I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a natural boundary (= a river, line of mountains etc that form a boundary )
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Here, the Andes form a natural boundary between Argentina and Chile.
a natural cycle
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the natural cycle of birth and death
a natural desire
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Kids have a natural desire to find out about new things.
a natural disaster (= caused by nature )
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In recent years there has been an increase in weather-related natural disasters.
a natural hazard (= a hazard caused by nature )
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One of the most widespread natural hazards is flooding.
a natural impulse
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My natural impulse was to shout for help.
a natural instinct
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I followed my natural instinct to run away.
a natural leader/a born leader (= someone who naturally has all the qualities needed to be a leader )
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He has the confidence of a born leader.
a natural phenomenon (= one that happens in nature )
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Natural phenomena such as the appearance of comets intrigued him.
a natural process
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Birth is a natural process.
a natural reaction
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Anger is a natural reaction if you feel undervalued.
a natural remedy
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She began to look into alternative methods of treatment, such as natural remedies and hypnotherapy.
a natural sense of sth (= a natural ability )
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She did not have a natural sense of direction.
a natural successor
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Murray was viewed as the natural successor to Henman as Britain's top player.
a natural tendency (= one you are born with )
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His recent experiences had reinforced a strong natural tendency towards caution.
a natural/logical consequence (= that naturally/logically follows sth )
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Obviously disappointment is a natural consequence of defeat.
a primal/instinctive/basic/natural urge (= a natural urge that all people have )
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Every animal has an instinctive urge to survive.
artificial/natural lighting
die a natural death (= of natural causes, rather than being killed )
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The coroner concluded that Wilkins had died a natural death.
die of/from natural causes (= die of illness, old age etc, not because of an accident or crime )
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He died from natural causes, believed to be a heart attack.
natural ability ( also innate ability formal ) (= an ability that you are born with )
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He didn't have the natural ability of his brother.
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Babies have an innate ability to do simple maths.
natural aptitude
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He has a natural aptitude for teaching.
natural beauty
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an area of outstanding natural beauty
natural charm
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She had a quiet natural charm that everyone liked.
natural childbirth
natural curiosity
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The children are encouraged to follow their natural curiosity, and learn about what interests them.
natural curls
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You're lucky if you have natural curls.
natural decay
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Everything in our environment is subject to natural decay.
Natural England
natural gas (= gas used for cooking and heating, taken from under the earth or from under the sea )
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The main part of natural gas is methane.
natural gas
natural history
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the Natural History Museum
natural inclination
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My natural inclination was to say no.
natural light (= light produced by the sun )
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The only natural light came from two high windows.
natural philosophy
natural pigments
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The artist Sandy Lee uses natural pigments in her work.
natural progression
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the natural progression of the disease
natural reserve
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She overcame her own natural reserve .
natural resource
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a country with abundant natural resources
natural resources
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We support the sustainable use of natural resources.
natural science
natural selection
natural talent
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Ronaldo is a player of immense natural talent.
natural wastage
natural
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We use only natural ingredients in our products.
natural/synthetic/man-made etc fibre
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Nylon is a man-made fibre.
sb's biological/natural parents
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Most children are reared by their natural parents.
sth’s natural habitat (= the type of place where an animal or plant usually lives or grows )
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She studies gorillas in their natural habitat.
sth’s natural state
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There's a plan to return large areas of farmland to their natural state.
the natural balance
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Chemicals will upset the natural balance of the pond.
the natural environment
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Current methods of farming are damaging the natural environment.
understandable/natural reluctance
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He had an understandable reluctance to accuse his friend of lying.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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When this care of old people is short-lived, the inevitable prelude to death, it is accepted as natural .
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If Knapp is right, and desire is as natural as eating, then it exists in all of us.
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Family conferences are best conducted in as natural a manner as possible.
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Second, it could prevent us from dealing expeditiously with emergencies such as natural disasters or military threats.
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To him, rope dancing was as natural as breathing.
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For example, the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis has the ability to produce crystalline spores which act as natural insecticides.
