Example sentences of "they tend to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The animals within them are therefore extremely vulnerable , mainly because the populations within them tend to be too small for safety . |
| 2 | Both pulls are strong and theories which purport to reconcile them tend to be fragile , even though they capture a stout commonsense conviction that , as Marx put it , ‘ Men make their own history but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves . ’ |
| 3 | Since black people in the southern states have suffered more injustices at the hands of the law they tend to be less likely to hand out death sentences . |
| 4 | It is likely that this is caused not by having less religious education , but by the fact that they tend to be peopled by children of classes who have traditionally fewer links with the church , and include parents making active decisions to keep their children out of the clergy 's grasp . |
| 5 | They suffer from the drawback that warping can leave open gaps in the cladding ( waney-edged boards are particularly prone to this because of the way they are sawn ) , and so they tend to be used more on out-buildings than on house exteriors , except as feature panels . |
| 6 | This is the first thing you notice about graphics interchange files — they tend to be long . |
| 7 | They tend to be young , energetic , and ambitious , but there are by now professors of that outlook . |
| 8 | They tend to be the first victims of clean-sweep company shake-ups and takeovers . |
| 9 | Politically they tend to be unstable , with very high birth rates but poor education and very low levels of literacy . |
| 10 | early adopters — the next 13.5% ; these people are critical in the process , since they tend to be influential , and are the people willing to be influenced by external information ( such as advertising ) . |
| 11 | Weathered clay barley-sugar edgings finish off a path or flowerbed with a crisply period touch , but aside from shoving a few in your handbag next time you visit Mount Stewart , they tend to be hard to find . |
| 12 | ‘ But they tend to be heavy handed with the equipment , which generally lasts only half its normal life here . ’ |
| 13 | Yet the choice of Bull as a partner is an odd one , for he and Lineker are essentially penalty-area predators and past experience has shown that when two such players are used together they tend to be like dogs after the same bone . |
| 14 | The single most startling fact for girls , however , is that they tend to be taken into care for ‘ status offences ’ rather than for breaking the law . |
| 15 | They tend to be inspired by many of the ideas for home projects they see , but they lack confidence . |
| 16 | They tend to be out on their own , away from towns or villages , for they were built to stand in the midst of their acres . |
| 17 | The most toxic residues from industrial society are rarely successfully neutralised or excreted by living organisms , and they tend to be increasingly concentrated in animal tissues as they are passed up the food chain . |
| 18 | They tend to be lush period pieces set in Amazonia with Spanish , Italian , French , British or even American actors in the lead roles . |
| 19 | But that ideal runs straight into the fact that some areas of the country are richer than others , and they tend to be places that need less spending anyway . |
| 20 | The aerosol droplets have to be just the right size : too big and they may get trapped in noses , too small and they tend to be exhaled without staying in the lungs . |
| 21 | They tend to be be used sparingly , because they are tiring and distracting to read . |
| 22 | It 's hard to draw a prick in the act ; they tend to be covered from sight in this position unless they are superhumanly long . |
| 23 | However the texture of these patinas is not very convincing as they tend to be rather matt and powdery , and are quite easily recognised under the microscope . |
| 24 | It 's not advisable to try and cut them out yourself as they tend to be close to the skin . |
| 25 | ‘ The meaning of a profession ’ , wrote that great Christian socialist R. H. Tawney , ‘ is that it makes the traitors the exception , not , as they tend to be in industry , the rule . ’ |
| 26 | I have my idols , too , but they tend to be real people , not film stars or anything . |
| 27 | They tend to be brittle , competitive and over-obsessed with their looks and who might be looking at them . |
| 28 | They tend to be : |
| 29 | They tend to be rather rare , preserved in a special way . |
| 30 | However , because island animals have evolved in the absence of predators , because their populations are often fairly small to begin with , and because they have nowhere to run to , they tend to be extremely vulnerable when predators are finally introduced and island creatures are particularly prone to extinction . |