"tendency" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

tendency sustantivo

tendency + verbo
Kolokacji: 13
tendency makes • tendency leads • tendency causes • tendency exists • tendency seems • ...
verbo + tendency
Kolokacji: 9
show a tendency • display tendencies • exhibit tendencies • represent tendencies • tendency is seen • ...
adjetivo + tendency
Kolokacji: 127
natural tendency • strong tendency • suicidal tendency • general tendency • violent tendency • ...
preposición + tendency
Kolokacji: 12
for one's tendency • of tendencies • in one's tendency • about one's tendency • with a tendency • ...
(1) for, of, in, about, with, ...
Kolokacji: 12
3. in one's tendency = w czyjś skłonność in one's tendency
6. because of one's tendency = z powodu czyjś skłonność because of one's tendency
8. despite one's tendency = pomimo czyjś skłonność despite one's tendency
9. due to one's tendency = z powodu czyjś skłonność due to one's tendency
10. by one's tendency = przez czyjś skłonność by one's tendency
  • She smiled, embarrassed by her tendency to jump to nervous conclusions.
  • Salmon seem especially disadvantaged by this administration's tendency to bend science and the law to its political agenda.
  • You can tell these fellows by their uniforms and their tendency to holler threats like "I say death to all the intellectuals!"
  • Leona lacks patience, as evidenced by her tendency to smash coffeemakers.
  • Though there had been no lies, she nonetheless felt betrayed, iLby nothing else, then by her all-too-human tendency to make assumptions.
  • Rest was seductive, made more so by his tendency to improve the situation through imagination.
  • Many acetate salts are ionic, indicated by their tendency to dissolve well in water.
  • It was later implied this arrangement is physically detrimental and exacerbated by Grace's tendency to overwork.
  • It differs from the mass by his love of justice, by his passion for truth and its tendency to stir up the past.
  • Those at the top of society have not helped matters by their tendency to inverted snobbery.

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