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But just as dramatic and, maybe, just as natural .
more
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Yet, when you came down to it, what was more natural than murder?
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Nothing could have been more natural than to deify this powerful and benevolent force.
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It is more prudent, more rational and more natural to use organic materials - manures.
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But civilized society is not more natural than more degenerate social states.
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It also accounts for poetry being a more natural instrument of its literary expression than fiction or drama.
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Homosexuality can therefore feel more natural to many men than their comparatively laborious, expensive, and frustrating pursuits of young women.
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I find it a more natural environment.
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A more natural line evolved as bathing suit and fabric technology was improved to push, pull and lift invisibly.
most
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Talking over a drink; the most natural of interactions.
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Moreover, the most natural thing of all about evolution is that some natures will be pitted against others.
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This chapter has considered the two most natural methods of recognition used by humans - speech and writing.
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Iii any primitive tribe, rule by male fighters is the most natural form of government.
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He'd no patience with women putting on airs and moaning about the most natural thing in the world.
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In fact it does the most natural thing, which is to go round the end of the opening.
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I learned all this in the most natural way of all by talking to other patients.
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There is no doubt, though, that Kasparov's sealed move is the most natural .
only
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It was only natural that some of them would go wrong from time to time.
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It was only natural for them to become as protective of Bapi as they were of the tiniest infants in their care.
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Which, from the way the power grew in him, palpably week by week, I took to be only natural .
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It was only natural that Ray McGovern should speak first.
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Add to this huge amounts of institutional funds, Eurodollars and oil money and volatility seems only natural .
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Under the circumstances, it was only natural that religious life be focused on their gods of war.
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So had the child's family - that was only natural .
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To my mind, it was an unreasonable expectation, but to theirs, it was only natural and perfectly reasonable.
perfectly
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It wasn't strange, but perfectly natural to be in Sien's company, her and the children.
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It seemed perfectly natural that the centre and bow areas of our raft were permanently awash.
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This is, as Morrissey well knows, a perfectly natural human condition.
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Both Duvall and Jones have reached that level of acting where it all seems perfectly natural .
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It was all perfectly natural , or should have been.
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Pregnancy is a perfectly natural physical state, remember?
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But Mr Mellor said it was a perfectly natural request to make.
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She told herself she was just feeling a biological urge. Perfectly natural .
■ NOUN
ability
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Adam's natural ability impressed Jenny.
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I took it to heart: There was something wrong with me, a natural ability lacking.
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Your natural ability is the thing that should emerge, and if you have been well coached the coaching won't show.
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He shared her natural ability to understand horses, her insight into how their minds worked.
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He seems to have a natural ability which encourages plants to grow well.
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I had a natural ability to entirely forget the theatre when at home, and viceversa, which was extremely useful.
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He didn't have the natural ability of his brother, Red, but he was bigger and stronger.
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Offiah is fortunate to be blessed with great natural ability and he is certainly the most marketable asset in Rugby League.
beauty
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The Province Northern Ireland is justly famous for its great natural beauty and the warmth and hospitality of its people.
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We still have a great deal of space and a great deal of natural beauty .
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Formerly farmland, it's in the Blythe Valley, an area of outstanding natural beauty with topography just made for golf.
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And then, invigorated by the fresh air and natural beauty , we headed back towards Marloes.
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Traffic is horrendous, walking dangerous and any semblance of natural beauty largely absent.
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The verderers also have powers for the preservation of the natural beauty and the flora and fauna of the forest.
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Our grandchildren should not have to live in a world stripped of its natural beauty .
cause
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The machine was not switched off, but Mr Lavelle died of natural causes , police said.
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He then went to live with his paternal grandparents, who died of natural causes soon after his placement with them.
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Voice over A postmortem has revealed the man died from natural causes , there are no suspicious circumstances.
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Park officials defended their care of Yaka, insisting she died of natural causes after a lengthy illness.
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The statistics include heart attacks and other natural causes as well as accidents to hikers, climbers, and mountain workers.
