Preposition: on

• matter: It could be asked to deliberate on the matter by the police or by the Secretary of State.

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.

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.