I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a code of practice/conduct/ethics (= rules for people in a particular profession or business )
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There is a strict code of conduct for doctors.
carry out/conduct a check formal (= do or run a check )
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The police carried out a check on the car’s registration number.
conduct a poll formal (= carry out a poll )
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The poll was conducted with a sample of 1,023 adults.
conduct a survey formal (= do a survey )
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a survey conducted by the British Medical Association.
conduct a wedding formal (= say the official words and perform the actions at a wedding )
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Their wedding was conducted by the local priest.
conduct an inspection formal (= carry out an inspection )
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He was conducting an inspection in the factory.
conduct business formal (= do business )
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It is not a sensible way to conduct business.
conduct electricity (= used of a substance – allow electricity to travel along or through it )
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Some metals conduct electricity better than others.
conduct negotiations
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The country should conduct direct negotiations with its neighbours.
conduct unbecoming
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conduct unbecoming to a teacher
conduct...investigation
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A private detective was hired to conduct the investigation .
conduct/perform an examination
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The doctor will perform an examination in order to assess the problem.
disorderly conduct/behaviour
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He was arrested for disorderly conduct.
do/carry out/conduct a post-mortem
do/carry out/perform/conduct an analysis
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No similar analysis has been done in this country.
fraudulent activity/behaviour/conduct
hold/conduct a service
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The service was held in the chapel.
improper behaviour/conduct/dealings etc
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allegations of improper banking practices
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improper sexual conduct
perform/conduct a ceremony
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The Bishop of Louisiana performed the ceremony.
perform/conduct an experiment formal (= do an experiment )
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The laboratory began conducting experiments on rats.
run/wage/conduct a campaign (= carry out a campaign )
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He ran an aggressive campaign.
safe conduct
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
activity
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The public relations practitioner has to conduct activities which concern every public with which the organisation has contact.
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The duplication of work involved if each teacher independently conducts these activities is obviously an inefficient use of resources.
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Tell the students that you are going to conduct an activity to find out if two ears are better than one.
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Academics have their livings in institutions established to conduct academic activities .
affair
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He appoints a pontifical commission to conduct the administrative affairs of the state.
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She and Implexion had been conducting a casual affair for years; she knew him better than anyone.
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Until radicals grasped the need to conduct their affairs in absolute secrecy, their chances of conspiring effectively were remote.
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My father seemed to be happy to conduct his affairs through them for long enough.
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Equally, there are those who conduct their affairs with imagination and equanimity.
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It appeared to Nizan as the only realistic method of conducting human affairs in a civilised manner.
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To go to war in order to change the way another country was conducting its affairs was obviously illegal.
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How the House conducts its affairs , particularly on questions affecting taxation of our constituents, is of great importance.
analysis
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As a consequence, we need to ask questions that help us to conduct a sociological analysis of teachers and teaching.
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The research is conducted by statistical analysis of secondary data on client companies and on market prices.
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The deputy head normally conducting the job analysis .
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This does not detract, however, from the general value of conducting the type of analysis suggested by Hayzen.
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Finally, task descriptions differ with the personal biases of analysts and the reasons why they are conducting the analysis .
business
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We can only stress that no reputable antiques dealer would ever conduct business on a doorstep.
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Directly or indirectly, ownership provides the dollars and authority an enterprise needs to conduct its business .
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Novell has become famous for the way it manages its relationships and believes that relationships are the way to conduct business .
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You should also receive initial training about how to conduct the business as well as follow-up help and assistance.
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He said he had to conduct some business with the grain merchant.
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This can not and will not be accomplished without major changes in how we conduct our businesses .
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Critical consents are those which it is essential for the purchaser to obtain if it is to conduct the business after completion.
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The transactions motive simply means that firms must hold cash in order to conduct normal business transactions.
campaign
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And still larger sums have been expended in conducting a campaign against us outside of Ontario.
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There is an obvious danger of excessive duplication when broadly similar organizations conduct broadly similar campaigns .
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You conducted a campaign of economic sabotage.
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In any event, the prime minister, Felipe Gonzalez, is conducting an impressive campaign .
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He has conducted a campaign , full knowing his Cabinet post was in jeopardy whether or not the Conservatives win on Thursday.
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Johnson had steered himself into a position of strength from which to conduct his campaign in the election of 1964.
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Just as important, it was a piece of indiscipline that illustrated the almost casual way Labour is conducting this campaign .
debate
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The second part, Chapters 5-8, conducts the three debates catalogued in Figure 1.2.
election
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Better still, why not conduct elections by phone?
examination
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Leech had conducted a post-mortem examination and found cerebral haemorrhage as the cause of death.
