Example sentences of "[vb -s] tend [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the range does tend to be very crowded . |
| 2 | There has been a fairly consistent finding in such studies that this does tend to be the case . |
| 3 | In many ways that does tend to be a common occurrence on new shows when nobody has yet seen the type of programme the Producer and Story Editor have in mind . ’ |
| 4 | An uneven geographical distribution is also characteristic of tourism , one of the few industries that does tend to be found in the remoter rural areas ( see chapter 9 below ) . |
| 5 | Moreover , they found ‘ that spending does tend to be higher in areas suffering from adverse conditions ; and that such high spending is associated with inner city deprivation ( immigrants , overcrowding , and one-parent families ) rather than with traditional working class areas ( unskilled workers and large families ) ’ . |
| 6 | So er it does tend to be as I say solely about wills well draw it out if you 've got anything else you may not have . |
| 7 | Erm he does say in the course that residential is better because i it does tend to be a very intensive erm course . |
| 8 | Installing these does tend to be substantially easier on a Macintosh because here the screen is of a fixed resolution . |
| 9 | While this is more than adequate for word processing and so on it does tend to be restrictive when considering A4 or even A3 pages . |
| 10 | This does tend to be rather an out-of-the-way place , I 'm afraid . |
| 11 | Th the boats are fine but the the main human interest in it does tend to be , in fact , the personally , the two dogs has has more prominence in the picture than this chap , which is a pity . |
| 12 | It is a simple indication that the US economy is the most powerful in the world ( despite the fact that it is in relative decline ) and that global economic activity does tend to be measured in comparison with the sorts of economic activities with which the United States is mainly involved . |
| 13 | ‘ But it does tend to be more expensive because of overheads . ’ |
| 14 | Admittedly , when young , one does tend to be annoyed by remarks such as , ‘ My grandad 's older than your dad ’ , and become increasingly frustrated by mum 's , ‘ When I was young a shilling would buy ’ lectures , but this is merely a passing phase . |
| 15 | yes whereas Martin although it is his job but he does tend to be a little bit more difficult than he needs to be . |
| 16 | erm Magistrates only send people to prison because they feel the circumstances of the case justify it and erm I think in the public mind erm the criticism is more often the reverse , that Magistrates are too soft , and I 've heard Lord Hailsham say more than once that if we do pay a price for the lay magistrate system it is leniency because what happens , and the difference between the lay magistrate system and the stipendiary system or the Crown Court system is that Magistrates do sit in threes , and what that tends to do is lead to compromises in sentence because discussion between three people irons out extreme views and you do tend to end up with a very well considered compromise view , which probably does tend to be more lenient than a sentence imposed by any one person who might himself take a very serious view of the circumstances . |