I.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a code of practice/conduct/ethics (=rules for people in a particular profession or business)
▪ There is a strict code of conduct for doctors.
carry out/conduct a checkformal (= do or run a check)
▪ The police carried out a check on the car’s registration number.
conduct a pollformal (= carry out a poll)
▪ The poll was conducted with a sample of 1,023 adults.
conduct a surveyformal (= do a survey)
▪ a survey conducted by the British Medical Association.
conduct a weddingformal (= say the official words and perform the actions at a wedding)
▪ Their wedding was conducted by the local priest.
conduct an inspectionformal (= carry out an inspection)
▪ He was conducting an inspection in the factory.
conduct businessformal (= do business)
▪ It is not a sensible way to conduct business.
conduct electricity (=used of a substance – allow electricity to travel along or through it)
▪ Some metals conduct electricity better than others.
conduct negotiations
▪ The country should conduct direct negotiations with its neighbours.
conduct unbecoming
▪ conduct unbecoming to a teacher
conduct...investigation
▪ A private detective was hired to conduct the investigation.
conduct/perform an examination
▪ The doctor will perform an examination in order to assess the problem.
disorderly conduct/behaviour
▪ He was arrested for disorderly conduct.
do/carry out/conduct a post-mortem
do/carry out/perform/conduct an analysis
▪ No similar analysis has been done in this country.
fraudulent activity/behaviour/conduct
hold/conduct a service
▪ The service was held in the chapel.
improper behaviour/conduct/dealings etc
▪ allegations of improper banking practices
▪ improper sexual conduct
perform/conduct a ceremony
▪ The Bishop of Louisiana performed the ceremony.
perform/conduct an experimentformal (= do an experiment)
▪ The laboratory began conducting experiments on rats.
run/wage/conduct a campaign (=carry out a campaign)
▪ He ran an aggressive campaign.
safe conduct
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
activity
▪ The public relations practitioner has to conduct activities which concern every public with which the organisation has contact.
▪ The duplication of work involved if each teacher independently conducts these activities is obviously an inefficient use of resources.
▪ Tell the students that you are going to conduct an activity to find out if two ears are better than one.
▪ Academics have their livings in institutions established to conduct academic activities.
affair
▪ He appoints a pontifical commission to conduct the administrative affairs of the state.
▪ She and Implexion had been conducting a casual affair for years; she knew him better than anyone.
▪ Until radicals grasped the need to conduct their affairs in absolute secrecy, their chances of conspiring effectively were remote.
▪ My father seemed to be happy to conduct his affairs through them for long enough.
▪ Equally, there are those who conduct their affairs with imagination and equanimity.
▪ It appeared to Nizan as the only realistic method of conducting human affairs in a civilised manner.
▪ To go to war in order to change the way another country was conducting its affairs was obviously illegal.
▪ How the House conducts its affairs, particularly on questions affecting taxation of our constituents, is of great importance.
analysis
▪ As a consequence, we need to ask questions that help us to conduct a sociological analysis of teachers and teaching.
▪ The research is conducted by statistical analysis of secondary data on client companies and on market prices.
▪ The deputy head normally conducting the job analysis.
▪ This does not detract, however, from the general value of conducting the type of analysis suggested by Hayzen.
▪ Finally, task descriptions differ with the personal biases of analysts and the reasons why they are conducting the analysis.
business
▪ We can only stress that no reputable antiques dealer would ever conduct business on a doorstep.
▪ Directly or indirectly, ownership provides the dollars and authority an enterprise needs to conduct its business.
▪ Novell has become famous for the way it manages its relationships and believes that relationships are the way to conduct business.
▪ You should also receive initial training about how to conduct the business as well as follow-up help and assistance.
▪ He said he had to conduct some business with the grain merchant.
▪ This can not and will not be accomplished without major changes in how we conduct our businesses.
▪ Critical consents are those which it is essential for the purchaser to obtain if it is to conduct the business after completion.
▪ The transactions motive simply means that firms must hold cash in order to conduct normal business transactions.
campaign
▪ And still larger sums have been expended in conducting a campaign against us outside of Ontario.
