adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a historical drama (= about events in the past )
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She starred in a historical drama about Marie Antoinette.
a historical overview
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The book gives a historical overview of the revolution.
a historical perspective
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It is important to have a historical perspective when considering these changes.
a historical/scientific fact
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This was presented as a historical fact when it was just an opinion.
detective/romantic/historical etc novel
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a newly published science fiction novel
historical records
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Using historical records, we have produced an image of the temple.
historical research
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This is a fascinating piece of historical research.
historical/financial/scientific etc data
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My research involves analyzing the historical data.
historical/sociological/scientific etc writing
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Much historical writing today looks at the lives of ordinary people, as well as at the rich and powerful.
political/social/historical etc significance
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The political significance of this change should not be underestimated.
sth’s historical/geographical/political etc origins
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This type of story has its historical origins in eighteenth century gothic novels.
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the geographical origins of the plant
the social/political/historical etc context
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You often need to understand the cultural context of jokes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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account
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It is very convenient, for the presentation of historical accounts , when a specific date can be identified as a watershed.
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If I read an historical account about a remote haunt, his name appears.
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None the less, one can get some useful mileage out of the 1960s surveys, before moving on to an historical account .
analysis
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His historical analysis of the problem has proved even more influential than his own philosophical attempts to respond to it.
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There is virtually no reporting and only the crudest sort of historical analysis .
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At their best your notes can stimulate historical analysis , clarity of thought, and personal interest.
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Using a historical analysis , Nehring and Van lest provide a rather gloomy set of forecasts.
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But rigorous historical analysis is not Kapuscinski's forte.
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Methods employed will include historical analysis , postal survey, interviews, international comparison and a workshop directed at assessing future needs.
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For Weber it was a matter for social and historical analysis to discover the real basis of inequality in a particular society.
background
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The flock receives virtually no historical background from its shepherd - who is believed to be the definitive authority on such matters.
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Some theological and historical background is necessary before examining the present acclamations of the Roman mass.
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Howard Carter's own sketches, excavation notes, photographs, diaries and letters provide the historical background to the finds.
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His many references to the Kingdom recorded in the Gospels must be seen against this historical background and contemporary context.
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The historical background provided in this chapter helps us understand some of these diagnoses as well as some of the prescriptions.
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It is crucial to understand the historical background .
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As a preliminary to this, it is necessary to describe something of the historical background to interwar West Ham.
change
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It has to be reinserted into questions of historical change and of the character of the general social order.
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Any fundamental historical changes like those wrought during the Agricultural Revolution involve both gain and loss.
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Stereotypes, moreover, are subject to historical change and geographical variation and salience.
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Henceforth the whole cosmos or at least the whole solar system must be conceived as a process of constant historical change .
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I shall consider briefly how these historical changes have affected patterns of support between family members.
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Analysis based on historical changes should take account of this fact.
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Abundant evidence of ambivalence between ascriptive and associative use is to be found in examples of historical change .
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We shall turn to the dimensions of historical change in our next chapter.
circumstances
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They suggest that sociological perspectives are shaped more by historical circumstances than by objective views of the reality of social life.
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Force of historical circumstances had dramatically reunited two friends temporarily disunited as a consequence of Cold War expediency.
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Of course, only one set of historical circumstances , from all the infinite potentialities, was to emerge.
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The underlying cultural patterns anthropologists seek means the implications offered by changing historical circumstances are given insufficient attention.
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A particular set of social alliances and historical circumstances led to this specific version of nationalism.
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Western Christians, however, took longer to reach this stage in their development than other traditions because of their peculiar historical circumstances .
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According to Weber the city's real social and political significance was limited to the particular historical circumstances of the mediaeval period.
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The Chicago School work, Castells argued, at best offered good empirical studies of a very specific set of historical circumstances .
context
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John Ridd's sense of honour is practical as well as idealistic and his motives are relevant outside their historical context .
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Each at the cutting edge of possibility within its own historical context , each a breakthrough in the standards of its day.
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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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Finally, the historical context was different.
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They don't think in any sort of ... of historical context .
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Introduction - which places the work in a historical context and explains why it was thought important and worthwhile. 3.
cost
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Our historical cost loss of £xxx million was recorded after stock holding losses of £xxx million.
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The original cost is an historical cost and is therefore an irrelevant sunk cost.
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As in the previous example, the historical cost is irrelevant.
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Accounting Principles a. The accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention.
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Land and buildings included at cost or valuation would have been stated on an historical cost basis at: 10.
