adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a basic exercise (= simple )
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He showed me some basic exercises for strengthening leg muscles.
a basic ingredient (= an important ingredient )
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This mixture of spices is a basic ingredient of the curry sauce.
a basic instinct
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The need to survive is the most basic instinct that we have.
a basic outline
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I remembered the basic outline of the story, but not how it ended.
a basic requirement
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Water is a basic requirement of life.
a basic understanding
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The aim of the examination is to test basic understanding of the written language.
a basic/fundamental concept
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The children are taught the basic concepts of mathematics.
a basic/fundamental principle (= a very important principle to which other ideas are added )
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Applicants should show that they understand the basic principles of marketing.
a basic/fundamental/underlying assumption
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There is a basic assumption in international law that a state will protect its citizens.
a fundamental/basic right
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The law recognises a man’s fundamental right to defend his home and his property.
a primal/instinctive/basic/natural urge (= a natural urge that all people have )
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Every animal has an instinctive urge to survive.
basic amenities (= basic things that people need, such as heat and running water )
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houses that lack basic amenities
basic disagreement ( also fundamental disagreement formal )
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There was fundamental disagreement on what steps should be taken to resolve the problem.
basic knowledge (= knowledge of the basic aspects of something )
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These things are obvious to anyone with even a basic knowledge of computers.
basic pay British English , base pay American English (= not including overtime pay or bonuses )
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The basic pay is so low you end up doing lots of overtime.
basic research (= the most important or most necessary area of research )
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He wants to conduct basic research into the nature of human cells.
basic skills
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The basic skills can be acquired very quickly.
basic structure
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These genes are involved in determining the basic structure of cells.
basic techniques
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The girls are taught the basic techniques of childcare.
basic training
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All navy cooks undergo basic training as sailors.
basic training
basic/base salary (= the basic amount that someone is paid )
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You get a basic salary, and then other benefits on top.
basic/elementary precautions
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Your home could be at risk if you don't take some basic precautions.
basic/essential vocabulary
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The book teaches you the basic vocabulary that you need to know when you're on holiday.
central/basic/fundamental etc tenet
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one of the basic tenets of democracy
serious/major/basic/minor etc flaw
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a slight flaw in the glass
simple/plain/basic/sheer common sense (= very obviously sensible )
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Locking your doors at night is simple common sense.
the basic design (= not including all the small details )
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The basic design of the two churches is very similar.
the basic pattern
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The basic pattern of her working day rarely changed.
the basic wage (= what someone earns before overtime pay, tips, or bonuses are added )
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The basic wage paid at the factory is the lowest in the auto industry, but with bonuses, the total compensation is the highest.
the basic/bare necessities
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A lot of families cannot even afford to buy the basic necessities of life.
the basic/key facts
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The report outlines the basic facts concerning the case.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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Most of the trekkers' huts have a table, chairs, some basic beds and even more basic mattresses.
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Hamann's appeal to language and experience as the ground of reason rests on a still more basic disagreement with Kant.
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The difficulty with T7 is even more basic .
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It was much simpler and more basic .
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Or perhaps by a more basic urge.
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Two more basic ingredients of leadership are curiosity and daring.
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Words, however, must build on this more basic sense of our own personhood and understanding of the world.
most
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Here you are covered for your tank and any furnishings which are damaged, even on the cheapest, most basic policy.
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The telephone is still the most basic medium for connections across a fishnet organization.
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Some database programs, for example, allow use at the most basic level and produce the required results.
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Those same cooks forget from year to year the most basic techniques of getting the bird to the table.
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She was kicking herself for forgetting the most basic Capricorn trait of allowing nothing to stand in the way of their goal.
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The most basic stockbroking service is an execution-only account.
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Washington seems unable to agree on even its most basic task, which is to fund the government.
very
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My parents were tenants and the house was very basic - the sink was outside and the cooker was on the landing.
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Such work presents new understandings in answer to very basic questions.
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These very basic differences become manifest in groups.
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This gives us some idea of what Turing machines can do at a very basic level.
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Comments: Requirements are very basic .
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It is at this very basic level that fires make a good subject for television news.
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Except for very basic slapstick, humour travels uncertainly. 4.
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Table 28-I, on the other hand, indicates a number of very basic manufacturing industries wherein economic power is highly concentrated.
■ NOUN
assumption
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It was easy to see what their basic assumption was.
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This is a different basic assumption than what is required for a peak performing team.
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The two basic assumptions behind the method were set out in a classic paper by W.S.
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Like the stomach surgeon, a psychiatrist can make all sorts of basic assumptions when a patient lies down on the couch.
