noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a central theme
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What would you say is the central theme of the book?
an underlying theme
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Death and rebirth are underlying themes in all of his novels.
recurrent theme
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Political revolution is a recurrent theme in Riley’s books.
recurring theme
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Love is a recurring theme in the book.
the theme tune/signature tune (= the tune at the beginning or end of a television programme etc )
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the theme tune from the movie 'Titanic'
theme park
theme party
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a Wild West theme party
topical subject/issue/theme etc
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a new TV comedy dealing with topical issues
variations on...theme
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Most of his poems are variations on the theme of love.
warm to a theme/subject/topic etc
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The more she spoke, the more she warmed to her subject.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
broad
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Then he began hammering his fellow board members on two broader themes: water and housing.
central
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Ideas of childishness, linguistic degeneration, and confusion support the central theme of the degradation of essential ritual.
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While the picture is richly designed and photographed, the film falters in dealing with its central theme .
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A central theme in Bad Blood is places and spaces, and how we learn to shape ourselves around them.
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New governors in three of our largest states-California, Florida, and Illinois-have made prevention a central theme of their administrations.
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It is a central theme throughout the book, and she criticises frequently the Catholic beliefs and customs.
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Their story echoes the central themes in Part 1 of this book:-Principles.
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What has this to do with our central theme of locality?
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A central theme in their experience was the dogged struggle with subordinates about their respective responsibilities.
different
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Ask one of the residents to devise the questions on perhaps a different theme each week.
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Each floor had a different theme .
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Now, some children are performing plays with very different themes .
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Each rally has a different theme .
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But today's rally in Stoneleigh in Warwickshire had a different theme .
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Every year in August there is a Village Fayre down the main street, with a different theme each year.
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Each one is beautifully illustrated with a different theme , capturing a variety of aspects of Britain at its best.
dominant
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The dominant theme of this literature was concern for the well-being of the peasantry.
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Durkheim is perhaps the key protagonist of this dominant theme of profound social change.
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Britain's poor economic performance has been the dominant theme of political debate and economic discourse since the 1950s.
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However, for all dominant themes of harmony, within the noisy ambiguity there might also be quieter, discordant notes.
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The dominant theme remains still-life and the prominence of lamps and the pools of light which they shed.
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The desire for peace was the increasingly dominant and constant theme of popular opinion.
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A dominant theme in these portrayals is criminality in East End communities: small-time crooks, petty crime and drinking clubs.
familiar
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Both of these have been familiar themes over the past decade and more.
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That most men orient themselves more as subjects than as citizens is a familiar theme .
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But the sociological studies in this work go widely into much broader aspects of the familiar themes of energy and transport.
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Not knowing: This is a familiar theme .
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Appointees interviewed repeated a familiar theme: They all loved their jobs but are beating a retreat without regret.
general
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Inventions - the discovery of new information about the production process - are a particular example of this general theme .
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Placing the general theme in the center of the board, the class develops a list of subtopics that might be explored.
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The general theme for all the festivals has been the country and the city.
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Peters has augmented his books with countless articles, speeches, and seminars, all on the same general theme .
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Broadsheets turned to long articles about general themes , campaign strategies and sophisticated analysis of opinion polls.
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Those then are the general themes of Barbarossa as a legendary character.
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Two or three of these general themes offered a focus for work on each of the units.
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But some general themes can be extracted here.
important
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An important theme of empirical and theoretical work on contemporary social structure is that of social differentiation, and its spatial aspects.
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Then the question of social purpose once again became a relevant and important theme for adult educators.
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Changing the style and responsibilities of health service managers has been an important theme of Conservative health policy.
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However, decentralization raises an important theme for the empirical processes to be outlined in the next three chapters.
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This suggests an important theme which will be taken up in a later discussion of Paisley's leadership style.
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This is not to say that differences between the legal and practical definitions should not be an important theme for analysis.
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A second important theme in the evolving urban debate after 1979 is the issue of deregulation and decontrol.
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The nature of these relationships will form an important fourth theme in the work.
main
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I shall build up to this point using a specific example which is the other main theme of this chapter.
