verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
determine/establish/identify the cause (=discover definitely what it is)
▪ A team of experts is at the scene of the accident, trying to determine the cause.
easily understood/identified etc
▪ It’s easily recognised by its bright blue tail feathers.
identify strengths
▪ The teacher can identify each child's strengths and build on these.
identify/discover a gene (=find a particular gene which is responsible for something)
▪ Scientists have identified a gene which seems to protect Chinese people from some types of cancer.
positively identified
▪ The blood was never positively identified as the victim’s.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ A lack of clarity in policy has already been identified as one explanation for discretion.
▪ Nearly 10 percent of all students were identified as gifted, compared to 8. 4 percent of the work-inhibited population.
▪ These are composite statements, each taking into account the four factors identified as relating to difficulty.
▪ We do not think that any particular content in philosophy can be identified as female.
▪ On detailed assessment of her developmental level and language skills, Maria was identified as showing a marked developmental delay.
▪ That other sailor was later identified as Jonathan Rushin, a 23-year-old petty officer third class.
clearly
▪ The majority of LEAs did not accept that a clearly defined technical ability could be clearly identified at the age of eleven.
▪ Problems can be clearly identified through an audit, and solutions can be found to improve service and nutritional care.
▪ Sometimes a carer is clearly identified by being a spouse, or already resident in the same house.
▪ It has clearly identified goals and outcomes that are readily measured.
▪ The cameras clearly identified the property on the counter and the vendors who produced it.
▪ Public schools should not teach metaphysics without clearly identifying them as such.
▪ They are both clearly identified as London-based, as well as apparently disenchanted and/or corrupt.
easily
▪ The style was international, eclectic, easily identified, but almost impossible to define.
▪ A chimpanzee is an easy recipient for human projections since humans can easily identify with the emotional expressions of chimpanzees.
▪ Although section area and orientation differed among the tissue blocks, the epithelium and lamina propria were easily identified.
▪ The upper level was diagnosed by the columnar-squamous epithelial border, which was always easily identified.
▪ However it is easily identified by the large black blotch that covers a large proportion of its upper body and dorsal fin.
▪ Of course, I am more easily identified and more distinctive, if not distinguished, than most authors.
▪ Many potential purchasers can be easily identified with minimum cost using research.
▪ This society seemed self-contained; those who felt exploited could easily identify the enemy - the landlord or money lender.
■ NOUN
area
▪ Documentary research in the technical literature was undertaken to plan interviews and to identify key areas of technological innovation and technical uncertainty.
▪ The commission did identify 60 areas where the tax code might be simplified.
▪ This inventory identifies exactly which areas of the client's life are most disrupted by their problems.
▪ We identified the postcode areas of patients and categorised them into three groups - namely, urban, rural, or mixed.
▪ This would exclude land of scientific or ecological value and identify large areas where commercial growers could plant forests.
▪ It identifies areas of existing or potential urban settlement where housing is encouraged.
▪ At once more flares were identifying the target area and a fair concentration of bombs directed on the aiming point.
body
▪ We are here with Captain Thiercelin to identify the body of an officer who was killed earlier tonight.
▪ In Los Mochis, meanwhile, bodies are being exhumed from the mass graves one by one as they are identified.
▪ She'd paid the mortuary another visit, and this time was able to identify Pet's body.
▪ Medical examiners are interviewing family members about any unique characteristics to help identify bodies.
▪ Voice over Mrs Garvey's uncle Richard Moore, who formally identified the bodies, attended the inquest.
▪ As darkness fell, rescue workers with flashlights began recovering and identifying bodies.
▪ Rosemary told yesterday how she comforted Ann-Marie after having to identify Suzanne's body.
cause
▪ He used Pareto analysis to identify the principal cause as a loose loading arm.
▪ Such studies are often the first integral step toward identifying the cause of an infectious disease outbreak.
▪ Try to identify any recurrent causes of stress.
▪ Scientists have attempted for many years to identify a cause for canker sores but have not been successful to date.
▪ You think an expert on the effects of explosives could identify and locate the cause of the explosion?
▪ The real progress comes from identifying the cause of the error early and then eliminating the cause early.
▪ It takes seriously the health and well-being of neighbours and is doing everything possible to help identify the cause of these problems.
▪ Investigations have so far failed to identify the cause.
factor
▪ Between 1945 and 1956, many research findings identified other factors which affected the blood pressure.
▪ To deal with this possibility, you need to identify the factors that might affect voting rates among men and women.
▪ This was confirmed in one of the survey questions, which identified 10 factors influencing decisions on where to place contracts.
