Example sentences of "[noun] tend [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since institutions tend to be affected in the same way by the same set of factors , share prices will be more volatile than would otherwise be the case . |
| 2 | I stress the exuberance because most of the literature on anorexia nervosa stresses that anorexics tend to be ‘ good ’ little girls . |
| 3 | Problems of this kind tend to be more pronounced if the left side of the visual field in each eye is affected . |
| 4 | The truth , I fancy — and the discovery that letters of this kind tend to be written in oddly similar terms ( the writer invariably shudders to think , the mixtures are always revolting or barbaric ) does something to bear out my theory is simply that reference to some particular ingredient has , subconsciously , touched off a painful nerve in the reader . |
| 5 | This may be because burrowing forms tend to be rare in areas of frequent flooding , even when common in the surrounding country ( Sheppe & Osborne , 1971 ; Andrews et al . , |
| 6 | The resulting solutional forms tend to be rounded and less sharp-edged than those formed on bare rock . |
| 7 | Unfortunately such capital inflows tend to be very volatile in nature , as we have seen in earlier chapters , and this is one reason why this option did not provide a permanent or reliable solution . |
| 8 | In 1967 Abel-Smith and Stevens asserted that ‘ solicitors tend to be active members of rotary clubs , golf clubs , rugby football clubs and to become freemasons and leading churchmen ’ ( Abel-Smith and Stevens , 1967 , pp. 142–3 ) . |
| 9 | This , together with the political dimension , means that it is hardly surprising that problems such as the inner cities tend to be defined and redefined over the years . |
| 10 | Because grammatical elements typically need to have the capacity to combine normally with semantically very various roots , their meanings tend to be of a very general sort : the notion of past tense , for instance , can combine without anomaly with virtually any conceivable verbal notion . |
| 11 | Ages tend to be entered initially as six , seven or eight mainly with a view to achieving an acceptable age of completion for secondary entry . |
| 12 | People who open Tessa accounts tend to be in older age groups . |
| 13 | The cows have red freckles on the face and neck in particular , while those of the bulls tend to be greyish . |
| 14 | The hexachloroantimonate , , is easier to obtain — from , and sulphur — but its reactions tend to be slow due to its poor solubility in most solvents . |
| 15 | The markets in options that are deeply in or out of the money tend to be rather thin , and such options are not actively traded . |
| 16 | Caustic products tend to be in liquid or gel format . |
| 17 | Products tend to be misplaced or even completely lost or they get in the way but somehow they never happen to be available when wanted . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Family products tend to be advertised , if possible , on TV ; women 's products in women 's magazines . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Similarity groups tend to be more unified than proximity groups , and they can be set in competition . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Reviews in both groups tend to be very full and by authorities on their subjects . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Both groups tend to be calm and function well under pressure . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 |