noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a behaviour pattern
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He studied animal behaviour patterns.
a code of behaviour
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Each tribe follows its own code of behaviour.
a pattern of behaviour
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It's easy to get stuck in the same old pattern of behaviour.
acceptable behaviour
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Here, the students set the standards for acceptable behaviour .
antisocial behaviour
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She was finding it hard to cope with her son’s increasingly antisocial behaviour .
behaviour modification (= when someone changes their behaviour )
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A star chart, in which you give a star to a child as a reward, is a simple behaviour modification technique.
changing patterns of work/behaviour etc
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Changing patterns of work mean that more people are able to work from home.
criminal behaviour
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Is it possible that the tendency to criminal behaviour is inherited?
disorderly conduct/behaviour
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He was arrested for disorderly conduct.
exhibit signs/symptoms/behaviour etc
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a patient who is exhibiting classic symptoms of mental illness
fraudulent activity/behaviour/conduct
human behaviour British English , human behavior American English
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We study the aspects of human behaviour that result from our social upbringing.
improper behaviour/conduct/dealings etc
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allegations of improper banking practices
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improper sexual conduct
inappropriate behaviour/response/language etc
riotous behaviour
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Their riotous behaviour led to their arrest.
sportsmanlike behaviour
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As a club, we try to encourage sportsmanlike behaviour .
violent acts/behaviour
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His dad terrified them all with his violent behaviour.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
acceptable
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To summarize, norms define appropriate and acceptable behaviour in specific situations.
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Similarly, conspicuous consumption or display is now regarded as an acceptable form of behaviour .
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This minefield is compounded by the moral nature of the problem; about what is and is not acceptable behaviour .
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Commonly, both are used consistently to help replace an undesirable behaviour with acceptable behaviour.
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The dividing line between acceptable and anti-social behaviour was often blurred.
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Criminal libel is unlikely to occur other than rarely, but is available to define the limits of acceptable behaviour .
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One reason for this reluctance to take action against the process of monopolization is the difficulty of distinguishing acceptable and unacceptable behaviour .
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This sharing of expectations about acceptable behaviour ensures conformity.
aggressive
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There is disputed evidence suggesting that cinema and television violence encourages aggressive behaviour .
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Fortunately parents can do a lot to tone down the aggressive behaviour .
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They felt that the aggressive behaviour and attention-seeking which are more prevalent among males should not be reinforced by teacher responses.
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For example, one individual's aggressive behaviour was ascribed to his loss of able-bodied friends following impairment.
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Manipulation is just another form of aggressive behaviour .
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The three categories of passive, aggressive and assertive behaviour are a useful way of differentiating and describing interpersonal communication styles.
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If you are intent on sorting out the problem, take courage and talk to your boss privately about his/her aggressive behaviour .
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Rape and battering are merely one end of a continuum of aggressive forms of behaviour of men to women.
bad
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The butcher chases them off the rock with kicks and abusive shouts, as though punishing them for bad behaviour .
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In established States, less serious forms of bad behaviour are also permitted.
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And, more importantly, some one who doesn't let her get away with tantrums, bossiness or bad behaviour .
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It is generally not useful to speculate that such time-removed antecedents are associated with bad behaviour .
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Try to catch him or her out in good as well as bad behaviour .
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Reintroducing those foods brings the bad behaviour back along with the wheezing or runny nose.
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Much anxiety was expressed before the experiment lest televising would encourage showing off, bad behaviour or rowdiness.
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It is usually much easier to identify bad behaviour but the process of behaviour change has two sides.
criminal
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Thus, some policemen are urged by their tough-minded colleagues to treat marginal incidents as criminal behaviour and are encouraged into action.
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He maintains that there is a link between characteristics such as extroversion and criminal behaviour .
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Eysenck then argues that extroversion is the inherited basis of criminal behaviour .
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Most laws against corporate criminal behaviour require that intention be proved before guilt can be established.
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These involved marital, loss or separation, social relations or isolation, and criminal behaviour problems.
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While such notions may all contains some elements of truth, they are by no means complete explanations of criminal behaviour .
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Then, once located, the subjects have to be convinced that they can safely discuss their criminal behaviour .
