noun
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a cultural context (= the ideas, customs etc of a particular place or time )
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the cultural context of Europe in the eighteenth century
historical context
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It is important to look at the novel in its historical context .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
broad
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In addition, she emphasises the broader historical context of political, technological and cultural change within which photography developed.
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General evolution takes place when the broader context itself changes, a process that is both unintentional and willed.
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Any work undertaken on an individual basis should always focus attention on the broader social context in which the individual lives.
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This is isolation and, in the broader context , the notion of what it means to be an island.
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Management control, in its broadest context , is the means by which an organization carries out its objectives effectively and efficiently.
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In a broader context , however, these variations have their limits.
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The sharp medical edge of her lecture would be blunted towards the end by placing the Black Death in its broader context .
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I had a broader context than most of the guys who just grew up in the street business.
cultural
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No one lives outside a cultural context .
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Unfortunately, the core teachings were set in cultural contexts that have been largely superseded.
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Even the modest proposal that literature should be read in its cultural context has large implications.
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Whatever cultural context is taken, there will be schemata.
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Again, these techniques are revealingly similar in widely different cultural contexts .
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The processes through which we can see texts functioning within a social and cultural context are problematic.
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A consideration of the cultural context of such concept formations is largely absent from his work.
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We decode messages in personal, social and cultural contexts .
different
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We talk in many different contexts about the need to protect young people from various vices in society.
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Ideas expressed at many different periods, or in many different contexts , have been assembled into a definitive world view.
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A second possibility is that social ranking of wife or housewife roles varies with different socio-economic contexts .
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This might include exploiting various language functions in different social contexts , as well as being able to participate in conversations.
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Reconciling the demands of different roles in different contexts is not without strain.
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Again, these techniques are revealingly similar in widely different cultural contexts .
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This quite different context allowed some observers of the city to communicate a view about the squalor of the Victorian legacy.
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In their long lives, Marx and Engels faced many different contexts and drew necessarily different tactical conclusions.
general
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To ask about details before establishing the general context is to approach from the wrong direction.
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The conclusion is obvious, that a structural-functional approach can not serve as a general context of explanation.
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One effect comes from the use of general knowledge about the world - we will call this a general context effect.
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I think the show was good because it covered a lot of ground and put a general feeling in context .
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These issues will be considered within the general context of political management.
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The effect of the six weeks time limit will be considered within the general context of exclusion of remedies.
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It was in this general context that the Unionist attitude to Marconi was set.
historical
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In addition, she emphasises the broader historical context of political, technological and cultural change within which photography developed.
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Examining Spenser and Ireland, therefore, raises more questions about relations between literary texts and historical contexts than it resolves.
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Both viewpoints are important in a historical context , but not in counselling.
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It is proposed to investigate these relationships in historical context applying comparative and quantitative methods.
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A hydraulic representation of his system dominated in which the historical evolution and context of Keynes's ideas could find no place.
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The historical context in which the evidence is acquired is irrelevant.
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Artefacts, works of art and historic buildings need to be considered in their historical and geographical context .
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In the case of attitudinal expressions, there are reversals, as rhetorical and historical contexts change.
other
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Such concerns are most apparent in the case of financial institutions but have also arisen in other contexts .
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They are not found in other contexts except in passing modulation.
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And if so, why are bees so thoroughly mindless in other contexts ?
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This seemingly symbiotic link has been damaging to the more general applicability of these criteria in other contexts .
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In other contexts , the illuminative observation approach has been used by Oxford Polytechnic with more success.
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This threatens the other contexts , personal, political, historical, mentioned above.
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In other contexts , Terkel's great virtue is his ability to leave subjects rich and ravelled.
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Speech is heavily supported by gestures and other cues from context .
particular
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The powerful company is a rich company and the powerful business person is successful in that particular context .
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Personality Personality can be broadly defined as the propensities within an individual to act a certain way, given a particular context .
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Most writers have a range of shapes for a given letter depending upon the particular letter context in which it occurs.
