Example sentences of "tended in [art] [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | American ( and , to a lesser extent , British ) criticism has tended in the past to be less hierarchical than Italian and at the same time more alert to very minute differences in the type of product and the type of consumer being aimed at by the literary market . |
| 2 | Archaeologists have tended in the past to be mesmerized by the presence of walls and regard them as enclosing the only areas worthy of study . |
| 3 | In general , the baby 's wishes had tended in the past to be suspect , and the mother had been expected to look for some non-permissible motive behind them , in the form either of dangerous ( probably erotic ) impulses or of a rebellious determination to dominate the mother-in either case , constant control of the child was called for , and only the baby who had submitted himself completely to the mother 's control could be called a good baby . |
| 4 | However , national approval has tended in the past to be given without much discussion , in large part because the number of aspirants for candidatures has not been great : the party has often had to adopt whoever was willing to stand . |
| 5 | Governments have tended in the main to be more interested in macro-rather than micro- ( individual programme ) problems . |