adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
carefully monitored
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The temperature is carefully monitored .
carefully orchestrated
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a carefully orchestrated promotional campaign
carefully staged (= not natural )
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The candidates’ public appearances were carefully staged .
carefully
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She watched very carefully and did exactly as he did.
carefully
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Think carefully about every spending decision you make.
consider...carefully
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We will have to consider your offer carefully .
listen carefully/intently/hard etc
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The whole class was listening attentively.
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Liz stood still and listened hard very carefully .
play it carefully/cool etc
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If you like him, play it cool, or you might scare him off.
search sth carefully
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We searched the whole house carefully, but didn’t find anything.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
planned
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Unexpected demands on your money can cause havoc with even the most carefully planned budgets - at least for a short while.
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This was to be the first of three stages in a carefully planned development of the imperial role and power.
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Dumb bells, hours of exercising and a carefully planned diet of vegetarian food and fruit juice had completed the programme.
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Care on discharge A carefully planned programme of subsequent care should be arranged before a patient is discharged from psychiatric inpatient treatment.
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It was the result of a carefully planned experiment based on numerous other experiments performed over a long period.
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This was achieved through a carefully planned programme of voluntary redundancies and with no manufacturing disruption or imbalance to the skill mix.
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Especially if more of the carefully planned meals end up on the wall than in the mouth.
■ VERB
avoid
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Marjorie carefully avoided looking at them.
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Clinton, while giving his blessing to the discussions, has carefully avoided endorsing any legislation.
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During most of Alexander's reign, the regime had carefully avoided all but minor military entanglements.
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They had carefully avoided eye-contact since the old man had entered.
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Agnes carefully avoided the girl's eye as she was shown straight through to Magill's office.
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They had carefully avoided any election pledge to dismantle the structure of New Deal and Fair Deal programmes.
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The Captain wiped the paint off his hands and carefully avoided showing his amusement.
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She put it back again without a word, carefully avoiding Susan's eyes.
check
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The Claim Form should be carefully checked for information that would indicate that any commercial use is taking place.
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This should be carefully checked on all occasions.
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Shops are being advised to carefully check all coins handed over.
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Adjusters reports should be carefully checked and any omissions or queries referred back to the Adjuster.
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She carefully checked to see that the weapon was cocked.
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As with index-linked rents, any mathematical formula should be carefully checked by calculator or computer.
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It is, of course, necessary to check carefully and individually the size of type that a visually impaired pupil can discriminate.
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Lady Thatcher's post was still heavy, despite her exile, and every packet and parcel was carefully checked .
choose
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Designer blasts from the past carefully chosen to look nice in a west London living room.
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I realize that what I do must be very carefully chosen .
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It is even possible to dissolve certain types of crystal if the foods used are special diets, carefully chosen by vets.
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The best suggestion when searching for a coworker-editor: choose carefully .
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He could afford to take it easy and he picked and chose carefully whatever he wanted to do.
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Augmenting the club-like atmosphere are the carefully chosen dark wood paneling, beveled stained glass and forest-green carpets.
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When horses are put together in paddocks, they need to be carefully chosen for their mutual compatibility.
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The cue maker then carefully chooses and seasons the wood, before tapering and sanding it down on a lathe.
consider
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The timing of an approach must be considered carefully .
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Now carefully consider the numerous modifications which stein from the addition of government.
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Professor Glennerster considered carefully the argument that expensive treatments might be refused by fund holders and found no evidence of that yet.
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This latter impression was then reinforced by his manner, which was quiet, polite, and very carefully considered .
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I carefully considered the information before me before deciding to issue the notice.
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Deborah carefully considered the types of punishments to use.
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Consider carefully which invitations to accept.
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They are real and should be carefully considered .
control
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It was carefully controlled by time and by geography - a day divided into three eight-hour slots.
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As an alternative to episiotomy, the delivery of the head can be carefully controlled .
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The patient's respiratory function is carefully controlled and monitored by the anaesthetist throughout the patient's stay in theatre.
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He has a new media coach and his public appearances have been carefully controlled .
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There was no secrecy about its contents, although it is delivered in limited and carefully controlled amounts.
design
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The town has been carefully designed to offer its visitors every amenity.
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He also explained that to be successful it would have to be carefully designed and properly constructed.
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The exact shape of the engine bell has to be very carefully designed .
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He came back with a carefully designed regimen for him-self and monthly appointments to return for check-ins.
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It has been carefully designed to develop and protect wildlife and plants while attracting many thousands of visitors.
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These harems could hardly have been more carefully designed as breeding machines, dedicated to the spread of emperors genes.
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In short, the whole project was carefully designed to produce a comprehensive visual cross-section of society in motion.
examine
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I carefully examined every photograph in minute detail through a magnifying glass so as not to miss a thing.
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The stigmata on this foot was carefully examined during its official recognition in 1597.
