proper context
collocation in Englishmeaningsofproperandcontext
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proper
adjective
uk/ˈprɒp.ər/us/ˈprɑː.pɚ/
real, satisfactory, suitable, ...
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context
noun[C]
uk/ˈkɒn.tekst/us/ˈkɑːn.tekst/
the situation within which something exists or happens, and that can help ...
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(Definition ofproperandcontextfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofproper context
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It illustrates the need to develop a more sophisticated understanding of parochial officeholding if we are to place this institution in itspropercontext.
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The documents are briefly discussed and placed in theirpropercontext.
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As pointed out by one of the referees of this article, these examples can be made to work in thepropercontext.
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Still, the author does make a number of sweeping statements which ought to be corrected or put in apropercontext.
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Most chapter s contain short, concise and informative historical per spectives in chapter introductions placing technical material in itspropercontext.
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Skills are capabilities that, if placed in thepropercontext, achieve or maintain particular states in the world.
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However, these results must be placed in theirpropercontext.
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Her family did not exist in thepropercontextof marriage with gender-specic labor division.
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It studies cognition in itspropercontext, relating it to foraging, reproductive, alliance forming, and other biological strategies.
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In thepropercontext, propaganda did serve as a focus for discontent already aroused by deeply felt resentments and fears.
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Any interpretation of this kind would entail wrenching isolated statements out of theirpropercontext.
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It does, however, beg the question of what exactly is, as he says, "thepropercontext" for understanding the hominid pattern?
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However, they put the later results into theirpropercontext.
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These readings, taken from larger works, cannot be understood by the non-historian withoutpropercontext, and the editor's introduction provides some historical background to the debates surrounding the chosen works.
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Thus, in point of fact, only a small proportion of hominid brain size increase can be explained by body size if we take thepropercontextinto account.
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Here we provide a solution to the extended problem referred to as language interpretation, of findingpropercontexttheory so that an analysis of an observed discourse is possible.
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I believe that this proposal has been tabled outside itspropercontext.
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At this point, perhaps we can consider some of those problems in theirpropercontext.
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It must all be put in thepropercontext, and there is no surprise about the policy to which he draws attention.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
That demonstrates the difficulty of achieving something that is absolutely right and is set in thepropercontext.
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