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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a written/oral examination
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For French, there is an oral and a written examination.
an oral exam (= in which you answer questions by speaking )
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I have my French oral exams next week.
an oral test
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The oral test will consist of a conversation of about 10 minutes in German.
oral contraceptive
oral history (= history that is told by speaking and that often consists of personal memories )
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Smith recorded the conversation for oral history.
oral sex
oral surgeon
oral/dental hygiene
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
administration
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After oral administration , mesalazine is extensively acetylated such that N-acetyl-5-ASA is the predominant form found in both plasma and urine.
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With oral administration , the ethanol was exposed to the alcohol dehydrogenase in the subjects' stomachs.
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Antibacterial treatments can take the form of baths, external application to affected areas, injection and oral administration via the food.
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Such a lack of correlation was also observed by Levin after oral administration of 5 µg purified cholera toxin to healthy volunteers.
agreement
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No registration is required, and even a mere oral agreement would suffice at law.
argument
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Microsoft will respond in turn by the end of the month, and oral arguments will be heard in late February.
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The high court heard oral arguments today in a case that, in effect, seeks to throw out the census numbers.
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Following oral argument the Law Lords inevitably take time to consider their opinions.
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During oral arguments before the high court, attorneys for each state will argue that it alone should control the island.
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The construction of a written case demands perhaps even greater skills than the preparation of oral argument .
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All eight justices on the bench for oral arguments had been picked up from their homes by court employees.
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The Appeal Committee will hear oral argument before deciding whether leave should be given.
communication
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You may be shy, but good oral communications are a key business skill.
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The direct experience of oral communication was displaced by the second-hand experience of the written word.
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Accent on lively oral communication but language practice and writing also included.
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Because the authors perceive oral communication to be of great significance in business, they further recommend that: 7.
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This process continues in secondary school, where oral communication remains an essential part in the learning process across the whole curriculum.
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The effectiveness of your oral communication depends on whether your use of language has the desired effect.
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It is prudent to confirm oral communications in writing to ensure that a record of events is available.
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Telephones were the main means of oral communication .
contraceptives
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As with oral contraceptives , the disease then emerges in former users.
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Webb went to a nearby Planned Parenthood office and obtained oral contraceptives .
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Endometriosis was not linked to duration of taking oral contraceptives .
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Its effectiveness in preventing pregnancy is as good or better than oral contraceptives .
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We therefore examined the reasons for stopping oral contraceptives among these women.
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Some oral contraceptives have been banned.
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She had a past history of Crohn's disease which was quiescent and she was taking oral contraceptives .
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The syndrome has been described in association with menstrual irregularities, pregnancy, and the use of oral contraceptives .
copulation
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Browning found there was a lack of corroborating evidence to support the oral copulation offense, according Fox.
culture
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First, the view that oral culture is irrelevant or even hostile to the acquisition of literacy.
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Like our oral culture , our society is atomized, disparate and largely obsessed with trivia.
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At the same time, the complementary role of oral culture is encouraged in a myriad of ways.
evidence
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There will be a series of sessions of oral evidence to the sub-committee - usually once a week.
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The Government almost always gives oral evidence .
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A total of 61 witnesses have been cited, although not all are expected to give oral evidence .
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The justices heard oral evidence and, after a hearing lasting nearly three hours, made the agreed order.
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Many civil law systems find room for oral evidence at the eventual hearing.
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If the time of period that you choose to study allows, you may be able to use oral evidence .
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All age groups will benefit from using oral evidence .
exam
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The navy board was the last in a gauntlet of oral exams .
examination
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The flying test was followed by an intensive oral examination on technical details.
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Practical examinations , assessment during placements and oral examinations may also form part of the overall assessment of a student's capabilities.
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Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V-C said that this could only be achieved by an oral examination of the witnesses.
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If the debtor refuses to attend for oral examination he is liable to be committed to prison for contempt of court.
hearing
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That decision will be made without an oral hearing , and there will be no appeal against refusal.
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Leave to move was given by Otton J. on 15 January 1991 after an oral hearing .
history
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We share interests in oral history , qualitative research and social theory.
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There is another virtue in the oral history approach.
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Hence oral history interviews were typically truncated.
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I will return to the idea of oral history in the next chapter.
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Black oral history died with the old folk.
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This time, oral history might stay in the community from which it has emerged.
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These two studies will employ documentary, intensive interview and oral history techniques.
