Example sentences of "[verb] tended [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only a couple of years ago that Jenkins rejected out of hand the Wales involvement he has now taken on , and — until Davies and the Wales manager , Robert Norster , beat their path to his door — he has tended to use the expression ‘ poisoned chalice ’ whenever anyone sounded out his interest or rather the lack of it . |
| 2 | In contrast , conventional medicine has tended to emphasise the treatment of specific physical lesions , by means of drugs and surgery , with a minimum of conscious involvement on the part of patients . |
| 3 | Each has tended to discount the work of the others as the product of brainwashing , special pleading or wishful thinking . |
| 4 | The internal organization of state policy-making has tended to reflect the lines of cleavage within dominant economic groups of civil society . |
| 5 | Before examining these propositions I must make good the comment that the concentration on the moment of charging has tended to lead the inquiry in the wrong direction . |
| 6 | Often ill-informed and repetitive , the debate has tended to ignore the interests of the client and has frequently been conducted by those whose minds are already made up on the issue . |
| 7 | The literature on factories in rural areas has tended to over-emphasize the role of the Development Commission , for there are a number of other agencies that provide industrial premises . |
| 8 | John Wakeham said : ‘ TV has tended to trivialise the campaign . |
| 9 | So though modem research has tended to discredit the idea of a medieval aristocracy ‘ of service ’ , to insist on blue blood for the great lines of the tenth and eleventh centuries , and to see in the later eleventh and the twelfth centuries an ever-sharper patrilineal descent obliterating other considerations in family history , it should not be forgotten that at least one great princely house was encouraged to view its progress in quite other terms . |
| 10 | In general , it is fair to say that the legally-sensitive nature of the statutory audit has tended to encourage the auditing profession to deflate shareholders ' expectations of audit . |
| 11 | A series of French-established puppet governments has tended to enhance the prestige of Ho 's government and to call in to question , on the part of the Vietnamese , the sincerity of French intentions to accord an independent status to Vietnam . |
| 12 | In this latter respect , government policy ( or the threat of intervention ) would seem to be the most significant factor tending to remove authority over collective bargaining to the national confederations.9 Attempts to align the outcome of wage negotiations with macroeconomic policy objectives have been one factor which has tended to raise the level of bargaining and it has played a significant role at certain periods in countries such as Holland , Norway and Austria . |
| 13 | In general the larger libraries engage in more structured training and much more training as a whole , than small libraries , and perhaps their domination in this field has tended to obscure the problems faced by smaller authorities who never could — or increasingly , no longer can-base their training programmes on the assumption that staff can easily , or frequently be released from their normal workplace : |
| 14 | We are , therefore , critical of the constitutional approach that has tended to dominate the field of constitutional study and the textbook accounts of British politics . |
| 15 | Chadwick was the first to attempt a general work on the origins of the Anglo-Saxons combining historical and archaeological evidence , a theme which has tended to dominate the subject to the present day . |
| 16 | His later work has tended to modify the distinctness of each of these , as well as exploring problems which arise with particular forms of knowledge ; for example , the fact that the social sciences may involve truths of several different logical kinds , or the difficulties of explicating the kind of knowledge embodied in literature and the arts . |
| 17 | ( i ) Mouse development has tended to become the paradigm of pre-implantation mammalian embryogenesis . |
| 18 | The welding together of plates in the orogeny would have tended to preserve the equanimity of the land floras and the land vertebrates . |
| 19 | On the other hand , the increase in the importance of state benefits must have tended to reduce the inequality in the economic circumstances of the elderly that hitherto was determined in the labour market . |
| 20 | A lower exchange rate would have tended to enhance the competitiveness and profitability of US exports and import substitutes . |
| 21 | The various parties involved in the peace process had tended to ignore the issue , working on the assumption that it could only be tackled at an advanced stage of a settlement . |
| 22 | Most academic criminologists had tended to regard the advances of rehabilitation in the penal process as being a beneficial and humane trend . |
| 23 | Later ages have tended to magnify the importance of those thinkers and poets who disagreed ; there is no reason to think that the young Wordsworth would have taken any notice of them ; he believed with his University that whatever Newton said , was right . |
| 24 | This chapter has been concerned to sketch in the general background to the reign of Mary Queen of Scots , and to clear it of some of the misconceptions about Scottish kingship which have tended to confuse the issues . |
| 25 | In general these studies have tended to reinforce the conclusions based on stimulation studies and have yielded few surprises that affect the validity of the method . |
| 26 | There is much to suggest that the attitudes of society towards sexual offences , particularly the attitudes of many men ( who hold most of the leading posts in the making of policy and law ) , have tended to undervalue the seriousness of sexual assaults . |
| 27 | I think it is fair to say that erm all the detailed surveys which have been taken have tended to support the findings from the one to fifty thousand map in so far that the various developments proposed to the west and to the south have include quite large elements of grade two land , whereas the se proposals to the north a tend to be grade three land . |
| 28 | The findings have tended to support the view that the police are held in relatively high esteem , although those polled have invariably had little or no contact with the police in any capacity . |
| 29 | Indeed , for most of human history we have tended to do the reverse , to use the analogy of the human mind to explain what happens in the physical world , an approach known as ‘ animism ’ . |
| 30 | This tendency has been exacerbated by other factors too : the invention of new and more effective methods of communication , such as newspapers and television , has rendered the propaganda value of coinage less significant ; technological changes , such as the invention of modern methods of factory production of coins , have tended to fossilise the significance of the designs they bear ; and , particularly , the recent invention of new forms of money , including banknotes and credit cards , has enormously reduced the role played by coinage in the monetary and economic activity of modern states . |