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The net book value of Banner's leasehold properties comes to £1.82m; the historical cost is £2.054m.
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The Accounts have been prepared in accordance with applicable accounting standards and under the historical cost accounting rules supplemented by revaluation of certain properties.
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Should they be recorded at the original historical cost , or should they be recorded at the current replacement cost?
data
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The collection of historical data on natural hazards is important since it is clear that their spatial pattern varies through time.
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Preparing both training and test input files will not depend on historical data sets, which are usually controlled by some one else.
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Some well-informed practitioners are highly sceptical of the reliability of corporate betas based on historical data .
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This is the way we receive the historical data sheets.
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In addition to the specific limitations, there is the general caution which should be exercised in using historical data to document social change.
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Neural nets can learn rule structures and patterns on their own from historical data or through experience.
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Much of the historical data relate to the County Borough area.
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We continue in this manner, using all but 20 percent of the historical data .
development
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However, their historical development as nations has differed considerably.
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Whether the fundamental equations of physics are timeless or the product of a historical development is not known.
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Thus Marx's model of historical development was in many respects only a sketch which left many problems unresolved.
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For the duchy of Savoy the reign of Victor Amadeus marks a critical period of historical development .
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The changes in the ways in which these national economies are regulated account for their historical development .
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And what historical developments have created, they can also destroy.
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It was born and grew as the result of a certain set of specific historical developments .
document
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The Gospels, as we have said before, are unreliable as historical documents .
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What really adds depth to this documentary, though, is its status as a poignant historical document .
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Irrespective of their original function, these historical documents now provide us with many fascinating insights into the way we were.
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It's an important historical document .
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In approaching any historical document there should be a progression from lower order to higher order thinking.
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However, historical documents are not always true records of the past.
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Such mistakes are easily made; the point is that one should not treat any historical document as gospel.
event
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What I wish to indicate here is the complex issues involved in establishing what to call historical events .
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Critical assessment of long held beliefs is the first step to new interpretation of historical events and other so called scientific truths.
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Historical experience is partial because of the essential arbitrariness involved in distinguishing one historical event from another.
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It makes extensive use of mock trials, simulations, and role-playing to reconstruct historical events .
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Where evidence is thin, individual men seem to stand out heroically, taking decisions which drastically and simply shape historical events .
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For teen-agers, too, this is an excellent introduction to the historical events .
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As well as important historical events that helped to shape the town, the walks show how people lived, worked and enjoyed themselves.
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The program re-created various historical events complete with conversations no one had ever heard.
evidence
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This early state was not constructed from proper historical evidence of any kind.
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Analysts pointed out that there is little historical evidence to support this theory.
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However, while there is no proof, there is ample historical evidence to support many balance-of-power propositions.
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C., but biblical and historical evidence indicates that he actually was born several years earlier.
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This was predictable, though, looking back at historical evidence relating to a Friday Christmas.
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It is important to understand the problematic nature of historical evidence , its advantages and failings, its certainties and its contentions.
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With ample historical evidence on their side, the expansionists replied that visibility was a tested means of swelling research budgets.
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This is because popular photography is increasingly used as social-historical evidence .
experience
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It noted the many differences in historical experience , in values and in interests.
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This is supposed to emulate the historical experience of already industrialised countries.
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The inclusion or exclusion of information is decided by our historical experience which is gained by reading, discussion and thought.
fact
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The historical facts on this point might be disputed but it was so much easier to eat this way.
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This book will delight readers who crave an overabundance of historical fact .
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I said at the beginning of the book that 50 percent was documented historical fact .
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Others want to keep him in action where he is, a historical fact and tourist come-on.
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It is based on real people, genuine exhibits and historical facts .
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Again we find a mystery of distortions, both of the psyche, and of the historical facts of Cretan religious practice.
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Some were based on historical fact - L'Incoronazione di Poppea, Giulio Cesare - but most were mythological.
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An attempt to give equal coverage to all years would result in a rather useless chronology that provides isolated historical facts .
figures
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The explanation for this apparent paradox is provided by the distinction between the subjective and the objective role of historical figures .
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These historical figures are combined with invented characters.
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Also, no one has explained how basing contracts on historical figures allows for the changes in Working Families Tax Credit.
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The slope of the line is specific to the product and the production organization and is arrived at from historical figures .
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The graph restates all the historical figures on the new basis.
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Magnus the Pious is one of the most famous historical figures in the Empire and one of its greatest Emperors.
information
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Do you use your notes for developing your historical understanding as well as for recording historical information ? 4.
