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‘Properties can be desirable.’

[⟨det (plur property.n)⟩ desirable.a]

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With the methyl group consistently on one side, such molecules tend to coil into a helical shape; these helices then line up next to one another to form the crystals that give commercial polypropylene many of its desirable properties.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In this paper we use Gaussian processes for this and derive a covariance function equivalent to the thin plate spline regularizer which has desirable properties for shape modelling.
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Their commercial utility was based largely on their chemical stability, including low flammability, and desirable physical properties, including electrical insulating properties.
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Trajectories from this reduced – order sliding mode have desirable properties (e. g., the system naturally slides along it until it comes to rest at a desired equilibrium).
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Marc Todd of Dosop, an international property company based in West London, raises the concern that some of overdevelopment in the big resorts such as Sunny Beach and suggests that there is a large supply of less desirable properties coming on the market.
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Lipocalins have desirable properties in terms of crystallization ability, molecular size, and commercial availability.
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In the British National Corpus:

This permits reduction in quantities of cement and water required to give desirable properties such as workability, strength and durability potential.
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Thermal degradation generally involves changes to the molecular weight (and molecular weight distribution) of the polymer and typical property changes include reduced ductility and embrittlement, chalking, color changes, cracking, general reduction in most other desirable physical properties.
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This approach has a number of desirable properties: Backwards Compatibility.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

These issues motivated the design of a new scheme, WMAC, which has a number of desirable properties.
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At a more technical level, various versions of the Kaldor – Hicks criteria lack desirable formal properties.
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Desirable properties.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

These processes modify the behavior of the steels in a beneficial manner to maximize service life, e. g., stress relieving, or strength properties, e. g., cryogenic treatment, or some other desirable properties, e. g., spring aging.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Beyond blogging, wikis, e-mail and file sharing, there still remains to invent a new generation of collaborative technologies, perhaps distinct between application domains, to exhibit the highly desirable properties of semi – autonomy, homeostasis, dynamic adaptation, and long – term evolution already present in natural complex systems.
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In Wikipedia:

Conjunctive queries also have a number of desirable theoretical properties that larger classes of queries (e. g., the relational algebra queries) do not share.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

It can take 2–4 days before listings appear on MLS. CA, and by that time the most desirable properties may already be sold.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Those desirable properties are highly priced because they are scarce, and the prices are where they are because that’s where the supply of such properties balances the number of people who want them badly enough to pay those prices.
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Classical plant breeding uses deliberate interbreeding (crossing ’”) of closely or distantly related individuals to produce new crop varieties or lines with desirable properties.
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Fillers such as hydrogen, graphitic sp2 carbon, and metals are used in the other 6 forms to reduce production expenses or to impart other desirable properties.
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Queried on 2013-05-26.