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Another researcher has suggested a similar explanation based on natural causes .
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The coroner recorded a verdict of death due to natural causes .
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The unfairness lay in the fact that these very poor harvests were mainly the result of natural causes .
course
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Most would recover if the disease were let to run its natural course .
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I was wondering about the possibility of a wholly natural course on it, a course tended largely by sheep.
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Maybe some things were better left to the natural course of time.
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Diverse management would happen in the natural course of things without paying excruciatingly careful attention to balance.
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And then, in the natural course of events, I would hope there would be children.
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That is not to say that Reagan was not content to see socialists replaced by conservatives in the natural course of events.
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Let time take its natural course .
death
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Is it surprising that he should die a natural death from a heart attack?
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Sometimes I think they just want to let the whole thing die a natural death .
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But assisting her investigations into a perfectly natural death as if it were murder was little short of lunacy.
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Cause he died of natural death .
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His father seemed a more promising candidate for that role and he had died a natural death .
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There just aren't enough natural deaths .
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The Revolution remained a military sedition and appeared likely to die a natural death .
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Company support slipped away and the adhesives programme died a natural death .
disaster
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Newsgroups are also highly popular as a means of tracing family members who may have fled conflict or natural disaster .
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During recent natural disasters , the Federal Emergency Management Agency has quickly sent out relief checks to thousands of residents.
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And the engineering marvel turned out to be a slow-motion natural disaster .
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It can happen very quickly, as is clear to anyone who has experienced a natural disaster .
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They often have coping skills gained from surviving previous natural disasters or wars.
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But we have known the trauma of one natural disaster after another.
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Wars, slumps, natural disasters - not a dicky bird.
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Adults may develop the disorder after being involved in a traumatic experience such as war or a natural disaster .
enemy
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In classical biological control, a natural enemy is introduced to control an organism that has become a pest in its absence.
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Reactive techniques like reorganization, retrenchment, and restriction are the natural enemies of organizational innovation.
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The doctrine rested on the assumption that the country had no natural enemies and advanced no territorial claims on its neighbours.
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The pesticide killed off weevils and other insects, leaving the army worm to multiply unchecked by its natural enemies .
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The plant toxin renders both the caterpillar and the adult butterfly particularly repellent to natural enemies .
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Much more can be done to improve the conservation of natural enemies in the field.
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In the wild, the pair would be natural enemies .
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Careful timing and choice of chemical can greatly enhance the effectiveness of a natural enemy .
environment
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But are they on a par with their natural environment ?
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Most Chicagoans considered the dishonesty of the police as part of the natural environment .
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Many are working to save species from extinction, animals from cruelty, natural environment from destruction.
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This fact underscores a point that is central to any discussion of how population growth impinges on the natural environment .
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As a society are we prepared to spend to regain our natural environment ?
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Plants in their natural environments are continually damaged by animals and by weather conditions such as floods.
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Our perception of parrots as somehow our rightful property has been destructive for the living creature in its natural environment .
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And it will take other research sites to predict the effects on natural environments rather than well-tended farmland.
event
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They rarely study natural events , and only in so far as they impinge on the human world.
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Now and then, natural events make it easier for Murray and his associates to convince others that their work is necessary.
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This might be by parental design or due to natural events .
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With many of our everyday experiences of natural events it is difficult to envisage how they could be other than they are.
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Those who pursue water-related sports should learn to respect natural events like tides and floods.
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No manmade nuclear repository could hope to cope with this kind of natural event either.
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Events don't fall neatly into natural events versus miracles.
gas
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It said it will use the net proceeds to acquire long-life natural gas reserves and exploit development opportunities.
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Oil companies fell in response to weaker crude oil and natural gas prices.
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Its two core components, methanol and butane, are processed from natural gas .
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But after adjustment for inflation, particularly for energy services such as natural gas , the real increase was just 0.2 percent.
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They are fossil fuels: coal, oil and natural gas , nuclear fuels: uranium ores.
