manual search

collocation in English

meaningsofmanualandsearch

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manual
adjective
uk
/ˈmæn.ju.əl/us
/ˈmæn.ju.əl/
done with ...
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search
noun
uk
/sɜːtʃ/us
/sɝːtʃ/
an attempt to find someone ...
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(Definition ofmanualandsearchfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmanual search

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In the old days researchers had to do amanualsearchof a corpus to find instances of clefts, a very laborious task.
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Themanualsearchin the articles' reference lists added fifteen references.
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A secondarymanualsearchof references from retrieved papers was then made.
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In themanualsearchtask, for example, the parameters described in the dynamic model serve to increase task difficulty by experimentally increasing the salience of a stimulus to be inhibited.
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Details of accidents before that year can be obtained only bymanualsearchof old accident and signal logs.
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Hansard archive
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For the same reason amanualsearchto match addresses is also ruled out.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
To attempt to do so would require amanualsearchof all 76,000 pensions files, and that would incur disproportionate cost.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
To provide the information requested would involve amanualsearchof files which would incur disproportionate costs.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
To provide the information requested would require amanualsearchthrough a very large number of individual grant scheme files.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
To ask posts to provide this information now would require them to carry out amanualsearchof their records.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
This information is not held centrally, and amanualsearchof all the case files would incur disproportionate cost.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
It is not possible to obtain such information except by amanualsearchof files at disproportionate cost.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
To provide the detailed information requested would require amanualsearchof all the returns provided by forces for each of the last five years.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
This has led to an extensive and time-consumingmanualsearchof a large number of old files.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
To extract this information would entail amanualsearchof some 14 million index records and the cost would not be justified.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
A substantialmanualsearchof records is required to collate the information requested.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Themanualsearchwould breach the guidelines on disproportionate cost.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
To provide the information requested would involve amanualsearchof files that would incur disproportionate costs.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
For me personally, amanualsearchis perhaps more invasive than being checked in a body scanner.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Information prior to that date could be gathered only by amanualsearchat disproportionate cost.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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