Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [art] tendency for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were still many family units left although in the last two decades there has been a tendency for farm sizes to increase . |
| 2 | Because of the difficulties in communication , there has been a tendency for the intellectual abilities of people suffering from cerebral palsy to be underestimated , but this is now generally not the case . |
| 3 | The interpretation of the requirement in practice has varied and there has been a tendency for some companies to understate rather than emphasise the significance of what they have done . |
| 4 | There has been a tendency for newspapers to represent both existing political parties and emergent ones . |
| 5 | There has been a tendency for international inter-governmental organizations to lean too exclusively on the expertise of scholars in the preparation of instruments of unification and to obtain inadequate input from organizations of business men engaged in the particular field under consideration . |
| 6 | So throughout the evolution of the flowering plant , there has been a tendency for particular flowers and particular insects to develop together , each catering specifically for the other 's requirements and tastes . |
| 7 | There is some evidence that committee members feel themselves less fettered by party ties in committee than on the floor of the House although there has been a tendency for party loyalty to reassert itself if the report is debated . |
| 8 | Next , the implication that full employment could be achieved by budget deficits encouraged the separation of decisions to spend from decisions to tax , and there has been a tendency for the former to grow faster than the latter . |
| 9 | There has been a tendency for the proportion of non-civil servants in the membership to be reduced . |
| 10 | In postwar years there has been a tendency for MPs to be even more middle-class than they were hitherto . |
| 11 | To take a concrete example , an established characteristic of the pricing decision across many Western economies over several decades has been the tendency for firms , particularly firms in the manufacturing sector , to set prices as a mark up over variable costs , the most prominent among which is the money wage . |
| 12 | While George Boon rejected the suggestion that the very small coins were votive objects and may thus be found in some quantity on temple sites , he sensibly adds that there could have been a tendency for poor quality coins ‘ to gravitate to these shrines as easily as to the offertory of a country church ’ . |
| 13 | When these cyclosporin specific side effects occurred , there may have been a tendency for the study drug to be disclosed . |
| 14 | The ‘ blockbuster ’ bombs were part of the IRA 's economic war , but there had been a tendency for people to despair of the political process , he warned . |
| 15 | In fact , there had been a tendency for countships ( and benefices ) to become hereditary long before the mid-ninth century : it was inherent in a social organisation where power and property in general were inherited . |