Example sentences of "[vb mod] tend [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But in most circumstances , the focus will tend to be either more on the maintenance of social relations , or more on the conveying of information clearly , concisely and unambiguously . |
| 32 | Political-economic analysis could help professional economists both by providing a critique of their ideology , and also in assessing what is feasible , who will benefit and lose from their policies , what will tend to be done or left undone in the project and so on . |
| 33 | In other words , although people have been conserving soil or limiting children for a long time , an explicit and out-of-context definition of a single element in people 's lives ( conservation , small families ) will tend to be distrusted and misunderstood . |
| 34 | It is also a curious facet of human nature that the more you have the more you use so over-use will tend to be rife . |
| 35 | ‘ If there is to be talk of a pool of ability , it must be a pool which surpasses the widow 's cruse in the Old Testament , in that when more is taken for higher education in one generation more will tend to be available in the next . ’ |
| 36 | Genetic relatives will tend to be alike not just in facial features but in all sorts of other respects as well . |
| 37 | After meeting domestic needs any surplus will tend to be exported to Japan . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | Conclusions will tend to be in terms of shifts within the system itself — adjusting the balance between groups , levels and interests of different times . |
| 40 | If the light is warm , say yellow or yellow orange , the halo will tend to be warmer , orange or red-orange as in the halo around the bus headlights in London Bus . |
| 41 | Leave it to those moments which are spontaneous and it will tend to be as transient as it is spontaneous . |
| 42 | These will tend to be more stable than smaller tanks in water terms , less affected by external temperature changes , will enable you to keep a wider range of fish , and are likely to be more useful as your interests in the hobby develops into keeping larger fish or into breeding projects . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | Classroom activities will tend to be those focusing attention on deciphering rather than on interpretation by indexical inference . |
| 45 | ‘ Together , the Act and the standard will have the effect that more undertakings will tend to be consolidated , ’ said Ms Crichton . |
| 46 | Needless to say , it will tend to be the highest calibre individuals who choose another career . |
| 47 | The embodiment of light is masculine , that of the dark is feminine , and thus a religion based on the former will tend to be served by priests , and one based on the latter by priestesses . |
| 48 | If a hypertonic solution is introduced into the gut lumen , then osmosis dictates that water will tend to be drawn into the lumen from the surrounding gut wall ( and hence from the blood perfusing the tissues of the gut ) . |
| 49 | If the light is warm , say yellow or yellow orange , the halo will tend to be warmer , orange or red-orange as in the halo around the bus headlights in London Bus . |
| 50 | These juveniles should be feeding well on daphnia , brine shrimp and bloodworm , though the bloodworm will tend to be ignored once it has sunk . |
| 51 | ‘ the men at the top of organizations will tend to be ambitious , shrewd and possessed of a non-demanding moral code . |
| 52 | In most instances the cat will tend to be the dominant animal and may occasionally resort to scratching the dog if it proves a nuisance . |
| 53 | Personal commitment will tend to be replaced by the rule book and the clock . |
| 54 | Nonetheless , the flow-chart-cum-module model is much more open to interpretation in terms of localization ( if only because both are normally explained and displayed spatially ) , and therefore any explication of consciousness in their terms will tend to be a localized model , or what I referred to as a pinball-machine view of consciousness , one that seems to me a priori implausible . |
| 55 | In other words , these are the cases where there is the greatest public impact , so , while a small minority , these high-profile cases will tend to be used by the public as indicators of what is normally the outcome . |
| 56 | Time and practice can be the essence of development and each child 's requirements will tend to be different from its neighbour 's . |
| 57 | At this minimal level , narrative is organisationally simple and , linguistically , cohesion will tend to be established by time clauses ( when … ) , time connectors ( next … ) and pronominalisations ( John … he , or door-key … it , in the last example ) . |
| 58 | It entails moreover the risk that if the list is long voting will tend to be little more than a popularity poll , with most votes heavily concentrated on the best-known candidates , leaving the election of others to be decided by relatively few votes , cast by electors probably unrepresentative of the electorate as a whole . |
| 59 | If a particular type or category is especially popular in one country , it will tend to be slightly more expensive there than elsewhere . |
| 60 | This also holds true for items of similar groups within the same country ; a top quality Nain will tend to be more expensive than a second-grade Isfahan ( and vice versa ) , while both can be expected to command a higher price than the average Hamadan or Heriz . |