reading material
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreadingandmaterial
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reading
noun
uk/ˈriː.dɪŋ/us/ˈriː.dɪŋ/
the skill or activity of getting information ...
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material
noun
uk/məˈtɪə.ri.əl/us/məˈtɪr.i.əl/
a physical substance that things can be ...
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(Definition ofreadingandmaterialfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofreading material
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While this makes for less excitingreadingmaterialfor children, it makes the corpus more suitable for our purposes.
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Given the level and nature of thisreadingmaterial(discussion of very common entitities) this occurs fairly frequently, especially in the case of where questions.
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Similarly, it is easy to take contemporary assertions about appropriatereadingmaterialfor different social groups at face value, rather than as defensive cultural strategies.
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Such fractionation of thereadingmaterialinto shorter segments appears consistent with the use of a sublexical reading procedure.
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The tests required children both to decode and to understand thereadingmaterialin order to achieve high scores.
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Readingmaterialwill no more be available in a few years, many machines are no longer constructed or maintained and for some formats it is practically impossible to find players.
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Given the high cost of books in the eighteenth century, circulating and community libraries were vital access points toreadingmaterialfor many readers.
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It suggests that by the end of the period there was a greater variety ofreadingmaterialavailable, and more secular locations for reading.
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If readers of drama had some reason to feel a growing sense of the genre's worth, consumers of news publications often felt the opposite about theirreadingmaterial.
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In both cases,readingmaterialand a brief list of questions were sent to students.
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Readingmaterialwas the most important of these, and the readiness with which specific book or magazine titles were recalled confirmed the reliability of the responses to this question.
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The audience then found their way through another cellar room where thereadingmaterial, the sheets of drawings, the designers' prints and photographs, and an animation were placed.
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The educational program included the creation of audiovisuals, as well as illustratedreadingmaterial explaining the merits of early prenatal diagnosis and defusing wrong concepts about its risks.
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Indeed, there is a real need for suitablereadingmaterialfor our troops serving at home.
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Hansard archive
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I have not managed to get through the whole of thereadingmaterialrelating to the other place.
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He is allowed newspapers and otherreadingmaterial.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I will send him the whole document, because it is crucialreadingmaterialon a serious issue.
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