adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
factor
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Smoothly synchronised endocrine function, an intrinsic factor in determining youthfulness, is also notoriously liable to become unbalanced through stress.
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Pernicious anemia is thought to be caused by an autoimmune reaction against gastric parietal cells resulting in impaired secretion of intrinsic factor .
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This was also true when gastrin and intrinsic factor were incubated together with their respective antibodies.
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However, it is also possible to consider situations in which the modifiability of a compartment is due to completely intrinsic factors .
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Parietal cell and intrinsic factor blocking antibodies were not detected in any subject with atrophy.
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We have shown, using immunohistochemistry, that intrinsic factor is present in parietal cells from 13 weeks of gestation.
interest
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These tasks were repetitive, lengthy, and lacking in any intrinsic interest .
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Apart from its intrinsic interest , this result will have applications in other chapters.
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First, one begins to question the need for frequent rote regurgitation of words which lack intrinsic interest .
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The attractions of Ullapool are not altogether in its intrinsic interests .
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Nevertheless it was felt that the papers deserved a wider circulation because of their intrinsic interest to a larger audience.
nature
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One general psychological theory of the intrinsic nature of indecent jokes is, however, of considerable relevance and practical value here.
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Its badness, therefore, would not belong to its intrinsic nature and not be one of its intrinsic properties.
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So its badness would follow necessarily from its intrinsic nature .
part
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This, of course, is an intrinsic part of their grand master-plan.
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The electoral system appeared to form an intrinsic part of a stable polity.
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Family relationships are more complicated and involve patterns which have become an intrinsic part of the relationship.
property
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The purport of that attack was to prove that generality could never be an intrinsic property of a mental content.
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Replicators survive, not only by virtue of their own intrinsic properties , but by virtue of their consequences on the world.
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But once again it is to deny that they can do this by virtue of their intrinsic properties as individuals.
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But this apparent methodological superiority does not necessarily spring from any intrinsic properties of the stratificational model.
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The particular effects that genes have are not intrinsic properties of those genes.
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Its badness, therefore, would not belong to its intrinsic nature and not be one of its intrinsic properties .
quality
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It does not necessarily describe any intrinsic quality of the market itself.
value
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By definition, all at-the-money and out-of-the-money options have intrinsic values of zero.
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We are speaking about giving everyone access to some share in the intrinsic values that make human life worthwhile.
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Liberalisation and democratisation were not so much of intrinsic value as of practical value for the reformist-minded leadership.
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It is the specification of those basic intrinsic values that all rational beings would desire.
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Antique jewellery at the Paris Biennale is of interest for its design rather than its intrinsic value .
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It is in this sense that intrinsic values are objective.
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As with treasure trove the finder is rewarded with the intrinsic value of the find.
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They are capable of producing and enjoying states of intrinsic value , desirable for their own sakes alone.
worth
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Paint all over their clothes, all over the studio, external mark of intrinsic worth .
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But in this new conception of death people found a new conception of life, prized anew for its own intrinsic worth .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Parents need to teach children the intrinsic value of good behavior.