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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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biblical
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Catholic biblical scholars , theologians and many active lay groups had good reasons to be grateful.
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The existence of sub-sects such as the Zadokites and the Nazareans has generated considerable confusion and uncertainty among biblical scholars .
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His Ark is estimated by biblical scholars to have been four hundred and fifty feet long.
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A page of Herodotus would have been sufficient to put a battalion of biblical scholars out of action.
catholic
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Our question was whether it was easier for Protestant than for Catholic scholars to embrace the new system.
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With difficulty - to judge from the efforts of the Catholic scholar Martin del Rio, who actually addressed the issue.
classical
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Justus Lipsius was the classical scholar who introduced him into the military sphere.
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He has long been famous as a classical scholar , and more recently as a philanthropist.
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But he demanded high standards and as a classical scholar was exasperated by my inability to cope with Latin.
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Elizabeth Carter and Constantia Grierson established themselves as classical scholars .
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Scipio did cry, and classical scholars are therefore entitled to ask how many tears he shed.
distinguished
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There is also a lively series of seminars organised by the Centre and there are frequent visits from distinguished overseas scholars .
eminent
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Masaryk was an eminent liberal scholar who stood out against the Catholic-led anti-semitic hysteria of the 1890s.
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Gordon was probably the most eminent scholar of Nonconformity of his time, with an encyclopaedic knowledge and memory.
great
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This is what foxes the translators, even when they are great scholars and accomplished minor poets like A.E. Housman.
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Her sociological imagination blends ideas from experience and the works of great scholars whose works can be read a hundred times.
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The great scholars also are largely ignored for their craft skills and precise goals in scholarship.
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Rehnquist was also a great scholar and a formidable intellect; no one insisted on this more forcefully than his political enemies.
legal
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A legal scholar of considerable merit, he was a very private man, difficult to get to know and to describe.
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However, legal scholars and noted criminal attorneys have warned against drawing any quick conclusions.
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Both were brilliant legal scholars who advocated the doctrine of judicial restraint.
literary
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He has proved to be an excellent literary scholar .
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He shares his intellectual life with literary scholars rather than the great sociologists.
modern
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No Hellenistic poet or philosopher quoted it, although modern scholars have sometimes deluded themselves on this subject.
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Most modern scholars have trouble with both ideas.
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As early as 1901 L. T. Hobhouse wrote a book entitled Mind in evolution -a work singularly ignored by most modern scholars .
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Such a practice is enough to give some modern scholars apoplexy.
other
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Morelli's method was extended by other scholars , and joined to systematic examination of documents.
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The project will continue to serve as a centre for other scholars working in this field.
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As the author of this publication, my opinion has been sought from time to time by dealers, other scholars and the auction rooms.
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His correspondence was as voluminous as his knowledge, which was willingly shared with other scholars .
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There are, too, certain other ideas that scholars are now examining.
presidential
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The questionnaire was developed with the advice of presidential scholars who study White House-Cabinet relations and the performance of Cabinet officers.
western
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Contact with western scholars increased, as did knowledge of the work being done in the West.
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The more systematic arrangement of the cuneiform symbols was largely the creation of Western scholars .
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The domination of the liberal view was reflected in the relatively narrow range of sources on which western scholars worked.
young
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Having completed his education, the young scholar then became a that is, a candidate for office.
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In their openness and vitality the students kindled in the young scholar an overwhelming sense of devotion to the institution.
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Gordon was also explaining why he had taken a job that sensible, younger scholars had declined.
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As young scholars progress through graduate study, they acquire more than knowledge and method: Strong allegiances are formed.
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lead
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Secondly, and crucially, it is not sophisticated exegesis that leads scholars to disbelieve in devils.
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Strauss's books provoked furious condemnations and led scholars to rebut his views in their own works.
read
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Ye wouldn't believe it, me that reads Playto like a scholar .
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She will come back to laugh and read me books of scholars and hard-working sons.
study
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Likewise, important theological issues can and should be studied by communication scholars , such as how faith is communicated.
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Cooley seemed to insist that scholars should know from experience what they are studying .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a Rhodes scholar
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Biblical scholars
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For quite a long time, scholars have attempted to discover exactly what effects television has on our young.
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Her husband, Calvin Stowe, was a minister and scholar .
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However, legal scholars and noted criminal attorneys have warned against drawing any quick conclusions.
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Later scholars contented themselves with trying to find an abstract basis on which gender might turn out to be logical after all.
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Other scholars, however, believed that the effects of the Thera eruption would have been widely felt.
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Still, the Astropath would remember, and some scholar on the Governor's staff might construe the meaning.
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The booklet provides full translations, and an excellent introduction by the doyen of Handel scholars, Winton Dean.
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While I hold these scholars and practitioners in the highest regard, I have not relied exclusively on their work.