Example sentences of "a tendency [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he also opened up early at the wicket and had a tendency to bowl from the edge of the crease , which caused him to get the right shoulder in front of the left as he delivered and , with hardly any follow through , the only way he could generate any great speed was by a late acceleration of the bowling arm . |
| 2 | I have a tendency to cast people by talking to them , rather than seeing their work , on the assumption that if you have a good casting director they do n't send you rubbish . |
| 3 | Whenever she felt nervous she had a tendency to chatter , but there was no need to give chapter and verse . |
| 4 | His lack of experience in foreign affairs , as well as a tendency to act hastily , was revealed also when he sent US Marines and the 82nd Airborne into the Dominican Republic in 1965 ( p. 139 ) . |
| 5 | They can remain for many years in cold and hostile environments while retaining their toxicity , and they have a tendency to remain in living organisms . |
| 6 | Moreover , the present study indicated that the syn-PLA2 and cat-PLA2 values of patients with a necrotising form of acute pancreatitis had a tendency to remain increased for a longer time than the values in patients with oedematous acute pancreatitis . |
| 7 | It has a tendency to lose its shape and can only be spun into relatively thick strands . |
| 8 | While he 's capable , he does have a tendency to overcook . ’ |
| 9 | Communication between the designer and the producer used to be done almost entirely by traditional engineering drawings but there is now a tendency to use sketches , schematic drawings , photographs and models including computer-based models , for example complicated shapes in three dimensions are difficult to represent as rectangular projections and are not easily interpreted . |
| 10 | While not stated overtly by most interviewees , although some were asked specifically about this , there was a tendency to use the word ‘ friend ’ to signify a pre-heroin relationship , whereas phrases such as ‘ this guy I know ’ and ‘ a bloke who lives around the corner ’ were used to describe a post-heroin use relationship even though the user might be spending a great deal of time with that person on a daily basis . |
| 11 | As Henige ( 1982 ) points out , there has been a tendency to use such informants to the exclusion of others , with the result that data are biased towards the experience of a small number of individuals . |
| 12 | Since the Newbolt Report is the first , and indeed has remained the single most comprehensive official report on English , there has been a tendency to use it as the key to the most fundamental ideological impulses of the discipline . |
| 13 | People in marketing have a tendency to use confused language and , in consequence , to set up requirements which , logically , can not be met . |
| 14 | There has been , however , a tendency to use the concept in a reductive manner to imply that racist processes are the only or primary cause of all the unequal outcomes and exclusions which black students experience ( Troyna and Williams , 1986 ; see also Mason , 1982 ) . |
| 15 | The frequency of obstruction seems to have remained constant throughout the series even though there has been a tendency to use loop ilesostomy more sparingly with increasing experience . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | Like some of your more illustrious colleagues ( Ron Atkinson , Graham Taylor , etc. ) , you have a tendency to say a lot but to say nothing at the same time . |
| 18 | On 24 February 1947 , he wrote me an interim letter in which he said he thought I had tended to ‘ overwhelm the reader by a tendency to say too much at once ’ , and that the material might need some reorganization . |
| 19 | When polls are adverse there 's a tendency to say there 's something wrong at the top . |
| 20 | There is also a tendency to pause in a pose at the end of a phrase and for a deliberate change to be made before further dance . |
| 21 | ‘ Everybody had their suspicions about him , ’ said Jonathan Miller , who worked with him ; ‘ A lot of it you would discount because he had a tendency to engage in rhetorical hyperbole . |
| 22 | A tendency to freckle ; |
| 23 | It is characterized by a tendency to stereotype , that is , a tendency to assign identical characteristics to whole groups regardless of individual variations ( Twitchin and Demuth , 1985 , p. 170 ; Aronson , 1980 , p. 197 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Often they lacked day-to-day knowledge of the firms they had invested in , and had a tendency to sell their shares the instant a firm hit trouble . |
| 26 | The direst accusations always seem to centre on husbandly refusal to wash or change underwear and a tendency to wear socks in bed . |
| 27 | We had a lecture that afternoon in which the course and aim of our training was explained to us by Sergeant-Chef Gibeau , an angular Frenchman with a perfectly shaved head and a tendency to wear sunglasses in the rain . |
| 28 | Complacency and a tendency to mute criticism of governments are among them . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , for all the tousled-haired trickery of Ziober and Roman Kosecki on the flanks , and the delicate midfield skills of Tarasiewicz , the Poles had a tendency to waste possession by shooting from ludicrous range . |