Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 've had a few copies made to be on the safe side : solicitors , banks … you know . |
| 3 | I stress the exuberance because most of the literature on anorexia nervosa stresses that anorexics tend to be ‘ good ’ little girls . |
| 4 | 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 . , |
| 5 | The resulting solutional forms tend to be rounded and less sharp-edged than those formed on bare rock . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | People who open Tessa accounts tend to be in older age groups . |
| 16 | The cows have red freckles on the face and neck in particular , while those of the bulls tend to be greyish . |
| 17 | The hexachloroantimonate , , is easier to obtain — from , and sulphur — but its reactions tend to be slow due to its poor solubility in most solvents . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Caustic products tend to be in liquid or gel format . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It requires either a full repeat survey to identify the life style-groups again if any follow-up research is to be done , or else the creation of a sort of shorthand classification for research and analysis ; it seems that different products tend to be best looked at in terms of rather different life style groupings , so that , ideally , each requires its own major survey — which rather loses the point of the exercise — and researchers have had some difficulty in replicating the results . |
| 22 | Family products tend to be advertised , if possible , on TV ; women 's products in women 's magazines . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Similarity groups tend to be more unified than proximity groups , and they can be set in competition . |
| 25 | If we may greatly oversimplify , it could be said that discussions of team organization in relation to client groups tend to be cast in the form of a set of claims made for the advantages of specialization . |
| 26 | Reviews in both groups tend to be very full and by authorities on their subjects . |
| 27 | According to this model , local politics ( see also Chapter 5 , section 5.3.3 , where the ‘ dual state ’ thesis is discussed ) is more open to pluralist pressures , since locally based interest groups tend to be those of service consumers , rather than the various types of producer which dominate at other levels ( and often play a big part in determining what is possible at local level ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Both groups tend to be calm and function well under pressure . |
| 29 | Now it may well be that privileged social groups tend to be advantaged in all three areas , while subordinate groups normally enjoy poor life-chances , low status and little political influence . |
| 30 | Inefficiency in the clinics and the universities is compounded by the fact that research groups tend to be small and isolated , shunning collaborative links with other small groups , either locally or nationally . |