noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a conspiracy theory (= a belief by a number of people that something is the result of a conspiracy )
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President Kennedy’s assassination inspired a lot of conspiracy theories.
big bang theory
conflicting theories
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There are conflicting theories about the origin of the universe.
formulate an idea/theory
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Darwin formulated the theory of natural selection.
implausible theory/idea/explanation etc
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Margaret found his excuse somewhat implausible.
information theory
prove a theory
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No evidence emerged to prove either theory.
put forward a theory/hypothesis
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Many theories have been put forward as to the building’s original purpose.
quantum theory
steady state theory
subscribe to the view/belief/theory etc
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I have never subscribed to the view that schooldays are the happiest days of your life.
the theory of evolution
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Many Christians find it impossible to accept Darwin's theory of evolution.
unorthodox view/approach/theory etc
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Her unorthodox views tend to attract controversy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
classical
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Butaccording to the classical electromagnetic theory presupposed by Bohr's theory, orbiting electrons should radiate.
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This gives a vast space of possible states-much more than for afield in classical theory .
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Time is not considered in classical theories yet no experiment can be made which does not involve time.
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The predictability is as clear-cut as it is in the classical theory .
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Friedman's statement of the natural rate hypothesis went a long way towards reconciling such evidence with basic classical theory .
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Indeed, what is observed is quite inexplicable on the basis of classical theory .
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In contrast, classical game theory supposes rational players, and seeks a solution in terms of how such players would behave.
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The classical theory of comparative advantage is often taught as if everyone benefits from trade.
critical
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This is that critical theory offers an aesthetic evaluation of works of art.
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So would you if you left graduate school in the recession year of 1991 with a degree in something called critical theory .
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There are two particular knowledge systems that attract the attention of critical theory: science and mass culture.
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This brings us to an approach recently fashionable in critical theory and denoted by the term deconstruction.
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Thus, the relationship of critical theory to postmodernism and poststructuralism is indeed a far more complex matter than is commonly assumed.
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Through a process of critical appraisal successive theories build on those that go before.
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It was left to Jürgen Habermas to establish a more comprehensive account of the basis of critical theory .
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Habermas's theory involves a reflexive moment that was present but unsatisfactorily worked out in the earlier versions of critical theory.
economic
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Some relate to queries concerning economic theory , others to the nature of the actors involved in political processes.
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It all sounds like economic theories , you know.
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Elsewhere contradictions between models and economic theory can be noted.
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At this point, economists and economic theory have entered the game.
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Critics of regulation from the standpoint of economic theory can not have it both ways.
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The scientistic rationale was particularly influential in the creation of modern economic theory .
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The economic theory of job search has grown into an important aspect of labour economics in recent years.
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They cobbled together their economic theories , then, while straddling the secular and the sacred.
general
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In Donoghue v Stevenson in 1932 the House of Lords shaped a general theory of manufacturer's liability in tort for products.
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The general theory of invariants is thus a part of the theory of constraints.
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Such a description must certainly play a role in any general theory of linguistics.
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In parallel with the work of the classification theorists, general systems theory has evolved to consider similar problems.
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The two theories are the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.
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Freud himself began to develop a general theory of unconscious emotional processes in human societies.
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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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Without an advocacy stage few general theories in biology would ever have arisen.
literary
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Brooke-Rose's engagement with feminist theory is typical of her encounter with literary theory in general.
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Contemporary literary theory has also questioned whether a relation between words and things is easily achieved, even possible.
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As far as literary theory is concerned, it is perhaps this more than anything else which constitutes the structuralist revolution.
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In literary theory they emerge as Marxism, phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, deconstruction.
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Tredell's analysis is perhaps too synchronic, suggesting that the various modes of literary theory coexist, whether easily or uneasily.
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The result is a range of different genres of literary criticism and literary theory , to some extent distinguished by register.
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Fergus was also in the right field, which was literary theory .
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The principal characters, Larissa Toren and Armel Santores, teach literature and literary theory at two equally radical universities.
marxist
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Most of the views dealt with in the following sections have been influenced by Marxist or Weberian theories of stratification.
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This kind of analysis has implications for the Marxist theory of the state.
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However Althusser found it difficult to maintain a Marxist theory of history while avoiding its customary Hegelian form.
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Socialist and Marxist theories of the state.
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The following account represents a simplified version of Marxist theory .
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What this means is that there is no way that any hypothesis drawn from Marxist theory can be disproved by empirical investigation.
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The points raised in this brief summary of Marxist theory will now be examined in greater detail.
modern
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In a striking anticipation of some modern theories , he claimed that humans have intelligence because they have hands.
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The scientistic rationale was particularly influential in the creation of modern economic theory .
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Berkeley's theory gave rise to the development of modern externalist theories of mental content.
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We consider the modern theories of unemployment and inflation in Chapters 26 and 27 respectively.
