peculiar nature

collocation in English

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peculiar
adjective
uk
/pɪˈkjuː.li.ər/us
/pɪˈkjuːl.jɚ/
unusual and strange, sometimes in an ...
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nature
noun
uk
/ˈneɪ.tʃər/us
/ˈneɪ.tʃɚ/
all the animals, plants, rocks, etc. in the world and all the features, forces, and processes that happen or exist independently of people, such as the weather, the sea, mountains, the production of young animals or plants, ...
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The paper discusses thepeculiarnatureof this type of inflectional marking and provides an explicit analysis of the construction.
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Philosophical errors are errors of a verypeculiarnature.
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These changes have affected thepeculiarnatureof the link between the principal and the agents.
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Moreover, the entanglement effects (non-separability and non-locality) are at the core of the prevailing interpretation of quantum physics and, as stressed above, they contribute thepeculiarnatureof quantum randomness.
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This footnote reveals one of the principal problems in organicist late-style theory: its inability to express thepeculiarnatureof the late artist and his work.
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In view of thepeculiarnatureof miners' work, will they have special consideration with regard to their clothing?
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I emphasise thepeculiarnatureof the development of the decision.
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Here and there the whole question has been complicated with difficulties of apeculiarnature.
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More important even than that is the fact that thepeculiarnatureof industrial disputes is particularly damaging to the economy.
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There is nothing to indicate thepeculiarnatureof the order as it affects engineering construction.
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This point draws attention to thepeculiarnatureof caravan dwelling.
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What they have in common is thepeculiarnatureof insurance risk and markets.
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They are governed by a law of a somewhatpeculiarnature.
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We are faced with the ratherpeculiarnatureof this directive.
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Past provision has taken into account thepeculiarnatureof the industry, and its virtual isolation from life in the city.
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Criminal damage raises special issues because of thepeculiarnatureof the offence and its particular connections with racial aggravation.
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Thepeculiarnatureof these deemed contracts makes them unsuitable for enforcement by a third party under a general reform aimed at giving effect to the parties' intentions.
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They are of apeculiarnature.
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Owing to thepeculiarnatureof this trade, special patrols of inspectors are being instituted in those areas in which costermongers are in the habit of trading.
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