verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
determine/establish/identify the cause (= discover definitely what it is )
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A team of experts is at the scene of the accident, trying to determine the cause.
easily understood/identified etc
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It’s easily recognised by its bright blue tail feathers.
identify strengths
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The teacher can identify each child's strengths and build on these.
identify/discover a gene (= find a particular gene which is responsible for something )
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Scientists have identified a gene which seems to protect Chinese people from some types of cancer.
positively identified
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The blood was never positively identified as the victim’s.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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A lack of clarity in policy has already been identified as one explanation for discretion.
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Nearly 10 percent of all students were identified as gifted, compared to 8. 4 percent of the work-inhibited population.
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These are composite statements, each taking into account the four factors identified as relating to difficulty.
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We do not think that any particular content in philosophy can be identified as female.
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On detailed assessment of her developmental level and language skills, Maria was identified as showing a marked developmental delay.
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That other sailor was later identified as Jonathan Rushin, a 23-year-old petty officer third class.
clearly
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The majority of LEAs did not accept that a clearly defined technical ability could be clearly identified at the age of eleven.
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Problems can be clearly identified through an audit, and solutions can be found to improve service and nutritional care.
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Sometimes a carer is clearly identified by being a spouse, or already resident in the same house.
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It has clearly identified goals and outcomes that are readily measured.
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The cameras clearly identified the property on the counter and the vendors who produced it.
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Public schools should not teach metaphysics without clearly identifying them as such.
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They are both clearly identified as London-based, as well as apparently disenchanted and/or corrupt.
easily
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The style was international, eclectic, easily identified , but almost impossible to define.
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A chimpanzee is an easy recipient for human projections since humans can easily identify with the emotional expressions of chimpanzees.
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Although section area and orientation differed among the tissue blocks, the epithelium and lamina propria were easily identified .
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The upper level was diagnosed by the columnar-squamous epithelial border, which was always easily identified .
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However it is easily identified by the large black blotch that covers a large proportion of its upper body and dorsal fin.
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Of course, I am more easily identified and more distinctive, if not distinguished, than most authors.
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Many potential purchasers can be easily identified with minimum cost using research.
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This society seemed self-contained; those who felt exploited could easily identify the enemy - the landlord or money lender.
■ NOUN
area
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Documentary research in the technical literature was undertaken to plan interviews and to identify key areas of technological innovation and technical uncertainty.
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The commission did identify 60 areas where the tax code might be simplified.
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This inventory identifies exactly which areas of the client's life are most disrupted by their problems.
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We identified the postcode areas of patients and categorised them into three groups - namely, urban, rural, or mixed.
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This would exclude land of scientific or ecological value and identify large areas where commercial growers could plant forests.
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It identifies areas of existing or potential urban settlement where housing is encouraged.
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At once more flares were identifying the target area and a fair concentration of bombs directed on the aiming point.
body
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We are here with Captain Thiercelin to identify the body of an officer who was killed earlier tonight.
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In Los Mochis, meanwhile, bodies are being exhumed from the mass graves one by one as they are identified .
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She'd paid the mortuary another visit, and this time was able to identify Pet's body .
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Medical examiners are interviewing family members about any unique characteristics to help identify bodies .
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Voice over Mrs Garvey's uncle Richard Moore, who formally identified the bodies , attended the inquest.
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As darkness fell, rescue workers with flashlights began recovering and identifying bodies .
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Rosemary told yesterday how she comforted Ann-Marie after having to identify Suzanne's body .
cause
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He used Pareto analysis to identify the principal cause as a loose loading arm.
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Such studies are often the first integral step toward identifying the cause of an infectious disease outbreak.
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Try to identify any recurrent causes of stress.
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Scientists have attempted for many years to identify a cause for canker sores but have not been successful to date.
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You think an expert on the effects of explosives could identify and locate the cause of the explosion?
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The real progress comes from identifying the cause of the error early and then eliminating the cause early.
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It takes seriously the health and well-being of neighbours and is doing everything possible to help identify the cause of these problems.
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Investigations have so far failed to identify the cause .
factor
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Between 1945 and 1956, many research findings identified other factors which affected the blood pressure.
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To deal with this possibility, you need to identify the factors that might affect voting rates among men and women.
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This was confirmed in one of the survey questions, which identified 10 factors influencing decisions on where to place contracts.