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One of the basic assumptions of the radiocarbon method has turned out to be not quite correct.
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A basic assumption was that they would be the experts on everything.
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By culture we refer to the shared values, beliefs and basic assumptions about what we are doing.
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Their basic assumptions are very clear.
concept
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But most religious thinkers accommodated themselves fairly rapidly to the basic concept of evolution.
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With stakes this high, we have not dared to tamper with the basic concept of motherhood.
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The aftermath of the Apollo I fire had left many questioning the basic concept of an attempted Moon landing.
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There is no other secret to success than this basic concept .
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Consequently the basic concepts have been division of labour, organisational structure, job descriptions, but above all - hierarchy.
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People experience modernity without understanding its foundations, its basic concepts .
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When the basic concepts have been established the assumption of certainty will be removed.
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They are scrambling definitions of basic concepts like quality, time, and values.
education
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The specific provision at Southwark includes a basic education programme located on one particular housing estate.
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Gandhi appointed him president of the society for basic education .
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On one estate basic education and general classes are held in various premises after staff have developed contacts through outreach.
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The basic education level of the general population has risen dramatically in recent decades.
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These reforms had envisaged reorienting the ten-year basic education programme away from its highly academic content, towards more practical and vocational aspects.
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A basic education Escuelita de Bluefields, a school for all ages, opened last summer.
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With a list ranging from vocational and leisure courses to adult basic education , there's something for just about everyone.
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Teaching modern production skills to those with a good basic education is simply much easier than teaching the illiterate.
fact
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Causation, it can be supposed, is less clearly conceived by us than other basic facts .
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A handout or employee brochure with the basic facts can be distributed.
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That basic fact established, then you knew where you were.
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The basic facts are not in dispute.
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The Morgan test would not appear to require much more than a knowledge of the basic facts of life.
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You need to learn some basic facts about nutrition and the balance of different nutrients that you need at meals.
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For one thing, you are forgetting the basic fact that light travels at finite speed.
food
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On Oct. 1 the government removed price controls on all goods except basic foods .
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Rice was their basic food and their most important food crop, far ahead of maize, taro or sago.
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The unions threatened a further general strike on Aug. 22-23 if basic food subsidies and wages were not increased.
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State regulation of the price of all basic foods ?
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Many believe the tax unfairly penalises poor blacks by increasing basic food prices.
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The basic food of herbivores is plants, so even the largest carnivorous animals are indirectly dependent on plants.
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The Lappish diet is restricted to these basic foods and the result has been both anger and concern.
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In Teheran, there have been power cuts, and even basic food stuffs have been short.
form
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It is indeed simple, but its basic form is limited.
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However, the offense will retain its basic form , a fact with which Abdul-Jabbar is comfortable.
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Two basic forms of organisation were found to operate.
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The basic form of composition is a circle, symbol of unity, embracing all three angels.
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Face-to-Face Contact Direct, face-to-face contact between individuals is the most basic form of political communication.
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Even an inexperienced cook can make a pot-au-feu in its basic form .
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Associative learning provides explanations for basic forms of learning.
idea
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The basic idea was to take one bat away for a night and starve it while the others were all fed.
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The sine function, hyperbolic tangent, and other non-linear variations on these basic ideas have also been used.
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The basic ideas dominating the educational philosophy of Highlander are two-fold.
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Thus it was Genda who first thought up the basic idea that six months later culminated in the Midway operation.
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This section looks briefly at some of the basic ideas and illustrates them with the results of some laboratory experiments.
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Most caddies today have a basic idea of what is good for their player during a round to provide slow-burning energy.
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Such a narrative certainly conveys the basic idea .
information
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However, what's desperately needed is basic information .
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It provided basic information on Soviet missile testing and, development.
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The basic information they needed had been discovered more than two centuries before.
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Many genealogists are surprised to find that some of the most basic information is not on the Internet.
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But many poor countries lack even basic information about existing education and health programmes.
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The morphological structure of a language determines the basic information which must be expressed in that language.
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She was horribly short on even the most basic information about the people she wanted to speak to.
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It includes basic information for the newcomer either as a solo performer or as a team flyer.
level
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Filtration works at two basic levels .
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This gives us some idea of what Turing machines can do at a very basic level .
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Only at a very basic level of respect for all persons as persons has this been so.
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People expect-even demand-a certain basic level of service and product excellence.
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The Oregon experiment was introduced to ensure a basic level of health care for poor and elderly people.
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At the most basic level , then, the health of women and girls in developing countries continued to be neglected.
