Example sentences of "[adv] [noun pl] tend [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The high speed flight of birds demands good eyesight , and so birds tend to be diurnal . |
| 2 | And in the first day of life they tend to sleep an awful lot , right , so newborns tend to be sleepy and inactive and the things that , that wake babies up and warm them are feeding , crying , limb movement . |
| 3 | Even today Scots tend to be wary of clever women ; but in those days , to be young , female , tall , beautiful , witty , talented and intelligent — and a Queen — was like writing one 's own death warrant . |
| 4 | Consequently punishments tend to be severe because any sympathy for the offender is overwhelmed by the need to appease the God . |
| 5 | He had found that even in Britain , where officials tended to be dismissive of the idea of a plan , people from private industry were receptive when he explained the Netherlands ' plan at a meeting : ‘ They said , ‘ Yes , we should like such a plan because it reduces our uncertainty . |
| 6 | Nakane , then a producer for the renowned Coho company , was desperate to stage radical Shakespeare in Japan , where productions tended to be absurd , academic affairs . |
| 7 | In sentences with a more complex structure , tone-unit boundaries are often found at phrase and clause boundaries as well , as in : In France where farms tend to be smaller the subsidies are more im portant |