Example sentences of "tend to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since black people in the southern states have suffered more injustices at the hands of the law they tend to be less likely to hand out death sentences . |
| 2 | It is likely that this is caused not by having less religious education , but by the fact that they tend to be peopled by children of classes who have traditionally fewer links with the church , and include parents making active decisions to keep their children out of the clergy 's grasp . |
| 3 | Beers tend to be darker and sweeter . |
| 4 | Families with children tend to be restricted , for their main holiday , to one of the three main school breaks . |
| 5 | Greigii tulips also tend to be short , in particular varieties like ‘ Sweet Lady ’ , peach pink , and the impressive ‘ Queen Ingrid ’ , producing rich red petals with a striking yellow edge . |
| 6 | In the U.K. academics tend to be denigrated … |
| 7 | In essence his message was very simple , as the products of such geniuses tend to be . |
| 8 | These words tend to be read as if they were regular . |
| 9 | Although the majority of scientists tend to be a little coy about metaphysical matters in their professional publications , they are often less so outside when writing elsewhere , being prone to describe the framework of presuppositions about perception within which they conduct their investigations as if it were a discovery in its own right and that ‘ discovery ’ an explanation of perception . |
| 10 | I tend to be rather disorganised when packing gear , so anything that helps me keep things in the right place has got to be a bonus . |
| 11 | They also tend to be aesthetically unsuited to many older-style properties . |
| 12 | They suffer from the drawback that warping can leave open gaps in the cladding ( waney-edged boards are particularly prone to this because of the way they are sawn ) , and so they tend to be used more on out-buildings than on house exteriors , except as feature panels . |
| 13 | First , at currents of more than a few amps , capacitors that can carry the current without suffering di/dt stress , heating stress , and MHz ringing tend to be physically large , and expensive compared with normal power supply capacitors . |
| 14 | This is the first thing you notice about graphics interchange files — they tend to be long . |
| 15 | Since such features , which can be very powerful , differ for various cad systems , output files tend to be ‘ system specific ’ . |
| 16 | Attempts to provoke adverse judgements on canonical works tend to be resented as ‘ finding fault with ’ or ‘ picking holes in ’ these works of established merit , the result of a tiresome foible on the part of the teacher , and leading to disorientation if persisted in . |
| 17 | They tend to be young , energetic , and ambitious , but there are by now professors of that outlook . |
| 18 | Piecemeal highlights are all very well , but viewers tend to be creatures of habit and , at present , a short burst of goals every Saturday night is just a tease ; an uninitiated visitor would never guess that football was the national game . |
| 19 | They tend to be the first victims of clean-sweep company shake-ups and takeovers . |
| 20 | It may not be the part nearest the house , though this is where sitting out areas always tend to be made . |
| 21 | Ski areas tend to be as fragmented now as they were 20 or 30 years ago . |
| 22 | Many of the great fortunes in this country are still in the hands of the landed aristocracy who tend to be preoccupied with maintaining their great estates and country houses , no doubt feeling that opening them to the public is in itself a form of patronage . |
| 23 | So his experience makes him ideally placed to plot Durham 's tactics : ‘ The Dutch tend to be steady , defensive and go for the breakout while the Poles rely on disciplined passing . |
| 24 | This looks like the best return available on income bonds but investors should move fast as these offers tend to be fully subscribed very quickly . |
| 25 | Dutch department stores tend to be disappointing — De Bijenkorf ( 'The Beehive' ) is the best — for this is another sphere of Dutch life in which smallness wins . |
| 26 | The first type tend to be over more mundane matters , with the third being the more serious . |
| 27 | Despite being an important opportunity for public relations , work on the enquiry desk is unpopular because ‘ nothing happens ’ , so probationers and inexperienced recruits tend to be left to deal with the public 's enquiries . |
| 28 | Politically they tend to be unstable , with very high birth rates but poor education and very low levels of literacy . |
| 29 | early adopters — the next 13.5% ; these people are critical in the process , since they tend to be influential , and are the people willing to be influenced by external information ( such as advertising ) . |
| 30 | The national trails , including paths like the Pennine Way , the Pembrokeshire Coast Path and the West Highland Way , tend to be the best known routes and deserve a rest after the summer of pounding they had . |