▪ All the complex factors that make children behave in certain ways will never be simple to identify.
▪ The marketer must therefore turn his attention to how to identify these factors soas to be able to construct an effective strategy.
▪ This leads to the establishing of a model which attempts to identify and compare growth factors for the two business groups.
▪ This information will help to identify factors which shape their perceptions of the language and cultures of the Arab world.
▪ A comparative approach will identify marketing factors which distinguish successful companies from less successful ones.
group
▪ And on top of that, you can identify which groups and most likely to discuss something and then Join the group.
▪ I noticed a caption in my local newspaper the other day, identifying a group of high school cheerleaders.
▪ We go along with the theory that younger listeners will identify themselves with the group Cancer.
▪ In other words, the corporatist state identifies a few groups that control major productive resources.
▪ Fans dress carefully in order to identify themselves within their group.
▪ The identifying documents defined a group of mostly 40-and 50-year-old men and women from the West.
▪ A Marxist writer would probably identify this group as the first stirrings of a black petit bourgeoisie.
▪ Brightly colored sashes tied to sticks as flags identified groups.
issue
▪ It identifies key issues directly affecting the company and gives advice on strategy or operations.
▪ His commitment to the transformation of society through identifying and resolving structural issues is very intense.
▪ In rural areas, with the small stocks identified earlier, the issue of sales can be particularly emotive.
▪ The difficulty lay not in identifying the issues but in tackling them resolutely.
▪ At the early planning stage Have you identified the ethical issues which may arise in your research?
▪ This Strategic Overview has identified key issues to be addressed in future phases.
▪ It is now time to identify these issues more clearly and see whether it is possible to integrate these different perspectives.
▪ This research will provide such information and provide a clear picture of current practice, identifying issues raised by this.
need
▪ The student will learn more effectively through identifying the particular needs and problems of each patient.
▪ School-based enterprises and service learning projects allow students to identify and address community needs.
▪ Does it adequately outline assessment procedures which will identify the needs of the deaf child?
▪ The infant can feel at one with its care-taker because the caretaker identifies with the needs of the infant.
▪ The purchaser should identify the need for an independent valuation as early as possible to avoid subsequent delay nearer completion.
▪ Instead, they identify customer needs and motivations.
▪ The probability of socially disadvantaged children being identified as having special needs is very much greater than in other children.
▪ Consequently this section deals with identifying the needs that drinking fulfils and developing alternative ways of satisfying those needs.
number
▪ And they all have that one identifying number with them.
▪ A structural appraisal of the building identified a number of potentially serious defects which could arise in the event of fire.
▪ The auctioneer will make eye contact with the bidders, and often will identify the bidder by number or clothing.
▪ We may identify a number of different reasons for this lack of clarity.
▪ Unfortunately, many of the identifying numbers have worn off, and drawings have been lost.
▪ Each band was identified only by a number, and they were marked by adjudicators sitting behind closed doors.
▪ Recent work has focused on the gastrin acid secretion feedback loop and identified a number of potential pathogenetic pathways.
problem
▪ The contracting culture should mean greater opportunities for voluntary sector providers, but Mussenden identifies problems.
▪ But they did identify problems with how jobs had been designed and how people were being managed.
▪ The first step is identifying your particular problem.
▪ However for examples 2 and 4, syntactic analysis would not identify any problems, because they are grammatically acceptable.
▪ Educational plan for in-service education for staff is designed to help correct any identified problems or deficiencies.
▪ Porter first identifies the problem that will be encountered if one proceeds with portfolio planning without explicit management of these interdependencies.
▪ Monitoring the time and budget of each chunk allows us to identify problems and take corrective action.
research
▪ Between 1945 and 1956, many research findings identified other factors which affected the blood pressure.
▪ So without doubt one of the most important and difficult problems in cancer research is that of identifying the other mutations.
▪ The problem certainly runs in families, although research hasn't yet identified a genetic basis.
▪ A five-phased approach begins with desk research, to identify and evaluate recent opinions of the contribution of marketing to corporate success.
▪ Such research should help us identify which aspects of unemployment are crucial.
▪ Market research will identify, for example, markets and their characteristics which are suitable for the company to enter.
▪ Q8 Identify the major steps involved in carrying out a marketing research exercise, briefly identifying the problems associated with each stage.
source
▪ These are taken-for-granted groupings which assume some form of unity within each category without ever clearly identifying the source of this unity.
▪ They also help managers who listen well to identify sources of reluctance.
▪ The reader initially gets the impression that the purpose of the text is to identify Rimbaud's source of inspiration.
