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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a biology/history etc test
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On Monday we had a French test.
a family history
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Is there a family history of heart disease?
a French/geography/history etc class
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I have a history class at nine o'clock today.
a history of failure (= a situation in which someone has failed many times in the past )
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Some children have a history of failure at school.
a history/chemistry/law etc degree
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I decided to do a Maths degree.
a history/physics/maths etc lesson
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I've got a history lesson this afternoon.
a travel/history/sports etc writer (= someone who writes articles and books about a subject )
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This region of Europe does not excite many travel writers.
an English/history/politics etc essay
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He got a good grade for his English essay.
biology/history/French etc homework
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The science homework was really hard.
biology/history/French etc professor
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Who’s your chemistry professor?
case history
colourful history/past/career/life
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Charlie Chaplin had a long and colorful career.
go down in history (= be remembered for many years )
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The carnival will go down in history as one of the best ever.
language/history/science etc teacher
life history
local history
long history
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a long history of success
medical history (= the illnesses they have had )
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a patient’s medical history
modern history British English (= recent history, as a subject of study )
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a degree in modern history
natural history
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the Natural History Museum
secured...place in history
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Redgrave won his third Olympic gold medal, and secured his place in history .
study law/business/history etc (= study a subject at a school or university )
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Anna is studying French literature.
teach (sb) English/mathematics/history etc
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He taught geography at the local secondary school.
the Biology/Maths/History etc department (= in a university or school )
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the Chemistry department at Southampton University
the course of history/sb’s life etc
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Changing conditions shape the course of evolution.
the history of mankind
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one of the most important events in the history of mankind
the science/maths/history etc curriculum
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The English curriculum is divided into Language and Literature.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ancient
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Its very imperfection is powerful testimony of its ancient history , a history of step-by-step change rather than of deliberate design.
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I could see my father strumming the guitar, plucking our ancient , mournful history from the hollowness of its wooden frame.
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For one thing, this is not ancient history .
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But my tale of ancient history was less than a generation old.
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It has been fashionable in the last twenty years to suggest that there was in ancient history a utopian matriarchy.
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The world of Lowry's north seems to be ancient history .
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That, too, seemed like ancient history now.
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He was so beautiful in those days - listen to me, those days, talking like it was all ancient history .
brief
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Their brief histories are shown in Appendix 7.
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But for the first time in its brief , shining history , Apple had reason to worry.
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The first section of his book gives a brief life history supported by a collection of his superb pencil sketches.
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A brief history of Reinberto Lopez AlaIa suggests that it is not a question with a simple answer.
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Indeed, the relatively brief history of information technology has already demonstrated the dangers of even short-term forecasting.
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A brief history prepared by the Education Coalition, a lobbying group, says California began statewide testing in 1962.
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Unlike the previous two, this film attempts to convey the nature of the fighting within a brief history of the war.
early
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Search them out if you wish to increase your understanding of early New Zealand history .
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This feature was particularly emphasized in the early history of the Roman rite.
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It is almost certain that, during the Earth's early history , the planet was a frequent victim of cometary impacts.
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In a sense the Earth was reborn without leaving a trace of its early history .
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Sold to the museum by the New York conservator Mario Modestini, its early history is completely unknown.
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The earliest history of the use of pearls is difficult to establish.
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All the paintings were purchased through Christie's at some point in their early history .
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The luminosity of the Sun in the early history of the Solar System was probably only about 70% of the present value.
economic
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He was reading a book on political and economic history .
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So this is how economic history restarts.
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There are, of course, many links and parallels between economic history and the development of the government and social institutions.
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Early modern history: Political, economic and social history and the history of science.
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Ageing and the elderly; Economic history .
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Social and economic history and demography have a key role in guiding policy-making beyond crisis responses towards fundamental medium- and long-run issues.
human
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This world is his world. Human history is the outworking of his plan.
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Rarely in the annals of human history has any people committed so much of its treasure to such a noble cause.
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The old religions under which people lived for ninety-nine point nine percent of human history have decayed or are irrelevant.
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We also know that recorded human history extends back only some six thousand years.
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In 1937, she had felt she had had enough of the pernicious course of human history .
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Periods of punctuated equilibrium are equally visible in human history .
