Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] tend to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time between sleep onset and active sleep onset thus tends to be either very short indeed ( less than ten minutes ) or over fifty minutes , as the period of their alternation between active and quiet sleep is of the order of sixty minutes . |
| 2 | Furthermore , on the coast there tend to be some expert sailors around and your confidence in your own ability does not benefit from comparison with them . |
| 3 | Withdrawal now tends to be discouraged , partly because it is thought to be another form of segregation within the ordinary school , and therefore in danger of isolating and stigmatising children , and partly because it deprives children of access to lessons and activities available to other children . |
| 4 | This loneliness then tends to be misdiagnosed as depression and medications may be prescribed which may make the disease even worse . |
| 5 | This was the very widespread feeling ( at least in Parliament : public opinion normally tended to be suspicious of ministerial projects ) that the king and his ministers had a right to the support of all loyal and patriotic subjects . |
| 6 | It is little wonder , then , that ostracism and gossip were such powerful ways of enforcing the values and standards of village life , nor that the criteria of status and prestige in the community also tended to be derived from the world of work . |
| 7 | Security also tends to be better with this approach as the bureau runs as a service utility , where security and reliability are built into the system as a matter of course . |
| 8 | An interesting sidelight on battlefront conditions came from his remarks that the Peshmerga brought in for attention mainly tended to be suffering from wounds to their limbs from weapons such as Kalashnikovs , since those who sustained head or body injuries generally failed to get as far as a field hospital . |
| 9 | A lot of foods we make from wheat flour often tend to be very high in calories , seem to be almost irresistible to hungry slimmers , and are often used as ‘ binge ’ g=foods by compulsive eaters . |
| 10 | There is moderate reduction in lung cancer risk associated with lower tar cigarettes but research in the UK suggests that the assumed health advantages of switching to lower tar may be largely offset by the tendency of smokers to compensate for the reduction in nicotine ( cigarettes lower in tar also tend to be lower in nicotine ) by smoking more or inhaling more deeply [ 4 ] . |
| 11 | The fact that many another highly gifted player has not found captaincy easy tended to be overlooked . |
| 12 | This has become a commonplace of gerontology , yet — among the general public — jokes are still made as to old so and so being " past it " , and the elderly man with a young wife still tends to be a figure of mockery or disapprobation ( the elderly woman with a young husband even more so ) . |
| 13 | The ratio also tends to be higher for totally symmetric modes that involve angle bending than for pure stretching modes . |
| 14 | Although it may not appear especially hygienic to keep the litter tray in the kitchen , this is probably the best place because the floor surface here tends to be impermeable . |
| 15 | The evidence actually tends to be ambiguous ( West 1969 ; Jones 1979b ) as indications of timberwork at the lip of the pit may be connected with the superstructure and planking in the base may have fallen from the walls or roof lining . |
| 16 | Dietary intake of diary products was lower ( p<0.02 ) and fat intake also tended to be less ( p=0.09 ) in the patients . |
| 17 | There is also a large and venerable literature on the nature and purposes of higher education , which rings with names such as Newman , Veblen , Ortega y Gasset , and Jaspers [ see Powell 's bibliography ( 1966 , 1971 ) , and there have been many more recent examples but such writing likewise tends to be rather general , and only by extension addresses the question of what is to be taught in curricular terms ; but see Goodlad 1976 ; Barnett 1985 ] . |
| 18 | However , legal expenses insurance generally tends to be full of small print and exclusions . |
| 19 | But this philosophical disposition also tends to be harnessed to a political orientation which seeks to democratize political institutions and is supportive of reforms pioneered through social legislation . |
| 20 | Each regiment still tended to be regarded as almost the private property of its colonel and until 1753 was usually known by his name . |
| 21 | The microphones in a radio studio always tend to be large and rather obtrusive . |
| 22 | The use of subordination as a syntactic device for marking given information may be a common feature of information structure in many languages : for instance , Maynard ( 1981 ) suggests that given information in Japanese also tends to be subordinate . |
| 23 | Conversation thus tended to be laconic and allusive and it sometimes scarcely seemed to possess a thread of connection between one remark and the next : this was however an illusion , seductive enough to a stranger ignorant of background , all the more so to a stranger not fully in command of the language . |
| 24 | As Robert Sklar has suggested , there was no such thing as a typical depression movie ; rather there were a number of formats and an emphasis on production standards and conventions , but now in this new post-1933 dispensation there tended to be far less experimentation . |
| 25 | Sanctioning strategies in fact generally tend to be associated with incidents of deviance . |
| 26 | Charles and James would find that , despite the publicized openness of the modern Conservative Party , the lower middle class still tends to be restricted to the lower political positions ; even at a local level , power continues to be unevenly distributed in favour of the upper middle class ( Butler and Pinto-Duschinsky , 1980 ) . |
| 27 | Written language also tends to be more grammatically acceptable than spoken language . |
| 28 | Written language also tends to be more conservative with regards to the introduction of new words . |
| 29 | As it is , not only is the average specification of cars sold in Britain the highest in Europe , but cars destined for the British market also tend to be bigger , with ‘ upper-medium-sized ’ cars disproportionately popular compared with elsewhere in Europe . |