thorough look
collocation in Englishmeaningsofthoroughandlook
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thorough
adjective
uk/ˈθʌr.ə/us/ˈθɝː.ə/
detailed ...
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look
noun
uk/lʊk/us/lʊk/
the act of looking at someone ...
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(Definition ofthoroughandlookfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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And we do not appear to give ourselves even a few hours, a few days to have athoroughlook.
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The time has now come for athoroughlookat the whole problem and for deciding some kind of national policy.
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We will have athoroughlookat the regulatory framework and the enforcement mechanism.
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It is high time—the debate on this amendment demonstrates it—that we had athoroughlookat policing in the late 20th century.
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Is it not time that we had athoroughlookat the foreign currency element of our arms bill?
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He is also right to say that we need to take a careful andthoroughlookat how the disease spread as it did.
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I once got in a helicopter to have athoroughlookat a dockyard.
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But it is time to take athoroughlookat the educational help that we give students in this country.
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Will she not take athoroughlookat the whole financial set-up of both these bodies?
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Will he then take athoroughlookinto it, because he ought to know?
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So the survey took athoroughlookat what the advertising industry goes in for.
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There is a commitment to establish the policy commission on food and farming and for it to take athoroughlookat the future.
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Surely we need athoroughlookat what works and at what is successful, and then go for it.
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Therefore, it is reasonable to ask whether this is the right way for us to do it, or whether we should have athoroughlookat the whole scheme.
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I strongly support that principle, which will make possible athoroughlookat the doubtful without creating panic, and reveal flaws where none was thought to exist.
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We believe it right—without prejudice to the desirability of taking a long andthoroughlookat the whole of trade union law—to redress the balance without delay.
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We must start our homework with athoroughlookat the density question and decide what we want densities to be in the towns of tomorrow.
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I hope no one is going to tell me that local government and its machinery does not need a pretty thorough looking at.
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I agree that morally, on the surface, this may appear to be a case which requires complete investigation and thorough looking into.
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