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There has been nothing like it in human history .
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During most of human history , this fundamental information came most of all from agriculture.
local
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Sources for local history Document sources are indispensible for most local history studies.
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Only a year, more frequently one portion of a year, is given to local history , geography, or law.
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This is not criticism as it is necessary when writing local history to use previous writers.
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So will the lives of other fascinating but lesser-known individuals who together form the fabric of local gay history .
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Nearby is the Heritage Museum of local history and the Wildfowl Trust bird sanctuary.
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Some areas may provide a rich vein of local history which is also well related to a supplementary unit.
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Their specific and local histories , often threatened and repressed, are inserted ` between the lines' of dominant cultural practices.
long
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Incubation has of course a long and reputable history in antiquity.
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The Penguins are in the midst of an eight-game road trip-the longest in franchise history .
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The use of official statistics, for example, has a long history in many of the social sciences.
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Visiting the megaliths, especially the circles, grounds us in the long and mysterious history of humanity.
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Start2 builds on a long history of arms accords and summits between Moscow and Washington.
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This concern about the calibre of councillors has a long history .
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However, the interest of neurophysiologists has a considerably longer history .
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There is, after all, a long history of wife-beating and of genocide, but that does not make them excusable.
medical
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They are expected to take a full medical history and perform a physical examination.
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Between us we had even hired a video so that we could record this minor miracle of medical history for posterity.
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The past medical history was otherwise unremarkable.
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Flett, an Orcadian, had taken medical and natural history degrees at Edinburgh, having studied geology under J. Geikie.
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Here a check is kept on weight; blood and urine tests are carried out; and relevant medical history is noted.
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His new employer can get his medical history from the insurance company, and his credit history from a credit bureau.
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Perhaps most importantly, the computer interface greatly facilitates both obtaining and recording a complete medical history .
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Comorbidity was categorised as mild, moderate, or severe by a physician based on the patient's medical history .
modern
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He was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford, where he obtained a second class in modern history in 1911.
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And in 1951 Great Britain, for the first time in modern history , made leprosy a reportable disease.
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He is an extraordinary figure in modern world history , and in William Duiker he has a worthy biographer.
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This may have been the first time in modern history that a painting incited people to such public agitation.
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Early modern history: Political, economic and social history and the history of science.
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The rest is miserable modern history .
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They left Oxford in 1921, with seconds in modern history , and shared a flat in London while establishing parallel careers.
natural
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The historical theme extends to cover local canals, bridges, floods, natural history and archaeology.
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Myth is nothing but natural history , plus human history, in time-disguised and faith-distorted form.
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What is striking about natural history illustrations is sometimes their longevity.
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But more important than these human aspects is the virtually untarnished natural history of the refuge.
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Curiously enough, she had never seen a newt before. Natural history was not her strong point.
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We walked toward the natural history museum.-What happened between you and Jessica, Brice? he asked.
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Her passion for natural history became increasingly fashionable in polite society during the 17605.
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For the rest of the time, we talked only of natural history and local gossip, and got on very well.
political
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It is an approach that has informed political actions and hence the political history of the country.
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Nixon has been subjected to as much psychoanalytic study as any political figure in history .
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Whatever the cause, the solution was to have major consequences in terms of the later political history of the Merovingians.
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Bit by little bit, our talking, our weeping, and our anger added up to an emotional and political history .
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More social history is being taught but examination syllabuses still focus on political and economic history which conventionally excludes women.
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I figure this will either be the shortest political career in history or the job for the rest of my life.
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Again, this is where sculpture is closely aligned to social and political history .
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Morris presents it all as a revelation, a historic breakthrough in political history .
recent
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Cultural predisposition Recognition that cultural pressures on women to diet contribute to anorexia nervosa has had a fairly recent history .
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At this point, Camp David looks like one of the great diplomatic miscalculations of recent history .
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For the 1970s and 1980s generations of graduate embroiderers, a recent history and a widened definition of embroidery/stitch now exists.
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This is where the recent history of law's withdrawal from the regulation of private morality provides a useful perspective.
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Little by little I learned Leslie's recent military history .
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Such ambiguities, of course, are not peculiar to recent history .
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It seems reasonable to suppose that even before 1790 he would have learned to appreciate their attitudes towards recent history .
