Example sentences of "be that [pers pn] tend [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is that we tend to be left with an RE which effectively has lost its " R " . |
| 2 | The single most startling fact for girls , however , is that they tend to be taken into care for ‘ status offences ’ rather than for breaking the law . |
| 3 | Well , Moscavisi 's argument , and I must say , I agree with him , is that they tended to be denigrated by both groups who might have taken the biggest interest in them . |
| 4 | Obese people tend to have higher levels of insulin than those of normal weight , and the disadvantage of insulin is that it tends to further encourage the body to deposit rather than burn up fat . |
| 5 | is that it tends to be women who do more of it . |
| 6 | The danger of this opinion is that it tends towards Manichaeanism , the heresy which says that Good and Evil are equal and opposite and the universe is a battlefield ; however the Inklings may have had a certain tolerance for that ( see C. S. Lewis 's Mere Christianity , Book 2 , section 2 ) . |
| 7 | The survivors were mostly younger sisters , but the striking thing about the teenage girl compositors traced through the CECOS Report , was that they tended to be the eldest children of large families . |
| 8 | One reason why women in London took up washing was that it tended to be a seasonal trade , the peaks in the availability of the work ( during the London season ) coinciding with the troughs in the male employment cycle in the gas and building trades . |