noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a close examination
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A closer examination of the facts soon solved the mystery.
an eyesight examination/test
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The cost of the eyesight examination may be refunded.
careful analysis/examination/study etc
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careful analysis of the data
cursory examination/inspection
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a cursory examination of the evidence
external examination/examiner
searching questions/investigation/examination etc
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Interviewees need to be ready for some searching questions.
superficial examination/study etc
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Even a superficial inspection revealed serious flaws.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
careful
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Both of these premisses warrant careful examination .
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By careful examination , Lamb estimated the age of the tree at five hundred years.
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Of course we welcome the Woolf report and its careful examination of what happened during the Strangeways riot.
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From clinical and economic viewpoints a careful abdominal examination should be the first assessment of a vomiting child.
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A careful examination of the full context, however, suggests that see may well denote mental inference here as well.
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On careful examination it became clear that the cartouche had been engraved.
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The diagnosis can be made clinically by careful abdominal examination after a suggestive history has been obtained.
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After a careful examination of the bottles, I sorted one out, and poured the amber fluid into an expensive glass.
close
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Whilst this is a generally convincing thesis, closer examination reveals some historical inaccuracies.
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But on closer examination , they reflect the 2560-15 percent breakdown.
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Suffice it to say that in any extended study of the martial arts it warrants closer examination .
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There are two arguments here which, on closer examination , turn out to be fatally weak.
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They deserve close examination especially by those in predominantly family and part-time farming areas.
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Many apparent similarities became less convincing on closer examination .
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The imp of hell appeared on closer examination to be a neglected child.
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First, some challenges, although important and pressing, turn out on closer examination to be neither new nor different.
critical
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But the defeat of Labour in the latter year led, as usual, to a critical examination of conscience and record.
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Feminist strategies and campaigns in these different fields are submitted to critical examination .
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This is a critical examination , together with budget holders, of performance against budget for all the Society's activities.
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These procedures will all be subject to a further critical examination when the Phase 2 validation is completed.
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Many different theoretical approaches have been developed, and no area of phonology has been free from critical examination .
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Everything discussed received excellent critical examination .
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Its implication that information, experience, and feelings presented in a pictorial form are readily and immediately accessible needs critical examination .
cursory
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After a cursory examination , he turned to me and said that we must get the boy to hospital quickly.
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Because, on a cursory examination , I would say that is what you've got.
detailed
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Space does not permit a detailed examination of each of these proposals.
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At the same time, these are obviously complex matters which require much more detailed examination .
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Officers were continuing a detailed examination of the rooms.
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Some details of the mechanisms of dispersal of such imported goods can be obtained by a more detailed examination of their distributions.
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Education services similarly went through a phase of detailed examination of their weaknesses and future potential during the inter war period.
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What does a more detailed examination of the proposals in Working for patients and the accompanying working papers reveal?
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These require more detailed examination in order to determine whether they disprove the hypothesis formulated above.
external
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The first two will be assessed for certification by external examination while Investigating is assessed internally.
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Most of our pupils will be ready to sit the external examination in May of S5.
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Because of the devolved nature of National Certificate assessment, much more feedback is available than from a traditional external examination .
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More senior pupils in schools can use a word processor to write up projects or dissertations for internal or external examinations .
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Historically, she has laid much greater stress than her continental neighbours on sophisticated external examinations at the end of compulsory schooling.
final
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It was the period of her final examinations , and hence her presence was not required at college.
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Two papers are set in each option so the options constitute one half of the final examination papers.
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It hadn't even counted towards the final examination score!
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Yet the issue at stake, is not merely the content of the final examination .
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It continues throughout this final term, as students prepare for their final examination .
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Students on the part-time course will work from home, visiting Middlesbrough only for the final examination .
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The final Trustee Diploma examinations were conducted in May and October 1992, with a total of 173 candidates.
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By the time students reach the stage of taking their final examinations , most of them know their subject pretty well.
further
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We may pursue this through a further examination of primary problem.
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We may construct a picture to be corrected or filled in by further examination or the discovery of new evidence.
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Patients were excluded from further examination after their dyspepsia clinic visit if they had severe concurrent cardiovascular or respiratory disease.
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The environmental impact of humans' future energy demand needs further examination .
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With a certain reluctance she agreed to have a further examination , and tests were taken from the cervix and urethra.
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Likewise the instrumentalist approach to communication, as it is still prevalent among most churches, needs further examination .
