adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a structural defect
▪ Older buildings are bound to have some structural defects.
structural damage (=to the structure of a building)
▪ The building was checked for structural damage.
structural engineer
structural repairs (=to the walls or roof of a building or to the main parts of a bridge or other structure)
▪ A survey showed that the bridge needed significant structural repairs.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ To say that long-term success depends on more structural reform and more austerity is not a comfortable political message.
▪ Each of these paragraphs contains one or more structural devices.
■ NOUN
adjustment
▪ Despite widespread protests, the government was about to launch its third structural adjustment programme in May 1991.
▪ The move away from project loans and towards structural adjustment loans in the 1980s does not diminish the main thrust of this argument.
▪ Loans are available for a three-year period in support of a three-year macroeconomic and structural adjustment programme.
▪ Cuts in expenditure were made as part of the country's structural adjustment programme.
▪ It was conditional on Budapest agreeing a structural adjustment programme with the International Monetary Fund and implementing market-based economic reforms.
▪ In particular many pointed to growing social unrest, crime and unemployment caused in part by the government's structural adjustment policies.
alteration
▪ Ask for quotes for the full job, which will including fitting charges, plus any structural alterations needed.
▪ The licensing board may itself order structural alterations to be executed under s.36.
▪ Perhaps you ought to reconsider the bathroom and toilet provision, which will require expensive structural alterations and affect your pricing proposals.
▪ The corresponding provision for licensed premises with regard to structural alterations directed by the licensing board will be found in s.36.
analysis
▪ Similarly, structural analysis is replaced by deconstruction which also questions its objects rather than reflecting them.
▪ Such structural analysis provides clues about the sites on the molecule responsible for its biological activity in the body.
▪ These features make TOF-SARS capable of both elemental and structural analysis.
▪ TOF-SARS in catalysis TOF-SARS has applications in catalysis as an elemental and structural analysis technique.
▪ The intensities necessary for structural analysis are obtained by integrating the indicated areas of fixed time windows under these peaks.
▪ As a structural analysis technique, TOF-SARS is sensitive to short range order - ie individual interatomic spacings along azimuths.
▪ The structural analysis of ageing has become increasingly prominent in recent years.
▪ One was sampled and subjected to chemical and structural analysis.
approach
▪ Those who strongly doubt whether the cost-benefit exercise can be adequately performed are more inclined to a rules based or structural approach.
▪ In this the structural approach to literature has huge advantages over many other linguistically inspired theories.
▪ I shall then briefly outline a structural approach to the problem of the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity.
▪ A structural approach is rejected on the basis that it is unable to capture the creativity of language.
arrangement
▪ The proximity, both geographically and chronologically, of such similar structural arrangements is, clearly, very significant.
▪ In contrast, a nonconstitutional regime is characterized by unchecked power, and the structural arrangements of the constitution are not upheld.
change
▪ We need some way to distinguish such events from the crises that mark structural changes.
▪ These issues must be dealt with not through scapegoating and punishment but rather through fundamental structural change.
▪ Deep structural changes will be necessary in developing countries if literacy is to go beyond the citadels of the elites.
▪ The structural changes that are seen in hemoglobin 5 and C disorders are inherited as autosomal recessive traits. 216.
▪ Such changes may be associated with equally structural changes in the wider economy and society.
▪ He does add, however, that structural changes are also necessary to accommodate the benefits of educational expansion.
characteristic
▪ Physical or structural characteristics, form of construction or condition.
▪ The other structural characteristic that may be used to quantitate serum proteins is the presence of peptide bonds.
▪ He provides a careful analysis of the relationship between the functional and structural characteristics of different types of discourse.
component
▪ Document preparation systems have structural components such as paragraphs, and hypertext systems have additional structural components concerned with linking.
▪ Yet on closer inspection it will be found that they both contain just the same structural components.
▪ The metal is widely used for implements and structural components.
▪ The separation between cytoplasmic content and parietal structures may represent the metabolic end point in which structural components must also be utilised.
constraint
▪ And there were inevitable structural constraints built in.
▪ However, the emphasis on structural constraints and formal controls provides only a partial view.
damage
▪ Minor bombing incidents in Buenos Aires and Santiago caused little structural damage and nobody was reported to have been injured.
