Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " 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 | 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 . , |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The cows have red freckles on the face and neck in particular , while those of the bulls tend to be greyish . |
| 5 | The hexachloroantimonate , , is easier to obtain — from , and sulphur — but its reactions tend to be slow due to its poor solubility in most solvents . |
| 6 | If , therefore , the acts relied on are incapable of being made part of any cause of action — e.g . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Both groups tend to be calm and function well under pressure . |
| 11 | Its meetings tend to be jolly occasions , though coloured by the perennial frustration of the children 's book world : why ca n't we all get together and promote children 's books generically ? |
| 12 | Unfortunately proceedings in the civil courts tend to be slower , more expensive and more formal than those in the industrial tribunal . |
| 13 | And since the custodial sentences imposed by Crown Courts tend to be longer than those passed by magistrates ' courts , the sentencing practice of the Crown Court is clearly a much more potent factor in generating the prison numbers crisis . |
| 14 | Criminal acts tend to be antisocial rather than conscious acts against " the state . " |
| 15 | Housewives tend to be busy all the time but they 're not really doing anything constructive , are they ? |
| 16 | Where marine action is relatively stronger deltas tend to be cuspate with concave outlines in plan , for example the Tiber , though one wonders whether these differences in plan might not be due primarily to the frequency and location of distributaries : the Tiber has only one . |
| 17 | Where sediment is abundant and wave and current action limited , deltas tend to be lobate , the classic example being the Nile . |
| 18 | The road surfaces tend to be worse in the towns than in the country . |
| 19 | For AMS , the upper age limit is determined by other factors such as machine stability and the degree of modern contamination introduced in the processing of very small samples ; the values tend to be similar to those for conventional radiocarbon laboratories . |
| 20 | Rainfall is at its lowest in the east , where summers tend to be better then in the temperate western half of the UK . |
| 21 | In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct . |
| 22 | Thus , for example , left-wing authorities go out of their way to ban what seems to be racist matter , and right-wing authorities tend to be careful to exclude what may be regarded as homosexual literature . |
| 23 | But the plastics in the waste collected by local authorities tend to be dirtier and of mixed types , and the recycled product made from them is more difficult to control and guarantee , especially for applications that will be in contact with food . |
| 24 | However , I know this is unlikely as all-female policies tend to be cheaper . |
| 25 | Visible garnet-edges tend to be smooth , which may suggest wheel-cutting , but if rougher methods were used the slices could be polished afterwards to remove any roughness ( Bimson 1985 ) . |
| 26 | Russians tend to be smug about the complexity of their native tongue . |
| 27 | ( Examination plans tend to be briefer but the mental training in ordinary essays is important . ) |
| 28 | Services that do work to plans tend to be those employing professionally qualified staff , who act as advisers or consultants with regard to pedagogical methods and policy , or provide direct help to youngsters . |
| 29 | The high speed flight of birds demands good eyesight , and so birds tend to be diurnal . |
| 30 | WEEKEND TV HIGHLIGHTS by Graham Keal TV music shows fronted by established entertainers tend to be predictable affairs . |