Example sentences of "[noun] tended have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This was partly because each brand of typesetting machine tended to have a different way of preparing the bit-map , but it also had to do with the very nature of the technique : rotating the letters , making them larger or smaller , or altering them in any way involved a new bit-map .
2 Prevalence of respiratory symptoms was not associated with birth weight , but children with lower gestational age tended to have a greater prevalence of frequent and occasional wheeze regardless of their birth weight ( table III ) .
3 In discordant twin pairs of whom the diseased twin had ulcerative colitis , the healthy ones tended to have a raised proportion of IgG1 cells ( 64.6% ) , and the IgG2 cell fraction was significantly ( p=0.05 ) reduced ( 19.1% ) compared with controls .
4 DNA extracted from the gastric mucosa of smokers tended to have a dense pattern of adduct spots similar to that reported in other tissues of smokers .
5 With the passing of time , Greek silver coins tended to have a wider diameter and lesser thickness , and a glance at the general appearance of a coin will enable it to be assigned to either the fifth to fourth centuries or the second to first centuries BC ( compare figs. 9 and 6 ) .
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