receptive - use in sentences
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: We must do more to make the justice system receptive to the needs of victims.
- find: Museum staff then asked questions: Do schools find museums receptive?
Modifies a noun
- vocabulary: The main areas of impairment across the group are: receptive vocabulary, formulating sentences, verbal problem solving, literacy.
- audience: Missing Ray - Oct 04 Nice place to play, big stage receptive audience.
- coating: This material with white appearance has strong bondage with inkjet receptive coating, flexo printing.
- ear: She poured her ideas into Kris ' receptive ears.
- field: A set of motion energy receptive fields is designed in order to sample the power spectrum of a moving texture.
- mood: There is nothing like giving to put you into an open, receptive mood, with all the physiological benefits that this brings.
Modifying Another Word
- sexually: The male tested several of the females to access whether they were sexually receptive.
- extremely: The band played a " Last Night of the Proms " style concert to an extremely receptive audience.
- particularly: The human body is particularly receptive during the waxing moon.
- especially: You are a convincing speaker, but are not especially receptive to the ideas and opinions of others.
- increasingly: Whilst this meant there was an increasingly receptive audience for the pensions debate there was also considerable noise.
- very: Members of Council are very receptive to ideas from members, we just don't get enough of them.
Infinitive complement
- change: You will have the ability to be commercially aware, receptive to change with a confident, flexible attitude.
Used with adjective complement
- seem: For some reason the sky above Alaska seems strangely receptive to images of Bristol.
- prove: Leading retailers have already proved receptive to the concept of waste reduction.
- become: Your senses have become receptive to what is around.
- remain: Theories and understandings aside, my task boiled down to remaining receptive to the whispers of Spirit, and following its guidance.
Preposition: than
- other: Some classes seem easier to teach and more receptive than others.
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