adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a careful/detailed inspection
▪ The architect has now made his detailed inspection of the building.
a detailed account
▪ She gave me a detailed account of what happened at the meeting.
a detailed assessment
▪ We need a detailed assessment of what this will cost.
a detailed calculation
▪ Your report must be supported by detailed calculations.
a detailed comparison
▪ Students had to write a detailed comparison of the two texts.
a detailed diary
▪ For years she had kept a detailed diary.
a detailed drawing
▪ He made detailed drawings of animals and flowers.
a detailed examination
▪ Scientists have carried out a detailed examination of the house.
a detailed forecast
▪ A detailed forecast of the industry’s prospects has just been published.
a detailed overview (=with a lot of information)
▪ a detailed overview of current legislation on gun control
a detailed picture
▪ We now have a detailed picture of the bird’s habits.
a detailed proposal
▪ They drew up a detailed proposal and submitted it to the Department of Energy.
a detailed record
▪ Edwardian travellers left detailed records of their journeys.
a detailed study (also an in-depth study)
▪ They carried out a detailed study into the effects of the disease on mice.
a detailed survey
▪ The author carried out a detailed survey of 32 organizations in Japan and Korea.
a detailed/in-depth analysis
▪ a detailed analysis of the firm’s earnings
a full/detailed report
▪ A full report will be prepared for the next committee meeting.
close/careful/detailed observation
▪ A lot of useful knowledge is gained by careful observation of the world around you.
detailed advice
▪ The website gives detailed advice about making bombs.
detailed consideration
▪ Each of these matters requires detailed consideration.
detailed information
▪ More detailed information is available free on request.
detailed knowledge
▪ You need to have a detailed knowledge of criminal law.
detailed notes
▪ I always make quite detailed notes after important meetings.
detailed scrutiny
▪ MPs on these committees subject Government bills to detailed scrutiny.
detailed
▪ Some of his descriptions of the island are very detailed.
detailed
▪ The generals drew up detailed plans for the invasion.
detailed
▪ There are detailed instructions on the back of the box.
detailed
▪ a detailed map of the city
specific/detailed recommendations
▪ We made a large number of specific recommendations for improving women’s mental health.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ The requirements may well be modified as detailed work and discussion proceed.
▪ If you are travelling by car, calculate as above then make the necessary accommodation only reduction as detailed on page 80.
▪ Alternatively, the Carrion can attack just as the adventurers reach the final approaches to the Castle, as detailed below.
▪ Their attempts as detailed in Easter Monday's Guardian might well misfire.
▪ When there are major changes, compensation will be paid as detailed in our Booking Conditions on page 81.
▪ They pay a standard £31.50 per week for accommodation and meals as detailed below.
▪ Pre-existing medical conditions, recurring illness or physical defects, except as detailed under principal exclusions. 2.
▪ Palatine's general structure and current financial situation remain as detailed in the preceding case.
more
▪ Each of these matters requires more detailed consideration.
▪ Finally, one issue merits more detailed comment because of its implications for the entire Docklands community - housing.
▪ Other woodworkers will of course make a more detailed examination; if only to discover the methods of construction.
▪ Tackling the same project in smaller but more detailed and significant chapters is perhaps the better exercise.
▪ A further follow-up in 1972 collected more detailed diagnostic information.
▪ When Terah's name is reached the list becomes more detailed.
▪ We require a much more detailed answer before we can reassure those involved.
▪ Seventy years later an even more detailed survey of another Dorset town was made.
most
▪ The most detailed research, however, has been undertaken by S. Dench in mid-Devon.
▪ This chapter draws heavily on the best known and most detailed model of cohesion available.
▪ After the closest and most detailed scrutiny, I am absolutely persuaded that that will be achieved.
▪ The most detailed type of sorting consists of carrying out a die study.
▪ Yet this structuring of discourse along the patterns of dialogue has an effect at the most detailed, grammatical level.
▪ For the relatives of those who died, the book's the most detailed account of events they've had.
▪ Ideally the frequency curve should be formed from the most detailed possible size analysis of the sediment.
▪ By far the most detailed and satisfactory portrayals of Hercules and his wide variety of performances are seen on metalwork.
very
▪ The Chairman thanked Mrs Lucas for her work in writing very detailed minutes during the Society's first year.
▪ As a result the law relating to local government had become very detailed.
▪ Unification-based grammatical formalisms tend to employ very detailed information within the lexicon.
