ADJ
- full-time, part-time
- graduate, postgraduate
- independent, private
- This grammar book is suitable both for classroom use and for independent study
- academic
- The course integrates academic study and practical training
- language
- further
- Many undertake further studies after passing their A levels
- business, management, religious, women's, etc.
- She's doing women's studies at Liverpool University
VERB + STUDY
- take up
- Now that her children are all at school, she's going to take up full-time study again
- undertake
- continue, pursue
- complete, finish
- When he has completed his studies, he'll travel round the world
- resume, return to
- She returned to her studies when her children reached school age. 3 studies subjects
- do
- lecture in, teach
- He lectures in management studies
STUDY + NOUN
- group
- A bible study group meets every Sunday at the church
- leave
- The company allows its staff to take paid study leave
- skills
- The first part of the course is designed to develop students' study skills
PREP
- ~ for
- full-time study for an MA
PHRASES
- an area/a field of study
- Students do a foundation year before specializing in their chosen field of study. 2 studies sb's learning activities
ADJ
- new, present, recent
- The present study reveals an unacceptable level of air pollution in the city centre
- earlier, previous
- careful, close, comprehensive, detailed, intensive, serious
- a close study of share prices She devoted herself to a serious study of the Koran
- major
- definitive
- initial, pilot, preliminary
- A preliminary study suggested that the product would be popular
- research
- Research studies carried out in Italy confirmed the theory
- empirical, experimental, systematic, theoretical
- anthropological, historical, scientific, sociological
- field
- This phenomenon has been observed in both laboratory and field studies
- feasibility
- The company undertook an extensive feasibility study before adopting the new system
- literary
- case
- a detailed case study of nine companies
- comparative
- a comparative study of the environmental costs of different energy sources
VERB + STUDY
- commission, fund, support
- the recommendations of a study commissioned by the World Bank
- carry out, conduct, do, make, undertake, work on
- He has made a special study of the way that birds communicate with one another
- publish
STUDY + VERB
- take place
- aim at/to, be aimed at sth, attempt to, be designed to, set out to
- The study set out to examine bias in television news coverage
- be based on sth
- a study based on a sample of male white-collar workers
- cover sth
- The ten-year study covered 13,000 people aged 15-25
- concern sth, deal with sth, examine sth, focus on sth, investigate sth, look at sth
- compare sth
- The study compares the incidence of bone cancer in men and women
- conclude sth, demonstrate sth, find sth, indicate sth, report sth, reveal sth, say sth, show sth, suggest sth, warn sth
- provide sth
- The study provided valuable insight into the development of the disease
- highlight sth, identify sth
- The study highlighted three problem areas
STUDY + NOUN
- group
- The study group was selected from a broad cross section of the population
PREP
- in a/the ~
- In a recent study, 40% of schools were found to be understaffed
- under ~
- the biochemical process under study
- ~ into
- a study into the viability of the mine
- ~ on
- a definitive study on medieval weapons
PHRASES
- an area/a field of study, the results/findings of a study, the subject of a study
- Shakespeare is the subject of a new study by Anthony Bryan
PREP
- for
- She is studying hard for her A levels
- under/with
- He studied under Professor Sager
ADV
- carefully, closely, in depth, in detail, intently, intensively
- She picked up the letter and studied it carefully. In the third year a number of areas are studied in detail
- extensively, widely
- fully, thoroughly
- systematically
- thoughtfully
- He studied her thoughtfully, then smiled
PHRASES
- be easily/well studied
- The influence of heredity is best studied in genetically identical twins