Example sentences of "tended [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the more bizarre the alleged abduction , the closer this figure tended towards 1.0 , or total subjectivity . |
| 2 | The tightness of the competition programme gave little scope to all , except the most imaginative of architects , for great variations in the layout of the two offices , and even the block plans tended towards similar solutions . |
| 3 | The inherent exoticism of the place can have only added to its allure and , for those whose tastes tended in that direction , the soft purring caresses and total availability of the bar-girls must have seemed irresistible . |
| 4 | More of the girls , who tended on average to be slightly younger than the boys , were still at school . |
| 5 | The issue should be considered more widely than that , though Ash croft and Love ( 1988 ) showed that acquisition of Scottish firms tended on average to increase sales and have no effect on overall employment . |
| 6 | ( And , of course professionals tended on average to marry later and hence have even fewer live births , so the difference between the reproductive experience of the two groups was in fact even greater . ) |
| 7 | Two stimuli were used , the offset of a light and the presentation of a clicker , both of which tended on first presentation to evoke a suppression of ongoing behaviour . |
| 8 | In a Mediterranean example ( Lavatera latifolia , Malvaceae ) , Hymenoptera delivered more pollen-grain more often than Lepidoptera or Diptera ; Lepidoptera tended to ny longer distances between consecutive flowers than Hymenoptera or Diptera . |
| 9 | Besides saving three lives , the fire crew tended to another man , who was badly burnt and injured after jumping from his blazing room . |
| 10 | So we tended to subordinate any feelings of anger for the wellbeing of the whole community.We took each other with all our faults . |
| 11 | Indomethacin plus 5 or 10 mg/kg cyclosporin A tended to further decrease volume output ( 5 mg/ kg cyclosporin A+indomethacin 14.0 ( 3.1 ) ul , p<0.01 v controls ; 10 mg/kg cyclosporin A+ indomethacin 12.2 ( 2.2 ) µl , p<0.01 v controls ) . |
| 12 | was er whether the please ensure erm looking at carriageway major repairs you see area two tended to ninety three thousand pounds and that covers a lot of things which might include . |
| 13 | Midlands canals tended at first to link local industries with their raw materials . |
| 14 | When a frottola is through-composed under textual pressure , and aerated and enlivened by polyphonic passages , it is indistinguishable in musical style from the earlier madrigal , particularly as the madrigal tended at first to cling to the note against-note style with a melodically more important highest part . |
| 15 | As Duclaud-Williams ( 1978 ) suggests , the operation of rent rebates and other principles embodied in the Act tended at that time to swing the balance further in favour of home buyers and away from the two rented sectors . |
| 16 | The square , its shabby focus , topped a steep hill and these streets ran sharply down ; once stately and solid streets , fat with money and leisure , full of homes for a secure middle-class with parlours in which its bustled daughters could play ‘ The Last Rose Of Summer ’ and ‘ Believe me if all those Endearing Young Charms ’ politely on rosewood pianos antlered with candlesticks ; and roast-beef coloured dining-rooms where the gentlemen mellowed over rich , after-dinner port and mahogany reflected ox-roasting coal fires tended by black flocks of housemaids . |
| 17 | This morning , there was even a fire tended by seven vagrants , roaring drunk on Emva Cream at half-past ten in the morning . |
| 18 | They demonstrate how the integration of cost and effectiveness insights within ‘ value for money ’ and ‘ efficiency ’ reviews has revealed how poor are the costs data ‘ lovingly tended by local authority accountants over many years ’ and how limiting are the so-called effectiveness data . |