seem to be on the row in front and the row behind me ? |
| 16 | In order for induction to occur the cells need to be in a community of sufficient size , a phenomenon termed ‘ community effect ’ ; the cells ' development being dependent on the presence of other similar cells . |