Example sentences of "a tendency [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This suggests that there is a tendency to return to the parental home when a marriage ends , through whatever means , and this is confirmed in the case of separation and divorce by Sullivan 's ( 1986 ) analysis of data from the period 1976–81 . |
| 2 | All of us have a tendency to put off the difficult tasks or those we dislike . |
| 3 | The emphasis is on the vocabulary rather than on other aspects of language and there is a tendency to focus on the high style . |
| 4 | In the South , where Labour was not so deeply influenced by trade-union traditions , the local parties were becoming an increasingly coherent pressure group with a common outlook and a tendency to look outside the Labour Party and towards the Communists for ideological guidance . |
| 5 | Thus , in general , it seems that backward projection on to historical states of language has tended to be based on present-day standard English and SBE , rather than other dialects , and as in the examples cited from Dobson ( below ) there has been a tendency to think of a phonemic set ( such as short /a/ ) as being invariant or nearly invariant within itself . |
| 6 | They do n't feel right and I 've heard that the rubber grips on them have a tendency to rot after a short time . |
| 7 | Because each species has a tendency to stay in a particular strata in the tall forest , they seldom compete for the same food . |
| 8 | There is a tendency to start on the second stage of commercially produced baby foods at this point . |