▪ And the occasional burst pipe can cause major structural damage rather quickly.
▪ No one was injured but the interchange was closed because of fears of major structural damage.
▪ But most people found only busy signals, as structural damage and call volume overwhelmed local phone systems.
▪ Offices of the Levi jeans company and the computer firm, Casio, were being checked yesterday for structural damage.
▪ More structural damage could be hidden, one reporter said to explain Seattle's largely unscathed appearance.
▪ It caused £1,500 million of structural damage to at least 35 buildings.
▪ There was only minor structural damage to roofs and chimneys.
defect
▪ This is not a structural defect - only a sign of antiquity.
▪ Scores of schools were shown to have similar structural defects.
▪ We regard this result as strong evidence against a possible structural defect of the Dcm/Cys177Ser mutant.
difference
▪ There are structural differences, too.
▪ These structural differences create different learning paradigms by which neural networks are classified.
▪ These structural differences will now be examined more closely.
▪ There appear to be structural differences between the major countries in the pattern of industrial financing.
▪ Substitution drills should concentrate particularly on structural differences between the languages.
▪ A further structural difference was the impact of feminism.
▪ Although there are important variations within each country, on a cross-national comparison two principal structural differences are noted.
engineer
▪ Veronica, a civil and structural engineer, also has a technical day at work.
▪ Anyone with a wall problem should hire a qualified structural engineer to write a specification that will solve the problem.
▪ If they have, then a structural engineer must be asked to advise.
▪ For the structural engineer considering how to design a steel skeleton for the skyscraper, there were certain important implications.
▪ I face the same problems as a structural engineer.
▪ As a structural engineer, he draws conclusions about overly high chimneys, mortar quality, and roofing tiles.
▪ To overcome this templates were made and a structural engineer took constant vertical and horizontal measurements to plot the path of construction.
▪ A structural engineer or knowledgeable contractor can advise you on that.
factor
▪ But there were also structural factors at play.
▪ Such approaches have been criticised for failing to take account of external or structural factors which influence people's experience of ageing.
▪ Underpinning this commitment, however, were powerful structural factors.
▪ Aspects of individual lifestyle, as well as structural factors, are related to health.
▪ The most dominant structural factor in the work is that much of it is cast in the form of canticles.
▪ The technical literature suggests that structural factors may have been more important than price factors in explaining the persistent deficit.
▪ Internal layout and structural factors are vital.
▪ However, an important structural factor by way of explanation again relates to the nature and pace of industrial development.
funds
▪ The report gives examples of species whose existence is being threatened by structural funds.
▪ I remind the House that we pay £1,800 million into structural funds and receive only £900 million back.
▪ Precise definition of the tasks of the structural funds in relation to these objectives. 3.
▪ Why is he withholding our money when, although the structural funds are doubling, we are likely to receive less?
▪ We have made it clear that we see no case for a further massive increase in the structural funds.
integrity
▪ Extracellular matrix is an integral part of multicellular organisms, providing structural integrity and support to cells.
▪ There was now not the slightest doubt that Hsu was decaying and losing her structural integrity.
▪ Of course different clays can withstand different firing temperatures before they vitrify and lose their structural integrity.
▪ Very high structural integrity as evidenced by a 30,000 hour design life and no speed limit in turbulence.
linguistics
▪ In borrowing from structural linguistics the early structuralists took on the task of analysing signs and systems of signification.
▪ Taking its cue from structural linguistics, it will concentrate on the signifiers at the expense of the signifieds.
▪ But in his second phase the issues of systematicity and method become blurred and the connection with structural linguistics becomes vague.
▪ Generative grammar rejects the empirical nature of structural linguistics and instead uses linguistic intuitions of native speakers.
▪ This functionalist, teleological aim is inappropriate for the systematic analysis borrowed from structural linguistics.
▪ The early structuralists analyse relations between larger elements of meaning than is entertained in structural linguistics.
problem
▪ The doubts expressed by ministers and Home Office officials in the 1880s were symptomatic of much deeper structural problems.
▪ A sure tip-off that you have structural problems is repeated ideas.
