Example sentences of "have tended to ignore " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly there is a recognition that grammar has an importance in language learning which a too enthusiastic pursuit of functions has tended to ignore , and grammar reference books and exercises of all kinds ( and all qualities ) are now springing out of publishing houses . |
| 2 | Often ill-informed and repetitive , the debate has tended to ignore the interests of the client and has frequently been conducted by those whose minds are already made up on the issue . |
| 3 | So social science has tended to ignore Freud 's books , but of course , it has n't been able to forget about Freud . |
| 4 | The various parties involved in the peace process had tended to ignore the issue , working on the assumption that it could only be tackled at an advanced stage of a settlement . |
| 5 | Feminist psychologists , too , have tended to ignore differences between subjects across age , ‘ race ’ , class , and sexuality . |
| 6 | Historians have tended to ignore these important developments , which implied the growing need for a small supply of vessels specially built for war ( like heavy artillery , these could only be afforded by the crown ) , the facilities for their maintenance , and the growing appreciation that England 's commercial interests should be defended by ships built for that purpose . |
| 7 | Tumin concludes that in their enthusiastic search for the positive functions of stratification , the functionalists have tended to ignore or play down its many dysfunctions . |
| 8 | Though it is an everyday part of human diet in the region , its skin , being hard to preserve , has seldom been shipped to museums ; scientists have tended to ignore the animal , making it one of the most poorly studied common species in the world . |