Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: Don't think you have to go to a tropical island to make time together meaningful.

• do: Dug at them a bit at lunchtime, but didn't have time to do anything meaningful toward fixing them, maybe tomorrow.

Modifies a noun

• dialog: We are well prepared to engage in meaningful dialog about how schools can be better managed.

• comparison: The sample sizes utilized provide adequate numbers to allow meaningful inter-Board comparisons to be drawn.

• conversation: I don't have to have a deep meaningful conversation, just something.

• engagement: Preliminary analysis suggested that ' micro taught ' had a more meaningful engagement with reflection.

• participation: Participation should be reworded to include support from an advocate, where this is required to ensure meaningful participation by a service user.

• involvement: However, use of these techniques may preclude the meaningful involvement of the NGO's beneficiaries.

Modifying Another Word

• linguistically: Previous research focused on developing an effective, linguistically meaningful, grammatical query system.

• clinically: The size of the differences is also interesting, and most of the statistically significant results would be clinically meaningful as well.

• scientifically: This poster paper is a progress report, describing the main procedures involved in the analysis to get scientifically meaningful results.

• personally: The new science museum experience offered dynamic, personally meaningful engagement with structured'discovery learning ' .

• physically: The first is to determine values of physically meaningful parameters such as potential energy barriers and the average energy transferred in a collision.

• socially: The objects are reinscribed into a socially meaningful language.

Infinitive complement

• speak: And, back at the level of reality, it is not meaningful to speak of the Source ' willing ' .

• talk: Is it meaningful to talk of 'world citizenship ' ?

Used with adjective complement

• become: Eventually the signs became slightly more meaningful, we were going to Wolford Chapel.

• seem: Life had seemed meaningful, immensely so, to his childhood self.

• remain: Can any meaningful human endeavor today remain meaningful when the " bottom line " is that the participants must operate as chattels?

Preposition: in

• context: It seems that talking about different ' publics ' is more meaningful in this context than talking about ' the public ' .