"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 • ...
(2) see, know, call, overcome
Kolokacji: 5
1. tendency is seen = tendencja jest dostrzeżona tendency is seen
2. know one's tendencies = wiedzieć czyjś skłonności know one's tendencies
3. tendency is called = tendencja jest ogłoszona tendency is called
4. overcome one's tendency = pokonywać czyjś skłonność overcome one's tendency
  • Indeed, it must have required an enormous effort for man to overcome his natural tendency to live like the animals in a continual present.
  • And my annoyance did little to help me overcome my tendency to procrastinate.
  • The drive into the village took almost thirty minutes, and by that time, she had overcome her tendency to cry.
  • Still, Oates achieves success as a storyteller when she overcomes her tendency to surrender to extremes.
  • He still believed though that this system hadn't overcome its tendency to crises.
  • "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."
  • With difficulty, she overcame her own tendency to retreat and become immobile.
  • "If you get something too large, with too many dependencies, you may need to overcome your tendency not to intervene."
  • Pollsters working in the Middle East give interviewers special training to overcome respondents' tendency to guess the "right" answer instead of express their true feelings.
  • This can help them overcome their tendency to listen for the words rather than the message.
5. know for one's tendency = wiedzieć dla czyjś skłonność know for one's tendency
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 • ...

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