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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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medical
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The condition should figure prominently in undergraduate clinical training and in medical textbooks .
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Erasmus Darwin published his Zoonomia in 1794, which was partly a medical textbook , partly a treatise in biology.
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In a medical textbook , the choice between clavicle and collar-bone can justly be called a matter of stylistic variation.
new
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This new textbook describes the Boundary Element Method, a powerful and accurate computational technique in continuum mechanics.
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Because the national curriculum can not be properly taught without new textbooks , we will earmark funds for class and library books.
standard
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Not all teachers today use a single standard textbook as their staple material and many schools have difficulty affording class sets.
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Readers interested in further details may consult any standard financial accounting textbook .
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Anyone interested in this type of detail should consult a standard physics textbook on light.
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case
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It has become a textbook case of how to kill off public participation.
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Suffice that this was a textbook case of civic responsibility.
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It is a textbook case of how effectively corporate lobbies work in Brussels, not just Washington.
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The mortgage market was one of two or three textbook cases that illustrated the change sweeping the world of finance.
example
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The model only works at the level of the textbook example , the single isolated sentence.
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Here was a textbook example of free enterprise in the marketplace of religion, a competition in which the fittest survived.
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This is a textbook example of a parallelistic couplet, with a mirror chiasmus. is parallel to.
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It was a textbook example of maintenance learning.
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He is a textbook example of how complicated it is to assign blame.
school
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The practical outcome is a series of three school textbooks .
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Lipski was able to point to several passages in school textbooks containing similar references.
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The new openness expressed in the academic debates, and the latest school textbook , still leaves many issues unanswered.
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The issue of curriculum and subject choice goes deeper than the portrayal of women in school textbooks , however.
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The government provides school textbooks but supplementary materials are developed by educational consultants or teachers.
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In school textbooks a certain amount of information is given, for example in a maths problem.
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This idiom encourages the very bad habit of believing that life is going to be as neatly packaged as a school textbook .
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We are back again with the school textbook idiom.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I can't get hold of any of the college textbooks he recommended.
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Most economics textbooks skip over the subject of investing and financial markets.
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The grant covers the costs of tuition, fees and textbooks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Elementary textbooks seem to contain no reference to it.
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One textbook for teachers presented an entire unit on the colon.
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Open most astronomy textbooks and you will find a statement somewhere that calls the Sun an average star.
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She read Victorian novels and studied textbooks of anatomy.
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Social studies textbooks have only comparatively recently begun to include gender as an area of study alongside social class or ethnicity.
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The assumption is that textbooks, sanitized as they are, are factual and thus noncontroversial.