▪ Large-scale maps can be topologically very detailed and have complex legends while smaller-scale maps are more generalized.
▪ They are very detailed, made with small tesserae with gilt grounds and subtle colouring tones.
▪ A very detailed program, easy to use.
▪ The details held against books and the people they are on loan to are very detailed.
▪ They have a very detailed knowledge of medicines and how they work.
■ NOUN
account
▪ We know which those passages were from detailed accounts of the Council events.
▪ C, D and E all use a detailed account of the fighting under Æthelred apparently composed between 1016 and 1023.
▪ The goal of this project is to develop a detailed account of how anaphors are interpreted.
▪ A more detailed account of the methods used to implement the Survey is given in the Appendix.
▪ He obviously had a detailed account of the origins of Rome.
▪ Write a detailed account of what happened during that period of the activity.
▪ Betts and Hargrave give a detailed account of what has been achieved in one county.
▪ Nelson's detailed account is well worth close scrutiny for it illustrates many aspects of socio-ecology most cogently.
advice
▪ For detailed advice on how to stop crime in business see page 36.
▪ Here is some detailed advice from the best current practitioners.
▪ The haulier should look for an insolvency practitioner able to give up-to-date and detailed advice in accordance with the new law.
▪ We will also provide detailed advice during the preparation of legal agreements and completion.
▪ Applicants who consider that this exception may apply to them should seek detailed advice by writing to the Registry.
▪ Frank had given more detailed advice on the educational side of things, as had Brian.
▪ For detailed advice on themes contact the relevant committee secretary.
analysis
▪ Irvine has presented a detailed analysis of the controversy regarding the role of these two inositol phosphates in regulating calcium entry.
▪ Chapters 6 and 7 provide a detailed analysis of code switching behaviour.
▪ But later in the day, a detailed analysis showed the concentrations to be safe.
▪ In his book, Mowat proceeds to a detailed analysis of the part played by MacDonald in the crisis.
▪ Accordingly, two entire trials for each pairing were subjected to detailed analysis.
▪ More detailed analysis suggests the press was more successful at influencing assessments of party performance on unemployment than on other issues.
▪ The chapter then turns to a detailed analysis of the behavioural determinants of consumer demand.
▪ A detailed analysis showed that the jets came from eight small, fixed areas on the surface of the comet's nucleus.
breakdown
▪ Table 12.1 shows a more detailed breakdown of expenditure.
▪ The Diagnostic Key provides a detailed breakdown of the Grammar Test.
▪ The figure gives a detailed breakdown of patients included and excluded from the study.
▪ This section gives a detailed breakdown of what may be required in your daily work.
▪ The following detailed breakdown is designed to help those wanting to fund out more about awards available in a particular sector.
case
▪ The detailed cases described in chapters 7-9 concentrate heavily on the events that took place during that period.
▪ This is made easier by confining the study to a small range of detailed case studies.
▪ The research will involve a national survey of community credit unions and detailed case studies of individual initiatives.
▪ It also concentrates on a small number of councils as detailed case studies.
▪ It is very difficult to pursue an issue when it is impossible to produce a detailed case.
▪ A detailed case study approach is also called for by the nature of the explanatory variables that will be proposed.
▪ These and other themes are also pursued through detailed case studies from several contrasting regions of the world.
▪ The second phase will involve more detailed case study work with a small number of authorities to look at techniques in practice.
consideration
▪ Each of these matters requires more detailed consideration.
▪ Planning need not necessarily start with detailed consideration of the content of a history study unit.
▪ The function of the forcing resistance is given more detailed consideration in Chapter 5.
▪ Initial reports have now been received and detailed consideration will now continue.
▪ The positive aspects of this procedure include the full and detailed consideration of the individual needs of each child.
▪ The memorandum was remitted to the officers of both bodies for detailed consideration and report at a subsequent meeting.
▪ However, the great strength lies in the detailed consideration of the nutrition and ecology of the marsupial herbivores.
▪ I have deliberately confined most of the detailed consideration in this study to the north bank of the Tyne.
description
▪ Thurlow concentrates on vividly detailed description of his races, mostly in the style of the time.
▪ This table is based upon interviewees' detailed descriptions of their desired practice, not upon terms they used to describe them.
▪ Parents may need help in giving a detailed description without generalizing and blaming the child.
▪ This is a detailed description of the evidence, the methods used and the research findings. 5.