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She did not conduct any physical examination .
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Emphasis should be placed on strict adherence to a policy of changing into protective clothing before conducting a post-mortem examination .
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This may be achieved by allowing parents to nominate their own expert to observe or jointly conduct any examination or assessment.
experiment
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One experiment conducted by the Rumbaughs took the following form.
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A number of experiments already have been conducted with mixed results.
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These take place in the real world and those involved do not know that an experiment is being conducted .
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Nisbett and Cohen also cite experiments they conducted using male students at the University of Michigan.
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In addition, experiments were conducted with, and without 100 µg/ml gentamicin and 60 µg/ml nystatin in the Krebs-Henseleit.
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Three illumination experiments were conducted with various groups of workers.
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Numerous experiments have been conducted involving different variations of the principles.
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Other experiments were conducted entirely in secret, often in plants of large companies tucked away in small rural towns.
inquiry
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Since 1988 we have conducted a confidential inquiry into deaths due to asthma in our district.
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Hundt has sought to conduct an inquiry on liquor ads, but commissioners have been deadlocked on the issue.
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And the police will conduct an inquiry .
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It caused a fine flap and the Election Board had no choice but to conduct an inquiry .
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A Palm Beach County grand jury conducted another inquiry , completed in March.
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The Department of Elections also is conducting its own inquiry .
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Later, according to Ayash, Livingston stripped her of her clinical duties while the hospital conducted an inquiry into her role.
interview
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The interview , conducted by Ian Pye, appeared one week before the release of the album.
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The survey was based on 200 face-to-face interviews conducted in October and November.
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Sometimes studio interviews are conducted over the air with an interviewer in London or Glasgow and the interviewee in Birmingham or Manchester.
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Lengthy interviews were conducted with a large sample of citizens in each of five countries.
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The interview will be conducted by Mr Drewry and Mr Marwick.
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Even interviews are often conducted on the go.
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Results - Two interviews were conducted in nine practices and one interview in the tenth practice.
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Around 50 interviews were conducted with clients, staff and health officials and a detailed diagnosis followed.
investigation
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Now, the police and trading standards are conducting an investigation into the matter.
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The lawyer said he will use the arraignment delay to conduct his own investigation .
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The Special Investigation Branch of the military police is conducting more than 30 investigations into allegations of brutality.
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They vowed to conduct an investigation and punish those who helped him.
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However the FBI-style agency will not conduct its own investigations or prosecutions, although many Whitehall insiders believe this could eventually happen.
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The judge then ordered the lead plaintiffs' lawyer in the class-action suit to conduct an investigation .
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That undertaking seemed to be developing into a commitment to conduct a private murder investigation in a foreign country.
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Bill Thomas, R-Calif., shortly before the House voted 224-187 to authorize an eight-member panel to conduct the investigation .
meeting
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Brief your participants that you will be conducting the meeting this way and expect their co-operation.
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They conducted these meetings either in city offices during the day or in the neighborhoods in the evenings.
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The leader should always conduct the meeting impartially and avoid stating his preferences and objections.
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Over this period I visited the school more than 30 times, chiefly to conduct interviews and attend meetings .
negotiation
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Thirdly, the skills required for conducting negotiations-among them intelligence, tact, patience and empathy.
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A working group of nonprofit agencies was set up to conduct the annual negotiations with the State Department.
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Experience of conducting high level negotiations , contract and royalty management.
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Lyle's reaction was to take the money, but he called in Neil Shaw to conduct final negotiations .
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How you conduct negotiations from there is largely a question of individual judgment supported by sound professional advice.
operation
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We are simply conducting a holding operation .
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And because they were civilian-manned, they would be able to spend more time conducting operations and less time making liberty calls.
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Specialforce groups were set up and trained to conduct anti-guerrilla operations .
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Instead, the Navy would man and run the ships, and the Naval Security Group would conduct the intercept operations .
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Security forces were reportedly conducting a search operation to find the attackers.
orchestra
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The orchestra was conducted by Oscar Straus.
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The large orchestra was very well conducted by Ormsby Wilkins, who, like the two ballets, received great applause.
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Braxton has composed for a 37-piece orchestra which he conducts here.
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An impressive collaboration with the Berlin Rundfunk orchestra , conducted by Robert Hanell.
policy
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They have felt this was necessary to conduct proper policy and, while in power, they trusted their own leaders.
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Article 20 gives the government responsibility for determining and conducting national policy .
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But when the Bush administration took office, it suspended negotiations while conducting the policy review.
