I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a career structure (= a system for making progress in a career )
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Teaching offers a clear career structure.
a class system/structure (= a social system that has classes )
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He felt he was a victim of the class system.
a command structure (= the way in which a military organization is organized into ranks )
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Each of our national defence forces has its own command structure.
bone structure (= the shape of your face, formed by the bones in it )
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She had beautiful eyes and fine bone structure.
corporate structure (= the way in which the parts of a big company are organized )
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The company has a new corporate structure and a new management.
formal structure
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There is no formal structure for negotiating pay increases.
hierarchical structure/organization/system etc
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a hierarchical society
power structure
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There have been significant changes in the power structure of the company.
the salary scale/structure (= the list of increasing salaries that someone in a job can earn )
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He is almost at the top of his salary scale.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
basic
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All succeeded in completing a basic chair structure within five days - one person even made two.
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Figure 10-7 also shows the basic muscle structure of the different cuts.
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We had to get the basic structure right, the basic information flows in and then bring the consultants in.
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Another important branch of philosophy relevant here is metaphysics, which tries to discover the basic structure of reality.
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In terms of basic structure there is no doubt that Dame Sirith belongs to the same genre.
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These stain hair without interfering with its basic structure .
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It could only make recommendations that did not challenge the basic structure of the system.
complex
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The House considered the complex structure point in D &038; F Estates.
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This barrier is a complex structure that prevents many drugs and chemicals in the blood from entering the brain.
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The idea of a complex structure can be applied to equipment manufactured by different suppliers, e.g. central heating boilers.
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But at the time that complex structure was established, few anticipated the gusher of money about to erupt.
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Consequently, these ionomers set by several competing reactions to give complex structures .
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The obvious conclusion is that the complex structures must be explained in terms of the conscious states they seem developed to produce.
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They tended to create complex company structures . 4.
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The result is a complex structure of wage rates, characterised by a system of wage differentials.
different
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But the argument is that the genome is public property -- it needs a different structure of ownership.
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Irons come in a variety of classes with different crystal structures , chemical compositions, and inclusions of other minerals.
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Each of these situations requires a different tariff structure .
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Collective entrepreneurship also entails a different organizational structure .
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Each type has a slightly different chemical structure and differs slightly in how it behaves in the body.
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It is perhaps not surprising that the interaction of such factors leads to very different organisational structures in different sports.
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Yet each would give rise to a different organizational structure from any we are familiar with.
economic
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One powerful argument attributes this stagnation to the economic structure set in the early 1950s.
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These totals inevitably vary considerably from zone to zone, depending on its economic structure , location, and so on.
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Even while the system remains capitalist it may at different phases be dominated by differently organized social and economic structures .
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The economic structure of the market in assessing the competitive effect of a merger is crucial.
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It will focus on the day-to-day practices and working philosophies of solicitors, and examine their economic and organisational structures .
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From this perspective the seasonality is an integral part of the economic structure and should be accordingly modelled.
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A home is established by the social, cultural and economic structures of the occupants of a house.
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As that understanding spreads through the consumer sector, it could rattle the very economic structure of the computing industry.
existing
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Nu advanced the ingenious suggestion that instead of the existing Commonwealth structure there should be a federation of Socialist states.
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Reform would need to be deep rooted, but existing structures could be modified.
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He added the scheme contravened existing structure plans and traffic risk fears had been voiced by local residents.
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The new accommodation is on one floor, set round a pretty courtyard which echoes the traditional details of the existing structure .
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The focal point of this existing structure is the school's policymaking group: The management board.
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It should be remembered that the canal engineers had very few existing structures from which to obtain ideas.
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To achieve profound change, women must necessarily work within the existing structure .
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A gene has the particular effect that it does only because there is an existing structure upon which to work.
formal
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This is what the meeting is notionally about, or as we have already described it, the formal structure .
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Today, there is no formal structure to investigate or even debate whether UFOs have skipped through our atmosphere.
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And the work eschews the kind of formal structure that would knit the cast into some larger imaginative world.
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We have a formal structure , but we all work together.
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Figure 21 shows a typical formal structure embodied in an organisation chart.
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Beyond these formal structures , the folks at Thayer challenge yet one more notion that often shapes the structures of schooling.
