Example sentences of "tend to [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a concentrated , fleeting moment of ambiguity and irony ( irony and ambiguity tending to be intrinsic to transgressive reinscription and alien to humanist transgression ) . |
| 2 | Though variations attributable to local circumstances are frequent , the number of candidates tends to be equal to the number of seats being defended plus one . |
| 3 | But ‘ politics ’ tends to be unrelated to the structure of colonial interests . |
| 4 | As noted , there are few long run effects given the negligible size of the lagged dependent variables — a point which shows in itself the instability of demand for issuance — the market tends to be subject to " feasts and famines " . |
| 5 | However , the coding which follows an ESC character tends to be specific to each application . |
| 6 | Capital both economic and symbolic appears as an investment open to calculation , and social hierarchy tends to be reducible to these two main linear strands through which capital can be exploited in social positioning . |
| 7 | One of the problems is that this last type of research tends to be attractive to local authorities and central government departments who face pressing problems , and there is a danger that such studies can become too influential on policy when little else is available . |
| 8 | Because homoeopathy tends to be unfamiliar to the majority of people , they ask a lot of questions about it . |
| 9 | This kind is more often exercised in private than in public places , the concept of ‘ legitimate authority ’ tends to be irrelevant to it , and it is less visible and less easily amenable to sociological analysis . |
| 10 | Most recent linguistic explanations have tended to be internal to linguistic theory : that is to say , some linguistic feature is explained by reference to other linguistic features , or to aspects of the theory itself . |
| 11 | Furthermore the structures of the lexical entries have tended to be proprietary to the system making it impossible to exchange lexicons between systems . |
| 12 | However , American species , many of which are deciduous , tend to be lime-hating to varying degrees . |
| 13 | With few notable exceptions , legal department tend to be small to medium in size and it is not uncommon to find that solicitors work along . |
| 14 | It 's not advisable to try and cut them out yourself as they tend to be close to the skin . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They tend to be sensitive to every change in the atmosphere ; they can not get the temperature exactly right . |
| 17 | The results probably show that all subjects an relatively unfamiliar with a serial recall task involving signs and that deaf people tend to be sensitive to the language base of speech coding though they do not have a significant facilitation in overt rehearsal . |
| 18 | If you can accept this concept , you will then be able to understand in principle why some people are predisposed to some illnesses or tend to be sensitive to certain types of dietary changes , groups of food , or nutritional deficiencies . |
| 19 | Ministers as a professional group tend to be averse to data-gathering because they are more people focused than organisation orientated . |
| 20 | Since boards of directors tend to be unsympathetic to such questions , the personnel manager generally finds it more expedient to adopt an imaginative approach to the information he supplies . |
| 21 | My amendments are not designed to cover every eventuality , which of course would be a practical impossibility , but are aimed at the provisions that tend to be common to most agreements and leases . |
| 22 | It was previously suggested that fixed information will tend to be peripheral to the driving task and variable information is more likely to be central , it is thus possible that the amount of these types of information will constrain any effects of attention focusing . |
| 23 | It also follows that any sufferer primarily addicted to one of these other drugs will tend to be cross-addicted to alcohol . |
| 24 | If in doubt over the value of the answers provided , would n't you tend to be generous to the candidate whose work is neat and tidy and easy to follow ? |
| 25 | It was found that the palaeomagnetism of young rocks tended to be close to that expected from the present magnetic field , but older rocks showed marked deviations . |
| 26 | My impression , based solely on those farmers whom I have met , is that the supporters of Free Presbyterianism tended to be small to medium farmers running family operations with only one or two labourers . |
| 27 | ‘ Boots : ‘ We had a complaint from the Kilbride family and as a result of that we withdrew both album and single , as there were words which tended to be offensive to the family . ’ |