▪ There is an obvious danger of excessive duplication when broadly similar organizations conduct broadly similar campaigns.
▪ You conducted a campaign of economic sabotage.
▪ In any event, the prime minister, Felipe Gonzalez, is conducting an impressive campaign.
▪ He has conducted a campaign, full knowing his Cabinet post was in jeopardy whether or not the Conservatives win on Thursday.
▪ Johnson had steered himself into a position of strength from which to conduct his campaign in the election of 1964.
▪ Just as important, it was a piece of indiscipline that illustrated the almost casual way Labour is conducting this campaign.
debate
▪ The second part, Chapters 5-8, conducts the three debates catalogued in Figure 1.2.
election
▪ Better still, why not conduct elections by phone?
examination
▪ Leech had conducted a post-mortem examination and found cerebral haemorrhage as the cause of death.
▪ She did not conduct any physical examination.
▪ Emphasis should be placed on strict adherence to a policy of changing into protective clothing before conducting a post-mortem examination.
▪ This may be achieved by allowing parents to nominate their own expert to observe or jointly conduct any examination or assessment.
experiment
▪ One experiment conducted by the Rumbaughs took the following form.
▪ A number of experiments already have been conducted with mixed results.
▪ These take place in the real world and those involved do not know that an experiment is being conducted.
▪ Nisbett and Cohen also cite experiments they conducted using male students at the University of Michigan.
▪ In addition, experiments were conducted with, and without 100 µg/ml gentamicin and 60 µg/ml nystatin in the Krebs-Henseleit.
▪ Three illumination experiments were conducted with various groups of workers.
▪ Numerous experiments have been conducted involving different variations of the principles.
▪ Other experiments were conducted entirely in secret, often in plants of large companies tucked away in small rural towns.
inquiry
▪ Since 1988 we have conducted a confidential inquiry into deaths due to asthma in our district.
▪ Hundt has sought to conduct an inquiry on liquor ads, but commissioners have been deadlocked on the issue.
▪ And the police will conduct an inquiry.
▪ It caused a fine flap and the Election Board had no choice but to conduct an inquiry.
▪ A Palm Beach County grand jury conducted another inquiry, completed in March.
▪ The Department of Elections also is conducting its own inquiry.
▪ Later, according to Ayash, Livingston stripped her of her clinical duties while the hospital conducted an inquiry into her role.
interview
▪ The interview, conducted by Ian Pye, appeared one week before the release of the album.
▪ The survey was based on 200 face-to-face interviews conducted in October and November.
▪ Sometimes studio interviews are conducted over the air with an interviewer in London or Glasgow and the interviewee in Birmingham or Manchester.
▪ Lengthy interviews were conducted with a large sample of citizens in each of five countries.
▪ The interview will be conducted by Mr Drewry and Mr Marwick.
▪ Even interviews are often conducted on the go.
▪ Results - Two interviews were conducted in nine practices and one interview in the tenth practice.
▪ Around 50 interviews were conducted with clients, staff and health officials and a detailed diagnosis followed.
investigation
▪ Now, the police and trading standards are conducting an investigation into the matter.
▪ The lawyer said he will use the arraignment delay to conduct his own investigation.
▪ The Special Investigation Branch of the military police is conducting more than 30 investigations into allegations of brutality.
▪ They vowed to conduct an investigation and punish those who helped him.
▪ However the FBI-style agency will not conduct its own investigations or prosecutions, although many Whitehall insiders believe this could eventually happen.
▪ The judge then ordered the lead plaintiffs' lawyer in the class-action suit to conduct an investigation.
▪ That undertaking seemed to be developing into a commitment to conduct a private murder investigation in a foreign country.
▪ Bill Thomas, R-Calif., shortly before the House voted 224-187 to authorize an eight-member panel to conduct the investigation.
meeting
▪ Brief your participants that you will be conducting the meeting this way and expect their co-operation.
▪ They conducted these meetings either in city offices during the day or in the neighborhoods in the evenings.
