Example sentences of "[art] tendency [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This finally led John Hunter , the eminent surgeon , anatomist and classifier of monsters to produce a seminal paper ( An account of an extraordinary pheasant , Hunter , 1837 ) in which he proposed that differences between the sexes were of two kinds : those involving the sexual organs themselves , which were evident from birth and did not change during an individual 's lifetime ; and those that did not develop until the animal approached breeding age , such as differences in body size , plumage and in the tendency to be fat which he termed ‘ secondary ’ marks or characters of sex ( Hunter , 1837 , 1861 ) . |
| 2 | This connection between high status employment work and present dissatisfaction with housework holds only for the middle-class women , but there is evidence that the tendency to be dissatisfied with housework in relation to the status of one 's previous job may involve the question of a ‘ reference group ’ . |
| 3 | Conditioned to observe , she noticed what it did to her ; the feeling of vigour , the brisker step , the tendency to be nice to others , to talk to those whom one usually avoided . |
| 4 | By and large , those conflicts which in practice have no tendency to be abused do not merit the deployment of scarce resources in order to eliminate them . |
| 5 | Retailers have a tendency to be quite selfish people wanting more and more of a product that is selling well , but cancelling an order and telling you to go away and solve your own problems when there 's a product that is n't selling well . |
| 6 | All due respect to Johnny Marr ( though the haircuts never get better … ) but , like most people ‘ blessed ’ with skill , there was a tendency to be used by one 's versatility rather than use it . |
| 7 | The committee carried out a range of fascinating research and confirmed what the public knew already , namely that the ham sandwiches available in motorway cafeterias had a tendency to be ‘ thin , tasteless ham in soggy bread ’ . |
| 8 | He was a good-humoured Feldwebel really , although he had a tendency to panic and a tendency to be self-consciously patriotic . |
| 9 | Last , there will be a tendency to be ‘ turned on ’ by particular circumstances , by , for example , competition , deadlines , tension , novelty , detailed plans , problems , opportunities , orderly working conditions , appealing causes and people 's needs . |
| 10 | Would you consider that either of you have a tendency to be dependent on your own parents : Emotionally Spiritually Financially ? |
| 11 | Although this book is about marriage , this chapter needs to take the reader back into history because therein lie our roots and forgotten history has a tendency to be relived . |
| 12 | It is thought that bitches of breed with a tendency to be dominant will often become worse after they are spayed . |
| 13 | Picture quality is good ; if the format has a weakness , it is in the quality of the sound if recorded to the old ‘ mono ’ system which has a tendency to be slightly hissy . |
| 14 | They have a tendency to be temperamental , but it would be good experience . |
| 15 | Nowadays evaluation has a tendency to be much more structured and less prosaic . |
| 16 | There was a tendency to be liberal on the sexual items such as ‘ Chastity ’ , ‘ Birth Control ’ and ‘ Striptease Shows ’ , as well as ‘ Divorce ’ . |
| 17 | Moreover , in keeping with my earlier remarks , I would argue that racialized and ethnic discourses and encounters have a tendency to be contradictory and ambivalent in character . |
| 18 | Fourth and finally , the social composition of the Council — which had a tendency to be more upper class than the Assembly , and to be drawn more from the traditionally , almost professionally political families — must have inclined it to play the master not the servant . |
| 19 | ‘ Flat feet and a tendency to be frugal are nothing very terrible . |
| 20 | Such an intellectual process is likely to be of great value in business organisations which have a tendency to be long on action , but short on thought ! |
| 21 | He displayed a tendency to be out-manoeuvred in public situations . |
| 22 | Rectal CSA values in women showed a tendency to be slightly higher than in men . |
| 23 | And when a club is in dire straits there is a tendency to be over-critical , but Everton are not just in trouble , they are in big trouble . |
| 24 | a tendency to be based on what you can read and what you understand of today 's social problems , I mean every thing we 've had so far apart from the industrial revolution and the history behind it |