▪ Journalists, sensing something rotten, have focused on describing the odor rather than identifying the source.
▪ To identify the source of the problem, get familiar with the types of errors.
▪ For perhaps half a minute we strained to identify the source of the engine noise.
type
▪ Todd identifies seven basic family types.
▪ He identified two types or orders of each.
▪ Stevens identified four types of measurement scales: nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio scales.
▪ The other fish we caught were the yellowfins, which we had identified as a type of immature tuna.
▪ He identifies eight role types which refer to the potential contribution in terms of behaviour rather than knowledge or status.
▪ We identified two different types of albatross, four species of petrel, and a tern.
▪ It is possible to identify three main types of historical writing - descriptive, narrative and analytical.
▪ We have thus far identified five types.
■ VERB
ask
▪ Simply asking staff to identify inappropriately placed patients is obviously potentially subject to bias from several sources.
▪ He was never asked to identify himself.
▪ The MiGs had also entered the zone 20 minutes earlier, but fled to safety when asked to identify themselves.
▪ The married couple, who each received £40,000, have asked not to be identified.
▪ The third member of the group asked not to be identified.
▪ Concepts describing health One way of investigating lay beliefs about health is to ask what attributes identify a healthy person.
▪ In conference, the group was asked to identify items they thought should be included in a checklist of standards.
▪ Hope Correspondents were asked to identify that which is positive in their situations.
help
▪ The sleeves aren't continuous but are colour coded to help identify each arch.
▪ I believe in helping people identify what they can do well and releasing them to do it.
▪ Here's an exercise to help you identify how you're spending your time now.
▪ This will help you identify little-word buildup and, eventually, cut little words before you write them.
▪ The comments that follow are intended to help in learning to identify and reject unusable answers.
▪ Educational plan for in-service education for staff is designed to help correct any identified problems or deficiencies.
▪ Semantic analysis may also help by identifying a domain code for content words.
▪ Using work and play activities, counselors can help children recognize and identify the feelings they express.
seek
▪ The conference will seek to identify ways in which emerging technology can be more closely geared to end-user needs.
▪ Our people need to seek out and identify those stories.
▪ Both documents seek to identify the skills and understandings which their respective subjects should seek to achieve at different stages of schooling.
▪ Even in the wake of a setback, the healthy organization seeks to identify signs of progress and evidence of innovative thinking.
▪ In exploring why this should be, this introduction seeks to identify the choices for contemporary reformers.
▪ The initiative will seek to identify the best examples of environmental management to be used for setting a benchmark for the future.
▪ It has sought to identify what criteria must be met before any standard fees system could be workable.
try
▪ She has to try and identify the Brownie making the noise.
▪ Scientists are still trying to identify the genetic combinations that are responsible for virulence.
▪ From this analysis it can then try to identify ways in which marketing expenditure can be made more effective in each country.
▪ Attorneys in workers' compensation cases involving stress often try to identify persons with whom the claimant is having relationships.
▪ Take enough exercise. Try to identify any recurrent causes of stress.
▪ Corps investigators were still trying to identify participants in the 1993 incident.
▪ My purpose here is to try to identify these, hopefully without too much over-simplification or bias.
▪ Teachers should try to identify criteria such as those mentioned above to guide their selection of content.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After years of research, scientists have identified the virus that is responsible for the disease.
▪ Can you identify the man who robbed you?
▪ Dubois was identified by immigration control, and arrested at Kennedy airport.
▪ Experts are examining the wreckage, but the cause of the accident has not yet been identified.
▪ Greg had to identify the body of his wife.
▪ Police hope that a member of the public will be able to identify a man seen acting suspiciously a few hours before the murder took place.
▪ proposals to identify the fathers of children born to single mothers
▪ Researchers have identified the substances which can cause allergies.
▪ Sara identified the man as Kang, a notorious gang leader and drug baron.
▪ The airline says it will be difficult to identify all the bodies retrieved from the crash.
▪ The girl, identified as Shelly Barnes, fell from the window when her mother's back was turned.
▪ The victim identified her attacker in court.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An element of public accountability can also be identified in the recurrent attentions of elected Members of Parliament.
▪ And both offices have identified the need to pay volunteers something for their work, or lose them altogether.
▪ Most plants in our aquariums identified as A. crispus are actually hybrids that were produced in nature or under artificial conditions.
▪ This will help you identify little-word buildup and, eventually, cut little words before you write them.
▪ Those friends, who were not identified, were invited by Bonin to witness the execution.
▪ We identified co-operative federalism with concurrent powers as a contrast to competitive federalism and exclusive powers.
▪ What matters is to identify problems and opportunities.