▪ The leader should always conduct the meeting impartially and avoid stating his preferences and objections.
▪ Over this period I visited the school more than 30 times, chiefly to conduct interviews and attend meetings.
negotiation
▪ Thirdly, the skills required for conducting negotiations-among them intelligence, tact, patience and empathy.
▪ A working group of nonprofit agencies was set up to conduct the annual negotiations with the State Department.
▪ Experience of conducting high level negotiations, contract and royalty management.
▪ Lyle's reaction was to take the money, but he called in Neil Shaw to conduct final negotiations.
▪ How you conduct negotiations from there is largely a question of individual judgment supported by sound professional advice.
operation
▪ We are simply conducting a holding operation.
▪ And because they were civilian-manned, they would be able to spend more time conducting operations and less time making liberty calls.
▪ Specialforce groups were set up and trained to conduct anti-guerrilla operations.
▪ Instead, the Navy would man and run the ships, and the Naval Security Group would conduct the intercept operations.
▪ Security forces were reportedly conducting a search operation to find the attackers.
orchestra
▪ The orchestra was conducted by Oscar Straus.
▪ The large orchestra was very well conducted by Ormsby Wilkins, who, like the two ballets, received great applause.
▪ Braxton has composed for a 37-piece orchestra which he conducts here.
▪ An impressive collaboration with the Berlin Rundfunk orchestra, conducted by Robert Hanell.
policy
▪ They have felt this was necessary to conduct proper policy and, while in power, they trusted their own leaders.
▪ Article 20 gives the government responsibility for determining and conducting national policy.
▪ But when the Bush administration took office, it suspended negotiations while conducting the policy review.
▪ The problem is how to conduct economic policy soas to reconcile full employment and price stability.
▪ It was in a sense the just reward of his method of conducting foreign policy.
poll
▪ The poll, conducted last weekend, contains almost no comfort for the Tories.
▪ The poll was conducted over the past week with a sample of 1,023 adults.
▪ That, at least, is the finding of a Harris Poll conducted for Shuttle by United.
▪ The poll, conducted this week, had a margin of error of 5 percent.
▪ The poll, conducted by telephone Jan. 2-7, has a margin of error of 5. 5 percentage points.
▪ That gap had not changed since a poll was conducted shortly before Dole announced he was quitting the Senate.
research
▪ Before then all fusion research had been conducted behind a screen of secrecy.
▪ In addition, hundreds of research studies were conducted by scholars in various countries interested in conservation.
▪ The research which has been conducted on their parenting and its outcomes for their children has often been flawed and equivocal.
▪ The research conducted to date has turned up several intriguing results.
▪ The research will be conducted at three centres.
▪ Previously, our research has been conducted in contexts where there was usually a willingness to claim a national identity.
▪ Recent postgraduate research has been conducted in all of these areas and elsewhere.
▪ Acquisition research cases are conducted on a fee paying basis.
review
▪ In conducting this review the University has taken into account the feasibility of raising the necessary funding from outside sources.
▪ He also asked his bioethics advisory panel to conduct a full review and report back to him in 90 days.
▪ Pearce reached his conclusions after conducting a review of detailed studies into the impact of environmental taxes.
▪ A sub-committee had conducted a strict review of the conduct of all four members of the staff and that of the porter.
▪ Cluster groups of schools could conduct a joint review, sharing their experiences.
▪ Inpatient follow-up was conducted by review of the active medical record every 3 days.
▪ To the consternation of his cabinet colleagues, he is currently conducting a wide-ranging review of public spending.
▪ But after the concession the Government must conduct a further review of safety implications and report back to Parliament.
search
▪ They were nowhere to be seen, so I then conducted a search of all the store rooms and outhouses.
▪ I conduct executive searches for senior-level management, so I know a fair bit about how these companies are managed.
▪ Peacekeeping troops set up road blocks and conducted house-to-house searches.
▪ Police arrived within minutes and conducted a cursory search of the property.
▪ Appian Way, for instance, offer data disks that can conduct searches and produce material relevant to specific topics.
▪ Security forces were reportedly conducting a search operation to find the attackers.
