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Example sentences for "great tendency"

  • The resin of shell-lac has a great tendency to combine with salifiable bases; as with caustic potash, which it deprives of its alkaline taste.

  • Wool has a great tendency to combine with colouring substances; but its physical nature requires its combinations to be made in general at a high temperature.

  • In all these varieties the hand is pronated; there is a great tendency to deviation of the fingers toward the ulnar border of the hand, although sometimes the deformed fingers stand out, not unlike a bunch of parsnips.

  • In diseases of the spinal cord and its envelopes there is a great tendency to constipation, owing to impairment of the secretion of the intestinal juices.

  • The powder having a great tendency to ball together, it is necessary to shake five or six times daily, and continue to do so for 14 days.

  • They exhibit a great tendency to absorb oxygen from the air and to gum, the influence of light promoting the process.

  • Juniper oil has a great tendency to thicken; it becomes resinous, acid and thickly fluid, formic acid being formed.

  • The above precautions are of course particularly necessary to enforce immediately after a recovery from an attack, for there is a great tendency to relapse.

  • As is the case in all fevers, more or less, so particularly after scarlet fever, there is a great tendency to the falling off of the hair.

  • In some he had observed a great tendency to sweats, even from the beginning: these are colliquative and symptomatic, not to be encouraged.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great ability; great amount; great assistance; great change; great damage; great disadvantage; great estate; great excellence; great favor; great heat; great horse; great impulse; great mortality; great name; great pains; great pile; great place; great quantities; great reason; great scholar; great speed; great time; great voice; great wealth; greatly obliged; said the old man