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Merton's model or theory does not adequately explain all types of criminal behaviour .
disorderly
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No plea was taken from Mr. Bell in respect of the alleged offence of drunk and disorderly behaviour .
good
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The second type of positive interaction that parents can be taught is how to reward good behaviour .
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Woodlice make good subjects for behaviour tests.
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Ten years previously he had bound her husband over to good behaviour and to appear at the next sessions.
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She had to stay on her best behaviour and dance to his tune.
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Punishment alone has never made a bad character into a good one, or even ensured temporary good behaviour .
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Try to catch him or her out in good as well as bad behaviour .
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The trouble is that since Chilcott's dismissal for punching, players in the county have been on their best behaviour .
human
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None of these men would admit that what they saw and what they did were beyond the boundaries of human behaviour .
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What the sociobiologists have identified are some underlying relationships and latent forms of human behaviour .
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The inclinations to treat animals kindly are grounded in the analogies to be observed in human behaviour .
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Look what the love of another human being does to human behaviour .
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This is true of human behaviour of all kinds, and of human emotions.
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Some tendencies in human behaviour were encouraged, others repressed, and the results were both pleasant and unpleasant.
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In general, the classical perspective contained a peculiarly narrow view of what it actually is that controls human behaviour .
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I believe we can. Human behaviour is always an intricate blend of the universal and factors more specific to the individual.
individual
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We now need to consider the effect of rapidly rising property prices on individual behaviour .
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The impact of culture on individual behaviour is summarised in Figure 10.3.
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So the biotic and the cultural levels are both concerned with individual and collective behaviour .
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Olson's early work laid particular emphasis on individual behaviour and motivation.
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Personal Factors Every individual is different; individual characteristics influence behaviour in complex and significant ways.
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I shall look at five indigenous concepts which I think throw some light on the particularity of Chewong social and individual behaviour .
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It is the characteristic chemical products of such enzymes that give a cell its individual shape and behaviour .
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The expansion, or attempted expansion, of genes is seen as the central causal mechanism underlying both individual and social behaviour .
political
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Politics or political behaviour is power in action.
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Constitutional norms serve to influence and mold political behaviour .
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Conversely, political behaviour helps influence the contours of the Constitution.
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Employment; Political behaviour and attitudes.
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Occupations and professions; Political behaviour and attitudes.
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The first was on the unemployed themselves, how they interpreted and reacted to their experience, their political beliefs and behaviour .
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This leads me to analyse political behaviour , especially as it relates to conflict.
social
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Secondly, it will answer calls for a less economistic analysis of social change and behaviour .
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Language and linguistics; Social behaviour .
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It is important to stress that our self-image has the power to determine our attitudes and social behaviour .
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This is the case with all deviant social behaviour , such as incorrect marriages or theft.
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Evil to their mind is easily detectable: it reveals itself in bizarre appearances, anti-\#social behaviour .
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Many students of social behaviour are coming to agree that both methods must be employed together.
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I shall look at five indigenous concepts which I think throw some light on the particularity of Chewong social and individual behaviour .
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For any social species whose behaviour is less regular than clockwork, even this ground-clearing goal is a daunting task.
violent
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James Harper, defending, said Colling believed his drinks had been spiked with a narcotic substance which caused his violent behaviour .
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At the age of twenty, after a life of violent and addictive behaviour , the girl, Nancy, was murdered.
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The aim of the ethnographic papers is to understand violent and peaceful behaviour in different societies.
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The doctor had suffered a temporary mental collapse and subsequent bouts of violent behaviour .
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Some maintain violent programmes do encourage violent behaviour and something needs to be done.
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Nor do we easily associate ourselves with violent behaviour .
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The Buid have as much of a capacity for violent behaviour as the members of any other society.
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Youngest son Joe made some dramatic accusations that his dad terrified them all with his violent behaviour .
■ NOUN
animal
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The main figure in the story is Konrad Lorenz, who began his work on animal behaviour in about 1930.
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Another distinction between human and animal behaviour is that considerations of motive are appropriate to the assessment of human action.
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Nevertheless, distraction displays are, by any standards, remarkable patterns of animal behaviour , and require some explanation.
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It was the naturalistic study of animal behaviour .
