close look

collocation in English

meaningsofcloseandlook

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close
adjective
uk
/kləʊs/
us
/kloʊs/
having direct family connections or shared beliefs, support, ...
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look
noun
uk
/lʊk/
us
/lʊk/
the act of looking at someone ...
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(Definition ofcloseandlookfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofclose look

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Acloselookat the proofs shows that we can weaken this requirement, thereby strengthening each of these theorems as follows.
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One of the virtues of this book is that it gives us acloselookat the kind of painstaking intellectual labor such reform involves.
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In particular, it will be important to have acloselookat the relative situation of debtors and creditors in the economy.
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I will develop a way of studying instruments by taking acloselookat one of them: the tachistoscope.
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Acloselookshows that while minority overrepresentation approaching parity was indeed the case at higher levels, it clearly was not at lower levels.
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It is therefore important to take acloselookat these characteristics.
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We will argue that when we take acloselookat the nature of belief (7) it is not rationally compelling.
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The paper also takes acloselookat various patterns of marriage in different social classes and at inheritance.
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Acloselookat the pattern of food consumption is therefore appropriate.
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Acloselookat the 1905-6 commission in context of earlier reforms is also revealing.
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A rigorous description of the set of call-by-need evaluation contexts demands acloselookat the call-by-need evaluation strategy.
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Worse still, acloselookat (22a) reveals the technical inadequacy of the metrical account.
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Acloselookat one group's belief system provides insights that can be used in addressing linguistic discrimination, with information on how varieties and features of varieties are perceived.
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Acloselookat interest rate spread, particularly for 1995\\96 (the year of real opening-up), suggests that the market became less efficient, which is counter-intuitive.
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Their recommended incrementalism, if one accepts their dismissal of more comprehensive approaches, is worth acloselook: a 'road map' (their label) to an incremental approach to structuring universal insurance.
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To show this, we take acloselookon expression (3) for non-redundant mechanisms (n = m) and (4) for redundant mechanisms (m > n), respectively.
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Such a case would surely have to take acloselookat the meaning of quantitative talk about individual goodness, but this topic has been rather neglected.
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Moreover, acloselookat these examples reveals that when a married brother remained in the parental household, it was likely to be just one stage in his life-cycle.
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Acloselook, however, reveals that there is a systematic deviation in the data from the mass-action model : the fitted curve is ' steeper ' than the observed fraction of infected hosts.
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I went to bed at 3.10 this morning, after taking acloselookat its merits and demerits.
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