Collocations withnature
These are words often used in combination withnature.
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addictive nature
First, they challenged the idea that smokers exercised choice either by emphasising the addictive nature of cigarettes or characterising smoking as an illness.
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adversarial nature
It would be reasonable to assume that custody disputes, with their adversarial nature, would lead to the infiltration of criticism of therapeutic ways of knowing into the legal field.
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aggressive nature
Patients seek organ transplantation as therapy for their advanced disease because of its aggressive nature.
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ambiguous nature
Chapters 2 and 3 consider the complex and ambiguous nature of caregiving relationships, describing the interdependencies between children, middle-aged women and their ageing parents.
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arbitrary nature
Considering the arbitrary nature of most architectural pedagogy, persuasiveness seems to be the key.
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binary nature
The binary nature of thalamic processes, pain-related imaging signals and cortical potentials signaling alertness may all reflect a common mechanism.
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changing nature
The changing nature of accountability.
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chaotic nature
The apparently chaotic nature of variable patterns is one major reason that so few linguists have paid attention to variation.
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collaborative nature
Indeed, opera's own collaborative nature blurs the distinction between author and performer.
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competitive nature
The competitive nature of these elections is illustrated by a comparison of the presidential and parliamentary elections.
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complementary nature
Thus, the complementary nature of these swaps has been observed.
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complex nature
Their definition makes clear that multilingual education is most of all characterized by its complex nature.
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confidential nature
An initial letter which was sent to potential respondents clearly set out the aims and the confidential nature of the study.
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conservation of nature
The work of that committee covered amongst others recommendations on the conservation of nature- and landscape values in land re-allotment schemes.
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contested nature
The contested nature of contemporary welfare analysis has, not surprisingly, had a strong impact on historical interpretation of welfare state development.
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contextual nature
The early chapters cover the history of agriculture and the contextual nature of agricultural sustainability.
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contingent nature
The contingent nature of song selection suggests that such performances of personal and socio-historical excavation should be possible with a wide range of cultural artefacts.
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contradictory nature
Many of the essays overlap, giving a dense and even contradictory nature to the whole, but that of course is the nature of photographs.
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cross-sectional nature
First, the cross-sectional nature of the design does not permit an evaluation of the direction of causality.
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cyclical nature
One characteristic of teacher efficacy is its circular, cyclical nature.
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decentralized nature
This change further enhanced the decentralized nature of the budget process.
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delicate nature
This will certainly not be an easy task, given the delicate nature of the matter and the potential impacts of decisions taken in this context.
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destructive nature
Yet they also live in fear of the destructive nature of city living.
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developmental nature
This glimpse reveals the developmental nature of linguistic constraints during the early stages of change.
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divine nature
Furthermore, moral perfection is a component of the divine nature or essence.
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dual nature
Rather, their dual nature was emphasized by all.
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dynamic nature
It demonstrates the dynamic nature of this landscape during the twentieth century.
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ephemeral nature
The ephemeral nature of participation resides in the very conditions that have made increased participation both possible and necessary.
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episodic nature
More frequent measurements over longer time frames are optimal for evaluating the often uneven and episodic nature of behavior change.
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essential nature
But what is the essential nature of the chasm that is thereby spanned?
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evolving nature
Another goal of the study is to demonstrate the expansive and evolving nature of social policy.
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exact nature
However, this leaves the exact nature of their argument unclear.
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exploratory nature
Once again, the exploratory nature of our analysis must be stressed.
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force of nature
In politics, as in art, the sphinx is a force of nature that must be overcome.
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fragile nature
Second, the fragile nature of existing voluntary commitment within faith groups needs to be appreciated.
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fragmentary nature
From the data available on the tuff samples so far, the recognition of species has proven problematic due to the fragmentary nature of the fossils.
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fragmented nature
This may be due to the short-term and fragmented nature of much modelling research, as well as the level of maturity of parts of biology.
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freak of nature
Here, the fantastical sphinx, herself a freak of nature, becomes the emblem of good design, abstract and laden with symbolic meaning.
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fundamental nature
But are these two standards of an equally fundamental nature?
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gendered nature
One should also note the strongly gendered nature of caring: the majority of the care-givers are wives, daughters or daughters-in-law.
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graphic nature
It was felt that, because of their graphic nature and the movement they depicted, films were particularly insidious and corrupting and should be controlled.
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guided nature
Activities include swimming, guided nature walks, golf, dune boarding, canoeing, fishing, mini-golf, and even spa treatments.
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heterogeneous nature
These prospects have been frustrated, however, by the disorganized and heterogeneous nature of development in culture.