▪ He was conducting yet another search of the quarter.
service
▪ Many of the Presbyterian ministers remained in their parishes, however, and conducted their own services.
▪ After a simple breakfast, Father Peter conducted a service in the Chapel of Penitence.
▪ The Rev. Malcolm Surman conducted the service.
▪ If the minister of religion is required to conduct a service, the family or funeral director arrange this.
▪ The installation was part of a review of catering operations, conducted by Food Service Designs.
▪ In May 1893, he conducted a special service of sacred music here at Halling, assisted by his wife.
▪ The vicar conducting the service, who's also a family friend, read out part of the coroner's judgement.
▪ Reverend Pinkerton will conduct her first service on this Sunday.
study
▪ The study was conducted in a subregional radiotherapy centre and an academic department of gastroenterology and therapeutics.
▪ A later and quite definitive study conducted by Miller between 1973 and 1978 bore this out.
▪ The study is being conducted on past, present and future incidents involving crowds in and around Sheffield.
▪ In addition, hundreds of research studies were conducted by scholars in various countries interested in conservation.
▪ Although this study was conducted over 10 years ago, matters have not improved since then.
▪ Preliminary studies are being conducted on the property, west of state Route 67 at the end of Slaughterhouse Canyon Road.
▪ A study she conducted in 1990 showed it was not this simple.
▪ The studies of Nelson conducted by the psychologist were designed to help the Davenports understand their son as a unique individual.
survey
▪ The two primary sources of data on smoking habits are the General Household Survey and surveys conducted by the tobacco industry.
▪ The survey, conducted late last year, compared the prices of 148 items at 14 Bay Area supermarkets.
▪ Stressful cities A survey of business travelers conducted for Homewood Suites Hotels ranked the most stressful cities in which to conduct business.
▪ A survey is conducted and an interesting statistical effect of X on Y is discovered.
▪ In reality it is, according to a survey conducted by swimwear company Slix, the garment women like buying least.
▪ A postal survey is being conducted to provide a comprehensive national profile of computer use in local authority planning departments.
▪ A subsequent survey was conducted in September, 1982 to assess attitudes within the medical profession itself.
symphony
▪ Mendelssohn evidently did this himself when he conducted the symphony for London audiences in 1829.
▪ When you conduct a symphony for the first time you may fear a breakdown in every bar.
▪ You could climb in there with her and still have room to conduct Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
test
▪ She had a slight problem, no doctor to conduct the test..
▪ One student had actually been conducting a water test while other students were presenting.
▪ It was therefore inadvisable to conduct statistical tests when missing data from some schools distorted the representativeness of the sample.
▪ Interstate 680 runs through the area where Communities for a Better Environment conducted its tests.
▪ Only three are suspected of having conducted a test.
▪ We wanted to find out so we conducted a test at a local shopping mall.
▪ Bios-3 has conducted tests with two and three people for up to six months.
▪ Vichy conducted their own test on 47 women.
tour
▪ His company, Motherland Connections, conducts tours of the sites in New York state.
trial
▪ Informal monitoring may be conducted throughout the trial together with discrete observation of staff behaviour about which notes may be written.
▪ Ligand is also conducting phase three trials on Targretin for a form of lymphoma and is looking at it for other cancers.
▪ One or two successes can be coincidence: it takes a properly conducted scientific trial to prove effectiveness.
▪ We are conducting detailed trials on those farms.
▪ Perhaps the practitioner conducting the trial should not be the patient's own doctor.
▪ However, valiant attempts were made to conduct massive trials in which as much information as possible could be included.
war
▪ Sergei Solov'ev was wrong, however, to accuse the tsar of conducting the war with a lack of resolution.
▪ In reality they were conducting a unilateral war, or rather an endless pattern of continuing three-day wars.
▪ He was effectively granted a blank cheque to conduct a war without Congressional authorization for up to 90 days.
▪ Rather, both sides were conducting a war in the imagination.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A guide will conduct us through the museum.
▪ All the children in the class have to conduct their own science experiments.