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Case Study A case study provides students with opportunities for exercising problem solving and decision making skills in a particular context .
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They are useful in seeking to record the impact of a development or innovation in a particular context .
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This brings us back to the importance of considering the functions which explanations serve in particular contexts .
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In summary, interactionism focusses on the process of interaction in particular contexts .
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In terms of multimedia, however, there is a particular context to be kept in mind.
political
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As indicated at the beginning of this chapter, Gelman's plays treat contemporary social and economic themes in their political context .
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It should be seen as seven functional stages of the budgetary process which take place in a political or rational context .
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Nevertheless, during the 1980-1 events and their aftermath the political context was discussed from a number of perspectives.
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National histories and political contexts have to be taken into account.
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These manifestations should, however, be studied in their social and political contexts .
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This viewpoint must be set within the wider political context .
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To put matters in the political context of the time, one instance will suffice.
present
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However, in the present context , Mr. Philipson's arguments seem to me completely beside the point.
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Whatever it was once, it just seems wrong in its present context .
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This allows two further propositions in the present context .
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Moreover in the present context apart from factor rewards, output levels per firm in the manufacturing sector are also equalized.
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Within the present context , however, I shall concentrate on the question of the socialisation of production.
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Some work of the former kind altogether avoids social considerations, and passes out of our present context .
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But this resistance is weakened in the present context by allegations of misuse of power by the security services.
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In the present context , however, there are further provisions.
social
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However, the drug use of the interview group needs to be placed in its wider social context .
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I plan to consider these questions as they relate to the human need to create and maintain self-identity in a social context .
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You rarely find consideration of the social context of error, or of its significance in the growth of the writer.
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Individuals do not move through a smooth physical vacuum; they negotiate structured social contexts in company with other individuals.
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This may provide a social context for the glass.
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I have raised them here only in order to put paedophilia into some kind of social context .
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She creates her own sequence of images within the larger social context .
specific
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We stress that information only exhibits value when it is put to use in a specific context .
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Inevitably, New Historicist case studies of specific texts and specific contexts start to feel like metaphors for the whole culture.
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The influence of social networks was also acknowledged, as was the need to solve specific problems in specific contexts .
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And each time there is a specific context which itself frames and arguments the information about the individual.
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Furthermore, the items selected will usually have rich meanings within specific cultural contexts .
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They are actively presenting themselves as readers in this specific context .
wide
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But the Bible sets marriage in a wider context .
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It adds up to a picture of a man in a wider context that just as a fighter pilot.
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All organisations exist within some wider context and we would expect an organisation's culture to reflect this.
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The change depended upon changes in the wider context of controversy, which provoked the development of formerly implicit attitudinal aspects.
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And they Learn how to place their learning in a wider context .
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Such arrangements have to be seen in a wider context .
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Basically there is everything to say, for most roads are not understood at all, at least in their wider context .
■ VERB
consider
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It is now customary to consider reading in this context .
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The Committee did not, however, consider the crime in context .
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But when you consider this in the context of its well-weighted precision and speed, it gives little cause for complaint.
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However, there are a number of other issues to consider in this context 1.
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This will be considered in the context of wage and interest-rate equations.
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We may also incline to a little charity in considering the context of the four discoveries listed above.
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Before you answer this question, consider the context .
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This brings us to consider the broader context of industrial conflict.
occur
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While fights may occur in the context of displays of rivalry, the exhibition of the character in question is often sufficient.
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Tussive syncope, which usually occurs in the context of bronchitis, consists of loss of consciousness with vigorous coughing.
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It also occurs in the context of political protest.
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However, when these words occur within a meaningful context , they can easily be read and understood by humans.
place
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All the topics covered would have to be placed in context but there would be no, say, comparative studies.
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And recording artists are being placed in that same context .
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To explain the difference between the two structures, they are placed in a realistic context .
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This is essential reading for those seeking to place this horror in context and to understand its true meaning.
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Statements of harmony, as with statements of conflict, have to be placed in their context .
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An activated word might be defined as any word placed in a context such that it takes on emotional intensity.
