"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
1. unfortunate tendency = skłonność nieszczęśnika unfortunate tendency
  • The book has an unfortunate tendency to begin stories and then drift away to other subjects.
  • The Giants' snappers have had the unfortunate tendency to become famous.
  • Both sides of the public debate have a really unfortunate tendency to equate climate with the weather.
  • He was of medium height and not too heavy, with just an unfortunate tendency to stoutness.
  • The other was an unfortunate tendency that had hindered her progress more than once.
  • The human being has an unfortunate tendency to wish to please.
  • That is, if the Americans in question did not have an unfortunate tendency to settle their business dilemmas at the point of a gun.
  • She moved well, but that might just have been youth and an unfortunate tendency toward exhibitionism.
  • If I keep a sharp eye on him, it is because he has an unfortunate tendency to be an independent thinker.
  • Firstly, there is an unfortunate tendency to put small and large companies in the automobile industry up against each other.
2. regrettable tendency = godna pożałowania skłonność regrettable tendency
(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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