Example sentences of "tend to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other worrying trend is that the companies getting into difficulty are tending to be larger . |
| 2 | It is a concentrated , fleeting moment of ambiguity and irony ( irony and ambiguity tending to be intrinsic to transgressive reinscription and alien to humanist transgression ) . |
| 3 | Pakistanis have the added stigma in the eyes of the white hooligan of tending to be better off , linguistically separate , less physical , and less interested in football . |
| 4 | If our body is becoming too warm — through sunbathing , for example — then the air is a ‘ pleasant breeze' ; if it is tending to be rather cool — seated in wintertime — then the air is a ‘ draught ’ . |
| 5 | The Jacobsons , like the Crankos , were an adventurous family , tending to be foot-loose and adaptable . |
| 6 | Aysgarth Falls are a great natural attraction , tending to be rather too over-populated at weekends and during the holidays for the comfort of those who prefer to appreciate the wonderful scene without disturbance . |
| 7 | Moreover , the average number of graphs per annual report ( of those companies using graphs ) was 7.5 , with financial graphs tending to be prominently displayed near the front of the report . |
| 8 | To take an obvious example , if banks lend only to their current account customers , then non-customers ( tending to be demographically distinct from customers in various ways ) will have to use other credit sources . |
| 9 | Some breeds show a much greater desire to enter water than others , with retrievers tending to be especially keen . |
| 10 | Iris Murdoch has spoken of novels as tending to be either crystalline or journalistic ; and the journalistic , which she practises , sounds like a free-wheeling and ever-hospitable realism : ‘ a large , shapeless , quasi-documentary object … telling with pale conventional characters some straightforward story enlivened with empirical facts . ’ |
| 11 | British companies were , generally speaking , increasing in size through mergers and consolidation , so the stakes were that much higher and they could not afford to get things wrong ; they needed new management teams to run taken-over businesses ; industrial plants were growing in scale ; finance was becoming more complex ; business was tending to be more and more international ; American operations were penetrating many European markets ; and Britain was facing a host of unprecedented economic pressures and new competition with the post-war recovery of Germany and Japan . |
| 12 | In part , this was because of the spread of liberal ideas and institutions since 1815 ; governments were tending to be less the oppressors of the governed than identified with them , though this process had still far to go in 1880 . |
| 13 | Ross claims that the Promix system it acquired in 1991 having taken over Pioneer Systems ( CI No 1,730 ) is one of the few available packages specifically designed to address the booming process manufacturing market , with other offerings tending to be adaptations of discrete systems software . |
| 14 | Base-exchange treatment is in the neighbourhood of 1.5–4p per 1000 gal ( 4546 litres ) , automatic systems tending to be lower than manually operated plants . |
| 15 | The study found that access to advice was an important factor , tending to be haphazard . |
| 16 | Theorists of the ‘ regulation ’ school , such as Aglietta ( 1979 ) , regard Fordism as something which will increasingly be con fined to the less developed industries , themselves tending to be located within less developed areas of the world economy , as capitalism becomes ever more institutionalized . |
| 17 | Whites had contacted the police more than Blacks , and Asians less than both , Whites tending to be more satisfied with the result . |
| 18 | We found that the pattern of boys ' attitudes to the police were consistent with those of adults , Blacks and Whites tending to be similar , and Asians slightly more favourable than the others . |
| 19 | In Bradshaw and Holmes ' study of two-parent , two-child households on benefit , about three-quarters of the women and men lacked more than two items of basic clothing , with women 's clothing tending to be in the worst condition and children 's in the best ( Bradshaw and Holmes , 1989 ) . |
| 20 | Kayaks such as the Europe and Mirage are good examples here , tending to be about four metres long . |
| 21 | In some cases Christian names were adapted , possibly where father and son had the same Christian name , these then tending to be used in the same way as nicknames . |
| 22 | Certainly that one is totally overpowered by the background and these ones are tending to be just a little bit . |
| 23 | In primary sclerosing cholangitis standard liver function tests may improve after diagnosis — a result of diagnosis tending to be at times of maximal abnormality in a fluctuating course and likely therefore to be followed by a period of partial remission . |
| 24 | The rationalist approach , by contrast , is concerned with abstraction rather than facts , stressing the need for deductive consistency and tending to be dogmatic and definitive . |
| 25 | They are much more risky , tending to be highly volatile — rising quickly but often falling faster , indeed sometimes trading is suspended for a few days so you are locked in until trading resumes usually at a much lower level . |
| 26 | Secondly , there is the problem of the Northern catholic community , which tends to be taken as a monolithic nationalist community . |
| 27 | When it does , it tends to be a reaction to perceived injustice , such as internment without trial , or the conviction of a son by a sole judge in a trial held in total secrecy and on the evidence of unseen witnesses , or a simple case of one 's house being badly mauled by careless soldiers searching for arms . |
| 28 | As the last name suggests , mild tends to be dark , either by using dark malt or the addition of caramel . |
| 29 | Baird rarely adds eggs to the purée as the scallop meat tends to be firm enough without them to absorb a fair amount of cream . |
| 30 | So the word ‘ red ’ means red because thought of the word tends to be succeeded by a mental image of the colour , or vice versa . |