noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
suicidal tendencies (= behaviour that showed she wanted to kill herself )
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For many years before treatment, Clare had suicidal tendencies .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
aggressive
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More than half of those worst affected had aggressive and anti-social tendencies .
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In Phoenix any aggressive tendencies were dampened by the location of these agencies within a government structure that frowned on federal aid.
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The Asiaticus does not appear to have any aggressive tendencies and appears to be equally active during the day and night.
criminal
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Learning theories have been much more important in positivist theorising about the acquisition of criminal tendencies .
general
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Some highly general tendencies , which will necessarily be subject to subsequent refinement and caution, can serve to represent the scene.
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The general tendency among long-time employees, said the study, is not to think of leaving.
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The reorganisation of local government in 1974 was another event which undoubtedly accentuated the general tendency for local expenditure to grow.
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Less obvious is Bourdieu s evidence that education fosters a general tendency towards the use of high culture.
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First, like all others, it represents general tendencies rather than exact categories.
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A general tendency towards making artillery lighter and more mobile can also be seen in the later decades of the century.
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These moves have had little effect on psychology's general tendency to represent sexuality simply as heterosexuality.
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But they were much more readily negotiable through association, which was already a basic general tendency in most other social activities.
great
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Cemeteries show a greater tendency towards large collective tombs.
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Low motor tone involves greater flexor tendencies .
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In 1980 it showed the greatest tendency to revitalise and performed averagely on a decline in deprivation index.
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The more volatile component is the one whose molecules have a greater tendency to escape into the vapour phase.
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They also have a greater tendency to rate themselves as ambitious, highly sexed, strong-willed and well endowed.
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Women from the higher classes have a greater tendency to stay single.
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Overall, they found a greater tendency to underpricing.
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Some people have a greater inherited tendency to depression than others.
growing
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There is a growing tendency for councils to give committees complete power to act on behalf of the council.
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Nowadays, there is a growing tendency to include the physical states of the reactants and products in equations.
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It was this growing tendency after 1983 which almost brought the government to its knees.
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It so happens that another growing tendency in contemporary thinking has been undermining the whole approach which leads to it.
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There was also a growing tendency to retain a certain amount of booty for personal use.
increasing
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By the way, I notice an increasing tendency for her critics to psychoanalyse Mrs Thatcher.
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In general, therefore, it constrains the increasing tendency for usefulness to mean more and more information.
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In business organizations the increasing tendency has been to use the basic financial statements as a measure of performance.
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Hence the increasing tendency for landlords to develop share-cropping tenancies to replace the crops they themselves found it more difficult to produce.
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Three arguments are often raised to counter the increasing tendency towards in-depth work.
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Fungicides have still got to be used, but there is an increasing tendency to use organic fertilisers.
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This concentration of the market also came about because of the increasing tendency of the rate of profit to decline.
natural
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The natural tendency is to try harder with the project that has gone some distance.
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Each one exaggerates her natural tendency under stress.
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I have already mentioned that right-handed pilots seem to have a natural tendency to turn left.
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Your goal is to understand these natural tendencies and use your understanding to help her find better ways to cope.
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Mary's natural tendency to fly into a temper probably did not increase their chances very much.
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The goal with the Louisas of the world is to help them learn how to go against their natural tendency .
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Younger people have a natural tendency to believe that the science they practise has been extant for the whole of time.
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There is a natural physical tendency to avoid activities that our nervous system tells us are difficult.
strong
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Smokey, warm and strong with a tendency to linger.
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Sodium has a strong tendency to lose an electron and become the positively charged ion Na.
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There's a strong suicidal tendency .
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They thus exhibit a strong tendency to drag their feet as doomsday draws nearer.
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There is a very strong tendency to take literally what needs imaginative interpretation.
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Literate societies have a strong tendency to take writing as the norm of language.
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Yet throughout her period of office there has been a strong authoritarian tendency .
suicidal
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Its sedative effects were valued, but sometimes progressed to pathological depression with suicidal tendencies , so its use was limited.
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The rumbling row with the unions over ending the block vote is a classic example of its suicidal tendencies .
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There's a strong suicidal tendency .
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But what about the apparently bizarre link with an increased suicidal tendency ?
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Through a series of flashbacks, Judith's past is gradually explored, and you begin to take her suicidal tendencies seriously.
■ VERB
increase
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On the other hand the very same development increases their tendency to close their eyes to the future.
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Law students tend to become more concerned with matters of proper procedure and exhibit an increased tendency to reason by analogy.
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There is an increasing tendency to give more and more tests.
show
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Cemeteries show a greater tendency towards large collective tombs.
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The record shows a tendency to make a couple of kinds of particularly costly mistakes.
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What research has shown is that these tendencies to behave in certain ways are deeply embedded in past experiences.
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Our awareness of the euphemism is shown by our tendency to laugh at what we regard as false pretension.
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In 1980 it showed the greatest tendency to revitalise and performed averagely on a decline in deprivation index.
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The following case reports show the tendency to doubt the diagnosis and over investigate such patients.
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The parliamentarians hit back by accusing Mr Obasanjo of overstepping his powers and showing dictatorial tendencies .
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When it comes to dressing, she shows chameleon-like tendencies .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Can you discern an editorial leaning or tendency in the work they accept?
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Class Status derives from the tendency of people to accord positive and negative values to human attributes and to distribute respect accordingly.
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Her speech is badly slurred, and the tendency is to dismiss her as a drunk or a druggie.
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It's then that you realise he keeps his psychotic tendencies hidden, only to be let out onstage.
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Second, there is the tendency to hasten all those final writing chores, and this is a mistake.
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The arrow represents a plausible evolutionary tendency of adaptability.
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There is a tendency for illnesses to become more prolonged, less intense and for the recovery to be slower.