Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] tend to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time between sleep onset and active sleep onset thus tends to be either very short indeed ( less than ten minutes ) or over fifty minutes , as the period of their alternation between active and quiet sleep is of the order of sixty minutes . |
| 2 | That is , of course , because people who steal biscuits from are usually are usually middle class etcetera etcetera but people who steal cars generally tend to be toerags , I think the expression is , erm and therefore nobody much cares . |
| 3 | At the other end of the scale there are meals that will linger in the mind long after the credit card has recovered , and blowouts at top restaurants still tend to be cheaper than their London counterparts . |
| 4 | However , even discounting geographical reasons , ‘ ethnic minority risks still tend to be higher ’ with Asians more vulnerable to mugging and vandalism . |
| 5 | Waiting lists also tend to be longer , and these are not complete indices of need since council allocation rules often exclude certain persons from them . |
| 6 | Not only do books often tend to be rather broad in their approach to a subject , but they can also take a long time to be published after they are written and the information may thus be out of date . |
| 7 | In a stress timed language there is often vowel reduction in the unstressed syllables , i.e. the vowels there tend to be less distinctly pronounced than in a stressed position . |
| 8 | Furthermore , on the coast there tend to be some expert sailors around and your confidence in your own ability does not benefit from comparison with them . |
| 9 | A horse that pulls with his ears forward tends to be just eager . |
| 10 | Statute-based rules thus tend to be both more powerful and also more rigid . |
| 11 | Small companies still tend to be inhibited by the cost of using such services and within larger firms the knowledge of their benefits still seems to be limited to a small number of individuals and not widely recognised within the company as a resource . |
| 12 | It may not be the part nearest the house , though this is where sitting out areas always tend to be made . |
| 13 | Rents also tend to be higher , particularly for smaller premises , and this differential has , if anything , increased . |
| 14 | The travelling communities also tend to be younger with 50 per cent of them under 20 and only four per cent over 65 . |
| 15 | Such areas also tend to be the cheapest to get into . |
| 16 | Withdrawal now tends to be discouraged , partly because it is thought to be another form of segregation within the ordinary school , and therefore in danger of isolating and stigmatising children , and partly because it deprives children of access to lessons and activities available to other children . |
| 17 | Rural institutions and local government in rural areas often tend to be dominated by a powerful and unrepresentative minority which represents its own interests rather than those of the majority . |
| 18 | Given the dire state of the rouble , computer sales in Russia now tend to be mostly to those pockets of the economy still generating hard currency . |
| 19 | This loneliness then tends to be misdiagnosed as depression and medications may be prescribed which may make the disease even worse . |
| 20 | Mains had been born and bred in Dunedin and , especially in the days when the Evening Star newspaper folded , the rugby matters then tended to be faithfully recorded by the Otago Daily Times and other electronic media as if Otago was sometimes being unfairly treated by the teams and newspaper writers from the north . |
| 21 | In-service training in these areas again tends to be separate and specialized . |
| 22 | Italians generally tend to be more liberal in their use of thematic material than other musicians . |
| 23 | This was the very widespread feeling ( at least in Parliament : public opinion normally tended to be suspicious of ministerial projects ) that the king and his ministers had a right to the support of all loyal and patriotic subjects . |
| 24 | It is little wonder , then , that ostracism and gossip were such powerful ways of enforcing the values and standards of village life , nor that the criteria of status and prestige in the community also tended to be derived from the world of work . |
| 25 | Security also tends to be better with this approach as the bureau runs as a service utility , where security and reliability are built into the system as a matter of course . |
| 26 | An interesting sidelight on battlefront conditions came from his remarks that the Peshmerga brought in for attention mainly tended to be suffering from wounds to their limbs from weapons such as Kalashnikovs , since those who sustained head or body injuries generally failed to get as far as a field hospital . |
| 27 | Monitors now tend to be more expensive and restrict you to video playback only . |
| 28 | A lot of foods we make from wheat flour often tend to be very high in calories , seem to be almost irresistible to hungry slimmers , and are often used as ‘ binge ’ g=foods by compulsive eaters . |
| 29 | There is moderate reduction in lung cancer risk associated with lower tar cigarettes but research in the UK suggests that the assumed health advantages of switching to lower tar may be largely offset by the tendency of smokers to compensate for the reduction in nicotine ( cigarettes lower in tar also tend to be lower in nicotine ) by smoking more or inhaling more deeply [ 4 ] . |
| 30 | The fact that many another highly gifted player has not found captaincy easy tended to be overlooked . |