Example sentences of "[noun] have a tendency " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schools have a tendency to call in parents on their own terms only : the genuine involvement of parents must include curriculum development , not just being brought in as cheap labour to read stories in the classroom . |
| 2 | Poor readers have a tendency to produce spelling errors which are non-phonological in that the sound structure of the intended word is not well represented in the error ( see Camp and Dolcourt , 1977 ; Frith , 1979 ) . |
| 3 | We shall , however , take care not to prejudice the great asset that native speakers have a tendency to focus more on message and less on medium than non-native foreign-language teachers do . |
| 4 | Unhappy homes have a tendency to breed further unhappy homes in succeeding generations . |
| 5 | Quite a few hangars have a tendency to rain inside in the morning as frozen condensation melts and you might want to consider strategically placing silica gel bags inside . |
| 6 | What these critics apparently ca n't stomach is that wealth creators have a tendency to acquire wealth in the process of creating it for others . |
| 7 | But if rationalism and empiricism have a tendency to blot out God , we must recognise that the Enlightenment 's supreme beguilement which has so bewitched modern men and women is a false understanding of human beings . |
| 8 | The Conservatives have a tendency to believe that planning decisions can be taken on the profit motive . |
| 9 | People in marketing have a tendency to use confused language and , in consequence , to set up requirements which , logically , can not be met . |
| 10 | One problem with this is that comparisons have a tendency to set up one group covertly as the norm ; in the case of sex , it is men who are the norm . |
| 11 | Grasses have a tendency to ‘ winter burn ’ more or less in proportion to the amount of herbage standing in a field at the onset of frosty weather . |
| 12 | Retailers have a tendency to be quite selfish people wanting more and more of a product that is selling well , but cancelling an order and telling you to go away and solve your own problems when there 's a product that is n't selling well . |
| 13 | During the storm itself , people already ill often become worse , women nearing the end of their pregnancy may go into labour and unbalanced individuals have a tendency to become violent . |
| 14 | It has the potential to be a double-suckler ( some families have a tendency to produce twins ) and remains well able to produce high-quality meat and milk from low-protein foodstuffs , with an excellent food conversion rate . |
| 15 | ‘ People have a tendency to present their messages as a new problem … rather than as something which has within it the elements of a solution . ’ |
| 16 | Laboratory studies in which researchers have set up tasks in which failure could be induced experimentally have indicated that depressed people have a tendency to blame themselves if they get the task wrong , and the ease of the task if they get it right . |
| 17 | Of equal significance is that the rules of the game have a tendency to change . |
| 18 | Boaden found that Labour councillors have a tendency to favour higher standards , and hence to support larger expenditures by local authorities , even when allowance is made for other contributory factors ( Boaden 1971 : 112 ) . |
| 19 | The proponents of the transnational relations approach have a tendency to analyze interactions within systems rather than effects of practices and , though they claim to be transcending the statecentric model , they more often than not permit the state to set the agenda for them . |
| 20 | girls have a tendency to do that sort of thing do n't they ? |
| 21 | There are times when the Americans have a tendency to cut corners and push their aircraft too far . |
| 22 | One problem when using the Tube as a tent is that the lightweight alloy poles have a tendency to bend at the joints when under strong pressure . |
| 23 | Linguists have a tendency to regard it as axiomatic that all teachers — including teachers of subjects other than languages — need to be informed about language . |
| 24 | According to Beck 's theory people prone to depression have a tendency to blame themselves for negative outcomes . |
| 25 | The colourless races have a tendency to succumb to ‘ the malady ’ which afflicts the protagonist . |
| 26 | Others have a tendency to cause constipation , and this in turn can produce incontinence both of urine and faeces . |
| 27 | on my left said earlier , and wo wo women have a tendency to say yes to everything that they can do , just because they can do it , and they know they can but they tend to heap up far too many obligations , and that causes many carers |
| 28 | Labour authorities have a tendency to disarm tenants . |
| 29 | They er operators have a tendency to overcrowd the profitable ones and those that are not profitable loose out altogether . |
| 30 | Offences committed by groups may well occasion greater fear than offences committed by individuals , and it may also be true that groups have a tendency to do things which individuals might not do : there is a group bravado , a group pressure , which may lead to excesses . |