Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] to [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the emphasis of current initiatives on waiting lists tends to be on reducing the wait for surgery rather than the waiting time for an appointment at an outpatient clinic . |
| 2 | Adorno 's preferred picture for music listeners seems to be of inert , private critical spirits , without bodies , without vocal sensuality . |
| 3 | The effect Barthes 's substantive analyses have on their readers seems to be at the level of a reinterpretation of phenomena offering a new , plausible meaning . |
| 4 | An interesting , if somewhat methodologically weak , study by Flaherty and his colleagues ( 1983 ) on adolescent pregnancies seems to be in line with this notion of planning ability . |
| 5 | Moreover , the fact remains that despite its recent record on public participation , MDC 's accountability to elected authorities and local communities continues to be at its own discretion . |
| 6 | The position is still worse because , in many schools , most of the RE time available is spent on content only marginally linked with religion : on moral and cultural education of one kind or another or social studies in which the information conveyed about different religions tends to be of a largely sociological nature , describing other people 's customs and beliefs . |
| 7 | The ecological factors responsible are largely unexplored , but the availability of plants to provide seeds seems to be of prime importance . |
| 8 | Almost everyone these days seems to be in favour of developing students ' critical abilities , from the students themselves , through the academic community , to the government , employers and professional bodies . |
| 9 | The one thing oil pastels teaches to be in your sketching is loose and uninhibited . |
| 10 | The choice presented to viewers tends to be between genres and subgenres rather than within them . |
| 11 | the system of Advisers of Studies appears to be under stress and may not be sufficiently robust to meet the demands of increasing student numbers and course complexity . |
| 12 | In Cornwall , which has a very attractive image , in-migration of firms seems to be in some cases linked with a form of semi-retirement by owners . |
| 13 | That is especially surprising because the successful achievement of Stagecoach 's aims appears to be in conflict with the Government 's preference as repeatedly stated by the Minister . |
| 14 | The divide in English studies seems to be between those who want to bring the rift out into the open , and those who prefer to pretend that it does n't exist . |
| 15 | Despite international and domestic bans , trade in rhino products appears to be on the increase , mainly in Asia , where there is a ready market for their supposed medical and aphrodisiac properties . |
| 16 | In fact the main lessons of these attempts seems to be to those outside Spiralynx — that organising from the outside is impossible . |
| 17 | The first account of a solitary dolphin encounter since classical times seems to be in England in 1814 . |
| 18 | An important focus of reports of sexual assaults and sex murders tends to be on the sexual attacks upon children . |
| 19 | Black people can be denied eligibility by rules which were originally drawn up for completely different purposes ; property let to ethnic minorities tends to be of lower quality than that allocated to the white population ; and black families , which tend to be larger , may not find council accommodation which is large enough for their needs ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 20 | However , since access to lexical items appears to be at least partly an automatic process in which words are accessed as a result of unplanned factors ( such as prior mention by the present speaker or an earlier speaker ) , it seems plausible to suggest that the production system should be able to adapt in order to incorporate automatically accessed lexical items into current constituents . |
| 21 | The difference between the two arguments seems to be in the route they pursue thereafter . |
| 22 | In the end , there is no guarantee that the ‘ natural ’ level of fertility in modern societies has to be at or above the replacement rate . |
| 23 | He is worried about various formalities relating to written contracts , and wonders in particular whether hire purchase agreements need to be in writing , whether any special formalities apply to contracts of employment , and if a contract leasing premises needs to be in any particular form . |
| 24 | This reaction to predators appears to be at least partly instinctive . |