verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
act/behave responsibly
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Can I rely on you to behave responsibly while I’m away?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
always
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It must be conceded that private shareholders to not always behave logically over their investments.
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If the two filters are set at identical angles, then the two photons always behave identically.
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As a result, both parties should always behave in good faith.
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But a duck always behaves like a duck, whatever his social conditioning, upbringing or training!
as
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Nothing unusual - clocks behaving as before, keeping good time and continuing to emit their light beams.
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We are of the deeply held belief that many human beings have come to behave as materialistic tyrants.
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Those who have been bereaved will say that they do not know how to behave as newly-bereaved people.
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Minna was behaving as if she was intoxicated.
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The HeLa cell nucleus continues to behave as before.
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Therefore he was free to behave as irresponsibly as he liked without fear of hurting me or our child.
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The 8.16 from Darlington and the returning 10.38 behaved as impeccably as the reception class at a Victorian Sunday school.
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The guests would be terribly kind, behaving as if she were all right or suffering an unidentified malady.
badly
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Children who behave badly have had years to learn it.
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Elsewhere, however, they behaved badly .
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He accepted that it would be better to give her lots of love and attention for behaving well rather than for behaving badly .
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They were all a bunch of spoiled, badly behaved film stars and he had no patience with any of them.
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Yet, he counselled himself, he would not behave badly to her.
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As for Auster, I am convinced that he behaved badly throughout.
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Apart from politically inspired race riots in the early 1960s, rarely did Black people behave badly towards us.
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Certainly, individuals may behave badly in any system.
better
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William, who attended the meeting, also agreed that he behaved better when the eyes of the world were upon him.
differently
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Furthermore, most people actually believe that they will feel and behave differently under hypnosis.
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In what ways will bosses act or behave differently ?
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The different scales of manufacture can give products which behave differently on stability tests.
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Yes, I am behaving differently since the survey.
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Due to these different perspectives these managers may behave differently towards subordinates.
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Not that he will behave differently right away, but it makes him feel good, and this is a tough business.
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She began sleeping back in her own bed more often after that, and in general behaving differently towards me.
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I believe him, and still I wish he had behaved differently .
in
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You will find that different kinds of animal may behave in quite different ways.
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The reason for this is probably that it implies oligopolies that behave in a way intermediate between perfect competition and monopoly.
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Sedges behave in much the same way as grasses, having their stripes neatly arranged along the leaf.
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Even the management team behaved in exactly the same manner.
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Many years later Alison behaved in exactly the same way.
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Certainly, you do read the odd story that describes a person behaving in just the way we have outlined.
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Concepts, in his view, behave in very much the same manner.
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Those inside it behaved in precisely the same way.
properly
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Because of this possibility, shareholders will have to incur monitoring costs or agency costs to ensure that managers behave properly .
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Bella had asked me whether I had behaved properly .
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But there are also a few who do not behave properly in their dealings with the public.
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I know I am not behaving properly .
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But you see at home, it's so isolated we never see anyone, I never learned how to behave properly .
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From now on we would have to behave properly .
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But Rose was serious, hissing in her ear to behave properly , just concentrate.
quite
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She had behaved quite out of character just to get the better of him.
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The second generation may behave quite differently.
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Sue seemed to be behaving quite normally.
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When in contact with water, however, the materials behave quite differently.
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Sound behaves quite differently to light.
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Children can behave quite differently in different settings or with different people.
responsibly
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I shall also do all that I can to ensure that brewers behave responsibly towards their tenants.
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Will Opposition Members try to persuade the welfare rights organisations in their constituencies to behave responsibly ?
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I have written this book only for visitors who behave responsibly and show respect for others.
similarly
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Rural areas beyond immediate urban influence did not all behave similarly .
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The crinoids and the belemnites and the corals behaved similarly .
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At high energies all these particles behave similarly .
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Of course, other animals behave similarly .
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Sequential sulphate and chloride profiles behave similarly .
so
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How could her young sister have behaved so inconsiderately?
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Given that male albatrosses have the same genetic incentives as male elephant seals, why do they behave so differently?