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The crevice, upon further examination , was found to be stuffed full of yellowing incisors and weathered molars.
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This is a remarkably small number of cases and needs further examination .
histological
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A small intestinal biopsy specimen was taken from the third part of the duodenum, and routinely processed for histological examination .
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Another patient had severe inflammation and numerous granulomata on histological examination of duodenal biopsies indicating Crohn's disease of the duodenum.
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Scintigraphy is also a sensitive test in patients where endoscopy and histological examination can not confirm the presence or absence of reflux.
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I strongly agree with the authors' main point that all excised lesions should be sent for histological examination .
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Eighteen patients had a skin biopsy or had a lesion removed, but no tests other than the usual histological examination were necessary.
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Twenty six patients were given follow up appointments, either to assess treatment or to give the results of histological examination .
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The signs of inflammation had vanished. Histological examination confirmed a severe chronic atrophic gastritis.
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They had another endoscopy and four antral and four body biopsy specimens were obtained for histological examination .
medical
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He will now be required to submit to medical examinations to determine whether he is fit to stand trial.
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There is no medical examination needed to join - even up to age 70.
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We then waited in another line to enter a room where, presumably, we would have our medical examinations .
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Anne passed the medical examination and Sarah failed it.
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Abdominal symptoms brought her to a medical examination , at which a stomach cancer with metastases was diagnosed.
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Came the intense medical examination , much of which is commonplace today, but by no means in vogue in 1928/29.
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Should you demand a medical examination ?
microscopic
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Whilst most bryozoa require microscopic examination , a few form colonies large and distinctive enough to be easily recognizable.
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The minute he got inside he was going up to his room to give it a microscopic examination .
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Mineralogical analysis and microscopic examination of soil structures is well advanced.
physical
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A physical examination will let your doctor know about your current state of health.
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We talk to our patients and do a thorough physical examination .
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The patient was a non-smoker and did not consume alcohol. Physical examination showed an obese woman.
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Despite these difficulties, physical examinations must be an integral part of most nutrition surveys for the following reasons: 1.
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She did not conduct any physical examination .
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You must also control the number of people who will give you physical examinations .
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A chest x ray film and physical examination were normal.
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Repeated mental and physical examinations were also required.
postmortem
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A postmortem examination showed 11 pellet wounds in the head.
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A postmortem examination report showed he died from poisoning by carbon monoxide due to inhalation of fumes.
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But 4 postmortem examinations have failed to establish the cause of his death.
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A postmortem examination will take place in Vancouver later today to confirm identification from dental records.
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The defence ministry refused to release his body to his family for a postmortem examination and radiation testing.
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A postmortem examination will be carried out today.
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The worm generally has a low pathogenicity, and the majority of infections are discovered only incidentally at postmortem examination .
professional
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Graduates will receive maximum appropriate exemptions from the professional examinations of these bodies.
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The Sub-Committee continued its review of the professional practice examination system.
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Persons should be aged 18 or over and should: Either have passed Part A of the professional examination .
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Even an admiral's good wishes could not dispense with the ability to pass a professional examination .
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Holders of the honours degree are eligible for partial exemption from the professional examinations for membership of the Institute of Actuaries.
public
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The most controversial of outside evaluations involving outcome measurements are testing programmes and public examination results.
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Pupils in independent schools achieve higher levels of success in public examinations than those at maintained schools.
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Inevitably this committee had to consider the effect of public examinations upon the school curriculum.
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On 29 July 1988, at the Romford County Court, the public examination of the appellant took place.
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It is time to turn to the turbulent scene of public examinations as they now are.
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The predominant constraint is, of course, public examinations .
thorough
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Braun has also overseen a thorough examination of all the corporate processes and product lines.
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We talk to our patients and do a thorough physical examination .
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Five tenders were returned and following a thorough examination by the team, the bid of Ericsson was selected for recommendation.
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A thorough examination seems long overdue.
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It is important to subject views, ideas and actions to thorough examination .
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Usually, the clinical presentation is not subtle, and the presence of a malignancy becomes obvious after a thorough clinical examination .
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After a thorough examination he said that I was well enough to hold it down.
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League officials are to take this on board and make a thorough examination .
written
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Assessment is by written examination and dissertation.
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The degree is awarded on the basis of written examinations and/or the presentation of a satisfactory thesis.
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Diplomas are awarded to candidates who reach a satisfactory standard in written examinations following nine months of coursework.
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Assessment: Each module is examined by a 90-minute written examination at the end of April.
