"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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 34
(2) strong, occasional
Kolokacji: 2
(8) unfortunate, regrettable
Kolokacji: 2
(12) homosexual, lesbian
Kolokacji: 2
(16) marked, pronounced
Kolokacji: 2
(18) genetic, familial
Kolokacji: 2
(19) disturbing, distressing
Kolokacji: 2
(20) nationalist, nationalistic
Kolokacji: 2
(21) alarming, nasty, disconcerting
Kolokacji: 3
1. alarming tendency = niepokojąc skłonność alarming tendency
2. nasty tendency = skłonność brudu nasty tendency
  • At such extreme speeds, cars have a nasty tendency to behave like airplanes.
  • For another, Langley too often showed a nasty tendency to regard combat teams as expendable.
  • Bullets have a nasty tendency to travel farther than you want them to.
  • He didn't like them, didn't like the nasty tendency they had to burn when hit by even one ship-killer.
  • It also meant that deep-space battles had a nasty tendency to end in tactical draws, however important they might be strategically.
  • Life had a nasty tendency to make exotic opportunities few and far between.
  • "If people feel that in their heart, it's the only way we're going to overcome our nasty tendency to bop each other over the head."
  • The Social impact of that will become immeasurable, with the nasty tendency of people to claim that everyone is on the take.
  • They had a nasty tendency to blow things up, but never intentionally.
  • But even given nasty tendencies it takes a bad environment-a rotten family to bring it out.
3. disconcerting tendency = wprawiając w zakłopotanie skłonność disconcerting tendency
(23) artistic, stylistic, literary
Kolokacji: 3
(24) sadistic, masochistic
Kolokacji: 2
(26) fascist, Communist
Kolokacji: 2
(30) latent, unhealthy
Kolokacji: 2
(31) inevitable, fatal
Kolokacji: 2
(34) overwhelming, high
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + tendency
Kolokacji: 12
for one's tendency • of tendencies • in one's tendency • about one's tendency • with a tendency • ...

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