Sentence examples for tended to modify from inspiring English sources

All three have tended to modify and soften their original ideological bias and to accept broader and more tolerant world views than had been theirs a genera tion ago.

The various groups of mollusks have tended to modify this arrangement, with the result that gonads have their own pore; among amphineurans, for example, the sexes are usually separate, and there is one gonad with an associated pore.

The novice designers were receptive to the adoption of user suggestions in the conception of the design, but tended to modify the pictorial representations generated by the users to varying extents.

In a sample of triennially inspected auditing firms, only those auditors receiving a PCAOB report including deficiencies tended to modify their outcomes by exhibiting higher likelihood to issuing a going-concern opinion for financially distressed clients in the post-inspection period than they did before being supervised (Gramling et al. 2011).

From this same empirical work, Ward et al. (1998) reported how dairy farmers tended to modify their practices to reduce water pollution in response to regulatory pressures, but in a rather "begrudging" (p1172) way partly because farmers perceived criticism as expression of a wider 'anti-farmer' attitude in society rather than valid comment on sources of pollution.

On the basis of observations of 51 and 42 mothers, respectively, who were demonstrating novel objects to their own infants whose ages ranged from 6 months to 13 months, it was found that the mothers tended to modify their infant-directed actions in various ways.

This tends to modify changes the OEM and suppliers relationship.

To sell weapons to the police, the manufacturers tend to modify, rather than redesign, them.

The maritime orientation of the Shandong Peninsula tends to modify the climatic extremes of the inland zone.

To sell weapons to the police, the manufacturers tend to modify, rather than redesign, the military versions.

People who are aware of being observed tend to modify their behaviour.