Example sentences of "[noun pl] tend to have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a number of reasons why meetings tend to have a poor reputation . |
| 2 | One important distinction is that British soccer fans tend to have a much greater sense of commitment to , and identification with , both the game itself and their favoured soccer team than American soccer spectators . |
| 3 | However , students gaining good degrees in the arts tend to have a very flat profile of marks clustering around the 70–75 per cent range , whereas science students show more peaks and troughs with marks often ranging from 65 to 85 per cent . |
| 4 | The emphasis is again on a parent-child partnership and sessions tend to have a special theme . |
| 5 | Drivers tend to have a nasty habit of cutting corners without a thought for the cyclist on the inside . |
| 6 | Short and intermediate courses and those which do not involve the student in heavy costs tend to have a more democratic social composition . |
| 7 | The ‘ skill mix ’ of the workforce may have a bearing on the conduct of the strike , since skilled workers tend to have a more harmonious relationship with the employer , and their relatively favoured position in the labour market usually enables them to achieve their demands without having to resort to violence . |
| 8 | Lianes tend to have a higher percentage of wind-dispersed species than do trees , though hemi-epiphytic lianes tend to be bird-dispersed . |
| 9 | Cremation urns tend to have a greater volume than those accompanying inhumations predominantly in southern England . |
| 10 | That course may offer the best hope that the entire document will be given the desirable objective overview : in house productions tend to have a disjointed appearance born of their production by committee which often leads to inconsistency and difficulty of construction . |
| 11 | Er men tend to have a lower pitch on the whole , erm th they 're louder and the 's due to their physiological differences , erm Jacqueline once said that , Men try to talk bigger than they are whereas women talk as though they 're smaller . |
| 12 | It should also be noted that breaches tend to have a ‘ ripple effect ’ and that a practitioner who does not fully understand his obligations has only to proffer one piece of investment advice ( which may in itself be perfectly sound ) and he will almost certainly have breached several regulations in the process . |
| 13 | Boys tend to have a resurgence of negativism between ten and eleven years of age . |
| 14 | Vaill also argued that high-performing systems tend to have a number of common characteristics . |
| 15 | Civil law judicial systems tend to have a much more straightforward evidential system , arising out of the inquisitorial nature of such systems . |
| 16 | Hence van Maanen claims that policemen and women tend to have a common ‘ working code ’ ( van Maanen 1978 ) . |
| 17 | This probably explains why sexually active women tend to have a cycle close to the average length of 29.5 days . |
| 18 | Solid features such as walls tend to have a smaller amount of magnetic minerals within them than the surrounding soil , and therefore give lower readings . |