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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a chapter explores sth
▪ The second chapter explores the effects of these changes in more detail.
explore a possibility (=think carefully and find out about an opportunity)
▪ You may want to explore the possibility of setting up your own business.
explore every avenue
▪ The president wants to explore every avenue towards peace in the region.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
fully
▪ This has yet to be fully explored but one publication at least gives useful guidance in this.
▪ Lott said the issue will be fully explored in hearings, but he cautioned against haste.
▪ The law has not, however, been fully explored here.
▪ Family problems and emotional factors have been fully explored and addressed. 4.
▪ Retirement has been central to all of these, although the complexity of its impact has yet to be fully explored.
▪ It is also the explanation of political behavior that has been least fully explored by means of social scientific inquiry.
▪ The potential role of young women in this process has yet to be fully explored.
▪ Republicans do not want obscure the hearings' primary focus or see them terminated before all questions are fully explored.
further
▪ The role of health board staff is explored further in the next section.
▪ Sally's case can be explored further.
▪ This theme will be explored further in the next chapter.
▪ With a microscope the picture can be explored further still.
▪ The Labovian model can be used to explore further the similarities and differences between the idealised and original versions.
▪ But this is not the place to explore further into that particular controversy.
▪ To explore further afield, bicycle hire is available.
▪ Elders from minority groups may experience particular dimensions of loss which will be further explored in the following section.
how
▪ It shows how the oil devastates the beach and then explores how the mess could be removed.
▪ Sally would take time to sit down with Hannah and explore how she felt when separating.
▪ It is essential to explore how user-system interaction through the retrieval task itself could be developed.
▪ Today the team is exploring how best to exhibit their findings.
▪ This research will explore how those management objectives are developed and implemented.
▪ It may be helpful for parents to explore how they have reacted under stress in the past.
▪ We shall explore how these factors interact more fully below.
▪ Serotonin is just one of the neurotransmitters under investigation as neuroscientists continue to explore how alcohol works in the brain.
■ NOUN
area
▪ Other scenarios come to mind when exploring further areas of development for the partnership.
▪ They could explore the area, learn its resources and contrive small comforts in their rooms.
▪ There is a choice of over 260 walks exploring 85 different areas throughout the country.
▪ Earlier this year, Philip Morris appointed a London agency to explore news areas of so-called non-conventional advertising.
▪ He had explored areas which ranged from the untidy and uncared for to the downright squalid.
▪ So, forget for the moment the big tourist attraction: explore your local area.
▪ She frowned, hazily exploring the area near her face with one hand.
▪ There is an active local historical society and members are delighted to meet visitors exploring the area.
aspect
▪ Differences in gender experience, as well as class background, will be explored in each aspect of inquiry.
▪ They are attracted to novel situations and appear to derive satisfaction from exploring new aspects of their environment.
▪ Instead he explores a number of aspects that all inhere in a state of contemplative awareness of a reality beyond time.
▪ Each color-coded trail explores a different aspect of the park.
▪ Selected policy issues will be used to explore these aspects of central-local relations, using documentary study and structured interviews.
▪ The child seems unable to explore all aspects of the stimulus, or decenter the visual inspection.
▪ This chapter sets out to explore some aspects of this paradox.
▪ Now, without constraints, it is possible to develop and explore aspects of ourselves that may never have emerged before.
avenue
▪ Every avenue must be explored and each of the alternatives fully considered.
▪ But it opens up new, practical avenues to explore.
▪ However, it remains an avenue to explore.
▪ These are excellent avenues to explore.
▪ Of course, this simplest first step opens whole new avenues to explore about how we pay for services.
▪ Trapped within such propositions there is no satisfying solution to be found, nor even avenues to be explored.
▪ Another avenue to explore is the possibility of pressing the flower belonging to the month of the birthday in question.
▪ I successfully blocked one of the main avenues they were exploring.
chapter
▪ This chapter explores the points of contact between the theory of social representations and the rhetorical approach.
▪ This chapter explores both the promise and the pitfalls of considering organization design changes.
▪ The next chapter explores social work practice where a family member begins to need residential care.
▪ The next chapter will explore some of the analytical techniques that are commonly employed in working capital management.
▪ The story of this chapter explores the indicators of success and failure and what you can do about them.
▪ In Chapter 2 we shall explore the problem of specifying the relevant context.
▪ In this chapter I will explore the ways that gender affects self-constituting activity.
detail
▪ The significance of the class-party nexus will be explored in more detail shortly.
▪ By exploring these events in detail, will we raise false hopes that athletics is a special path to mystic insight?
