adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a structural defect
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Older buildings are bound to have some structural defects.
structural damage (= to the structure of a building )
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The building was checked for structural damage.
structural engineer
structural repairs (= to the walls or roof of a building or to the main parts of a bridge or other structure )
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A survey showed that the bridge needed significant structural repairs.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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To say that long-term success depends on more structural reform and more austerity is not a comfortable political message.
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Each of these paragraphs contains one or more structural devices.
■ NOUN
adjustment
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Despite widespread protests, the government was about to launch its third structural adjustment programme in May 1991.
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The move away from project loans and towards structural adjustment loans in the 1980s does not diminish the main thrust of this argument.
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Loans are available for a three-year period in support of a three-year macroeconomic and structural adjustment programme.
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Cuts in expenditure were made as part of the country's structural adjustment programme.
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It was conditional on Budapest agreeing a structural adjustment programme with the International Monetary Fund and implementing market-based economic reforms.
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In particular many pointed to growing social unrest, crime and unemployment caused in part by the government's structural adjustment policies.
alteration
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Ask for quotes for the full job, which will including fitting charges, plus any structural alterations needed.
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The licensing board may itself order structural alterations to be executed under s.36.
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Perhaps you ought to reconsider the bathroom and toilet provision, which will require expensive structural alterations and affect your pricing proposals.
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The corresponding provision for licensed premises with regard to structural alterations directed by the licensing board will be found in s.36.
analysis
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Similarly, structural analysis is replaced by deconstruction which also questions its objects rather than reflecting them.
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Such structural analysis provides clues about the sites on the molecule responsible for its biological activity in the body.
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These features make TOF-SARS capable of both elemental and structural analysis .
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TOF-SARS in catalysis TOF-SARS has applications in catalysis as an elemental and structural analysis technique.
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The intensities necessary for structural analysis are obtained by integrating the indicated areas of fixed time windows under these peaks.
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As a structural analysis technique, TOF-SARS is sensitive to short range order - ie individual interatomic spacings along azimuths.
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The structural analysis of ageing has become increasingly prominent in recent years.
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One was sampled and subjected to chemical and structural analysis .
approach
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Those who strongly doubt whether the cost-benefit exercise can be adequately performed are more inclined to a rules based or structural approach .
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In this the structural approach to literature has huge advantages over many other linguistically inspired theories.
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I shall then briefly outline a structural approach to the problem of the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity.
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A structural approach is rejected on the basis that it is unable to capture the creativity of language.
arrangement
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The proximity, both geographically and chronologically, of such similar structural arrangements is, clearly, very significant.
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In contrast, a nonconstitutional regime is characterized by unchecked power, and the structural arrangements of the constitution are not upheld.
change
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We need some way to distinguish such events from the crises that mark structural changes .
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These issues must be dealt with not through scapegoating and punishment but rather through fundamental structural change .
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Deep structural changes will be necessary in developing countries if literacy is to go beyond the citadels of the elites.
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The structural changes that are seen in hemoglobin 5 and C disorders are inherited as autosomal recessive traits. 216.
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Such changes may be associated with equally structural changes in the wider economy and society.
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He does add, however, that structural changes are also necessary to accommodate the benefits of educational expansion.
characteristic
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Physical or structural characteristics , form of construction or condition.
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The other structural characteristic that may be used to quantitate serum proteins is the presence of peptide bonds.
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He provides a careful analysis of the relationship between the functional and structural characteristics of different types of discourse.
component
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Document preparation systems have structural components such as paragraphs, and hypertext systems have additional structural components concerned with linking.
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Yet on closer inspection it will be found that they both contain just the same structural components .
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The metal is widely used for implements and structural components .
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The separation between cytoplasmic content and parietal structures may represent the metabolic end point in which structural components must also be utilised.
constraint
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And there were inevitable structural constraints built in.
