Collocations withchain
These are words often used in combination withchain.
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bicycle chain
Let us take the illustration of the young man who used the bicycle chain.
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broken chain
Therefore, it is necessary to involve the state, the education system and the social services to restore this broken chain.
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causal chain
Note that if either of these perspectives is taken, the causal chain has effectively been shortened and has acquired new beginning and end points.
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chain migration
A very great deal of new information came to light that allowed us to construct patterns of relationships, chain migration and the functioning of communities.
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chain of causality
But explanations of historical events can seldom reveal the full chain of causality.
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chain of causation
In this paper one possible chain of causation in the understanding of this question is suggested.
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chain of reasoning
But what is it, specifically, that makes this chain of reasoning a critique?
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chain pickerel
Additional species present included pumpkinseed, chain pickerel, landlocked alewife, brood salmon and eels.
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commodity chain
A more systematic concentration on the ' commodity chain ', from field to consumer, would have been helpful.
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complex chain
Rather, it is part of a complex chain of events in which the conscious will does not necessarily come at the beginning of the chain.
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endless chain
Research problems produce answers, which in turn produce new research problems; and this constitutes an endless chain of problems and solutions.
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gold chain
This woman appeared to be very old for she was grey, wore mauve blouses and used glasses on a long gold chain for reading.
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golden chain
She eats the baby, but its siblings narrowly escape by climbing up a golden chain sent from heaven.
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grocery chain
Would a fraction of that waste have been tolerated in other aspects of public service, still less in a grocery chain?
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heavy chain
The ontogenesis of myosin heavy chain isoforms in the developing human heart.
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large chain
For conventional products, a high proportion of sales is made directly to large chain-store retailers.
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length of chain
That was made possible simply by adding a longer length of chain to the cuffs.
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linear chain
First, a cell is updated at most once, from a self-reference to a pointer to either another cell in a linear chain or a structure.
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long chain
Based on the theories and some observational evidence the long chain hydrocarbons slowly accumulate on the surface.
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major chain
In addition to central buying, the five major chain stores have become increasingly powerful by introducing the practice of 'retail packs'.
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national chain
One constantly sees the small shop or medium-sized shop being bought out by a big national chain of stores and losing their individuality.
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polymer chain
This justifies to some extent the modeling of folding through coarse-grained polymer chain models.
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polymerase chain
A rapid polymerase chain reactionbased assay characterizing rhizosphere populations of 2,4diacetylphloroglucinol-producing bacteria.
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polypeptide chain
These sequential activities are also encoded within the intron, on a single multifunctional polypeptide chain.
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respiratory chain
The respiratory chain is located within the mitochondrial inner membrane.
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retail chain
It is not clear how far price pressures will be passed down the production and retail chain.
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silver chain
A lord mayor carries a symbol of his office—a gold chain or gold and silver chain—which is regarded as an article of personal adornment.
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steel chain
Heavy draught traces are made from iron or steel chain.
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supermarket chain
Once the sequential test has been exhausted, a supermarket chain may say that the only place where it can go is out of town.
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supply chain management
His research interests include product design, supply chain management, and mathematical programming.
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timing chain
A significant failure would thus discharge pressurized steam and hot coolant into the timing chain case.
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transport chain
During ischaemia, when oxygen supply is limited, the electron transport chain of the inner mitochondrial membrane becomes highly reduced.
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unbroken chain
Direct causation is "a single cause from which an unbroken chain of control leads to the effect" shown by prototypical transitive events.
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watch chain
They asked him to value a gold watch chain, and then they hit him on the head with a sock filled with lead.
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