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Bird song is a very familiar kind of animal behaviour .
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It goes without saying that almost invariably the instances of animal behaviour that we find ourselves discussing involve adult creatures.
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The freedom of much animal behaviour from physically specifiable constraints implies that many animals must have inner representations and symbolic language.
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Much of animal behaviour , however, is modified and moulded by experience.
change
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Some people's behaviour changes after they have suffered a stroke.
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It is usually much easier to identify bad behaviour but the process of behaviour change has two sides.
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Some parents find the use of reward charts a helpful addition in the early stages of behaviour change .
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During the next few weeks, however, I noticed Cathy's behaviour change .
pattern
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One school of thought within psychology is that we tend to get hooked into behaviour patterns if they produce intermittent rewards.
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Hundreds of genes probably control most behaviour patterns .
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A behaviour pattern controlled by hundreds of genes does not give such clear categories as those found by Rothenbuhler.
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The striking success of feral horses is ample proof that their behaviour patterns are not only persistent but survival-oriented.
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He also suggested a method to distinguish to which category any given behaviour pattern belonged; this was the isolation experiment.
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The system represents a remarkable evolutionary adaptation of human behaviour patterns to the conditions of the rain forest.
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Figure 6.1 Experiments are needed to confirm that any particular structure of behaviour pattern functions as a signal.
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Early in the first year his behaviour pattern was showing dips and troughs.
problem
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Once the observations are completed the parents can devise a hypothesis about what is maintaining the problem behaviour .
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What is wrong is that the punishment is far removed from the problem behaviour it is intended to curb.
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They were advised to carry on as at present with these and focus in the meantime on the priority problem behaviour .
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Asking them to recount the last incidence of the problem behaviour often helps.
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The resolution of problem behaviour must lie in the successful unlearning of such behaviours.
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This shows clearly that the problem behaviour is excessive for a child of Keith's age.
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However, it is vital that the competing behaviour be specified with the same objectivity as the problem behaviour.
■ VERB
affect
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We can make a few more concluding points: The environment affects budgetary behaviour .
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Third, that the memory traces of the experience may continue to affect the religious behaviour of some participant subjects.
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As with all the economic forces affecting firms' behaviour , the impact of change is uneven and defies generalisation.
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Platelets are studied in an artificial environment and the very process of preparing the platelet sample for study may affect their behaviour .
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The third property of a polymer which affects its mechanical behaviour is the between-chain potential energy.
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Thus the firm's constraint structure can affect its behaviour on pricing and its costs.
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By now there were more serious difficulties affecting Charlie's behaviour that became considerably more alarming.
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Perceptions and attitudes affect subsequent behaviour .
control
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Eventually, it will also be able to control its own behaviour .
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It follows from the foregoing observations that a knowledge of right and wrong has of itself no power to control behaviour .
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Hundreds of genes probably control most behaviour patterns.
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Drugs used to control behaviour , such as amphetamine derivatives, can be continued during the diet.
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Many of these children are put on drugs to help control their behaviour .
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Of course all adults should be expected to control their own behaviour while on a flight.
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Organizations have traditionally relied on structure and threats of insecurity to control the behaviour of employees.
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Even when it was defined as the ability to change or control the behaviour of others they felt it was inappropriate.
describe
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This can hardly be described as sisterly behaviour .
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How people describe overtaking behaviour will also be recorded during the survey.
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We describe their behaviour by attributing our explanations to those individuals.
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These describe the appearance and behaviour of heroes, heroines, villains and other characters.
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To describe behaviour as skilled is to say no more than that it has been influenced by training and experience.
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Points such as point A can not describe the behaviour of firms in anything longer than the very short run.
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Jailing him for three and a half years Judge Richard Lowry described his behaviour as a dreadful crime.
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Three characteristics describe the behaviour of insiders: 1.
exhibit
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Networks that exhibit the same terminal behaviour as some device, system or more complicated network are naturally known as equivalent circuits.
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It is therefore possible to unwind the program that many times, obtaining a finite syntactic approximation which exhibits the same behaviour .
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These modes exhibit a behaviour of ever-increasing frequency as the Cauchy horizon is approached.