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But their details are often still controversial and their meaning can only be appreciated by placing them in context .
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Even so, it has to be placed in context .
provide
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The flow of everyday life provides a context in which individual human consciousness usually operates.
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The Demonstration provides a meaningful context in which to introduce and practice these words.
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Scholars compare to provide context , make classifications, test hypotheses, and make predictions.
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The box set has given stature to popular and obscure artists, by providing context .
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They also provide the context for the emergence and multiplication of the better-paid and more specialised trades.
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A side benefit is that storing documents by date and time provides context .
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The units may be mixed and matched with topics already being delivered in early stages to provide a scientific context .
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All this provides an important context for Bush's claims of success.
put
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The opening of the letter A well-written business letter will start by putting its message into context .
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Sometimes, these topics are even handled by sensitive writers who put them into a context that invites debate and reflection.
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The groups were put in contexts suggestive in one case of euphoria, in the other of anger.
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It aims at amplifying the bare details of physical development and putting these into their context of emotional development and developmental psychology.
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The whole absurd situation needs putting into context .
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When the population is put in the context of land size, Britain emerges clearly as a crowded island.
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Sometimes it is necessary to take bits out because they need special coaching, but always put them back in context .
set
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Another housemaster in describing what he would ideally like to do also set it in the context of his sense of powerlessness.
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Unfortunately, the core teachings were set in cultural contexts that have been largely superseded.
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The results will be set in the context of a study of the history of planning theory and urban policy making.
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By the end of the year most managers were working to set the context within which their subordinates were working.
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Performance in education is complex, controversial and should properly be set in the context of long time scales.
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Prioritizing corporate crime has to be set in context .
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For even his negative comments about Feuerbach are set in the context of a generous appreciation of the latter's intentions.
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This little study, when set in the appropriate context , was turned into a short piece for a local history magazine.
understand
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And so, by means of analogies and comparisons, the foreign can be understood in the context of the homely and the familiar.
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The answer lay in an understanding of the larger context: modernity.
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Legal theories help us to understand and analyse this context in two ways.
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All of this contributes to a new understanding of our context as a dynamic community.
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To understand a text, especially a political text, it is necessary to understand its argumentative context .
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It is important that the springboard doctrine be understood in its context .
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The structure and relationships of the contemporary organs of government can be understood only in historical context .
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To decode photographs and advertising images more effectively, it is essential for us to understand their context .
use
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This paper exemplifies the main bottom-up approach used in this field, and also uses higher-level context .
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It is so used in this context .
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We stress that information only exhibits value when it is put to use in a specific context .
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We will consider how the term fairness is used in an adjudicative context .
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In doing so, I offer no rigid model to be used whatever the context .
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Black and white imagery has been used in other company contexts at moments of crisis.
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The exercises, like the explanations, use realistic contexts .
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The problem with adult learners is that they already have strategies for grammatical analysis and can efficiently use context in communication.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the wider context/issues/picture etc
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As ever, context is important, particularly the wider context of New Testament teaching.
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Both require standing back from the day-to-day running of the organisation and examining the wider picture.
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It is now necessary to situate these in the wider context of the social formation and in particular class structure.
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More broadly, it was placed in the wider context of the continuing ambitions of central government to control local independence.
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That fact must be put in the wider context.
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The change depended upon changes in the wider context of controversy, which provoked the development of formerly implicit attitudinal aspects.
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We would expect leaders at all levels to be aware of the wider context of their work.
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What interpretations of the wider issues should it consider?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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English words can have several meanings depending on context .
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But all this takes place within a context of direction.
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In this context , a neutron star is effectively a single atomic nucleus.
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It also occurs in the context of political protest.
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It is recognised that in the Catholic school they will also be seen within the context of a wider and life-long catechesis.
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The eucharistic recall of the paschal mystery was simply inserted into this thank-offering context .
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The relationship between the sentence context and the target word varied.
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These must be developed in context , through experiences.
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This makes it absolutely clear that the early road and the drains belong in a mid to late second-century context .