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Knowledge of recent political history may enable you to correct these generalisations to some extent.
social
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The collection is based on social history .
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The former, sublimely illustrated, describes the social history and psychological underpinnings of our underpinnings.
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Why was evacuation such an important episode in the social history of the Second World War?
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On the economic and social history of the period its influence was also enormous.
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It was one of those moments when we can actually see whole new groups of people just walking into social history .
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Business and labour history; Social history Social historians tend to support the view that industrialisation destroyed the apprenticeship system.
■ NOUN
art
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And that is when it becomes art history .
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A new hierarchy, sustained by art history , will be imposed through the photograph.
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He qualified as an electronics engineer before going to teachers' training college after which he obtained a degree in art history .
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Even students in art history and philosophy are getting hired by management consultants, Sanborn said.
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She specialised in art history and education and her studies took her to Paris and Florence.
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Traditional art history would include Bonnard for his technical innovations and largely marginalise Rodchenko for his politics and photography.
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Hence, interest was slight and sporadic, and the works were not assimilated into mainstream western art history .
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By the postwar period, modernism had become part of art history .
books
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Duval is the one taking aim at the history books , four or more in a row.
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A flick through the history books reveals the story of Atalantas, after whom her club is named.
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Moms have always worked, but it was a big secret left out of the history books .
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The first pictorial record of flowers from a sixteenth-century garden marks the highlight of this sale of travel and natural history books .
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Indeed, the 1996 campaign season is headed for the history books as the most costly in history.
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And with Twickenham hosting the final, the 2001 winners are poised to enter the history books .
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Democrats want a convention for the history books .
case
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Outline case histories will be built up concerning many thousands of individual victims.
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To address such concerns, chapter 3 starts with two case histories from my own leadership experiences.
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A case history will illustrate what I mean.
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However, the so-called case histories which they composed with such artistic aplomb prove nothing.
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They were to figure prominently among the more tragic case histories .
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The network would be trained to associate symptoms and diagnoses from a database of case histories .
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Cathy Troupp was talking to a specialist couple counsellor about this month's case history .
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The system was trained on more than 10, 000 credit case histories .
family
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Bowel cancer About one in ten people with bowel cancer have a family history of the disease.
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Associated vomiting and photophobia. 4. Family history of migraine.
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I should like to pay tribute to the care with which the justices record the family history and the chronology.
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Is there a family history of tremor?
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Perhaps he should stay with his family history and forget anything else.
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Furthermore, they are unlikely to find their complete family history ready to be downloaded at the click of a mouse.
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He has neglected his duties writing that damned family history and leaving Tim Skerritt to manage the estate.
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Given their family histories , turmoil feels comfortable.
life
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The first section of his book gives a brief life history supported by a collection of his superb pencil sketches.
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The main emphasis of Hume's book is the inter-relationships between nutrition, reproductive performance and life histories of marsupials.
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But events in one's life history could change this.
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The teacher could begin with the child's own brief life history , moving on to the history of their family.
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The third consequence of a bottlenecked life history is a genetic one.
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A good example are the reminiscence and life history projects now active in many areas of the country.
professor
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A military history professor is retiring.
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Actually, Wilson had suffered a series of strokes, starting at age thirty-nine when he was a history professor at Princeton.
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A history professor at Baghdad University, Sadoun Fadil, said people rally around their leader during hard times.
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He was going to bury himself in a library for a few years, then become a history professor .
teacher
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Before turning to the individual arguments for teaching history it would be worthwhile emphasising the professional integrity of history teachers .
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Another teacher who moved me was an assistant principal named Cho, who doubled as a history teacher.
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I had a history teacher in college who was tough and sharp.
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My history teacher , who was a liberal, joked about such attitudes and I followed her cue.
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As a matter of fact, her plan was to become a high-school history teacher .
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Unusually, he is not an investment analyst, but a former history teacher .
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Bill supported the family as a high-school history teacher .
■ VERB
record
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I should like to pay tribute to the care with which the justices record the family history and the chronology.
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These few lucky observers had witnessed the most spectacular meteor shower in recorded history , surpassing even the 1833 Leonids.
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If women criminals are reluctant to publicise their activities, they are also often inaccessible to researchers wanting to record their histories .