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The air / fuel ratio on a weight basis also suggests the Intermediate character of oil between natural gas and coal.
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Methanol could well become a significant fuel for transportation and is already being produced from natural gas in New Zealand.
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Experts have described the coal as similar to natural gas in terms of its sulphur dioxide content.
habitat
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Some attacked the fact that faster growth has been environmentally unsound, creating excessive carbon emissions and destroying natural habitats .
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To determine our mating system we need to know our natural habitat and our past.
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It was through him that Mr Jackson became hooked on watching the badgers in their natural habitat .
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His natural habitat is the graph, his occupation the computer simulation.
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On the shelves there were fish swimming in the air as if it was their natural habitat .
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In indoor aquariums we can prepare much better and more stable conditions than are offered in their natural habitat .
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Today, hunting is no longer allowed and tourists visit these national parks to view and photograph the wildlife in their natural habitats .
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Some, however, are believed to be original natural habitats .
history
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Our knowledge of the basic natural history of some groups is still lamentable.
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The historical theme extends to cover local canals, bridges, floods, natural history and archaeology.
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But it was Wolf who succeeded best in the nineteenth century in bringing drama into natural history illustration.
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What is striking about natural history illustrations is sometimes their longevity.
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This meant, first and foremost, following Bacon in the making of natural histories .
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These results have important implications for the understanding of the natural history of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease.
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For the moment let us simply note that natural history may have important ritual implications.
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He regarded field-work as of fundamental importance in the study of natural history .
inclination
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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.
instinct
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I was whipped on against every natural instinct .
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San Diego is populated by folks whose natural instinct is to take to the beach, not to the streets.
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I feel certain the purpose of the slimness stems from the natural instinct to shoal in a compact body.
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The characters are guided by their hearts and natural instincts to truth, right conduct and happiness.
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Experience told him that a woman's natural instinct was to defend herself rather than to hurt the attacker.
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For me, drawing, designing, although coming from a very natural instinct , never has an esthetic finality.
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While they are only following their natural instincts , digging can cause very serious problems in the longer term.
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The natural instinct was to scuttle for shelter.
justice
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On this view the distinction between the application of the terms natural justice and fairness is linguistic rather than substantive.
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The exact requirements of natural justice can vary depending on the particular situation.
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For the present we must return to the adjudicative context within which natural justice and fairness operate.
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The courts have also addressed themselves to the question of whether natural justice or fairness applies to matters of a legislative nature.
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At present rules of a legislative nature are not generally subject to natural justice . 2.
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Again, special considerations which might be pertinent during wartime should not affect the ambit of natural justice now.
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Lord Denning restricted the full application of the rules of natural justice on the ground of national security.
language
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Computerized free language indexing is, for all practical purposes, the same as natural language indexing.
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Does this mean that the semantics of natural language can not deal with truth and falsity?
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Language and linguistics Over the past decade, work on formal theories of meaning for natural languages has developed very swiftly.
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In the light of all this, I do not think it premature to put forward an evolutionary scenario for natural language .
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In some circumstances natural language indexing may reflect more closely the terms used by the searcher.
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Voice and gesture recognition and natural language-processing , including translation, should be adequately developed in about ten years.
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This is partly because, with natural language indexing, the indexing language is that of the relevant input documents.
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Numerous projects are based on question-answer dialogues and the development of natural language front-ends for databases. 2.2.2.3.
law
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However, the natural law governing committees soon took hold and progress was glacially slow.
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No natural laws , only nature.
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Musical form is no exception to this natural law .
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But Aristotle did not conceive of natural laws based on mathematical principles.
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But of course natural law is false judged by positivist assumptions just as positivism is false judged by natural law assumptions.
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Smith propounded natural laws behind the new reality.
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But of course natural law is false judged by positivist assumptions just as positivism is false judged by natural law assumptions.
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He was convinced that, in a world governed by natural law , life must inevitably be accompanied by reproduction and death.
leader
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His upbringing, education and training had been based on the assumption that in any situation his class were the natural leaders .
