Example sentences of "tends to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The market tends to be good in times of recession , ’ says Norman Murray , deputy chairman of Morgan Grenfell Development Capital , which launched its fund in 1989 . |
| 2 | Such deviance tends to be unbounded in time , providing for a continuing relationship between enforcer and potential deviant , and the matter of blameworthiness is often questionable . |
| 3 | There is , indeed , a much less rigid distinction between working and non-working hours , for with easier accessibility between home and workplace the farm worker tends to be involved in the job for as long as it demands , rather than working to any set hours . |
| 4 | Secondly , an examiner tends to be grudging in his marks for book-work questions , which he knows do not require much intelligence in the answering . |
| 5 | They may therefore be found within many other text types contained with the LOB , and used in a manner that tends to be consistent across each domain . |
| 6 | However , as it tends to be dry at the ends , we trimmed off an inch and tamed the frizz with heated rollers . |
| 7 | Finally , because it tends to be selective in terms of the types of people involved , migration also has the power to produce substantial and rapid changes in the population composition of individual places . |
| 8 | This is another area where human memory tends to be selective in the absence of such records . |
| 9 | This is another area where human memory tends to be selective in the absence of such records . |
| 10 | Processed food , therefore , not only tends to be deficient in essential nutrients but also contains an increasing array of possibly toxic artificial chemicals . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Because personnel tends to be low on computer departments ' priority lists , you are very likely to have to go it alone , at least initially . |
| 13 | Such a state tends to be rare in contemporary western civilization . |
| 14 | This tends to be underemphasized in more ‘ localist ’ approaches like those of Duncan and Goodwin . |
| 15 | But ‘ politics ’ tends to be unrelated to the structure of colonial interests . |
| 16 | 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 " . |
| 17 | Er , er I would say Spock because Spock er is the second in command and he tends to be critical of Jim , I mean he gives Jim good advice . |
| 18 | However , the coding which follows an ESC character tends to be specific to each application . |
| 19 | Alcohol tends to be cross-addictive with other mood-altering chemicals such as minor tranquillisers , antidepressants , sleeping tablets and some other prescribed drugs such as Pethidine , Morphia and many other pain-killers , anti-histamines and the various illegal drugs such as cannabis , amphetamines , LSD , Mescalin , Ecstasy , magic mushrooms and other hallucinogens , cocaine , heroin and opium . |
| 20 | Policy tends to be incremental in outcome . |
| 21 | In Amazonian Annonaceae and Nymphaeaceae , beetle pollination tends to be fortuitous by contrast , e.g. scarabs on Nymphaea spp. in lakes , though in Victoria amazonica , there are four species of dynastid beetle attracted by scent and temperature ( 11° above ambient ) : these become trapped for 24 hours and feed on starchy carpellary appendages before leaving with pollen . |
| 22 | The general use of disapproval in order to keep people on their toes tends to be counterproductive after a time . |
| 23 | However , legal expenses insurance generally tends to be full of small print and exclusions . |
| 24 | A good heuristic function is a function f on states which tends to be large on nodes on paths to goals . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It hangs too much on the concept of class and fails to explore the changes and complexities that bear on this ; it tends to be gross in its handling of the power of business ; and it is unsure in its handling of the power of organised labour , seeing it both as lacking in any real power , but as somehow having the potential to become a ferocious force capable of transforming the capitalist system totally . |
| 27 | Such a pattern of incremental earnings tends to be common among white-collar workers where general skills and experience are transferable between say schools , universities , hospitals , banks or legal institutions . |
| 28 | When a new product is introduced , such as a video-cassette recorder or a home computer , the price tends to be high on account of the initial development and marketing costs . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Because homoeopathy tends to be unfamiliar to the majority of people , they ask a lot of questions about it . |