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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ There was nothing in his face that she could interpret as affection or even as desire.
▪ But it can be interpreted as stating that on average there is more variety in the trading equilibrium than in autarky.
▪ This semantic shift should not necessarily be interpreted as indicating a decline in nationalism or racism.
▪ Unfortunately the resulting diagram is not so easy to interpret as are some of the other forms of chart.
▪ This could be interpreted as weak and lacking authority; it could equally be interpreted as polite and considerate.
▪ Is it then the case that no group of these fundamental quantitative propositions of science can be interpreted as stating causal connections?
▪ This has been interpreted as increasing arousal to levels incompatible with that task.
▪ Recall that the summation convention requires the right-hand side of this equation to be interpreted as.
■ NOUN
action
▪ However, interpreting their actions nowadays suggests to us that this is not altogether true.
▪ The referee has to see and correctly interpret extremely fast actions.
attempt
▪ His genuine desire to make up may be interpreted as an attempt to embarrass or be-little.
▪ Some have interpreted it as an attempt to win Hispanic votes at the expense of military readiness.
▪ They were interpreted as an attempt to create a wider market in cultivated land.
▪ It is likely that the move will also be interpreted as an attempt by the nuclear industry to renew its fading influence.
behaviour
▪ Desmond Morris interprets the behaviour of domesticated horses, and reveals it as being much the same as their wild ancestors.
▪ Desmond Morris interprets the behaviour of farm animals.
▪ Jealousy is a label here that merely interprets that behaviour.
▪ The mating behaviour of pied flycatchers is immensely complicated and scientists studying them interpret their behaviour slightly differently.
▪ They sometimes find it difficult to see other people's point of view and to interpret other people's behaviour.
change
▪ Wilson waited, not sure how to interpret the sudden change of atmosphere.
▪ The long-wave framework, therefore, has considerable appeal for interpreting modern structural change.
▪ His parents welcomed him, assuming he was back for an indefinite stay and perhaps interpreting this as a change of heart.
court
▪ It is for the courts to interpret those words soas to give effect to that purpose.
▪ The Constitution, and the courts that have interpreted it, posit rights to liberty, privacy and equal protection.
▪ The court in interpreting the clause, leans against the seller.
▪ The court said the government interpreted the federal law so loosely that it usurped Congress' authority.
▪ Then the courts interpret such phrases soas to give themselves more or less control as they wish.
▪ The decision in 1949 to establish a court to enforce and interpret the Constitution was a historical act of revenge on Bismarck.
▪ Apart from adding a gloss to the section, the courts have had to interpret the actual wording.
▪ Despite this, the effectiveness of the newly amended s.62 will depend largely on how the courts decide to interpret it.
data
▪ The briefing sheet also provides help in interpreting the data.
▪ They must understand finance and information systems, and be able to interpret data.
▪ It interprets the data and provides summary reports to the client running the program.
▪ These include classifying, observing, predicting, inferring, hypothesizing, interpreting data, and measuring.
▪ Ching-Hon Pui was a principal investigator of the leukaemia treatment protocols and interpreted the data.
▪ Even when some superstar analyst discovers a winning way to interpret data, others follow, and the method becomes obsolete.
▪ Psychologists and physiologists have always been resigned to using statistical analyses to extract meaning from and interpret their data.
▪ Some one else would then interpret the data and write reports.
difficulty
▪ Discussion Meta-analysis increases the statistical power of tests but does not eliminate causes of bias and difficulties in interpreting the results.
▪ The difficulties of interpreting the law are shown by a number of cases that have arisen.
▪ Volatile and unpredictable exchange rates result in difficulties in interpreting the market's signals.
▪ Souquet etal also emphasised the difficulty in interpreting parietal thickening in patients evaluated after radiation therapy.
event
▪ But it is impossible for him in his findings not to interpret events.
▪ Alexander had a knack for interpreting events around him.
▪ How was he to interpret these events?
▪ Seligman and other researchers and practitioners insist that you can have control over how you explain and interpret life events.
▪ The person prone to depression has a tendency to interpret events negatively.
▪ Perhaps he can be helped to interpret the events as less threatening.
▪ The press was at first unhelpful in either explaining or interpreting the events.
evidence
▪ Such information helps archaeologists to interpret excavated evidence more accurately.
▪ Certain Martian surface features have been interpreted as evidence of ancient ocean beds and widespread glaciation.
▪ This was interpreted as evidence of discomfort and distress.
