Example sentences of "[noun pl] have tended [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was unexpected as previously ozone losses had tended to follow a two-year cycle , with shallower holes evident in even-numbered years . |
| 2 | In particular , the large romanized buildings have tended to dominate a disproportionate amount of past excavation at the expense of the more vernacular structures , even though recent evidence has begun to redress the balance . |
| 3 | The banks have tended to choose a lower liquidity ratio over the years , and certainly a lower cash ratio . |
| 4 | When considering whether the Revolution should be seen as a victory for Whig principles or not , historians have tended to take a constitutional frame of reference — the more a particular historian believes the Revolution settlement limited the constitutional powers of the Crown , then the more Whiggish the Revolution is said to be . |
| 5 | In the late 1940s integrationists had tended to desire a single federal political system , which at some point would entail a single act of abrogation of national rights to a supranational authority , whose precedence over the former national states would be constitutionally defined . |
| 6 | However , in the past the courts have tended to adopt a different approach and first " look at the contract apart from the exempting clauses and see what are the terms , express or implied , which impose an obligation on the party " ( Lord Denning in Karsales ( Harrow ) Ltd v Wallis [ 1956 ] 1 WLR 936 ) and only then consider the impact of the exclusion on that liability . |