Converse of object

• have: I had portents of doom: " Whatever happens, we don't get saddled wi that tube aw the way up, awright?

• seem: Today they seem portents of a cataclysm that may not conveniently wait until we're history.

• carry: These celestial spheres carried portents for the future, the object's in the skies carried implicit and explicit significance and meaning.

• understand: Of course, the key point for socialists concerns how to understand the portent of these positive developments.

Adjective modifier

• ominous: I just hope the reduced number of routes this year is not a ominous portent for 1990.

• great: This month I start my journalistic career ' was saluted as the great portent of joy to come.

• good: In the last local election, Labor's support increased by less than 1 % - hardly a good portent.

• strange: There were no strange portents in the sky when Steve Redwood was born in 1943, a fact that discouraged him from the start.

• other: These same astrologers held that comets and other portents in the heavens were fleeting appearances of the sublunary sphere.

• first: Firstly, what is the first portent of the Hour?

Noun used with modifier

• death: I find it interesting that so many seem to be of the ' demon dog ' and ' death portent ' kind.

Preposition: in

• heaven: These same astrologers held that comets and other portents in the heavens were fleeting appearances of the sublunary sphere.

• sky: Were there signs and portents in the sky on the night I was born?

Preposition: of

• doom: Bedford on Sunday leads with " Rent increase a portent of doom.

• death: The dog was often seen on stormy nights and was regarded as a portent of death.

• thing: It proved to be a fair portent of things to come.

• future: Is this a symbolic portent of the future of radio drama in the UK?

• disaster: Many bright comets appear without much warning and this unpredictability led to them being regarded as portents of disaster in historic times.

Preposition: for

• future: The deaths of Joy Gardner and others at the hands of immigration officers are a portent for the future.