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The written examinations would provide the opportunity for assessing whether the student had acquired a sufficiently analytical approach to the subject.
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Coursework and project assessment, written examinations and dissertation.
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entrance
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Voice over Professors flew in especially from Prague to supervise the entrance examinations and emphasise the benefits of studying in their country.
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He claimed to have taken entrance examinations for Stevens, but no records remain.
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Having passed the entrance examinations he joined as an Aircraft Apprentice at Halton in August 1928.
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There had been a rush to take part when the national college entrance examination was restored in 1977.
result
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They want to know how school examination results compare, about the level of truancy and about the staying-on rate after 16.
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Cumin makes the significant point that employers appoint school leavers to posts before examination results are known in any case.
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It is also examining both the admissions criteria and the examination results of the Vocational Course.
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Whatever measures we apply to the examination results achieved by our students last summer, they are the best ever.
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This indicated that first year examination results were a far superior predictor of wastage than the A-level scores of entrants.
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Quality of tuition was notoriously difficult to judge: in-class assessment of teachers bore no correlation to examination results achieved.
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Girls have now overtaken boys for examination results and women are indeed starting to dominate the workplace.
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However, the assertion that the poor examination results were largely attributable to the low expectations of the department went forward unamended.
system
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This enables a student to optimise the opportunities presented to him without prejudice to his progression through the examination system .
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I think the competition between the IoT and the Tax Faculty will lead to a better examination system for the IoT.
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There were thus two examination systems set on diverging courses for membership of the same Division.
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The examination system has long been a serious bone of contention in this country.
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Perhaps that is the fault of the examination system .
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Partnerships have a strong vested interest in the quality of output of the examination system and in its cost-effectiveness.
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Yet there is significant concern for the quality and reliability of the output of this examination system .
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Business no longer understands the examination system and its grades and it bemoans the continually changing scene.
■ VERB
based
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This work is based on the examination of the goods used by some three hundred individuals in eighty-two households.
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The events upon which the play is based suggest an interesting examination of the forces opposing happiness in marriage.
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Less rewarding techniques are those based on faecal examination , either by flotation or by the Baerman method.
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It should be noted that an audit report is an opinion based on an independent examination of available evidence.
carry
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I had carried out postmortem examinations of the dead animals but had found only a non-specific gastro-enteritis.
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This will include any doctor, psychiatrist or other expert directed to carry out an examination or assessment.
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While I was carrying out my examination I would quite casually discuss recent events.
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Resits may not be carried forward to another examination session, even if the particular module is repeated and another resit examination offered.
conduct
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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.
detail
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But until now the detailed examination of the underwater ruins has been held back by a lack of suitable technology.
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When he had finished, he would flash back to the complete page and select a new subject for detailed examination .
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A more detailed examination would show the vowels are missing.
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A more detailed examination of the utility oil stream will be made in Section 10. 2.
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For more detailed motor examination , see Chapter 6.
follow
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Five tenders were returned and following a thorough examination by the team, the bid of Ericsson was selected for recommendation.
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And when children are given the chance to read in school, their reading is often followed by an examination .
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Polyps recur, however, in 30-50% of all polypectomy patients, and they must therefore be followed with regular colonoscopic examinations .
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Barium follow through examination showed a normal mucosal pattern in the graft.
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In addition, an updated record is provided for each student following the termly examination committees, showing the student's results.
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What follows is an examination of each with examples of how each might be justified.
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In turn, following examination of staffing schedules, she will be informed if there is work available at her convenience.
include
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The study will include an examination of careers advice practices, selection of trainees and the role of employers.
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His journey includes an examination of all things.
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Nordenfalk's book includes the scrupulous examination of visual evidence always welcome and often found in writing by a museum curator.
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Indeed, the definition of a financial audit explicitly includes examination of systems of internal control whereas the commercial audit does not.
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This requirement includes a chest X-ray examination .
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This would include prescribed medication and examinations by suitably qualified professions e.g. doctors, physiotherapists etc.
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An audit includes examination , on a test basis, of evidence relevant to the amounts and disclosures in the accounts.
involve
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A health check, in my opinion, involves a clinical examination and intervention, where appropriate, based on the findings.
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The analysis involves close examination of a sample of markets in which significant entry has occurred.
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Effectiveness involves an examination of the relationship between the output and objectives of the department.
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This involves an examination of the relationship between the different parts of the structure and their relationship to society as a whole.
