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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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Let us see then whether realism can offer a more fruitful alternative.
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His critical judgments about quantitative sociology also are not sufficiently illuminating at a craft level to make quantitative analysis more fruitful .
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Aren't there cheaper and more fruitful ways of promoting harmony between nations?
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The contact with Corso proved more fruitful .
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Basic needs theorists argue that it is more fruitful to stress results rather than inputs in order to measure the adequacy of development policy.
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It may be more fruitful to create a utopian, and as yet unrealized, vision to hold before our eyes.
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The assumption is that it is relatively more fruitful to regard our conformity, rather than our criminality, as problematic.
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The following are a few ideas that can help to make your practice more fruitful .
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The most fruitful studies have been based on calculated energy levels.
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It was certainly one of the most fruitful and continuous debates that the West has ever known.
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You know that the best, most fruitful part of your life is over.
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McQueen's most fruitful period in films had been in the sixties while Dustin was still unknown outside off-Broadway.
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The next two years were probably the most fruitful of Scott's public life.
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At Stratford the Royal Shakespeare Company enjoyed its most fruitful period in years.
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The most fruitful procedure might well be to seek lines of explanation other than those associated with the notion of prestige.
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Cohn Tudge: Thus began one of the most fruitful working partnerships in modern biology.
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This therefore appears to be a very fruitful area for research, with obvious implications for individuals and for the organization.
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And his thought was very fruitful: fore-shadowing differential and integral calculus, he put forward the useful idea of a limit.
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The cottages had proved to be a very fruitful searching ground.
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Searching for the elusive final straw is not a very fruitful activity.
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Looked at from this perspective, however, the distinction itself is not a very fruitful one.
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This wide variety of intervals is an important factor in making this series very fruitful in melodic potential.
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Glasgow has developed a very fruitful relationship with one of the world's most gifted directors.
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Relations with the LEAs are also a fruitful source of tensions and confusions at the moment.
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Annual reports and accounts were a fruitful source of information.
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What did provide a fruitful source of conversation at dinner was the table setting.
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Architecture Coins are one of our most fruitful sources of information for the appearance of ancient buildings.
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Descriptive memoirs exist for many of the maps and these can be a fruitful source of information on mineral occurrences.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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If the talks prove fruitful , the working groups will start bargaining in May.
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Mr. Baker and I have had a very fruitful discussion.
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So far, the investigation has not been very fruitful .
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This was one of the most fruitful debates of the conference.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And how fruitful it was - our valley.
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Basic needs theorists argue that it is more fruitful to stress results rather than inputs in order to measure the adequacy of development policy.
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His critical judgments about quantitative sociology also are not sufficiently illuminating at a craft level to make quantitative analysis more fruitful .
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Hopefully the book will help you not only to identify the polarities but also to see the means of fruitful reconciliation.
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It was certainly one of the most fruitful and continuous debates that the West has ever known.
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Lacking its tumultuously fruitful influence, our mental lives would be almost as barren as the moon.
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This process is known as elaboration, and involves a fruitful interaction between theory and data.