predominant feature

collocation in English

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predominant
adjective
uk
/prɪˈdɒm.ɪ.nənt/us
/prɪˈdɑː.mə.nənt/
more noticeable or important, or larger in number, ...
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feature
noun
uk
/ˈfiː.tʃər/us
/ˈfiː.tʃɚ/
a typical quality or an important part ...
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(Definition ofpredominantandfeaturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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If the world is a divine creation, then we should expect design to be apredominantfeatureof it.
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With this in mind, he thereafter attempted to make sensory experience thepredominantfeatureof compositional practice and theatrical performance.
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Indeed, complexity cascades were once apredominantfeature, and their time series are multifractal walks.
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Polymyalgia rheumatica, rheumatoid arthritis and cancer-related arthropathy may present with constitutional symptoms and this can be thepredominantfeature.
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Sharp intrusive contacts are apredominantfeatureof this sector of the central block and are in marked contrast to the gradational contacts recorded elsewhere in the batholith.
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I am not aware that love is apredominantfeatureof the operation.
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I have spoken about the great value of the part of my constituency where the trees are such apredominantfeature.
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For the first time scarcity is not seen to be thepredominantfeaturein their lives.
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Violence is not apredominantfeatureof crime by young people, and violent crimes are not predominantly committed by young people.
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I said that that is not apredominantfeatureof the clinical course throughout the progress of cancer.
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There is no doubt that the introduction of increasingly complex, and consequently costly, new drugs has been thepredominantfeaturein this year's increase.
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Network systems and regular services are maintained by international agreement and a certain amount of price fixing is apredominantfeature.
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The special hardship allowance has since 1948 come to be a standing feature, a very much morepredominantfeaturethan was then anticipated, of the disability payments as a whole.
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I am sure that warship building will be thepredominantfeature, although to some extent the yard will look at other civil work on a minor scale.
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Distance is thepredominantfeaturethere.
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It has also been called stenosing tenosynovitis (specifically "digital tenovaginitis stenosans"), but this may be a misnomer, as inflammation is not apredominantfeature.
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Anxiety disorder is the class of mental disorder in which anxiety is thepredominantfeature.
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Some shanty towns have interstitial tenting areas, but thepredominantfeatureconsists of the hard structures.
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Apredominantfeatureof the grassland is colorful and beautiful badlands, a rugged terrain extensively eroded by wind and water.
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The current national jumper still has the flag as thepredominantfeature, but instead of the coat of arms, includes a stylized iceberg graphic.
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