essential nature

collocation in English

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essential
adjective
uk
/ɪˈsen.ʃəl/
us
/ɪˈsen.ʃəl/
necessary ...
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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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(Definition ofessentialandnaturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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But what is theessentialnatureof the chasm that is thereby spanned?
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A simple example of finite-dimensional dynamics reveals theessentialnatureof such mode couplings.
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Thereby, the authors try also to address theessentialnatureof the condition itself.
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A question has arisen as to what extent electronic techniques were related to theessentialnatureof the works.
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It does not take into account theessentialnatureof the included items and their fundamental differences.
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That goes to theessentialnatureof the problem.
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That means that theessentialnatureof the area changes.
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But that underlines theessentialnatureof education for women.
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That was its original aim and remains itsessentialnature.
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This is theessentialnatureof the problem we face.
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As we noted earlier, the purpose of our language is to express theessentialnatureof data-parallel algorithms in a typed higher-order functional language.
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But it seems quite easy to translate from one manner of speaking to the other without having distorted theessentialnatureof the event.
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In this case, theessentialnatureof the predictive power is co-relational, and human experience is filled with these kinds of relationships.
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That is why this, too, pertains to theessentialnatureof will - that the good that anyone has he shares with others as much as possible.
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Referring to the believer's psyche will not provide adequate grounds for making normative claims of the sort required (namely, that a proposition expresses revelation's 'essentialnature').
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The (questionable) assumption was of course that theessentialnatureof social contexts could be captured by means of purely formal concepts that transcended any historically specific content.
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Theessentialnatureof property is to be found in social relations rather than in any inherent attributes of the thing or object that we call property.
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However, the turbulent stress ratios showed much less variation than the stresses, and theessentialnatureof the large-scale structures was unaffected by the pressure gradient.
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What intellectual property right laws do is give the creator the ability to alter theessentialnature of many intellectual objects by eliminating the non-exclusive characteristic.
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What is today often interpreted as the triumphant attainment of rigor was really a struggle to define theessentialnatureof mathematical study and its role in society.
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That is theessentialnatureof the difficulty in compiling statistics.
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That is theessentialnatureof the problem; and that is the magnitude of the problem.
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His view results largely from widespread misinterpretation of theessentialnatureof the consultation process.
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