"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
1. human tendency = ludzka skłonność human tendency
2. destructive tendency = niszcząca skłonność destructive tendency
3. negative tendency = negatywna skłonność negative tendency
4. contradictory tendency = sprzeczna skłonność contradictory tendency
  • In the wake of Marx, "Marxist" economists developed many different, sometimes contradictory tendencies.
  • Baseball has been a complex repository of many, often contradictory, American tendencies since its establishment in the middle of the 19th century.
  • These contradictory tendencies remained with him throughout his life, as demonstrated by the dualism in his domestic and foreign policy.
  • "I just see Americans with very contradictory tendencies," he added.
  • Is American society just too big and too riddled with contradictory tendencies to be squeezed into any set of numbers?
  • Differential association is a good illustration of these two contradictory tendencies.
  • Mendelssohn's 42 numbers, lasting two and a half hours, form a hybrid in which contradictory historical tendencies work admirably together.
  • Explanations for these apparently contradictory tendencies will not be found by taking an instrumental approach to family law.
  • But fundamentally the instrumental approach fails to reconcile and explain contradictory tendencies.
  • Hitherto the instrumental approach to law has been criticized as inadequate to provide a coherent explanation for contradictory tendencies in legal developments.
(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
(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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