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It is a remarkable testimony to the depths to which modern opening theory extends that this position is still known.
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As we have seen, modern theories of Pavlovian conditioning assume that stimuli can activate the representations of other events.
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In modern portfolio theory this is defined as the extent to which the construction of the portfolio has eliminated non-market risk.
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In 1907 Wedderburn proved one of the fundamental theorems of modern non-commutative ring theory .
political
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Having to tackle procedures restricted by legislation also forced us to apply political theories to practical realities without too much compromise.
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But it would be equally wrong to treat it as a seminar in political theory ....
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Laski's political theory can in general be seen as the product of a pragmatic revolt in politics.
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The active influential citizen described ill normative political theory is not excused from the obligations of the subject.
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Such points, nevertheless, should not detract from the overall value of his political theory .
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Children might as well come from cabbage patches as far as most political and economic theory is concerned.
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Most trade unionists had been indifferent to any political theory beyond an instinctive syndicalism which was itself largely confined to industrial disputes.
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This tradition itself can be traced back a long way in political theory .
psychological
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And feminist psychologists are still predominantly concerned with making egalitarian corrections to traditional psychological theories , rather than working with their uncertainties.
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In most cases, general psychological theories have been loosely related to politically relevant behavior.
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The biological aspect of woman-centred psychological theories provides them with some theoretical distinctiveness.
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A caution was previously made regarding the rejection of psychological theories on emotional grounds.
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Lott, for instance, says that anyone interested in making psychological theory generally more interactionist, must be interested in feminist research.
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Similarly, one must caution against accepting psychological theories for emotional reasons.
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The biological and psychological theories stressed this distinctiveness.
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All psychological theories are organic and living and thus changing.
scientific
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This list could be greatly extended with accounts of successful predictions and explanations made possible by inductively derived scientific laws and theories .
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A scientific theory , not just a rhetorical one.
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However, this caveat is a special case of the general truth that any scientific theory is necessarily underdetermined by the evidence.
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Fletcher turned his trick into a whole scientific theory .
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Darwin's theory is an example of a scientific theory which is chiefly explanatory.
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In itself this does not seem to me to point the way towards any helpful scientific theory of mind.
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Newton's physical theories , however, are a good example of how a scientific theory may be predictive as well as explanatory.
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A scientific theory can not be proved but only disproved.
social
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A thorough review of social movement theory and research in advanced industrial democracies.
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Most claim to be interactionists, enlisting both biological and social theories .
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This presents further developments in social movement theory and research.
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This pragmatic movement in philosophy also had a significant impact on the social theory of the time.
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It is an experiment in social science theory and method.
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The rhetorical perspective has explicitly criticized the one-sidedness of much cognitive social psychological theory and its emphasis upon schematic categorization.
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What about people? Social theories abound.
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These characteristic ideas of functionalism are found running throughout the theories of sociological positivism, evolutionary social theories, and pragmatism.
■ NOUN
conspiracy
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Like all good conspiracy theories , the polio vaccine theory's originators are its worst enemies.
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These people have enough conspiracy theories on their plates.
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In this way, the strategy proceeds from the same antisemitic assumptions and stereotypes as the more familiar and anti-Zionist conspiracy theories .
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The militia is really a direct-mail marketing operation for conspiracy theory videos and a busy interchange on the information superhighway.
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The answer is that it is difficult to see a conspiracy theory at work.
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Those blacks dedicated to conspiracy theories see white devils behind the murders of both Shakur and Wallace.
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This is particularly relevant to the conspiracy theory of politics.
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In a world filled with guilt and bitterness, there is no room for self-criticism or objective analysis. Conspiracy theories abound.
quantum
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The first derives from the quantum theory .
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According to quantum theory , elementary particles do not really exist until an intelligent observer measures them.
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Here is the unique point at which the fitful indeterminacy of quantum theory makes itself felt.
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Using quantum theory to understand gravity makes as much sense as trying solve a crossword puzzle with the key to your door.
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However, in quantum theory , anything that is not actually forbidden can and will happen.
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And yet, the most sophisticated experiments have proved quantum theory correct time after time.
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In the quantum theory of gravity, on the other hand, a third possibility arises.
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In the quantum theory , the appropriate analogous concept is that of a Hilbertspace.
■ VERB
based
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How to do research based on their theories has proved difficult for the phenomenologists.
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But, like global warming, ozone depletion was based on theory .
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This tale of parallel realities claims to be based on quantum theory , and is dressed up with suitable jargon.
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The Richards function is based on theories and data about how the relative growth rate should behave.
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Our understanding of the world around us is based on theory .
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The new formulation is based on attribution theory .
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Nor were his warnings a fluke; his ability to provide such foresight was based upon his theory of equilibrium.
develop
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Case 1: Linguistics A linguist devises a model of grammar in the process of developing a theory of human cognition.
