Example sentences of "tend to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Errors in speaking a new language tend to be systematic . |
| 2 | HOMES built by their proud owners tend to be ghastly , says the president of the Royal Institute of British Architects . |
| 3 | Testing stands as the ‘ hard ’ pole because procedures tend to be external , formal , judgemental , product-orientated , and analytic in their method of assessment . |
| 4 | The few instances of " long distance transport tend to be early : at Fishbourne , or Angmering , where siltstone of Mediterranean origin was encountered . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They tend to be contagious . |
| 7 | These sulphur-anion interactions are not unexpected ; they are a common feature of 1,2-disulphur cations because these functional units tend to be moderate electron acceptors . |
| 8 | In published series of patients with constipation and irritable bowel syndrome or functional abdominal pain there is an excess of womeh who have had a hysterectomy but this may be because women who are referred to hospital with these disorders tend to be anxious and polysymptomatic . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Only the first few of these reported errors are required to trace the source of the error ; remaining errors tend to be redundant . |
| 11 | Paper records exist in the various departments , but they tend to be self-monitored , and are rarely referred to by other departments . |
| 12 | This is the first thing you notice about graphics interchange files — they tend to be long . |
| 13 | This is fundamental because , while organizations tend to be long term , financial reports usually cover only one year . |
| 14 | We therefore tend to be circumspect and protective , particularly of course when our dealings involve some threat to the fragile security of the other person 's composure or self-esteem , or our own ( for further discussion see Brown and Levinson 1978 ; Widdowson 1984a : Paper 7 ) . |
| 15 | This may sound rather woolly , but it is in fact the instrumental arguments which tend to be woolly in failing to show the relationship between instrumental means ( more business studies graduates ) and desirable ends ( more happiness , justice , freedom ) . |
| 16 | Children who tend to be irritable , moody , difficult to manage , and emotional about changes or frustrated will generally react with the most disturbance to the birth . |
| 17 | On retirement or death in office ( botanists tend to be long-lived but not quite immortal ) , their book collections were frequently sold off to defray debts or to provide a settlement for their widows . |
| 18 | And the most general principle is : nominals occurring before the main verb of a sentence tend to be definite while those occurring after the main verb can be either definite or indefinite . |
| 19 | Small children of two or three tend to be alarmed at a banana-skin fall , not amused yet . |
| 20 | Most gases and vapours being readily adsorbed tend to be odorous , some of the most objectionable being organic sulphur compounds such as mercaptans and amines . |
| 21 | The Kentish examples tend to be simple shapes , discs and rectangles , which are equally common in Europe . |
| 22 | When they are patterned , their designs tend to be simple spots and dapples . |
| 23 | More and more these days — and often the bigger the production , the more it 's true — film adaptions tend to be literal . |
| 24 | Third , in many cases policies are not evaluated because they often tend to be unsuccessful . |
| 25 | However , American species , many of which are deciduous , tend to be lime-hating to varying degrees . |
| 26 | Partly because they are younger than other lone parents , single mothers tend to be uneducated and unemployed . |
| 27 | For this reason , the diaries of prominent politicians , such as those of Richard Crossman or Harold Wilson , have to be read with some scepticism , as they tend to be self-justificatory . |
| 28 | I tend to be guilty of deviating from the subject matter , this being tantamount to stealing the thunder from the individual under scrutiny . |
| 29 | The more extreme attacks on the heritability of IQ tend to be political , not scientific . |
| 30 | They tend to be young , energetic , and ambitious , but there are by now professors of that outlook . |