I.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a specific aim (=an exact aim)
▪ What are the specific aims of the course?
a specific inquiry
▪ His job is to answer specific inquiries by individuals or groups.
a specific objective
▪ Most classroom activities have a specific learning objective.
a specific/concrete proposal
▪ The report will make specific proposals for further investigation.
a specific/direct/explicit reference (=mentioning something specifically/directly etc)
▪ No specific reference was made to the race of the children.
a specific/particular purpose
▪ Training is the acquisition of knowledge and skills for a specific purpose.
precise/specific/exact
▪ The term ‘stress’ has a precise meaning to an engineer.
specific gravity
specific/detailed recommendations
▪ We made a large number of specific recommendations for improving women’s mental health.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
▪ Where psychology does produce theories, they are highly specific to particular debates.
▪ This is the basis of a highly specific method for the measurement of blood glucose.
▪ There was much use of natural materials, and craftsmen expected like medieval masons to be given general rather than highly specific directions.
▪ These cowards practice randomness in highly specific places.
▪ Fourth thesis: Higher education is open whereas research is closed Research is highly specific.
▪ Inpart, this is because of the shortcomings of that highly specific subject framework.
▪ This provides strong evidence that the hybridization signals obtained are highly specific and due to the transfected plasmid.
▪ The name can convey a highly specific meaning or less than nothing, depending on your audience.
more
▪ As well as this broader-based analysis, there are more specific historical pieces included in the collection.
▪ For more specific figures, call your local electric company.
▪ There is, however, also a more specific reason for considering Oakeshott's modes of experience.
▪ She would not be more specific.
▪ A more specific example of how the culture of work profoundly influences the industrial worker is around the issue of assessment.
▪ Here is a more specific example.
▪ But Sitthi had a more specific brief.
▪ He was unable to provide more specific plans.
very
▪ Nothing drastic or even very specific was proposed.
▪ I had a very specific question in mind.
▪ They simply tell us that some one has some very specific desires, aches and pains.
▪ The statement of purpose should open with one statement followed by several shorter very specific statements of purpose.
▪ Bourdieu's second criticism of Lévi-Strauss is that he misses the very specific nature of the exercise of power in traditional societies.
▪ Damage to a small area occasionally leaves a person normal except for a very specific deficit.
▪ You seem to have very specific ideas about what those are.
▪ Yes, if your child is older than that, but only if you have provided very specific guidelines.
■ NOUN
area
▪ The study of social policy particularly hives off a specific area of social activity in a way that must violate subject boundaries.
▪ Another solution has been to designate specific areas for jet ski use while banning them elsewhere.
▪ And, because local providers serve only a specific area, they may offer better, faster connections for customers.
▪ It also meant that Contact was allotted a specific area in each centre and that generally group members stayed within it.
▪ Yet the focus of urban policy on specific areas has regularly reproduced these contradictions in microcosm.
▪ The association is divided into seven sections which relate to specific areas of security.
▪ Examination of a number of specific areas demonstrates that law has contributed positively to commercial activity.
case
▪ Criticism has not always been related to specific cases.
▪ Let us see how this works in a specific case.
▪ Except in very specific cases Sidonius's attitudes and style encourage the reader to see continuity where there may have been disruption.
▪ But he said the specific cases did help his staff realize what kinds of establishments were not covered by the 1998 ordinance.
▪ As with other details these might vary in specific cases, but a typical cannon has a value as shown here.
▪ The figures have greater impact when demographers get down to specific cases.
▪ In the specific case of the Saturn V, the three stages performed as detailed in the table below.
▪ Family services officials refused Sunday to comment on the incident, citing state confidentiality laws that preclude them from discussing specific cases.
example
▪ Using a specific example, show how opinion leaders might be identified and influenced through a marketing strategy.
▪ There is an inherent problem in citing specific examples of such questions, however.
▪ I shall build up to this point using a specific example which is the other main theme of this chapter.
▪ Here is a more specific example.
▪ It is almost invidious to single out specific examples of success.
▪ This type of analysis is best illustrated by the following specific example.
▪ Those consequences have been highlighted by my hon. Friend with specific examples from industries within his constituency.