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Scholes originally developed the theory working with Black, who died in 1995.
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I have developed a theory to explain recent incidents in the light of what I have learned about you.
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But recently my colleagues and I have developed another theory which I think has more interesting implications.
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This raises interesting issues: Which assumptions of e-commerce may force you to develop a new theory of business?
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It seems however, that adequate professional preparation can only emerge as the result of developing the relationship between theory and practice.
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In chapters 7, 8, and 9 we use the differentiated products approach to develop a theory of trade.
explain
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He explained the theory of Mastery of Learning, about which he'd spoken before.
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Then I will explain the theory .
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Can anyone explain the divergence of theory and advice?
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This article does not propose to explain the theory behind profit maximisation with price discrimination.
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The increase in vapour pressure with temperature can be explained in terms of the kinetic theory .
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The diversity of crime accounts for the unconvincing nature of attempts to explain it by all-encompassing theories .
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This book explains the relevant theory and related it to classroom activities designed to improve students' discourse skills.
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A rising yield curve can be explained by liquidity preference theory .
formulate
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One is that it should incorporate Feynman's proposal to formulate quantum theory in terms of a sum over histories.
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By the middle of the decade, they had formulated their auteur theory , which gave a new gloss to film studies.
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To answer these questions, we have to formulate a theory of the determinants of growth.
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A consistent theory of how gravity affects light did not come until 1915, when Einstein formulated the general theory of relativity.
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Yet Marx and Engels' determination to formulate general theories eventually made Marxism one of the most successful transnational ideologies.
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However, all this was changed when Einstein formulated the general theory of relativity in 1915.
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They think, observe, formulate theories , make predictions, and do experiments.
support
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Many authors have used the distribution of particular carbonates to support particular theories of continental distribution in the past.
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The high core temperatures could also be used to support a theory that became fashionable among geophysicists during the l980s.
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There does, however, appear to be very little evidence to directly support such theories which thus remain largely speculative.
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But there is little evidence to support that theory .
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This case supports the theory that functional disturbances of the thymus may have a role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease.
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The numbers seem to support the theory that Grand Forks voters wanted change.
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The most blatant form of selection occurs when a study includes only those cases that support the theory .
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Analysts pointed out that there is little historical evidence to support this theory .
test
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And testing , mandatory in theory , is not widespread.
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They conduct studies with laboratory animals or human volunteers to test their theories or treatments for fatness.
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It uses them to test theories in high-status, male-identified areas of psychology, like achievement and self-esteem.
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It became possible to test theories about nervous system functions.
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In order to test these theories two further stages are required.
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But there never has been such a comprehensive study to test the theory .
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Parallel demonstration of theory tests the fruitfulness of theory across a range of countries.
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To test that theory and several others, the researchers developed and administered a questionnaire to the workers.
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pet project/theory/subject
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Both grants represented pet projects of two council subcommittee members.
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Different chemists prefer different pet theories, and there is no shortage of theories.
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Even as the trajectory of his thought kept rising in the early seventies, the clock was ticking on his pet project.
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Even those Hippocratic treatises which inveigh against Presocratic dogmatism are themselves just as dogmatic where their own pet theories are concerned.
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His pet project is a biotechnology institute in which state funding will be matched by contributions from the Schering drug company.
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Monitoring the telephone conversations of the Kremlin hierarchy had become one of his pet projects over the last few years.
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No organization likes being told that it has got to hold back its expansion or abandon some pet project.
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The proposals are seen as a pet project of the right wing of the Conservative Party and Conservative students' groups.
the big bang theory
the germ of an idea/theory/feeling etc
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It represents the germ of an idea which someday might explode into a national objective.
working definition/theory/title
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A pragmatist judge will find room in his working theory of as if legal rights for some doctrine of precedent.
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A useful working definition has been provided by the Department of Trade and Industry in Britain.
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As a working theory this is impregnable, whether considered sceptically or superstitiously.
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Despite the difficulties, the teacher needs a rough working definition.
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Is that a reasonable working definition of Paradise?
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Like I say, it's just a working title.
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The Household of Faith was Brideshead's working title.
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We can, however, offer a very general working definition, which seems to feature in most discussions.
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Atkin taught political theory at Hunter College.
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Darwin's Theory of Evolution
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Einstein's theory of relativity
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It's my theory that the murderer knew his victim quite well.
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music theory
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There's a theory that Kennedy was killed by the CIA.
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There have been a lot of theories about the meaning of dreams.
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This theory helps to explain how animals communicate with each other.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A hypothesis should be related to a body of theory .
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For it is very difficult to specify just how falsifiable a single theory is.
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Several theories of planetary formation include the possibility of disturbance to axial spins during the late stages of formation of a planet.
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That Leeds was working within the constraints of this theory as early as 1912 is often overlooked.
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This is so: but the take-off theory over-simplifies the real process.