▪ The gravitational field has been explored in some detail by observations of the satellites and of the paths of fly-by spacecraft.
▪ The question of whether it is in fact an asset of the business or of Fred can be explored in more detail.
▪ This point is worth exploring in a little detail.
▪ This is explored in more detail in a later chapter.
▪ Scholarly cataloguers colour-photographed and explored every detail.
▪ It is, therefore, worth exploring in some detail their role.
idea
▪ Thus Regan sets aside prejudice and thoughtfully explores the idea that the concept of rights might legitimately be applied to some animals.
▪ Few have been more willing to explore new ideas and break with old ideas.
▪ This book explores the idea of major economic shifts being on the agenda.
▪ They are committed to exploring the idea of the Internet as a public space.
▪ The authors explore the idea that causal attributions made by survivors about their experience are an important mediating variable.
▪ Such experiences vivify learning and give children the opportunity to talk and, through talk, to explore ideas.
▪ She describes the strategies the project used to explore children's ideas and some of the findings.
island
▪ In spite of this a chance to explore the island was not to be missed.
▪ Whole day cruises explore the islands once a week from Cannigione, and yacht trips are available too.
▪ In the second half we consider the practical side of exploring the island of Madeira.
▪ We enjoyed exploring all the islands, and loved the ferry journeys thereto.
▪ Back on Anguilla, it's worth hiring a car for the day to explore the island.
▪ Can we explore the island when we get back?
issue
▪ Instead, separate Centers of Competence explored issues of interest to the consultants who participated in them.
▪ In exploring this issue it is useful to watch out for two aspects of theoretical interpretation.
▪ Why not use this exhibition, this symposium to explore new issues?
▪ The fertility counsellor's main role is to help clients explore the complex issues involved in fertility treatment. 3.
▪ For the most part, he had explored the issue on a more experiential level.
▪ The final selection was slanted towards books with a strong social content and which explored political issues.
▪ Chapter 10 is devoted to exploring issues in the production and comprehension of speech.
nature
▪ Second it will explore the nature and role of those bodies which claim to represent the particular interests of small business.
▪ Duberman describes how Albers would have the students explore the nature of paper, for instance.
▪ But most of the philosophers who have written about and explored the nature of being have not been so crude.
▪ This research aims to explore the nature of this impairment and examine ways in which it might be overcome.
▪ Language awareness sections explore the nature of language and communication, and can be used in class or for self-study.
▪ The other more promising line of investigation is to explore directly the nature of conversational interaction.
▪ However, their task is to explore the nature, and the consequences, of that relationship.
▪ Future research could profitably explore the nature of children's explanations in a range of classroom contexts.
oil
▪ The industry also has become more cautious about spending big bucks to explore for oil and gas.
opportunity
▪ A hectic, but enjoyable annum ahead brings masses of new openings and opportunities to explore and exploit.
▪ During the school year, long weekends are good opportunities to explore together.
▪ The urban child needs to be given opportunity to explore the quieter reflective world of woodland and meadow.
▪ The stronger my control, the less opportunity for individuals to explore, to express their own ideas.
▪ But every student should have the opportunity to explore career options while still in high school.
▪ Take this opportunity to explore these beautiful and varied islands that are waiting to be discovered!
▪ His isolated Ottery childhood had provided few opportunities for exploring the possibilities of friendship.
option
▪ Kennedy was understandably wary and disposed to explore other options.
▪ Fien is exploring his options and could transfer.
▪ The big head start will give you time to explore many options thoughtfully.-0-&038;.
▪ But every student should have the opportunity to explore career options while still in high school.
▪ I just wanted to make sure I explored all the options.
▪ At the beginning of the year, Bill and the class explored some options for whole-class projects.
possibility
▪ To explore this possibility subjects gave risk ratings for the stimuli after completing the main experiment.
▪ We need to articulate the feminine position and explore its possibilities.
▪ Maybe I would explore the possibility of early retirement in the end.
▪ Co. will explore the possibility of finding a purchaser for the station or spinning it off to Disney shareholders.
▪ Alternatively, they could ask that Manelux explore the possibility of a no strike agreement with the tutors.
▪ In this volume Storni skilfully explored the many possibilities of recreating meaning in rhythm by means of freer versification.
▪ Local government was allocated these responsibilities with great reluctance only after the government had explored every other possibility.
▪ The real purpose of the General Council was to explore the possibility of establishing effective cooperation between unions.
potential
▪ To explore the potential of this idea further, we sent these leading hair stylists to the Alps.
▪ This thus stands as a starting point for exploring the potential of complex semiotics as a mode of analysis of the photographic.
project
▪ This project has explored the training process.