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No lunar atmosphere or hydrosphere exists, nor has any existed for its entire span of recorded history .
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Trails of electric light icicles hang from gutters in Miami and Honolulu, where it has never snowed in recorded history .
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It is intended to record history and those who were part of it.
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Within recorded history goose numbers have never been greater.
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When the first Raikas were created in this world, so was my family to record their history .
study
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It goes back more than 200 years and forms an enormous resource for those studying the history of the Commonwealth.
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You study the history of religions, comparative religion, the scriptures of the world, maybe the psychology of religion.
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If it is vocationally disadvantageous to study history at school, it must be vocationally suicidal to study the subject at university.
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What had I really learned from studying history and psychology and philosophy and literature?
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Well, one gets a bit tired of studying ancient history .
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Many overseas students come to study the languages, history , culture and traditions of this country.
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As Figure 1.3 shows, those who study history are eminently trainable for a wide variety of occupations.
teach
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Limbaugh is complaining about the teaching of history .
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Moving from research to teaching history is like moving from one watercourse to another...
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Old people are often a source of fascinating information and opinion about the past that young people are being taught as history !
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For the next few years, Sister Teresa taught geography, history and catechism, and performed several other duties besides.
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My brief was to teach art and history of art to all age groups.
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He had taught history of some kind, although Glover never bothered in forty-five years to find out what kind.
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Some teachers might even choose to teach the entire history syllabus by working backwards from the present.
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I teach history at the high school and junior high school levels.
write
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You see, when you win the National, you write your name into history .
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His name has been written in the history books.
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The history of art, he wrote , is the history of dead-ends transformed into springboards.
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Passing over in silence what the people think of the imam is a priority in that writing of history .
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He has neglected his duties writing that damned family history and leaving Tim Skerritt to manage the estate.
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The redaction critics claim: It is important to realise that the Gospel writers were not writing history as we understand it.
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And how incredibly generous this man was; he seeded friendships that still write the history of the West.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a page in history
ancient history
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Will and I broke up a long time ago - that's ancient history now.
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But my tale of ancient history was less than a generation old.
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For one thing, this is not ancient history.
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He was so beautiful in those days - listen to me, those days, talking like it was all ancient history.
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He was very fond of ancient histories, stories and epics of earlier times and heroes.
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It has been fashionable in the last twenty years to suggest that there was in ancient history a utopian matriarchy.
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Its very imperfection is powerful testimony of its ancient history, a history of step-by-step change rather than of deliberate design.
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That, too, seemed like ancient history now.
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The world of Lowry's north seems to be ancient history.
be steeped in history/tradition/politics etc
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Both are clifftop courses that are steeped in history.
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The area is steeped in history.
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The Hotel has great character and is steeped in history.
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They brought with them a heritage and culture that is steeped in history and literature.
have a checkered history/career/past etc
potted history/biography/version
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Keeping a job file Your employer will have a personnel file containing a potted history of your career with the company.
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Martin's potted history of each railway is certainly sufficiently detailed to whet the appetite enough to free buttocks from armchair Dralon.
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They were farcically satirical potted biographies in sets of two rhyming couplets.
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Woven into these personal accounts are potted histories of disturbing events, ancient and modern.
the march of time/history/progress etc
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At present these are banned, as are crossbows, but will these eventually be admitted with the march of progress?
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But in 1874-not ten years earlier or later-city and nation endured a painful pause in the march of progress.
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Like Franco, Arrese was trying to hold back the march of history.
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New discoveries have opened up all kinds of possibilities for holding back the march of time.
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They succeeded because they brought hope to the losers whom the march of progress had left behind.
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This little community is still in existence, largely untouched by the march of time.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a history of World War II
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a book about the history of the United Nations
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I got an 84 on my history test.
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India has been invaded several times in its history .
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the history of jazz music
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For decompression sickness, your dive history is available in graphic detail for hyperbaric specialists to consult.
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In this most settled and prosperous nation in history the political situation is almost permanently unstable.
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Our history is too full of pain and outrage to want any of it back.
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The history of life, he argued, could have followed all sorts of paths.
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The Moon experienced only a brief period of intense internal activity early in its history .
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What the lie was, I had too little knowledge of history or science to know then.