Example sentences of "tend to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The content of an article will tend to be determined by its length ; no newspaper article is likely to be more than 1,000 words , which precludes any chance of detailed analysis . |
| 2 | Not only does the text tend to be repetitious but each item of gear if prefaced by an otherwise blank page informing us of the Key Point to be gleaned in that section , pearls of wisdom such as : ‘ A file is useful for sharpening the edges of your … hooks . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is a truism to say that that which can not be readily classified will tend to be overlooked . |
| 5 | In effect we have considered this already ( Chapter 2 ) when we described how delayed retiring times did not tend to be associated with longer sleeps ; it was a rising body temperature that curtailed sleep and over-rode any need for more sleep that might have existed . |
| 6 | That will tend to be offshore as banks and building societies in this country have to deduct tax at source . |
| 7 | The consumer goods that engineers make tend to be the kind of things that people buy when they move house , like cookers and fridges . |
| 8 | Long wheelbase tractors are more stable with heavy rear loading and need less front weight to balance a given load , but do tend to be less manoeuvrable . |
| 9 | The unfit person will tend to be flabby and possibly fat . |
| 10 | There are elections at all levels where it can be better for a party to have a low turn-out overall because those who do vote will tend to be your people . |
| 11 | In winter , when the level in the canal would tend to be some three inches higher , then some water did splash over the sides of the tanks , but never at any time was the water emptied from the tanks to enable hauling to proceed.9 ; On this basis alone the lift must be judged to have been a technical success . |
| 12 | As the losses would tend to be greater in the summer period this figure is an under estimate . |
| 13 | Because of formula funding , the state of school premises and the amount and quality of equipment will tend to be dependent on pupil numbers . |
| 14 | They can be sluggish in movement , especially as they grow older , and may tend to be stubborn and inflexible as children . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But in most circumstances , the focus will tend to be either more on the maintenance of social relations , or more on the conveying of information clearly , concisely and unambiguously . |
| 17 | Political-economic analysis could help professional economists both by providing a critique of their ideology , and also in assessing what is feasible , who will benefit and lose from their policies , what will tend to be done or left undone in the project and so on . |
| 18 | In other words , although people have been conserving soil or limiting children for a long time , an explicit and out-of-context definition of a single element in people 's lives ( conservation , small families ) will tend to be distrusted and misunderstood . |
| 19 | It is also a curious facet of human nature that the more you have the more you use so over-use will tend to be rife . |
| 20 | ‘ If there is to be talk of a pool of ability , it must be a pool which surpasses the widow 's cruse in the Old Testament , in that when more is taken for higher education in one generation more will tend to be available in the next . ’ |
| 21 | Genetic relatives will tend to be alike not just in facial features but in all sorts of other respects as well . |
| 22 | After meeting domestic needs any surplus will tend to be exported to Japan . |
| 23 | For most parts of the world , however , the most convenient and effective sites for wind generators would tend to be coastal or offshore where winds are stronger and space is not at a premium . |
| 24 | Inevitably , an essay along these lines would tend to be rather unscholarly and prejudiced ! |
| 25 | Also many LDCs have large state sectors , i.e. government ownership of industrial corporations , which do tend to be wasteful and inefficient , thereby resulting in a mis-use of scarce economic resources . |
| 26 | Not only do books often tend to be rather broad in their approach to a subject , but they can also take a long time to be published after they are written and the information may thus be out of date . |
| 27 | The national economic and political environment is likely to be far more important for most companies , particularly since they will tend to be nationally or even transnationally organized . |
| 28 | Conclusions will tend to be in terms of shifts within the system itself — adjusting the balance between groups , levels and interests of different times . |
| 29 | One of the first people , perhaps the first , to spot that biological polymers would tend to be helical was a Californian physicist , H. R. Crane . |
| 30 | Oral explanations and discussion may convey a meaning and a depth lacking in written explanation which may tend to be accepted at an uncritical and somewhat superficial level . |