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You must reach behind the form or wording of the question, dismantle it and carefully examine each part. 1.
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In therapy he began to examine carefully the reasons for his previous passivity.
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A number of questions - not all of them obvious - need to be examined carefully , and from all possible angles.
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The feed is examined carefully , and at the slaughterhouse any bird with an appearance of disease is discarded.
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But it does point to the need to examine carefully the social processes registered by apparently simple concepts.
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The joints should be carefully examined for effusion, limitation of motion, or deformities.
listen
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He listens carefully to what the other person has to say about it.
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Wednesday she listened carefully as Attorney General Janet Reno testified in a subcommittee hearing on youth, violence and drugs.
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At the start, everyone was respectful towards him, listening carefully to his soporific explanations.
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Alan listens carefully as Jody explains her situation.
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He may care now to listen carefully .
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There is an additional objective to listening carefully: it helps you discover which words and meanings have become assets.
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Secondly, if you listen carefully you are more likely to make the right responses to what is being said to you.
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She was standing slightly curled, listening carefully to some one.
look
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Martha came forward to help, and Miss Mary looked carefully at Colin's thin white back, up and down.
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Like Nancy Drew, I track down clues, try to figure things out, look carefully at evidence, examine motives.
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Huy looked carefully at the girl's back, and found what he was seeking.
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He waved them into the room, looking carefully at Lee.
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Look carefully for single wires leading off the main lines and running across the fields to individual cottages.
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Mr. Speaker: I shall look carefully at the speech of the Secretary of State.
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He does appear to have looked carefully at various places, and in 1800 he settled in Ambleside.
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Look carefully at the casuals and see their threads beginning to unravel.
monitor
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The male now carefully monitors the temperature of the mound by prodding his beak into it.
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They chat about relationships and activities, while Levine carefully monitors Pieters for any sign of a viral offensive.
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Variations in joint commissioning practice between social services and health services will have to be piloted and monitored carefully .
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Patients' diets were carefully monitored also, to ensure that they had a low-calcium diet.
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Dosage and timing need to be carefully monitored .
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Regular reviews of progress will take place and students are asked to carefully monitor their own performance.
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All gauges are carefully monitored with regular readings taken to establish the performance of the engine at different settings and temperatures.
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Once a suitable agent has been found, progress should be carefully monitored .
orchestrate
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They had been procured in the early years of the century through a carefully orchestrated city campaign.
place
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Theirs are carefully placed slots made by cloven hooves, the ancient tread of wood-demons, Pan marks.
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The cof-fee table was carefully placed , carefully cleaned, the magazines ar-rayed just so.
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All the banqueting tables had been placed carefully , with full consideration to the dangers that abound on Samain.
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He carefully places the sliver into a miniature vise.
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An overnight case had been placed carefully on a sheet of newspaper.
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In New Zealand, jewelry is placed carefully in a casket.
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Once you are satisfied that the glass is spotless, carefully place it over the top of the design.
plan
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The whole life span of a record, including its creation needs to be planned carefully .
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There simply is no replacement for a rigorous, carefully planned sequence of academic course work.
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He planned carefully so that there was always time and no panic.
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As we saw in Chapter 7, a growing firm must plan carefully to finance its growth.
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The work should be planned carefully , however, to ensure that the pupils are getting something out of it as well.
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He carefully planned his exit from corporate life.
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All reports should be carefully planned , so you should first examine source material.
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However, the second sowing must be carefully planned .
read
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He read carefully , starting with the last issue where the facts would be most accurate, and working back.
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If this product is purchased, the label should be carefully read for content.
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This is one page you have to read , and read carefully .
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But when surgery is planned, patients have the luxury of carefully reading the information.
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Gregory's account needs to be read carefully .
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He must read carefully , compare one passage with another and use all the aids he can.
select
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Those to whom the questionnaire is sent have already been carefully selected as representative of the population to be studied.
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But there he was, already hunkered down, six carefully selected marbles from the others' collection, at his side.
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Material should also be selected carefully as the quality of the resource is more important than the quantity.
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It essentially involved asking individual children carefully selected questions and noting their responses and their reasoning for those responses.
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All the instructors are carefully selected by myself and they offer a very special service.
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This was Mark Rhoads, a first lieutenant in the Signal Corps who had been carefully selected for the assignment.
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Much of the time pupils will work on sources that have been carefully selected by the teacher.
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The date is carefully selected in consultation with merchant and consumer associations, he said.
study
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All the firms have detailed client agreement forms that need to be studied carefully .
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Magazine rankings of business schools are considered extremely influential; many prospective business students carefully study them in deciding where to apply.
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Before production is begun, of multi-kilogram or even multi-tonne lots, each reaction step is carefully studied in the pilot plant.
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The result was interesting and certainly one which I shall study carefully .
