Example sentences of "which tended to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The team realized that little effort had ever been made to look at an area of activity which tended to be regarded as a ‘ necessary evil ’ and one which was very time consuming and most invasive of their private lives . |
| 2 | This only a short account of the main points of the Convention to alert exporters to what has been , up to now , an important aspect of International Trade which tended to be overlooked . |
| 3 | ‘ Boots : ‘ We had a complaint from the Kilbride family and as a result of that we withdrew both album and single , as there were words which tended to be offensive to the family . ’ |
| 4 | In relation to the vegetation communities in which the campsites were located , the major difference in impact related to campsite core size which tended to be larger in piñon juniper areas due to the more open nature of the vegetation and the less rugged nature of the areas on which it is dominant . |
| 5 | Not a great deal of intervention took place , and most that did was directed towards small companies in ‘ high-tech ’ sectors , which tended to be located in the south of England . |
| 6 | It had been realised by this time that , even if polythene did not fit into the then accepted mould for plastics , which tended to be glassy substances like polystyrene and Perspex , it might still be useful . |
| 7 | One constant factor , unaffected by change of government , but never far below the surface , was an extreme sensitivity about the degree of public support for policies which tended to be perceived ( however misguidedly ) as ‘ soft ’ on crime . |
| 8 | Thus the desperate position which tended to be the teacher 's in the days of the Dalton Plan , with no help available , almost no bibliographic service for the location of likely materials , and the consequent necessity of having to produce a daily flood of work-sheets and data sheets , is no longer the case in schools sensibly organized . |
| 9 | There was a low US energy dependence on coal ( only 18–20 per cent ) ; several months ' stockpiles of coal were held by key consumers ; UMW-dominated mines held a low share of the total number of national contracts ( around 52 per cent , compared with 67 per cent in 1974 ) ; there was a growing influence on the markets of western strip mines ( which tended to be non-union organised by the International Union of Operating Engineers ) who would not be sympathetic ; and finally , the petroleum crisis of the early 1970s had prompted the re-opening of many smaller mines ( 6,100 operating units in 1969 to 7,000 in 1977 ) which were non-union . |
| 10 | There were , of course , adequate Customs shore controls at ports visited , but we were mainly concerned with the more remote areas and anchorages which tended to be used more and more by the various types of oil exploration craft and drilling rigs when sheltering inside our territorial waters . |
| 11 | But the recession may even be healthy in making it more difficult to publish the second-rate , he argues : rather than having a clear strategy of which subjects they would concentrate on , far too many academic publishers were happy simply to print a selection of the manuscripts they were sent , including multi-authored books and conference proceedings which tended to be of limited academic market . |
| 12 | The typical industrial town was at this period still a medium-sized city , even by contemporary standards , though as it happened in central and eastern Europe some capital cities ( which tended to be very large ) also became major centres of manufacturing — e.g. Berlin , Vienna and St Petersburg . |