Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] have a tendency " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour authorities have a tendency to disarm tenants . |
| 2 | Interesting cargoes had a tendency to go missing . |
| 3 | Mr George : Well , the German planes had a tendency to have a different note to the British planes and you never got many British planes over at night anyway . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Unhappy homes have a tendency to breed further unhappy homes in succeeding generations . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | The colourless races have a tendency to succumb to ‘ the malady ’ which afflicts the protagonist . |