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a doctor examines sb
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The doctor examined her and said she had a chest infection.
consider/examine/study the evidence
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Having considered all the evidence, the court found him not guilty.
examine a patient
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Can you please wait outside while the physician examines the patient.
examine the facts
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I decided to examine the facts for myself.
examine wreckage
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Forensic experts were yesterday examining the wreckage.
examine/consider/study sth in detail
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He asked his lawyer to examine the contract in detail.
look at/consider/examine an aspect
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Managers were asked to look at every aspect of their work.
look at/examine etc sth in context
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Although this does not seem to be a good result, let’s examine it in context.
study/examine the implications
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He has studied the implications of recent technical innovations.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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also
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It will also examine changes in the reporting of rape over three and a half decades.
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Special preconceptual care designed to reduce the incidence of congenital malformation is also examined from this point of view.
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The Select Committee on Energy has also examined the proposals in considerable depth, and the Government welcome its report.
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It also examines the comparative merit of centralized and decentralized management.
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The research also examines the perception and evaluation of health and safety problems and goals by trade union representatives.
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Age of the person being examined also plays a role in the way the signs present themselves and are interpreted.
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The working group will look at ways of organising the poll and will also examine the legal issues.
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They also examine heroism, and its limits.
carefully
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I carefully examined every photograph in minute detail through a magnifying glass so as not to miss a thing.
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The stigmata on this foot was carefully examined during its official recognition in 1597.
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You must reach behind the form or wording of the question, dismantle it and carefully examine each part. 1.
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In therapy he began to examine carefully the reasons for his previous passivity.
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A number of questions - not all of them obvious - need to be examined carefully , and from all possible angles.
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The feed is examined carefully , and at the slaughterhouse any bird with an appearance of disease is discarded.
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But it does point to the need to examine carefully the social processes registered by apparently simple concepts.
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The joints should be carefully examined for effusion, limitation of motion, or deformities.
how
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Linda Watson examines how design has defined the female figure and shows how women have often suffered in the name of fashion.
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This chapter examines how the courts have applied these principles in cases involving teachers.
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You may wish to consider the nature of its nationalisation programme and critically examine how radical or socialist it was.
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Chapter 6 examines how school-to-work can contribute to the broader school-reform movement that has been growing over the past decade.
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It was recently reviewed and guidance was issued, but we shall examine how that guidance has been used.
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The movie examines how poverty and oppression can ruin a people.
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Among other things, we shall have to examine how far the hopes and claims of librarians match up to present realities.
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The council voted 5-2 to examine how Colorado and Oregon have handled the background check loophole.
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aspect
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Although we will not examine the technical aspects of these standards, it is important to identify briefly the most important initiatives.
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It's not a long course, but it will examine every aspect of technique with every club in the bag.
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Their purpose is to examine different aspects of the relationship between law and accountancy.
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We shall now proceed to examine these two aspects of the problem in detail.
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If, however, one wished to explore the immediate outside it might be necessary to examine specific aspects in detail.
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This module provides a research framework to help teachers examine some aspect of their own professional development.
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It is worth examining certain aspects of Joni's art, in order to understand this leap in skill.
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This special report examines all aspects of the link between the business and the community, including the effect on the environment.
body
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They went up the ladder and examined the body in the hay.
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While touring the Accord plant, we stopped to examine the body shells as they enter the production line.
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Amiss stayed hidden in his enclosure, nervously examining his body for signs of damage.
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She examined the body as best she could without touching it, its contorted features being a suitable disincentive to touch it.
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An hour later it was Teesdale's duty to examine the body , and again everything was normal.
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As he examined the body , Teesdale had a very strange feeling.
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Rachaela examined her face and body .
case
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The law operates retrospectively on the basis of precedent, examining each individual case on its merits.
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The Chronicle examined in detail 27 cases in Houston and Harris County involving violent or repeat offenders on dual supervision.
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The same report examined individual cases .
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In order to understand this rule, it helps to examine a particular case .
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As we are examining the case of sequential retrieval before additions, the items given above do not include overflow retrieval.
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The Central Policy Review Staff were asked to examine the case for electrification.
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We now proceed to examine some simple cases .
change
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It will also examine changes in the reporting of rape over three and a half decades.
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Having noted this, the figures for Anderson's turn-length are worth examining as evidence of change in his conversational behaviour.
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The rest of the extract then examines how changes in the style of policing and law enforcement affect criminal statistics.
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The research will include case studies of 20 schools in three local education authorities, examining change as it occurs.