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A natural follower, looking for a natural leader .
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He was a good fighter and a brave man, though not, like Bedwyr, a natural leader .
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As soon as he walked into a room, he was in charge-a natural leader .
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Why does it sometimes seem that Robert Mugabe must be the natural leader of this panic-stricken crusade?
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She is not a natural leader and does not like to be in charge.
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By the mid-Fifties he considered himself the natural leader of world Communism.
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A quick dip into this must make ordinary Joes feel like natural leaders .
light
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Table 11.2 shows times when natural light is recommended or advised against.
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Saconi was in there at one of the tables, blithe and ambivalent in the diffused natural light .
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Whilst we stress the artificial nature of most time-cues, it would be misleading to suggest that natural light is without effect.
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A special feature is a cantilevered bay window which is designed to create more space and to give plenty of natural light .
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Other requirements: Light: Needs very good light , especially natural light.
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Soane created a beautifully spacious building, awash in natural light .
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Modern school buildings make as much use as possible of natural light , incorporating as they do large windows.
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He worked out of doors, with natural light and a white background.
monopoly
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Therefore the possibility of there being a natural monopoly is intimately related to the assumptions regarding potential entrant behaviour.
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When a firm displays these economies of scale, we call it a natural monopoly .
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The most we can say is that if there are still economies of scale unexploited, the industry is a natural monopoly .
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In principle, in some natural monopoly industries outside controls are superfluous.
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Other Western countries face the same problem of natural monopoly in these industries.
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Perhaps such arguments are beside the main point, which is to cover the natural monopoly case.
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Costs can be rising in a natural monopoly industry.
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Our concern essentially is with the first of these possibilities, the case of natural monopoly - no competition is possible.
order
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Even the claim that the natural order reflected the contingency of a divine will could pull in two directions.
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It seems, like the dandelions in spring, to be the natural order of things.
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In terms of the dominant concepts of the age, feudalism appeared as the natural order of things.
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These metaphors are all projections of a wholly negative and reductionist view of human existence on to the natural order .
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They were charged with dispensing justice and avenging violations of the natural order .
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Social and economic stability and the natural order call for a full two weeks of diligent goofing off.
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In this way a social contrivance appears to be founded on the natural order of things.
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But my ideas were based on ignorance of the natural order of things.
parent
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But they are not entirely unsympathetic to natural parents .
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But Francine ended up back with her natural parents in a dispute over how much money was to be paid.
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Tizard, for example, mentions the need to support the natural parents to enable them to care adequately.
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Her adoptive parents were told at the time by doctors that her natural parents had abandoned her.
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Their natural parents are separately seeking custody.
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After reading about the case, her natural parents phoned her mum and dad in Manchester.
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Children will be pulled in two directions between their natural parents and may well have tense relationships with their step-parents.
philosophy
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The anti-Aristotelianism and the newly emerging concept of natural philosophy were, then, not private but public developments.
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A separation of science from religion has also been seen in a diminished authority for the Bible in matters of natural philosophy .
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But it would be misleading to speak of separation given the religious foundations of his natural philosophy .
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It is plain from all of this how moral philosophy is taken to depend on natural philosophy.
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They were to be the basis of a new natural philosophy , and were advocated both by practising experimenters and by theoreticians.
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Aristotle too claims in several places that natural philosophy and medicine go hand in hand and are studied by the same people.
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Boyle's essays reveal an unprecedented series of distinctions, of the utmost importance in the promotion of natural philosophy .
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He says rather more, however, about their ill effects on natural philosophy , mathematics, and religion.
process
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Agricultural subsidies and a thoughtless disregard for natural processes are washing away the commonwealth of land, its soils and wildlife.
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By contrast, the magical Eve grows out of Adam, and not the natural processes of the physical world.
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Second, the discrimination which emanates from ageism can appear to result from the natural process of biological ageing rather than social creation.
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Such abstraction is essential to human understanding, and it has opened up comprehension of natural processes in an amazing way.
