opening chapter
collocation in Englishmeaningsofopeningandchapter
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opening
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈəʊ.pən.ɪŋ/us/ˈoʊp.nɪŋ/
happening at the beginning of an event ...
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chapter
noun[C]
uk/ˈtʃæp.tər/us/ˈtʃæp.tɚ/
any of the separate parts into which a book or other piece of text is divided, usually given a number ...
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(Definition ofopeningandchapterfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Theopeningchapterbegins with deciding which birds are seabirds.
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The phrase provides the title of theiropeningchapter.
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Theopeningchaptersets out a methodological framework for analysis.
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Theopeningchapterpaints the background against which the book is to be read.
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In fact, the term does not seem to be mentioned after theopeningchapter.
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In theopeningchapter, the authors sketch the theoretical, methodological, and historical basis underlying their study.
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Theopeningchapterprovides an overview followed by a description of the participant recruitment and data collection procedures.
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Furthermore, the theoretical debate offered in theopeningchapteris not pulled through sufficiently in subsequent chapters.
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Theopeningchapterof the book deals with the construction of the town and the main problems which it faced.
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Theopeningchaptercomprises a description of the methodology used and an overview of the theories which informed the study.
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Theopeningchaptersets the scene by defining the term sandwich generation and providing an overview of macro-social trends.
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The wheel of fortune, as theopeningchapteris devoted to showing, turns in an unpredictable but irrevocable manner.
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Theopeningchapterdiscusses each contribution but does not attempt to find a unifying theme for all of the papers.
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I said that it was theopeningchapter, the beginning.
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Theopeningchapteroffers a challenge to those who take care-giving for granted or assume that modes of caring come naturally to people.
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These colours are firmly nailed to the mast with a competent exposition of the relevance of lifespan to social cognition in theopeningchapter.
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Theopeningchapterprovides the framework for the book with a brief review of the situation and the lacunae that exist.
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Theopeningchapteris a helpful, accessible and up-to-date review of diagnostic issues, the course of the disorder and comorbidity.
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The workplace, the market place, commonable lands, places of religious worship and even, as theopeningchapterdemonstrates, the theatre all bore witness to riot.
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The danger however is that theopeningchapterin its polemicism may deter the very readers who would most benefit from reading on.
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These women are hard to track down and are portrayed in theopeningchapteras almost mythical characters, rarely glimpsed or encountered.
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Hisopeningchapteroutlines the central questions which enquire about the destiny of musicians after they have finished their musical education and how their careers develop into adulthood.
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The two editors set the scene very carefully in theopeningchapterand the subsequent chapters follow the framework set out and use the concepts explored there.
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None of them are named in theopeningchapter, and in subsequent ones they are introduced in passing and without explanation, often by nicknames or abbreviated first names.
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