▪ He also provides a very detailed description of the medium.
▪ Moreover as a history of realism the book is concerned with larger matters than the detailed description of style.
▪ The majority of this book however, is divided into sections containing detailed descriptions of the most popular and best available packages.
▪ Today, police issued a more detailed description of the attackers.
discussion
▪ It took nearly two weeks of detailed discussion by planning officers of all three services to work out the denials.
▪ These six secondary ideas in chapter 1 are distilled from a detailed discussion over many pages.
▪ A detailed discussion of the implications of the different course styles can be found in our sixth report.
▪ So I was elected chairman of the meeting in committee, which is where all the detailed discussion and drafting takes place.
▪ This should take place at a time when the individual is able to engage in detailed discussion.
▪ After two hours of debate the synod voted overwhelmingly to receive the report and moved on to detailed discussion of the legislation.
▪ The issue of equality had to be looked at very closely and we had already had detailed discussions with I.C.T.U. on equality.
evidence
▪ That question is more difficult, because of the level of detailed evidence which is required to answer it with certainty.
▪ Well documented and detailed evidence is provided in the journal Religion in Communist Lands.
▪ It needs to be filled out by detailed evidence from local studies.
▪ The conference also heard detailed evidence yesterday on the more disturbing, but necessary, work of body identification.
examination
▪ Space does not permit a detailed examination of each of these proposals.
▪ Thirdly, some proposals do warrant a more detailed examination with regard to their desirability and practicability.
▪ At the same time, these are obviously complex matters which require much more detailed examination.
▪ Officers were continuing a detailed examination of the rooms.
▪ Some details of the mechanisms of dispersal of such imported goods can be obtained by a more detailed examination of their distributions.
▪ This chapter will provide a more detailed examination of specific aspects of criminality.
▪ What does a more detailed examination of the proposals in Working for patients and the accompanying working papers reveal?
▪ These require more detailed examination in order to determine whether they disprove the hypothesis formulated above.
explanation
▪ A good way of breaking up the detailed explanation is to add a quotation or two in this section.
▪ The Pru is sending a detailed explanation of the accruals method and the full accruals figures for 1991 and 1990 to shareholders.
▪ Out of necessity these are brief as a detailed explanation would fill a book by itself.
▪ It is provided for reference purposes; you will find more detailed explanations elsewhere in this manual?
▪ See Appendix 1 for a detailed explanation of each of these.
information
▪ The ability to search for supporting detailed information as time and necessity dictate. 11.
▪ Other benefits include the detection of oil slicks and other pollution and detailed information about land use through the seasons.
▪ More detailed information can be found in the information accompanying this bill.
▪ Documentation is well written and contains detailed information on usage of the function calls.
▪ It is this kind of detailed information which is needed in order to properly answer questions one and two.
▪ The simulations include group problem-solving, detailed information exchange, one to one and team negotiating.
▪ The reader who wishes to have more detailed information on the various forms of physical treatments available should refer elsewhere.
instruction
▪ It gives clear detailed instructions, answers queries and suggests ways to improve your technique.
▪ To convert the principle into practice he needed detailed instructions from the centre.
▪ More detailed instructions will be found taped on the walls over the appliances concerned.
▪ There is much to see, and hopefully the detailed instructions and maps will prevent you from getting lost.
▪ Colette had written three pages of detailed instructions about every room and gadget.
▪ The detailed instructions which were obtained were followed, and the famous garden flourished in the sand dunes as a direct result.
▪ Both products come with detailed instructions for use.
▪ However, Lee has taken considerable trouble to provide detailed instructions and many examples to help clarify this issue.
investigation
▪ How royal conflicts could engage these various interests is best seen through a detailed investigation of one particular crisis.
▪ These, and related, areas of marketing are worthy of detailed investigation.
▪ The association's own quantity surveyor and marketing department made detailed investigations.
▪ This suggested that a more detailed investigation into growth patterns, particularly on a comparative basis, would be valuable.
▪ The action follows detailed investigations carried out by the board last month.
▪ Fleischmann and Hawkins were making the detailed investigations.
▪ The detailed investigation of selected planning departments involves interviews with key personnel.
▪ Following discussion of the short list, the client may require further detailed investigation of a preferred candidate.
knowledge
▪ The primary purpose of the proposed research will be to acquire detailed knowledge about how the new Act will operate.