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Using the results obtained on page 279, we can examine the effect of changes in a 3 induced by the tax.
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The paired t test was used to examine changes over the trial period within each group.
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This project aims to examine changes in alcohol treatment policy from the inception of the National Health Service to the 1980's.
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Several appropriate datasets are being examined for further temporal changes .
chapter
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In the next chapter we examine why the public sector may wish to produce private goods.
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In this chapter we examine the prominent modes of actual political behavior of individuals.
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In this chapter we examine how the female nude became a crucial element in the formation of art designated modern.
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The purpose of this chapter is to examine the what, why, how and where of deceptive behavior in organizations.
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This chapter begins by examining these informal relations and assesses their importance in terms of our understanding of how organisations operate.
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This chapter will examine this federal law.
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This chapter examines these questions from a theoretical standpoint within the framework of natural monopoly industries.
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Initially, this chapter examines and distinguishes two crucial concepts, state and nation.
committee
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The Select Committee that examined the Bill took a very close interest in and sought several undertakings about groundwater.
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After the 1999 legislative battle, the university system's Board of Regents appointed a committee to examine collective bargaining.
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Following the 1987 general election, Margaret Thatcher set up and headed a small committee to examine the health service.
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I hope that the Committee will examine the Bill carefully.
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The Wilson Committee examined this issue.
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It set up a House of Lords Select Committee in 1881 to examine the extent of juvenile prostitution.
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The House should be grateful to him and for what his Committee does in examining statutory instruments.
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The government argued that select committees could examine the actions of civil servants but not their conduct.
data
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An Inspector window lets you examine the data of a selected type, including its methods and properties if its a class.
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Teams of archaeologists working for the government went along the river examining sites and recording data .
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If we examine these data for gender differences, we see that at all levels women earn considerably less than men.
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Management should first examine the data produced to ascertain whether any variance from the breakdown is due to site conditions or mismanagement.
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Using graphs to analyse your data is easier than examining the data cell-by-cell.
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No-one appears to have questioned this claim, examined the data , or checked whether any experiment had even been done.
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The first school of thought tended to examine data on outcomes in order to find an explanation.
detail
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Some of the applications will be examined in more detail in subsequent chapters.
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Let us examine each component in detail .
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Indeed, manufacturing capability seems to have such a major impact on product development that it is worth examining in greater detail .
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The Chronicle examined in detail 27 cases in Houston and Harris County involving violent or repeat offenders on dual supervision.
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A public inquiry would be able to examine those figures in detail .
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The redistributional effects of transfers will be examined in more detail in Chapter 37.
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Neither was I told to examine in minute detail , every blade of grass that my kit was to come in contact with.
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This point will be examined in detail in later sections.
doctor
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The doctor examined her, found a faint pulse, and immediately swung into action to resuscitate the patient.
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Prosecutors want their doctors to examine Kaczynski to help prepare for the possible mental-defect defense.
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A doctor examined the body and decided that the man had been dead for several hours.
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A doctor came and examined me.
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They have even sent Department of Health doctors around to examine her to see if she is too ill to travel.
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Of all the doctor factors examined , only doctors who professed a special interest in diabetes achieved significantly better glycaemic control.
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Without speaking to doctors or examining Anna without clothes, they let her go.
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Then the doctor arrived and examined her gravely.
effect
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We shall examine this effect of individual speaker's topics in the next section.
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A range of possible values for each variable should be examined for effects on results. 9.
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Academic research tells us that this rarely happens perfectly and so we need to examine the effects of the policy in practice.
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The budget in this context gives the management the opportunity to examine the overall effect of operating decisions.
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Using a nationally representative sample, this study examines the effects on family life of elderly persons in the household.
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An experiment was performed to examine this effect .
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The answers to these questions will give a range of data which may be examined in relation to the literary effect of each passage.
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In all three approaches, we have examined the effects on money national income of changes in the money supply.
evidence
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In the next section we examine the evidence .
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We are continuing to examine evidence and following up on a substantial amount of information that we are receiving.
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This review examines the evidence that abnormal oxidative metabolism is of central importance to active inflammatory bowel disease.
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After examining such evidence , the Oregon court agreed with the teacher that the contract was not divisible into two parts.
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Having noted this, the figures for Anderson's turn-length are worth examining as evidence of change in his conversational behaviour.
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Your first step is to examine existing evidence that is relevant to the issue you are analyzing.