▪ Other hon. Members have given specific examples of their constituents.
form
▪ This is a specific form of market failure, since the market left to its own devices does not give sufficient knowledge.
▪ A more precise determination can be made only by analysis of specific forms of prayer.
▪ In Garrett's model, the specific form of a sentence is represented at positional-level, which is generated from functional-level representation.
▪ Expressions of indebtedness for specific forms of assistance are noted at appropriate points in the text.
▪ This may help to explain why we refer to this type of game as a specific form of group dynamics.
▪ In its least specific form there is a nondescript clumsiness of gait.
▪ The derivation of the specific form need not concern us.
▪ What specific forms, one must ask, does this organization take?
group
▪ It is much easier to keep a reliable record if you concentrate on 3 or 4 rugs from specific groups.
▪ It's not relegated to a specific group.
▪ One is saying something about men in the plural, but no specific group of men is intended either.
▪ Detailing the study of specific groups provides a focus for research components and presents a more coherent view of research efforts.
▪ Demography and population Few studies of the nineteenth-century migration process have concentrated on the detailed longitudinal analysis of specific groups of migrants.
▪ Algae can be fought by removing the causes of development of the specific groups.
▪ Any differences in institutional developments as they apply to specific groups. 4.
▪ Price supports for farmers and minimum-wage legislation are illustrations of government price fixing designed to raise the incomes of specific groups.
information
▪ Investigation is an active but fairly informal search for specific information.
▪ This is useful for having your browser remember some specific information which the Web server can later retrieve.
▪ Research is an active and formally organised search for specific information for a specific purpose.
▪ One is to maintain a product focus, offering specific information about each item.
▪ The search for general information is more difficult than the search for specific information because all directions are relevant.
▪ You want an overall structure to a topic as well as specific information.
▪ Create a list of specific information that belongs in the document.
instruction
▪ An instinct involves not only the impulse to do something, but also specific instructions on how to do it.
▪ The patient is not given any specific instruction.
▪ The book gives fairly specific instructions to make choices in order to simply.
▪ These examples show clearly that the human genetic code does not contain specific instructions to behave in a particular way.
▪ Get detailed and specific instructions on planting.
▪ It may be run at other time during the working day on specific instruction.
▪ Barak gave specific instructions that I was to go in alone.
issue
▪ There is unlikely to be a consensus definition of the boundaries between background knowledge and the specific issues addressed in individual papers.
▪ Jones said the president will not only have more say over bills but more power to focus public attention on specific issues.
▪ Other issues such as education may be resolved by a specific issue or prohibited steps order also made under s8.
▪ It just means that we have settled our claims on these specific issues.
▪ In the case of structure practice, for example, more specific issues might be: Are meaningful drills possible?
▪ Inquiries regarding specific issues should be directed to the paying agent or, if none is listed, the issuer.
▪ My concern is to address a different and very specific issue.
▪ Minor disputes over specific issues blew up into major confrontations.
need
▪ These examples are in addition to tasks such as mobilising and creating resources to meet specific needs.
▪ The generalized assertion of privilege must yield to the demonstrated, specific need for evidence in a pending criminal trial.
▪ Language training to suit specific needs 2.
▪ They have similar Uvalues to triple glazing and good solar control properties which can be modified to suit specific needs.
▪ Your local Crime Prevention Officer can advise you on the best type to buy to suit your specific needs.
▪ With regard to the specific needs of secondary schools, however, the situation was necessarily more complex.
▪ This data helps the zoo provide the best environment possible for the animal and to accommodate all of its specific needs.
objective
▪ Chapter 2 identified the five specific objectives of the project: 1.
▪ What we have just witnessed is the importance of having a very specific objective.
▪ Again, however, a specific objective needs to be established and a suitable tax instrument selected.
▪ Disobedience has to be organized, and it has to have both a specific target and a specific objective.
▪ Decisions about the effectiveness and appropriateness of different behaviours can only be made within the context of particular situations and specific objectives.
▪ The specific objective of this paper is to show that these children have the worst mortality record of any social group.
