Example sentences of "have a tendency [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the prison system has a tendency to create more problems than it receives and has an equal tendency to fail inmates because , out of its survival fear , it tends to respond to corporate threats , real or imaginary , rather than the real problems of inmates . |
| 2 | Apart from anything else , it has a tendency to split , both along the creases and along the recorded undulations . |
| 3 | It has a tendency to lose its shape and can only be spun into relatively thick strands . |
| 4 | The Fijian traditional communal system of livelihood has a tendency to restrict initiative for commercial expansion and development so that there is a need to modify commercial values to meet with the demands of modern commercialism , This , in a nutshell , is what the Yalavou project sets out 10 do . |
| 5 | Terry Gilliam , ex-Python and film director : ‘ John has a tendency to go off in fits and starts . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 … . |
| 9 | Michael Alison , Tory MP for Selby , said that under the act a jury has to decide whether the material has a tendency to deprave or corrupt . |
| 10 | Yes , so sometimes it has a tendency to seem like you 're blowing hot and cold . |
| 11 | Legal history has a tendency to repeat itself . |
| 12 | In other words , it has a tendency to kill humans . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mother love has a tendency to forgive all , and a lot of men seem to think that their wife is their mother ! |
| 15 | Mother love has a tendency to forgive all , and a lot of men seem to think that their wife is their mother ! |
| 16 | Tuck stitch has a tendency to drop stitches and the tuck brushes are there to prevent this . |
| 17 | For it is not clear that the generative or productive motions which ‘ cause ’ a circle really are put forward as ‘ efficient ’ causes ; Hobbes has a tendency to speak of them in ways which make it not inappropriate to think of them in terms of some notion of ‘ formal ’ cause . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ The bookwork has a tendency to pile up if I do n't keep on top of it . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ And finally , ’ Benjamin interrupted , ‘ Master Millet has a tendency to slip out of the chateau at night to meet God knows whom . ’ |
| 21 | The general public has a tendency to assume that nurses experience a strong desire to care for others , perhaps believing that many feel a true vocation or ‘ divine call ’ to the work , although it is probably less usual to describe it in these terms today . |
| 22 | If your skin is sensitive and burns easily , or has a tendency to burn — use a Sun Protection Factor greater than 10 |
| 23 | When we lose this balance , each of us has a tendency to consider the present moment not only as unique but as autonomous . |
| 24 | This ball has a tendency to wobble . |
| 25 | English history has a tendency to assimilate developments into a mythic story , so that events which were a victory for some faction or interest group get retrospectively sanctioned as a sacred progress of democratic tradition . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The soil has a tendency to become dry in summer , but a large quantity of leaf-mould , plus composted bark from the garden centre , has improved its ability to retain moisture . |
| 28 | Simmel recognizes , however , that this particular variety of means has a tendency to become an end , as with the accumulation of money for its own sake . |
| 29 | Management control thereby has a tendency to become more centralized . |
| 30 | 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 . |