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Wearing my competition hat, I shall be happy to examine any evidence which suggests that competition is not fair.
extent
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In particular, it will examine the extent to which questions concerning women and power have become part of mainstream political sociology.
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First, they examine the extent to which different presidential systems are likely to experience democratic breakdown.
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She stared at him without speaking, examining the extent of the damage.
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The research will examine the extent to which reductions in naval strengths can become part of the wider negotiated arms control process.
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It set up a House of Lords Select Committee in 1881 to examine the extent of juvenile prostitution.
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The first phase of the research examines the extent to which differences in memory and inferential skills contribute to comprehension difficulties.
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The project is intended to begin to explore these possibilities by examining the extent to which expert systems can acquire human expertise.
impact
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This exhibition examines his impact not only on the visual arts but also on literature and science.
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Later, I will examine the impact of terrain, in its military definition, on operations.
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This project will examine the social impact of these changes on the structure and standards of the people.
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The study will also evaluate the assessment procedures in use and examine their impact on children and on the school more generally.
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It is more appropriate to examine the impact of aid programmes and projects in aggregate on a particular country.
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This study deliberately examined the impact of the projects under normal classroom conditions.
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This examines the impact of deregulation and advances in technology on the operations of financial firms.
implication
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The project will look at recreational drug use and examine the implications for agencies working with young people.
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Finally, we examine the efficiency implications of taxation.
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It will examine the implications for self reliant development.
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This paper is addressed to examining the implications of this technological innovation.
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The project aims to examine the implications of this state of affairs for macroeconomic activity.
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Once again, however, the ability of politicians and economists to conceptualise well outran their inclination to examine and analyse practical implications .
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A study is being conducted in two rural areas to examine the implications of these changes.
issue
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Everyone who has examined the issue with any professional respectability thinks that the Secretary of State is simply off his head.
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One way to explore this question is to examine the issue of when the problem begins.
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The working group will look at ways of organising the poll and will also examine the legal issues .
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In examining the issue of the working poor, it is essential to examine the poverty line.
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One way to examine the issue is to consider the possible effect on the health of unemployed people.
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So the league set up a second task force, to examine the quality issue .
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The purpose of this paper is to examine further the issue of open adoption or adoption with contact.
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He also proposes a bipartisan commission to examine the issue as the best politically possible way to change the system.
nature
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In this chapter, we shall examine the nature of these two concepts and estimate their value for teachers.
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Let us now examine the nature of poverty in the United States during the mid-1990s.
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The chapter's main aim is to examine the nature of that crossroads and how best to analyse it.
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First, it's best if we examine the nature of the service.
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Pearson also examines the recurrent nature of different explanations of the criminal question.
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Let us try to examine the nature of this Newtonian determinism a little more closely.
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Once again the novel repeatedly turns inwards to examine its own nature , presenting itself as a kind of palimpsest.
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We shall examine the nature of these accounts during the next two chapters.
policy
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This relationship should be borne in mind when we examine monetary policy in the next two chapters.
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Another task is to initiate research of particular relevance to policy issues and to examine existing and proposal policy initiatives on employment.
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We will shortly examine the policies which have been adopted to restrict the degree of monopoly power exercised by large firms.
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In this section, extracts examine the policy behind the law, the statutory rules and then the cases.
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In the light of this, it examines trade-union policies and strategies formulated towards training and retraining programmes.
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One way of assessing the government's radical intent is to examine its policies towards the provision of private health care.
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I invite them to examine the Opposition's policies to see how they would fare under a Labour Government.
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It is also necessary to examine what studying social policy implies.
problem
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Michele Hanson examines the problems imposed by budget cuts and staff shortages, and looks at the need for long-term strategies.
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In a later chapter, I will examine this problem more fully.
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The project will also examine the methodological problems associated with using institutional records as sources for wage and price data.
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Before we examine these problems one important question of method must be noted.
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The next two chapters examine this problem in more detail.
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The three new studies set out to examine the problem in more detail.
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John Illman examines the problems they are facing.
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In general, we will examine problems having p linear objective functions,, which we wish to maximise subject to linear constraints.
process
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Yet when we examine this restorative process in operation, we observe considerable redistributive exercises taking place.
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But it does point to the need to examine carefully the social processes registered by apparently simple concepts.
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In our study, we are going to examine the process and products of this transformation with reference to first impressions.
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The primary research aim is to examine processes involved in peer tutoring.
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This chapter examines the processes of revenue raising, allocation, spending and control.
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Thus many non-relevant documents will have been retrieved and examined in the process of sifting relevant from non-relevant.