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Though I had carefully studied the fifth chapter of the Ethics, I still did not know how to control my emotions.
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The instructions had to be carefully studied , the little staircase sandpapered down and fitted into place.
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He either carefully studied these himself or arranged for research to be done on them by the most highly qualified specialists.
think
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Think carefully about your attitude towards the union and its representatives.
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This requires that we think carefully about the ways we organize schools and the daily experiences children have within them.
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The single man on average wages will think carefully before welcoming such an impost.
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Think carefully if you plan on becoming pregnant.
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If you are to attend the monthly progress review meeting, think carefully about the end-result you wish to achieve by attending.
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If contracts aren't exchanged, think carefully before you take a bridging loan.
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A carefully thought out project translates easily into specific amounts.
tread
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So she had to tread carefully .
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It is important, however, to tread carefully around the concept of core groups.
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They trod carefully away, shoulder to shoulder, hip to hip.
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Sadat now feels less restricted about what she can say, although she treads carefully around politics in her homeland.
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Evidence of the erosion is clear along the route and walkers should tread carefully .
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The press learned to tread carefully on the subject of their leaders' health during the Soviet era.
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Supervisors and personnel officers will be instructed to tread carefully when dealing with workers.
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It behooves companies to tread carefully in this area because even seemingly innocuous questions can get them into trouble.
watch
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As this is the stage at which material is actively removed, the sections should be watched carefully during this process.
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His or her behavior is carefully watched and not infrequently copied.
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She watched carefully as Travis lingered over his own cup.
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We carefully watched the flame of the hour candle eating away the wax from ring to ring.
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They relate the story in a hushed tone, watching carefully for a reaction.
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The companies are watching carefully lest other lobbyists try to slip the tougher provisions back in.
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Wishart had Corbett watched carefully but all the reports indicated that Corbett had not been officially despatched by Edward.
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Two things must be carefully watched .
word
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The agreement was carefully worded to give some satisfaction to both parties.
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In a carefully worded address, Wyman argued the paradoxical facts.
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In the prisoners' case, letters to the authorities should be worded carefully and courteously.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
carefully/clearly/strongly etc worded
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A strongly worded White House statement on March 7 had appealed for international support in stopping the operation of the Rabta plant.
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His criticisms have become so predictable and strongly worded that they are counter-productive.
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In a carefully worded address, Wyman argued the paradoxical facts.
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In a strongly worded letter this week to several dozen television stations, Rep.
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On the eve of the talks, the two sides had exchanged strongly worded statements on the issue.
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Once again, the agency sent a strongly worded warning letter, but took no punitive action.
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Pete Wilson yesterday, drawing a strongly worded veto but defining the battle lines after months of debate and anguished decisions.
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The agreement was carefully worded to give some satisfaction to both parties.
carefully/well/badly thought-out
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But new-wave sanitation experts say sewerage offers little more than convenience when compared to well thought-out latrines.
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Each section is well thought-out and presented with a good number of diagrams and chromatograms.
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It is here that the value of well thought-out objectives can be seen.
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The system is a well thought-out one and seems to work well.
tread carefully/warily/cautiously etc
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Evidence of the erosion is clear along the route and walkers should tread carefully.
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It behooves companies to tread carefully in this area because even seemingly innocuous questions can get them into trouble.
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It is important, however, to tread carefully around the concept of core groups.
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Sadat now feels less restricted about what she can say, although she treads carefully around politics in her homeland.
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So she had to tread carefully.
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Supervisors and personnel officers will be instructed to tread carefully when dealing with workers.
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The press learned to tread carefully on the subject of their leaders' health during the Soviet era.
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They trod carefully away, shoulder to shoulder, hip to hip.
well/badly/carefully etc organized
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From everything I saw and heard, he seemed to be very well organized in Iowa.
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In parliament there would be a carefully organized campaign of resistance that would at least slow the government down and raise Unionist morale.
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Now that the partisans were well organized in the Province of Parma they committed many acts of sabotage.
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Others around us, and we ourselves, demand that we always be well organized and hopeful.
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Professionals are well organized , never seen by their victims, and they don't kill.
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The anti-London lobby, however, was well organized and had financial arguments to back its case.
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They can also be extraordinarily well organized and methodical, as well as deliberate and purposeful.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The book must be handled carefully because of its age.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At night he carefully closed the corral and went home.
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Giving it a brisk stir, she carried it carefully upstairs.
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He turned his head to look at her, moving carefully to avoid waking her.
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In honest, carefully done scientific work, there is no compromise on stringent requirements for the conduct and interpretation of research.
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Nevertheless a carefully designed receptionist role that would take these misgivings into account, may be worth discussing.
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Slowly and carefully I swam round the dark walls of the castle.
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When the wild roses finished blooming, we collected the orange-red hips, carefully picked the skin off the compressed seeds.