Collocations withagent
These are words often used in combination withagent.
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active agent
Text can then offer itself as an active agent in performance and become an object in itself for performers to work with.
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anaesthetic agent
Nitrous oxide, used as anaesthetic agent, can result in myeloneuropathy.
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anti-cancer agent
It was investigated as a potential anti-cancer agent.
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anti-inflammatory agent
Animal models suggest lupeol may act as an anti-inflammatory agent.
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antibacterial agent
Triclosan is an antibacterial agent used in textiles, toothpaste, toys, soaps and other products in homes and clinical areas.
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antifungal agent
Fluconazole alone or in association with another antifungal agent was the treatment of choice for 89.7 % of the cases.
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antimicrobial agent
The list of causative antimicrobials is extensive but, in general, any antimicrobial agent that can get into the intestinal lumen can, even in small amounts, induce disease.
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antiviral agent
An alternative form of prophylaxis is to use an antiviral agent such as amantadine or rimantadine.
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autonomous agent
The basic problem faced by an autonomous agent is that of decision-making and, in particular, deciding what action to perform.
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binding agent
They will simply be represented by edges between their binding agent and their grouped occurrence in the body of the abstraction, as explained below.
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biocontrol agent
There are, however, no quantitative reports of its efficiency as a biocontrol agent.
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bleaching agent
It is used as a bleaching agent by french polishers and, after splitting, by those whose work is renovation.
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bonding agent
It involved compacting the asbestos waste after the addition of a bonding agent.
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booking agent
It is true that others are off-loaded as a result of errors that may be made by the airline and the booking agent.
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bulking agent
If the sucrose (or other sugar) that is replaced has contributed to the texture of the product, then a bulking agent is often also needed.
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casting agent
He later became a literary agent to writers and a casting agent to actors.
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causal agent
If the baseball as a whole is also a causal agent, we have too many causal agents.
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causative agent
Initially, the causative agent and treatment will be unknown, as will be the total number of patients.
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chemical agent
They argued that germs were a peculiar sort of chemical agent that played the role of independent biochemical agents in processes of fermentation and putrefaction.
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chemotherapeutic agent
The latter gene-targeted (' antigene ') strategy, where the oligonucleotide can be viewed as a potential chemotherapeutic agent, can achieve exquisite sequence-selective recognition of the targeted duplex.
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chemotherapy agent
It is also used in synergistic combination with the chemotherapy agent 5-fluorouracil.
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cleaning agent
None reported using an antibacterial cleaning agent on kitchen work surfaces.
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colouring agent
Aquamarine is created through the use of copper and cobalt compounds, whereas ruby red uses a gold solution as a colouring agent.
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corrosive agent
However, chloramine appears to be a corrosive agent in some water systems.
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cytotoxic agent
The exact effect of azathioprine is unknown but it is a derivate of 6-mercaptopurine, a cytotoxic agent that belongs to the antimetabolites.
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diplomatic agent
I have dealt with the personal position of the ambassador or the diplomatic agent himself.
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dispersal agent
The abundance of diaspores also showed a seasonal variation which depended on the dispersal agent.
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enforcement agent
The employment service is the enforcement agent.
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extension agent
Note that these data were not collected by the extension agent working in the community.
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external agent
Unaccusatives and anticausative alternators thus have in common the lack of a specified external agent for the action of the verb.
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federal agent
I was invited by a federal agent and a county agent to look at the system.
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fellow agents
He is seen various times throughout the game, commanding his fellow agents.
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flavouring agent
The vitamin content of onions is low, but they are of great value as a flavouring agent.
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foaming agent
Local authorities which try to break down this foaming agent are put to considerable expense.
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immunosuppressive agent
Overall, 9 % of cases took prescription antibiotics, 3 % laxatives, 16 % antacids, and 1 % immunosuppressive agents in the previous 28 days.
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independent agent
Other forces were more relaxed, but even now there is far too much fiction in the idea that prosecuting counsel is an independent agent.
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infectious agent
This estimator would tell one how many new subjects an already infected subject transmitted the infectious agent to, on average, during the given interval.
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infective agent
This is likely to be the case whether the infective agent is microbial or protozoan.
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intelligence agent
His business would be to be a kind of super-liaison officer, counsellor, adviser, intelligence agent; and to these ends all his energies should be directed.
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intelligent agent
Based on intelligent agent software could change the whole way in which companies are structured and negotiate with each other.
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leavening agent
Since hartshorn salt can be difficult to find, many modern recipes use baking powder as the leavening agent.
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lethal agent
Withdrawing treatment likewise has a nonbranching causal structure - disconnecting a ventilator causes death and death causes some further end - but no lethal agent.
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masking agent
This class of substances, which includes for example finasteride, has been rendered ineffective as masking agents of steroids through close consideration of steroid profiles by antidoping laboratories.
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moral agent
And let's suppose that every moral agent in every ideal world has significant freedom.
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pathogenic agent
No pathogenic agent was found to account for the fever.
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pharmacological agent
In both cases, the slices were preincubated for 5 min with the pharmacological agent before the dye was added.
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potential agent
In particular, it is almost impossible to globally foresee and influence the space of potential agent interactions.
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purchasing agent
Are the using departments to have the custody of their own stores or is there to be a purchasing agent and traffic stores superintendent?
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rational agent
A rational agent would only modify its preferences upon receipt of new information.
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registered agent
To coordinate collaborative activities among the agents in a domain, the registry maintains information for each registered agent in a data structure called the coordination structure.
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rogue agent
The rogue agent then asks the person to sign a document which is perfectly legally drawn up and is legally binding.
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sales agent
This step-by-step intensification of criticism reflects his increasing annoyance with his friend's merged identity of friend and sales agent.
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service agent
Goal is to help the potential buyer and / or the sales representative or service agent to efficiently guide through the product selection and purchasing process.
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sleeper agent
Many times the unveiling of a sleeper agent is an important part of the plot and acts as surprise element and a plot twist.
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special agent
It is just that each of us has certain special agent-relative reasons concerning the latter that do not derive from goodness of outcomes.
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supernatural agent
For example, the unintentional breaking of a mirror may have an effect on the supernatural agent responsible for causing natural agents bad luck. 13.
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talent agent
When he was still in high school, he was discovered by a talent agent while out shopping with friends.
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theatrical agent
I was attracted to theatre and drama, and eventually found myself working as a junior in the office of a theatrical agent.
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therapeutic agent
Thus, galectin-9 has the potential to be used as a therapeutic agent for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, as well as other inflammatory diseases.
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thickening agent
Ehrlich conveniently compared the behavior of blood serum in the organism with the action of serum when used as a thickening agent in calico printing.
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ticket agent
The station has a small station house on the inbound track, but there is no ticket agent.
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topical agent
He tried the oil as an oral and topical agent in two cases of leprosy and reported significant improvements in an 1854 paper.
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toxic agent
The example of thalidomide, which was prescribed for its central sedative action, and which proved a toxic agent to the nervous system, remains in evidence.
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undercover agent
Of particular interest for its aspects of ' sleuthing ' is the story of the undercover agent, recruited to collect evidence while acting as a nurse's aide.
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user agent
For example, a user agent (software or human) might ask what kind of ontologies a service supports or what kinds of query it will respond to.
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viral agent
Although the outbreak aetiology remained elusive, we suspect that it was caused by an uncultivated viral agent.
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