▪ No one can hope to retain in his head the mass of detailed knowledge needed throughout the farming year.
▪ The builder could no longer rely on eye alone; the Renaissance was a time for an order based on detailed knowledge.
▪ We must forget the notion that the highest intellectual achievement is that of specialized and detailed knowledge.
▪ Effective measurement requires detailed knowledge of the properties of phenomena which are to be reflected or mapped on to some mathematical system.
▪ They have a very detailed knowledge of medicines and how they work.
▪ This detailed knowledge of land formations should help geologists find mineral resources and evaluate geologic hazards such as earthquake zones.
▪ Using the detailed knowledge of employees at all levels, dramatic results were obtained.
picture
▪ Clearly it would be better to have a more detailed picture, which more accurately represented the number of options available.
▪ These electrical pulses are then analysed and used to produce detailed pictures of a patient's internal organs.
▪ The value of Moscucci's approach is that she has provided a detailed picture of the development of gynaecological practice.
▪ It provides an extraordinarily careful and detailed picture and records - factually and unemotionally - the abuses which characterized the whole system.
▪ Furthermore, the detailed picture is much more complicated than the trajectory might suggest.
▪ Each time try to build up a more detailed picture.
plan
▪ Make a detailed plan of the room, measuring into all alcoves and doorways.
▪ The manager should discuss with the allocation officer the detailed plans of allocation and holidays for nurses in training.
▪ On 22 June, Sir William forwarded his detailed plan, which covered no less than nine, closely handwritten pages.
▪ George worked from detailed plans, drawings and photographs of the Fort, employing a scale of 1:300.
▪ Following a debate on Nov. 23 it passed a resolution giving Gorbachev two weeks to produce detailed plans.
▪ They say detailed plans were not available.
▪ The letter on Palace notepaper detailed plans to tarnish Di's image.
planning
▪ Making a business succeed is not simple - even the best ideas and skills need detailed planning and sound business sense.
▪ Techniques for detailed planning and monitoring of projects are described in the next chapter.
▪ His initial prescription was a cure based on State control of production and on detailed planning of labour.
▪ Mass production methods call for detailed planning and sophisticated control procedures.
▪ Without intricate and detailed planning the construction of a building would be slow, wasteful and chaotic.
▪ Along with the relevant directorates of the MoD, it furnishes financial and other guidelines to the General Staff for its detailed planning.
▪ Such detailed planning would have provoked snorts of derision from Sir Keith.
▪ They focus on general directives and priorities, set targets and leave detailed planning and administration to subordinates.
proposal
▪ If your possible sponsor sounds interested, arrange to return with a proper, detailed proposal.
▪ For this reason he was given the green light to prepare more detailed proposals for further consideration.
▪ Following this we approved most of the detailed proposals.
▪ The detailed proposals were noted in the introduction.
▪ The scheme began with 35 projects funded to the tune of Ecu10,000 each to put forward more detailed proposals.
▪ At the moment I am examining a large number of detailed proposals that have been put to me.
question
▪ However, he has added some detailed questions.
▪ Women are being asked detailed questions about their child-care arrangements, and failure to produce satisfactory answers may disqualify them from benefit.
▪ Here, at least, the level of knowledge should be up to answering more detailed questions.
▪ Producing three pages of detailed questions relating to last year's accounts may entitle an interviewer to draw an adverse conclusion.
▪ In which case at this stage the interviewer can move quickly on to more detailed questions.
▪ These need not be anything more than the rough headings under which the detailed questions will fall.
▪ The scope for detailed questions on quantitative techniques in the examinations covered by this manual is very limited.
record
▪ The clearly visible wing bands enable individual birds to be identified and detailed records of their growth to be kept.
▪ The detailed record does tend to suggest that Eden was not the consistent anti-appeaser which he claimed to be.
▪ The first detailed record of a race meeting dates from 1709 when the course was levelled and improved.
▪ However, some middle way between a basic inventory and a fully detailed record is possible.
▪ So, keep detailed records of drivers of all company vehicles: otherwise this personal criminal liability may arise.
▪ Edwardian adventurers left very precise and detailed records of their journeys.
▪ Both replication and review can be carried out only where a full and detailed record of the original experiment is provided.
▪ Constable kept a detailed record and made water-colour studies which are important early topographical documents.
report
▪ Inevitably, in a detailed report of this type much of the information is specialised.
▪ Physicians performing abortions were obliged to file detailed reports on each case to the state health department.