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An emphasis on oral history remains the bedrock of the plan for which 1 argue in this book.
hygiene
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What are the complications of dehydration, and those of poor oral hygiene ?
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It was aimed at teaching children correct diet, oral hygiene instruction and the importance of visiting the dentist.
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The oral hygiene index was calculated as the sum of the debris and calculus indices.
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The oral hygiene index carried about the same level of increased risk for total mortality as for the incidence of coronary heart disease.
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A unit increase in the oral hygiene index was associated with a 1.12-fold increased risk of coronary heart disease in younger men.
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The biological mechanism by which periodontal disease or poor oral hygiene could lead to coronary heart disease is not clearly established.
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Both periodontal disease and poor oral hygiene showed stronger associations with total mortality than with coronary heart disease.
language
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There are certain precedents for this voice switch in oral language .
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Interestingly, after our children learn to talk, this deliberate support for oral language development stops.
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Education in oral language is context-based and imitative.
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Even sign languages depend on the left brain, just as do oral languages and reading.
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The language in the samples contains syntactic patterns and inter-sentence relationships not found in oral language.
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When they are first learning to talk, we support, watch over, and extend their oral language development.
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Written forms, they argue, enable the user to differentiate such functions in a way less possible in oral language .
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Television, in this sense, is the consummate egalitarian medium of communication, surpassing oral language itself.
method
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A third school which was opened in 1894 was in Birmingham when a day class using oral methods was established.
presentation
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Assessment will be in the form of a personal log and oral presentation .
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As forewarned, I did not win, despite a good oral presentation and the best c.v. of all the candidates.
rehydration
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Behind the relatively simple physiological basis of oral rehydration therapy lurks a hidden danger.
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Efforts at improving oral rehydration solutions have hitherto focused on the role of various substances in improving small bowel absorption.
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Cereal based oral rehydration solutions are significantly better than the standard glucose oral rehydration solutions in the treatment of diarrhoea.
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Similarly, the addition of food to oral rehydration solution further restricts fluid losses and significantly shortens the duration of diarrhoea.
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Patients with diarrhoea were given oral rehydration therapy for 24 hours and then returned to their normal feeds.
surgery
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The money will be used to help patients waiting for operations in orthopaedic, urology, general and oral surgery areas.
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Neither James nor I had the money to cover his oral surgery .
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One day rumor went around town of oral surgery .
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I had oral surgery last night.
testimony
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The 1995 version was the first set of guidelines to include oral testimony from special interest groups and individuals.
tradition
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The study of the author's influence on the oral tradition is called redaction criticism.
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There was a time when law was entirely based on the oral tradition .
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Historians were as willing as hagiographers to use oral tradition .
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Its history has come down to us only through oral traditions , archaeological research and the accounts of occasional outside observers.
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Publicly suppressed since the 1920s, these qualities have only survived through the black economy, or through private family oral traditions .
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But oral tradition is not just a process.
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Its celebrations, dances, prayers, oral tradition , are all part of a present inextricably linked with the past.
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In fact, they obey the conventions of the oral tradition , reducing complex phenomena to single comprehensible causes.
work
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The reason given usually was that oral work was so difficult to do.
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Young children need contact with adults, and need frequent opportunities for oral work .
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These sorts of points could be brought out by oral work , or through role-play.
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Following each passage there are five sections covering comprehension, vocabulary, language practice, oral work and writing exercises.
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The benefits from the oral work fell into three categories.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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oral cancer
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an oral report
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Anglo-Saxon stories and poems were part of a largely oral culture.
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We had a 15-minute oral exam in German.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Discussion Our patient had Crohn's disease: the macroscopic and histological features of the oral and perianal lesions are typical.
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Furthermore, the results of most studies suggest that obese individuals respond less well to oral bile acid treatment than the non-obese.
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He contacted a doctor and was given oral penicillin.
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It is clear that both tobacco and alcohol are risk factors in the development of oral carcinoma.
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Like our oral culture, our society is atomized, disparate and largely obsessed with trivia.
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Such a lack of correlation was also observed by Levin after oral administration of 5 µg purified cholera toxin to healthy volunteers.
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The oral papillae are reduced resembling irregularly arranged, enlarged granules.
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This is perpetuated in modern weaning during the oral stage and finds an equivalent in manic-depressive and paranoid-schizophrenic disorders.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The Academy has this quirk about a plebe having to pass orals before proceeding.
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There are practical assessments, orals and so on.