▪ Because of the underlying sense of grievance numerous situations could have been interpreted as yet further evidence of white imperialism.
▪ Some critics have interpreted this as evidence that he finds the human body disgusting, but the opposite is true.
▪ Marxists, on the other hand, interpret the same evidence the other way round.
experience
▪ They should be able to interpret their experience and assurance in the light of the revealed truths of the gospel.
▪ Answers about personal qualities and abilities are harder to interpret, although experience does make it easier.
form
▪ The skills pupils need are the strategies of problem solving; interpreting mathematical forms and statements; representing situations mathematically.
▪ By comparison, functionalism has often been interpreted as a form of ruling class ideology.
▪ Racism is interpreted as a form of displacement and objectification deriving from unhealthy neuroses and personality traits.
information
▪ However, even when this is achieved, there may still be problems in interpreting what this information means.
▪ You have little chance of consistently interpreting information in a superior way.
▪ A water quality officer interprets the information and can instruct Cyclops to collect a sample of the discharge in a sealed container.
▪ Management accountants are to analyze and interpret the financial information corporate executives need to make sound business decisions.
▪ It is therefore important to understand the causes of individual differences in children's abilities to interpret non verbal information correctly.
▪ Rather, people interpret and retain media information selectively to reinforce their existing attitudes.
▪ They learn to use a variety of different methods of gathering information for themselves and then to interpret that information.
law
▪ A solicitor can interpret the law for you and help you take advantage of your full legal entitlement to reliefs and allowances.
▪ That background could mean that you have the ability to interpret complex laws regarding employee rights.
▪ Umpires must interpret the bad light law correctly for the sake of the crowd.
▪ The court said the government interpreted the federal law so loosely that it usurped Congress' authority.
▪ If circumstances arise which are not fully covered, the judge must interpret law and principles accordingly.
▪ The difficulties of interpreting the law are shown by a number of cases that have arisen.
▪ It is also important for balance when interpreting laws.
▪ They could interpret the word law in a more pragmatic or policy oriented sense.
meaning
▪ A good counsellor helps them to interpret the meaning behind the words each speaks.
▪ And they interpret that as meaning that whatever happens in the money market exporters should still retain some of their current advantage.
▪ Confusion between the sources of faunal diversity could easily lead to mistakes in interpreting its meaning.
▪ This could be interpreted as meaning that the Act applies to the activity duty.
move
▪ Those who advocated reform argued consistently that it ought not to be interpreted as a permissive move for two reasons.
▪ Franco interpreted this move, not as a gesture of diplomatic expediency, but as a demonstration of western approval.
result
▪ Several potential limitations should be considered in interpreting the results of this study.
▪ I interpret as the inevitable result of conflict between art and female obligation in upper-class, old-family Boston.
▪ Discussion Meta-analysis increases the statistical power of tests but does not eliminate causes of bias and difficulties in interpreting the results.
▪ However, the results generated in the output file will logically be interpreted with the same results.
▪ This should be kept in mind in interpreting the results.
▪ In such circumstances one would have to be very careful about interpreting the results of Turing tests.
▪ We can not be sure of how to interpret the results.
▪ One is that latent inhibition should not be interpreted as being the result of a loss of stimulus associability.
rule
▪ This general approach to drafting carries the risk that the rule will be difficult to interpret.
▪ McGehee advocates the creation of an independent Office of Ethics Counsel to interpret the rules, investigate complaints and recommend sanctions.
▪ We suggest ten golden rules for exam revision, but like all rules, they need to be interpreted flexibly.
▪ Those who apply the rule to particular cases, must of necessity expound and interpret that rule.
▪ That apparently has resulted in lobbyists interpreting the rules on their own.
▪ Initially, we had interpreted the rule as requiring production of the Report itself.
▪ The Chair, interprets and enforces the rules of the meeting.
sign
▪ For the benefit of the deaf members present the Dean's and all subsequent speeches were interpreted into sign language.
▪ Indeed, a request for more precision would likely be interpreted as a sign of immaturity or inexperience.
▪ He tried to slow her down with gestures which she interpreted as signs of denial, and so she poured it on.
signal
▪ This experiment showed how important learning can be in interpreting a signal.
▪ Volatile and unpredictable exchange rates result in difficulties in interpreting the market's signals.
▪ This system could interpret the nerve signals precisely enough to pick up the fine arm movement needed to land a plane safely.
text
▪ A feminist might interpret a text very differently from an army officer, for example; or a teenager from his parent.
