Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] tend [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Galloway cows have wide pelvises and calve easily , even to Charolais and Romagnola bulls , and they respond well to quiet handling and familiarity , though naturally they tend to be shy if left alone in the hills . |
| 2 | Yet the choice of Bull as a partner is an odd one , for he and Lineker are essentially penalty-area predators and past experience has shown that when two such players are used together they tend to be like dogs after the same bone . |
| 3 | In the morning , body temperature is being raised and so it tends to be slightly lower than required . |
| 4 | And so it tends to be worse in the early hours of the morning and you can have another blip in the sort of er middle to late afternoon as well . |
| 5 | Er you know living er so close to neighbours and people you know in so it tended to be , in other places where I 've lived , that you did n't see people people very often , at least you did n't speak to your close neighbours very often , and erm in the flats , you know I found that they were right in the midst of it . |
| 6 | Thus it tended to be IBM ( and its US competitors such as DEC ( — and not AT&T — which mainly benefited from Europe 's modest attempts at telecoms deregulation . |
| 7 | More and more it tended to be regarded not merely as a useful political device but as something with a moral value and justification of its own . |
| 8 | The weakness of the country 's political parties — traditionally they tended to be forged around individuals and networks of patronage rather than clear ideological convictions , a tendency massively accentuated during the Marcos years — was highlighted with the approaching election in the form of splits , internal conflicts and unanticipated alliances . |
| 9 | Frequently we tend to be led astray by the fanciful language of introspective psychology . |
| 10 | Well they tend to be in the schools . |
| 11 | Today it tends to be a more exclusive activity in which theologians talk straight to each other and down to the faithful . |
| 12 | Where Methodism succeeded locally it tended to be of the brand , Lady Huntingdon 's , which appealed most to middling townsfolk . |
| 13 | Unfortunately they tend to be ignored as they have never been properly recorded and analyzed/evaluated . |
| 14 | Even then it tends to be an option used for only a selection of shots depending on hazards , the pin position and preference for a particular shape of shot . |
| 15 | Even then it tends to be restricted to middlebrow fiction and nonfiction ( nowadays , especially in North America , periodicals have replaced literature as the most favoured source , but even these tend to be rather upmarket ‘ general interest ’ magazines — not comic books , or photoromances , or political pamphlets , or the scripts of TV soap operas ) . |
| 16 | St Margaret had passed several dreary centuries in heaven ; people very seldom sought her intercession nowadays , and then it tended to be superstitious old women with sentimental requests . |
| 17 | Accordingly we tend to be friendly with one another , there being a general recognition that we all benefit rather from mutual support than ferocious competition . |
| 18 | Currently they tend to be small scale . |
| 19 | Politically they tend to be unstable , with very high birth rates but poor education and very low levels of literacy . |
| 20 | But one of the earlier findings which began to cause problems was that the sound of the letters , as well as the features , determined whether or not they were confused so B and D , for example , sound similar therefore they tended to be confused . |