noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
basic
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The basic premise is that they think they know better than anyone else.
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This basic premise also dictated Edward's policy elsewhere.
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The basic premise of this approach is so startlingly simple that it is rather difficult to explain how damaging it actually is.
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The basic premise of spiritual direction is that in order to grow we need each other.
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Assertiveness Training Assertiveness skills start from a basic premise - that we all have certain rights.
central
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Freire's central premise is that education is not neutral.
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After all, this has been a central premise of this chapter.
false
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Fortunately, it is based on a false premise .
■ VERB
accept
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Though I was in no danger of accepting his premise , the effect of his tirade was impressive.
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I have come to accept Joe AliTs premise that not a single species is unaffected by the rot taking place.
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The model of the post-heroic leader that we discussed earlier is certainly based upon the premise that individuals will respond to encouragement.
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Shamanism is based on the premise that neither 227 human beings nor nature itself hold the ultimate power in the universe.
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Process or expectancy theories of motivation are based on the premise that people are motivated by the expected outcomes of their actions.
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The present research is based on the premise that family style of emotional expression is a key factor in this respect.
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His entire professional career had been based on that premise .
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This ongoing professional development is based on the fundamental premise that solutions and strategies lie in teachers' own expertise and experience.
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Fortunately, it is based on a false premise .
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Art-marketing is based on this premise .
start
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He starts with the premise that, in many activities, safety is impossible.
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I started with a premise that was open to finding a little, a bit more or some very bad stuff.
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This section too starts with a premise , which is that individual pupils are active participants in their own education.
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Statement C starts from the same premise , but is an even more explicit version of a teleology of the oppressed.
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Worse, C3 tends to start from the premise that original convictions were correct.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be premised on/upon sth
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However, this is premised upon a notion of their independence.
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It was premised on a qualitative shift in the intellectual organization of medical concepts.
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This is premised on modern of visual communication which draw upon linguistics and, in particular, psychoanalysis.
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Traditional economic analysis is premised on the assumption that more is better.
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Ullman's work is premised on the phenomenological fact that human beings can experience apparent movement in several different ways.
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Where modernist consumption was premised on mass forms, postmodernist consumption is premised on niches.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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American justice works on the premise that an accused person is innocent until they are proved guilty.
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I believe his whole argument is based on a false premise .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But so far, the first two episodes have been bogged down with setting up the premise and too many location scenes.
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The basic premise is that they think they know better than anyone else.
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The first premise is that humans are wanting animals whose needs depend on what they already have.
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The important thing is the premise , the theoretical first step.
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The Prime Minister I agree with the premise underlying my hon. Friend's question.
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The underlying premise of the global market ideology is that every country will earn most of its income from exports.
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This section too starts with a premise , which is that individual pupils are active participants in their own education.