noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
key
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The schedule for these standard interviews will be piloted by extended semi-structured interviews with shop stewards and key management informants .
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The principal investigators will be responsible for interviewing key informants about the way the system has been modified in recent years.
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Here, a combination of key informant and snowball sampling was used.
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From a key informant familiar with the dementia sufferer and his or her home circumstances.
■ VERB
use
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For these reasons, access to the communities was obtained through suitable intermediaries, who were not used as informants .
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Scull is using jailhouse informants to testify that Wooten confessed to them.
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In the past the Commission has used informants to good effect.
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And they have taken the controversial step of using undercover informants inside the antiabortion movement.
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Here, a combination of key informant and snowball sampling was used .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Working as an informant , Johnson provided the FBI with details on the Mafia's criminal activities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Betty Bell was the chief informant about Harold Shoosmith for she had been engaged for three mornings and three evenings a week.
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In the interview, it is stressed that the informant should direct the discussion because the ethnographer becomes the learner.
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It is also noticeable that slightly fewer men than women informants reveal any significant memory.
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Key informants in universities and government agencies provided assistance in locating and gaining access to the relevant documents.
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Provenzano is suspected of having informants at senior levels, as well as friends among Sicily's left-wing politicians.
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The informant showed gun crates marked with the names of Norinco and Poly Technologies to an undercover agent.
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The establishment of personal relationships was not as crucial during the study of the known sector where informants had been randomly sampled.
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The schedule for these standard interviews will be piloted by extended semi-structured interviews with shop stewards and key management informants.