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We have set very clear targets which will return us to a basic level of performance in the next two years.
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At its most basic level , the electronic edition functions just as a dictionary does.
necessity
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Food is the basic necessity of life and without it economic progress is impossible.
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Rearing a child to maturity requires large expenditures on the basic necessities of life.
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For the first time, in many cases, working people were able to purchase more than basic necessities .
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Even basic necessities , such as pencils and paper, were often completely lacking.
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If a charge is made to some one on income support, this reduces the income available to pay for basic necessities .
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Ultimately a growing population of families unable to meet the basic necessities of life invites uncontainable crime and disease.
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They were starved of food and basic necessities .
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It led all the others, being both a producer of basic necessities and a provider of luxuries.
need
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Maslow, if we recall, suggested that this is one of our basic needs . 4.
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Romances, then, appeal to a basic need for mental escape and to our sense of practicality.
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The social system has certain basic needs which must be met if it is to survive.
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With basic needs in increasingly short supply, the social fabric of Cairo is showing signs of fraying.
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Even their most basic needs are sometimes ignored.
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Man's basic need has not changed over the five centuries that this book covers.
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They are for much of their young lives dependent upon family for their basic needs .
pattern
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Growth of this basic pattern is required to generate the mature limb.
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Here is the basic pattern of all sympathy engrams.
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The species within each type represented different modifications of the basic pattern , each adapted to a particular way of life.
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Here is the basic pattern Of the engram which will contain the chronic psychosomatic illness in any patient.
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In this way, the basic pattern in the egg could be transferred to the cells.
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This basic pattern was further complicated as hospital closure programmes progressed and patients were moved back to their health authority of origin.
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This is a very basic pattern but it can alter a plain garment dramatically.
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Measure for Measure takes this basic pattern and develops it in a new direction.
pay
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It has been a great success in giving around 2m people-8 % of workers-new basic pay rights.
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The lighting engineer boosts his £15,000 basic pay with bonuses for being on call at Newcastle upon Tyne all through the night.
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But it was not included as basic pay when the club's accounts were published.
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They established considerable control over recruitment and promotion, and even collected special levies to supplement their basic pay .
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The solution is simple: high basic pay for high performance during limited hears.
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The unions' move leaves unchanged the central issues of basic pay and a pay formula.
pension
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Your basic pension may be increased if you are supporting a dependent spouse or children.
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However, to get any basic pension you must satisfy two conditions.
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Graduated pension is increased annually in the same way as the basic pension.
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In money terms, the value is about 60 percent of the level of basic pension to which their husband is entitled.
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Firstly, women can only receive a pension based on their husband's contributions if he himself is in receipt of a basic pension.
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Nearly 60% of pensioners receive at least 75% of their income from state benefits, particularly the basic pension .
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When you retire, you will get the basic pension instead of the widow's pension you were getting.
principle
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The author focuses in on very basic principles , which makes this book easy to read, even by first time users.
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This is a basic principle of capitalism.
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Robodyne Systems has already demonstrated the basic principle , albeit on a much bigger physical scale.
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Indeed, Piaget asserted that the basic principles of cognitive development are the same as those of biological development.
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The basic principle behind all the various systems is that of the x, y co-ordinate.
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Mills valued this dimension in his essay on basic principles and again in the essay on craft or methods.
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This is becoming more complex and the only way to meet these challenges is to base management on well-understood basic principles .
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The basic principles of large units, deep ranks, and good characters doubly apply to Goblins.
problem
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The basic problems , however, remain much the same.
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Until the basic problems of invisibility and her own feeling of worthlessness were addressed, the situation would continue to recur.
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Maybe that was the basic problem , she told herself wearily as she now stared blindly up at the ceiling.
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Taking an aspirin or two may help also, though only by masking the pain, not by solving the basic problem .
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But then you need to deal with the basic problem .
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The Stolypin reforms, Soviet historians would maintain, had not solved the basic problem which made revolution inevitable.
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Our basic problem was that there was no way that we could all sit down with Frank and talk about it.
question
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This basic question may be broken down into a number of smaller ones.
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Every psychotherapy process, early in its development, defines the basic questions it is trying to answer.
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It can do so by focusing on five basic questions which are expressed in Figure 4.1.
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The basic questions will be the same: When will elections be held?
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In formulating answers to the two basic questions , one factor was paramount.
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At the heart of all of the basic questions about normality we shall find we are spinning our wheels.
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Therefore, the basic question was: what were business secrets?
rate
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The spot rate is also known as the basic rate or telegraphic transfer rate.
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If you pay the basic rate , every £1.00 you give is suddenly worth £1.33.