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This study is examining the managerial process by which organisations develop a market-orientation.
project
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The project will also examine the methodological problems associated with using institutional records as sources for wage and price data.
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This project will examine the social impact of these changes on the structure and standards of the people.
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This project will examine the economic, political, legal and technological issues at stake with cars and electronics as case studies.
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This project has examined the current level of industrial and governmental activity on the area of clean technology.
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This project will examine the evidence for the world economy in the inter- war period.
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This project is designed to examine some of these effects by focussing upon the Lake District in particular.
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Our project examines these allegations of failure.
question
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A number of research projects have now examined this question , and a number of conclusions have begun to emerge.
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This task force could examine the broader question of what types of projects should require voter approval.
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This chapter examines these questions from a theoretical standpoint within the framework of natural monopoly industries.
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They can examine that question in any way they think is best.
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This chapter examines the question of what, precisely, is an overseas trust.
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The discussion now turns to key examples from comparative politics that have examined these important questions .
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Burman uses representations of the self to examine questions around race, gender and sexuality.
record
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The problems this has given rise to are compounded when one examines our import record .
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For controls, they used the same drivers, examining their phone records from the day preceding the accident.
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It is of course an impossible task to examine the record of Marxism in such a short space as I have available.
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We must now examine his record .
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Our principal approach is to examine in detail the records of scores of banks operating in the period.
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The commission, they agreed, must produce a report that would examine the record and rationale of dams.
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But before we look at that we must first turn to examine the record in a little more detail.
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There are a number of opportunities in the Parliamentary year to examine the Government's record .
relationship
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This study examines the relationships between different sectors of the local economy, especially the nature and permeability of sector boundaries.
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Rational economic and financial analysis will be vital in presenting proposals, examining relationships between strategic subsystems, and so on.
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It examines the relationship between fertility histories and household labour availability, and the consequences for labour intensive techniques of environmental management.
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The compulsory element examines the relationship between feminist ideas, feminist practice, and theory and methodology in the social sciences.
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It also examines the relationships between these bodies and those that are the subjects of evaluation, as well as with central government departments.
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Finally, apart from one small reference, the analysis never examines the relationship between collective protest and internal war.
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Three of the papers in this collection examine the relationship between these two professions from a historical perspective.
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It will also examine firms' external relationships with their markets and customers.
research
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The research will examine the behaviour of visitors with regard to group activity and movement within areas commonly used for interview.
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The main aim of the research is to examine the interrelationship between the comprehension and production of early vocabulary.
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The research aims to examine the relevance of this concept to the future development of two case study areas in Co Fermanagh.
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The research will first examine the issues theoretically and then, where feasible, with the aid of existing macroeconomic models.
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The research will examine the extent to which reductions in naval strengths can become part of the wider negotiated arms control process.
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The research examines this conclusion since it is at variance with rational economic planning.
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The research will begin to examine not only how people use maps, but also how they create them.
role
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Age of the person being examined also plays a role in the way the signs present themselves and are interpreted.
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The study will examine the role NGOs and the institutional relationships between them and governments.
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In addition, one unit specifically examines the role of economic change in shaping the state.
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Tonight, in his third report Mike Rowbottom examines the role of the staff in Inside Story.
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In the longitudinal part of the enquiry, the investigators examined the possible causal role of support.
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That is why we examine the expanded role of all-purpose authorities.
section
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In the next section we examine the evidence.
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My application went through a committee of peers, a so-called study section , which examines hundreds of proposals.
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In this section we examine the economics of local government.
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The purpose of this section is also to examine qualitative considerations.
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In this section , we examine how these forces affect governments' role in the provision of education.
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In this section , extracts examine the policy behind the law, the statutory rules and then the cases.
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In this section we examine the contribution to the crisis that has been made by the sentencing decisions of the courts.
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In the first of the book's three sections Kemp examines the theory and practice of perspective from Brunelleschi to Turner.
structure
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The object of this research is to examine the structure of public opinion about state and private welfare services.
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In this chapter, we will examine the logical structure of these statements in more detail.
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It is hard to examine the exquisite structure of a comb, so beautifully adapted to its end, without enthusiastic admiration.
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If an architect examined a Gothic structure by reference to Grecian rules, he would find it a mass of deformities.
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My mind began to play tricks, and I just assumed he was examining the snow structure for some reason.
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From these data it will be possible to examine the social structure and processes that occur within a particular industry.
