Example sentences of "a natural [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The city 's site on the Isthmus made her a natural centre for trade , and the aryballos seems to have been created to meet a new need : to bottle scented oils , imported from the East , for re-export east and west . |
| 2 | Whether or not league tables are reported , however , there is a natural tendency for evaluators to compare their study results with those for other health care programmes . |
| 3 | For instance , in a dry country , animals and plants work to maintain the fluid content of their cells , work against a natural tendency for water to flow from them into the dry outside world . |
| 4 | There will be a natural tendency for expansion to occur thereafter . |
| 5 | As all sand surfaces possess chance irregularities , even though they may be only of the magnitude of a few sand grains , there is a natural tendency for ripples to form . |
| 6 | I fear that there will be a natural tendency for suppliers such as Sony to turn to consumer electronics and recorded music outlets with whom they already have business relationships , and who are able to live off low discounts . |
| 7 | At appropriate stocking rates there is a natural tendency for oxygen to move from the atmosphere where the concentration is high , to the water where it is low and conversely for carbon dioxide to move from water with a higher concentration to the atmosphere where it is lower . |
| 8 | Someone has already taught it to be aggressive towards people : they have reinforced a natural tendency for aggression and its expression . |
| 9 | Even some of his closest supporters found the prospect of a natural origin for humankind unacceptable . |
| 10 | RIGHT Sitting is a natural posture for dogs , and they should feel quite happy in this position . |
| 11 | You will soon find that the dog will sit of its own accord , before you place the food bowl in front of it , as this is a natural posture for dogs to adopt . |
| 12 | Both are a natural habitat for golf of indescribable beauty , and on the lower coastal levels the cliffs give way to duneland , transformed here and there into links so natural they might well be in Scotland . |
| 13 | She had a natural flair for languages and it would be fun to brush up a little . |
| 14 | In fact long before the last five years he was copiously producing more or less fantastical inventions with which he comprehensively worked through a natural flair for parody , irony and offbeat musical humour . |
| 15 | Gilbert had a natural facility for jewellery , and being a sculptor was able to make up his own designs . |
| 16 | ‘ Because they can be integrated with existing toys they are always on hand to provide a natural stimulus for discussions throughout the child 's nursery and playgroup experience . ’ |
| 17 | Young children have a natural appetite for stories . |
| 18 | On giving up as a player , Ken was a natural choice for chairman and , as he did at the end of every subsequent season , promised sweeping changes and League football by 1992 . |
| 19 | ( 1977 ) reveals that the torque producing capability for a given motor volume is greater in the hybrid than in the variable-reluctance motor , so the hybrid motor is a natural choice for applications requiring a small step length and high torque in a restricted working space . |
| 20 | Also , these chambers are a natural haunting-place for Ghosts and suchlike , who may be mad and hostile , or tormented souls seeking peace and possibly able to pass on useful information to the adventurers . |
| 21 | Oliver , who had a natural distaste for policemen , crossed the road and ran home , on the other side . |
| 22 | They knew that palladium has a natural affinity for hydrogen and that if palladium is used as the cathode the hydrogen ions initially migrate into it ; as more and more hydrogen goes in so it gets under ever greater pressures . |
| 23 | That the " shop " was a natural unit for trade unionism is confirmed even in present-day language . |
| 24 | Called the ‘ father of English canals ’ , Brindley was originally a millwright by trade , born in Derbyshire in 1716 and barely educated , but showing a natural genius for engineering in an age when that word was scarcely part of the vocabulary . |
| 25 | This chamber is a natural place for Bardul to retire to talk with the adventurers and offer some of his Lustrian coffee . |
| 26 | As many market buildings stand in squares or have public space around them , they provide a natural place for people to congregate . |
| 27 | A subject association or professional body provides a natural forum for debates about degree courses in that subject . |
| 28 | Of an inquiring mind , he also , according to his youngest daughter , Mary Lutyens , combined a natural gift for mathematics with ‘ a creative imagination of genius ’ . |
| 29 | It turned out that Hannah had inherited a natural gift for music . |
| 30 | Throughout his career with Rangers , Sunderland , Nottingham Forest and Scotland , Baxter befriended players cast in a similar mould , that army of renegades who were born with a natural gift for football but were easily disenchanted with the disciplinary structures of the professional game . |