Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] tends to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As explained at our meeting , MAS 's involvement in due diligence tends to be limited to briefing the investigating accountants on the outcome of the key features review and reviewing with yourselves the due diligence findings , to consider how these may impact on price and your warranty and indemnity requirements . |
| 2 | Dry skin tends to be on the sensitive side , so choosing a moisturiser can cause problems . |
| 3 | The danger for almost all golfers is that the right side tends to be dominant at the start of the downswing . |
| 4 | Because it has to be larger and heavier to provide comparable power , the diesel fitted to a basic one-litre car tends to be at least 1.6 litres . |
| 5 | For now , the point I wish to make is that in regard to the notional/functional syllabus , although there is a change in the way of describing the content units for language teaching , this change tends to be assimilated into traditional and well-established ways of thinking about the syllabus as a pedagogic construct . |
| 6 | Terminology in this field tends to be somewhat confused and it is more helpful to regard the assessment of training as one integrated process , while recognising that the facets described as evaluation and validation are contained within the general concept . ’ |
| 7 | Activated carbon tends to be used to treat low concentrations of highly odorous compounds or large concentrations of lesser odorous compounds which may or may not be toxic . |
| 8 | University-led research tends to be on a smaller scale , and on a much shorter time-span , with the average Ph D taking just over three years to complete . |
| 9 | The upper part of this formation tends to be argillaceous , and the thickest clean sandstones are in the lower section . |
| 10 | The self to whose development the authors relate this process tends to be a highly individualist subjective self , of the psychological rather than the anthropological tradition , with given psychic needs . |
| 11 | However , taken over such a large area , it is undoubtedly the case that Whites have higher socio-economic status than Blacks , and since social deprivation tends to be associated with criminal behaviour it is not surprising to find Blacks are over-represented among those arrested . |
| 12 | Now this overround tends to be larger in fields with a large number of runners , and also tends to be larger in these popular races , so that at times when there 's lots of money around the bookies , of course , and we expect them to do this , are very careful to make sure that the odds are well in their favour , because on these races where there 's lots of money staked their risk is higher . |
| 13 | This factor tends to be linked with goodwill as it would be unusual for a purchaser not to take restrictive covenants to protect any goodwill he has purchased . |
| 14 | High exhaustivity tends to be a feature of databases indexed automatically on the basis of the text of the document . |
| 15 | For another , FSP theory often forms the basis for highly relevant discussions of translation problems and strategies ( see , for example , Hatim , 1984 , 1987 , 1988 , 1989 ; Hatim and Mason , 1990 ) , and basic familiarity with this approach tends to be taken for granted by those exploring its relevance to translation studies . |
| 16 | Capital both economic and symbolic appears as an investment open to calculation , and social hierarchy tends to be reducible to these two main linear strands through which capital can be exploited in social positioning . |
| 17 | As a rule this application tends to be under-exploited . |
| 18 | When the nucleation density is high , the spherical symmetry tends to be lost as the spherulite edges impinge on their neighbours to form a mass such as shown in figure 11.7 . |
| 19 | Backing small growth companies is extremely risky in terms of possible failure of the companies , but this risk tends to be counterbalanced by high rewards in the form of long-term capital gains . |
| 20 | This information tends to be sporadic and incomplete as there is currently no requirement for companies to deposit data from their mineral exploration programmes with any central agency , except in Northern Ireland . |
| 21 | Answer guide : This information tends to be more up to date and detailed as compared to published accounting information . |
| 22 | A high value tends to be placed on certainty and permanence , so that when a child is removed from his natural parents and rapid rehabilitation seems unlikely , he should not be confused by multiple parent figures or uncertain plans for his future . |
| 23 | The least interesting material tends to be spun out for far too long , and the composer can fall back on clichés ( like reiterated clusters ) just at the point when a new , arresting thought is most urgently needed . |
| 24 | Observations on modern hunter-gatherer societies confirm the generality of division of labour between the sexes , the fact that a certain portion of the food is shared between group members , and that hunting tends to be a male activity . |
| 25 | Spatial mobility tends to be highest amongst the most affluent groups on the one hand and the most poor on the other . |
| 26 | Central administration tends to be heavily bureaucratic and it is interesting to speculate whether the deserving would be better served and the abuses of the modern system better curbed if the administration was returned to more local control . |
| 27 | Apart from the difficulty of chambers , the ordinary person who has no special connections normally finds it easier to get some kind of start on the common law side , where there is a great deal of small work , in county courts and the criminal courts ; on the Chancery side there is no criminal work and all the civil work tends to be fairly important . |
| 28 | Part-time farming tends to be concentrated in DRAs where small , often non-viable holdings predominate . |
| 29 | In such experiments the signal-to-noise ratio tends to be very low , and interferometers , which allow repeated scanning , are more useful than spectrophotometers . |
| 30 | This can sometimes even occur while the dog is standing , and such behaviour tends to be more common in bitches . |