Example sentences of "tended [to-vb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This tended to affect the capital-intensive professions , such as medicine and engineering , in the form of regulation of capital spending and student numbers , rather more than the cheaper ones , but there have been direct or indirect consequences for fields such as nursing , teaching and social work as well . |
| 2 | The growing use of cavalry , however , tended to exclude the poorer freemen from fighting in full equipment , and only those with four hides or more of land were required to equip themselves . |
| 3 | The very rich in Paris preferred to live in high-class areas within the city , and the suburbs tended to attract the lower-middle classes and skilled working class . |
| 4 | Most social and political theories formulated in the period immediately after the Second World War tended to view the industrialised societies of the West as set on a path of continuous economic and social development . |
| 5 | Even at the upper end of the market the newly rich tended to choose the conventional settings for expensive stones . |
| 6 | Many of them therefore tended to favour the single-party governments produced by two-party-dominated systems of the American or British type rather than coalition governments , however accurately the latter might reflect the " pluralistic and diverse " character of society . |
| 7 | The bit about odd jeans was totally accurate , by the way ; Cousin Josh made his fortune firstly by dealing in cars , then by risking all on a jeans company which at the time was tottering on the very hem of bankruptcy ; under Josh 's regime , their jeans were n't any better or any cheaper than anybody else 's , but he had the garments made in odd sizes ; waists of 29 , 31 , 33 inches , and so on , as opposed to the products from all other companies , domestic and foreign , which tended to favour the even numbers . |
| 8 | Possibly because Brando prefers to be thought of as a man of the people , he tended to snub the other actors as well as the producers and director in favour of the company of the crew . |
| 9 | The more sophisticated Greeks were thus made to regard man in pre-Trojan times as much the same as his distant offspring , and this tended to demythologize the Greek legends , thereby placing the past in quite a new perspective . |
| 10 | They also tended to pulp the offending books . |
| 11 | However , the classical writers tended to transfer the same principles of adjustment from the microeconomic to the macroeconomic plane , though their applicability at this level of aggregation is altogether more problematical , as Keynes was to point out . |
| 12 | Steamships were in a minority until about 1890 and in any case tended to take the shorter voyages . |
| 13 | Overall the positive effects tended to outweigh the negative ones — whatever the American perceptions of the situation . |
| 14 | Some of them were politer than others , but they tended to ask the same questions as they trampled through the house . |