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Such old people customarily exhibit behaviour which is extraordinarily difficult to tolerate and which raises a high level of anxiety.
explain
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Psychobiologists want to explain behaviour in terms of physiological events occurring in the brain and the body.
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Much research is concerned only with increasing our knowledge of how societies work, and explaining patterns of social behaviour .
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Such measurement is essential to explain behaviour .
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Secondly, children should develop a new appreciation of how traits can be used to explain behaviour .
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This chapter will examine a range of theories which attempt to explain such behaviour .
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One of the first attempts to explain the mechanical behaviour of materials such as pitch and tar was made by James Clark Maxwell.
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Functionalists, therefore, attempt to explain behaviour in terms of mental concepts such as beliefs, thoughts, desires and memories.
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That's the only way I can explain my behaviour .
influence
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Constitutional norms serve to influence and mold political behaviour .
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The question is not whether you will influence behaviour but how.
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In so doing we influence other people's behaviour in the only way possible - via our own behaviour.
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The second of the two forces influencing behaviour is the result of the behaviour itself.
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Reward power Managers influence the behaviour of their team members by rewarding them.
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Group cohesion How powerful is a group in influencing the behaviour of its members?
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We also know that effective managers are motivated by power and enjoy influencing the behaviour of others.
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Conception of oneself as a housewife or not is liable to influence a woman's behaviour in a variety of ways.
modify
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Managers have to modify or influence behaviour all the time.
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So the superficially more relaxed atmosphere at home did nothing to modify my anorexic behaviour .
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Conventions can be modified by changes in behaviour or by reinterpretations of the significance of certain behaviour.
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Combining methods Penalties may be combined with rewards in order to modify children's behaviour .
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In non-associative learning the animal also learns to modify its behaviour but not because of any association of stimuli.
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Human beings turned out to be more intelligent than dandelions and modified their behaviour to match the new circumstances.
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In summary, then, animals undoubtedly can modify their behaviour as a consequence of their experiences.
observe
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Notice that for him to be able to say this he does not have to have observed his own behaviour .
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The most accurate way to assess an individual's temperament is by observing his expressions and behaviour .
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The solution here is to perform very short hops and observe the behaviour of the model.
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The inclinations to treat animals kindly are grounded in the analogies to be observed in human behaviour .
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The more time you spend with horses observing their behaviour , the more effectively you will be able to judge their moods.
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One can, looking down the microscope, observe the behaviour of individual cells as the embryo develops.
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It is a simple matter of studying people's minds, observing their behaviour and analysing their attitudes.
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To observe searching behaviour solely at the catalogue may provide a distorted picture of the task in hand.
study
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The Wurzel is the most sophisticated and its inventor has studied heron behaviour and come up with a radical audible warn-off.
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MacKinlay and Ramaswamy went on to study the behaviour of these mispricings.
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That, the court heard, gave him the chance to study the behaviour of people who really were mentally disturbed.
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It is important for psychologists to study driver behaviour .
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Thus it has been possible to study the behaviour of the basin basement using a measure derived from the basement formations.
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Bird-watching has been used by many researchers to study children's behaviour .
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Consequently only short range variations and perturbations in the field need be considered when studying the behaviour of a particle.
understand
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Its main aim is to understand the behaviour of the individuals in society.
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Violent behaviour , in the most general sense, can only be understood in association with other behaviour within the same society.
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However, the theory gives no insight into how we are to understand the behaviour of individual particles.
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Learning the needs of horses is the first step in discovering their emotions, and understanding their behaviour .
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To understand this behaviour we must consider the magnetic quantisation in terms of the Landau levels.
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The need to understand the meaning of behaviour also makes it difficult to predict how individuals will behave.
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The aim of the ethnographic papers is to understand violent and peaceful behaviour in different societies.
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He understood a little of my behaviour as he was a photographer, who also provided me with many useful photographs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Eric's behaviour towards his family surprised me.
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His behaviour in school is beginning to improve.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But they denied hens much of their normal behaviour and in particular frustrated the urge to nest.
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How will that behaviour be assessed?
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It is this capacity to give meaning which needs to be held on to in considering human behaviour .
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They have extended their protests to the legal process and judges' behaviour in court.