disturbing element

collocation in English

meaningsofdisturbingandelement

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disturbing
adjective
uk
/dɪˈstɜː.bɪŋ/us
/dɪˈstɝː.bɪŋ/
making you feel worried ...
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element
noun
uk
/ˈel.ɪ.mənt/us
/ˈel.ə.mənt/
a part ...
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(Definition ofdisturbingandelementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The other serious anddisturbingelementin second-hand houses, apart from settlement or subsidence, is dry rot.
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The mostdisturbingelementof the whole episode was the organisers' refusal to discuss their plans with the police.
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That is the mostdisturbingelementin the regional policy.
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Does this not introduce adisturbingelementinto all those local authorities?
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Anotherdisturbingelementis to be found in the growth of new industries.
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The energies of directors and managers were diverted from their normal activities, and adisturbingelementof uncertainty at once arose.
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This is a deplorable and verydisturbingelement.
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The mere fact that it is so regarded is, in itself, adisturbingelement.
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I believe that expansion is not a bad thing, but since 1980 there has been adisturbingelementof unplanned growth.
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To my mind that is adisturbingelementin the situation.
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Then he said that to bring this idea of a register for national service into their minds and homes would be adisturbingelement.
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If an agreement of that nature, entered into in such circumstances, were not honoured, it would introduce a profoundlydisturbingelementinto our public life.
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But there is thisdisturbingelementof criminals, and a large proportion of them do not get caught.
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It is the up and down of the agricultural price wheel that is thedisturbingelementwithin the industry.
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Certainly the fact that the guard was in plain clothes is adisturbingelementin the case.
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Nevertheless, there has come into existence adisturbingelement—an addendum—in this clause governing the future of a child in disputed adoption proceedings.
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But, of course, unemployment is a further factor that has to be taken into account as adisturbingelementto the community.
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These brought a verydisturbingelementand undoubtedly very largely contributed to the difficulties.
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Nobody can doubt it is a condition under which it would be the height of rashness, except for a really serious gain, to introduce a newdisturbingelement.
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Nobody doubts that it is in a condition under which it would be the height of rashness, except for a really serious gain to introduce a newdisturbingelement.
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