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Resources A recognised formal staff structure acts as a basis both for the processing of instructions and for job control and expansion.
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We have seen that the principal intellectual characteristics of adolescence stem directly or indirectly from the development of formal structures .
hierarchical
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They also, to a greater or lesser extent, existed outside mainstream, predominantly male controlled, hierarchical structures .
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The belief that hierarchical organizational structure makes for good business is a difficult one to give up.
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What level in the hierarchical structure do you want to be at?
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Many difficulties faced in the public sector will stem from the formal, hierarchical structure within which such relationships take place.
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Like the other examples of structural power, the hierarchical structure creates and depends upon a situation of power imbalance.
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Will departments want to introduce hierarchical structures into their records storage solely to give tomorrow's historians their bearings?
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The religious houses fitted neatly into the papal hierarchical structure .
industrial
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The imposition of taxes in this model is relevant to the effect not just on prices but also on industrial structure .
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There are many examples of smaller commercial, industrial and parking structures in the Art Deco style.
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Britain has a particularly top-heavy industrial structure .
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North-South models; international migration of labour; trade and industrial structure in the 1930s; the political economy of protectionism.
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Moreover, industrial structure is not something which can be resolved merely by general debate over a general checklist of factors.
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Modernization of the industrial structure had hardly begun.
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But there are also important features for industrial structure which differentiate the eurobond market from most other financial markets.
internal
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There are possible offsetting arguments concerning internal structure , but these are in any case not unambiguous in their directional effect.
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However, the gut in all animals is an internal structure .
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Regulationist theories, by contrast, see the internal relations and structure of each nation's economy as primary.
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Diagnosis Within the internal structure of the cell, in the cytoplasm, the energetic interactions are weak and electrostatic effects predominate.
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Thin sections show a great variety of internal structures important in accurate identification.
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But getting the internal cost structure right for the 1990s has not simply been a case of manning level reductions.
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Party political factors, professionalism and the dispositions of key personalities all usually have some bearing on internal management structures .
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By form here is meant anything from their biochemistry and internal structure to their behaviour.
large
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Complex technology requires large-scale production, and so the need for huge investments of capital and large organisational structures .
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Small pieces of sulfide rubble, failed fragments of the larger structure , litter the seafloor.
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Many early stations were simply large barn-like structures , a form which was to be used for several decades.
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Spartan carries important data from that experiment, which tested lighter and less expensive ways to put large structures in space.
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This means that large fibrous structures form near T m, whereas greater numbers of small spherulites grow at lower temperatures.
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We live in a time when people traverse lots of music, but in classical music the composer traverses larger musical structures .
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These had developed true leaves, large spreading structures with which to collect as much light as possible.
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Regardless, Bard said, the $ 14 million experiment showed that large structures can be inflated in orbit.
new
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Some say they were unaware of the full impact of the new line management structure when they met to discuss it.
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Among those customers affected, substantially more than half will see price increases under the new structure , the company estimated.
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The increased scale of operations also ushered in another fashion of the 1980s - new management structures .
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What they envision is nothing short of a new corporate structure , in which accounting and other functions are outsourced.
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The new fee structure deters the use of deputies and means that increasing claims effectively lead to decreased payment for each visit.
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Under a new regulatory structure being adopted by many states, the Bells have an incentive to reduce their costs.
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The misuse of inside information within the new conglomerate structure is singled out for specific analysis.
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In each of these settings the goal was not to create a new structure .
organizational
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There were too many organizational structures with too few members and even less real action.
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The belief that hierarchical organizational structure makes for good business is a difficult one to give up.
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It focuses attention on the nature of the uncertainty and raises issues of ideas, people, organizational structure and strategy.
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In some systems, users can add their own links to form new organizational structures , creating new documents from old.
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The literature of the knowledge-based society already talks of organizational structures which are flatter.
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Economies of organizational structure is a new game, though, played by new rules.
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Even the more straight forward implementation systems tend to involve a complex organizational structure .
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A flat organizational structure , appropriate to a professional group, reflects the high priority given to upward power.
political
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Contemporaries often appear to have been uncertain as to how best to describe the political structure of their day.
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Comparative politics focuses on similarities and differences in political processes and structures .
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Although the two peoples share a similar type of political structure , their religious beliefs present a striking contrast.
