Example sentences of "tended to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such initiatives tended to be overcome in time by inertia and indifference . |
| 2 | So certain privileged persons would place society under tribute , and since no doubt prices tended to be adjusted in compensation , the effect was comparable with that of shop-lifting at the present time . |
| 3 | Well , Moscavisi 's argument , and I must say , I agree with him , is that they tended to be denigrated by both groups who might have taken the biggest interest in them . |
| 4 | The goal of psychoanalysis was the development of a new set of techniques for use in psychiatry , and in this context dreams tended to be treated as neurotic symptoms rather than as a normal aspect of experience . |
| 5 | It was also found that Asian women tended to be treated more sympathetically than African/Caribbean women . |
| 6 | Women , as a distinctive category of workers , tended to be ignored except where their domestic responsibilities raised uncomfortable problems for management . |
| 7 | As little as 40 years or so ago , it often tended to be assumed that there was a nice simple relationship , a sort of ‘ black box ’ effect , that looked like Figure 6.1 . |
| 8 | Researchers in Canada , however , studied college students over five years and found that lefties tended to be born to older mothers . |
| 9 | The more difficult questions , such as the height of a door in metres , tended to be answered in a broadly similar way across the attainment range of pupils tested in the project . |
| 10 | The people living on the estates , especially the elderly , tended to be isolated , and a number of new residents felt lonely and insecure . |
| 11 | Towards the end of the nineteenth century this belief began to impress itself upon a few mature minds that were open to a concept of childhood quite different from that of an earlier age , when children tended to be regarded as nothing better than undeveloped adults . |
| 12 | The team realized that little effort had ever been made to look at an area of activity which tended to be regarded as a ‘ necessary evil ’ and one which was very time consuming and most invasive of their private lives . |
| 13 | Tani 1984 ) , but is part of a more recent trend on the part of ‘ serious ’ fiction to incorporate what hitherto tended to be regarded as ‘ popular ’ genres : the detective story ( giallo ) in Stefano Benni 's Comici spaventati guerrieri ( Comic frightened Warriors , 1986 ) and in Gianfranco Manfredi 's two novels to date ; the thriller in De Carlo 's Uccelli da gabbia e da voliera ( Cage Birds and Aviary Birds , 1982 ) and , in a form largely hidden by the luxuriance of the language , in Aldo Busi 's most recent book La Delfina Bizantina ( The Byzantine Dolphin , 1987 ) ; science fiction ( Benni 's Terra ! , 1983 ) ; the fantastic , with its recurring topic of ‘ doubles ’ , in another novel published by the enterprising Ancona firm Il Lavoro Editoriale , Claudio Lolli 's L'inseguitore Peter H . |
| 14 | Each regiment still tended to be regarded as almost the private property of its colonel and until 1753 was usually known by his name . |
| 15 | More and more it tended to be regarded not merely as a useful political device but as something with a moral value and justification of its own . |
| 16 | In the past , the interview tended to be regarded as simply a means of collecting factual information from respondents and , by itself , of little interest . |
| 17 | The problem has been that descriptions of language in general tended to be based on these special cases . |
| 18 | The structure plans tended to be based on a survey — analysis — plan approach which required a rather determinist view of the issues which they examined . ’ |
| 19 | Whereas members of the Young Socialists tended to be absorbed in politics and their views were well to the left of average , the views of the YCs were marked by an ordinariness . |
| 20 | Regulation prior to the FSA also tended to be fragmented , and largely on an institutional rather than functional basis — Insurance Company Act 1982 , Banking Act 1979 , Lloyds of London 1982 . |
| 21 | Sewel 's study ( 13 ) into the economic and social effects of centralised education in the rural areas of the Highlands and Islands found that ( a ) the structure of secondary school provision was not a crucial factor in migration , although the types of organisation most favoured by parents were the local two-year comprehensive school and the all-through comprehensive , located in the West , and ( h ) expectations and aspirations of both parents and pupils tended to be influenced by general social and economic conditions rather than specifically educational considerations . |
| 22 | They tended to be built round ministers who disliked the slowly developing penchant for what were called ‘ liturgical ’ forms of worship associated with Gothic chapels . |
| 23 | Northumbrian villages , though protected to some extent by castles and garrisons such as those at Carlisle , Naworth , Harbottle and Norham , tended to be built in a sort of miniature bailey around a large square green which could be gated when cattle were brought in for the night . |
| 24 | In the study of middle-class families , Firth , Hubert and Forge were able to find only small numbers of such cases , and then the conflict tended to be expressed as private resentment rather than open hostility ( pp. 373–8 ) . |
| 25 | In such a situation , it was inevitable that political disputes tended to be expressed in the language of Court versus Country rather than in terms of the old party ideologies — even if the use of such rhetoric was forced on people for tactical reasons , and a Tory who espoused Country arguments in order to make common cause with opposition Whigs still remained recognisably Tory at heart . |
| 26 | Whereas the maths syllabus was organised around concepts ( e.g. shape , plane , enlargement , volume ) , the humanities syllabus , for instance , dealt with topics ( e.g. health and fitness , history and archaeology , ancient Greek , local studies ) and these also tended to be listed under the ‘ concept ’ heading . |
| 27 | But , since there was no overall industrial strategy , it is hardly surprising that the finance tended to be granted almost automatically . |
| 28 | If these were inappropriate then bewilderment and anxiety occurred and the interaction tended to be terminated after a few limited responses leaving a residual sense of uncertainty , displeasure and frustration . |
| 29 | One constant factor , unaffected by change of government , but never far below the surface , was an extreme sensitivity about the degree of public support for policies which tended to be perceived ( however misguidedly ) as ‘ soft ’ on crime . |
| 30 | In the early days of radio the major part of its audience was to be found in the urban areas and among the better educated , and programmes tended to be created with this in mind . |