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intensivo, adj.
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adjective
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(concentrated)(study/preparation) intensivo(course/training) intensivo(farming) intensivo(fire/shelling) intensivothey made an intensive search of the building — registraron el edificio detenidamente- But many of these ingredients haven't been subjected to intensive research that proves this benefit.
- A passenger whose baggage triggers an alarm might in turn be subject to intensive search procedures - and those are no laughing matter.
- Security inside and outside the court was heavy with everyone entering the building scanned and subject to intensive searches.
- The basic case study entails the detailed and intensive analysis of a single case.
- There he will join a group of more than 100 other young hopefuls on a one week trial, and if successful will return in August along with thirty others for a full 10 month intensive course.
- It was a rigorous and intensive course, and this was reflected in the number of passes.
- ‘This programme is a thorough and intensive course designed to produce a safe, confident and competent pilot,’ Xu said.
- But the specialist training required to be the best at the job does not come easily, with each animal having to undertake a rigorous 13-week intensive course.
- A core of crime-busting constables will be singled out for intensive training and form a highly-skilled squad of at least 150 specialists.
- Because of their involvement in a number of incidents and controversies over the past 50 years, dioxins have been subjected to the most intensive studies.
- Kelly was subject to intensive questioning for days.
- That, too, was subjected to intensive monitoring.
- She was subjected to an intensive combination of cytotoxic drugs and cranial radiotherapy.
- It helps if every learner exploits his interpersonal skills to the fullest through intensive courses.
- Large businesses and high wealth individuals will continue to be the subject of intensive risk reviews.
- You will then be subjected to an intensive onslaught of facial improvements.
- She said the public would be consulted next year and there would be a thorough, intensive review.
- But through group therapy and intensive one on one sessions, she seems to be almost fully recovered.
- They took part in an intensive English class for eight weeks almost immediately on arrival.
- Over the course of 10 months, fellows participate in seven intensive sessions held in different cities.
- Nor is a return to ‘primitive’ farming practices the only alternative to factory farming and highly intensive agriculture.
- Like intensive power production, so intensive agriculture spares the landscape.
- The location of participation across the state, as expected, closely follows the areas of intensive commercial agricultural production.
- Many diversified from intensive agriculture to dairying.
- After several centuries of intensive cultivation agricultural productivity had probably started to fall, living standards for most were declining, and population growth had ceased.
- Instead, due to less intensive agriculture, such plantations are confined to the areas around habitation and in some of the more accessible valleys.
- In the UK intensive agriculture with the use of chemical pesticides and herbicides to boost crop production has squeezed wildlife out of many former strongholds.
- They are poor farmers who could never easily afford expensive chemicals used in intensive farming, going organic to boost their meagre incomes.
- There was an intensive agriculture linked to international markets through a key product: silk.
- The report says highly intensive agriculture using herbicide tolerant GM crops may be very damaging to biodiversity.
- This livestock disease is endemic in countries unable to afford intensive agriculture, yet has been absent from Europe for three decades.
- But perhaps the true price has been hidden, and the cost is perhaps even greater than some intensive agriculture, because the damage reaches far beyond the farms.
- Cattle farming required a more intensive cultivation of fodder crops such as maize, potatoes, turnips, and mangels.
- Many wheat breeders were successful in breeding semi-dwarf, high-yielding varieties that were well adapted to intensive agriculture.
- The population, divided into a dozen chiefdoms and supported by intensive agriculture, soon rose to 15,000 or more.
- Although the food industry has been racked by crisis, Scottish ministers still favour intensive farming with chemicals.
- In Japan, intensive agriculture came in with migrants from the mainland about 2,300 years ago.
- Intensive animal ‘farming’ of any kind is a disgusting business, but intensive chicken factories are really repulsive and infinitely crueller than any kind of hunting.
- No doubt there are some dodgy practices on intensive farms - most big farms are big businesses out to maximise profits and only too happy to cut corners.
- BSE is a direct outcome of this intensive, highly concentrated model of beef production.
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Linguisticsintensivo- Fernando Pereira emailed an anecdote about intensive use of eh.
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Physics(property/measurement) intensivo- Clearly, the intercept differences produced by the intensive properties were substantially smaller than those produced by spatial properties.
- It is an intensive physical property of a particular material and does not depend on the amount of material present.
- The first one is the vestibule of the channel, where the curvature of the dielectric boundary generates intensive electrostatic forces.
- The answer could be that in the Antarctica snowfields, they are subject to intensive UV irradiation which causes ionisation.
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noun
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- Particles are added, usually as completives and intensives, to two and three-syllable verbs of Latin origin: contract out, divide off/up, level off, measure off/out, select out, separate off/out.
- That is from the words of the intensives used when they talk about ‘very likely’, ‘you see it all the time’, et cetera.
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