Example sentences of "has tended [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having said that , we would agree that in the past 25 years Oxford has tended to do better than Cambridge on several fronts . |
| 2 | Elitism has to mean more than this — even in its modern , broader sense — for it to be of analytical use , so modern elite theory has tended to argue for a plurality of elites which may interact or compete in a variety of ways . |
| 3 | Meanwhile we should note that one of the important discoveries of zoologists in recent times , one that has tended to blunt warm and cold-blooded distinctions , is the fact that very large creatures , whether animals or reptiles , show much fewer temperature differentials , especially at weights greater than 100 kg . |
| 4 | In a media environment where the press has tended to voice government or opposition propaganda , the Lanka Guardian has expressed its convictions in a non-partisan way . |
| 5 | This has always added to the clergy 's spiritual authority and status , and has tended to merge with the authority claimed by the clergy in matters of faith and morals , with the high clergy deciding what constitutes matters of faith and morals . |
| 6 | Whatever the problems with these rather global and unanalytic formulations , none the less they do encapsulate one indispensable and basic argument of feminism , the argument that women 's experience has been left out : one of the central themes of feminism has been the importance of women 's experience , and one of its central enterprises has been to show how a great deal of male theorising about women has tended to deny , invalidate , or be unable to account for this experience . |
| 7 | This emphasis has tended to eclipse developments in analysis of the Middle Pleistocene record , which begins with the Mauer ( Heidelberg ) mandible ( estimated age about 500 kyr ) and ends at about 130 kry , after which time undoubted Neanderthals were present in Europe . |
| 8 | The dining room seats a maximum of 48 covers , which has tended to inhibit its use as a public restaurant during the peak season . |
| 9 | A cynic will remember that research into the opinion-forming powers of newspapers has tended to conclude that readers expect to have their existing views confirmed . |
| 10 | Another development of the 1980s , which is relevant to the fortunes of institutions such as the ICA , is the disappearance of what was once called the ‘ avant-garde ’ has tended to conclude that it always was distinguishable from ‘ modern ’ or ‘ modernist ’ , and that its key feature was political affiliation , generally expressed as strategies of negation and opposition . |
| 11 | However , there is also a certain suspicion of informal bargaining , especially in ASLEF which has tended to advocate a strict constitutionalism with regard to the machinery . |
| 12 | Intensive political contact in what is a relatively small country , has tended to soften and shift policy disagreements . |
| 13 | The broad movement of society and culture has tended to squeeze religion out of the centre of human concern . |
| 14 | Although industrialization has tended to eliminate traditional crafts , the non-agricultural element of the rural economy has increased in importance since at least the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | Nevertheless it must be realised that the energy we now devote to curriculum content has tended to overshadow and obliterate the debate about curriculum delivery with which this chapter has also been concerned . |
| 16 | Unemployment grew rapidly to 1982 and has tended to level off since then . |
| 17 | Hitherto , the Government has tended to see parent power as a foil to ‘ vested interests ’ like teachers or local authorities . |
| 18 | It may be you see that the manufacturing flavour of the past two years was to do with the pre er Common Market period getting inside the European Union ring fence with the manufacturing plant and there is speculation as to whether that will now change that the Common Market is now established and that that window of opportunity for manufacturing has tended to recede suggesting that it may be erm administrative er er services service sector that erm these international companies would now want inside the Union . |
| 19 | The new breed of shareholders has yet to show its skills of actually trading shares for long term appreciation and has tended to sell out at the most lucrative time . |
| 20 | The basic success of the policy however has tended to draw into its influence many who initially chose not to participate , since it would obviously be professionally unsound to be seen to be consciously not taking part . |
| 21 | This is seen as particularly worrying by some commentators , since there is evidence ( e.g. Meeks 1977 ) that post-merger profitability has tended to decline . |
| 22 | Over the past two decades , health , education , and welfare services have started to respond to travellers but social work has tended to lag behind . |
| 23 | This has tended to replace previous strategies such as " Imagine you were " Documents can offer stimulus and provide the sort of concrete detail and differentiation which are necessary for a successful exercise on empathy . |
| 24 | The therapeutic approach has tended to cast Disabled people in very passive roles , initiated and controlled by non-Disabled professionals . |
| 25 | This dichotomy of surplus extraction and extra-economic coercion in the capitalist mode of production , although giving rise to a variety of state forms , has tended to detract from the role of the state , ideology and all other aspects of the ‘ superstructure ’ within the totality of this mode of production . |
| 26 | Moreover , the Left has tended to turn away from applause for insurrection — at least in so far as prospects for change in Britain are concerned . |
| 27 | Maureen O'Hara , of the Children 's Legal Centre , said : ‘ The 1933 Children and Young Persons Act does not define an age when children are competent to give evidence , but case law has tended to set a figure of around seven or eight . |
| 28 | It is only a couple of years ago that Jenkins rejected out of hand the Wales involvement he has now taken on , and — until Davies and the Wales manager , Robert Norster , beat their path to his door — he has tended to use the expression ‘ poisoned chalice ’ whenever anyone sounded out his interest or rather the lack of it . |
| 29 | Turnover has increased since Big Bang , although has tended to fall in 1988 and 1989 relative to 1987 ( but it is still above Big Bang levels ) , and dealing spreads and dealing costs have tended to fall . |
| 30 | In addition , the ending of the Iran/Iraq conflict has meant that there is now more oil on world markets and the price of oil has tended to fall over the last few months . |