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However, the emphasis on structural constraints and formal controls provides only a partial view.
damage
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Minor bombing incidents in Buenos Aires and Santiago caused little structural damage and nobody was reported to have been injured.
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And the occasional burst pipe can cause major structural damage rather quickly.
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No one was injured but the interchange was closed because of fears of major structural damage .
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But most people found only busy signals, as structural damage and call volume overwhelmed local phone systems.
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Offices of the Levi jeans company and the computer firm, Casio, were being checked yesterday for structural damage .
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More structural damage could be hidden, one reporter said to explain Seattle's largely unscathed appearance.
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It caused £1,500 million of structural damage to at least 35 buildings.
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There was only minor structural damage to roofs and chimneys.
defect
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This is not a structural defect - only a sign of antiquity.
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Scores of schools were shown to have similar structural defects .
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We regard this result as strong evidence against a possible structural defect of the Dcm/Cys177Ser mutant.
difference
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There are structural differences , too.
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These structural differences create different learning paradigms by which neural networks are classified.
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These structural differences will now be examined more closely.
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There appear to be structural differences between the major countries in the pattern of industrial financing.
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Substitution drills should concentrate particularly on structural differences between the languages.
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A further structural difference was the impact of feminism.
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Although there are important variations within each country, on a cross-national comparison two principal structural differences are noted.
engineer
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Veronica, a civil and structural engineer , also has a technical day at work.
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Anyone with a wall problem should hire a qualified structural engineer to write a specification that will solve the problem.
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If they have, then a structural engineer must be asked to advise.
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For the structural engineer considering how to design a steel skeleton for the skyscraper, there were certain important implications.
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I face the same problems as a structural engineer .
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As a structural engineer , he draws conclusions about overly high chimneys, mortar quality, and roofing tiles.
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To overcome this templates were made and a structural engineer took constant vertical and horizontal measurements to plot the path of construction.
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A structural engineer or knowledgeable contractor can advise you on that.
factor
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But there were also structural factors at play.
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Such approaches have been criticised for failing to take account of external or structural factors which influence people's experience of ageing.
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Underpinning this commitment, however, were powerful structural factors .
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Aspects of individual lifestyle, as well as structural factors , are related to health.
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The most dominant structural factor in the work is that much of it is cast in the form of canticles.
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The technical literature suggests that structural factors may have been more important than price factors in explaining the persistent deficit.
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Internal layout and structural factors are vital.
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However, an important structural factor by way of explanation again relates to the nature and pace of industrial development.
funds
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The report gives examples of species whose existence is being threatened by structural funds .
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I remind the House that we pay £1,800 million into structural funds and receive only £900 million back.
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Precise definition of the tasks of the structural funds in relation to these objectives. 3.
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Why is he withholding our money when, although the structural funds are doubling, we are likely to receive less?
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We have made it clear that we see no case for a further massive increase in the structural funds .
integrity
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Extracellular matrix is an integral part of multicellular organisms, providing structural integrity and support to cells.
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There was now not the slightest doubt that Hsu was decaying and losing her structural integrity .
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Of course different clays can withstand different firing temperatures before they vitrify and lose their structural integrity .
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Very high structural integrity as evidenced by a 30,000 hour design life and no speed limit in turbulence.
linguistics
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In borrowing from structural linguistics the early structuralists took on the task of analysing signs and systems of signification.
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Taking its cue from structural linguistics , it will concentrate on the signifiers at the expense of the signifieds.
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But in his second phase the issues of systematicity and method become blurred and the connection with structural linguistics becomes vague.
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Generative grammar rejects the empirical nature of structural linguistics and instead uses linguistic intuitions of native speakers.
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This functionalist, teleological aim is inappropriate for the systematic analysis borrowed from structural linguistics .
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The early structuralists analyse relations between larger elements of meaning than is entertained in structural linguistics .
problem
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The doubts expressed by ministers and Home Office officials in the 1880s were symptomatic of much deeper structural problems .
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A sure tip-off that you have structural problems is repeated ideas.
