rigorous

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: We shall now proceed by making the discussion more rigorous.

Modifies a noun

• scrutiny: All ideas are subjected to the same rigorous scrutiny.
• testing: A case in point is the rigorous testing that goes on with pharmacological products.
• evaluation: We conclude by calling for a more rigorous evaluation of the effects of existing programs.
• grounding: Lectures, seminars and workshops will equip you with a rigorous grounding in critical spatial theory.
• inspection: These rigorous inspections have found nothing to suggest that Iran is attempting to build nuclear weapons.
• examination: However, a slightly more rigorous examination of the language syntax would take it from " good " to " great.

Modifying Another Word

• academically: Equally schools must be equipped to deliver students who can benefit from an academically rigorous HE system.
• methodologically: At present, there are no methodologically rigorous evaluations of drug services within British prisons.
• intellectually: Its aim is to foster a multidisciplinary and intellectually rigorous debate on the theoretical and practical aspects of interactive media in education.
• mathematically: The course will be explanatory rather than mathematically rigorous.
• insufficiently: The monitoring of trainees ' subject knowledge was insufficiently rigorous on most courses.
• sufficiently: DWI will seek to identify whether the experimental basis for the submitted data is sufficiently rigorous.

Infinitive complement

• ensure: There are situations in which plain English is not sufficiently rigorous to ensure that the text is unambiguous.

Used with adjective complement

• become: We hope the PCC will become more rigorous in its review of procedures for dealing with complaints.
• make: The requirements in relation to the classification of long-term liabilities should be made more rigorous.
• provide: The Committee aims to provide rigorous, evidence-based advice about matters relating to communicable diseases that are preventable or potentially preventable through immunization.
• use: Are the assessment methods used rigorous, valid and reliable?
• remain: Our approach to raising standards for all children will remain absolutely rigorous.

Preposition: in

• application: We will agree a policy and procedure with the unions that is explicit and rigorous in the application of market supplements.