Example sentences of "have tend to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Existing published research on French primary education has tended to be quantitative in style with a strong statistical emphasis . |
| 2 | What little new fiction by youngish writers there has been has tended to be incestuous tales of fast-track living in the media boomtown of the Eighties : books sold and written in the Groucho Club bar . |
| 3 | As a producer , MacCabe is naturally enough dismayed by this pro-directorial bias : ‘ If you look at what 's been happening to British cinema over the last 10 years or so , then it 's clear that it has tended to be production-led — names like Working Title , Palace Films or Zenith are as important as those of any individual director . |
| 4 | The operability in the past has tended to be low . |
| 5 | Where interest has been shown it has tended to be critical of the idea of connecting creativity to madness . |
| 6 | However , so far the attitude has tended to be sympathetic — it is not , after all , in the creditors ' interests to exclude a member and thereby reduce earning potential . |
| 7 | In good British fashion , however , that change has tended to be piecemeal rather than comprehensive . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , this evidence has tended to be fragmentary , a collection of separate , discrete pieces of information lacking a synthesizing theory to provide cohesion and predictive power . |
| 9 | These wider mills were thus squarer than their predecessors which had tended to be long and narrow . |
| 10 | Another problem according to Lewis ( 1983 , 149 ) is ‘ the lack of an adequate conceptual framework ’ and as a result ( 1983,149 ) : ‘ most rural studies have tended to be empirical and holistic , thus lacking comparability and depth ’ . |
| 11 | Where they have considered human reasons these have tended to be simplistic explanations of defence or relationships to field systems and land uses . |
| 12 | Planet X 's supporters point to three ephemeris difficulties suggesting a tenth planet : the Uranus observations can not all be made to fit , and the residuals show systematic trends ; a few known sightings of Neptune before its identity was established are difficult or impossible to fit ; and predictions of Neptune 's orbit have tended to be inaccurate . |
| 13 | Furthermore the structures of the lexical entries have tended to be proprietary to the system making it impossible to exchange lexicons between systems . |
| 14 | This was clearly a response to the devastation of war but in general the public commissions that have provided work for our artist craftsmen and women since then have tended to be bland and factual . |
| 15 | Until now period performances have tended to be abrasive and to whizz through the slow movements , making even the sublime Largo of the Double Concerto into a trivial siciliana . |
| 16 | Crude advertising discrimination has tended to be directed at the socialist rather than social-democratic press , thus exempting the mass-circulation , pro-Labour papers that have flourished ; … small circulation publications further to the left which have tended to be poor advertising media , judged by the commercial criterion employed by advertising agencies , have probably also suffered as a consequence of overt political discrimination . |
| 17 | Most recent linguistic explanations have tended to be internal to linguistic theory : that is to say , some linguistic feature is explained by reference to other linguistic features , or to aspects of the theory itself . |
| 18 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper Ms Lyles noted that while there have been major surveys of British watercolours in recent years ( such as that held at the British Museum in 1985 ) these have tended to be in-house shows , with the emphasis on highlights from individual collections . |
| 19 | Theoretical arguments in organization analysis have tended to be deter-ministic . |
| 20 | We noted in chapter 2 that traditional accounts of language history from around 1550 have tended to be unidimensional and convergent . |
| 21 | Several investigators have attempted to culture biliary cells but the methods described have tended to be complicated and difficult to apply . |