Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] tend [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her no messages had been sent and suggested that if Uncle was a businessman — I thought it better not to mention that we already knew he was a multi-millionaire businessman — he might naturally tend to be secretive and that he might also be reluctant to broadcast the fact that he had lost his yacht through what might have been his own fault . |
| 2 | The argument would now tend to be that a child refusing to be toilet trained is not simply enjoying the experience for its own sake . |
| 3 | The costs will thus tend to be passed on to investors . |
| 4 | If you concentrate on population first and people second , people will always tend to be sacrificed to the programme . |
| 5 | They will also tend to be authoritarian , conservative and controlled in their thinking . |
| 6 | These children will also tend to be young . |
| 7 | The degree of reflation ‘ required ’ will therefore tend to be overestimated by governments in a synchronized upswing , if they rely on past experience derived from periods of less international synchronization of business cycles . |