noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a huge range/variety/selection etc
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a huge range of issues
a random selection
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He looked at a random selection of the files.
a selection procedure
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An interview is an important part of our selection procedure.
a selection process
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An interview normally forms part of the selection process.
natural selection
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
careful
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Motivation is heightened, factual knowledge increased, and opinions may be modified. Careful selection of films therefore aids learning.
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While real estate seems still to be undervalued compared to stocks and bonds, this is a year for careful selection .
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They joined the six-day residential course after a careful selection process.
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A tendency towards rather flighty behaviour in the breed is being overcome by careful selection .
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The careful selection of the most logical buyers in order to reduce circulation size can therefore be a wasted effort.
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Such intimacy requires careful selection of a detail that is representative of the whole.
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With careful selection you can recreate your own wildlife haven.
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The answer to this lies in careful selection of paper.
cumulative
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Before that there were many generations of cumulative selection , based upon some quite different replicating entities.
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Tiny mutations would make cumulative selection too slow.
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Could a form of cumulative selection get going?
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It therefore is converged upon by cumulative selection from two very different starting points.
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In our computer models in Chapter 3, we deliberately built into the computer the basic ingredients of cumulative selection .
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The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate the power of this cumulative selection as a fundamentally nonrandom process.
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I shall introduce its fundamental essence in Chapter 3 under the title of cumulative selection .
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Chance is a minor ingredient in the Darwinian recipe, but the most important ingredient is cumulative selection which is quintessentially nonrandom.
final
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The final selection was slanted towards books with a strong social content and which explored political issues.
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That cleared the way for the public release of the scores and scheduling of interviews and a final selection .
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The final selection will be based on local requirements and the information returned from governing bodies wishing to be considered for inclusion.
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However the racial makeup of the panel, which is anonymous, was unknown as final selections were conducted behind closed doors.
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Kirov chose another snap which he had taken at a pavement cafe in Tbilisi, bringing his final selection to four.
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The final selection of the investigation must rest with the student.
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There then follow the more expensive stages of final selection which may involve testing and interviewing as described earlier.
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All twenty-seven trainees survived final selection , despite some doubts about several of them.
good
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There was a good selection of watches as well as evening handbags and many other attractive and original gifts, all at affordable prices.
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Call it better stock selection or different criteria or different philosophy.
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Naturally a haunt of rugger enthusiasts. Good selection of malt whiskies.
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The Pub sounds like a place that might have a good selection of excellent beer.
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The smart cocktail bar is an ideal meeting place with a pleasant atmosphere and the restaurant serves a good selection of food.
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New Town Hotel Home cooked bar lunches. Good selection of blended and malt whiskies, and beers.
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Was there a good selection of up-to-date magazines for style inspiration? 9.
large
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Paris is a favourite destination, and Time Off has a large selection of packages to choose from.
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And, with our Paper Plan, you can choose from the largest selection of paper in the state.
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There is a large selection of animated cartoons produced for children.
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Consumers are pushing retailers to the wall, demanding lower prices, better quality, a large selection of in-season goods.
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Betty was given a large selection of presents, all carefully chosen.
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The company, founded over 100 years ago, has a large selection of pieces at a wide range of prices.
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The Kintyre bar has a large selection of mouth-watering whiskies and the meals in the restaurant offer high quality cooking.
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Highfield Nurseries has a large selection .
natural
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It follows from all this that natural selection can not be the sole explanation of evolutionary change.
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For most of the time natural selection must act as a policeman rather than as an architect.
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Some interpretations, at least, of the hypothesis of natural selection do conflict with the theistic hypothesis on three main counts.
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But we have now taught ourselves to see benefits to the organism as incidental, as far as natural selection is concerned.
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But what about the caddis house? Natural selection favoured those ancestral caddis genes that caused their possessors to build effective houses.
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That means this belief should be reinforced by natural selection .
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And the pressure of natural selection on the cuckoo is considerably greater than that on the host species.
random
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The random selection of units was vital.
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Meanwhile, the cyber gods controlling the random selection virtually ignored some large districts in other areas of the state.
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Test data was gathered by random selection from each domain until the target of approximately 17 sentences per domain had been met.
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Pete Wilson and the state Lottery, which has some expertise in random selection .
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It also ruled out random selection or co-option of experts.
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Percentage measures of performance should therefore be compared to that expected from random selection .
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For a random selection of 20 crops, the score was 5.
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Instead an intelligence officer had ploughed through Mills' personal effects and leafed through a random selection of files.
wide
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Provide a wide selection , making sure there are lots of different colours, flavours and textures.
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To see a video, consumers would pick one from a wide selection and would be billed later.