▪ An officer was sent to conduct the journalists around the shattered building.
▪ Before Newton, people had great difficulty understanding how any metal could conduct electricity.
▪ Plastic and rubber won't conduct electricity, but copper will.
▪ Specially treated copper wires conduct the signal from the amplifier to the speakers.
▪ The committee will conduct a thorough investigation of the bribery charges.
▪ The data comes from a survey conducted by the company last fall.
▪ The Duke Ellington Orchestra is conducted by Mercer Ellington.
▪ The visitors were conducted around the factory by senior managers.
▪ Water is used to conduct heat away from the reactor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Better still, why not conduct elections by phone?
▪ Bill Thomas, R-Calif., shortly before the House voted 224-187 to authorize an eight-member panel to conduct the investigation.
▪ He became a great fan of yours after a particularly exciting performance you conducted of Belshazzar's Feast.
▪ In addition, experiments were conducted with, and without 100 µg/ml gentamicin and 60 µg/ml nystatin in the Krebs-Henseleit.
▪ Since 1982 biennial national surveys conducted by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys have provided valuable information on adolescent smoking behaviour.
▪ Voter News Service, a consortium of the Associated Press and television networks, conducted the survey.
▪ Y., had already conducted important preliminary research on contra supporters suspected of drug activities.
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
criminal
▪ This argument neglects the symbolic function of the labels applied by the law and by courts to criminal conduct.
▪ And the war was portrayed not only as criminal in intent but also as criminal in conduct.
disorderly
▪ In the first few hours after the verdict, 60 people were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct.
▪ You have to understand the disorderly conduct statute....
▪ A total of 27 people were charged with disorderly conduct.
▪ They arrested the peaceful marchers, put them in paddy wagons, and charged them with disorderly conduct.
▪ They were later charged with disorderly conduct and fined.
▪ By 10 a. m., there were 84 arrests, 44 for drunk and disorderly conduct.
▪ Mr Pennell has been charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
▪ An altercation ensued at the lab, and Angeli was convicted this week of disorderly conduct and malicious destruction of property.
future
▪ Swore Ramprakash was fined the maximum two weeks wages - around £750 - for that and severely warned about his future conduct.
▪ Summons for directions for future conduct of the action 7.
▪ The authoritative parent affirms the child's present qualities, but also sets standards for future conduct.
homosexual
▪ Unlike its recommendations on homosexual conduct, the section of the report that dealt with prostitution was largely uncontroversial.
▪ In employing essentially utilitarian criteria, the Wolfenden Committee gave rise to legislation which decriminalised certain forms of homosexual conduct.
▪ The Committee's recommendations on prostitution were acted upon with far more haste than those concerning homosexual conduct.
human
▪ It has been suggested that it is tempting to conceive of morality as a guide to human conduct.
▪ The Scriptures alone provide an absolute guide to proper human conduct.
▪ First, no other type of historical evidence offers the historian such depths of insight into human conduct.
▪ Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply.
▪ In order to situate those views we must begin with Oakeshott's account of the nature of human conduct.
▪ One of the unvarying laws of human conduct is that we always hanker after what others have.
▪ In matters that concerned human conduct rather than religion he was generous and humane.
▪ The easiest way to avoid this pitfall is to separate human conduct into behaviour and performance.
improper
▪ This is judicial scrutiny and the power of the courts to regulate telephone-tapping and to deal with illegal or improper conduct.
▪ She knows of no improper conduct by either of the Clintons in connection with the Whitewater development or anything else.
▪ We deplore anything that looks or smacks of discrimination, harassment or improper conduct.
▪ Each claimed to have seen 49ers stadium boosters engaged in what he believed was improper and intimidating conduct at the polls.
▪ The stadium campaign organization says it did not authorize or participate in improper conduct.
personal
▪ The point is reinforced if we consider the king's personal conduct at assemblies.
▪ Perhaps no one acted in a way we can judge wrong by personal standards of conduct.
professional
▪ This book aims to help the conveyancer make a business success of the proper professional conduct of the commercial art of conveyancing.
