Example sentences of "been a [adj] tendency [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of this decision is to reverse the trend that was evident from the preceding cases in which there had been a gradual tendency to expand the range of third parties to whom accountants might be held to be liable as a result of errors in financial statements . |
| 2 | There has been a traditional tendency to expect just that . |
| 3 | However , since the growth of biblical criticism in the last two centuries , and the revolt against authoritarianism in the past fifty years , there has been a marked tendency to seek the Holy Spirit in other quarters . |
| 4 | In the same vein there has been a long-standing tendency to equate rationality with logic , and logic with mathematics . |
| 5 | There has always been a self-proclaimed tendency to look behind the scenes , to see where power really lies , to explore and explode the myths surrounding a society 's image of itself and its political system . |
| 6 | In recent years , however , there has been a growing tendency to question the assumption that , prior to the advent of Christianity , Israel was unique among the nations of antiquity in the significance it attached to history and the non-repeatability of events . |