Example sentences of "[noun] tended to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such a situation , it was inevitable that political disputes tended to be expressed in the language of Court versus Country rather than in terms of the old party ideologies — even if the use of such rhetoric was forced on people for tactical reasons , and a Tory who espoused Country arguments in order to make common cause with opposition Whigs still remained recognisably Tory at heart . |
| 2 | Since Sun/Star readers tended to be uncommitted they were relatively easy to influence . |
| 3 | Unlike the ILP , Marxists tended to be ambivalent about parliamentary socialism although most of them accepted the combination of revolutionary and democratic ideas which had been formulated in the German Social Democratic Party by Kautsky and Bebel . |
| 4 | In the past , the interview tended to be regarded as simply a means of collecting factual information from respondents and , by itself , of little interest . |
| 5 | My crises tended to be more public . |
| 6 | In these countries , the incidence of low birth weight tended to be lowest among babies born to women aged 25–29 years and highest where maternal age was under 20 or over 39 years ( Makinson , 1985 , p.134 ) . |
| 7 | Patronage tended to be more important , however , in boroughs with smaller electorates : Lord Brooke dominated Warwick 's 400 voters , the Whig Earl of Carlisle dominated Morperth 's electorate of 120 , whilst there were a number of proprietary boroughs with electorates of fewer than 100 where both seats remained safe for a particular party . |
| 8 | Researchers in Canada , however , studied college students over five years and found that lefties tended to be born to older mothers . |
| 9 | In institutional practice , ‘ English ’ in public schools tended to be marginal and somewhat disregarded , but became central in the culture of the grammar schools , in ways adumbrated and advocated in the Newbolt Report . |
| 10 | Primary schools tended to be judged , by parents and teachers , on the number of grammar school places ( or ‘ scholarships ’ ) won each year . |
| 11 | These data suggest that investment under the URA programme tended to be made in neighbourhoods ( and census tracts ) already showing stronger revitalisation signals . |
| 12 | Though the group which dominated the executive board of the National Association tended to be drawn from the secularist , radical circles of the metropolis , the women and men who effectively led the repeal movement came from the same provincial backgrounds which sustained many other mid-century reform groups . |
| 13 | The only other downside I noticed was that the car tended to be a little ponderous in lower gears around town . |
| 14 | Villages that experienced population losses tended to be those that had ‘ closed , disintegrating societies ’ , that is , those that had disharmonies in institutional life and where newcomers were regarded as ‘ foreigners ’ . |
| 15 | Even those whose fathers spent some years in industry tended to be brought up in the village . |
| 16 | This retrospective way of thinking tended to be a general feature of thought in countries such as India and China . |
| 17 | At day 7 , however , histamine concentrations tended to be less in the L group than in the C and U groups but this was statistically insignificant ( Fig 8 ) . |
| 18 | Asian clients tended to be seen as less criminal , to lack credibility as witnesses , and to be industrious and family-minded . |
| 19 | BBC1 tended to be the main loser against satellite TV . |
| 20 | These companies tended to be characterized by a series of activities : |
| 21 | Such companies tended to be in a wide range of businesses ; they thus lacked ‘ focus ’ and adequate scale . |
| 22 | The leading high technology companies tended to be American or Japanese , and many European companies were unable to maintain a presence in these markets . |
| 23 | Relative preferences for Labour and Conservative tended to be inversely related . |
| 24 | Although one consequence of their detached status was that the Commissioners tended to be remote from the day to day process of policy formulation in the higher echelons of the Home Office , they had the advantage of being perceived by the Prison Service as providing a collective leadership in which the professional element in the service could and did play a significant part . |
| 25 | In fact , whereas the parallel protestant movement of evangelical revival was for all people , and the issue tended to be decisive , catholic spirituality diverged on both points . |
| 26 | Although they had certain rights especially under equity law , few women were willing to go to court against their husbands At lower levels of society the forms of marriage tended to be more relaxed . |
| 27 | Thus , all ‘ go ’ periods tended to be followed by ‘ stop ’ periods and it became difficult to achieve long-term economic growth . |
| 28 | Observers also noted that the ICRC tended to be associated in Iranian eyes with the Swiss government — with which there were continuing tensions because Switzerland appeared ready to allow the extradition to France of Zeyal Sarhadi , an Iranian suspected of involvement in the August 1991 murder of former Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar [ see pp. 37409 ; 38697 ] . |
| 29 | These areas tended to be socially deprived , with more unemployment , more manual workers , etc. , i.e. those characteristics that tend to be associated with a high offender rate . |
| 30 | Naturally directors tended to be drawn from the larger shareholders . |