▪ A Directive binds member states to certain specific objectives, but leaves them to implement the necessary measures through national laws.
▪ However, at the classroom level there may be specific objectives set for a particular session or activity.
performance
▪ An order for specific performance was granted since damages would not have been an adequate remedy.
▪ Indeed, without specific performance consequences, most of us quickly grow cynical.
▪ The basic combination of attitude and power produces a specific performance.
▪ You can not learn team performance without being part of a team that holds itself mutually accountable for achieving specific performance goals.
▪ It is open for most of the year, but you need to book well in advance for any specific performance.
▪ Use both / and goals that translate across all four levels from purpose to specific performance.
▪ The range offers cabinets tailored to specific performance requirements but without excessive performance reserves and complex control systems.
▪ No one demanded that people commit to specific performance challenges requiring them to use what they had supposedly learned.
problem
▪ Nevertheless the specific problems and prospects of the churches' own media need to be studied in greater depth.
▪ Where the goal is the solution of a specific problem, it makes sense to move in whatever directions seem most promising.
▪ In this situation the salesperson should question the nature of the objection in order to clarify the specific problem at hand.
▪ The ability to coordinate several activities at once and to quickly analyze and resolve specific problems is important.
▪ The climate and geography created specific problems and, as in Orkney, there was a 7 to 8 month winter.
▪ For each country will have specific problems related to its own social, political and economic structure.
▪ Their conversations with their bosses were generally very task-oriented and usually focused on a specific problem.
project
▪ In addition to stimulating specific projects, a research centre for solar energy is due to be established.
▪ Until now, debate has focused on the merits of putting specific projects such as the stadium expansion on the ballot.
▪ From time to time other sections may be needed but lists can be made up as and when they are required for specific projects.
▪ Centers will maintain the flexibility to accommodate changes in specific projects as the need for information changes.
▪ Sometimes specific projects have helped to promote integration.
▪ At other times it may be crash learning for a specific project.
▪ The organisation will consist of executive and advisory boards and adhoc committees and task forces will be set up for specific projects.
▪ With potential large corporate and individual donors, emphasize specific project sponsorship more than general operating fund support.
proposal
▪ According to the Washington Post of March 6 Baker urged the delegations to focus on negotiating specific proposals.
▪ These basic allocations set the ground rules for decisionmaking on specific proposals.
▪ On July 15 both countries issued specific proposals designed to increase cultural contacts.
▪ The President made no specific proposals on the matter, however.
▪ The report will discuss this aspect and make specific proposals for further investigation.
▪ There was both support for and opposition to the specific proposal on which we sought views.
▪ There are at present no specific proposals for changes in the treatment of dominant firm monopolies.
purpose
▪ Belbin's description of team roles has proved to be very useful, especially in creating teams for specific purposes.
▪ Still other badges are used for specific purposes.
▪ Research is an active and formally organised search for specific information for a specific purpose.
▪ The proposal serves as a guide to the hypothesis testing process which embodies the specific purpose of the study effort.
▪ It is always difficult estimating the room you will need unless you are having the greenhouse built for a specific purpose.
▪ It is brought into existence precisely to enable a specific purpose to be realised.
▪ There is now only the one pool, which he designed with the specific purpose of encouraging Koi-keepers with limited space.
▪ The business group will seek legislation allowing local governments to tax for specific purposes only.
question
▪ I want to put a specific question to the Minister.
▪ Part of the problem is that teachers often have a battery of specific questions and answers in mind.
▪ These data raise a number of specific questions, and some more general issues.
▪ If I asked him a specific question, he made an attempt to answer it.
▪ Searching for the implications of a question is beginning to relate your knowledge to a specific question.
▪ He was too sleepy to form specific questions and answers, and too tense to get to sleep.
▪ If patients ask specific questions which you can not deal with you should always refer this to sister.
▪ An investigation checklist given to San Francisco police officers during training includes specific questions that should be covered.
reference
▪ But the Act made no specific reference to special provision for young workers.
▪ But no specific reference was made to the race of the children, nor did it appear to affect deliberations.
▪ The earliest specific reference to its desertion comes from 1602.
target
▪ Patrols like this have specific targets.
