Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It requires either a full repeat survey to identify the life style-groups again if any follow-up research is to be done , or else the creation of a sort of shorthand classification for research and analysis ; it seems that different products tend to be best looked at in terms of rather different life style groupings , so that , ideally , each requires its own major survey — which rather loses the point of the exercise — and researchers have had some difficulty in replicating the results . |
| 32 | Family products tend to be advertised , if possible , on TV ; women 's products in women 's magazines . |
| 33 | Advance payment has to be made to the Post Office to cover the value of the postage expected to be used . |
| 34 | Rhythmic patterns tend to be sober and square-cut , and that liking for the C mode — as such , e.g. in Clemens 's Missa Misericorde , s or transposed to F with a B flat key-signature — which we have already noticed in Josquin , becomes very pronounced . |
| 35 | The process meant that adolescence ceased to be what an American scholar has called an ‘ idea ’ and became , in his words , a ‘ social fact ’ . |
| 36 | Similarity groups tend to be more unified than proximity groups , and they can be set in competition . |
| 37 | If we may greatly oversimplify , it could be said that discussions of team organization in relation to client groups tend to be cast in the form of a set of claims made for the advantages of specialization . |
| 38 | Reviews in both groups tend to be very full and by authorities on their subjects . |
| 39 | According to this model , local politics ( see also Chapter 5 , section 5.3.3 , where the ‘ dual state ’ thesis is discussed ) is more open to pluralist pressures , since locally based interest groups tend to be those of service consumers , rather than the various types of producer which dominate at other levels ( and often play a big part in determining what is possible at local level ) . |
| 40 | ‘ Both groups tend to be calm and function well under pressure . |
| 41 | Now it may well be that privileged social groups tend to be advantaged in all three areas , while subordinate groups normally enjoy poor life-chances , low status and little political influence . |
| 42 | Inefficiency in the clinics and the universities is compounded by the fact that research groups tend to be small and isolated , shunning collaborative links with other small groups , either locally or nationally . |
| 43 | Group size — small groups tend to be more cohesive than larger groups ; small groups tend to encourage full participation ; large groups contain greater diversity of talent . |
| 44 | Oh , of course the opposite happens in a group , I mean what happens in groups you know therapeutic groups tend to be like this one , they sit in circles and they , they kind of focus on very often on the leader who often plays a very , very powerful role even if they claim not to . |
| 45 | cos if he he 's on a twelve hour shift and , those meetings tend to be have been around the same sort of time , then obviously , what we 've got ta be careful about is , adding any more hours |
| 46 | Its meetings tend to be jolly occasions , though coloured by the perennial frustration of the children 's book world : why ca n't we all get together and promote children 's books generically ? |
| 47 | Unfortunately proceedings in the civil courts tend to be slower , more expensive and more formal than those in the industrial tribunal . |
| 48 | And since the custodial sentences imposed by Crown Courts tend to be longer than those passed by magistrates ' courts , the sentencing practice of the Crown Court is clearly a much more potent factor in generating the prison numbers crisis . |
| 49 | Most clubs tend to be rather informal arrangements by a group of banks in different countries which agree to support and provide a better customer service by means of reciprocal lending arrangements . |
| 50 | Majority tend to be budget models |
| 51 | Leadership skills tend to be in short supply , and so potential group members are highly dependent on the leaders who can help them overcome collective action problems which would otherwise condemn them to remain disorganized . |
| 52 | I want this Parliament to continue to be the forum of our nation and I believe that the vast majority of our people share my wish . |
| 53 | Criminal acts tend to be antisocial rather than conscious acts against " the state . " |
| 54 | These contested cases where there is considerable media coverage tend to be those where the defendant(s) can attempt a claim that the victim consented to intercourse . |
| 55 | Gay men attending STD clinics tend to be more sexually active than gay men in general , so these rates of infection do not apply to all gay men . |
| 56 | Housewives tend to be busy all the time but they 're not really doing anything constructive , are they ? |
| 57 | Where sediment is abundant and wave and current action limited , deltas tend to be lobate , the classic example being the Nile . |
| 58 | Where marine action is relatively stronger deltas tend to be cuspate with concave outlines in plan , for example the Tiber , though one wonders whether these differences in plan might not be due primarily to the frequency and location of distributaries : the Tiber has only one . |
| 59 | The oldest known wild barn owl lived to be nearly eighteen years old , but a male in London Zoo was recorded at twenty . |
| 60 | Where the holder of a canteen licence ceases to manage the canteen , the person who is in charge for the time being can , for a period of 14 days from the date " when the holder ceased to be manager , sell liquor as if the licence had been transferred to him . |