Example sentences of "have tended [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later ages have tended to magnify the importance of those thinkers and poets who disagreed ; there is no reason to think that the young Wordsworth would have taken any notice of them ; he believed with his University that whatever Newton said , was right . |
| 2 | It is important that the purpose of this criticism should not be misunderstood ; the theoretical and experimental contributions that the Aplysia group have made to the cellular study of memory over the past two decades have been substantial , but the very intellectual certainty of the group and the charisma of its leader have tended to suppress some of its problems and sideline those who have articulated them . |
| 3 | This chapter has been concerned to sketch in the general background to the reign of Mary Queen of Scots , and to clear it of some of the misconceptions about Scottish kingship which have tended to confuse the issues . |
| 4 | Broadly , they have tended to divide into two recognisable breeds ; the ‘ big idea ’ exponents ( Porter on competitive advantage , Warren Bennis and Britain 's John Adair on leadership , Theodore Levitt on marketing , Edward de Bono on lateral thinking ) and the protean thinkers who scan the horizons of work and society ( Peter , Handy and Drucker , who thought of almost every management concept from ‘ management by objectives ’ to privatization a generation before anyone else ) . |
| 5 | the same position , it 's the , the teachers have tended to say , well you 're not ready to do it yet or , we 've just got to finish the rest of this book . |
| 6 | Some markets , which once had a homogeneous character , have tended to splinter into a variety of consumer groups , each with different tastes and preferences ; for instance , see Box 16.1 . |
| 7 | Since Hume , philosophers of an empiricist turn of mind have tended to suppose that any ‘ knowledge ’ obtained by a priori perception of connections between ideas is trifling and empty of content , and that the price paid for the necessity and certainty of such ‘ knowledge ’ is a loss of information . |
| 8 | They have tended to conclude that the most effective method of increasing the risks is by increasing the certainty of detection rather than by increasing the severity of the penalty ( but not always ; Ehrlich , 1975 , is best known for his advocacy of stiffer penalties , especially the use of capital punishment ) . |
| 9 | ECOLOGISTS have tended to despise gardens . |
| 10 | Units have tended to fall not rise , so the value of many endowments has not grown as expected . |
| 11 | In the past , some terminal manufacturers have developed proprietary solutions to the problem of adding windowing functionality to character-based applications , but these have tended to fall by the wayside . |
| 12 | Average rates of commission have tended to fall for all clients , but particularly for institutions ( see Figure 11.1 ) . |
| 13 | Turnover has increased since Big Bang , although has tended to fall in 1988 and 1989 relative to 1987 ( but it is still above Big Bang levels ) , and dealing spreads and dealing costs have tended to fall . |
| 14 | It has always been noticed that information technology skills , of which we shall need more and more in the coming years , have tended to lag behind the demand for those skills . |
| 15 | In practice , workers under the age of 20 do not receive payments and this especially affects women because girls have tended to leave full-time education earlier than boys . |
| 16 | John Farrant will be talking about the development of Brighton over the past three hundred years and how patterns of trade and commerce have tended to repeat themselves . |
| 17 | Since the war , the speeches have tended to last between 90 minutes and two and a half hours . |
| 18 | Subscribers may have noticed the scepticism with which we have tended to greet analysts ' forecasts for IBM Corp 's earnings , and invariably their forecasts have proved too optimistic — but it seems to take time for the true awfulness of the situation to sink in with them . |
| 19 | In general these studies have tended to reinforce the conclusions based on stimulation studies and have yielded few surprises that affect the validity of the method . |
| 20 | The Development of Higher Education into the 1990s ( DES 1985b ) does have a short section on higher education , the economy and subject balance , but is in general much more concerned with access to and management of the system , and subsequent documents have tended to reinforce that emphasis . |
| 21 | There is much to suggest that the attitudes of society towards sexual offences , particularly the attitudes of many men ( who hold most of the leading posts in the making of policy and law ) , have tended to undervalue the seriousness of sexual assaults . |
| 22 | The findings have tended to support the view that the police are held in relatively high esteem , although those polled have invariably had little or no contact with the police in any capacity . |
| 23 | Coloureds and Indians have tended to support the National Party — one estimate is that 60% of them gave it their backing in mid-1992 — because they saw it as a bulwark against black domination . |
| 24 | So far , we have tended to support one general notion , the vulnerability of branch plants . |
| 25 | The existence of a research study is significant , because in the past critics of the high cost of going to law have tended to support their views with horror stories . |
| 26 | Middle-class voters have tended to support the Conservative party in Britain , and working-class voters the Labour party . |
| 27 | I think it is fair to say that erm all the detailed surveys which have been taken have tended to support the findings from the one to fifty thousand map in so far that the various developments proposed to the west and to the south have include quite large elements of grade two land , whereas the se proposals to the north a tend to be grade three land . |
| 28 | Correlations in this area , especially in non-Marxist work but still in most Marxist work hitherto , have tended to proceed less from the steady analysis of evidence than from relatively a priori concepts , usually of a strictly contemporary kind , to which such evidence as there is is illustratively added . |
| 29 | While little detailed work has been undertaken to date on the nature of these population movements , preliminary research carried out by the investigator in Costa Rica in 1987 with support from the Nuffield Foundation suggests that migration patterns have been strongly differentiated along lines of gender : whereas men have tended to migrate out of Guanacastle , at least on a temporary basis , many women appear to have moved permanently to towns within the region itself . |
| 30 | These have tended to widen as our understanding of the needs of children has developed . |