noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
natural
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It is a natural inclination and instinct to want our effort recognised and appreciated.
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His natural inclination is to stay as close to the slope as possible, because it feels safer and more secure.
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The region's natural inclination , like that of a bicycle, is to be unstable.
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Lettie purposely lingered behind Patrice, fighting off her natural inclination to simply ignore the woman and brush past her.
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Though her natural inclination was to turn round and zoom straight back again, Mildred could see that there was no escape.
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The natural inclination is to increase the dosage to continue the benefits.
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Cranmer's natural inclination was for compromise and mercy.
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My natural inclination would be to accede to his motion.
personal
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Others will prefer a curriculum with no evident pattern beyond personal inclination or skills.
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Depending upon the personal inclinations and training of the various individuals involved, all three courses were more or less pursued simultaneously.
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Yet, again there is the contrast between personal inclinations and social norms.
■ VERB
show
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Picosso, who is also male, shows no such inclinations .
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He adds that he wants to grow up, but then shows absolutely no inclination to do so.
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This is not entirely the result of political control, since the privately owned press shows no greater inclination towards investigative journalism.
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He claimed Stockton and Langbaurgh had shown no inclination to negotiate and only Middlesbrough had demonstrated any flexibility.
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Neither of my children showed the merest inclination to follow me into journalism or television.
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The landed nobility showed no inclination to build bridges with urban property-owners, let alone workers and peasants.
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The coroner had not got where he was by thinking, and he showed no inclination to start on this occasion.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a 62-degree inclination
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Diana's inevitable inclination was to imitate Sarah.
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For Suzuki adherents, music is an inclination innate in all of us.
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Lettie purposely lingered behind Patrice, fighting off her natural inclination to simply ignore the woman and brush past her.
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She refused to let him drive, and she had no time - no inclination ? - for making love with him.
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She showed no inclination whatsoever to go forward.
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The region's natural inclination , like that of a bicycle, is to be unstable.
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With an inclination to believe in archetypes of goodness.