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The problem is how to conduct economic policy soas to reconcile full employment and price stability.
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It was in a sense the just reward of his method of conducting foreign policy .
poll
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The poll , conducted last weekend, contains almost no comfort for the Tories.
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The poll was conducted over the past week with a sample of 1,023 adults.
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That, at least, is the finding of a Harris Poll conducted for Shuttle by United.
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The poll , conducted this week, had a margin of error of 5 percent.
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The poll , conducted by telephone Jan. 2-7, has a margin of error of 5. 5 percentage points.
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That gap had not changed since a poll was conducted shortly before Dole announced he was quitting the Senate.
research
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Before then all fusion research had been conducted behind a screen of secrecy.
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In addition, hundreds of research studies were conducted by scholars in various countries interested in conservation.
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The research which has been conducted on their parenting and its outcomes for their children has often been flawed and equivocal.
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The research conducted to date has turned up several intriguing results.
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The research will be conducted at three centres.
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Previously, our research has been conducted in contexts where there was usually a willingness to claim a national identity.
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Recent postgraduate research has been conducted in all of these areas and elsewhere.
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Acquisition research cases are conducted on a fee paying basis.
review
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In conducting this review the University has taken into account the feasibility of raising the necessary funding from outside sources.
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He also asked his bioethics advisory panel to conduct a full review and report back to him in 90 days.
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Pearce reached his conclusions after conducting a review of detailed studies into the impact of environmental taxes.
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A sub-committee had conducted a strict review of the conduct of all four members of the staff and that of the porter.
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Cluster groups of schools could conduct a joint review , sharing their experiences.
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Inpatient follow-up was conducted by review of the active medical record every 3 days.
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To the consternation of his cabinet colleagues, he is currently conducting a wide-ranging review of public spending.
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But after the concession the Government must conduct a further review of safety implications and report back to Parliament.
search
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They were nowhere to be seen, so I then conducted a search of all the store rooms and outhouses.
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I conduct executive searches for senior-level management, so I know a fair bit about how these companies are managed.
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Peacekeeping troops set up road blocks and conducted house-to-house searches .
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Police arrived within minutes and conducted a cursory search of the property.
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Appian Way, for instance, offer data disks that can conduct searches and produce material relevant to specific topics.
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Security forces were reportedly conducting a search operation to find the attackers.
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He was conducting yet another search of the quarter.
service
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Many of the Presbyterian ministers remained in their parishes, however, and conducted their own services .
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After a simple breakfast, Father Peter conducted a service in the Chapel of Penitence.
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The Rev. Malcolm Surman conducted the service .
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If the minister of religion is required to conduct a service , the family or funeral director arrange this.
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The installation was part of a review of catering operations, conducted by Food Service Designs.
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In May 1893, he conducted a special service of sacred music here at Halling, assisted by his wife.
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The vicar conducting the service , who's also a family friend, read out part of the coroner's judgement.
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Reverend Pinkerton will conduct her first service on this Sunday.
study
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The study was conducted in a subregional radiotherapy centre and an academic department of gastroenterology and therapeutics.
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A later and quite definitive study conducted by Miller between 1973 and 1978 bore this out.
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The study is being conducted on past, present and future incidents involving crowds in and around Sheffield.
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In addition, hundreds of research studies were conducted by scholars in various countries interested in conservation.
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Although this study was conducted over 10 years ago, matters have not improved since then.
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Preliminary studies are being conducted on the property, west of state Route 67 at the end of Slaughterhouse Canyon Road.
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A study she conducted in 1990 showed it was not this simple.
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The studies of Nelson conducted by the psychologist were designed to help the Davenports understand their son as a unique individual.
survey
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The two primary sources of data on smoking habits are the General Household Survey and surveys conducted by the tobacco industry.
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The survey , conducted late last year, compared the prices of 148 items at 14 Bay Area supermarkets.
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Stressful cities A survey of business travelers conducted for Homewood Suites Hotels ranked the most stressful cities in which to conduct business.
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A survey is conducted and an interesting statistical effect of X on Y is discovered.
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In reality it is, according to a survey conducted by swimwear company Slix, the garment women like buying least.
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A postal survey is being conducted to provide a comprehensive national profile of computer use in local authority planning departments.
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A subsequent survey was conducted in September, 1982 to assess attitudes within the medical profession itself.
symphony
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Mendelssohn evidently did this himself when he conducted the symphony for London audiences in 1829.
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When you conduct a symphony for the first time you may fear a breakdown in every bar.
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You could climb in there with her and still have room to conduct Beethoven's Fifth Symphony .
test
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She had a slight problem, no doctor to conduct the test ..
