Example sentences of "also tended [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In contrast , female domestic servants led isolated work lives prior to marriage and their marriages usually involved a traditional sexual division of labour ; but they also tended to enjoy a joint role relationship with their husbands in the sense that the husband spent his non-working hours with his wife and children , and they too tended to be successful in limiting the size of their families .
2 Trying a pure tone stimulus , light flashes , and a water spray on an exposed part of the body , Dement and Wolpert found that the water spray was most effective in influencing the content of dreams ( although this stimulus also tended to wake the subjects up ! ) .
3 He found that not only did the States that failed to ratify the amendment have larger populations of both religious fundamentalists and political conservatives , but also that States which had opposed earlier civil rights amendments ( the 19th on women 's suffrage and the 26th on youth suffrage ) also tended to oppose the ERA .
4 The removal of many married women from wage labour , the innovations such as the Education Act of 1870 , and ideological forces also tended to rigidify the gender divisions .
5 We were unable to discover a donor whose buccal epithelial cells gave reproducible and unambiguous adherence and non-adherence with the appropriate control strains ; buccal cells which bound adhesive E coli strains also tended to have a resident salivary flora which was not readily removed by washing .
6 It also tended to regard the Modular Course Committee ( MCC ) as excessively large and difficult to manage .
7 The Royal Commission on Population also tended to endorse the view that a stationary population was possibly not a bad thing considering the way in which the economy could be regulated .
8 Women in the labour movement also tended to favour the idea of a family wage .
9 It also tended to increase the cost of land more markedly in this region than elsewhere .
10 Changes in the structure of the work-force ( greater concentration into single industries and decline of artisanal activity , especially after the First World War ) also tended to reduce the relevance of anarchism and to leave a vacuum for Marxist ideas .
11 They also tended to pulp the offending books .
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