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hierarchical nature
In our case, it is of a hierarchical nature.
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hybrid nature
The hybrid nature of this constraint, referring to both parsing and the grid, does not falsify our claim that the anti-lapse constraint is crucially grid-based.
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hypothetical nature
The behavior of the parts at small scale should preferentially be defined without using assumptions of a completely hypothetical nature.
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inquisitive nature
This background, plus an inquisitive nature and brilliant intellect, helps to explain the origins, breadth, and depth of his comments and questions.
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interactive nature
This transformation highlights the interactive nature of the naming process.
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interdisciplinary nature
I conclude with some remarks about the interdisciplinary nature of an archaeology of food.
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intimate nature
In addition, the personal and intimate nature of her letters casts an unusually precise light on some familiar generalizations regarding changing notions of propriety.
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intrinsic nature
A crucial point is to construct numerical schemes which reflect the intrinsic nature of the flow.
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multidimensional nature
The multidimensional nature of cancer related pain.
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multifaceted nature
The multifaceted nature of memory in music must be respected without giving up too much to predictability.
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nature conservancy
I propose to extend this exemption to land of outstanding natural interest which is given or bequeathed to bodies such as nature conservancy trusts.
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nature documentary
As is usual in the preparation of a nature documentary, not everything went to plan, due to the unpredictable nature of the subject matter.
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nature lover
I am a nature lover as much as any landowner.
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nature of warfare
To me it is much more than a police operation; it is more in the nature of warfare.
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nature photography
The front features high-resolution nature photography, depicting exotic animals in their natural habitats.
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nature walk
They either go out for a nature walk or are sent home.
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open-ended nature
The open-ended nature of this term gives the citizen no determinate legal guidance on what kind of manipulative conduct is to be avoided.
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paradoxical nature
At a more general level, a feature common to both historical and present-day labour migration by children seems to be its paradoxical nature.
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partisan nature
Taken as an academic study, it is the partisan nature of the contributions that is most problematic.
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peculiar nature
The paper discusses the peculiar nature of this type of inflectional marking and provides an explicit analysis of the construction.
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philosophical nature
His scientific research is grounded in issues of a philosophical nature.
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precarious nature
Tensions also resulted from the sometimes precarious nature of their social location.
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precise nature
The precise nature, however, is not clear.
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pristine nature
Pristine nature is processed and catalogued by the skilled collector.
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problematic nature
The problematic nature of this inference has been extensively advertised.
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qualitative nature
As will become apparent, this simplification does not affect the qualitative nature of the dynamical system.
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rebellious nature
It is because of my rebellious nature.
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reciprocal nature
He understood the reciprocal nature of lobbying and the need to work cooperatively with government.
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repetitive nature
It is clear that the order stream is highly predictable because of its small alphabet size and repetitive nature.
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retrospective nature
The most important limitations of this study are related to the retrospective nature of the methodology.
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secretive nature
The consensus in the maltreatment field is one of victim underreporting, rather than overreporting, given the stigmatic and secretive nature of maltreatment.
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sensitive nature
Or they would pull me out onto my balcony to whisper anything of a sensitive nature.
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speculative nature
It is important to acknowledge the speculative nature of the interpretation of differences in stress sensitivity between family types.
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spiritual nature
He wrote on many other topics, especially those of a pastoral and spiritual nature.
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static nature
The third problem linked to our limited understanding of bilingual conceptual representation is the implicit assumption of the static nature of the bilingual's conceptual store.
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subjective nature
Thus, they are of a subjective nature.
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temporary nature
Consequently, women and non-heir sons were given an inheritance of a temporary nature.
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transient nature
Maybe the transient nature of crystallographic computing will be addressed in a third edition?
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transitory nature
With its ambiguous, transitory nature, the offstage softens the sharpness between the fictional and the real world: it is related to both but possessed by neither.
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true nature
However, we are still unsure about its true nature.
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understanding of nature
The dissociation of understanding of nature and attunement to the world has been very good for the former.
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unique nature
A second key element of oral history consists in its unique nature as a means to understand memory.
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unpredictable nature
This is probably because of the unpredictable nature of the biases introduced by incorrect relationship assignment.
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variable nature
The global and highly variable nature of the hemostatic defect, coupled with extensive surgical reconstruction, has resulted in large losses of blood.
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very nature
Networks, by their very nature, are redistributive.
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violent nature
In most cases, their transience is caused by the violent nature of their criminality.
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volatile nature
Since queries have a volatile nature, the heap collector will also often remove dead code blocks, which typically belong to old queries.
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voluntary nature
Participants were assured of confidentiality and reminded of the voluntary nature of the research.
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