Example sentences of "[vb base] tended [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middle-class voters have tended to support the Conservative party in Britain , and working-class voters the Labour party . |
| 2 | Coloureds and Indians have tended to support the National Party — one estimate is that 60% of them gave it their backing in mid-1992 — because they saw it as a bulwark against black domination . |
| 3 | This may suggest that our ideas about wakes should undergo similar evolution , but recent experiments have tended to confirm the earlier picture . |
| 4 | Many historians have tended to stress the instrumental nature of sexual relationships and the conflicts inherent in working-class patterns of life , and no doubt much of this was often true ; but because we can not now identify with the exact meanings given to activities , this does not mean that strong feelings of warmth and mutual support did not exist . |
| 5 | I am sorry to say this , but there would appear to have been a number of houses in recent times , some of the highest pedigree , which have tended to take a competitive attitude towards each other and have not been above ‘ showing off ’ to guests a butler 's mastery of such trivial accomplishments . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The banks have tended to choose a lower liquidity ratio over the years , and certainly a lower cash ratio . |
| 8 | Perhaps unsure of exactly what to expect from Alsace wines , it seems British wine drinkers have tended to give the whole lot a miss . |
| 9 | The French have tended to exploit a philosophical idea of reconciliation as the only way of restoring German acceptability inside Western Europe . |
| 10 | Curiously pursuers ' agents to date have tended to follow the specific wording of the rule , namely disclosing ‘ the substance of the evidence ’ by which they have simply produced the factual statement by the Expert and excluded his opinion or conclusion . |
| 11 | The specific protests against soil conservation policies and other related issues ( such as the taking away of land for settlers , plantations or the removal of forests ) have tended to follow the same pattern — of violent , politically primitive , and usually short-lived protest involving marches on towns or centres of perceived political power of their oppressors and occasional guerrilla warfare ( e.g. the Mau Mau movement in Kenya , although the issues involved were much wider than soil conservation ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Subsequent debates have tended to favour the Hobbesian view , arguing for institutions of authority , and dismissing Rousseau as a romantic utopianist who simply did not accept people for what they ‘ really are ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the post-war period , foreign affairs and economic issues have tended to dominate the Prime Ministers ' parliamentary attention . |
| 16 | That is because producers have tended to drop the lower-yielding varieties , he explains . |
| 17 | Since so many of their coastal farms have now disappeared beneath a raft of asphalt and concrete , we have tended to forget the minor variations in the landscape which so influenced the earlier farmers ; even in the ‘ rural ’ Weald modern urban man finds it hard to distinguish the overlay of later centuries from Saxon patterns . |