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Sometimes the natural processes of erosion will etch a perfect specimen.
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Is this sequence the natural process by which humans approach an infant?
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In my case this natural process has been disrupted.
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Both would interfere with the natural process of evolution and natural selection which ensured social progress.
progression
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Tom's move to Chief Executive of Petersen is a natural progression .
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Here was a natural progression of young trees, old trees, and decaying fallen trees.
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They laughed, talked, and drank champagne: and the natural progression was to his bedroom.
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Using different colours can change the scale and shape of things and tartan is a natural progression from this.
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To an outsider this seemed a quite natural progression , but within the West Indies it was not greeted with unmitigated delight.
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By a natural progression Peter thought of the Letts School-Boy Diary for 1964.
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From there, by natural progression , Jinny moved to the memory of herself, crying into Keith's comfortable jumper.
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This is a natural progression from the work carried out in the area during 1991 on the Food Safety Act.
resource
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Imperialism focused on one or two natural resources , thus creating a homogeneous agricultural proletariat, all doing the same labouring job.
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It would grant them greater control over electing their own leaders and over their natural resources and economies.
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The object of the exercise is to ensure the wise and efficient use of natural resources throughout the Trust.
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Those homes were determined by the location of natural resources and the possession of capital.
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Apart from products based on these natural resources , including electric power, Kosovo has little industry except some textiles and leather products.
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There is physical capital: natural resources and manufactured things like machines that are used in the production of other goods.
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Environmental degradation, whether resulting from pollution or from overuse of natural resources , does not respect the boundaries of states.
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The world is still rich with natural resources that could be reshaped by your creative mind.
science
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The work of Feyerabend and Kuhn suggests that unqualified talk of progress even in the natural sciences is going too far.
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Three years later, he received a doctorate in the natural sciences from the same school.
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The same kind of problem arises if the system is looked at from the angle of the natural sciences .
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The philosophical underpinnings of creation science automatically place it in a very different realm from natural science.
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He took the natural sciences tripos in 1877 with first-class honours, and was appointed an assistant demonstrator.
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One is founded on the triumphant rise of natural science since the sixteenth century.
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In natural science , we study the phenomena of the world around us, the world of things, of objects.
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It only seems to include the experimental model drawn from the natural sciences .
selection
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But the histone H4 document hasn't just been copied, it has been subjected to natural selection .
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No other currency counts in natural selection .
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Variety is the raw material of evolution, used up as natural selection takes its course.
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In that case, evolution by natural selection occurred, but did not create a new species.
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It is all done automatically by ordinary natural selection .
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If accurate measurement of quality is in place, natural selection proceeds almost automatically.
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One qualification is that some evolutionary changes occur by chance, without natural selection .
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The better the host defends, the more natural selection will promote the parasites that can overcome the offense.
talent
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It was apparent from that day that he had a natural talent that was waiting to be developed.
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He would like that, the two of us with the same natural talent .
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Hoomey, Nutty would have said, had no natural talent .
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The trick for families who want to make fitness a priority and yet lack natural talent may be twofold, experts say.
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To achieve that status, a player needs - besides a natural talent - a burning inner ambition.
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He had said that Joe possessed a natural talent for political news and should seek opportunities in that direction.
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My domino playing was at its peak and all that I was achieving was gained through natural talent .
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But he forgot his natural talents such as hunting and speaking to other whales.
thing
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It was a natural thing , like air.
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It was the most natural thing possible to connect them with the gods.
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He'd no patience with women putting on airs and moaning about the most natural thing in the world.
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I have always believed in natural things .
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Thus physical and natural things were denigrated.
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To him it is the natural thing to do.
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He was beginning to have a sense of Man things and natural things.
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It needs to be kind of a natural thing for me.
way
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But the Pill continued to be made and marketed in the pseudo-natural way he had devised.
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John's wort is the natural way to go is still up for debate.
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Tears are clearly woven through her life in a natural way .
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The technical definition of multimedia is the use of Multimedia mimics the natural way people communicate.
