adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a careful examination
▪ After a very careful examination of the evidence, we have ruled against the defendant.
a careful measurement (=an accurate measurement – used when you are emphasizing the process of measuring)
▪ Careful measurements of the human skull were taken and recorded.
a careful/close analysis
▪ Students learn to make a close analysis of the texts.
a careful/detailed inspection
▪ The architect has now made his detailed inspection of the building.
a careful/safe driver
▪ Since I had the accident, I’m a much more careful driver.
a thorough/careful check
▪ An engineer gave the computer a thorough check.
a thorough/careful search
▪ We conducted a thorough search of the building.
careful consideration
▪ After careful consideration I have decided not to accept your offer.
careful planning
▪ To do the job properly requires careful planning.
careful preparation
▪ Moving to a new house requires careful preparation.
careful scrutiny
▪ These figures need careful scrutiny.
careful selection
▪ Adair emphasises the importance of careful selection of team members.
close/careful supervision
▪ Children were allowed out only under close supervision.
close/careful/detailed observation
▪ A lot of useful knowledge is gained by careful observation of the world around you.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ This more careful use of language is welcome.
▪ What you need to do is be more careful in your scattershot approach to labeling people as bigots.
▪ Does attention to unconscious wishes and conflicts necessarily produce a more careful gender politics?
▪ One argument is that two legislative houses ensure more careful deliberation on issues and laws.
▪ Let us assume that we have been more careful and not leapt before we looked.
▪ If much of this occurs, re-examine the proposal write-up; it may need a more careful rewriting.
▪ Alan thought men could be more responsible: Men should be more careful.
▪ If anything, he had been more careful of his diet than ever.
most
▪ I assure the House that I shall keep this matter under the most careful review.
▪ It is for this reason among others that current literature should deserve your most careful consideration.
▪ In the hope of getting a fair deal, you should press him to undertake the most careful inquiry into the facts.
▪ Our delusions are just as likely to be real as our most careful scientific observations.
▪ No one should embark on it without the most careful consideration.
▪ I have done that after the most careful scrutiny.
▪ Time and the most careful deliberation of the issues raised are available in the House of Lords.
▪ Goose required the most careful carving.
so
▪ Prunella and I are so careful.
▪ Now she isn't so careful.
▪ One of the reasons she had survived in business was because she had always been so careful.
▪ This may not be what is required at all and so careful and gentle questioning will be needed.
▪ He is normally so careful crossing the road.
▪ It has to be places that are very flat and you have to be so careful.
▪ He need not have been so careful.
▪ Habibi's confidence was restored, yet never was a horse so careful not to bite the hand that fed it!
too
▪ As he expected, he found nothing incriminating, Spencer would be far too careful for that.
▪ He used words handsomely, though he may have been too careful with them, a little too punctilious.
▪ You can never be too careful these days.
▪ But as I started to slow down for the approach, I was too careful.
▪ Pawley and Syder provide a number of examples, among them the following: You can't be too careful.
▪ She was stiff-looking; her smile looked too careful.
▪ Well, I didn't say it was, because you can't be too careful these days with all these burglaries.
▪ Sometimes he considered that he could not be too careful.
very
▪ However, this needs very careful planning and management.
▪ Leese and I had done a very careful preflight.
▪ You felt you had to be very careful what you said to him.
▪ I have paid very careful attention, and the federal government is too.
▪ At least she could talk about Terence to her child; she would have to be very careful what she said about Peter.
▪ In such circumstances one would have to be very careful about interpreting the results of Turing tests.
▪ I just have to get my rest, and be very careful with it.
▪ One needs to be very careful about asking if modern science really does commit one to rejecting objective purposes and values.
■ NOUN
analysis
▪ But it does lend itself to careful analysis and preparation which may well pay off during the actual bargaining.
▪ Under careful analysis, however, the imagined alternatives do not stand up as realistic.
▪ It is careful analysis and a clear direction that will bring rewards.
▪ This, it seems to me, is an issue worthy of careful analysis.
▪ Rather, they require a careful analysis of contemporary political struggles over questions of representation, symbolic boundary formation, and identification.
▪ He talked about the civil rights movement, the need for political engagement, careful analysis, honest leadership.
▪ He provides a careful analysis of the relationship between the functional and structural characteristics of different types of discourse.
▪ The key factor in making better decisions is a careful analysis of what an organization believes about itself and its environment.
attention
▪ With our long tradition of effective management and careful attention to quality we have a bright future as an independent company.
