adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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Governments should aim to make their policy instruments as predictable as possible soas to minimize confusion and hence undesirable fluctuations in output.
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The review: Vitale sightings at this time of the year are as predictable as receiving fruitcake at Christmas.
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The last round can therefore be written off as predictable .
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The effect of chronic alcohol abuse on gastric acid secretion is not as predictable .
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According to current theories, all of this is entirely predictable , depending solely upon the distance the Earth is from the Sun.
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The amount of delegation that occurs is thus highly variable and seldom entirely predictable .
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The reasons are, of course, entirely predictable .
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The development of alliances Neither bloc was monolithic nor entirely predictable at the outset.
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The fact that there was resistance to these proposals was entirely predictable .
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Where such chains exist, an apparently random journey through a network becomes a fairly predictable matter.
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Some people respond to the cycle of failure and depression in fairly predictable ways.
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He was fairly predictable except in one important respect.
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The Panthers' offense is fairly predictable , and the 49ers spent the offseason studying their defense.
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That was all fairly predictable , and unlikely to prove of lasting damage.
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He began his speech in fairly predictable , George Bush style, slow and a bit boring.
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Here no language is presented in the programme, but the situations mimed are ones where the language would be fairly predictable .
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Economic perceptions were fairly predictable in the Pre-Campaign Wave and became more so towards the end of the campaign.
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In one condition, the target word was highly predictable from the context.
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In both cases, the results are at first glance highly predictable .
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Their movements are therefore highly predictable , which gives tidal power a distinct advantage over many other renewable energy forms.
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The timing of showers is highly predictable: from year to year meteor showers occur on the same dates.
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Everyday experience is generally highly predictable and so rarely offers such surprises.
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For this we need material which provides as much visual support as possible and situations where the language is highly predictable .
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The harmonic language has become more complex, less predictable , too.
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Chaotic mechanisms could also serve to make a population less predictable to a predator.
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Relative preferences for the Alliance were much less predictable than for Labour or Conservative. 2.
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This means that the performance of human systems tends to be far more variable and less predictable than that of mechanical systems.
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Volatility increased, and the extent as well as the direction of change became less predictable .
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And yet, all of these attempts have only made for a less predictable existence.
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At the time the critics were less predictable .
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His afternoons were much less predictable , and that was also when the bulk of Karen's contact hours were timetabled.
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Perceptions of Labour chances remained more predictable , though they too became rather more homogeneous as the campaign came to an end.
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Moreover, they removed any information from the files that might make their work more predictable .
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Natural yeasts are killed with chemicals, and a more predictable yeast added.
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This is a much more predictable menace, however, at least to those in major league baseball.
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But other environmental changes are more predictable .
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The result should be health care that is more predictable and efficient.
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The big A Corner of Old Paris, 1926 is a more predictable pastel with its calm serenity and attention to detail.
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Sometimes the emphasis on gender politics sounds more predictable or heavy handed.
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The most predictable usefulness ratings were those for PEBs.
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The most predictable compensation is the hyperventilation that occurs in simple metabolic acidosis.
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The Carrera 4 on damp surfaces is probably the fastest and most predictable car in the world.
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The most predictable event in our world is change.
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His criticisms have become so predictable and strongly worded that they are counter-productive.
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But their characters are so mass-produced and their actions so predictable that the whole thing smells like an old cedar chest.
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They use a business language that is so predictable and going out and doing it is not part of the course.
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It was not quite so predictable that he would become one of the most addicted poker players in town.
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It is so predictable as to be almost inevitable.
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The interchange is so predictable that it is almost a ritual.
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It was at once reassuring and depressing to find life's major events so predictable in their repetition.
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His own life had been so sheltered, so steady, so predictable .
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Work bored her - it was too predictable .
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It is too predictable , too easy to draw up, too safe.
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Resolute Of late they have simply become too predictable when seeking the back of the net.
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Then again, perhaps a scaled down 5-series would have been too predictable .
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There is fun to be had in Ferguson's dismantling of illusions, but sometimes the candidates for dismissal are too predictable .
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In these circumstances, the conclusions of the Committee were all too predictable .
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When this point is reached, currency values have to change in a very predictable manner.
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What sets these patients off is often something very predictable .
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This is becoming a very predictable recommendation.
■ NOUN
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Nevertheless, the artificial fluoridation of a community water supply does have certain predictable consequences .
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Hoe many of us could 7 survive for long without some predictable pattern or regularity in our lives?
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It was another violent shift in a life and a career which never had an even, an easy or predictable pattern .
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But is there a predictable pattern behind their panache?
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Many of these exchanges followed a predictable pattern .
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What happens to those who step outside the predictable patterns and regularities?
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The gender distribution also followed a predictable pattern , with the overwhelming majority, 85 percent, being male.
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The passengers drifted in from their rooms and the dome car and fell into by now predictable patterns of seating.
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I noted in chapter 1 that the contemporary evidence suggests predictable patterns of the flow of support between generations.
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The whole effect is as if an aftermarket body-kit specialist has had a go at embellishing a 911, with the predictable result .
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This organized feeding of the media produced predictable results .
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The violence on May Day was the direct and predictable result of the absence of boundaries and the abdication of responsibility.
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Louis and New Orleans are all starting over this season with new coaches, with predictable results .
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We now know that scientific management had a predictable result .
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Most disaster aid will continue to go to road building, housing and relocating people out of harm's predictable way .
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Some people respond to the cycle of failure and depression in fairly predictable ways .
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As he varied the position of the food source, the dance varied in a predictable way .
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The toddlers react to a visitor in predictable ways .
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Cooking huge meals was another predictable way she had of showing love for her family.
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They concluded that people as a whole react to events and to social and economic changes in reasonable and predictable ways .
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According to their particular view of life, individuals always act in an orderly and predictable way .
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And just like individual people, organizations develop predictable ways of responding to challenge and change.
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Bureaucratic control binds individuals through incentives and disincentives to behave in predictable ways .
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Some people respond to the cycle of failure and depression in fairly predictable ways .
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The toddlers react to a visitor in predictable ways .
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They concluded that people as a whole react to events and to social and economic changes in reasonable and predictable ways .
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And just like individual people, organizations develop predictable ways of responding to challenge and change.
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That is, events might not have continued behaving in the regular and predictable ways that could be described by such laws.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Horror movies can be so predictable .
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In the current economic climate it is fairly predictable that unemployment will continue to rise.
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My dad's so predictable - every evening he comes home, has two beers, and falls asleep in front of the TV.
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The drug is usually effective but unfortunately the side effects are not always predictable .
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The movie was completely predictable - I couldn't wait for it to end.
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There are few predictable elements to this conflict -- the only certainty is that the situation will worsen before it gets better.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Atkinson wanted the commands to be geographically predictable , the same place in every application.
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But in actuality, disambiguation is not unprincipled and random; rather, it is usually quite predictable .
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I looked at her, I go, am I that predictable ?
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Norden said the predictable schedule at the Wal-Mart center should be attractive to over-the-road drivers.
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The end twist clicks into place in a satisfying, if slightly predictable , way.
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The notes are sadly predictable , however, in their dogmatism.
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The Panthers' offense is fairly predictable , and the 49ers spent the offseason studying their defense.
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This was predictable , though, looking back at historical evidence relating to a Friday Christmas.