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I learned all this in the most natural way of all by talking to other patients.
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The denizens of Shantytown live in a natural way .
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Carolyn watched him, caught between her astonishment at his presence here, and the sudden absolutely natural way they were talking.
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We, in our post-Freudian age, tend to accept this as the natural way therapy works.
world
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In the conventional sense of the word, which conveys some sort of harmony with the natural world , it certainly was.
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The problem is even more severe with the natural world , where the ratio of observable high drama is much lower.
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The focus today is not the predicted disappearance of order but the abundance of it throughout the natural world .
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There is no doubt that this early form of man had a greater impact on the natural world than any other animal.
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Coleridge insisted, to both the natural world and the human spirit.
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We are not free to deface and destroy the natural world .
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The vision of unity I saw on that subway begins here to extend beyond humanity to the whole natural world .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
natural wastage
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For the Army we are talking about in excess of 10,000 redundancies and much of the other reductions will occur through natural wastage .
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He didn't mind the natural wastage , at all.
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Membership from now on will be by invitation only as existing places become available through natural wastage .
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No, natural wastage , as they call it these days, took care of the decrease.
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Ten of the posts to go will disappear through natural wastage .
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There is a natural wastage of at least five percent on any diet.
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Voluntary redundancies and natural wastage are expected instead of sackings.
the natural/animal/plant world
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He can live in and accept the natural world , yet his soul lofts upward.
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However we have seen that quantum theory places considerable restraint on a plain man's objectivist view of the natural world .
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In that casual gesture she trampled upon an awesome human achievement and upon great sacrifices contributed by the natural world .
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It is not true that the will to power alone characterises the animal world .
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Similarly, these continuing contests in the natural world were leading to areas which were specialised in their functions.
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The focus today is not the predicted disappearance of order but the abundance of it throughout the natural world .
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We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world .
the rules of natural justice
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A corollary of this view was that the content of the rules of natural justice could be relatively fired and certain.
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An obvious example would be if it reached a decision in flagrant breach of the rules of natural justice.
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If he perceives that there is a likelihood of bias, the rules of natural justice have been broken. 2.
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Lord Denning restricted the full application of the rules of natural justice on the ground of national security.
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Similarly, a requirement that the expert observe the rules of natural justice could be made a contractual obligation.
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The injunction is important in public law in the context of the rules of natural justice.
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When do the rules of natural justice apply?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a natural athlete
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a natural smile
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A pipeline carries natural gas from under the sea to the refinery inland.
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all-natural snacks
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Anger is a natural reaction when you lose someone you love.
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Death is a natural event, which you have to accept.
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His natural hair color is brown.
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I can't even remember what my natural hair color is.
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I prefer natural fibres such as wool and cotton.
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I suppose it's natural for a mother to feel sad when her children leave home.
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I think we are dealing with a natural phenomenon here, not witchcraft.
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It's only natural that people who spend a lot of time around computers either love them or hate them.
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It's perfectly natural to grieve for the loss of a pet.
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It isn't natural for a child to be so quiet.
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It was fascinating to see the elephants in their natural environment.
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Laws are needed to preserve the state's natural beauty.
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Of course Jean misses her boyfriend - it's only natural .
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She was completely natural and unaffected by the attention.
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The manufacturers claim that only natural ingredients are used in their products.
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The river had worn away the rock to form a natural bridge.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Being a water-based mousse, it's ultra light to apply and blends in perfectly with your natural skin tone.
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But now, Down Under, the game has found a fitting, natural home.
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Earlier we saw how spiral images may have derived from snails and other natural forms, from sea shells to galaxies.
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Man has dominion over the natural world.
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Offthe Wall was a masterpiece, and it was a natural crossover.
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The days when politicians such as Roosevelt or Truman could appeal to a natural working-class constituency are gone.
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The same must be true of the residence and domicile of natural persons owning fishing vessels.
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They contain a natural antiseptic which fights spot-causing bacteria and dries up the blemishes.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gore is hardly a political natural .