Example sentences of "[verb] tended [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Existing structural policy has encouraged farm modernisation and this has tended to exacerbate the surplus problem . |
| 2 | This breaching of the formally ‘ arm's-length ’ or contractual relationship has tended to undermine the supposed managerial independence of the enterprise ; in the graphic words of Johnson ( 1978 : 128 ) , there were ‘ grounds for suspecting that the public corporations were becoming something like tenants in the great ramshackle mansion of central government administration ’ . |
| 3 | Daly points out that the development of these words has tended to erase the female power once latent in their meanings . |
| 4 | It seems likely that permits are increasingly being given for non-manual occupations , which has tended to favour the white inhabitants of developed countries such as the USA and South Africa . |
| 5 | The increasing affluence of the rural population wrought by the urban middle-class exodus has tended to mask the continuing and severe pockets of poverty which exist in the countryside and has led the ‘ problem ’ of rural housing to be regarded less as a problem of social welfare and more as an issue concerning land use planning and countryside preservation . |
| 6 | At the level of political debate the message has also proved widely attractive , though with the qualification that whilst the political right has tended to adopt the common form , the left has preferred the more acute form of de-industrialisation . |
| 7 | They would have therefore had an advantage and would have tended to replace the original macro-molecules . |
| 8 | Discretion may have tended to appear the better part of valour , and certainly better than defeat and its resultant loss of prestige . |
| 9 | Whereas Gregory had tended to see the malign influence of Fredegund as the origin of many of the problems of his own day , for Fredegar Brunhild was the evil genius of the period from 575 to 613 . |
| 10 | Middle-class voters have tended to support the Conservative party in Britain , and working-class voters the Labour party . |
| 11 | Coloureds and Indians have tended to support the National Party — one estimate is that 60% of them gave it their backing in mid-1992 — because they saw it as a bulwark against black domination . |
| 12 | This may suggest that our ideas about wakes should undergo similar evolution , but recent experiments have tended to confirm the earlier picture . |
| 13 | Many historians have tended to stress the instrumental nature of sexual relationships and the conflicts inherent in working-class patterns of life , and no doubt much of this was often true ; but because we can not now identify with the exact meanings given to activities , this does not mean that strong feelings of warmth and mutual support did not exist . |
| 14 | Perhaps unsure of exactly what to expect from Alsace wines , it seems British wine drinkers have tended to give the whole lot a miss . |
| 15 | Curiously pursuers ' agents to date have tended to follow the specific wording of the rule , namely disclosing ‘ the substance of the evidence ’ by which they have simply produced the factual statement by the Expert and excluded his opinion or conclusion . |
| 16 | The specific protests against soil conservation policies and other related issues ( such as the taking away of land for settlers , plantations or the removal of forests ) have tended to follow the same pattern — of violent , politically primitive , and usually short-lived protest involving marches on towns or centres of perceived political power of their oppressors and occasional guerrilla warfare ( e.g. the Mau Mau movement in Kenya , although the issues involved were much wider than soil conservation ) . |
| 17 | Subsequent debates have tended to favour the Hobbesian view , arguing for institutions of authority , and dismissing Rousseau as a romantic utopianist who simply did not accept people for what they ‘ really are ’ . |
| 18 | In the post-war period , foreign affairs and economic issues have tended to dominate the Prime Ministers ' parliamentary attention . |
| 19 | That is because producers have tended to drop the lower-yielding varieties , he explains . |
| 20 | Since so many of their coastal farms have now disappeared beneath a raft of asphalt and concrete , we have tended to forget the minor variations in the landscape which so influenced the earlier farmers ; even in the ‘ rural ’ Weald modern urban man finds it hard to distinguish the overlay of later centuries from Saxon patterns . |