Example sentences of "which [vb base] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had lived in Holland for twenty years and had been much impressed by Dutch conversions of barns into dwellings which tend to be more simple , ‘ scrubbed ’ and ‘ puritanical ’ than the often over-elaborate treatment that is applied to British projects . |
| 2 | This is an area only recently receiving attention , increasingly by using statistical tests for ‘ normalcy ’ : such studies should bring some objectivity to the assumptions which tend to be made at the moment about the character of individual or groups of hoards . |
| 3 | The effects upon the actual records overshadowed some equally great revolutions behind the scenes , which tend to be forgotten . |
| 4 | But many others , which tend to be more niche , specialised and smaller businesses , have done very well in world markets . ’ |
| 5 | However , Kaldor recognised that there is , in fact , a difference between capital gains , which tend to be unique or non-recurrent items , and income , which is recurrent . |
| 6 | So there are three factors which may stop women getting as good value from credit as men : less awareness of credit costs , and of their rights ; credit-worthiness indicators ( such as employment and housing status ) which tend to be associated with unreliable payers and to be more common with women than with men ; and perhaps occasional outright discrimination . |
| 7 | This can be a particular problem with hounds , which tend to be less territorial than some other breeds . |
| 8 | Any settled society has right and wrong ways of living together — not least revolutionary societies , which tend to be conformist beyond all others . |
| 9 | Hassocks , West Sussex-based distributor Hypersoft Ltd has added ICL Plc Cobol support , to its ‘ mainframe to micro ’ analysis tool , Application Browser : it 's a move designed to fill the gap in the market for analysis tools , which tend to be written for IBM Corp mainframes ; the combined use of ICL Cobol and embedded languages like IDMS removes the threat of syntax errors , so easing re-engineering and maintenance processes ; Application Browser runs under MS-DOS and costs £4,000 , the company said . |
| 10 | I paint directly using simple compositions , which tend to be linear , even flat , rather than based on any sophisticated concept of leading the viewer 's eye into the picture . |
| 11 | While the Japanese record of productivity improvement has been remarkable , aggregated data masks substantial variations according to firm size which tend to be more marked than in most other advanced economies . |
| 12 | a rejection of all foreign models of development which tend to be materialistic , dehumanising and which fail to recognise the creative developmental efforts of our own people as the requisite basis for a sustainable developmental process ; |
| 13 | This is rare in cars of this type , which tend to be fun for the driver , but a bore for anybody unlucky enough to end up in the back . |
| 14 | In more wooded country with old hedges , you will almost certainly come across the field rose R. arvensis , the hips of which tend to be more orange than red , becoming blackened as the winter progresses . |
| 15 | Black people can be denied eligibility by rules which were originally drawn up for completely different purposes ; property let to ethnic minorities tends to be of lower quality than that allocated to the white population ; and black families , which tend to be larger , may not find council accommodation which is large enough for their needs ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 16 | This may sound rather woolly , but it is in fact the instrumental arguments which tend to be woolly in failing to show the relationship between instrumental means ( more business studies graduates ) and desirable ends ( more happiness , justice , freedom ) . |
| 17 | Secondly , some of the typical patterns that emerge , those which tend to be more specialized in mission , goals , strategies and functions and to be more oriented towards market relations to handle their functional alignments , for instance , will tend to be a part of a broader economic system in which the isolation of the focal organization makes only limited analytical sense . |
| 18 | Because here your situation , the murder that has been committed , is if anything more static , and your detective 's progress towards unravelling it is liable to become a rather dull series of minor discoveries , often arising from interviews which tend to be similar in pattern . |
| 19 | There is a range of views and practices , most of which tend to be responsive . |
| 20 | which tend to be written in every key other than the one we want them . |
| 21 | The fourth area concerns information from the professional bodies , directed to specific areas , rather than generalised campaigns , which tend to be both expensive and ineffective . |
| 22 | that such an arts education fosters those long established cultural traditions and normative assumptions about gender which tend to be inhibitive rather than enriching of personal development and sensibility , and discouraging rather than encouraging of purposeful action in the world . |
| 23 | It may seem paradoxical , but New Historicism 's acknowledgement of a great complexity and subtlety between text and history and its hesitancy to make generalised claims for a culture has so far produced critical analysis of texts which tend to be recognisably similar to one another . |
| 24 | We believe that small and medium-sized companies , which tend to be the most innovative , will be persuaded to develop new technologies and that that investment will result in considerable leverage . |
| 25 | We also found no effect on reported morbidity , though there was a suggestion that the prevalence of vomiting and refusal of food or breastmilk , both of which tend to be associated with severe episodes of illness , were lower in the supplemented children . |
| 26 | ( a ) the Code provides wider protection than most statutory frameworks in other countries , which tend to be more rigid ; |
| 27 | That has inspired fears over potential damage to the occupants ' ears due to the sudden pressure change within European saloons which tend to be smaller than those in the US , and also to worries about the ability to control the car in the unlikely event that the bag deploys accidentally . |
| 28 | We are not too partial to the seaweed , mysterious black-fungus , and other unattractive exotica which tend to be part of our meal , but there are always plenty of other nicer things to choose from . |
| 29 | The assumptions lying behind such targeted programmes are that the ‘ problem ’ is a bounded one , concerned with ‘ pockets of poverty or deprivation ’ , restricted areas of decay , which can be remedied through relatively limited expenditure and precise targeting of funds and activities to ‘ special ’ , different , difficult problems , limited problems which remain to be rooted out , while the rest of the system is assumed to be functioning well and on course for prosperity and harmony . |
| 30 | Such are the questions which remain to be addressed . |