Example sentences of "tended [prep] be [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , Moscavisi 's argument , and I must say , I agree with him , is that they tended to be denigrated by both groups who might have taken the biggest interest in them . |
| 2 | Sewel 's study ( 13 ) into the economic and social effects of centralised education in the rural areas of the Highlands and Islands found that ( a ) the structure of secondary school provision was not a crucial factor in migration , although the types of organisation most favoured by parents were the local two-year comprehensive school and the all-through comprehensive , located in the West , and ( h ) expectations and aspirations of both parents and pupils tended to be influenced by general social and economic conditions rather than specifically educational considerations . |
| 3 | In the later Middle Ages , both in England and France , the idea of liege homage tended to be overruled by the idea of allegiance to the king . |
| 4 | In practice the ideas of state and government tended to be determined by political criteria typical of the period since the era of great 18th-century revolutions , but the idea of ‘ people ’ and ‘ nation ’ largely by pre-political criteria which were helpful in the creation of the imagined and imaginary community . |
| 5 | ‘ Thematic ’ collections tended to be replaced by the publication of coherent archives from party , state and soviet institutions , and there was more open and critical discussion of editorial methods . |
| 6 | These companies tended to be characterized by a series of activities : |
| 7 | At Cambridge he showed little aptitude for study and tended to be diverted by horse-racing and other forms of gambling . |
| 8 | The combination of vertical and group ties was such that individuals tended to be viewed by others not as individuals , but as group members , and a network of reciprocal obligations and feelings between group members was the key to the maintenance of social order . |
| 9 | Thus , all ‘ go ’ periods tended to be followed by ‘ stop ’ periods and it became difficult to achieve long-term economic growth . |
| 10 | His orisons , however , tended to be interrupted by a recurring question . |
| 11 | At the same time , however , discussion tended to be dominated by certain sets of people ; by academics , by Americans , by mathematicians and scientists , by people with little experience of younger children or of the teachers who normally guide them , by scholars whose passionate concern for their own disciplines and the elegance of thought within them may have outweighed their concern for the school curriculum and the balanced development of school children . |
| 12 | Accordingly , the regular demand and supply of currencies in the foreign exchange markets tended to be dominated by current account transactions , which were expanding quite rapidly as international trade grew faster than domestic growth rates . |
| 13 | The list tended to be dominated by mathematics and language , with science occupying an increasingly important place over the evaluation period . |
| 14 | Regardless of subject labels , children 's curriculum experiences tended to be dominated by writing , with reading , using task-specific apparatus , and listening to the teacher also prominent ; collaborative activity and talking — with the teacher or with other pupils — were a long way behind . |
| 15 | The dinner was very good , though the conversation tended to be dominated by Bernard 's stories of his new television series and the director who was disastrous , but disastrous . |
| 16 | He admitted the award now in its eighth year tended to be dominated by pubs in the North . |
| 17 | The women of Page Street were very close friends , however , and even Aggie 's fastidiousness tended to be overlooked by the rest of the women . |
| 18 | Although they were envisaged as an alternative to full institutional care , they tended to be used by those within the community who had hitherto remained dependent on family or friends . |
| 19 | Parallel work was undertaken south of the border , but tended to be overshadowed by the work of industry lead bodies involved in developing standards of occupational competence . |