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Surely it is a good idea to stop health insurers behaving so wickedly?
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There is no evidence that the infant, behaving so , can differentiate between objects.
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And yet Johnson and Dawson have been impeccably behaved so far in the Six Nations.
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Columns and rectangles do not behave so nicely.
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Pulling no punches, he asked Vincent what on earth had possessed him to behave so grotesquely.
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Look at what happened in the management meeting this morning when you behaved so defensively about budgets.
very
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She had behaved very reasonably, she told her husband afterwards.
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Last year I had seen, just like yesterday, a red squirrel behaving very curiously.
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He's liable to behave very strangely, too.
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The rattler is behaving very strangely, in other words.
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You have to behave very circumspectly inthe lift.
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Sometimes these less aggressive horses can behave very unexpectedly and take us by surprise.
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The case was, of course, settled since the pop group had no defence, and Harold Wilson behaved very generously.
well
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A police spokesman said the demonstrators were well behaved but wet.
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Marshall deftly provides her characters with options and opportunities to behave well .
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He accepted that it would be better to give her lots of love and attention for behaving well rather than for behaving badly.
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Parents take their responsibilities to their children very seriously, and their children are often strikingly well behaved .
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In one environment the reasons for behaving well are clear; in another they are easily overlooked and forgotten.
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A person may design a better way of raising children primarily to escape from children who do not behave well.
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The above trends govern the technology transfer process by making certain types of technologies available to well behaved states.
■ NOUN
child
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Children's behaviour problems become a focus of concern when the child is behaving inappropriately or excessively for their age.
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The first step is to notice that something is amiss in the way the child learns and behaves in school.
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Similarly, a rejecting parent may allow the child to behave as he or she likes.
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All the complex factors that make children behave in certain ways will never be simple to identify.
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A person may design a better way of raising children primarily to escape from children who do not behave well.
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On this occasion the children were particularly well behaved . 3.
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The process by which children learn to behave is largely a matter of operant learning.
fashion
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It seems to us to contravene all normal rules of equity that they should be able to behave in this fashion .
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With the economy behaving in almost perfect fashion , stock prices enjoyed some of their strongest gains in years.
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Not only is he facing an uncertain future, he is being forced to behave in an uncharacteristic fashion every day.
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You curb your spontaneity in an effort to behave in an acceptable fashion .
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We adapt and suppress our needs in order to behave in a civilised fashion .
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Should voters behave in this fashion , the contents of the Opposition's election manifesto become less significant in deciding the result.
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Rostov took a breath, and decided to wait until good manners forced his aide to behave in an approachable fashion .
manner
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In reality variable costs do not behave strictly in this manner .
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I should not have lost my cool and behaved in that manner .
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Now why exactly are you behaving in this extraordinary manner ?
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It was unthinkable that two vibrancers could behave in such a manner .
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Rationality According to classical criminology we mostly behave in a rational manner .
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A Newtonian dashpot also behaves in a predictable manner .
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Approved modules do not behave in this manner with respect to inheritance.
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If they behave in a manner that deserves punishment, they are punished.
people
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We are getting tired of people behaving like prima donnas.
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So why were these people behaving like this?
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What must be changed are the contingencies which induce young people to behave in given ways towards their governments.
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It would require extraordinary performance. People had to behave as if work meant more to them than a paycheck.
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It had been an unsettling evening. People were not behaving as he had ordained they should behave.
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Are these beliefs consistent with your most important beliefs about how people ought to behave and do behave politically? 2.
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Mature people do not behave in that way.
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Most slim people do not behave this way.
way
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It is more important to be clear about the links between the way they are behaving and the situations they are in.
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Initially they looked at the way convection behaved in a cube.
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She could not believe the way she had behaved with Felipe, and she didn't blame him at all.
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The images that pervade your mind affect the way you feel as well as the way your body behaves physiologically.
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Links and connections will begin to be made between the way counsellees think or feel and the way they behave .
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It had apologized for the way it had behaved .
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That would have explained the way he had behaved for all these months.
ways
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Culture defines accepted ways of behaving for members of a particular society.
