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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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These are less amenable to being uncovered by using conventional interviews or survey methods.
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But there is another side to the substance abuse equation that may make it less amenable to interventions.
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Never evade their letters or telephone calls, it will only make them less amenable to your predicament.
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But others were both less recent and less amenable to resolution.
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The issue is not the same as issues of consciousness, and fortunately is more amenable to clearly empirical considerations.
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Birmingham may be more amenable to questioning and more accessible, at least during the first several months.
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By stripping concrete objects of their less essential features, they become less involved and hence more amenable to mathematical treatment.
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Doubtless he'd be able to find much more amenable company on the slopes tomorrow morning.
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With much of the preliminary work already done, Ministers were more amenable to finding the time to legislate.
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Such conditions may be much more amenable to medical intervention than chronic conditions.
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They progress much further than Gang into late adolescence, a period more amenable to bittersweet comedy.
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The latter tend to be less emotive and are more amenable to compromise.
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Carbohydrate replenishment Your body is most amenable to replenishing muscle glycogen in those first few hours after exercising.
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He was concerned with focusing quickly on the areas most amenable to cost reduction.
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They were most amenable and forwarded a corrected contract without delay.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But there is another side to the substance abuse equation that may make it less amenable to interventions.
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Corporate culture is not something easily amenable to management control or manipulation.
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He is not amenable to insidious influence.
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He was concerned with focusing quickly on the areas most amenable to cost reduction.
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No one suggested that non-litigation costs were not amenable to taxation.
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No suggestion was made that non-litigation costs were not amenable to being quantified by taxation.