Sentence examples for have tended to function from inspiring English sources

So far the presentations have tended to function like appetizers or dessert, briefly enjoyed before or after the main course, which is the good old stuff upstairs.

It has taken four years, but that is not a coincidence: four years is an Olympic cycle, the time frame in which British Cycling, the UK's governing body, and its performance director, Brailsford, have tended to function since the arrival of lottery funding into the sport in 1997.

TAA has tended to function simply as supplemental unemployment insurance while people wait to get their old jobs back, not as a means of helping people transition to new jobs.

Again, the latest mergers and acquisitions have tended to benefit headquarters functions located outside New Jersey.

Therefore, they have been regarded as simple genetic remnants, and researchers have tended to ignore their possible functions [ 29].

Studies linking WM measures with cognition [10] in aging have tended to focus on frontal lobe functions (e.g. attention, decision making) and prominent white matter structures such as the corpus callosum, which are readily identified and measured.

The Marlins have less to spend and, partly as a function of that, have tended to make wiser decisions.

Recent research has tended to focus on the use of function points (FPs) in estimating the software development efforts, however, a precise estimation should not only consider the FPs, which represent the size of the software, but should also include various elements of the development environment for its estimation.

This analysis suggests that Liolaemus diversification has tended to decline over time as a function of accumulating species, although both the exponential and the decline phases of the diversification curve are only slightly pronounced (in fact, the Yule model was identified as the next best alternative; Fig.  2).

The policy environment in Eastern Africa has tended to be inappropriate for the proper functioning of the positive relationship between pastoralism and biodiversity conservation.

As Notenbaert et al. (2012) observe, 'the policy environment in Eastern Africa has tended to be inappropriate for the proper functioning of the positive relationship between pastoralism and biodiversity conservation' (p. 9).