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But for the basic rate taxpayer, the problem of annual management charges eroding a diminished dividend yield remains.
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From Jan. 1, 1993, a basic rate of 25 percent would be charged on most goods and services.
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Each £100 investment will cost a higher rate taxpayer only £60, and a basic rate taxpayer £78.
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We have cut the basic rate of Income Tax from 33p to 25p, and the top rate from 83p to 40p.
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Provided the gift is at least £600 it will be regarded as having been paid net of basic rate tax.
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When making that payment, Tradeco must deduct income tax at the basic rate and pay that to the Revenue.
requirement
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The basic requirement is that glazing in certain critical locations must be safe.
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Nor are dialects subject to judgment, so long as they meet the basic requirement of having clearly defined rules.
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This is a very basic requirement of any measuring device.
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Anyone who meets a few basic requirements can get a permit to carry a concealed gun.
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Each of them, however, raises certain basic requirements of a conceptual and empirical kind.
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Certainly there may be the odd chart or graph thrown in for luck but the basic requirement is for high quality text.
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Playing to a consistent length is one of the basic requirements to perform to a high level.
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Psychological resources must also be taken into account to see if the basic requirements for daily life can be met.
research
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Others were part of basic research on living tissue, and their benefits could not have been realised at the time.
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Taylor offered his group a rare opportunity: the freedom to do basic research for a handsome corporate salary.
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Jones is also determined to increase funding for basic research , which he says the previous government allowed to run down.
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Our mission is three-fold: To undertake basic research to advance knowledge for its own sake.
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More effective drugs had their origin in the basic research on chemical transmission of nerve impulses described in chapter 4.
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It does, however, present a number of operational difficulties that require basic research before it can be widely used.
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This need not apply to basic research and design.
rule
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It contains sixteen basic rules , which include some for overall control and some which collect data.
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Most people nowadays are aware of some of the basic rules of healthy living.
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Far too many women are defeated by this supposedly basic rule of motherhood, including the most educated and ambitious.
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They broke the basic rule of presentation which applies in politics as much as it does in other fields.
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Shelter from the storm was a basic rule of humanity and yet not to be misunderstood as an invitation.
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In this section we bring the basic rules together.
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The basic rule was always the same.
salary
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Managers may earn bonuses up to 25 percent of their basic salary in some hotels.
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There is a generous stock-option scheme, and performance-related pay that can, in some cases, double basic salaries .
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Blackwell and Deane received a basic salary plus poundage according to the level of military spending.
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A spokeswoman for the Savoy Group said that anything a concierge earned on top of his basic salary was' entirely his affair.
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Managers receive rent-free accommodation and a basic salary .
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Expatriates' salaries are generally built up from a number of separate elements starting with basic salary.
service
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The main tasks of the non-metropolitan districts were concerned with housing and basic services such as street cleaning and refuse collection.
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But a serious lag in the development of infrastructure has followed rapid annexation, and many annexed areas still lack basic services .
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In hospital environments basic services such as cooking and laundry were organized centrally and cleaning was undertaken by domestics.
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Thousands of families live there without basic services because government agencies are barred from supplying electricity and water to disputed areas.
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Table 10.1 illustrates this with reference to revenue expenditure on basic services by the ten district councils in the Greater Manchester area in 1987/8.
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There are basic services , including good public transportation, sanitation, a sound infrastructure.
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Dormitory centres Within the catchment area of a burgh; basic services available; some growth potential and encouragement to industry.
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This money helps people out of work because of disability or injury and provides basic services to the poorest of the poor.
skill
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A basic skill that gives them the greatest start in life.
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Successful programs teach students basic skills to help them say no to drugs.
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They're just mastering the basic skills of walking and talking, which open up a whole new world for them.
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In an attempt to know how well students are learning these basic skills , school systems administer standardized achievement tests.
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There is certainly room for a programme on coaching and basic skills , but Rugby Special is not it.
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Foundation-level basic skills or university Access / foundation courses are generally free.
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Access to Management Normally these cover basic skills in managing people, resources and finance and are for aspiring or new managers.
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This manifests itself most obviously at the technical level where the same basic skills can be applied in different markets.
structure
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We had to get the basic structure right, the basic information flows in and then bring the consultants in.
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November 1989 brought more shifts in the basic structure of the world system than had been seen since the summer of 1945.
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For the United States was built on at least two basic structures , the old capitalism and the new.
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Another important branch of philosophy relevant here is metaphysics, which tries to discover the basic structure of reality.
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Imposing such a burden would alter the basic structure between state and federal governments, which is critical to our constitutional scheme.
