Example sentences of "tended [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ With the previous pans we used you had 22lbs of chips ready at one time and about half way through you tended to lose the quality because some of the chips would get sweaty . |
| 2 | These ideas proposed that the tail was asymmetrical , with a larger lower lobe and , when in use , tended to drive the head up to compensate for a heavy head shield and a lack of paired fins . |
| 3 | In the main , it was a documentary type of novel which aimed to be an authentic depiction of a particular environment , and as such it tended to continue the tradition of nineteenth-century realism . |
| 4 | They took a special interest in the girls ' curriculum and , in keeping with the ‘ equal but different ’ philosophy , tended to promote the study of domestic subjects . |
| 5 | The wider debate has , to some extent , tended to overshadow the resource management issue , which may be somewhat ironic as the resource management initiative , announced in 1986 , may well prove to be the most fundamental change of all . |
| 6 | ‘ Merseyside was the most dangerous place to be in 1940 and 1941 , but the Government and media tended to emphasise the fate of London , because it could n't be hidden . |
| 7 | At that time deep ecologists tended to emphasise the value of the whole so exclusively that they seemed to rule out altogether any value for its parts and particularly for individuals , whether human or animal . |
| 8 | Analysts interpreted the vote , however , as indicating that the majority of the electorate tended to support the continuation of the present quasi-colonial " commonwealth " status with the USA rather than the radical options of either full US statehood , promoted by the PNP , or full independence championed by the Independence Party ( PIP ) . |
| 9 | However when the protagonists of the universalist position got into difficulties with the ethnographic evidence they tended to evade the issue by using the word " family " in some quite different sense ! |
| 10 | Since most Christian teachers are kind persons who prefer to avoid controversy when they can , and doodle anxiously during fierce argument at meetings , things tended to go the way of Bethune-Baker ; partly because he was devastating , and partly because often he was devastatingly right . |
| 11 | Taken together , all these factors allowed a greater breathing space for a consideration of Europe , especially as the democracies had entered a period of unprecedented economic prosperity , something which tended to demote the urgency of protection for specific national interests . |
| 12 | Orders came in , and that helped the warehouse people unpack the boxes and despatch them ; the information got fed back to the editor to tell him what the sales were , and it was a continuous process and all of the people tended to see the computer as working very much for them , rather than for the other department next door . |
| 13 | It was a continuous process , and all of the people tended to see the computer as working very much for them rather than for the other department next door . |
| 14 | Officers were quick to accept this role , and tended to see the army as , in the words of one officer , ‘ the only selfless people in Libya ’ , certainly in the vanguard of revolutionary education . |
| 15 | The old Whig historians tended to see the Revolution as being the climax of the great struggle of the seventeenth century between the absolutist pretensions of the House of Stuarts and the cause of Parliamentary constitutionalism . |
| 16 | The Eastern fathers , and many of the earliest Western theologians , tended to see the atonement in terms of what is known as the ‘ physical ’ theory : God enters into sinful humanity in order to restore it from within . |
| 17 | A possible explanation for this is suggested by the secondary case study ( West , Chapter 3 in this volume ) where it was reported that there were indications that heads of departments and years tended to bear the brunt of the review activities . |
| 18 | Wives were not unaware of the pressures experienced by men at the workplace and on the whole tended to accept the burden of domestic responsibilities that fell to their lot , and which , if left undone or mismanaged , might provoke some kind of outburst from their husbands . |
| 19 | Preparing the Next Steps — the conversion of the Civil Service 's businesses into executive agencies standing free of policy-making departments — tended to monopolise the attention of the efficiency unit with its tiny staff . |
| 20 | Cabinets were therefore often divided by personal rivalries — the schisms in those led by Sir Robert Walpole ( First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer , 1721–42 ) are a good example — and this lack of unity tended to increase the influence the king could exert over individual ministers and the Cabinet as a whole . |
| 21 | This tended to increase the influence of parliament ; and in 1858 , for the first time in British history , a government was driven from office on a foreign policy question . |
| 22 | It also tended to increase the cost of land more markedly in this region than elsewhere . |
| 23 | For example the early machine translation systems tended to contain the grammar intrinsically within the program . |
| 24 | Reactionary , liberal and latter-day populist opinion alike tended to view the peasantry as the victim of the heavy industrialization programme . |
| 25 | The later , more sophisticated theories tended to view the question of salvation not so much as God winning back the world from the Evil One and reconciling humanity in himself , but in terms of a legal arrangement entered into by God and man because of the perfect death of the sacrificial Lamb : God the lawgiver lets off sinners , as it were , because of Christ 's substitution . |
| 26 | As to contents , the Royal Commission on the Press in 1947 judged that the nationals ‘ tended to reflect the life and interests of three or four regions rather than those of the whole country ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 27 | Membership of the National Deaf Club tended to attract those deaf people of a certain social standing , and included S. Bright Lucas ( who was the first President ) , wealthy businessman A.J. Wilson , the artist Thomas Davidson , the editor of the British Deaf Times , Joseph Hepworth , explorer and photographer Henry Newton-Lowry , and the type of activities pursued tended to reflect the membership : chess , table-cricket , tennis , badminton . |
| 28 | Official committees of enquiry tended to duck the task of too detailed an account of the stuff of public service , falling back on the Pilkington Committee 's observation that ‘ good broadcasting is a practice not a prescription ’ ( Pilkington , 1962 , p. 12 ) . |
| 29 | The uniform hour of sixty minutes soon tended to replace the day as the fundamental unit of labour time in the textile industry . |
| 30 | It was fascinating to watch how people of different temperaments and races worked together or to observe the way key personalities tended to colour the group . |