Example sentences of "[ex0] have been a [adj] tendency " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although 30 seconds , traditionally the most popular format , still accounts for the largest single share of commercial airtime , 20-second commercials are increasingly popular , and there has been a general tendency over the years for the average commercial to get shorter . |
| 2 | In judging this record there has been a strong tendency among commentators , from either an economic or a political viewpoint , to award the Labour government good marks for achievement [ Morgan , 1984 ; Cairncross , 1985 ] . |
| 3 | Since the slump of 1921 there has been a prevailing tendency , occasionally interrupted but invariably resumed before there has been time for a real recovery towards parsimony and restriction . |
| 4 | There has been a major tendency , for example , to bypass and ignore the concept of " God " altogether — a situation which leaves children where they were . |
| 5 | There has been a continuous tendency for governments , both Conservative and Labour , to intervene in the affairs of the nationalized industries in order to promote immediate political objectives . |
| 6 | There has been a traditional tendency to expect just that . |
| 7 | Some wintering birds remain until late March or early April and , in recent years , there has been a clear tendency for them to linger later in the year ; all the May records have been since 1968 . |
| 8 | However , in recent years there has been a mounting tendency for civil servants to ‘ leak ’ information to the press . |
| 9 | In recent years , however , there has been a growing tendency to question the assumption that , prior to the advent of Christianity , Israel was unique among the nations of antiquity in the significance it attached to history and the non-repeatability of events . |
| 10 | Within the psychological literature there has been a growing tendency away from strong interactions towards weak interactions . |
| 11 | In the same vein there has been a long-standing tendency to equate rationality with logic , and logic with mathematics . |
| 12 | However , since the growth of biblical criticism in the last two centuries , and the revolt against authoritarianism in the past fifty years , there has been a marked tendency to seek the Holy Spirit in other quarters . |
| 13 | There has been a ritualised tendency , in the event of a failure to agree a contract , for union mines to close until settlement is achieved . |
| 14 | The effect of this decision is to reverse the trend that was evident from the preceding cases in which there had been a gradual tendency to expand the range of third parties to whom accountants might be held to be liable as a result of errors in financial statements . |