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A great deal of that historical information was conveniently stored at the University of Edinburgh, three hundred miles northwest of Cambridge.
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In a heated market, invariably the value placed on the hotel would tend to be higher than historical information .
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Players can choose from among a variety of ancient civilizations, and the software provides detailed historical information about each.
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To show similarity and difference in historical information .
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Remember that you are reading not only for historical information but also to increase your historical understanding.
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In addition historical information about the current status as well as the automatic processes applied to the text are contained in the history flag fields.
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The more you practise the better you will become at selecting historical information to suit firstly your essay and secondly your argument.
interest
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Apart from historical interest , Geireann is also of great interest to the angler, offering the best of all worlds.
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And she had said she wanted to see places of historical interest .
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Altogether it has three hundred buildings listed as being of architectural and historical interest .
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It is precisely this capacity for renewed interpretation that makes literature of more than simply historical interest .
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Consideration was also given to ways of ensuring that the archaeological and historical interests of the Park are fully safeguarded.
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Only 12 percent believed that roads through sites of natural beauty or historical interest should be built as planned.
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He is in fact a figure of considerable historical interest .
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It remains a place of much historical interest .
materialism
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For by far the greater part, the aesthetic is bracketed in the name of a robust historical materialism .
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None the less, three views consistent with historical materialism can be found in diverse works by Marx and Engels.
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In this respect Bukharin's grasp and use of historical materialism was superior to that of Preobrazhensky.
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In this basic sense both historical materialism and Marxist political economy are undeniably structuralist.
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But a tame aesthetic is no friend of historical materialism .
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Implicit in this historical materialism is a view of man and an explanation of the human condition.
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An unpredictable aesthetic, it could be said, is a requirement of an historical materialism adequate to its political task.
moment
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What needs to be stressed at this point is that this evolution is rooted in a very specific historical moment of production.
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The precise historical moment is unimportant here.
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It is accomplished though of small importance, very much of its historical moment .
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Margarett was also a creature of her historical moment .
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The mission was a spectacular success full of historical moments .
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For most political systems at a given historical moment ?
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They are the product of the historical moment .
novel
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Tolstoy, Hemingway and Hardy, thrillers and spy stories, historical novels , light romances.
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Many readers of Historical Romances also read historical novels , broadening the field of selection immensely.
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Tony Ballard was a painter and his wife, Zelah, wrote historical novels .
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The Gylbys' story reads like a historical novel .
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The reverse is also true; those who prefer historical novels may also enjoy some Historical Romances.
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The distinction between the Romantic Historical and the straight historical novel is a fuzzy one at best.
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Some have said that historical novels have more history and Romantic Historicals have more romance.
period
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The segregation of departments according to media, rather than along historical periods , has always been a hallmark of the Louvre.
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Acceptance of the workers states as here to stay for the next historical period .
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Over the long historical period since the Industrial Revolution, the focus of industrial development has shifted a number of times.
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During the historical period East Prussian amber was considered sufficiently valuable to be declared Crown property, its exploitation subject to licence.
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Boas had objected that one could not define historical periods as one defines animal species.
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Cultures and historical periods differ greatly in their concepts of time and the continuity of life.
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Wandering through the vibrant streets of Rome, one is constantly reminded of the widely differing historical periods .
perspective
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We begin with three tables that provide some historical perspective .
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He would offer nonstop commentary on the action, as well as a rare historical perspective .
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I want to defend a radically different picture, which takes a much broader historical perspective .
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But the work these performers did early in their careers is more interesting from a historical perspective than a musical one.
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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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First of all, the problem must be brought into historical perspective .
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What should be a harrowing 90 minutes in hell ends up another tedious tourist nightmare devoid of historical perspective .
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The result is deeply layered, complex works tracing that evolution in its historical perspective .
process
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In the liberal view, the historical process is altogether too rich and complex to be reduced to class struggle.
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This cyclical view of the historical process differs from that of modern Western man in a most fundamental manner.
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Similarly, a historian will make use of statistical techniques to give objective substance to intuitively sensed historical processes or trends.
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Modernity is a historical process that began in the eighteenth century with the philosophical Enlightenment.
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The historical process is therefore likely to be more like a shifting see-saw as the balance of development switches between different regions.
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Like others before and after him who were influenced by Hegel, Feuerbach understands religion in the framework of an historical process .
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This historical process involves three principal stages: 1.
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Political organization represents a more or less autonomous factor in the historical process .
reason
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It is important to note that, for historical reasons , the tort is committed against possession and not ownership of land.
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There were both geographical and historical reasons for this exodus towards the West.
