Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | Unfortunately proceedings in the civil courts tend to be slower , more expensive and more formal than those in the industrial tribunal . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | Criminal acts tend to be antisocial rather than conscious acts against " the state . " |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Housewives tend to be busy all the time but they 're not really doing anything constructive , are they ? |
| 38 | Where sediment is abundant and wave and current action limited , deltas tend to be lobate , the classic example being the Nile . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | The RAF 's aircraft replacement programmes tend to be more expensive than warship construction , but they have greater flexibility since the number of aircraft ordered in any one year can be varied without throwing the Air Department 's costings off balance . |
| 41 | Lateral thinking and tolerating eccentricity are British characteristics whereas quality programmes tend to be made up of a lot of little things which cumulatively add up to something important . ’ |
| 42 | Most of their economic activities tend to be relatively labour intensive and could be assisted to become more labour retaining , helping to decrease the movement of people to industrial areas . |
| 43 | Studies which address such complexities tend to be performed in women 's studies rather than within feminist psychology . |
| 44 | The road surfaces tend to be worse in the towns than in the country . |
| 45 | A whole range of strategies tend to be adopted by those seeking budget appropriations . |
| 46 | For AMS , the upper age limit is determined by other factors such as machine stability and the degree of modern contamination introduced in the processing of very small samples ; the values tend to be similar to those for conventional radiocarbon laboratories . |
| 47 | Rainfall is at its lowest in the east , where summers tend to be better then in the temperate western half of the UK . |
| 48 | Boundary hedges tend to be the oldest hedges , and a number of these are found bordering brooks and streams . |
| 49 | In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct . |
| 50 | Oxford , Cambridge , and Durham researchers tend to be more prolific than the others . |
| 51 | Oxford , Cambridge , and Durham researchers tend to be more prolific than the others . |
| 52 | It is possible that a high-status tomb may yet be found entirely intact and that many gold and silver objects remain to be discovered by excavation . |
| 53 | Thus , for example , left-wing authorities go out of their way to ban what seems to be racist matter , and right-wing authorities tend to be careful to exclude what may be regarded as homosexual literature . |
| 54 | But the plastics in the waste collected by local authorities tend to be dirtier and of mixed types , and the recycled product made from them is more difficult to control and guarantee , especially for applications that will be in contact with food . |
| 55 | Real enemies tend to be confined ( where they exist at all ) to colleagues in one 's own party . |
| 56 | However , I know this is unlikely as all-female policies tend to be cheaper . |
| 57 | Visible garnet-edges tend to be smooth , which may suggest wheel-cutting , but if rougher methods were used the slices could be polished afterwards to remove any roughness ( Bimson 1985 ) . |
| 58 | Plenty of small operators remain to be gobbled up by big ones able to meet the capital and research costs now required . |
| 59 | Most people , he finds , positively enjoy having one or two large grand rooms and , since the main staterooms in these houses tend to be on one floor , they can be apportioned between the individual houses . |
| 60 | Russians tend to be smug about the complexity of their native tongue . |