Example sentences of "[been] [art] tendency for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There has been a tendency for newspapers to represent both existing political parties and emergent ones . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There were still many family units left although in the last two decades there has been a tendency for farm sizes to increase . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In postwar years there has been a tendency for MPs to be even more middle-class than they were hitherto . |
| 7 | 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 . |