Example sentences of "[noun] tend to 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 | Lianes tend to have a higher percentage of wind-dispersed species than do trees , though hemi-epiphytic lianes tend to be bird-dispersed . |
| 5 | Cremation urns tend to have a greater volume than those accompanying inhumations predominantly in southern England . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Members of the lowest stratum in stratification systems which provide little opportunity for improvement of status tend to have a fatalistic attitude towards life . |
| 9 | Hence van Maanen claims that policemen and women tend to have a common ‘ working code ’ ( van Maanen 1978 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |