Example sentences of "[verb] tended [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only a couple of years ago that Jenkins rejected out of hand the Wales involvement he has now taken on , and — until Davies and the Wales manager , Robert Norster , beat their path to his door — he has tended to use the expression ‘ poisoned chalice ’ whenever anyone sounded out his interest or rather the lack of it . |
| 2 | In contrast , conventional medicine has tended to emphasise the treatment of specific physical lesions , by means of drugs and surgery , with a minimum of conscious involvement on the part of patients . |
| 3 | Each has tended to discount the work of the others as the product of brainwashing , special pleading or wishful thinking . |
| 4 | Existing structural policy has encouraged farm modernisation and this has tended to exacerbate the surplus problem . |
| 5 | The internal organization of state policy-making has tended to reflect the lines of cleavage within dominant economic groups of civil society . |
| 6 | Before examining these propositions I must make good the comment that the concentration on the moment of charging has tended to lead the inquiry in the wrong direction . |
| 7 | Often ill-informed and repetitive , the debate has tended to ignore the interests of the client and has frequently been conducted by those whose minds are already made up on the issue . |
| 8 | This breaching of the formally ‘ arm's-length ’ or contractual relationship has tended to undermine the supposed managerial independence of the enterprise ; in the graphic words of Johnson ( 1978 : 128 ) , there were ‘ grounds for suspecting that the public corporations were becoming something like tenants in the great ramshackle mansion of central government administration ’ . |
| 9 | The literature on factories in rural areas has tended to over-emphasize the role of the Development Commission , for there are a number of other agencies that provide industrial premises . |
| 10 | Daly points out that the development of these words has tended to erase the female power once latent in their meanings . |
| 11 | John Wakeham said : ‘ TV has tended to trivialise the campaign . |
| 12 | So though modem research has tended to discredit the idea of a medieval aristocracy ‘ of service ’ , to insist on blue blood for the great lines of the tenth and eleventh centuries , and to see in the later eleventh and the twelfth centuries an ever-sharper patrilineal descent obliterating other considerations in family history , it should not be forgotten that at least one great princely house was encouraged to view its progress in quite other terms . |
| 13 | In general , it is fair to say that the legally-sensitive nature of the statutory audit has tended to encourage the auditing profession to deflate shareholders ' expectations of audit . |
| 14 | A series of French-established puppet governments has tended to enhance the prestige of Ho 's government and to call in to question , on the part of the Vietnamese , the sincerity of French intentions to accord an independent status to Vietnam . |
| 15 | In this latter respect , government policy ( or the threat of intervention ) would seem to be the most significant factor tending to remove authority over collective bargaining to the national confederations.9 Attempts to align the outcome of wage negotiations with macroeconomic policy objectives have been one factor which has tended to raise the level of bargaining and it has played a significant role at certain periods in countries such as Holland , Norway and Austria . |
| 16 | In general the larger libraries engage in more structured training and much more training as a whole , than small libraries , and perhaps their domination in this field has tended to obscure the problems faced by smaller authorities who never could — or increasingly , no longer can-base their training programmes on the assumption that staff can easily , or frequently be released from their normal workplace : |
| 17 | Chadwick was the first to attempt a general work on the origins of the Anglo-Saxons combining historical and archaeological evidence , a theme which has tended to dominate the subject to the present day . |
| 18 | We are , therefore , critical of the constitutional approach that has tended to dominate the field of constitutional study and the textbook accounts of British politics . |
| 19 | His later work has tended to modify the distinctness of each of these , as well as exploring problems which arise with particular forms of knowledge ; for example , the fact that the social sciences may involve truths of several different logical kinds , or the difficulties of explicating the kind of knowledge embodied in literature and the arts . |
| 20 | It seems likely that permits are increasingly being given for non-manual occupations , which has tended to favour the white inhabitants of developed countries such as the USA and South Africa . |
| 21 | The increasing affluence of the rural population wrought by the urban middle-class exodus has tended to mask the continuing and severe pockets of poverty which exist in the countryside and has led the ‘ problem ’ of rural housing to be regarded less as a problem of social welfare and more as an issue concerning land use planning and countryside preservation . |
| 22 | ( i ) Mouse development has tended to become the paradigm of pre-implantation mammalian embryogenesis . |
| 23 | At the level of political debate the message has also proved widely attractive , though with the qualification that whilst the political right has tended to adopt the common form , the left has preferred the more acute form of de-industrialisation . |
| 24 | The welding together of plates in the orogeny would have tended to preserve the equanimity of the land floras and the land vertebrates . |
| 25 | They would have therefore had an advantage and would have tended to replace the original macro-molecules . |
| 26 | On the other hand , the increase in the importance of state benefits must have tended to reduce the inequality in the economic circumstances of the elderly that hitherto was determined in the labour market . |
| 27 | A lower exchange rate would have tended to enhance the competitiveness and profitability of US exports and import substitutes . |
| 28 | Discretion may have tended to appear the better part of valour , and certainly better than defeat and its resultant loss of prestige . |
| 29 | The various parties involved in the peace process had tended to ignore the issue , working on the assumption that it could only be tackled at an advanced stage of a settlement . |
| 30 | Whereas Gregory had tended to see the malign influence of Fredegund as the origin of many of the problems of his own day , for Fredegar Brunhild was the evil genius of the period from 575 to 613 . |