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Left and right both tend to accept the existing political structure and differ only on the substance of policy and political personnel.
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An analysis and cross-cultural comparison of such circumstances would involve study of political and ideological structures rather than technologies.
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Ancient economies were routinely ravaged by high inflation, which almost always shakes the political structure until its leaders tumble down.
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Moreover, such educational concepts are integrally related to political commitments to a radical and decentralised democratic social and political structure .
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But further empirical research has revealed considerable diversity in the roles of particular political structures .
social
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This defect in the simple social structure of primary rules we may call its uncertainty.
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Moreover, such educational concepts are integrally related to political commitments to a radical and decentralised democratic social and political structure .
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This leads to the final area of resemblance to the great cities of the west, namely social structure .
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Ageing is a fundamental feature of social structure and social change.
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The social structure greatly interested Alix.
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For example, it can be argued that the value of materialism integrates many parts of the social structure in Western industrial society.
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Possibly dinosaurs living in the latter phase had developed complex social structures , as today occurs in some reptilian genera.
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Can there remain any public consensus on the social structure if divisions between the well-off and the poor widen?
whole
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Along with others, Gassendi obviously felt that this whole elaborate conceptual structure was obstructive to, rather than productive of, knowledge.
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And not just individual men, but the whole structure of urban technological society.
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Its power is determined by the degree to which it aids what that whole social structure reports as its desires.
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There was wind, too, funnelling through the gorge, whining through the girders and causing the whole structure to tremble.
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Both types of data, however, are problematic in that the whole structure within which careers are established changes over time.
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The whole diamond structure is, in fact, one giant molecule.
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The whole structure was, and to some extent was intended to be, quite flexible, almost like a basket.
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There is a whole social structure associated with our life-style.
■ NOUN
bone
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Paula Grey, a raven haired girl in her early thirties with strong bone structure , had just entered the office.
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This is a young woman whose bone structure is not fully developed.
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He says it can distort bone structure , even cause heart problems.
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His features were delicate; he had the bone structure of a professional model.
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She had excellent bone structure , a well-shaped determined chin, a good figure and long legs.
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The neck itself is subject to a form of clinical exposure, its bone structure shifting and projecting.
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As she tilted her face upwards to answer, her bone structure was thrown into transitory relief.
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Under the microscope even the bone structure of these dinosaurs looks more like that of living mammals than cold-blooded reptiles.
career
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In October he announced negotiations to review all civil service wage and career structures dating back to 1946.
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I like to see a career structure in the company I work for 28.
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These will directly affect the career structure within the banks, causing distortions, blockages and a recorded division of labour.
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There is a shortage of suitable recruits in the diplomatic service, which offers varied experience abroad and a good career structure .
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Marsh and colleagues found that there was a clear and established career structure among the youths on the terraces.
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Proposed changes in the clinical career structure should make clinical nursing less of a poor relation in terms of financial recognition and status.
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Teachers will be guaranteed a proper salary and career structure .
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Soares, as Commander-in-Chief, urged the government to respond to military pressure for changes in pay and professional career structures .
class
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Weber strongly criticized Marx's attempt to explain all social cleavages as the product of economically based class structures and struggles.
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Cooley acknowledges the class structure as a pervasive reality and he too is distressed by the dominance of the top class.
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Category scale grammar See class structure grammar.
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Category scale grammar See class structure grammar. Class structure grammar See also class; set; system; structure.
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This can be assessed by linking class structure to income distribution figures.
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Meanwhile, other areas of the class structure are much less open.
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In class structure grammar these form a class.
power
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There is also the danger of spreading resources too thinly and separating teams from local authority power structures .
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Thus in about 30 percent of the contemporary political systems the legislature need not be considered a major power structure .
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This work centres on a examination of how crime is related to the power structure of society.
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A systemwide school-to-career steering committee reflects the power structure in Boston.
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Political explanations Radical feminist and Marxist feminist interpretations of the education system have focused less on attitudes and more on power structures .
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The 1988 Act has made fundamental alterations to the power structure of the education system laid down in 1944.
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But the boxing power structure is white and it's going to be a slow change.
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Impartiality and family power structures Embarking on family counselling can subtly change the relationship between the counsellor and the older counsellee.
