Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plans referred to are short-term plans for periods of from one week to one month . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 've had a few copies made to be on the safe side : solicitors , banks … you know . |
| 4 | I stress the exuberance because most of the literature on anorexia nervosa stresses that anorexics tend to be ‘ good ’ little girls . |
| 5 | ‘ Your Uncle Nathan has wanted her with him in Leeds ever since Christie planned to be married . |
| 6 | The ability to obtain some patronage during an election contest was often essential to success , for it was not uncommon for every candidate in a crowded field to claim to be a friend of the administration in power . |
| 7 | Problems of this kind tend to be more pronounced if the left side of the visual field in each eye is affected . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . , |
| 10 | The resulting solutional forms tend to be rounded and less sharp-edged than those formed on bare rock . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | A screen of coding regions for mutations still presents a considerable challenge even with the much improved technology made available by the polymerase chain reaction , and it is possible that very many different mutations remain to be discovered . |
| 14 | Neither Alan nor Paul really accept that lab is an objective measure of ability ; they simply see it as a set of rules made to be broken . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The incident was seen as reflecting growing white concern over government plans to return some land to blacks under proposals expected to be debated in parliament during June and July . |
| 19 | Under new proposals expected to be brought in by the IAAF , starters are likely to lose their power as the final judges of what is a false start . |
| 20 | People who open Tessa accounts tend to be in older age groups . |
| 21 | The cows have red freckles on the face and neck in particular , while those of the bulls tend to be greyish . |
| 22 | The hexachloroantimonate , , is easier to obtain — from , and sulphur — but its reactions tend to be slow due to its poor solubility in most solvents . |
| 23 | The precise intracellular effects of ligand-integrin interactions remain to be determined in hepatocytes , but studies using other cell lines suggest that specific recognition sequences present on the ligand ( such as RGD ) complement an area within the binding region of the integrin which induces a change in the cytoplasmic domain . |
| 24 | Although my income was unchanged , money ceased to be a problem , a worry , a source of guilt and anxiety , and became a reliable friend . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | If , therefore , the acts relied on are incapable of being made part of any cause of action — e.g . |
| 27 | Unless there are more anti-Loraine Crescent closure petitions than I have been led to believe , the one I think Mr Howe refers to was rendered dubious . |
| 28 | Unless there are more anti-Loraine Crescent closure petitions than I have been led to believe , the one I think Mr Howe refers to was rendered dubious . |
| 29 | Caustic products tend to be in liquid or gel format . |
| 30 | 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 . |