▪ Almost miraculously Herrera recovered after several months of careful attention and rest.
▪ One day it might not be, unless careful attention was kept.
▪ For example, careful attention is given to communication in writing.
▪ What is certain is that land and property development are where the action is today and that merits careful attention.
▪ Instead, in each room, careful attention is paid to how to build a just community.
▪ In Britain similarly parties would have to give careful attention to the locality factor.
▪ Diverse management would happen in the natural course of things without paying excruciatingly careful attention to balance.
consideration
▪ Clearly, the decision to admit a patient to hospital must be taken only after very careful consideration.
▪ It is for this reason among others that current literature should deserve your most careful consideration.
▪ The admission of a tenant already showing signs of dementia requires very careful consideration in the individual case.
▪ After careful consideration of all the evidence and relevant law the Tribunal either upholds or dismisses the appeal.
▪ As the confederation moved toward constitutional government, issues of internal security were found to require careful consideration.
▪ The establishment of a new political system based on law was a highly complex matter and needed careful consideration, he said.
▪ After careful consideration, Jay turned down the offer.
examination
▪ Both of these premisses warrant careful examination.
▪ By careful examination, Lamb estimated the age of the tree at five hundred years.
▪ Of course we welcome the Woolf report and its careful examination of what happened during the Strangeways riot.
▪ A careful examination of the full context, however, suggests that see may well denote mental inference here as well.
▪ On careful examination it became clear that the cartouche had been engraved.
▪ After a careful examination of the bottles, I sorted one out, and poured the amber fluid into an expensive glass.
▪ The devaluation debate also needs careful examination before Labour or Livingstone set off down another dead end.
▪ In half the specimens studied these lesions were found only after careful examination of numerous sections and staining with an anti-cytokeratin antibody.
look
▪ But Acheson took a second careful look and saw a few bright specks attached to the rod.
▪ Just take a careful look the next time you are out shopping; how many people look happy?
▪ They were ambitious for gain and apt to want a careful look at the books.
management
▪ Let us consider why careful management may be beneficial.
▪ They did know that despite those high amounts, they could, with careful management, prevent kidney stones.
▪ With careful management and unadventurous policies the Crown could, however, keep afloat.
▪ But with careful management the carp can still be a boon to water authorities.
▪ Neither is viable without the other and both require careful management to ensure that their viability is perpetuated.
▪ This can create a conflict of interest which needs careful management.
▪ In other respects careful management and a firm hand pushed up the royal income.
▪ The company is in the type of industry which is going to need ever more careful management and control.
note
▪ Take careful note of the potential size - it is very easy to go wrong with these.
▪ After your first interview, work your way down the list, taking careful notes in your career log after each conversation.
▪ He looked at the soles of the feet, making careful note of what he saw.
▪ The first thing to do is make a careful note of any error messages you get.
▪ He must not only distinguish behaviour from ideology, he must also take careful note of just how they are interrelated.
▪ I made a careful note of this exchange in the slim volume in which I stashed anything that sounded like wisdom.
▪ A careful note should be made against any sub-contractor used by the builder who subsequently proved to be unsatisfactory.
▪ Take careful notes during the session.
observation
▪ He frequently implies that knowledge is to be had by experience and by careful observation of the world.
▪ After years of horticultural experience and careful observations, I have compiled a short informational guide on your choices in lawn-mowing equipment.
▪ The improved brain made this possible by careful observation of the animals they pursued.
▪ In order to answer such causal questions, careful observation of what goes on is simply not sufficient.
▪ This was probably based on careful observation of the summer solstice.
▪ But careful observation suggests that this is not the case.
▪ The truth of such statements is to be established by careful observation.
▪ New concepts of force and inertia did not come about as a result of careful observation and experiment.
planning
▪ If work is needed in all of these areas, careful planning will be as important as hard work.
▪ Thus production processes require careful planning and controlling. 2.
▪ This can involve materials already in school, some supplementary materials or the careful planning of a visit or trip.
▪ I would argue that this careful planning of activities is already the current practice of many teachers.
▪ This demands careful planning well ahead of the requirement.
▪ By teatime, Landless was well pleased with his day's work and the careful planning which had gone into it.
▪ This needs careful planning and it makes sense to start saving early.
▪ In the absence of careful planning, it will not occur.
preparation
▪ More complex needs will call for multidisciplinary assessments, careful preparation, and time for patients to consider their future.