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In terms of basic structure there is no doubt that Dame Sirith belongs to the same genre.
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These stain hair without interfering with its basic structure .
tenet
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Taking each in turn, their basic tenets and relative political attractions can be highlighted.
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One of the basic tenets of the campaign finance system is disclosure.
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Another basic tenet of the free market is the free flow of labour.
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Trying to force people into unwanted roles violates the most basic tenet of Western culture.
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They boiled down to three basic tenets .
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Here Whitman sets forth his basic tenets and suggests the central movement that is to follow.
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Mostly, they have failed to acknowledge one basic tenet of the high-tech world: We know too much.
training
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In the main, however, the selection procedure is rigorous enough so that basic training does not have to be used for assessment purposes.
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Group-based training need form only a small part of the complete basic training course.
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The basic training is amazingly quick.
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I think they all take a course in it during basic training .
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L Detachment at the time consisted of around one hundred men, most of whom had been through the basic training course.
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Prevention is better than cure, and you should use a lot of deep stances during your basic training .
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This is the reward for hours of basic training .
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The continuing theme during basic training will be interviewing skills, without which the advisory process may not get under way.
truth
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The value of the political talks so far has been to expose three basic truths .
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Communism forgot that basic truth and the system collapsed.
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There is a basic truth in his assertion, for before his time the use of marble was rare in Roman architecture.
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What have been taught as their basic truths seem no longer to hold.
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Another over-eager cat has discovered one of the basic truths of garden life: never try to kill a toad.
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Such leaders understand very basic truths about human beings.
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And if religion was rational, and basic truths were plain, what justification could there be for compulsion?
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The basic truths of it, once you have learned them, are difficult to forget.
type
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These improvements are of two basic types .
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Laptops come with three basic types of pointing devices: a track ball, a mini-joystick or a touch pad.
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The outcome is that adjectives expressing the more basic types of property can generally be expected to appear prenominally but not postnominally.
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There are two basic types of smoke alarm.
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There were two basic types of machine-gun.
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There are three basic types of fixed dispenser the swivel, the lift pump and the gravity feed.
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Within this general description there are two basic types namely the batch and continuous loader.
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This has become the generic term for any system used to search on the Internet, and there are two basic types .
understanding
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They attend sporadically, and their basic understanding of history is usually sketchy.
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Different aspects of basic understanding are needed in different areas of the world.
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The first and third years of the course provide a basic understanding of the industry.
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It is important to have some clear basic understanding of the nature of bereavement and the grief that follows it.
unit
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Kogan and Becher have argued that, beyond the individual academic, the department is the basic unit of academic life.
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In language the basic units are distinctive sounds and words.
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The sentence belongs to writing, forming there the basic unit of textual structures.
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The change in price from the first to the second sale of each house is the basic unit measured.
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Its accessories enable the basic unit to use the cleaning and sterilising power of steam for cleaning, too.
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These terms are meant to indicate that the basic units of writing are pictures divorced from sound.
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The basic unit of bucket, up-pipe and pebbles with oxygenators in place makes a simple fountain on its own.
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The basic units for any steel-framed building are columns and beams.
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basic cooking utensils
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basic healthcare for children
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Basic human rights are still denied in many countries.
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a basic knowledge of scientific principles
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I can't really speak Spanish, I just know a few basic words.
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In addition to teaching basic academic skills, we offer a large variety of activities for students.
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It's only six years old, but already my home PC is basic compared to today's models.
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People were standing in lines to buy basic goods such as bread, cheese, and milk.
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Some of the hotels in the mountains are pretty basic .
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Tax money pays for basic services.
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The basic ingredients of this cake are eggs, flour, and butter.
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The basic model costs £30,000, which includes insurance and car tax.
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the basic principles of mathematics
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The farm lacks even basic equipment.
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The government regards housing as a basic need.
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The hospital lacked even the most basic medical equipment.
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There are two basic problems here.
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Water -- indeed, everything basic to life here -- must be brought in by truck.
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And basic literacy levels are higher for a more diverse group of young people.
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But they do not alter the basic fact: markets now operate more fluently, reliably and consistently.
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But we still deal from our basic collection, buying and selling.
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It is important to have some clear basic understanding of the nature of bereavement and the grief that follows it.
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The basic ideas dominating the educational philosophy of Highlander are two-fold.
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The basic mechanism is to build an edge from left to right.
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The horse has a basic and essential need for affection; both to give and to receive it.
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Thus the state should be mainly a night watchman, a low-profile policeman who ensures the basic safety of every individual.