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The main theme is that the duties and responsibilities of each person in the organization are unambiguously defined.
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The booklet was divided into the four main themes identified above.
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One of the main themes of the subject in recent years has been corporatism - which particularly drew attention to group participation.
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In many traditional catalogues, access will only be provided to two or three main themes .
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It is remarkable how this interest extends even to topics which do not seem related to the main themes of his studies.
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There are many continuing themes in this novel and in my opinion the main theme is that of contentment.
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It is intended to convey an impression of the main themes at work. 1.
major
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A major theme in local government is to control the power of the professional.
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Four major themes characterized its approach: 1.
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They are based on a regular series of expert conferences, each on a major theme of policy.
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Crime and the State A second major theme is the effectiveness of the state in preventing and punishing crime.
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What the book does attempt to do is to provide a framework of problems and ideas, exploring major themes .
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The supple interplay of major themes will furnish it with the exhilarating sense of a mind meticulous but free.
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Five major themes can be explored.
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In addition, a number of major themes of change were identified.
recurrent
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Leaning rather than pulling is a recurrent theme in windsurfing which, once mastered, leads to rapid progress.
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But suicide is a recurrent theme in support group discussions.
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A repeated stress upon the benefits brought by diversity is a recurrent theme of the Council documents.
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We examine these recurrent themes in the managers' first-year biographies in the following pages.
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A quite different sort of example is the recurrent theme of asking for a sign in the gospel narratives.
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Yet, despite the stylistic variety, there is a noticeable abundance of recurrent themes and messages.
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The waking and stirring of life is a recurrent theme in this poem.
similar
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Take a critical look at effective sites on similar themes .
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You should also include links to sites with a similar theme or subject.
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In Psalm 8 a similar theme emerges.
■ NOUN
campaign
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The same anti-fashion pose will soon be used on other campaign themes .
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They felt I was the best candidate for change, which is my campaign theme .
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Clinton hammered away at campaign themes tailor-made to appeal to predominantly white swing voters who might otherwise vote for Republican Bob Dole.
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The Democrats even turned the issue into a 1996 campaign theme .
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Glassheim's campaign theme emphasized change and he frequently criticized Owens.
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It lays out his campaign themes of opportunity, responsibility and community.
music
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Subconsciously I remembered then began to hum the Robinson Crusoe theme music .
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The theme music for the show starts up.
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I know she liked the theme music .
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The theme music starts and I immediately find something more interesting to do.
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Giorgio Moroder provides the theme music .
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Then we play the theme music of his films here, and meditate.
park
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There are also plans for a theme park next to Disneyland.
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Popular with senior citizens and the motor-coach touring set, the Heritage Plantation is billed as an Americana theme park and arboretum.
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The dinosaurs in the fictitious theme park do manage to dismember some of their human visitors.
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It covers theme parks , ticketing, special events and accommodations.
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But it does strike one as, potentially, a marvelous theme park ride.
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Only that this would be on a farm: a sort of gastronomic theme park .
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Growth control was in and growth-inducers like theme parks were out.
song
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The singer was chuffed when her album title track Proud was chosen as Labour's election theme song .
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I worked on the theme song with Ziggy Marley.
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And you can sing that Morphin Ranger theme song ad nauseum.
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Sometimes the cartoon theme song is better than some of the episodes themselves.
tune
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The theme tune from Titanic was played at their wedding.
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Gowie Corby, Gowie Corby, the theme tune for all that's wrong in this school.
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Tampons that play the Hollyoaks theme tune when inserted?
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He had come to equate the programme's theme tune with dinner.
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We swung into the Brotherhood of Man's special theme tune and turned all the spots on the stadium entrance.
■ VERB
based
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Many novels of adventure have been based on the chivalric theme of service to women.
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Dance based on ethnic themes fared better.
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An innovative programme of promotions, based on the themes of connoisseurship and discovery, has built a solid following.
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Some Clubs feature their own children's programme, not necessarily based on a pirate theme .
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It involves the development of a restricted number of units of study based on themes which can be examined across the curriculum.
