Example sentences of "tend [prep] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The biggest problem tends to be with young people , they will either go to live with someone else , or move from the countryside altogether . |
| 2 | When adolescence is enforced or prolonged , as it tends to be in closed institutions , these needs become all the greater . |
| 3 | Such a state of affairs can not be ignored , as it tends to be in selective and much functional assessment . |
| 4 | they are apt to be too large for constructive action , since the time taken by a committee to resolve a problem tends to be in direct proportion to its size ; |
| 5 | Packaging tends to be in domestic style 500–700g squeeze packs supplied 10 to 12 to a case . |
| 6 | Trade unions have been far more suspicious of serious historical enquiry than their business counterparts , and investigations into particular disputes have tended to be within pre-determined sets of assumptions about the relationship between so-called labour and capital [ Beynon , 1984 ] . |
| 7 | It has been well observed that classical revivals tend to be of short duration . |
| 8 | Compared to states or executives , governments tend to be of short duration — state institutions often remain in existence for long periods and officials in the executive may have lifelong careers , while governments come and go ( although some of their personnel may hold office in more than one government ) . |
| 9 | The people recruited into official positions through the parties tend to be of high social status , predominantly male , white and middle-aged . |
| 10 | Embarrassment , it seems clear , is a major concern of the British psyche , and the dreams the British dream , if opinion-polls are to be believed , tend to be about social embarrassment , with amorous fantasy playing only a disappointingly minor role ; and if that is to be taken in evidence , then it may be said to represent a more powerful obsession than sex . |
| 11 | The texts tend to be from old archaeologists . |
| 12 | In these circumstances , they tend to be in desperate need and thus have little power , so are frequently offered the worst properties with little possibility of being offered a better property on refusal . |
| 13 | Leadership skills tend to be in short supply , and so potential group members are highly dependent on the leaders who can help them overcome collective action problems which would otherwise condemn them to remain disorganized . |
| 14 | A negative region in the correlation curve implies that u 1 and u 2 tend to be in opposite directions more than in the same direction . |
| 15 | The equipment you 'll sell will tend to be of premium quality , the software certainly does n't come cheap and there 's lots of training and backup possibilities . |
| 16 | But the recession may even be healthy in making it more difficult to publish the second-rate , he argues : rather than having a clear strategy of which subjects they would concentrate on , far too many academic publishers were happy simply to print a selection of the manuscripts they were sent , including multi-authored books and conference proceedings which tended to be of limited academic market . |
| 17 | She had long ago stopped resenting their original professional clashes , and these days their disagreements tended to be over minor details , with her ending up the victor as often as he did . |
| 18 | The blacks , like Bailey and Wint who were in athletics , tended to be from established occupational and social backgrounds and , to them , sport may not have yielded a direct material benefit . |
| 19 | Even when they did , it tended to be in flippant terms ; for example , one student remarked that without physics ‘ we 'd be in a right mess for a start ’ ; another that ‘ we 'd still be in the caves ’ . |