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Most art shops offer a wide selection of mounting card in a variety of colours and thicknesses.
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Instead the range will comprise a wide selection of components and fittings from which a design will be assembled.
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He played a wide selection of roles again.
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Lively, busy bar. Wide selection of whiskies and beers.
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Epicure has a wide selection , from fruits and nuts to preserve and biscuits.
■ NOUN
bias
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Comparing many countries is susceptible to statistical analysis, which helps eliminate possible sources of selection bias and spuriousness.
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The strength of experimental studies is that randomisation removes selection bias .
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Is there a problem of selection bias ?
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We have an example of selection bias as described in Section 15.2.7.
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This is thought to reflect a selection bias .
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Chapter 2 provides an exhaustive review of problems with selection bias .
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A good review of historical sources of selection bias .
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Prospective information on cycle variability during treatment would have led to potential selection bias .
book
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Sometimes there are also specialist stand in the department responsible for book selection and stock revision.
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Probably the clearest statements on book selection are by Lester Asheim in a defence of book selection against the charge of censorship.
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His paper provides clear distinctions between book selection and censorship.
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To improve secondary school library provision and the quality of book selection . 3.
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Hart's Book selection and use in academic libraries provides a useful summary of recent literature.
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Of course the above differentiation between book selection and censorship is a simplification.
committee
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What would be gained by being a bother to the selection committee of a twenty-two carat Tory seat?
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Generally, engineering contracts first go through a selection committee before being forwarded to Huckelberry's office.
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Her sisters under the skin would man the constituency selection committees .
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In the cases that Keenan complained about, Huckelberry admits changing the decision of the selection committee , but denies any wrongdoing.
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McIntosh will also join the six-man selection committee .
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The nine-man selection committee went for Ray Allen by a 6-3 margin.
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On Wednesday after the selection committee meeting, I realized I'd left my fountain pen in here.
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You see, Gonzaga did finish stronger, which is a factor the selection committee takes into account.
criteria
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For instance, there will be sections on good interview procedure, objective selection criteria , lines of questioning to avoid etc.
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The following are some selection criteria to be used in evaluating and choosing ISPs.
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The validation of our model using the same selection criteria was also mandatory.
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The same physiological selection criteria for operation were used for young and old patients alike.
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He can provide details of the job, our selection criteria and career opportunities.
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Just as selection criteria must be reasonable, so must they be rationally applied.
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The selection criteria of children is laid down by the government department appropriate to education and health.
jury
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On the first day of jury selection , the Washington Post's man was disappointed.
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The first begins Monday with jury selection .
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It has already ruled that race should play no part in jury selection .
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The judge said he hopes to begin jury selection next week.
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Trial is set to begin Nov. 12, although jury selection is expected to last more than a month.
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He also has sealed transcripts of the entire jury selection process, even the sessions held in open court.
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Jury consultants say they now spend more time teaching storytelling techniques than on jury selection -- formerly their bread and butter.
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The judge has dismissed at least a half-dozen defense requests for a mistrial since jury selection began last September.
policy
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Gooch has stamped his method and selection policy on this squad, and prior to this tour it had worked pretty well.
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So long as selection policies did not come under scrutiny this was acceptable.
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McBride can put his luck down to criticism from scribes down south earlier in the season, rather than bad selection policy .
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Public statements of selection policy Atkins alludes to the danger of equating selection with censorship.
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One other factor influences weeding policy , as it does selection policy.
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Until the public is made aware that a selection policy directs and determines acquisitions, the misconception will continue.
procedure
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In the main, however, the selection procedure is rigorous enough so that basic training does not have to be used for assessment purposes.
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State judicial selection procedures are even more severely criticized.
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For many courses a formal interview is an essential part of the selection procedure .
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Such inquiries also occur face-to-face during the course of an interview or selection procedure .
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Under the selection procedure the party bosses no longer have the power to carry out such a coup.
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The use of tests is not, of course, confined to selection procedures .
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But in practice, for the great majority of schools, the selection procedure acted as a straightjacket.
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There were no joint selection procedures .
process
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At the end of this year the selection process for BEng or MEng will take place.
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All Peace Corps officials were considered potential screeners who had influence in the selection process .
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Above all, they lend themselves to a study of variation and the morphological response of a species to environmental selection processes .
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There was the selection process itself.
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An interview normally forms part of the selection process .
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Like any selection process , this one had its winners and losers.
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The second stage in the selection process is to refine the match.
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They joined the six-day residential course after a careful selection process .
rule
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The orbital selection rule may be stated in different ways.
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The selection rules depend on the symmetry properties of the electronic transition.
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Those with are formally forbidden under the fundamental vibrational selection rule .
