Example sentences of "[verb] tended [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more what we might call trendy or eccentric or showy technique has tended to become in the last few years , the more I have felt I wanted to try and make films with as much simplicity and as much directness as possible . |
| 2 | It is a privilege enjoyed by everyone in this country but because the library profession has a responsibility for some considerable part of the provision of and access to literature and information , there is a heightened obligation for the library profession in the UK to resist censorship with a much greater collective and individual will than it has tended to show in the past . |
| 3 | It also urged a move away from the practice of streaming — which , given the importance after 1944 of the universal competitive examination at eleven-plus , had tended to increase in the years after the War . |
| 4 | In the earlier years of his reign he had tended to stay in the central area of Francia proper , often at Aachen , his father 's old base , or further west , for instance at Compiègne on the River Oise . |
| 5 | This , of course , is what schools have tended to do in the past ; they have created new ‘ options ’ on the over-crowded curriculum shelves . |
| 6 | Problems have tended to occur in the settlement of transactions . |