Converse of object

• understand: Now you say we don't understand the nature of metaphor or this process completely.

• reflect: Our question concerning ethnic backgrounds revealed a wide variety of cultures, which reflects the diverse nature of the Boro of Camden.

• explore: Each of them is somehow corrupted by fame, and the film explores the insidious nature of this threat.

• explain: The membership rules explain the nature of the Premises and ask members to respect and support these.

• emphasize: This is innovative software which emphasizes the musical nature of aural training.

• examine: His most famous poem, A Drunk Man looks at a Thistle ( 1926 ), examined the spiritual nature of his home country.

Converse of subject

• reclaim: By the 1860's industries had left the area leaving behind a trail of derelict remains to be reclaimed by nature.

• complicate: However, achieving these objectives for all students was complicated by the increasingly heterogeneous nature of the intake to the apprenticeship program.

Adjective modifier

• human: How great is the frailty of human nature which is ever prone to evil!

• true: He added: " Whatever the true nature of the under-drawing, it had yet to be made public.

• exact: However, it not possible to conjecture the exact nature of this interrelation due to a lack of accurate dating between works.

• sinful: Our sinful, rebellious nature no longer has pride of place.

• divine: When the church did address the issue, however, it affirmed that God cannot suffer in his divine nature.

• sensitive: This emphasizes sensitive nature of T'ai Chi push hands.

Modifies a noun

• reserve: In the autumn the cattle spend time grazing the hay meadows within the Paxton Pits nature reserve.

• conservation: Much of the data already available has been collected with a view to nature conservation, for example, the Phase 1 Habitat Survey.

• trail: One in trees near rooms, one on nature trail.

• lover: Llys Meddyg is a perfect base for walkers, birdwatchers and nature lovers at any time of the year.

Noun used with modifier

• journal: They will publish further findings from the Human Genome Project in the scientific journal Nature next week.

Preposition: of

• relationship: In each case, the particular circumstances and the nature of the relationship will have to be considered.