Example sentences of "have be a tendency [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been a tendency on the part of the Commission to interpret Article 85(1) very widely so that all restrictions fall within it and require exemption . |
| 2 | Once the stereotypes have been established there has been a tendency towards self-fulfilling prophecy in the behaviour of each side towards the other . |
| 3 | On the contrary , with the exception of Yugoslavia , where the system of workers ' self-management did something to diffuse responsibility for decision making , there has been a tendency towards increasingly centralized and bureaucratic administration in economic and other spheres of social life . |
| 4 | There were still many family units left although in the last two decades there has been a tendency for farm sizes to increase . |
| 5 | Because of the difficulties in communication , there has been a tendency for the intellectual abilities of people suffering from cerebral palsy to be underestimated , but this is now generally not the case . |
| 6 | The interpretation of the requirement in practice has varied and there has been a tendency for some companies to understate rather than emphasise the significance of what they have done . |
| 7 | There has been a tendency for newspapers to represent both existing political parties and emergent ones . |
| 8 | There has been a tendency for international inter-governmental organizations to lean too exclusively on the expertise of scholars in the preparation of instruments of unification and to obtain inadequate input from organizations of business men engaged in the particular field under consideration . |
| 9 | So throughout the evolution of the flowering plant , there has been a tendency for particular flowers and particular insects to develop together , each catering specifically for the other 's requirements and tastes . |
| 10 | There is some evidence that committee members feel themselves less fettered by party ties in committee than on the floor of the House although there has been a tendency for party loyalty to reassert itself if the report is debated . |
| 11 | Next , the implication that full employment could be achieved by budget deficits encouraged the separation of decisions to spend from decisions to tax , and there has been a tendency for the former to grow faster than the latter . |
| 12 | There has been a tendency for the proportion of non-civil servants in the membership to be reduced . |
| 13 | In postwar years there has been a tendency for MPs to be even more middle-class than they were hitherto . |
| 14 | In the past , there has been a tendency in the NHS to shift costs from Health Authority to family practitioner committee budgets , through the earlier discharge of patients from hospital , or through restrictions in drug prescribing on hospital discharge . |
| 15 | In some Western European countries , where industry-wide agreements have been general , there has been a tendency in recent years towards greater decentralisation in the bargaining structure together with an extension in the scope and subject matter of agreements . |
| 16 | Thirdly , there has been a tendency in the literature to overestimate the practical influence of economists [ Booth , 1983 ; 1984 ; Cairncross , 1985 ] . |
| 17 | There has been a tendency in recent years for the amount of applied research in the earth sciences to increase , although not noticeably at the expense of the fieldwork-based areal studies . |
| 18 | While George Boon rejected the suggestion that the very small coins were votive objects and may thus be found in some quantity on temple sites , he sensibly adds that there could have been a tendency for poor quality coins ‘ to gravitate to these shrines as easily as to the offertory of a country church ’ . |
| 19 | When these cyclosporin specific side effects occurred , there may have been a tendency for the study drug to be disclosed . |
| 20 | The ‘ blockbuster ’ bombs were part of the IRA 's economic war , but there had been a tendency for people to despair of the political process , he warned . |
| 21 | In fact , there had been a tendency for countships ( and benefices ) to become hereditary long before the mid-ninth century : it was inherent in a social organisation where power and property in general were inherited . |