Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However these products tend not to be as rich in calcium as dairy products and red fish . |
| 2 | By contrast , particular skills tend only to be identified by those who have specialized by method of intervention ( for example , marital counselling ) or by client sub-group ( for example , fostering and adoption ) . |
| 3 | The team processes cases more quickly and closes them earlier ; of those that remain open , relatively few are reassessed , but cases tend not to be kept open for ‘ monitoring only ’ . |
| 4 | Thus authors who are highly regarded by their peers tend also to be those who publish frequently , and whose papers are highly cited . |
| 5 | Thus authors who are highly regarded by their peers tend also to be those who publish frequently , and whose papers are highly cited . |
| 6 | People who are good at seeing the figure ground relationships in pictures tend also to be good at sentence-completion exercises , word analogies , problem solving , and so on . |
| 7 | If it is agreed that project work has a great deal to offer in terms of developing reading , but recognised that these opportunities tend not to be exploited to the full , it is necessary to examine ways in which project work can be designed to make fuller use of its potential . |
| 8 | I 've heard that Chinese carrots tend not to be as reliable as some Eastern European ones … |
| 9 | What these contradictions add up to is the paradoxical point that the ‘ frozen moment of loveliness is more dynamic than the fluid world of reality only because it is frozen ’ , that art is more vivid than life only because it is not alive . |
| 10 | No , it is all due to the faithful old Sun going through it usual cycle of activity and the so called dragons turn out to be early sightings of aurorae . |
| 11 | A string of distinguished television current-affairs programmes are dismissed as being soft on criminals and terrorists ; TV programme-makers turn out to be pretentious , corrupt , cynical and generally ‘ nauseating … these saintly people , living off the fat of the land , try to kid you that they are guardians of the common weal ! ’ |
| 12 | It seems to me that this passage describes the way loving relationships turn out to be for Hegel . |
| 13 | Traders do well to be careful in describing their merchandise for the section may catch not just the deliberate liar but also the honest trader who carelessly misdescribes his goods . |
| 14 | The riddles of babies ' first words have yet to be solved . |
| 15 | Although an initial consultation paper was issued in October 1991 , the aims and functions of the SWSI have yet to be finalised . |
| 16 | All these problems regarding parallel computers have yet to be solved by the large community of researchers in the field , but their solution will dictate the nature of future supercomputers . |
| 17 | Those words need now to be scrutinised closely as future events unfold and as the ‘ small print ’ of implementation is written . |
| 18 | Although the floodlights have yet to be installed , the club have now got planning permission from Montgomeryshire District Council . |
| 19 | Readers need also to be wary of the existence of special markets . |
| 20 | Now the wall has come down , Leipzig city council is still pressing ahead for the museum to be built , although the building funds have yet to be found and the competition to find an architect will not be until 1993 . |
| 21 | This group , of parasites tend not to be such a problem in young dogs as roundworms . |
| 22 | Noting that rats tend naturally to be either left- or right-pawed in reaching for and picking up their food , he constrained them to reach for their food with the non-preferred paw and reported changes in RNA and protein synthesis in the region and side of the brain responsible for the motor coordination of the ‘ learning ’ paw compared with the ‘ non-learning ’ side . |
| 23 | These matters remain further to be explored . |
| 24 | Occasionally they are led through the freshly flooded rice-paddies to turn and fertilize the soil ; otherwise their duties extend only to being sacrificed at noble funerals such as these , and leaving their magnificent horns attached in layers to the Toraja houses whose residents had so generously supplied them . |
| 25 | By far the largest concentration is found at Chichester gravel pits , and the only other area at which more than 100 birds have occurred annually is Weir Wood Reservoir ; similar flocks seem now to be establishing themselves at Darwell Reservoir and Rye Harbour gravel pits . |
| 26 | As soon as the urban context is broken down even into such crude categories as social class , age or ‘ interests ’ , processes which seemed to be peculiar to particular urban areas turn out to be determined by other factors . |
| 27 | There are many other markets where Guinness brands have yet to be introduced . |
| 28 | The advantage of this form of development is highlighted by the success of the recently floated Wetherspoon Organisation , where from a portfolio of 44 trading units , 28 have been developed from unlicensed property and a further 18 sites have yet to be converted . |
| 29 | Quotas for career registrars were issued two years late , and those for research registrars have yet to be issued . |
| 30 | A few years ago Japanese-Americans were compensated for being interned during the second world war , and some ( mostly white ) people have begun to point out that blacks have yet to be compensated for centuries of slavery . |