formal recommendation

collocation in English

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formal
adjective
uk
/ˈfɔː.məl/
us
/ˈfɔːr.məl/
public ...
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recommendation
noun
uk
/ˌrek.ə.menˈdeɪ.ʃən/
us
/ˌrek.ə.menˈdeɪ.ʃən/
a suggestion that something is good or suitable for a particular purpose ...
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(Definition offormalandrecommendationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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On the other hand, aformalrecommendationin mandatory life sentence cases is just that—a recommendation.
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Further consultation will take place before anyformalrecommendationis made for designation of the loch.
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However, there was noformalrecommendationmade on tribunal time limits.
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This was not aformalrecommendationof the committee as a whole, but the view of the chairman expressed in his foreword.
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On the other hand, aformalrecommendationin mandatory life sentence cases is just that: a recommendation.
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They did so in this case and made aformalrecommendationto the full board, who endorsed it wholeheartedly.
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These were addressed solely to the circumstances of a particular area in which domiciliary treatment had in many cases been given withoutformalrecommendationfor sanatorium benefit.
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Will he, like some housing officers of public health departments, have to make aformalrecommendation to the housing manager, or to the housing committee through the housing manager?
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Although the body makes noformalrecommendationon this point, it suggests an approach under which some decommissioning would take place during the process of all-party negotiations.
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Central to these implications is theformalrecommendationfor action calculated during the evaluation stage.
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That committee issued aformalrecommendationthe following year.
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Formal recommendations were less often found.
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So far, no formal recommendations for designation have been put forward.
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This is not a question of formal recommendations but general day-to-day advice on the quality, design and purpose of our export publicity.
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The marketing advisers have made no formal recommendations.
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Although some delegates included suggestions for possible future actions in their papers, the conference made no formal recommendations, nor was this its purpose.
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The judge is not obliged to do so and in practice, formal recommendations are made only in a minority of cases.
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It would be inappropriate for him to respond before the authority makes formal recommendations, in the summer.
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Formal recommendations have not yet come to us.
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