▪ Management consultancy divisions of accounting firms tend to be strong on business advice and professional codes of conduct.
▪ Like the other office-holders, I am debarred by my office from membership of the professional conduct committees.
▪ These institutions will have their own professional codes of conduct and can therefore be expected to avoid conflicts of interest.
▪ Council also approved in principle the text for a booklet Guidance on professional conduct incorporating a code of professional practice.
▪ They reported that, while our professional conduct department represented good value for money, it was grossly overloaded.
▪ A separate matter of particular importance is the regulation by the Law Society of the professional conduct of solicitors.
proper
▪ This book aims to help the conveyancer make a business success of the proper professional conduct of the commercial art of conveyancing.
▪ The Scriptures alone provide an absolute guide to proper human conduct.
▪ But as inspector of constabulary he would be responsible for its proper conduct.
▪ Jane Ming-li was conforming her behavior to proper conduct: She was not violent.
▪ Least of all from a creature like that, lost to all decency and proper codes of conduct.
▪ If only Miss Manners had promulgated, like the pope, an encyclical on proper gay conduct.
▪ There is here an extraordinary and secret mode of obtaining information necessary for the proper conduct of the winding up.
responsible
▪ Since they were chosen by the landowners of the county, the latter were held responsible for their conduct in office.
▪ The retail merchants association notes that employers are responsible for the conduct of employees who deal with customers over the phone.
▪ We hold a person responsible for his conduct in the sense that he can be justly or fairly punished.
▪ The division is responsible for the conduct of the Onshore Surveys Core programme.
safe
▪ Apart from the commander of the garrison and his guard who were given safe conduct to Ascalon they spared none.
▪ They would be guaranteed safe conduct north.
strict
▪ And just to say some one is a strict conduct disorder is not as popular today as it was a few years ago.
▪ He had an extremely strict code of conduct for himself and a lenient one for others.
violent
▪ Section 8 says that violence means any violent conduct towards persons or property.
▪ It was as clear a case of violent conduct as could be imagined.
▪ Their opponents, an experienced club side, are all being reported for violent conduct.
▪ If Hateley is found guilty of violent conduct, the disciplinary committee are empowered to extend the player's ban.
■ VERB
govern
▪ The rules which govern the conduct of the business of the council and its committees are called Standing Orders.
▪ As for the rules of the school governing student conduct and behavior, work-inhibited students do not need special exceptions.
▪ The principles of fair procedure which govern the conduct of disciplinary hearings also apply, by and large, to appeal hearings.
▪ It is not a blind law, for no blind law can govern the conduct of human beings....
▪ The principal legislation governing the conduct of insurance business is the Insurance Companies Act 1982.
▪ There is always considerable negotiation over the provisions governing the conduct of the business between signing and completion.
▪ Section 4 considers the auditor's role in relation to an investment business's compliance with the rules governing its conduct.
regulate
▪ These duties seek to regulate the conduct of partners and promote good faith between them.
▪ In addition the assembly made the vital decisions regulating the communal conduct of agriculture.
▪ The idea that harm is a basis upon which to regulate conduct is often attributed to John Stuart Mill.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A middle-aged banker has been fined 200 for violent conduct on a train.
▪ A new code of conduct for civil servants will be issued next week.
▪ Attending conferences and meetings is necessary to the conduct of our business.
▪ The Medical Committee found the doctor guilty of unethical conduct towards three of his patients.
▪ We went on a conducted tour of the castle.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After all, constitutionally, ministers are answerable to Parliament for the conduct of their Departments.
▪ And the war was portrayed not only as criminal in intent but also as criminal in conduct.
▪ In identifying such conduct, reliance is made on information forthcoming from local authority consumer protection departments.
▪ In return for their favor he acted so atrociously that no poet ever tried to explain his conduct.
▪ Norms and values Norms Every culture contains a large number of guidelines which direct conduct in particular situations.
▪ Political action groups lay in wait for companies that stumble in their conduct and treatment of multiple stake-holders.
▪ The catering business itself is regulated by various Acts of Parliament which impose duties and standards of conduct that must be observed.