Example sentences of "tend [prep] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their destination tends to be New York , to join an already established colony of Fujianese . |
| 2 | The solvent used tends to be methylene chloride thickened with SCMC to a gel consistency to slow down the evaporation of the solvent and to make the product easy to apply . |
| 3 | Since most soils requiring removal are alkali soluble the active base of a machine detergent tends to be sodium hydroxide ( caustic soda ) or potassium hydroxide ( caustic potash ) . |
| 4 | Because of this , successful systems tend to be speaker dependent , allowing only isolated words , and have small vocabularies ( Holmes , 1988 ) . |
| 5 | Majority tend to be budget models |
| 6 | Disks tend to be , tend to be block device drivers and serial ports tend to be character device . |
| 7 | The logic of this means that the majority of directors tend to be account executives — the people with the main responsibility for maintaining contact with the client ( see page 46 ) — rather than heads of departments . |
| 8 | Disks tend to be , tend to be block device drivers and serial ports tend to be character device . |
| 9 | Others , especially bivalves , tend to be filter feeders with heavy appetites , which often die of starvation in the reef tank . |
| 10 | Ruched and festoon blinds will benefit from this attention , as they tend to be dust traps . |
| 11 | These will tend to be ESN(S) schools , but if the early period of schooling is successful in developing the child , they may move on to ESN(M) schools and eventually to normal primary schools . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | The dotted line indicates the extension of the fitted relationship ( continuous line ) , as there will tend to be zero tax revenue at both 0 and 100% tax rates . |
| 14 | Family entertaining tended to be Sunday tea . |
| 15 | Body armour varied enormously ; earlier forms in the eleventh century tended to be scale armour , in which reinforcement was added to a leather garment . |