▪ See the following pages for detailed reports of the Division's progress.
▪ The outcome will be a detailed report to assist providers in increasing the participation of different socio-economic groups in learning activities.
▪ The independent groups gave more detailed reports.
▪ Chromatograms are automatically analysed and detailed reports can be tailored to the application.
▪ A one-page summary for some, a detailed report for others, are there other ways of reporting back?
▪ Otherwise, two detailed reports of the mid-1950s allow us a glimpse of more usual branch activity.
research
▪ The most detailed research, however, has been undertaken by S. Dench in mid-Devon.
▪ It is unfortunate therefore that detailed research into such issues is still largely in its infancy.
▪ The pilot studies are intended to lay the foundation for more detailed research into the role of effective innovation in corporate competitiveness.
▪ In the bottom-up approach, investment analysts produce earnings forecasts on the basis of detailed research into the firm's activities.
▪ Similar patterns are discernible with other brooch types, although there has been less detailed research.
rule
▪ Only in one major area, capital, has Parliament or central government set detailed rules reducing this freedom.
▪ However, the detailed rules have changed.
▪ Do they effectively manage your empire with detailed rules on expenditure?
▪ There are detailed rules setting out how proof is to be established.
specification
▪ The biological positivists did not, however, involve themselves in the detailed specification of penal treatments.
▪ The role of the Safety Authority is crucial in this respect and numerous detailed specifications require its approval.
▪ Requirements for other researchers involve detailed specification of research topic, methods etc.
▪ First, synthetic schemes tend to facilitate detailed specification, and thus inclusion of a larger number of subjects.
▪ By the twentieth edition synthesis had become a well-established mechanism for allowing detailed specification without resorting to exceedingly lengthy schedules.
study
▪ Evolutionary Morphology Darwin himself had done extensive morphological work in a detailed study of barnacles during the 1850s.
▪ Shafir made a detailed study of comprehension levels by the supposedly literate.
▪ Morphology was a laboratory-based subject that did not encourage detailed study of how animals adapted to their local environment.
▪ It is not however so well suited to an intensive, detailed study of spoken language.
▪ Where such detailed studies have been made they tend towards the typological and shy away from the technological aspects.
▪ Pearce reached his conclusions after conducting a review of detailed studies into the impact of environmental taxes.
▪ Laski himself led the way not only in general theoretical orientation but also in the detailed study.
▪ This must always include detailed study and preparation of the let-down procedures at all proposed destinations and alternates.
survey
▪ It provides a detailed survey of pay, and therefore makes research possible into what determines pay in Northern Ireland.
▪ This detailed survey is peppered with information on how the faunas came to be collected - often by amateurs.
▪ After some detailed survey work members of the Glasgow South branch.
▪ Seventy years later an even more detailed survey of another Dorset town was made.
▪ A small, detailed survey found that older inheritors tended to put aside much of their cash to benefit their own children.
▪ However, that property could have defects which could only be identified and reported by a more detailed survey.
work
▪ Clearly, there is need for more detailed work on thermodynamic and chemical processes in small gasifiers.
▪ The requirements may well be modified as detailed work and discussion proceed.
▪ We may praise the detailed work and massing of information, but we may sleep.
▪ Each Cabinet sets up a number of committees to do more detailed work.
▪ How it operated provided an intriguing study to which much detailed work was devoted.
▪ The detailed work has been undertaken by two subgroups, also multi agency and with practitioner involvement.
▪ Instead, much detailed work was done by demagogues.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ detailed lesson plans
▪ Do you have a more detailed map of the area?
▪ Furniture makers produced beautifully detailed chairs.
▪ Her biography is clear, detailed, and illuminating.
▪ The police have issued a detailed description of the man they are looking for.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a result the law relating to local government had become very detailed.
▪ As set out below, more detailed valuations will be undertaken for actual targets at subsequent stages in the deal process.
▪ George worked from detailed plans, drawings and photographs of the Fort, employing a scale of 1:300.
▪ It contains a number of detailed examples of such work throughout the primary age range.
▪ Neither found Darwin's detailed theory of adaptive evolution very useful.
▪ Other studies will be based on detailed comparisons of returns for the Censuses of Production for each country.
▪ There they were to leave commissioners, forty picked by each brother, to work out a detailed division of the heartlands.
▪ Ticket wallet containing your detailed itinerary, luggage labels, travel information, etc.