adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a scientific/systematic approach
▪ a scientific approach to the study of language
a systematic search (=one done in an organized way)
▪ They set about a systematic search of the ship.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
little
▪ Although these questions are of vital importance, little systematic information on these issues is available.
▪ But there has been little systematic investigation of how different approaches affect the process of analysis and theoretical development.
more
▪ Other writers see it in a much more systematic unilineal sequence.
▪ The typical 5-to 6-year-old is usually a little more systematic.
▪ More headteachers were raising expectations and supporting their staff; more were monitoring teaching in a more systematic way.
▪ At the concrete operational level, efforts are more systematic but not fully so.
▪ A number of Amerindian languages encode reference to home-base in a more systematic way.
▪ There is a more systematic and scientifically acceptable method for establishing the nature of a political culture-the use of survey research.
▪ It can be used to provide a more systematic evaluation of linearity.
▪ Complex circumstances demand a more systematic approach.
most
▪ The most systematic theological reflection on these problems was offered in this period by Ernst Troeltsch.
▪ These constitute the most systematic national approaches to social service personnel training that we were able to find.
■ NOUN
account
▪ The third Marxist strategy, the development of a systematic account of within-class conflicts, is more revisionist.
▪ Instead they present a systematic account of just where Freudian theory fails.
▪ The fact that it aims to provide a systematic account of time use is what distinguishes it from the literary diary.
▪ In his systematic accounts of each species, Snow is careful to stress the main areas where knowledge is lacking.
▪ It is a serious systematic account written for the general reader, professional without being technical.
▪ I have not attempted to give an exhaustive or systematic account of the variety of government functions.
analysis
▪ Essentially semiology proposed the systematic analysis of cultural behaviour.
▪ This process should be wherever possible part of a systematic analysis of diagnostic system requirements.
▪ They can only achieve this through a systematic analysis of their responsibilities towards the curriculum as a whole.
▪ It will provide a systematic analysis of the issues involved in three ways.
▪ But no serious systematic analysis has ever been made of the recruits, or of their careers as policemen.
▪ The effectiveness of medical interventions is best evaluated by a systematic analysis of randomised controlled trials.
▪ This functionalist, teleological aim is inappropriate for the systematic analysis borrowed from structural linguistics.
approach
▪ The object of job evaluation is to provide a systematic approach to defining the relative worth of different jobs.
▪ A systematic approach is important for proper diagnosis and treatment.
▪ For example, the amount and quality of teaching vary greatly and lack any systematic approach.
▪ Therefore, one must adopt a systematic approach to acid-base diagnosis, as emphasized earlier in this chapter.
▪ Eventually I decided that what was needed was a little organisation - a systematic approach to make my busy life a little less fraught.
▪ Complex circumstances demand a more systematic approach.
▪ Winter embarked upon a more systematic approach to the manpower function.
▪ This type of program could provide a systematic approach to the game environment suggested in the other sections.
attempt
▪ An effective and systematic attempt at forecasting may reduce some of this uncertainty, and render the future more manageable.
▪ However there has still been no systematic attempt to relate female deviancy to women's situation.
▪ At least until the early 1970s, however, the government made no systematic attempt to shape the pattern of industry.
▪ In another trial a systematic attempt was made to investigate the effect of proximity between subjects.
basis
▪ In short, you will he required to apply the principles of thinking on a regular and systematic basis.
▪ Social services departments have a particular concern to research into needs on a more systematic basis.
▪ We stress that the list serves a heuristic purpose: it enables us to collect data on a fairly systematic basis.
▪ It needs to think ahead on a systematic basis.
change
▪ To do this you can read texts, making systematic changes of person, tense, and vocabulary items.
▪ Once the antecedents to their overdrinking are established, clients can begin to make systematic changes in these situational factors.
▪ Our study indicates that there is no systematic change in colonic function after cholecystectomy.
▪ Both antecedents and consequences should be open to systematic change.
▪ Taken over time, this series of systematic changes in the interconnected network of market decisions constitutes the market process.
investigation
▪ He dutifully ceased to send presents, and instead began a systematic investigation of her circumstances.
▪ But there has been little systematic investigation of how different approaches affect the process of analysis and theoretical development.
▪ Again, this is an hypothesis which would repay systematic investigation in respect of historical examples with contrasting forms of division of labour.
method
▪ However, to date no systematic method has been devised of assessing social class in this way.
observation
▪ This is best obtained by systematic observation of his or her teaching of normal lessons not involving a microcomputer.
▪ However, no systematic observations have been made of maternal behavior and anxiety or of later infant development in these cases.
▪ But this is almost certainly the result of systematic observation in Chichester Harbour.