▪ The project explores the foundations of rational choice theory, probing the limitations of this theory and developing new approaches.
▪ This project is intended to explore the complex relationship between geographical mobility and voting.
▪ The issues surrounding the project were explored at a public inquiry in Plymouth last autumn.
▪ The research project explores the substantive and technical issues of analysing hierarchical structures and in particular develops general purpose computer software.
▪ She describes the strategies the project used to explore children's ideas and some of the findings.
▪ The project will also be exploring how identity, the self-concept, changes in response to educational and occupational experiences during adolescence.
question
▪ Some pupils explored the sequence with questions such as: Which numbers are even?
▪ The accompanying text pages explore these questions and give definite answers as a basis for discussion.
▪ Almost immediately after researchers began exploring this question, however, they hit a series of snags.
▪ But the most effective way of exploring this difficult question is not in abstract, supra-historical terms.
▪ Once the question of who has been resolved, we can explore more of the questions about how.
▪ A vital ingredient for exploring these five questions is imagination, and to that I now turn.
▪ Claman sets out to explore in depth fundamental questions, but readers expecting such will be left unfulfilled and let down.
relationship
▪ The Red Studio and the views of Matisse at work show an artist exploring the relationship between real and fictive worlds.
▪ But l wanted to step beyond that and explore what an intimate relationship would be.
▪ This project is intended to explore the complex relationship between geographical mobility and voting.
▪ This time around, she explores more fully the relationships between artist and art and artist and community.
▪ It is fifteen years since he first explored the relationship of real flesh and its marble parallels in art history.
▪ Later chapters will explore the parent-child relationship as a possible cause of work inhibition.
▪ It will be interesting to study experiments in graphic and theatrical design that attempt to explore this relationship.
▪ This makes driving an ideal context in which to understand the concept of subjective risk and explore its relationship with memory.
research
▪ This research explores the discourses of class in terms of the meanings clustering around the ideas of work and of community.
▪ This research will explore how those management objectives are developed and implemented.
▪ The research will explore the way in which paid work in later life facilitates or inhibits the development of such networks.
▪ This research aims to explore the nature of this impairment and examine ways in which it might be overcome.
▪ The research aims to explore how decisions are made in voluntary sector transport provisions.
▪ The research project explores the substantive and technical issues of analysing hierarchical structures and in particular develops general purpose computer software.
study
▪ In 1991-92 the authors carried out a study to explore the experiences of staff on secondments.
▪ Social studies, as they explore what governmental body is responsible for the quality of their water?
▪ This study explored the role of the L-arginine-NO pathway in the regulation of gall bladder motility.
▪ As evidence permits, the study will also explore the decision making of senior management inside firms.
▪ The aim of his study was to explore why people took part in activities that yielded no extrinsic rewards.
▪ In the following case study we will therefore explore fashion and travel images together.
▪ Two case studies were explored in depth.
▪ The Oxford Record Linkage Study was used to explore this hypothesis.
theme
▪ I will explore this theme in the future.
▪ She may feel cautious about exploring certain themes in her pretend play such as coping with aggression.
▪ A small number of in-depth interviews will explore these themes.
▪ Part Two of this book explores themes in the study of micropolitics.
▪ When they return to school there should be an opportunity for students to share their experiences and explore a variety of themes.
▪ What the book does attempt to do is to provide a framework of problems and ideas, exploring major themes.
▪ In this talk I want to explore two main themes.
▪ We will explore these themes in more detail in Chapter 20.
ways
▪ In this final session Margaret was encouraged to explore possible ways of coping at times of further crises.
▪ At the seminar I met a number of interesting people and explored ways we could interact by sharing ideas.
▪ While this might have been expected, neither did it explore alternative ways of allowing mineworkers to use its educational resources.
▪ The proposals surfaced after Congress decided to explore ways to overhaul the cumbersome federal tax system.
▪ In exploring the ways in which young people are guided into employment, Bates recognises that.
▪ In this chapter I will explore the ways that gender affects self-constituting activity.
▪ We are positively exploring various ways in which the organisation can make information from the archive more generally available.
▪ The company said it will explore ways to improve the return on mining the deposit.
world
▪ People take a couple of years off, buy a camper and explore the world.
▪ As I explored, a world of physical, emotional, and spiritual interdependence opened.
▪ In the initial centuries of Bel Shanaar's long reign the Elves busied themselves rebuilding their land and exploring the surrounding world.
▪ Touch is a major way that babies comfort themselves, explore their world, and initiate contact.
▪ The urban child needs to be given opportunity to explore the quieter reflective world of woodland and meadow.
