deliberate

Object

jury: A second jury deliberated for nine hours and three minutes before reaching a majority decision that Lane was guilty.

Preposition: on

• matter: It could be asked to deliberate on the matter by the police or by the Secretary of State.
• issue: Members deliberated on the issues raised on the application.
• application: Members deliberated on the application, acknowledging the benefit to the local community of bringing an old derelict building back into use.

Modifies a noun

• self-harm: The number of episodes of deliberate self-harm is far greater.
• ploy: The silence that has been referred to is in no way a deliberate ploy to upset the community.
• deception: In our opinion this is deliberate deception by the council to conceal the extent of the plans.
• concealment: He accepted that staff were guilty of a serious omission, but not of deliberate concealment.
• attempt: A suicide attempt is a deliberate attempt by a person to end their own life.
• handball: The equalizer came from the penalty spot after 31 minutes after a deliberate handball in the area.

Used with adjective complement

seem: City's play often seemed far more deliberate, they always wanted an extra touch and moves broke down often through their own failings.

Followed by an intransitive particle

over: During this time the Parochial Church Council deliberated over what should become of the contents of the church, most notably the Morris windows.

Modifying Another Word

• apparently: NGOs have been hampered by diplomatic secrecy and an apparently deliberate decision to withhold information about the humanitarian dimensions of the war plans.
• quite: This is quite deliberate on my part for two reasons.
• entirely: The shock value of Jerry Springer: The Opera is entirely deliberate of course.
• carefully: The imperative need for the Security Council to carefully deliberate over decisions for the setting up of peace operations cannot be over-stated.
• obviously: He said: " The lid has been left on the box, so this was obviously deliberate.
• probably: It is notable ( and probably deliberate ) that at few radon conferences are the benefits of marginal intervention assessed in a health context.

Preposition: in

order: This was deliberate in order to take full account of their circumstances at the time of release.

Preposition: for

hour: A second jury deliberated for nine hours and three minutes before reaching a majority decision that Lane was guilty.