Example sentences of "[verb] tended [to-vb] that the " in BNC.

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1 This is important at a theoretical level because mathematical analysis of advertising 's apparent effects in the marketplace , as carried out by econometricians ( see Chapter 9 ) , has tended to suggest that the measurable effects of an individual burst of advertising decay very rapidly over quite a short ( usually less than nine months ) period .
2 What evidence there is from the USA suggests that local authorities there are simply not prepared , either physically or mentally , to deal with the new service demands of the exurban inmigrants ( Green , 1983 ) although work in Canada , using a game-playing approach , has tended to suggest that the inmigrants have the same service demands as the existing inhabitants ( Joseph and Smit , 1983 ) .
3 Even Apollinaire who , excited by the complete break that Cubism had effected with traditional painting , had tended to suggest that the ideal programme would be a move towards complete abstraction , could still insist that the Cubist was a realist , since his inspiration was drawn from some transcendental truth beyond the world of appearances .
4 They have tended to conclude that the most effective method of increasing the risks is by increasing the certainty of detection rather than by increasing the severity of the penalty ( but not always ; Ehrlich , 1975 , is best known for his advocacy of stiffer penalties , especially the use of capital punishment ) .
5 None of these have involved security considerations although they have tended to assume that the right to overrule the claim of immunity exists in all cases .
6 Davis and Moore have tended to assume that the most highly rewarded positions are indeed the most important .
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