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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a basic/fundamental/underlying assumption
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There is a basic assumption in international law that a state will protect its citizens.
an underlying assumption (= a belief that is used as the basis for an idea, but which may not be correct )
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There seems to be an underlying assumption in what he says that women are weaker than men.
an underlying motive (= a motive that is not directly stated )
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The treaty’s underlying motive was to make Japan a strong ally of the US.
an underlying theme (= one that is important but not very noticeable )
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One of the book’s underlying themes is the struggle for human rights.
the fundamental/underlying cause (= the root cause )
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The underlying cause of insomnia is often anxiety.
the principle underlying sth
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What are the principles underlying this form of treatment?
the underlying aim (= a basic aim, that people sometimes do not notice )
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The games all have an underlying aim: survival.
the underlying issue (= the cause, or a more important problem that is related to something )
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This research explores some of the underlying issues related to high unemployment.
the underlying/long-term trend (= the trend over a long period of time )
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The underlying trend is for rich economies to get richer.
underlying logic (= logic that is important, but not easily noticed )
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These word lists show students the underlying logic of English spelling.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
assumption
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This assumption underlies literacy programmes both in the developed and developing world.
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Parham marked... a pronounced turnabout in the assumptions believed to underlie juvenile mental health law.
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Such an assumption underlies the ethnographic papers in this volume, and the argument will be further elaborated below.
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No such assumption underlies the attributions of neutrality.
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But this decision will need to be informed by an understanding of what theoretical assumptions underlie the different descriptions.
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Ageist assumptions underlie policies in the social security field and not surprisingly therefore, these policies reinforce age discrimination.
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It should examine the attitudes, values and assumptions that underlie the kind of information that comes from various sources.
factor
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Although many factors will underlie such disparity, I suspect there are two, so far unmentioned, which are relevant.
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This research aims to investigate the factors that underlie the current restructuring of that sector.
principle
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That principle underlies all the policies in this Manifesto.
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So the artist, with his brush, is manipulating tinctures of the very principles that underlie all nature.
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In other words the principle of provenance which underlies archival recordkeeping takes on a different form when electronic information is being considered.
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We have looked at some of the key principles that underlie microeconomics.
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The Second Reading of a Bill usually deals with the principles that underlie it.
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Underlying principles Four principles therefore underlie randomised prevention trials.
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Many of the principles which underlay the provision of rural housing in the nineteenth century reasserted themselves in a new institutional framework.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
underlying cause/principle/problem etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Social problems and poverty underlie much of the crime in today's big cities.
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The soil is underlain by hard clay.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I am proud of the invitation and the hard-won respect that underlies it.
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In other words the principle of provenance which underlies archival recordkeeping takes on a different form when electronic information is being considered.
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The possibility that the gender-differentiated self-strategies I proposed could be combined in different ways underlies my intention in proposing them.
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The traffic of ions into and out of neurons underlies their capacity to generate and transmit electrical signals.
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This underlies the necessity of the mutuality mentioned in the last paragraphs.
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This concept underlies a technique for compressing video which has become vitally important in multimedia.
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To some extent unconventional sources of natural gas, new technology, and new economic incentives, underlie this greater optimism.
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Try spider plants, as they absorb formaldehyde, which is found in synthetic carpets, underlay, chipboard and wood treatments.