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Before any painting is considered, be sure to detail with any structural problems - as explained on page 13.
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Sometimes doing that causes nasty structural problems , like a caved-in cake.
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Rather the criticism is that the basic and structural problems are not being tackled with the vigour that is required.
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Virtually all structural problems can be solved.
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Serious structural problems mean the building which is just 10 years old needs around £4.5m worth of repairs.
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Object: To eliminate structural problems without having to reread your document or waste time cutting and pasting paragraphs.
reform
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To say that long-term success depends on more structural reform and more austerity is not a comfortable political message.
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Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto has targeted education as one of six areas urgently in need of structural reform .
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In 1992 structural reforms to limit spending would include reform of the civil service.
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Part of my Senate life was trying to figure out how to get things right, the structural reform .
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However a structural reform was undertaken in an attempt to decentralize the workings of the party.
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At the very heart of single capacity was the Stock Exchange's rule-book which effectively blocked significant structural reform .
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Of course, a number of measures must be taken while more long-term structural reform is implemented.
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The conference approved a series of structural reforms giving constituency parties and the unions more power over the appointment of the leader.
relationship
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Chiropractic Practitioners deal with the structural relationships between the nerve tissues and the spinal column.
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One important structural relationship is that between bureaucracies and groups that represent particular interests.
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Friendships are based on a completely different set of structural relationships to those with parents.
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As I have written earlier, in games the structural relationship which implies tension is often explicitly defined.
repair
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Her desired outcome was a bit of money to help with major structural repairs .
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Masonry walls have a lot more kinds of cracking, and some can require a structural repair .
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In 1987 a survey concluded that the theatre should shut immediately, to allow structural repairs , rewiring, refitting and restoration.
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The bulk of the money went on the addition of amenities and not on structural repairs .
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Last year a routine survey revealed that the bridge was in need of significant structural repair .
steel
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Rack structures are of structural steel or thin section steel construction.
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Some specialize-for example, in structural steel or reinforced concrete structures.
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Lateral stability to the structure is provided by a braced structural steel core.
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Public works inspectors may specialize in highways, structural steel , reinforced concrete, or ditches.
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This building also will be made of structural steel and concrete blocks.
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It also owns shipyards and structural steel plants that make highway guard rails.
survey
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Simply take the precaution of having a structural survey carried out before the 10-year guarantee expires, and at 10-yearly intervals thereafter.
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As professional consultants we also advise and take instructions for design, supervision and structural surveys .
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The third type of valuation and report is a full structural survey .
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So, a new house will need a thorough inspection before two years have elapsed and a structural survey before ten years.
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In each case, the association had commissioned structural surveys , followed by feasibility and market studies.
unemployment
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This may be the cause of semi-permanent structural unemployment , aggravated perhaps by excessively cautious government policies.
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From the point of view of demand management, therefore, frictional and structural unemployment is an irreducible minimum unemployment rate.
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Initially there was a response from some critics asserting that this would lead to structural unemployment .
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It will be argued subsequently that the present forms of science and technology will in any case give rise to structural unemployment .
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It is the rate of frictional and structural unemployment .
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In recent years, a great deal of emphasis has been placed on technological progress as a cause of structural unemployment .
weakness
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Aside from its dubious cultural charm, there are serious structural weaknesses which may one day embarrass us.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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structural damage
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even in ruin the Colosseum is a magnificent edifice of great structural interest and aesthetic splendour.
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His commitment to the transformation of society through identifying and resolving structural issues is very intense.
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One important structural relationship is that between bureaucracies and groups that represent particular interests.
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Such approaches have been criticised for failing to take account of external or structural factors which influence people's experience of ageing.
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Taking its cue from structural linguistics, it will concentrate on the signifiers at the expense of the signifieds.
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There is the matter of future planning and the effect on structural plans for the area.
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This lawyer was therefore classified as professionally marginal, in a structural rather than an attitudinal sense.