▪ Want to explore some virtual worlds of your own?
▪ It helps children to explore their gradually expanding world through topics that are relevant and interesting.
▪ But will they explore texts and the world with energy, ingenuity, and resourcefulness?
■ VERB
allow
▪ Drowsily, achingly she allowed him to explore her flesh where it was revealed above the neckline of her pretty dress.
▪ We had allowed six days to explore the island: it was scarce enough.
▪ Stevenson was deliberately seeking a plot that would allow him to explore an aspect of human psychology.
begin
▪ How could one even begin to explore it?
▪ An increasing number of architects had, however, begun to explore the distance between poetry and fact.
▪ Almost immediately after researchers began exploring this question, however, they hit a series of snags.
▪ Secluded that is, until climbers began to explore the crag.
▪ We began to explore who Aline had to forgive before she could die as a complete person.
▪ The young person can begin to explore their own abilities and the world around with confidence.
encourage
▪ The Activity Book at each level provides a project task which encourages learners to explore the video topic in relation to their own environment.
▪ In this final session Margaret was encouraged to explore possible ways of coping at times of further crises.
▪ The aim of the competition is to encourage artists to explore the many creative opportunities offered by the new Tinted Bockingford range.
▪ Sharing can cause problems, but in some cases the children can be encouraged to explore possible solutions for themselves.
▪ He encouraged her to explore his body in turn, to use the same delicate, sensual curiosity he had shown her.
▪ Any child who is encouraged to explore these aspects will learn the awkward shapes of words quite naturally.
need
▪ Be brief because the answers are needed only to explore general trends at this stage.
▪ That needs to be explored for the particular work.
▪ It is an ancient but enduring phenomenon, and it needs to be explored.
▪ Here the situation becomes more complex and a number of different possibilities need to be explored.
▪ In considering an appeal all these avenues will need to be explored.
▪ Whole regions need to be explored, involving a program of survey.
▪ Having said that, however, we need critically to explore the pluralist perspective.
spend
▪ Far better to spend some money exploring this new medium than to ignore the biggest competitive threat since television.
▪ Wahtever the true story, Folly Fellowship members took full advantage of the chance to spend an afternoon exploring Stancombe Park.
▪ The industry also has become more cautious about spending big bucks to explore for oil and gas.
▪ One day I hope to return and spend several weeks exploring County Galway.
▪ You may forget about this entirely, or you may spend some time exploring possibilities in a rather inconsequential way.
start
▪ Its practitioners have now started to explore the legal hornet's nest likely to be stirred up by in vitro fertilisation.
▪ Odysseus started off to explore it with twelve of his men.
▪ This thus stands as a starting point for exploring the potential of complex semiotics as a mode of analysis of the photographic.
▪ They are bored and start to explore the house.
▪ If patterns emerge then the school can start to explore causes of absence and perhaps remedy them.
▪ We've started to explore the garden properly.
want
▪ He knew that he didn't want to explore the castle.
▪ Windows 95 users will want to explore some built-in security risks in that software.
▪ But we wanted to explore the causes of ill health further.
▪ The literal and metaphorical juxtaposition of drama and game is what I want to explore here.
▪ Star animator Glen Keane, now in his forties, has long wanted to explore non-Disney projects.
▪ In this talk I want to explore two main themes.
▪ He wanted to continue to explore and make some sense out of his life.
wish
▪ If, however, one wished to explore the immediate outside it might be necessary to examine specific aspects in detail.
▪ All those articles were in a part of the store I wished I could explore.
▪ Others wished to explore their own community's perception of the philosophy of the school.
▪ Local authorities may wish to explore this possibility because of an increasing financial imperative to reduce net expenditure.
▪ It is at this stage that the specific aspect of the Sonnets which I wish to explore begins to emerge.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ James plans to explore offers from other companies before making a decision.
▪ We'll be in Istanbul for three days, so there will be plenty of time to explore.
▪ We spent a week exploring the Oregon coastline.
▪ Whenever possible, she and Flynn would go off and explore the countryside, taking a picnic with them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A less intelligent and less secure judge might have permitted the defense to explore these avenues.
▪ But I forgot, you've already explored my kitchen, haven't you?
▪ But l wanted to step beyond that and explore what an intimate relationship would be.
▪ But most of the philosophers who have written about and explored the nature of being have not been so crude.
▪ Instead, separate Centers of Competence explored issues of interest to the consultants who participated in them.
▪ On a sunny afternoon we explored the gentler scenery near Henley and Oxford.
▪ To begin to answer these questions, we first explore the normal course of human language development.