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One student had actually been conducting a water test while other students were presenting.
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It was therefore inadvisable to conduct statistical tests when missing data from some schools distorted the representativeness of the sample.
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Interstate 680 runs through the area where Communities for a Better Environment conducted its tests .
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Only three are suspected of having conducted a test .
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We wanted to find out so we conducted a test at a local shopping mall.
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Bios-3 has conducted tests with two and three people for up to six months.
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Vichy conducted their own test on 47 women.
tour
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His company, Motherland Connections, conducts tours of the sites in New York state.
trial
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Informal monitoring may be conducted throughout the trial together with discrete observation of staff behaviour about which notes may be written.
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Ligand is also conducting phase three trials on Targretin for a form of lymphoma and is looking at it for other cancers.
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One or two successes can be coincidence: it takes a properly conducted scientific trial to prove effectiveness.
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We are conducting detailed trials on those farms.
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Perhaps the practitioner conducting the trial should not be the patient's own doctor.
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However, valiant attempts were made to conduct massive trials in which as much information as possible could be included.
war
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Sergei Solov'ev was wrong, however, to accuse the tsar of conducting the war with a lack of resolution.
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In reality they were conducting a unilateral war , or rather an endless pattern of continuing three-day wars.
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He was effectively granted a blank cheque to conduct a war without Congressional authorization for up to 90 days.
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Rather, both sides were conducting a war in the imagination.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A guide will conduct us through the museum.
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All the children in the class have to conduct their own science experiments.
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An officer was sent to conduct the journalists around the shattered building.
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Before Newton, people had great difficulty understanding how any metal could conduct electricity.
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Plastic and rubber won't conduct electricity, but copper will.
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Specially treated copper wires conduct the signal from the amplifier to the speakers.
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The committee will conduct a thorough investigation of the bribery charges.
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The data comes from a survey conducted by the company last fall.
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The Duke Ellington Orchestra is conducted by Mercer Ellington.
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The visitors were conducted around the factory by senior managers.
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Water is used to conduct heat away from the reactor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Better still, why not conduct elections by phone?
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Bill Thomas, R-Calif., shortly before the House voted 224-187 to authorize an eight-member panel to conduct the investigation.
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He became a great fan of yours after a particularly exciting performance you conducted of Belshazzar's Feast.
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In addition, experiments were conducted with, and without 100 µg/ml gentamicin and 60 µg/ml nystatin in the Krebs-Henseleit.
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Since 1982 biennial national surveys conducted by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys have provided valuable information on adolescent smoking behaviour.
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Voter News Service, a consortium of the Associated Press and television networks, conducted the survey.
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Y., had already conducted important preliminary research on contra supporters suspected of drug activities.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
criminal
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This argument neglects the symbolic function of the labels applied by the law and by courts to criminal conduct .
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And the war was portrayed not only as criminal in intent but also as criminal in conduct .
disorderly
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In the first few hours after the verdict, 60 people were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct .
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You have to understand the disorderly conduct statute....
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A total of 27 people were charged with disorderly conduct .
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They arrested the peaceful marchers, put them in paddy wagons, and charged them with disorderly conduct .
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They were later charged with disorderly conduct and fined.
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By 10 a. m., there were 84 arrests, 44 for drunk and disorderly conduct .
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Mr Pennell has been charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
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An altercation ensued at the lab, and Angeli was convicted this week of disorderly conduct and malicious destruction of property.
future
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Swore Ramprakash was fined the maximum two weeks wages - around £750 - for that and severely warned about his future conduct .
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Summons for directions for future conduct of the action 7.
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The authoritative parent affirms the child's present qualities, but also sets standards for future conduct .
homosexual
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Unlike its recommendations on homosexual conduct , the section of the report that dealt with prostitution was largely uncontroversial.
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In employing essentially utilitarian criteria, the Wolfenden Committee gave rise to legislation which decriminalised certain forms of homosexual conduct .
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The Committee's recommendations on prostitution were acted upon with far more haste than those concerning homosexual conduct .
human
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It has been suggested that it is tempting to conceive of morality as a guide to human conduct .
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The Scriptures alone provide an absolute guide to proper human conduct .
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First, no other type of historical evidence offers the historian such depths of insight into human conduct .
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Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply.
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In order to situate those views we must begin with Oakeshott's account of the nature of human conduct .
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One of the unvarying laws of human conduct is that we always hanker after what others have.
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In matters that concerned human conduct rather than religion he was generous and humane.