▪ Disobedience has to be organized, and it has to have both a specific target and a specific objective.
▪ In a similar manner, cost-cutting exercises move always in the direction of cutting costs without a specific target.
▪ Last year, Trent noted, one-third of the cancer drugs approved hit specific targets.
▪ A small squadron could make a series of relay runs, each programmed for a few specific targets.
▪ The next stage is to make each step of the ladder a specific target.
▪ We will set specific targets for out-patient waiting times.
▪ Authorities were also asked to produce local charters which could set more ambitious and specific targets.
task
▪ The specific tasks allotted to each chapter, and the material included, also lead to different approaches.
▪ Jobs like this call for various database programs, each tailored to a specific task.
▪ The Committee would have specific tasks to carry out and if these were not achieved, an unqualified body might emerge.
▪ A typical pin might be the result of many individual workers, each with a specific task to do.
▪ A great deal of time was spent haggling over prices for specific tasks.
▪ One is identification of the specific tasks confronting each of the four learners.
▪ Diversity can only be increased through a body set up with the specific task of creating and sustaining new media.
▪ The two team leaders will decide on how the specific tasks will be divided between the two subgroups.
topic
▪ Meetings need not be addressed by any one person although a specific topic can be aired for discussion if the group wishes.
▪ Majordomo allows a group of people to join or quit a mailing list dedicated to a specific topic.
▪ An essay in Science, Engineering or Technology may call for a survey of the literature on a specific topic.
▪ A two-hour morning session was broken into segments, each devoted to a specific topic.
▪ Both of these edited volumes contain a number of relevant and clearly written papers on a variety of specific topics.
▪ Usenet-the Net's prime discussion area-comprises over 85,000 newsgroups, each dedicated to a specific topic.
▪ Some channels are obviously dedicated to specific topics, for example, but most are merely informal chat limes.
▪ In this article, as the title suggests, I shall deal in detail with a rather specific topic.
type
▪ The first is called algorithmic, which comprises a procedure or series of instructions used to solve a specific type of problem.
▪ We further found that certain physical and physiologic profiles put children at risk for specific types of learning and psychological problems.
▪ There are many occasions when you will have a specific type of claim which you wish to promote.
▪ It has already been noted that there is a variety of cleaning agents each of which affects specific types of soil.
▪ What specific type of exercise will benefit your body - what are your capabilities and limitations?
▪ Dealers can also provide a useful service in locating specific types of rug or generally buying on your behalf.
▪ These specific types of exercise are called aerobic exercises.
▪ Table 18, below, shows the percentages of all defective items which suffered from the specific types of damage noted.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Power plant employees must follow very specific safety guidelines.
▪ Rooney wouldn't comment on specific candidates for the job.
▪ Tauscher refused to be specific about his future plans.
▪ The Senate voted to ban nine specific models of assault weapons.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Each B-cell makes its own specific antibody, depending on the type of intruder to which it is responding.
▪ Figure 4 depicts the concentrations of IgM specific antibody secreting cells to beta lactoglobulin and casein in these patients.
▪ Generally, however, the handbook provisions in question must be specific and clear.
▪ Research is an active and formally organised search for specific information for a specific purpose.
▪ The true self must be understood as engaging in the world in a specific way as part of a community.
▪ Those consequences have been highlighted by my hon. Friend with specific examples from industries within his constituency.
▪ User attitudes to specific presentations and to the tape/slide method of instruction were also studied.
▪ We still have location-based teams but these work in partnership to make the best use of specific expertise at particular sites.
II.nounEXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As yet there has been little public debate on the specifics of the options or the associated design choices.
▪ But he was unable to produce any specifics.
▪ Dole has endorsed the concept of a flat tax but has been reluctant to commit to specifics.
▪ He wants to know about specifics, about problems and how I solve them.
▪ Only as discussions settled down to specifics did some of the reasoning become clear.
▪ Perhaps custodial aesthetics, which is directed more to the specifics of particular cultures, in some way addresses his concerns.
▪ She was not allowed by her publicist to reveal any specifics about what new scandals she may have uncovered.