verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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information
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An effective general practitioner must have counselling skills to elicit important diagnostic information and manage consultations appropriately.
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Other questions were designed to elicit information about extent of Creole use as perceived by the respondent.
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The questionnaire which was eventually devised was designed to elicit information concerning: 1.
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The less standardised section is used to elicit information more varied and qualitative in character.
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Precise questions encourage precise answers while vague ones often elicit more information .
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Neither seemed able to elicit any information .
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Whatever the type of interview the basic purpose is always the same: to elicit information from the interviewee.
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If you do not have a directory which includes specialist editors' names a quick phone call will soon elicit the information .
response
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It seems that baby talk is a natural response that babies elicit from adults!
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But of course the patient has to figure this out from the responses elicited from the neuropsychologist.
■ VERB
design
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Other questions were designed to elicit information about extent of Creole use as perceived by the respondent.
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Finally, it should be clear from the outset what sort of information the survey is designed to elicit .
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The questionnaire which was eventually devised was designed to elicit information concerning: 1.
try
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He could take her upstairs now, try slowly to elicit some response from that virginal body.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Short questions are more likely to elicit a response.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Behavior eliciting a negative response decreased in frequency.
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He or she is doing a certain thing and we interpret it in a certain way which elicits a given emotion.
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He, at least, was successful in eliciting an answer.
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Her strength was her ability to elicit and inspire confidences rather than fear in the people she befriended.
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She also elicited the views of the students about the way ward organisation helped them to learn.
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Single conspicuous targets in the half-field contralateral to the lesion could elicit fixations, implying detection and orienting by a subcortical system.
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The longest story is so full of pathos that the joke lines elicit only sympathy, not laughter.