"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
(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
1. inevitable tendency = nieunikniona skłonność inevitable tendency
  • There is a well-recognized and, indeed, inevitable tendency for power, in the presence of larger organization, to pass down into the body of that organization.
  • More ominous, though, is the almost inevitable tendency of corporations to want to control program content.
  • It has a natural, an inevitable tendency to brutalize every noble faculty of man.
  • Pearl's inevitable tendency to hover about the enigma of the scarlet letter seemed an innate quality of her being.
  • The iron law of oligarchy, introduced by Robert Michels, describes the inevitable tendency of hierarchical organizations to become oligarchic in their decision making.
  • In the interval while a coming event remains in a state of uncertainty, what is it the inevitable tendency of every Englishman under thirty to do?
  • His inevitable tendency is to ask somebody to bet on the event.
  • In part this occurs, I believe, because large organizations have a curious and almost inevitable tendency to centralize.
  • Such legislation was a response to liberal humanitarianism but it was made possible by the inevitable tendency of industrial processes to require more skilled labour.
  • "There's an inevitable, and probably healthy, tendency to continuously test the character of those in positions of political power or influence," Honor had said instead.
2. fatal tendency = zgubna tendencja fatal tendency
(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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