Example sentences of "[noun] tend have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a number of reasons why meetings tend to have a poor reputation . |
| 2 | The emphasis is again on a parent-child partnership and sessions tend to have a special theme . |
| 3 | Drivers tend to have a nasty habit of cutting corners without a thought for the cyclist on the inside . |
| 4 | This was partly because each brand of typesetting machine tended to have a different way of preparing the bit-map , but it also had to do with the very nature of the technique : rotating the letters , making them larger or smaller , or altering them in any way involved a new bit-map . |
| 5 | Such issues were not covered by policy , and these appeals tended to have a better than average chance of success ( 41 per cent as compared with an overall average of 31 per cent ) . |
| 6 | Lianes tend to have a higher percentage of wind-dispersed species than do trees , though hemi-epiphytic lianes tend to be bird-dispersed . |
| 7 | Cremation urns tend to have a greater volume than those accompanying inhumations predominantly in southern England . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Prevalence of respiratory symptoms was not associated with birth weight , but children with lower gestational age tended to have a greater prevalence of frequent and occasional wheeze regardless of their birth weight ( table III ) . |
| 10 | Each sea and ocean tends to have a maximum wave size ( Zenkovich , 1967 ) depending upon the size and shape of the basin and the weather conditions . |
| 11 | This approach tends to have a neutral effect on a decision about whether to be part of home or market production , avoiding women 's role being institutionalized as dependants . |
| 12 | The females tends to have a lighter ventral region . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Members of the lowest stratum in stratification systems which provide little opportunity for improvement of status tend to have a fatalistic attitude towards life . |
| 15 | Hence van Maanen claims that policemen and women tend to have a common ‘ working code ’ ( van Maanen 1978 ) . |
| 16 | In discordant twin pairs of whom the diseased twin had ulcerative colitis , the healthy ones tended to have a raised proportion of IgG1 cells ( 64.6% ) , and the IgG2 cell fraction was significantly ( p=0.05 ) reduced ( 19.1% ) compared with controls . |
| 17 | DNA extracted from the gastric mucosa of smokers tended to have a dense pattern of adduct spots similar to that reported in other tissues of smokers . |
| 18 | With the passing of time , Greek silver coins tended to have a wider diameter and lesser thickness , and a glance at the general appearance of a coin will enable it to be assigned to either the fifth to fourth centuries or the second to first centuries BC ( compare figs. 9 and 6 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |