Example sentences of "they tended to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admittedly , the Christian Brothers ' schools were open to all , but they tended to be academically inclined in curriculum and ethos . |
| 2 | It is , of course , very easy to pay too much attention to the famous names in Nonconformity , partially because of their importance , partially because information about them is more readily available and partially because they tended to be more involved in politics . |
| 3 | They tended to be built round ministers who disliked the slowly developing penchant for what were called ‘ liturgical ’ forms of worship associated with Gothic chapels . |
| 4 | We also booked hotels in advance , since the guidebooks said that they tended to be busy . |
| 5 | For these reasons they tended to be much less closely associated with the advocacy of specific legal and penal reforms than classical criminology was . |
| 6 | In general it was almost exclusively extreme right-wing elements who were first involved , but they tended to be of two distinct types . |
| 7 | Since the rule-books were initially actionable by any person who suffered harm as a result of a contravention , they tended to be very legalistic and complex . |
| 8 | When marriage did take place , older brides were often preferred , as they tended to be both more useful as work partners , and have less childbearing years before them . |
| 9 | They tended to be raw kids with a self imposed need to get rich quick . |
| 10 | The survivors were mostly younger sisters , but the striking thing about the teenage girl compositors traced through the CECOS Report , was that they tended to be the eldest children of large families . |
| 11 | They tended to be translated into imagery , an imagery which was presented in human terms . |
| 12 | With Asians the picture in Leeds appears more straightforward : they tended to be less involved at every stage . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | However , certain types of women were ‘ selected out ’ by the redundancy process ; they tended to be disadvantaged in human capital terms , which made them vulnerable to poverty ( Callender , 1986b ) . |
| 15 | These , on the whole , were ‘ indigenous ’ rather than ‘ imposed ’ regimes , and they tended to be the most independent-minded in their relations with the Soviet authorities . |
| 16 | They tended to be schoolteachers , academics and the recently retired ; against them were ranged builders , farmers and most of those who , by luck or good management , owned a half acre or derelict cottage ripe for profitable transformation . |
| 17 | About ideas and practices other than their own they tended to be contemptuous , dismissive or hostile ; usually such attitudes were grounded in ignorance of , rather than engagement with , the ideas in question . |
| 18 | Social issues , which between them were the subject of almost a fifth of the courses , accounted for only 9 per cent of the total number of teacher-days : they tended to be short , workshop-style courses with few participants . |
| 19 | Women workers who were covered by national insurance found that they tended to be submitted to strict surveillance by national health insurance visitors because of the unexpectedly large number of sickness claims . |
| 20 | The weakness of the country 's political parties — traditionally they tended to be forged around individuals and networks of patronage rather than clear ideological convictions , a tendency massively accentuated during the Marcos years — was highlighted with the approaching election in the form of splits , internal conflicts and unanticipated alliances . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | During the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries there were intermittent popular revolts , but apart from that of Jack Cade in 1450 , they tended to be far more limited in scope than that of 1381 . |
| 23 | But one of the earlier findings which began to cause problems was that the sound of the letters , as well as the features , determined whether or not they were confused so B and D , for example , sound similar therefore they tended to be confused . |
| 24 | You could also find some letters that were confused , they did n't share common features but they sounded the same and they tended to be confused as well There was a lot of enthusiasm from the work of the neuro-psychologist th with the discovery of cells which appeared to be sensitive to particular features . |
| 25 | Part of the impetus had been the growing frustration felt by women in the voluntary work committees that they and the issues which concerned them tended to be elbowed aside by men . |
| 26 | In the past , when houses were accepted as payment for death duties , the selection of the contents acquired with them tended to be made mainly on a museum-oriented scale of value , concentrating predominantly on items that were not only of high quality , but also usually an integral part of the design of a room . |