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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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ancient
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The reference here to distrust of the judiciary once again accentuates Dicey's adoption of the ancient conception of the rule of law.
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There are basic differences between the ancient and modern conceptions .
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We might refer to these as the ancient and modern conceptions .
broad
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In the Management Matrix model there is an even broader conception of the range of decisions calling for specialization and delegation.
clear
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The grouping demonstrates Henry's clerks' clear conception of the administrative geography of the county.
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A principle of inquiry can not be something that may keep us from recognizing a clear and settled conception .
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We do have a clear and settled conception of standard effects.
different
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If we are to point to government growth, then different conceptions of the term might lead to different measures of growth.
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The principles of justice adopted in the original position are neutral between different conceptions of the good.
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But it has a radically different conception of the forces that empower achievers.
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But this misses the real distinction between diametrically opposed beliefs based on entirely different conceptions of the satisfaction of human needs.
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A different conception of collective bargaining in terms both of its character and role is applicable in socialist countries with centrally-planned economies.
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Situating herself within the Anglo-Saxon analytic tradition, she looks at different conceptions of philosophy, its content and methods.
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We have seen then two very different conceptions of poverty, that of subsistence and of deprivation.
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These divergent courses of development embodied different conceptions of politics and of political institutions.
immaculate
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The following day, the feast of the immaculate conception , there was a closing ceremony in St Peter's Square.
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Some see in it the girdle ot hymen and the promise of the immaculate conception of a Messiah.
modern
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There are basic differences between the ancient and modern conceptions .
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We might refer to these as the ancient and modern conceptions .
new
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It is along this line that one must trace the thread of the new conception of the world.
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But in this new conception of death people found a new conception of life, prized anew for its own intrinsic worth.
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It is also clear that traditional syntheses between science and faith were badly shaken by new conceptions of nature.
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But in this new conception of death people found a new conception of life, prized anew for its own intrinsic worth.
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Accordingly, he formulated a new conception of drama to suit his own inclinations.
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Galileo rendered his new conceptions meaningful and increasingly more precise by means of illustrations and thought experiments.
original
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Their original conception involved a great railway station in one of the most important sites in the capital.
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The original conception of review is indeed that set out above.
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A good arrangement should sound as though it were an original conception , and not an arrangement at all.
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But the simplicity of Blake and Mouton's original conception has probably been the main reason for its success.
particular
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The particular conception sees both processes as necessary features of a social representation.
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But it does mean that the particular conceptions of science held by its pioneers were often informed by theological and metaphysical beliefs.
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Both theories are exercises in analytical moral philosophy which aspire to provide rational principles to support particular conceptions of just social arrangements.
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Definitions are useful only in so far as they encapsulate a particular conception or theory of the phenomena one wishes to study.
popular
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This, and many similar references, suggests that this remains the popular conception of an internal market.
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There is much residual truth in these popular conceptions and we shall find them useful, subject to some refinement.
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Does the press narrow popular conceptions of rape and make it more difficult for raped women to obtain justice?
traditional
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At the level of legal reasoning these developments can not be accommodated within the traditional contractual conception of the company.
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Here, it scarcely needs stating, we have in mind a traditional , negative conception of liberty.
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This process of reclaiming, revaluing and sometimes challenging traditional conceptions is extremely complex.
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The first and traditional conception of the company might be labelled the fiction/concession theory.
■ VERB
based
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Physical education is highly valued and forms part of a fully integrated educational programme based on a unitary conception of man.
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The difference is that the first is based on a spatial conception and the second on a temporal one.
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It had magnificent vaults based on the conceptions of Imperial Rome and was one of the great abbeys of its age.
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These methods, however, seemed to be largely based on positivist conceptions of social science.
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But this misses the real distinction between diametrically opposed beliefs based on entirely different conceptions of the satisfaction of human needs.
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Kant and Rousseau based their conceptions of freedom on this ideal of self-legislation.
form
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This is one of the photographs which helped to form the earliest conceptions of the medium.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Rheinhold argues that life does not begin at conception .
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Straczynski is responsible not only for the conception of the show, but for most of its scripts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A constructivist would deny the existence of anything that corresponds to this conception of a phenomenal screen.
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An enactment which threatened the essential elements of any plausible conception of democratic government would lie beyond those boundaries.
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And, indeed, his theory is firmly rooted in his conception of equilibrium.
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For in fact, Co-operation does not fit comfortably into the Webbs' conception of Socialism.
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If we adopt the more expansive conception of democracy which has been used throughout this book, the case is even stronger.
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In rabbinic canon law, the rabbi explained, human life does not simply begin at conception .
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Since its conception , two of the airlines that used the old airport as a hub have disappeared.
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We can take as one starting point Tocqueville's conception of democracy, which I have already briefly sketched in the Introduction.