Example sentences of "tended [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He worked out his positions very much through polemical critique of others , and tended to be clearer about what was to be rejected than about what was to be put constructively in its place . |
| 2 | If the previous mispricing was positive ( the future was overpriced ) , then the change in the mispricing tended to be negative ( the overpricing declined ) , and vice versa . |
| 3 | Indeed , the typical Greek tended to be backward-looking , since the future appeared to him to be the domain of total uncertainty , his only guide to it being delusive expectation . |
| 4 | The most committed readers , those claiming to buy every issue , tended to be male horse owners , aged 45 or older . |
| 5 | Moreover the armies of all West European States tended to be slow-moving , tied to fixed magazines and supply depots and further restricted by the ever-present fear of desertion . |
| 6 | They also tended to be heavier smokers , the study found . |
| 7 | At this stage , in Britain as in other cattle-rearing countries , the cattle tended to be regional types rather than formal breeds , but by 1750 there was a recognisable regional distribution by coat colour and pattern in Britain — one of the first stages in breed development . |
| 8 | Famous ministers , like most of those who are well paid , tended to be defensive of their income : Newman Hall was very loath to talk about his £500 a year although he need not have been . |
| 9 | It seems noteworthy that these patients were operated on before the advent of H 2 blocker treatment , and consequently the indication for surgery , in contrast with current practice , tended to be intractable symptoms more than teratment resistant oesophagitis . |
| 10 | Earlier reports tended to be content with inventories of graves and their contents ( for instance , Green and Rogerson 1978 ) . |
| 11 | One of the most influential mid-century organizations was the Young Men 's Christian Association ( YMCA ) , 1844 , whose members tended to be respectable workers in their late teens and twenties , employed in the retail and clerical professions . |
| 12 | The tribunals tended to be ineffective in sifting and weighing evidence and all too often accepted the presenting officer 's arguments on SBC policy as the law on entitlement . |
| 13 | Significantly the individuals involved here tended to be frequent roostmates — they had every opportunity to interact with one another repeatedly , as is required for an Iterated Prisoner 's Dilemma . |
| 14 | In contrast , female domestic servants led isolated work lives prior to marriage and their marriages usually involved a traditional sexual division of labour ; but they also tended to enjoy a joint role relationship with their husbands in the sense that the husband spent his non-working hours with his wife and children , and they too tended to be successful in limiting the size of their families . |
| 15 | Though in the last resort any conductor is an autocratic figure , Karajan 's methods of musical preparation tended to be practical and co-operative rather than formal or didactic . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Discipline , therefore , tended to be stricter for manual workers than for staff , immediate penalties more severe , and the amount of discretion allowed both to the employees and their supervisors much more limited . |
| 18 | In many of the rural areas , however , reform tended to be uneven . |
| 19 | Nakane , then a producer for the renowned Coho company , was desperate to stage radical Shakespeare in Japan , where productions tended to be absurd , academic affairs . |
| 20 | It had more egalitarian holdings , less interest by speculators ( because of its remoteness ) and , as the government authority tended to be weak , the settlers were more self-sufficient in setting up schools and cutting tracks and so forth ; moreover , it was less costly for central government . |
| 21 | Mostly , they saw what they expected — and because the trash with whom Charlie had his dealings were rarely the deepest or most sober of men , their expectations tended to be predictable and few . |
| 22 | This was so whether the reformative sentence would be disproportionately long or disproportionately short , although most adherents of the Justice Model in the 1970s ( who tended to be liberal or moderately radical in political persua-sion ) wanted a just deserts system which would punish less harshly overall — again like Beccaria two centuries previously . |
| 23 | His own discussion of the project tended to be vague and large . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Local news tended to be dull and repetitive , as the following typical example shows : |
| 26 | Research showed that both infant mortality rates and malnutrition tended to be higher among girls than boys , a fact which could not conceivably be ascribed to the occupation but reflected traditional attitudes that damaged the health of the community . |
| 27 | Rowntree 's estimated minimum income of 20s. 6d. for a family of two adults and three children was derived from urban prices and , Rowntree pointed out , food prices tended to be higher in the countryside since the towns were the centres of food distribution . |
| 28 | Adduct levels tended to be higher in smokers than in non-smokers . |
| 29 | In both age groups , the estimated ( projected ) proportion of children who remained seropositive 13–17 months after vaccination tended to be higher in the IPV group than in the OPV group , although few of these differences were statistically significant . |
| 30 | While such wilful ignorance prevailed it is not surprising that pacifist opposition to Sir Edward Grey 's foreign policy tended to be episodic and dominated by side issues . |