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Groups evolve expected ways to behave which their members must normally obey.
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He examines why certain individuals can not easily accept the ways of thinking and behaving that their social milieu thrusts upon them.
woman
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Stern and serious moral advice to women on how to behave has a sweeter-natured sister.
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If women behaved like men, then we would have another generation like the one that was destroyed by the Flood.
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Such desires may involve coercing the woman into behaving in the way the man wants her to.
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But Minu had warned me about how a woman should behave .
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Meanwhile women behave more and more like men.
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When they arrived the woman began crying, behaving as the injured party.
■ VERB
begin
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Then he complains when she begins to behave like a very naughty child.
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Quite suddenly, students at universities begin to behave outrageously.
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When they arrived the woman began crying, behaving as the injured party.
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An analysis of behavior naturally begins with simple organisms behaving in simple ways in simple settings.
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Then a great many of the bar's occupants began to behave as if they had just remembered urgent appointments.
continue
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It is no doubt valuable to create an environment in which a person acquires effective behavior rapidly and continues to behave effectively.
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Now Will maintains his positive attitude by continuing to behave in the same way. 5.
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President Gorbachev continues to behave as if the middle ground were still there, because without it he is nothing.
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That is, events might not have continued behaving in the regular and predictable ways that could be described by such laws.
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The HeLa cell nucleus continues to behave as before.
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A castrated stallion who has been used at stud may continue to behave like an entire, but be infertile.
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Where a country espouses outward-looking policies, it may continue to behave in many important respects as though it were still domestically focused.
expect
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Thus under certain conditions we can expect A* to behave in the same way as breadth-first search.
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So why should visitors be expected to behave differently?
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On his return he puzzled me by behaving exactly as I expected an S.S.O. to behave.
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We expect you to behave yourself in here and own up to all the charges.
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Rather, that person is also entitled to expect others to behave towards him or her in certain ways.
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We always treat the stallions like geldings, taking care, of course, but they are expected to behave .
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Harriet, as might have been expected , behaved admirably.
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He liked gentlemen to behave as he expected them to behave.
learn
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From it I could learn how to behave with my partner.
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The first step is to notice that something is amiss in the way the child learns and behaves in school.
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Virginia says I must learn how to behave in public.
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Where do we learn how to behave in the intimacy of marriage?
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The actual work was related to scientific observation, enquiry, recording as well as learning how to behave in a group.
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But you see at home, it's so isolated we never see anyone, I never learned how to behave properly.
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The process by which children learn to behave is largely a matter of operant learning.
start
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Not surprisingly, the rebellious streak in his nature surfaced, and he started to behave with studied rudeness.
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If more people in the developed world start behaving like this we would have a better world.
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Few things are as instantly heart-stopping to a computer user as the time when his machine starts to behave erratically.
stop
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Surely it is a good idea to stop health insurers behaving so wickedly?
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Calm down, and stop behaving like a shocked medieval nun.
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To stop the turntable behaving like a seismograph, it is suspended on isolating springs.
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So he got the job as the postman, yet even that didn't stop him behaving strangely.
try
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If she didn't try and make him behave , no one else would.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Her kids just don't know how to behave .
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How does Sam behave at school?
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I'm not going to talk to him until he starts behaving reasonably.
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If you behave yourself, I'll let you stay up to watch the movie.
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If you two don't behave , I'm taking you straight home.
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Make sure you behave yourselves when we visit Grandma.
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Oh, be quiet! You're behaving like a two-year-old.
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The next time I saw him, Frank behaved as if nothing had happened.
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William was behaving very strangely towards me.
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You behaved bravely in a very difficult situation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A police spokesman said the demonstrators were well behaved but wet.
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Although men provide more menace to the basis of a society, it is women who are instructed in how to behave .
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Eventually, the children themselves may begin to understand their own feelings, and why they behave as they do.
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Given that male albatrosses have the same genetic incentives as male elephant seals, why do they behave so differently?
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She had behaved very reasonably, she told her husband afterwards.
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The best way to behave is to act assertively, she said.
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Then a great many of the bar's occupants began to behave as if they had just remembered urgent appointments.