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The easiest way to avoid this pitfall is to separate human conduct into behaviour and performance.
improper
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This is judicial scrutiny and the power of the courts to regulate telephone-tapping and to deal with illegal or improper conduct .
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She knows of no improper conduct by either of the Clintons in connection with the Whitewater development or anything else.
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We deplore anything that looks or smacks of discrimination, harassment or improper conduct .
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Each claimed to have seen 49ers stadium boosters engaged in what he believed was improper and intimidating conduct at the polls.
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The stadium campaign organization says it did not authorize or participate in improper conduct .
personal
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The point is reinforced if we consider the king's personal conduct at assemblies.
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Perhaps no one acted in a way we can judge wrong by personal standards of conduct .
professional
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This book aims to help the conveyancer make a business success of the proper professional conduct of the commercial art of conveyancing.
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Management consultancy divisions of accounting firms tend to be strong on business advice and professional codes of conduct .
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Like the other office-holders, I am debarred by my office from membership of the professional conduct committees.
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These institutions will have their own professional codes of conduct and can therefore be expected to avoid conflicts of interest.
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Council also approved in principle the text for a booklet Guidance on professional conduct incorporating a code of professional practice.
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They reported that, while our professional conduct department represented good value for money, it was grossly overloaded.
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A separate matter of particular importance is the regulation by the Law Society of the professional conduct of solicitors.
proper
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This book aims to help the conveyancer make a business success of the proper professional conduct of the commercial art of conveyancing.
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The Scriptures alone provide an absolute guide to proper human conduct .
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But as inspector of constabulary he would be responsible for its proper conduct .
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Jane Ming-li was conforming her behavior to proper conduct: She was not violent.
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Least of all from a creature like that, lost to all decency and proper codes of conduct .
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If only Miss Manners had promulgated, like the pope, an encyclical on proper gay conduct .
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There is here an extraordinary and secret mode of obtaining information necessary for the proper conduct of the winding up.
responsible
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Since they were chosen by the landowners of the county, the latter were held responsible for their conduct in office.
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The retail merchants association notes that employers are responsible for the conduct of employees who deal with customers over the phone.
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We hold a person responsible for his conduct in the sense that he can be justly or fairly punished.
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The division is responsible for the conduct of the Onshore Surveys Core programme.
safe
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Apart from the commander of the garrison and his guard who were given safe conduct to Ascalon they spared none.
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They would be guaranteed safe conduct north.
strict
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And just to say some one is a strict conduct disorder is not as popular today as it was a few years ago.
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He had an extremely strict code of conduct for himself and a lenient one for others.
violent
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Section 8 says that violence means any violent conduct towards persons or property.
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It was as clear a case of violent conduct as could be imagined.
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Their opponents, an experienced club side, are all being reported for violent conduct .
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If Hateley is found guilty of violent conduct , the disciplinary committee are empowered to extend the player's ban.
■ VERB
govern
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The rules which govern the conduct of the business of the council and its committees are called Standing Orders.
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As for the rules of the school governing student conduct and behavior, work-inhibited students do not need special exceptions.
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The principles of fair procedure which govern the conduct of disciplinary hearings also apply, by and large, to appeal hearings.
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It is not a blind law, for no blind law can govern the conduct of human beings....
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The principal legislation governing the conduct of insurance business is the Insurance Companies Act 1982.
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There is always considerable negotiation over the provisions governing the conduct of the business between signing and completion.
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Section 4 considers the auditor's role in relation to an investment business's compliance with the rules governing its conduct .
regulate
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These duties seek to regulate the conduct of partners and promote good faith between them.
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In addition the assembly made the vital decisions regulating the communal conduct of agriculture.
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The idea that harm is a basis upon which to regulate conduct is often attributed to John Stuart Mill.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A middle-aged banker has been fined 200 for violent conduct on a train.
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A new code of conduct for civil servants will be issued next week.
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Attending conferences and meetings is necessary to the conduct of our business.
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The Medical Committee found the doctor guilty of unethical conduct towards three of his patients.
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We went on a conducted tour of the castle.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After all, constitutionally, ministers are answerable to Parliament for the conduct of their Departments.
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And the war was portrayed not only as criminal in intent but also as criminal in conduct .
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In identifying such conduct , reliance is made on information forthcoming from local authority consumer protection departments.
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In return for their favor he acted so atrociously that no poet ever tried to explain his conduct .
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Norms and values Norms Every culture contains a large number of guidelines which direct conduct in particular situations.
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Political action groups lay in wait for companies that stumble in their conduct and treatment of multiple stake-holders.
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The catering business itself is regulated by various Acts of Parliament which impose duties and standards of conduct that must be observed.