▪ Before any painting is considered, be sure to detail with any structural problems - as explained on page 13.
▪ Sometimes doing that causes nasty structural problems, like a caved-in cake.
▪ Rather the criticism is that the basic and structural problems are not being tackled with the vigour that is required.
▪ Virtually all structural problems can be solved.
▪ Serious structural problems mean the building which is just 10 years old needs around £4.5m worth of repairs.
▪ Object: To eliminate structural problems without having to reread your document or waste time cutting and pasting paragraphs.
reform
▪ To say that long-term success depends on more structural reform and more austerity is not a comfortable political message.
▪ Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto has targeted education as one of six areas urgently in need of structural reform.
▪ In 1992 structural reforms to limit spending would include reform of the civil service.
▪ Part of my Senate life was trying to figure out how to get things right, the structural reform.
▪ However a structural reform was undertaken in an attempt to decentralize the workings of the party.
▪ At the very heart of single capacity was the Stock Exchange's rule-book which effectively blocked significant structural reform.
▪ Of course, a number of measures must be taken while more long-term structural reform is implemented.
▪ The conference approved a series of structural reforms giving constituency parties and the unions more power over the appointment of the leader.
relationship
▪ Chiropractic Practitioners deal with the structural relationships between the nerve tissues and the spinal column.
▪ One important structural relationship is that between bureaucracies and groups that represent particular interests.
▪ Friendships are based on a completely different set of structural relationships to those with parents.
▪ As I have written earlier, in games the structural relationship which implies tension is often explicitly defined.
repair
▪ Her desired outcome was a bit of money to help with major structural repairs.
▪ Masonry walls have a lot more kinds of cracking, and some can require a structural repair.
▪ In 1987 a survey concluded that the theatre should shut immediately, to allow structural repairs, rewiring, refitting and restoration.
▪ The bulk of the money went on the addition of amenities and not on structural repairs.
▪ Last year a routine survey revealed that the bridge was in need of significant structural repair.
steel
▪ Rack structures are of structural steel or thin section steel construction.
▪ Some specialize-for example, in structural steel or reinforced concrete structures.
▪ Lateral stability to the structure is provided by a braced structural steel core.
▪ Public works inspectors may specialize in highways, structural steel, reinforced concrete, or ditches.
▪ This building also will be made of structural steel and concrete blocks.
▪ It also owns shipyards and structural steel plants that make highway guard rails.
survey
▪ Simply take the precaution of having a structural survey carried out before the 10-year guarantee expires, and at 10-yearly intervals thereafter.
▪ As professional consultants we also advise and take instructions for design, supervision and structural surveys.
▪ The third type of valuation and report is a full structural survey.
▪ So, a new house will need a thorough inspection before two years have elapsed and a structural survey before ten years.
▪ In each case, the association had commissioned structural surveys, followed by feasibility and market studies.
unemployment
▪ This may be the cause of semi-permanent structural unemployment, aggravated perhaps by excessively cautious government policies.
▪ From the point of view of demand management, therefore, frictional and structural unemployment is an irreducible minimum unemployment rate.
▪ Initially there was a response from some critics asserting that this would lead to structural unemployment.
▪ It will be argued subsequently that the present forms of science and technology will in any case give rise to structural unemployment.
▪ It is the rate of frictional and structural unemployment.
▪ In recent years, a great deal of emphasis has been placed on technological progress as a cause of structural unemployment.
weakness
▪ Aside from its dubious cultural charm, there are serious structural weaknesses which may one day embarrass us.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ structural damage
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even in ruin the Colosseum is a magnificent edifice of great structural interest and aesthetic splendour.
▪ His commitment to the transformation of society through identifying and resolving structural issues is very intense.
▪ One important structural relationship is that between bureaucracies and groups that represent particular interests.
▪ Such approaches have been criticised for failing to take account of external or structural factors which influence people's experience of ageing.
▪ Taking its cue from structural linguistics, it will concentrate on the signifiers at the expense of the signifieds.
▪ There is the matter of future planning and the effect on structural plans for the area.
▪ This lawyer was therefore classified as professionally marginal, in a structural rather than an attitudinal sense.