Example sentences of "[pers pn] has a tendency " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has a tendency to hug herself tightly when grappling with a question , and at one point , when I asked her how she saw herself in the future , grown up and faced with decisions about her own children , she panicked for an instant and had to be consoled by the female interpreter . |
| 2 | Worse , if you have an astute sub-editor , or even a conscious one , he/she has a tendency to write all over your nice clean copy with a felt-tip , which is like having people tread on your geraniums . |
| 3 | He has a tendency to give abstract theory in unnecessarily dense language without examples ; this is difficult to absorb , and consequently , when we reach the extended analyses in Chapter 5 , there is a temptation constantly to flick back to the earlier chapters to try to clarify the theory . |
| 4 | Apart from anything else , it has a tendency to split , both along the creases and along the recorded undulations . |
| 5 | Everyone knows — except the depraved and corrupt — that obscenity depraves and corrupts all who condone or delight in it … but when a jury hears [ that ] they must decide whether , taken as a whole , it has a tendency to deprave and corrupt … they are easily bewildered and confused … . |
| 6 | But the inward drift slows slightly as the extra dissipative losses are more than compensated for by the energy and angular momentum which the bar pumps in at this point — recall that the bar is here going around faster than the gas , so it has a tendency to spin the gas up as well as a tendency to cause it to radiate vigorously . |
| 7 | Thirdly , it has a tendency to a rather static and essentialist picture of both ‘ men ’ and ‘ women ’ , in this way ignoring the important and real differences between women themselves . |
| 8 | As a result , its texture is often ‘ lumpy ’ , it has a tendency to separate and a cream crust will form on the top . |
| 9 | It has a tendency to lose its shape and can only be spun into relatively thick strands . |
| 10 | Although the sensually expressive quality of soft media-conte , pastel and charcoal is usually hard to resist , it has a tendency to lend images , ‘ a spurious intensity and generously masks ineptitude ’ , as Deanna Petherbridge points out in her catalogue essay The Primacy of Drawing . |
| 11 | In other words , it has a tendency to kill humans . |
| 12 | It should be used somewhat sparingly , however , as it has a tendency , except in very full tuttis , to overload the bottom octaves of the orchestra . |
| 13 | Yes , so sometimes it has a tendency to seem like you 're blowing hot and cold . |
| 14 | Now , you 'll see that it has a tendency to go all over the world wherever it is invited but whoever invites the World Council of Churches now must , in fact , be able to cope with a great number of people ! |
| 15 | When we lose this balance , each of us has a tendency to consider the present moment not only as unique but as autonomous . |