adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
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It is inevitably highly selective , both in the Acts it covers and in what it includes from each Act.
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But memory is highly selective , particularly within an organization that has weathered numerous crises and moments of extreme duress.
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Perhaps it is Upjohn that is being highly selective regarding evidence on serious psychiatric reactions to triazolam.
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These leaders need to recognize the need to be highly selective about what to incorporate into their operations.
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What an animal learns is highly selective and highly ordered.
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The virus proved highly selective in killing several lines of human cancer cells in laboratory cell cultures.
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In any event, we are highly selective about blanket sanctions.
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Compatibility is crucial, so the process is highly selective .
more
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A more selective approach to underwriting Commercial motor business has also been adopted following adverse experience on major fleets.
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The managers reported that firing a subordinate taught them to be even more selective in hiring.
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This means they must actively encourage a more selective approach to custodial remand and sentencing.
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Sales may also be lost because the aggressive firm is more selective in granting credit than its competitors.
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At the very least it was more selective than various predecessors which by that time had fallen into disrepute.
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It was somewhat sobering to have all these things go wrong at once, and I decided to become more selective .
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The answers were more selective recruitment and yet more discipline.
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One consequence of this lumpiness is that caffeine is far more selective in its actions than is alcohol.
very
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These apply very selective filtration of unwanted audio frequencies.
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The Legion was being selective . Very selective.
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Mushtaq, one of his four cricketing brothers, remembers' a reserved young man, very selective with friends.
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They need strong headlines and very selective copy.
■ NOUN
assessment
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Information may be gathered in a variety of ways, including the use of functional assessment instruments and selective assessment forms.
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In both cases the assessment task can be identified as that of correctly selecting individuals, i.e. selective assessment.
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In selective assessment the relationship between practitioner and elder is one of unequal power.
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Anxiety, anger or apathy all seem reasonable defensive strategies for elders to adopt when facing selective assessment now.
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Yet there are arguable benefits from practising selective assessment .
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Indeed, equal opportunity policies, and strategies of affirmative action, can be built into selective assessments .
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Nevertheless, there are obvious limitations to a system of selective assessment .
assistance
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One option would be to increase the £120m regional selective assistance budget, channelled into businesses in struggling areas.
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A large number of smaller companies there have been receiving regional selective assistance since the middle 1980s.
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Regional selective assistance is equal wherever it is applied for in Great Britain, although the limits for Northern Ireland are higher.
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Regional selective assistance remains the main regional programme for industry.
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For example, regional aid and selective assistance have been dramatically cut.
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I can quote some of the figures on the cuts in regional selective assistance in the period in question.
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Tens of thousands of jobs are created each year by regional selective assistance .
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She said that large cuts were made in regional selective assistance in the early 1980s.
attention
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This explanation of sleep loss effects in terms of lowered arousal is further supported by studies on selective attention .
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They co-opt the selective attention circuitry.
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Certainly this frontal lobe role in adaptive behavior is linked to the mechanisms of selective attention .
breeding
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Among its aims is a new eugenics: selective breeding .
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The culmination of years of selective breeding - Richard Tisbury releases a Sanke.
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The selective breeding techniques used became blueprints for other breeders and ensured that the Shorthorn quickly ousted Bakewell's then ubiquitous Longhorn.
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At Cheltenham Town Hall ... on show the results of years of selective breeding and careful nurturing.
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These initial reflections did not include, then, any analogy between artificially and naturally selective breeding .
forces
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What mix of selective forces and developmental constraints moulded the mandible, honed the teeth?
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Hence selective forces would have favoured the most successful at doing it.
incentive
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Some groups able to overcome free-riding by arranging selective incentives for their members will be powerfully organized to achieve their goals.
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As selective incentives are only available to group members, they are not estimated in the way in which collective benefits are.
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The organizational elite will be able to use the selective incentives to achieve broader, collective goods.
memory
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But looking back, we seem to have a selective memory for the best bits of the past.
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But selective memory can be a dangerous thing.
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Being a Madonna devotee has always involved having a selective memory .
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This general type of bias may be due to a selective memory search for information favouring a positive personal outcome.
pressure
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Also left are useful fruit trees, which are thus under selective pressures .
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The selective pressure is on all pathogens to mimic the passwords of their hosts.
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Such use is already providing selective pressure to the emergence of resistance.
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The selective pressure is on all hosts to keep changing the password.
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For selective pressures for linguistic ability could easily reverse in ontogeny the order I maintain would be needed in phylogeny.
school
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If governors back the move, the school will be the last selective school in the county to seek Grant Maintained Status.
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The best students, who attended one of the few selective schools , received the equivalent of a high-quality prep school education.
use
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The sporadic shutting off of town centres by selective use of barriers is already under way to stop the bombers.
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But selective use of television can make for a healthy ritual for connection with your spouse.
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A project to develop a new production process requires a similar selective use of the concept.
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But individual nations also have recourse to the selective use of various devices for bending the rules of international free trade.
vagotomy
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Highly selective vagotomy was introduced about 20 years ago and hence any cancer risk should become apparent in the next few years.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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People are becoming more and more selective about the food they eat these days.
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the selective breeding of horses
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You've got to be very selective when choosing a roommate.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A project to develop a new production process requires a similar selective use of the concept.
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All colleges were selective at the time.
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By 1980 no detail of animal courtship mattered unless it could be explained in terms of the selective competition of genes.
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Do they signal selective enforcement against minorities?
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It is inevitably highly selective , both in the Acts it covers and in what it includes from each Act.
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The unit we offered was very brief, and, of necessity, highly selective .
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Those conditions drew selective buying of defensive stocks.
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We also learned to be selective , that too many unusual pieces defeat the impact of individuality.