reliable guide
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreliableandguide
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reliable
adjective
uk/rɪˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/us/rɪˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/
Someone or something that is reliable can be trusted or believed because he, she, or it works or behaves well in the way ...
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guide
noun[C]
uk/ɡaɪd/us/ɡaɪd/
a book that gives you the most important information about a ...
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(Definition ofreliableandguidefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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However, it would also be areliableguideto most aspects of international procedure.
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It would not provide areliableguide.
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That is nearly always areliableguide.
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In small, cohesive societies, immune from foreign influence consuetudo, how the people actually speak, was areliableguide.
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I shall come shortly to what is areliableguide.
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It is a mostreliableguidein some things.
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Past performance is not areliableguideto future performance.
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The informants enjoyed the activity and it has been shown to provide areliableguideto how people evaluate real environments.
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Moreover, even if historical cost studies were accurate, the estimates might not be areliableguide to the cost of further improvements in the state of technology.
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Probably not even the trades indicated are areliableguideas it is difficult to know what ' hunter ', to mention but one example, meant in local terms.
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The distortion remains, because this figure of completions is not areliableguide.
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The statistics of accidents caused by drunkenness do not provide a veryreliableguide.
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The age of a hospital is not necessarily areliableguideto its condition.
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I do not think these figures are areliableguideto the future.
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No, not yet—about whether it provides areliableguideto our appoach to modern conditions.
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This was necessarily a very tentative estimate and should not be taken as areliableguide.
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Therefore, there must be a time limit to make the estimate areliableguideto investment.
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It is not areliableguideto what yet lies before us and him.
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A monthly hgure would certainly be noreliableguideto the year's out-turn.
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In such circumstances the measure based on actual productivity probably provides a morereliableguide.
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The age of a hospital building is not necessarily areliableguideto its condition.
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That makes the referendum a much more sensible andreliableguideto what is happening.
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These figures cannot be regarded as giving anyreliableguideto the extent of unemployment.
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That is found to be a far morereliableguideto drunkenness or otherwise.
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