Example sentences of "it tends [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it does , it tends to be a reaction to perceived injustice , such as internment without trial , or the conviction of a son by a sole judge in a trial held in total secrecy and on the evidence of unseen witnesses , or a simple case of one 's house being badly mauled by careless soldiers searching for arms . |
| 2 | The satirical phrase used to embarrass the ‘ Action Men ’ is that they have the ‘ John Wayne syndrome ’ ; the fact it is Wayne rather than Rambo who is used to ridicule them gives a clue that it tends to be the older members of the force who use the term to describe the exuberant younger policemen . |
| 3 | In the morning , body temperature is being raised and so it tends to be slightly lower than required . |
| 4 | We consider the dryness of the Church as it tends to be too often a shadow image of that world . |
| 5 | He could not be described as handsome , and , in later years , with his weight fluctuating to in excess of fifteen stone through his appetite for junkish food between pictures , he showed signs of a middle-aged spread ; not being tall , at five feet , nine inches , it tends to be obvious . |
| 6 | However some dirt , or soil as it tends to be called , is not dissolved by water . |
| 7 | Standing sex has had a bit of a bad press — mainly because it tends to be used for illicit love-making by young couples who have no bedroom to go to . |
| 8 | ‘ it tends to be supported by those who wish to constrain the redistributive potential of state welfare and thus it has always been part of a broader conservative view of the aetiology of social problems and their correct solutions ’ ( Macnicol , 1988 , p. 316 ) . |
| 9 | It tends to be used in wave boards where good turning is important . |
| 10 | With animals it tends to be the other way round : more instinctive behaviour patterns and relatively less to learn . |
| 11 | Once it is accepted that surrogacy is unlikely to cause any serious harm , the idea that it could be used for social rather than medical reasons should lose much of the horror and condemnation with which it tends to be associated . |
| 12 | Thus , although youth unemployment is high , it tends to be of shorter duration than that among the older age groups . |
| 13 | It tends to be grown for its foliage . |
| 14 | Even then it tends to be an option used for only a selection of shots depending on hazards , the pin position and preference for a particular shape of shot . |
| 15 | If we look at industrial work it can be seen that it tends to be too much dominated by part tasks in that the worker is not involved with the delivery of the whole product but with a small component of it and even , at times , with a particular operation on that small component . |
| 16 | ‘ People do n't often change their buildings and contents cover once they have got it it tends to be something they pay and forget about . ’ |
| 17 | When adolescence is enforced or prolonged , as it tends to be in closed institutions , these needs become all the greater . |
| 18 | The Sun only just manages to keep alight and it tends to be those few protons that are moving faster than average that keep it going — which is just as well or it could have used all its fuel and expired before we arrived . |
| 19 | Such a state of affairs can not be ignored , as it tends to be in selective and much functional assessment . |
| 20 | Even then it tends to be restricted to middlebrow fiction and nonfiction ( nowadays , especially in North America , periodicals have replaced literature as the most favoured source , but even these tend to be rather upmarket ‘ general interest ’ magazines — not comic books , or photoromances , or political pamphlets , or the scripts of TV soap operas ) . |
| 21 | I would not buy this from a retailer , as it tends to be very expensive there , but from the Cornish Bogwood Company , who seem to invariably be present at all the major shows . |
| 22 | For some reason many professionals believe that they must do all they have time to do for people with problems , though without thinking through their view that this is ‘ good ’ professional practice : it tends to be done for its own sake . |
| 23 | ‘ I do listen to contemporary music but it tends to be electronic stuff that I ca n't put names to . |
| 24 | Some information can be gleaned , although it tends to be more sketchy . |
| 25 | Because of my research experience working with two aspects of permanence , related in my book Captive Clients ( 1980 ) and the evaluation of The Child Wants a Home project ( Adoption and Fostering , Vol. 9 , No. 1 ) , I find it particularly sad that when the term permanence is mentioned in British social work circles it tends to be seen as synonymous with adoption . |
| 26 | However , as it tends to be dry at the ends , we trimmed off an inch and tamed the frizz with heated rollers . |
| 27 | It tends to be uneventful , its often prolonged sequence of steps suggesting enforcement by attrition . |
| 28 | In the past , that wholeness was to be found in the college or the institution and its organic community , but in modern times it tends to be located in the subject-department , which becomes in Burke 's phrase the ‘ little platoon ’ which provides the student with his or her identity , base and purpose ( Mansell 1976 ) . |
| 29 | Physics was chosen as a representative subject , not only because it is studied by so few women , and is therefore a typically masculine discipline , but also because it tends to be regarded as the most objective , rigorous and , indeed , successful of the pure sciences . |
| 30 | It tends to be a time-consuming transformation process which is both management and resource intensive , and is more expensive than invention . |