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For a variety of historical reasons , initial development occurs in some places and not in others.
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But the antagonism was real and deep; and here too there are historical reasons .
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For historical reasons , to which many hon. Members have referred, the 1908 Act has a lower minimum.
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Non-standard dialects have the potential to be so developed, but for social and historical reasons they have not been.
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Beyond electoral matters, there was growing belief that, for long-term sociological and historical reasons , Labour was in terminal decline.
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They found that 40% of highly cited papers were cited for historical reasons , but 60% were still actively being used.
record
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All the historical records have gone up in flames.
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What the historical record shows is that people are not insects blindly following some genetic script.
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I am particularly grateful for his generous help with photographs, historical records and advice.
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It is nevertheless possible to make deductions about stages of language before historical records .
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Diagnoses are based on evidence accumulated about failure modes, operator observations of symptoms and historical records .
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The historical record is thin for most of the other black statesman as well.
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I have no desire to rake over the past but we should have the right to refer to matters of historical record .
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Brackley itself produced rather few people who impressed themselves on the historical record .
research
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Many staff have interests in the application of social science theories and methods in historical research .
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While based upon an extensive data base and significant historical research , this Rand report has been criticized as being too pessimistic.
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Labour history too has developed into a recognizable historical research area and women's history is following suit.
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The former I conceive as the application of social science methodology to historical research .
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This is an extraordinary situation, perhaps unique in the entire spectrum of modern historical research .
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Model-making, drawing, scientific testing of materials and further historical research .
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Such catalogues include accounts of relevant historical research , and may cause new original historical work to be done.
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Along with excellent historical research , the benefits of science and technology to society were clearly demonstrated.
significance
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When he collaborated directly with her in opera the result was of historical significance .
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Yet something happened, whether or not the perpetrators and participants were aware of its historical significance .
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The fact that in many societies all three are illegal does not mean that they have a similar social or historical significance .
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The moment was one of unique historical significance .
site
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Museums, historic buildings and historical sites and places of historic interest are key resources for history teaching.
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What a natural extension it would be to take Brady to visit historical sites related to those dolls and their historical eras!
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Interspersed with the lessons will be visits to historical sites in Britain and abroad.
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The centre is ideally located within easy reach of many historical sites and venues for practical and outdoor activities.
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Frequently the theatre-in-education group is associated with a historical site , although their workshops can stand alone and take place in school.
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These workshops are particularly valuable on a historical site that may be indistinct, puzzling and confusing, or extremely complicated.
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A visit to a historical site may be enhanced by carrying out artwork or creative writing or drama work.
source
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Finds can also be dated from historical sources .
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His importance as a historical source is considerable.
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Even they found access to many important historical sources difficult or impossible.
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A good review of historical sources of selection bias.
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In the second year, students take a unit on historical sources , methods and interpretations.
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An implicit tenet of museum life is that the original object is the ultimate historical source .
study
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Finally, is the Liberal confidence in its historical study justified?
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Why do there need to be so many historical studies ?
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Historie to history as studied by the means and methods of historical study.
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There is no doubt that Angelica Kauffman's work offers a large and varied body of materials for feminist cultural and historical study .
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Third, all purely historical study by its very nature can offer only provisional results.
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From this point of view, the resulting surveys are sometimes like historical studies .
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In recent years there have been three important historical studies of information in business and large-scale organisations.
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But generally these researches have been regarded as a branch of historical studies , suitably only for professed historians.
time
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A further complication is the possibility of secular drift, i.e. prevalence changing with the passage of historical time .
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The Creation is followed by an indefinite future within historical time .
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The actual historical time when that momentous dawn could be said to have occurred is unknown as an historical fact.
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Just as there is not one mandatory plot type, neither is there a preferred historical time period.
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Grand narrative, whether we recognise it or not, provides us with our markers of historical time and space.
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The movies kind of represent the historical times .
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This again reflects the influence of historical time .
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In schematic form: The arrows indicate an order of determination which is supposed to operate on a long historical time scale.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the Historical Library in Springfield
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The legend of John Henry is based on a real, historical figure.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although sparsely populated, the country offers foreign travelers everything from historical monuments and castles to authentic saunas and high-tech industry.
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But the historical odds will be long.
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I said at the beginning of the book that 50 percent was documented historical fact.
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In approaching any historical document there should be a progression from lower order to higher order thinking.
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Other reactionary politicians vie to appropriate historical symbols of pre-communist antiquity.
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The structure and relationships of the contemporary organs of government can be understood only in historical context.