comprehensive programme

collocation in English

meaningsofcomprehensiveandprogramme

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comprehensive
adjective
uk
/ˌkɒm.prɪˈhen.sɪv/us
/ˌkɑːm.prəˈhen.sɪv/
complete and including everything that ...
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programme
noun[C]
uk
/ˈprəʊ.ɡræm/us
/ˈproʊ.ɡræm/
a broadcast on television ...
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(Definition ofcomprehensiveandprogrammefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I find that quite acomprehensiveprogrammeto have mounted in 60 days.
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The citizens charter is the mostcomprehensiveprogrammeever for raising standards in the public sector.
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There is an ongoingcomprehensiveprogrammeof national and local action to recruit and retain nurses, midwives and health visitors.
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That is acomprehensiveprogrammethat will put in place real opportunities for people to learn.
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We are committed to acomprehensiveprogrammeof welfare reform.
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The most noteworthy examples are the corporatisation of government business enterprises and acomprehensiveprogrammeof competitive tendering and contracting for publicly provided services.
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In a period in which they anticipated rising profits, the millowners regarded the task of a morecomprehensiveprogrammeof 'rationalisation' with more enthusiasm.
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But commissions of association did serve two useful purposes in support of thiscomprehensiveprogrammefor granting new charters.
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Where teachers work together, a morecomprehensiveprogrammecan emerge that enables students to take advantage of the combined skills of their teachers.
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So acomprehensiveprogrammeof coverage of all trusts was justified.
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Acomprehensiveprogrammeof research is being undertaken on short-crested waves produced by obliquely reflecting waves from a rigid vertical wall.
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More generally, a targeted approach to quality improvement for any size hospital may diminish the costs of the initiative rather than attempting a broader, morecomprehensiveprogramme.
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There was nocomprehensiveprogramme, no widespread effort to roll back corporate privileges, only a policy of correcting what were viewed as isolated failures by urban magistrates.
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Such biological control should be integrated into a morecomprehensiveprogrammeusing, for example, the sterile insect release technique or mating disruption as the key method of control.
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Our manifesto commits us to acomprehensiveprogrammeof constitutional reform.
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We have acomprehensiveprogrammewhich we feel will help to unlock the situation in our country.
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Acomprehensiveprogrammeof six national and 11 regional training courses on aspects of wildlife and landscape conservation is proposed for 1990.
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All those leaving under the scheme receive acomprehensiveprogrammeof support services.
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There was nocomprehensiveprogrammefor in-service training.
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But if there had been acomprehensiveprogrammeundertaken where would the steel have been which we needed at the outbreak of war.
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