Example sentences of "a tendency to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liza had always had a tendency to wildness . |
| 2 | There was a tendency to radicalism in the labour movement . |
| 3 | Many of these patients need close daily supervision because of a tendency to self-neglect and poor compliance with medication ; they are often closely dependent on staff for day-to-day emotional support . |
| 4 | It may seem strange to suspect such a man of inflation — the psychoanalyst 's term for a tendency to grandeur , the obverse of a patient 's self-denigration and depression . |
| 5 | He admits also that Buddhism displayed a tendency to participation as it spread out from India into other countries , though he fails to recognize the examples of participation which might be said to derive from the communal life of the sangha and so insists that it is the principle of identity that predominates . |
| 6 | For example , those with characteristically straight hair which has a tendency to greasiness and lankiness would choose the mild Body Building Shampoo to gently purify the hair without stripping it of essential moisture , and the Body Building Conditioner to replenish thirsty hair strands without weighing them down . |
| 7 | Two thousand years after these words were spoken , there is a tendency to water down their meaning . |
| 8 | And he was also very tired : when sitting to Wyndham lewis in the spring , he had a tendency to drowsiness and sometimes slumber . |
| 9 | Yeah erm one thing , you were a little bit nervous to start with and what that can do is to give you a tendency to piggyback questions , is that something you 're aware of ? |
| 10 | The wood should be allowed to air dry slowly to avoid a tendency to surface cracking and distortion , but it kiln dries well with little degrade and is stable in service . |
| 11 | Having passed over the wave there is often a tendency to catapult fall , so it is sometimes necessary to sheet out . |
| 12 | Furthermore , suppose tendency to want to smoke and tendency to lung cancer are linked by inheritance ; a smoking craving might cause some to leave the Mormon faith , but these are also the people with a tendency to lung cancer so that those left behind show a low incidence . |
| 13 | That 's still a fair maximum for this car , and even with a lot of miles under its belt since it had any major attention ( and a tendency to hang-up slightly in second gear ) it will still pull 12.2secs to 60mph . |
| 14 | It is a well-documented fact that cancer , for example , is more prevalent in those with a predisposition to depression and a tendency to bottle-up their emotions just to please others . |
| 15 | Throughout Iranian thought there was a tendency to dualism , and it is therefore not surprising that two distinct forms or aspects of time were recognized : indivisible time , that is the eternal ‘ now ’ , and time that is divisible into successive parts . |
| 16 | He was a brilliant but also a tortured thinker , in many ways a solitary and tragic figure , his personality marked by a tendency to depression , and by the decision he made in 1843 to break off his engagement to Regine Olsen . |
| 17 | ‘ Women often have a tendency to arch their backs which has the effect of making the voice sound more remote , ’ says Meribeth . |
| 18 | To the credit of both Hortense and Le Bas , it was agreed that Louis-Napoleon should be enrolled in the High School at Augsburg , a move which it was hoped would not only remove a tendency to idleness and day-dreaming but would also give him a chance to make friends with other boys of his own age . |
| 19 | In answer to the third question , the utilitarian might suggest that there is at least as great a tendency to convergence on these bases as pertains to any of the social sciences ( which may not be saying much ) . |
| 20 | The political ambitions of the CLB can be deduced from its interpretation of the Edwardian crisis : ‘ At so critical a period in British history as the present , when there is so great and unfortunate a tendency to slackness , ease , and carelessness as to religion , morals , and work , when there is so great a craving for pleasure 's sake , when so serious a social problem as the great army of the unfit and unemployed has become a national scandal and a public danger ’ , it was necessary to provide men of the future with ‘ that spirit of self-denial , self-control and definiteness of righteous purpose ’ which had put Britain in the lead among nations . |
| 21 | It belongs to German nature to present oneself as un-German : a tendency to cosmopolitanism , to undermine the sense of nationhood are inseparable from the essence of German nationality ; the idea that one must lose one 's Germanness as much as possible in order to find it , that any restriction to the purely German is felt to be barbaric . |
| 22 | Behind the screen Wycliffe looked down at the dead man : middle or late forties , probably above average height , bony , but with a tendency to corpulence sedentary : the disease of modern man . |
| 23 | A tendency to suppuration |
| 24 | Erm , it , what it struck me as is a parallel with Freud 's idea of transference , you know that once something happens in the , in the traumatic period in a , in a childhood , there 's then a tendency to transference to occur later in life , we recreate later in relationships to er the model of the early one and er it struck me that what you said about French industrial relations sounded a bit like transference in erm in the psychoanalysis the idea that i i it spills out as it were from the initial which might have been saved er within the family to other relationships i in later life that people have with their superiors at work or something I mean you can see this actually sometimes you know that people have relationships with their superiors which are clearly erm based on erm their relationships with their parents and they see the , th their boss as a parental figure and the employee sees themselves as er as , as , as a kind of erm child and it shows itself sometimes in quite er quite unmistakable ways . |
| 25 | Smoking also increases atherosclerosis and a tendency to thrombosis [ 7 ] . |
| 26 | There is a tendency to refocus identification on the ‘ personality ’ of the star — and indeed Benjamin recognizes the appearance of ‘ false aura ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ The prevailing temperament of men of genius ’ , Ellis said ( and Bowerman agreed with him ) , ‘ is one of great nervous sensitivity and irritability ‘ , a tendency to melancholy , and what he called a ‘ germinal nervous instability ’ . |
| 28 | For example , regarding prostitutes , the most crucially sexualized women of the time , questions were asked concerning the size of their genitalia , and various medical projects were embarked upon to prove that an enlarged clitoris was a sign of a tendency to prostitution ( in the same way that phrenologists were measuring criminals ' heads ) . |
| 29 | This and other work lends substantial support to the idea that a tendency to obesity is to a large degree genetic . |
| 30 | Here 's Darwin saying in a letter to a friend Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a tendency to progression and indeed , Darwin 's view was the contrary to this , and here 's another quote from Darwin , after long reflection , I can not avoid the conviction that no innate tendency to development exists . |