▪ This belief led the priests to make careful and systematic observations of the heavenly bodies.
▪ It is therefore essential that you are able to note these by systematic observation.
research
▪ I get the impression that it's some sort of systematic research, maybe a response to a leak.
▪ This phenomenon has been confirmed by systematic research.
▪ In spite of the organisational and managerial implications of such changes, no systematic research has been undertaken.
▪ At best, therefore, Freud's views must be regarded as suggestions that need to be followed up by systematic research.
▪ However, there is a dearth of systematic research into the changes effected.
▪ There is clearly a need for a systematic research project aimed at estimating the value of sports tourism.
▪ Until recently however very little systematic research has been undertaken in this country.
▪ One consequence of this is that no systematic research programme has resulted from this approach.
review
▪ Health outcomes associated with antihypertensive therapies used as first line therapies: a systematic review and a meta-analysis.
▪ Summaries in list form appear at the ends of chapters to serve as systematic reviews of major conclusions.
▪ A guide to interpreting discordant systematic reviews.
▪ Like Allen, I would urge you to provide a systematic review of the empirical data supporting your proposal.
▪ A systematic review of controlled trials.
▪ Recommended changes had to be substantiated by explicit statements of rationale, supported by the systematic review of relevant empirical data.
▪ Several queries addressed the distinction between the meta-analysis and systematic review.
▪ Reporting, updating, and correcting systematic reviews of the effects of health care.
risk
▪ Therefore, total and systematic risk should not be too different in a well-diversified portfolio.
▪ Promote the benefits of systematic risk management and safe behaviour amongst your members.
search
▪ In 1987 David Jewitt instituted a systematic search of the outer Solar System for faint, slow-moving objects.
▪ This will involve a systematic search through library catalogues, and has several purposes.
study
▪ The next chapter reports a more systematic study of these effects. 5.4.3.4.
▪ The first systematic study of intergroup competition was made about twenty years ago by Sherif and colleagues in the United States.
▪ There has been no systematic study, however, to discover if this assumption is correct.
▪ The systematic study of this dependence has recently been made feasible by the development of the theory of sequential games.
▪ I didn't make a systematic study but I occasionally followed up clues if I came across references in books and catalogues.
▪ The first systematic studies of political parties belong to the end of the nineteenth century.
survey
▪ The shallow drilling programme is central to the systematic survey of the continental shelf.
training
▪ Again the same point emerges: high social standing and systematic training did not mix.
▪ But everywhere it was still a factor inhibiting the growth of systematic training and the professionalism it symbolised.
▪ Part of this has to do with the lack of systematic training to which we have already referred.
▪ There is, however, no systematic training for volunteers who become concerned over issues like the rainforest, the debt problem.
▪ The overall picture, however, is of a lack of systematic training in church music for ordinands.
▪ So far as systematic training of diplomats was concerned, therefore, the eighteenth century saw projects and suggestions, but little lasting achievement.
▪ Conversion I have already mentioned the need for systematic training of bilingual service providers.
▪ Direct budgeted allocation of resources will aid, encourage and allow planned systematic training.
use
▪ Scholars such as Daniel Wilson and John Lubbock made systematic use of such an ethnographic approach.
▪ The point of the interview is to make full and systematic use of this to gather data for research purposes.
▪ But the systematic use of the threat is comparatively recent.
way
▪ Stan, a computer systems analyst, approaches pie in a thoughtful, systematic way.
▪ But it is all of them working together in a systematic way that produces the dramatic results companies really want.
▪ There is also the problem that the researcher's observations can be subjective and are difficult to record in a systematic way.
▪ The first step is to establish that linkage between nutrition factors and health status in a systematic way.
▪ More headteachers were raising expectations and supporting their staff; more were monitoring teaching in a more systematic way.
▪ To see how this works we first need a systematic way of numbering Turing machines.
▪ A number of Amerindian languages encode reference to home-base in a more systematic way.
▪ The educational problems we began with can be interpreted in a more realistic and systematic way.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A systematic approach is needed for proper diagnosis.
▪ Analysis of the data should have been more systematic.
▪ Ex-prisoners talked of systematic cruelty within the jail.
▪ the systematic destruction of the country's education system
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Again the same point emerges: high social standing and systematic training did not mix.
▪ And so began the systematic stripping away of what little autonomy Mama had left.
▪ Educational technology is therefore offered as almost a synonym for systematic thinking in education.
▪ Jeffries' subject was the systematic effort by the white power structure to keep black people down.
▪ The pragmatist's solution to many of the problems of philosophy is simply that of not providing any systematic solution at all.
▪ We do not need to envisage systematic and conspiratorial marketing plans here.
▪ Widespread and systematic crime occurs in normal, everyday situations.