Example sentences of "tend [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We found that the pattern of boys ' attitudes to the police were consistent with those of adults , Blacks and Whites tending to be similar , and Asians slightly more favourable than the others . |
| 2 | Base-exchange treatment is in the neighbourhood of 1.5–4p per 1000 gal ( 4546 litres ) , automatic systems tending to be lower than manually operated plants . |
| 3 | The Jacobsons , like the Crankos , were an adventurous family , tending to be foot-loose and adaptable . |
| 4 | The study found that access to advice was an important factor , tending to be haphazard . |
| 5 | The rationalist approach , by contrast , is concerned with abstraction rather than facts , stressing the need for deductive consistency and tending to be dogmatic and definitive . |
| 6 | The other worrying trend is that the companies getting into difficulty are tending to be larger . |
| 7 | It is a concentrated , fleeting moment of ambiguity and irony ( irony and ambiguity tending to be intrinsic to transgressive reinscription and alien to humanist transgression ) . |
| 8 | Spatial mobility tends to be highest amongst the most affluent groups on the one hand and the most poor on the other . |
| 9 | The choice of brands of woodcarving tools is hardly wanting , both in the home market or abroad , but the range offered by each manufacturer tends to be same-ish , though prices and quality vary . |
| 10 | As we have seen elsewhere , the wording of statutes tends to be general and is therefore frequently ambiguous ; thus when a case revolves around what a statute actually says , judges have a good deal of discretion which they will exercise according to their view of what the law requires . |
| 11 | Slotted heads are rare on electric guitars , and remember that string-changing tends to be slower . |
| 12 | As payment comes in big lumps when the job is finished , income , Gare noted , tends to be uneven . |
| 13 | ‘ The market tends to be good in times of recession , ’ says Norman Murray , deputy chairman of Morgan Grenfell Development Capital , which launched its fund in 1989 . |
| 14 | Internally , they mirror the structure of an expert 's thought , in this case of a doctor 's thoughts , which tends to be much more . |
| 15 | Such deviance tends to be unbounded in time , providing for a continuing relationship between enforcer and potential deviant , and the matter of blameworthiness is often questionable . |
| 16 | To the extent that these prudential rules vary the Right of Establishment tends to be inoperative . |
| 17 | Even when refined sugar is combined with refined flour to make cakes or desserts , the chewing required tends to be minimal . |
| 18 | There is , indeed , a much less rigid distinction between working and non-working hours , for with easier accessibility between home and workplace the farm worker tends to be involved in the job for as long as it demands , rather than working to any set hours . |
| 19 | As the last name suggests , mild tends to be dark , either by using dark malt or the addition of caramel . |
| 20 | But it it tends to be that |
| 21 | Normally they forecast for open water so when they say it 's going to blow Force 3/4 , the wind on the beach tends to be nearer Force 2/3 . |
| 22 | Secondly , an examiner tends to be grudging in his marks for book-work questions , which he knows do not require much intelligence in the answering . |
| 23 | The Irish attitude , in contrast , tends to be traditional and to regard rugby as a pastime and an international tour mainly adding to the flavour . |
| 24 | They may therefore be found within many other text types contained with the LOB , and used in a manner that tends to be consistent across each domain . |
| 25 | Second , the magmas involved are much more viscous than those in Strombolian eruptions so that the explosive activity tends to be violent , often demolishing parts of the volcanic structure . |
| 26 | A slight ridge can be felt along the length of the otherwise very smooth surface and , much more important , the wall of the tube tends to be thicker than with other production methods . |
| 27 | If no time limit is set the work tends to be unfocused . |
| 28 | In both , the identification with music that attempts to express any part of this vast area tends to be one of self-deceiving empathy . |
| 29 | There tends to be one fixed view — that of the author — with little scope for the preferences of individual readers . |
| 30 | When we discussed it , it became clear that there is a wide spectrum of response to the whole issue of private care , that the response from within the statutory services tends to be one of suspicion , tends to be one of sometimes a fairly moralistic approach and this is quite at odds with the response we are seeing from the government which tends to go to the other end of the spectrum and be promoting private care as the solution to many of the problems of service provision and volume that are being encountered at the moment . |