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An important issue when examining urban employment structures is that of the varying performances of different sectors of employment.
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This allows the engineers to examine every piece of structure and all the systems in detail in a methodical manner.
study
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The study will examine the role NGOs and the institutional relationships between them and governments.
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All three studies examined a population which was quite different from that of the randomized clinical trials or the quasi-experimental studies.
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This study examines these contrasts in detail, at a period when the Stock Exchange in London is introducing great reforms.
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One study conducted in 1980 examined seven economic-demographic models constructed to project the future of food and resource supplies and pollution levels.
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Using a nationally representative sample, this study examines the effects on family life of elderly persons in the household.
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This study aims to examine the role of Protestant working class youth culture in transmitting loyalist ethnic and political identity.
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The aim of this study was to examine whether endogenous eicosanoids play a role in controlling cyclosporin A induced toxicity.
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Despite the consistency of the socioeconomic differences in sickness absence no studies have examined possible explanations for them.
ways
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The viability of the new mechanism can be examined in several ways .
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Thursday, Vacco announced a new statewide commission to examine ways of improving the quality of care for the dying.
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It is in examining the ways in which these problems of need and use are practically organized, in specific social orders.
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Current work in neural networks is examining ways to reduce the size of the training set required.
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We will examine ways in which the uniform scope of regulation could be eased to safeguard traditional local products or practices.
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This chapter examines different ways of exercising power.
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In addition we will examine ways of giving those who retire with lump sum payments more choice as to how their savings are invested.
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In formulating a view, it is helpful to examine this in two ways .
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begin
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In this chapter we shall begin by examining these concerns in some detail.
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The discovery came after analysts began examining debris taken to the lab from the Oklahoma City bombing site.
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Indeed in the 1960s, other reasons for depopulation, notably settlement size, began to be examined .
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In therapy he began to examine carefully the reasons for his previous passivity.
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Pupils might begin by examining their area about 50 years ago.
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But let us begin by examining the term theory.
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This chapter begins by examining these informal relations and assesses their importance in terms of our understanding of how organisations operate.
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How can sociologists begin to examine these trends?
let
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Before we consider each of these offences in outline, let us examine the practical and theoretical foundations for them.
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With these considerations in mind, let us examine recent welfare legislation at both the state and federal levels.
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But first let us examine the facts and then ensure that we are looking after our physical selves as well as possible.
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But first let us examine the rebel tradition.
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Focussing on one tiny segment of the statistics of abundance, let us examine corporation presidents and millionaires.
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On the Economic Front Let us now examine some of the elements of the new situation in somewhat greater detail.
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But how does it work? Let us examine the case of just two banks, say Lloyds and Midland.
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But let us begin by examining the term theory.
need
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Once a set of goals has been established we need to examine whether these goals are being accomplished.
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We need to examine each sheet of adjectives and rework as many of the negatives into positives as we can.
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Consequently both perspectives need to be examined when considering what people understand and mean by terms such as health.
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Consumers need to examine all their new credit cards and dispute anything that hasn't been authorized.
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We need time to examine fully the findings of the Select Committee and to give our response.
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In addition to the development of new vehicles and systems, other key components of commercial transactions need to be examined .
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The issue you need to examine , then, is trust.
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Maybe you need your head examined .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A team of investigators is examining the crash site.
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Before buying an antique, examine it closely to avoid buying a fake.
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Experts who examined the painting believe it is genuine.
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Her new book examines the causes of social discontent.
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I'm going to the hospital tomorrow to have my knee examined again.
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Several hotels have examined ways to provide better access to wheelchair users.
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Students will be examined on all aspects of Russian literature and history.
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The doctor examined her, but didn't find anything wrong.
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The police will examine the weapon for fingerprints.
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The video shows women how to examine their breasts for cancer.
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To save time, students will be examined in groups of three.
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When the police examined the gun, they found Wright's fingerprints on it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As this is the case, part of the research will examine various experimental techniques used previously in studies on word recognition.
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Current work in neural networks is examining ways to reduce the size of the training set required.
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He looked, he thought as he examined himself in the mirror, more than usually hideous.
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Other reasons for depopulation were also examined during this period.
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The body was thoroughly examined by physicians, who declared that no chemicals had been used to preserve it.
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The study will also evaluate the assessment procedures in use and examine their impact on children and on the school more generally.
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This is seen by examining the function W1 which, according to the arguments given above, predicts the presence of oscillations.
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Thursday, Vacco announced a new statewide commission to examine ways of improving the quality of care for the dying.