Example sentences of "[adj] [vb mod] tend [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police will not escape criticism , but this will tend to be softened by the unacknowledged consensus that the RUC is essential to the security approach of both governments . |
| 2 | These will tend to be ESN(S) schools , but if the early period of schooling is successful in developing the child , they may move on to ESN(M) schools and eventually to normal primary schools . |
| 3 | These will tend to be more stable than smaller tanks in water terms , less affected by external temperature changes , will enable you to keep a wider range of fish , and are likely to be more useful as your interests in the hobby develops into keeping larger fish or into breeding projects . |
| 4 | As you will know stainless is certainly the best material to use for trowels or diggers , but these can tend to be pricey . |
| 5 | The embodiment of light is masculine , that of the dark is feminine , and thus a religion based on the former will tend to be served by priests , and one based on the latter by priestesses . |
| 6 | Stage 1 will tend to be more powerful than in a closed economy . |
| 7 | Yields in general will tend to be higher for longer term investments , because lenders require to be compensated for giving up their money for long periods of time . |
| 8 | That will tend to be offshore as banks and building societies in this country have to deduct tax at source . |
| 9 | No in the case of a premature retirement where there is enhancement erm that 's actually payable on the last banking day of the month so that will tend to be anything from the twenty eighth to the thirty first . |
| 10 | But what an officer will know of his colleagues ' districts compared with his own will tend to be particularistic — of salient pollution problems — set in the context of an undetailed and generalized apprehension of the kind of patch a colleague looks after . |
| 11 | The stress-timed rhythm theory states that the times from each stressed syllable to the next will tend to be the same , irrespective of the number of intervening unstressed syllables . |