▪ There was none of the careful preparation and gradual introduction which usually precedes the adoption of a child beyond infancy.
▪ However, there will be much to be gained by careful preparation of the selling task.
▪ He believes that the secret of successful selling comes from careful preparation and hard work.
▪ Creating the climate in which such tough talking can occur is a highly skilled task and takes careful preparation.
scrutiny
▪ Each process had to undergo careful scrutiny by the Environmental Health Department, and the cooks had to pass medical tests.
▪ Incidentally, that experiment is now also under careful scrutiny in Professor Krauss's laboratory.
▪ I have done that after the most careful scrutiny.
▪ Such figures as we have need careful scrutiny, because they rarely take account of those who came back.
▪ Efforts to stain paper artificially to give an appearance of age have little hope of withstanding careful scrutiny.
▪ Since these behavioural data are so crucial to interpreting the physiological findings they will repay careful scrutiny.
selection
▪ They joined the six-day residential course after a careful selection process.
▪ While real estate seems still to be undervalued compared to stocks and bonds, this is a year for careful selection.
▪ A tendency towards rather flighty behaviour in the breed is being overcome by careful selection.
▪ The careful selection of the most logical buyers in order to reduce circulation size can therefore be a wasted effort.
▪ Such intimacy requires careful selection of a detail that is representative of the whole.
▪ With careful selection you can recreate your own wildlife haven.
▪ The answer to this lies in careful selection of paper.
▪ Students may, by careful selection, build a course of informed specialization or one of reflective overview.
study
▪ The foundation of the Camden Society in 1839 had promoted much more careful study of medieval architecture.
▪ It is vital to his sense of responsible obsession that everything in his room warrants careful study.
▪ Its modes of privilege, in actual institutions and practices, need especially careful study.
▪ Table 4-7 provides a checklist of the determinants of supply: the accompanying illustrations deserve careful study.
▪ But careful studies in the 1960S revealed that none of these explanations will do.
▪ But, as careful studies demonstrate, entrepreneurs do not seek risks, they seek opportunities.
▪ Breach of discipline Any written disciplinary rules that affect you deserve careful study.
▪ If the existence of an attention deficit is confirmed through careful study, appropriate help must be provided for the child.
thought
▪ We do need order, concern, mutual consideration and careful thought, but not as devices to suppress the darker forces.
▪ To design something usually implies careful thought, preparation, organization, and coherence.
▪ You need to give careful thought to any such stipulation before accepting it.
▪ Meanwhile, since the beginning of 1941, Navy planners had been giving careful thought to a revamping of fleet strategy.
▪ And each work area needs careful thought to ensure that all necessary equipment and ingredients are conveniently to hand.
▪ I also admired and learned from the careful thought that this organization had put into their program.
▪ This can often give rise to dispute and requires careful thought.
▪ Busacher, after careful thought, had decided he would conduct the orchestra himself this evening.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ ""Failing your exams isn't the end of the world,'' said Kay's mother, careful not to sound disappointed.
▪ A careful inspection showed cracks in the foundation of the building.
▪ Dr. Angelo made a careful examination.
▪ Fry the garlic, being careful not to let it burn.
▪ Her book is the result of years of careful research.
▪ I wouldn't say he was mean -- he's just careful.
▪ Jen's a very careful driver.
▪ Mona's careful planning made the festival a success.
▪ Once you've spent your allowance there won't be any more. You must learn to be more careful with money.
▪ Paints today are getting safer as companies remove harmful chemicals, but you still need to be careful.
▪ She's a careful, hard-working student.
▪ She is careful not to criticize the president, but makes it clear that she thinks the government's policies should be far more radical.
▪ They were careful not to touch anything until the police arrived.
▪ They were both aware that there might be listening devices in the room, and she wanted to be careful what she said.
▪ Try to be more careful with your punctuation.
▪ We had to be careful that we didn't tip the raft over.
▪ You'll be OK with Jane - she's a very careful driver.
▪ You have to be careful what you say to her, she's very easily offended.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Be careful not to accompany your chosen carbohydrate with large quantities of fat.
▪ Be careful with toxic substances and always follow the directions on the bottles with great care.
▪ During the election campaign Bush was careful not to say outright that he would bring the boys home from the Balkans.
▪ He liked to sit on the floor, but was careful not to do so too often.
▪ I told her we were, and that being careful, the way we were careful, has always worked for me.
▪ I was always careful about promises and threats.
▪ When parents become involved in sibling arguments they have to be very careful not make the situation worse rather than better.