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Their appearance is connected with anharmonicity, which leads to a breakdown of the selection rules derived assuming simple harmonic motion.
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This rule is known as the Laporte selection rule.
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It is less stringent than the spin selection rule , partly because the mechanisms for getting round it are more effective.
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However, even in a regularly octahedral complex there are ways of weakening the effectiveness of the Laporte selection rule .
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In some cases overall selection rules leave little doubt.
■ VERB
choose
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You can even e-mail them your own design, or choose from an extensive selection of ready-made options.
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And, with our Paper Plan, you can choose from the largest selection of paper in the state.
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As suggested elsewhere, one of the problems with selection is giving up the attractive paths that are not being chosen .
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Young guests up to the age of 14 can choose a special selection of dishes from the main menu.
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Brendan Kelly, prosecuting, said the officers were invited to choose from a selection of women aged between 18 and 30.
include
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The Hampshire-based iron-work firm has just extended its range of hammer-and-anvil pieces to include a selection of castings using original patterns.
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Pre-take-off checks include the selection of fifteen degrees of flap and setting the tailwheel lock.
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Please type your story, if possible, and include a selection of clear photos which will be returned to you.
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The book also includes a selection of small-scale tasks to enable teachers to design and select effective listening materials for themselves.
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This includes a selection of contemporary personalities, including the Emperor Karl Franz.
make
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Rather, the authors have made a selection and described them fully in order to explain and illustrate several different military strategies.
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As we made our selections , we little suspected we were in for a long and uncomfortable wait.
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The only way to ensure randomness is to make sample selections independent of human judgement.
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Along with the addition of this option, you must now press Enter after making your selections from this prompt line.
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You may accept this choice, make another selection - or none at all if you prefer.
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Downland Housing Association will be making their selection interviews during the first week in May.
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It was not at all easy to make our selection , and some people are bound to disagree.
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We might ask desk officers to make an initial selection of important records as they come off the live system.
offer
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Most art shops offer a wide selection of mounting card in a variety of colours and thicknesses.
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There's only one choice in this case, but other programs offer a bigger selection .
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Waiters offer a selection of waters to drink, served on a silver tray, but only the tap is free.
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Janet Hinde Travel offers a wide selection of packages.
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In the United States, Verio offers a diverse selection of Web-hosting services for small and mid-sized businesses.
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Hagafen Cellars of the Napa Valley will offer a selection of premium kosher wines.
provide
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Additionally the full range from Marvic Textiles is now available from Sloane Avenue providing an exceptionally comprehensive selection of furnishing fabric.
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For this type of table manipulation, WordPerfect provides the selection feature.
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Agreement is extremely close and provides little evidence for selection between families or against new seedling recruits.
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An, in-store bakery can provide many selections among sweet goods and breads.
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I try and provide a good selection of music, and sometimes do my own calling.
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This difference provides a basis for selection among classes.
show
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Meanwhile, the town's Musée des Beaux Arts will be showing a selection of the Carré d'Art's permanent collection.
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Bacteria show how natural selection builds its defences.
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Screen 1 Here's a directory listing showing a typical selection of the files that make up an application Screen 2 Yuck!
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The table below shows a selection of best buys.
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Here we show a selection of the latest kitchen designs.
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The table shows a selection of the top-performing funds.
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The dive planning screen is a look-ahead facility showing a selection of depths and no-stop times depending on your current decompression status.
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Darwin's vera causa argumentation shows that natural selection is not tautologous for one reason, ultimately.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
come up for election/re-election/selection etc
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At each two-yearly election one-third of the Senate comes up for re-election.
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It affects us all and its practitioners do not come up for re-election every five years.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a selection of songs from 'West Side Story'
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A wonderful selection of cakes and pastries was displayed in the window.
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Customers are invited to view the selection at any time.
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She showed me a selection of her drawings.
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The selection of a politician as ambassador was highly controversial.
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The library also has a selection of foreign language videos on the third floor.
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The restaurant offers a wide selection of local dishes.
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The shop offers a wide selection of glasses frames to choose from.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But we have now taught ourselves to see benefits to the organism as incidental, as far as natural selection is concerned.
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Check all functions are operating correctly by pressing each selection button in sequence then close the cabinet and wipe the exterior.
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For his first 11 major-league seasons, Dunston lived the charmed life as the Chicago Cubs shortstop and a two-time All-Star selection .
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However, selection for opportunities outside affects what happens at school.
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It also covers a selection of other contract clauses frequently encountered in many types of commercial agreement, for example confidentiality clauses.
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Nine of those will be chosen in a state-wide primary election on March 12, the traditional date for delegate selection .
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The most important thing is your firm knowledge that the selection is within your present range.