After all, such selfish tendencies seemed to run in the family.

A tendency for manufacturing to fall as a percentage of gross domestic product seems to be common to all industrial societies.

So for Michael Palmer, this tendency seems there from the beginning.

His tendency to delay didn't seem to extend to his work.

But his tendency toward authorial invisibility seems like a flaw in a travel book of this kind.

The brightening tendency also seems to level off at sites in Japan.

Two tendencies seem to have beset the interpreters of Plato in this matter.

The tendency to stretchmarks seems to run in families, so if your mother got them you're more likely to get them, too.

This tendency seems to be most prevalent among young female office workers, feel they can get the cooties from the older men they work with.

Such a tendency to question seems to come naturally to these students, who were selected on the basis of competitive exams.