Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] tend [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The national economic and political environment is likely to be far more important for most companies , particularly since they will tend to be nationally or even transnationally organized . |
| 2 | If ideas sound good and meet the needs of a current state of affairs , they will tend to be accepted in some simple assimilable form without being subjected to scrutiny . |
| 3 | In the case of bankruptcy , partnerships clearly feel more constrained , since their unlimited liability means the owner/managers have more to lose than in any other case ; they will tend to be risk-averse . |
| 4 | Where risks are present they will tend to be single and are likely to be shared by other stimuli ( e.g. the driver going too fast ) . |
| 5 | I do not think that the jobs that people in Harrogate will want to find will be jobs in the industrial area and they will tend to be office jobs , and |
| 6 | Moreover they will tend to be Catholics from just the sort of background the universities here have for years wished to see represented more adequately among students . |
| 7 | They will tend to be richer and from richer countries , rather than erm than , than the kind of cross-section that we would have liked to have before . |
| 8 | Leave it to those moments which are spontaneous and it will tend to be as transient as it is spontaneous . |
| 9 | Needless to say , it will tend to be the highest calibre individuals who choose another career . |
| 10 | If a particular type or category is especially popular in one country , it will tend to be slightly more expensive there than elsewhere . |
| 11 | Once sand starts to move on the foreshore , which it does by the process of saltation , it will tend to be trapped by shingle patches , by piles of drifted debris , or by tufts of a coarse grass , Agropyron junceiforme . |
| 12 | Barro 's argument for the inclusion of this variable is that if government expenditure is equal to its normal level , it will tend to be financed by orthodox taxation , but if it is , say , abnormally high it is more likely to be financed by measures which increase the rate of monetary growth . |
| 13 | If , if you do any of your training it will tend to be rooms about this size . |