■ VERB
build
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No city or government wants to build earthen structures or allow them to be built.
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To varying extents, this guidance was built into the structure of many of the sites that I visited.
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I have built up a rock structure to the water height in the middle of the tank.
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This required careful and delicate safeguards that would be built into the governmental structure and become an integral part of it.
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Without earthworms and other soil life, no amount of cultivations and chemical fertilizers will build and sustain true structure and fertility.
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It is built into the structure of some sports, such as skiing, parachuting, and flying.
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The unpredictability of life is built into his structure as an essential part ofit.
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Angelita is describing the uses of the building , the only recently built structure on the entire Unidad Producci6n Fonseca.
change
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Society had changed from the earlier structure where primitive valuables were of greater importance.
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This variation, which slightly changes the structure of the receptor, is apparently vital to making the receptor sensitive to alcohol.
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Many companies have considerably slimmed down and changed their corporate structures .
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Rather than change their vision to fit the current structures of schooling, they have changed the structures to accommodate their vision.
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Nationalisation and the frequent replacement of individual owner-managers by shareholders and managerial bureaucracies have both changed the structure of industry.
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Yet those committed to change in communication structures have been slow to link up with these and other movements.
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These ferns began to slowly change shape and structure during the Devonian, and some became tall and tree-like.
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Their production in secret laboratories also means it is possible to change the structure of the molecules slightly.
create
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Barriers to empathy are created by some social structures and divisions, such as those of race, religion and class.
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Gradually they began building a rapport based on this mutual love for creating structures .
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They tended to create complex company structures . 4.
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Marshall argued, correctly, that this would create an unworkable command structure .
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Those who argue that creating such a structure would take years and waste valuable time are probably right.
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In each of these settings the goal was not to create a new structure .
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Significant changes have been achieved in work organization without having to create additional permanent structures to maintain the momentum of change.
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The best way to create solid structure without expending extra editing time is through the fast and simple process of listing.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a three-story wooden structure
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crystal structures
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good sentence structure
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Many visitors to the UK find the British class structure difficult to understand.
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She studied the organizational structure of the company to see whether it could be made more efficient.
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The structure of the U.S. education system lacks centralization.
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The structure of the US banking system is changing.
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The membership on the committee reflects Boston's power structure .
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The station building was a high wooden structure with a curved roof.
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The stone arch is one of the town's oldest existing structures.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A lack of structure is intrinsic to housework; thus a psychological structure is imported to it.
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But history and chance take place in a context, a structure , a reality.
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Each of these stages is an element in a complex societal structure and cultural context.
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Instead they issue from the divided heart of humanity, perpetually institutionalised in sinful social and political structures.
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It means accepting power as natural and necessary to decision making regardless of formal structure .
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The purpose of the structure immediately outside the temple was not so obvious.
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We should ask how such a structure would work.
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You need to be sure that the structure you plan to practice is a genuine structure in the language.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
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In general, what the theory of dialectic materialism states is that every society is structured around its material basis of production.
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The program is structured around four-month online sessions broken up by two-week sessions on campus.
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The programme is structured around periods of residential study supported by distance learning material.
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The purchase has been structured around an immediate £19 million cash payment, with the balance deferred until October 1993.
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Feminism, like psychology, is structured around a defined object, gender relations.
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Their article is structured around two case studies in racialized representation: the film Mona Lisa and the novel Beloved.
■ NOUN
deal
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There are a number of ways of structuring the deal .
life
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They also had some excellent ideas about how to structure their family life to avoid it.
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The inhabitants have structured their lives around the ocean.
way
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I imagine that the work will be structured in two different ways .
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The moment was structured that way .
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Any marketplace can be structured in different ways by government rules, of course.
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If the classification of living creatures is structured in this way , there will inevitably be a conflict with technically determined levels.
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I asked why the history of modern art was structured in one way , along one mute, and not others?
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It also contained the following findings: Children performed better when the day was structured in some way .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Bidwell still has not decided how to structure the business.
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I have structured the book so that the main points are revisited several times.
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If we structure the meeting effectively, I think we should be able to cover everything.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Police culture is omnipotent is structuring such views of critical research.
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The programme is structured around periods of residential study supported by distance learning material.
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You need to structure your business along sound financial lines.