▪ This was supposed to be an upper-level class, and the students seemed unable to interpret a perfectly simple text.
▪ They naturally assume coherence, and interpret the text in the light of that assumption.
▪ Cultural acts and rituals could be interpreted as texts which reveal the sense of a society's ordering and structuring of experience.
▪ There must always be a danger in interpreting an ambiguous text.
way
▪ This can be interpreted in two ways.
▪ Even when some superstar analyst discovers a winning way to interpret data, others follow, and the method becomes obsolete.
▪ The second way to interpret the story carries little Messianic significance at all.
▪ There are two main ways of interpreting them and these will be discussed below.
▪ Recent developments in game theory have had an important impact on the way we interpret these models.
▪ This regular correlation influences the way we interpret statements in academic papers.
▪ But there are two ways of interpreting the high level of agreements being reached between farmer and park authority.
ways
▪ This can be interpreted in two ways.
▪ There are two main ways of interpreting them and these will be discussed below.
▪ But this us to ignore wider questions relating to visual communication amid ways in which we interpret photographs.
▪ But there are two ways of interpreting the high level of agreements being reached between farmer and park authority.
▪ I am now going to offer you five ways of interpreting the cross.
▪ In the next section we will examine union policies on this issue and the ways they have been interpreted in signed agreements.
word
▪ It is for the courts to interpret those words soas to give effect to that purpose.
▪ Today we interpret the word axiom differently.
▪ This is probably true; but we can now see that we must not interpret this word magic too uncritically.
▪ They could interpret the word law in a more pragmatic or policy oriented sense.
■ VERB
help
▪ Such information helps archaeologists to interpret excavated evidence more accurately.
▪ He is counseled by a sports psychologist who helps him interpret and banish negative, self-defeating feelings.
▪ A good counsellor helps them to interpret the meaning behind the words each speaks.
▪ The counsellor is helped in interpreting this complex situation by the generality of family behaviour.
▪ Perhaps he can be helped to interpret the events as less threatening.
▪ It was written to help students interpret the results of their fieldwork by providing the essential background information.
▪ We have presented guidelines to help decision makers interpret league tables as currently presented.
▪ We use this information to help us interpret our surroundings and the events we observe or participate in.
need
▪ The central set of skills which are needed are interpreting, translation and the complementary skills for service providers.
▪ Process control has reams of output data that need organizing and interpreting.
▪ We suggest ten golden rules for exam revision, but like all rules, they need to be interpreted flexibly.
▪ All tests on products for overseas markets need to be interpreted with caution.
▪ And in general, student opinion needs to be interpreted with caution.
▪ It needs another stage to interpret its output and locate the zero-crossing it may have encoded.
▪ A distance scale is needed in interpreting the coordinates and this is what the metric equation provides.
▪ Figures also need to be interpreted.
try
▪ If you try and interpret the public mood, you become a bit of a slave.
▪ No one knew exactly what inspired her elliptic comments, and her relations had long since given up trying to interpret them.
▪ And, gazing back, Pumfrey tried to interpret, from his expression, the implications of that last remark.
▪ It is indeed dangerous to try to interpret the facts of history in the light of a modern theological problem.
▪ And since I have that type of handicap, I try to interpret it as best as I can.
▪ To understand brain and behaviour means rejecting that dichotomy and instead trying to interpret the intertwined dialectic of specificity and plasticity.
understand
▪ The emphasis here is on the individual's capacity to understand and interpret what other individuals mean by their social actions.
▪ Participation is in essence really only a refinement on the methods used to reflexively understand and interpret in everyday life.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ An artist has as much right to interpret history as a historian.
▪ During lunch, Ben interpreted for Sasha, who didn't speak a word of English.
▪ Fairy tales can be interpreted in several different ways.
▪ For the school's deaf students, she interpreted the entire play in American Sign Language.
▪ How would you interpret her letter? Is she really hostile or just being ironic?
▪ I interpreted her silence as anger.
▪ I had to interpret for my boss on the last trip to Japan.
▪ No one in our tour group spoke Spanish so we had to ask the guide to interpret.
▪ The data has not yet been interpreted.
▪ The statement was interpreted as a threat against the United States.
▪ They are worried that the workers might interpret the new law as a restriction of their rights.
▪ This dream can be interpreted in several different ways.
▪ We'll have to find someone who speaks Chinese to interpret the questions and answers for our guests.