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This study involves an examination at three distinct levels of the action of those in the public sector.
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Clearly, one aspect of this must involve a much closer examination of the relationships between athletes and sports physicians.
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This will involve an examination of internal and external factors.
pass
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Perhaps an additional reassurance that you can in fact pass your future examinations !
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Some years earlier, he had passed the Harvard examination with honors.
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Do please inform the office if you have taken this course and passed the examination .
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Qualified youths could become officers by passing competitive examinations , which Le Thanh Tong himself devised.
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I know that their actual task is to pass the examinations they meet.
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Fred Taylor, who had passed the examination with honors, was not among them.
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All three passed their first accounting examinations .
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In addition, Federal, State, and many local governments may require that inspectors pass a civil service examination .
perform
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They are expected to take a full medical history and perform a physical examination .
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A carefully performed neurologic examination may, of course, also yield helpful clues.
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Athelstan leaned over to perform his own examination .
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High street optometrists perform the necessary eye examinations for these patients.
require
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The pattern of assessment followed precedent, with only two courses requiring examinations .
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Even though the problems of evidence and interpretation require reformulation, an examination of the long and complex debate is useful.
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Whilst most bryozoa require microscopic examination , a few form colonies large and distinctive enough to be easily recognizable.
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At the same time, these are obviously complex matters which require much more detailed examination .
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These require more detailed examination in order to determine whether they disprove the hypothesis formulated above.
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Turning to some individual stocks, we can see some of the main points that require examination .
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This will require examination of the dynamics of local property markets, and of those factors which influence value generally.
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Pupillage is not require your Bar examination .
sit
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In 1920 she sat the competitive examination to enter the International Labour Office in Geneva and joined its agricultural service.
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Most of our pupils will be ready to sit the external examination in May of S5.
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These are sat under examination conditions and then marked internally.
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It came just three weeks before the students were due to sit their examinations .
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This will enable those eager and able to sit the relevant examination and thus qualify.
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He sat on the examination table in his underpants, and I noticed how desperately thin he was getting.
take
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She studied botany, taking the honours examinations as a private student, and also geology and mineralogy.
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He claimed to have taken entrance examinations for Stevens, but no records remain.
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She felt as if she had taken an extremely exacting examination .
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Instead, he got a girl who could never take the examinations .
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The Hamiltons' Cheshire home was searched, and it is understood that a computer was among items taken away for examination .
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In June 1874, after two years at Exeter, he took the Harvard admissions examination and passed with honors.
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It was one of his few boasts that he had never taken an academic examination in his life.
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Test yourself with the following passage, which contains misspelt words taken from examination scripts.
undergo
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All patients underwent an abdominal ultrasound examination before endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.
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Chun began by saying, with a grin, that he felt like a schoolboy undergoing examination in being interviewed by me.
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Ballesteros underwent a severe examination two years ago.
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By the end of the afternoon, Burrell underwent an examination and was told there is no cause for concern.
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During the baseline examinations the subjects underwent a standardised dental examination.
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During that time, he has undergone several medical examinations at the request of his father.
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Before operation all patients underwent general physical examination and electrocardiographic and lung function studies to determine their general fitness for operation.
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It had undergone detailed and lengthy examination by a Select Committee of this House.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
come up for discussion/examination/review etc
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BUndeterred, the group is revising its proposal and plans to contest every license that comes up for review.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A detailed examination of population statistics reveals a steady decline in the birth rate.
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After a brief examination by a local doctor, I was taken to the city's main hospital.
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Darden's examination of the witness produced no startling evidence.
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Each of the prisoners was given a thorough medical examination .
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Mandelbaum's new book is an examination of US foreign policy.
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On closer examination the vases were found to be cracked in several places.
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The examination scores will be announced next week.
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The committee's latest proposals are still under examination .
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The judge ordered a detailed examination of Cowley's financial records.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A post-mortem examination of the occupants revealed nothing which contributed to the accident.
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B.Eds were about equally divided between continuous assessment and examinations, with some project work.
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Closer examination will show that the document is more readable and links to other subjects are helpful.
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Preparation of the reservoir for endoscopy was performed with a phosphate enema 30 minutes before the examination .
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The pattern of assessment followed precedent, with only two courses requiring examinations.
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These subjects had an examination for evaluation of occult blood, positive stools or for screening for colon cancer, or both.
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With the Tories elected for a fourth successive term, the politics of the opposition are obviously up for radical examination .