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The project is based on the theme of the inland waterway and its significance historically, socially, environmentally and culturally.
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It is an entirely new pack, based on the Christmas theme .
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Edward Taylor's inspirational jacquard designs include a variety of bold and vibrant patterns based upon cultural themes and motifs.
become
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Prejudice, in all its forms, would become a central theme of his work.
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Being wild, crazy and self-empowered became a theme of the group.
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That threat-suitably massaged-\#became a defining theme of political life.
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It is that dialogue that became a central theme of my work and the subject of this book.
choose
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The story you choose should reflect the theme you want to write about.
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I choose a theme by paying attention to the kids.
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If you agree on the details and choose a theme you can then weave them into your planning at every stage.
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So how do the fair's organisers' choose a theme and what do the dealers think of it?
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Here are some ideas to help you mix and match: Choose a theme that is realistic.
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Students choose one of three themes: Computer Systems Engineering.
continue
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Serve a sampling of olives to continue the exotic theme .
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It was an attempt to continue the themes developed over twenty-five years earlier in Totem and Taboo.
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Before continuing with our main theme there are a few points that may need clarifying.
develop
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To adequately understand the beginnings of urban sociology we need to develop this theme a little further.
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The tutorial provides the opportunity to develop themes or discuss problems usually on the basis of written work.
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I want to develop this theme for a while because it is central within this place of Walsingham.
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In order to develop my theme I need to make three important assumptions.
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The children listen attentively, argue, develop themes .
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This painting develops the theme of the model or the object depicted as a subject within the artist's studio.
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Decide whether you want to show variety or whether you want to develop a theme .
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When in Four Quartets he was concerned to state or develop a theme , he frequently relapsed into flatness or banality.
explore
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I will explore this theme in the future.
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She may feel cautious about exploring certain themes in her pretend play such as coping with aggression.
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A small number of in-depth interviews will explore these themes .
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Part Two of this book explores themes in the study of micropolitics.
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When they return to school there should be an opportunity for students to share their experiences and explore a variety of themes .
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What the book does attempt to do is to provide a framework of problems and ideas, exploring major themes .
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In this talk I want to explore two main themes .
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We will explore these themes in more detail in Chapter 20.
recur
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But it recurred as a theme in official and press responses to the other riots.
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The recurring theme here is that community makes learning possible.
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However, you do need a clear eye to pick up recurring patterns and themes in the room.
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This is one of the great recurring themes of human history, the balance between cooperation and conflict.
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Cattle are a recurring theme in any account of the bitterness that caused men like Robert Mugabe to take up arms.
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These recur as themes throughout the book.
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For example, one recurring theme is the extent to which our relationship to time is changing.
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The sociology of social norms is a recurring theme .
return
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We shall return to the overload theme in the final chapter.
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Again and again in recent years evolutionary biologists have found themselves returning to the theme of parasites.
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And, to return to the culinary theme , it began with a Cook.
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The brothers returned to the defense theme with ever greater urgency through the last months of 1949 and into 1950.
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We shall return to this theme in a later chapter.
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But he returns often to several themes , foremost the idea that knowledge -- bookish knowledge -- is a form of power.
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The last group of paintings, as yet incomplete, returns to the urban theme .
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But we shall return to this theme later.
warm
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Shaking a little at first but gradually warming to his theme , the sacked Chancellor dealt John Major a devastating blow.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a two-page theme on pollution
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George Eliot shows real concern for religious and moral themes.
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I really like the theme song to the "Mary Tyler Moore Show."
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One of the themes of the book is the relationship between people and nature.
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The conference's theme is education and training.
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The master bedroom is decorated in a Victorian theme .
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The play's central theme is greed and its corrupting effects.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And not only do the themes recur, but they overlap.
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But before I take up that theme let me try to get closer to the ground.
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She asks the host to describe the theme of the meeting and the desired length of the speech.
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Tartan patterns and plaids are applications of this theme .
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The first is the ability to communicate: to find a theme , to focus on an agenda.
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The supple interplay of major themes will furnish it with the exhilarating sense of a mind meticulous but free.