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All the complex factors that make children behave in certain ways will never be simple to identify .
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The marketer must therefore turn his attention to how to identify these factors soas to be able to construct an effective strategy.
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This leads to the establishing of a model which attempts to identify and compare growth factors for the two business groups.
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This information will help to identify factors which shape their perceptions of the language and cultures of the Arab world.
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A comparative approach will identify marketing factors which distinguish successful companies from less successful ones.
group
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And on top of that, you can identify which groups and most likely to discuss something and then Join the group.
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I noticed a caption in my local newspaper the other day, identifying a group of high school cheerleaders.
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We go along with the theory that younger listeners will identify themselves with the group Cancer.
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In other words, the corporatist state identifies a few groups that control major productive resources.
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Fans dress carefully in order to identify themselves within their group .
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The identifying documents defined a group of mostly 40-and 50-year-old men and women from the West.
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A Marxist writer would probably identify this group as the first stirrings of a black petit bourgeoisie.
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Brightly colored sashes tied to sticks as flags identified groups .
issue
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It identifies key issues directly affecting the company and gives advice on strategy or operations.
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His commitment to the transformation of society through identifying and resolving structural issues is very intense.
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In rural areas, with the small stocks identified earlier, the issue of sales can be particularly emotive.
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The difficulty lay not in identifying the issues but in tackling them resolutely.
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At the early planning stage Have you identified the ethical issues which may arise in your research?
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This Strategic Overview has identified key issues to be addressed in future phases.
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It is now time to identify these issues more clearly and see whether it is possible to integrate these different perspectives.
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This research will provide such information and provide a clear picture of current practice, identifying issues raised by this.
need
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The student will learn more effectively through identifying the particular needs and problems of each patient.
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School-based enterprises and service learning projects allow students to identify and address community needs .
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Does it adequately outline assessment procedures which will identify the needs of the deaf child?
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The infant can feel at one with its care-taker because the caretaker identifies with the needs of the infant.
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The purchaser should identify the need for an independent valuation as early as possible to avoid subsequent delay nearer completion.
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Instead, they identify customer needs and motivations.
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The probability of socially disadvantaged children being identified as having special needs is very much greater than in other children.
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Consequently this section deals with identifying the needs that drinking fulfils and developing alternative ways of satisfying those needs.
number
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And they all have that one identifying number with them.
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A structural appraisal of the building identified a number of potentially serious defects which could arise in the event of fire.
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The auctioneer will make eye contact with the bidders, and often will identify the bidder by number or clothing.
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We may identify a number of different reasons for this lack of clarity.
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Unfortunately, many of the identifying numbers have worn off, and drawings have been lost.
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Each band was identified only by a number , and they were marked by adjudicators sitting behind closed doors.
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Recent work has focused on the gastrin acid secretion feedback loop and identified a number of potential pathogenetic pathways.
problem
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The contracting culture should mean greater opportunities for voluntary sector providers, but Mussenden identifies problems .
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But they did identify problems with how jobs had been designed and how people were being managed.
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The first step is identifying your particular problem .
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However for examples 2 and 4, syntactic analysis would not identify any problems , because they are grammatically acceptable.
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Educational plan for in-service education for staff is designed to help correct any identified problems or deficiencies.
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Porter first identifies the problem that will be encountered if one proceeds with portfolio planning without explicit management of these interdependencies.
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Monitoring the time and budget of each chunk allows us to identify problems and take corrective action.
research
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Between 1945 and 1956, many research findings identified other factors which affected the blood pressure.
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So without doubt one of the most important and difficult problems in cancer research is that of identifying the other mutations.
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The problem certainly runs in families, although research hasn't yet identified a genetic basis.
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A five-phased approach begins with desk research , to identify and evaluate recent opinions of the contribution of marketing to corporate success.
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Such research should help us identify which aspects of unemployment are crucial.
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Market research will identify , for example, markets and their characteristics which are suitable for the company to enter.
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Q8 Identify the major steps involved in carrying out a marketing research exercise, briefly identifying the problems associated with each stage.
source
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These are taken-for-granted groupings which assume some form of unity within each category without ever clearly identifying the source of this unity.
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They also help managers who listen well to identify sources of reluctance.
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The reader initially gets the impression that the purpose of the text is to identify Rimbaud's source of inspiration.
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Journalists, sensing something rotten, have focused on describing the odor rather than identifying the source .
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To identify the source of the problem, get familiar with the types of errors.
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For perhaps half a minute we strained to identify the source of the engine noise.
type
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Todd identifies seven basic family types .
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He identified two types or orders of each.
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Stevens identified four types of measurement scales: nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio scales.
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The other fish we caught were the yellowfins, which we had identified as a type of immature tuna.
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He identifies eight role types which refer to the potential contribution in terms of behaviour rather than knowledge or status.
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We identified two different types of albatross, four species of petrel, and a tern.
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It is possible to identify three main types of historical writing - descriptive, narrative and analytical.
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We have thus far identified five types .
■ VERB
ask
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Simply asking staff to identify inappropriately placed patients is obviously potentially subject to bias from several sources.
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He was never asked to identify himself.
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The MiGs had also entered the zone 20 minutes earlier, but fled to safety when asked to identify themselves.
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The married couple, who each received £40,000, have asked not to be identified .
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The third member of the group asked not to be identified .
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Concepts describing health One way of investigating lay beliefs about health is to ask what attributes identify a healthy person.
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In conference, the group was asked to identify items they thought should be included in a checklist of standards.
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Hope Correspondents were asked to identify that which is positive in their situations.
help
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The sleeves aren't continuous but are colour coded to help identify each arch.
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I believe in helping people identify what they can do well and releasing them to do it.
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Here's an exercise to help you identify how you're spending your time now.
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This will help you identify little-word buildup and, eventually, cut little words before you write them.
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The comments that follow are intended to help in learning to identify and reject unusable answers.
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Educational plan for in-service education for staff is designed to help correct any identified problems or deficiencies.
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Semantic analysis may also help by identifying a domain code for content words.
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Using work and play activities, counselors can help children recognize and identify the feelings they express.
seek
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The conference will seek to identify ways in which emerging technology can be more closely geared to end-user needs.
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Our people need to seek out and identify those stories.
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Both documents seek to identify the skills and understandings which their respective subjects should seek to achieve at different stages of schooling.
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Even in the wake of a setback, the healthy organization seeks to identify signs of progress and evidence of innovative thinking.
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In exploring why this should be, this introduction seeks to identify the choices for contemporary reformers.
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The initiative will seek to identify the best examples of environmental management to be used for setting a benchmark for the future.
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It has sought to identify what criteria must be met before any standard fees system could be workable.
try
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She has to try and identify the Brownie making the noise.
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Scientists are still trying to identify the genetic combinations that are responsible for virulence.
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From this analysis it can then try to identify ways in which marketing expenditure can be made more effective in each country.
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Attorneys in workers' compensation cases involving stress often try to identify persons with whom the claimant is having relationships.
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Take enough exercise. Try to identify any recurrent causes of stress.
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Corps investigators were still trying to identify participants in the 1993 incident.
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My purpose here is to try to identify these, hopefully without too much over-simplification or bias.
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Teachers should try to identify criteria such as those mentioned above to guide their selection of content.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After years of research, scientists have identified the virus that is responsible for the disease.
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Can you identify the man who robbed you?
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Dubois was identified by immigration control, and arrested at Kennedy airport.
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Experts are examining the wreckage, but the cause of the accident has not yet been identified.
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Greg had to identify the body of his wife.
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Police hope that a member of the public will be able to identify a man seen acting suspiciously a few hours before the murder took place.
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proposals to identify the fathers of children born to single mothers
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Researchers have identified the substances which can cause allergies.
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Sara identified the man as Kang, a notorious gang leader and drug baron.
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The airline says it will be difficult to identify all the bodies retrieved from the crash.
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The girl, identified as Shelly Barnes, fell from the window when her mother's back was turned.
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The victim identified her attacker in court.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An element of public accountability can also be identified in the recurrent attentions of elected Members of Parliament.
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And both offices have identified the need to pay volunteers something for their work, or lose them altogether.
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Most plants in our aquariums identified as A. crispus are actually hybrids that were produced in nature or under artificial conditions.
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This will help you identify little-word buildup and, eventually, cut little words before you write them.
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Those friends, who were not identified, were invited by Bonin to witness the execution.
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We identified co-operative federalism with concurrent powers as a contrast to competitive federalism and exclusive powers.
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What matters is to identify problems and opportunities.