noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
placed...advertisement
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He placed an advertisement in the local paper.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
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If you're the owner of a health club like I am, it's a good advertisement , as long as you finish.
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Now Fuchs is a particularly good advertisement for health economics, precisely because he is no genius.
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Unhappy clients are not a good advertisement for the firm.
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It was exciting - they were good advertisements , and we waited for the first children to come.
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This is also the best advertisement for encouraging kids to take up the game.
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He allowed her more freedom of choice than many of his clients who were perhaps a better advertisement for his dressmaking skills.
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The second says he thinks it's a good advertisement for healthy eating.
misleading
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Last month Marsh was found guilty of running misleading advertisements on medical products under the Medicines Act.
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He can bring proceedings for a High Court injunction to stop the publication of a misleading advertisement .
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The publishing of misleading advertisements was a contravention of section 47 of the Act.
recent
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In a recent advertisement for a house sale the same village of West Linton is now only 11 miles from Edinburgh.
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investment
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The document is almost certainly an investment advertisement and must be verified and approved as such.
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But the more general concern is that consumers could be misled by investment advertisements , or simply fail to understand them.
job
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It can even be encountered by younger people - as a glance at job advertisements will show.
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Insist on having a say in what goes into job advertisements for employees who will ultimately be your subordinates.
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You may apply for a job in the next grade if you meet the requirements stated in the job advertisement .
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They monitored 11,373 job advertisements across a range of periodicals.
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Each week, the free papers are stuffed full of job advertisements .
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It is as much as you can do to read the job advertisements in the Times Educational Supplement, let alone the leader.
magazine
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This chapter deals with the different linguistic choices that shapes women's magazine advertisements .
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Most of the Owners' Network listings are copied from newspaper and magazine advertisements collected by 30 free-lancers nationwide, Koch says.
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One of the problems with magazine advertisements , however, is their relatively long lead time before an advertisement appears.
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Illustrators or photographers are chosen for press or magazine advertisements or posters.
newspaper
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In the past two months there has been a rash of newspaper advertisements for unlicensed patches available by mail order.
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You will be choosing the organization and then selling yourself to them, rather than relying solely upon answering newspaper advertisements .
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Meanwhile, their opponents are busy taking out newspaper advertisements , buying air time and working the telephones.
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The previous day Bull took out a newspaper advertisement promising to do better in future.
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The Northern responded to three newspaper advertisements placed by people selling the sought-after vouchers and asked the selling price.
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Speed is of the essence when following up newspaper advertisements .
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The panellists were selected from a group of 111 people who had responded to newspaper advertisements .
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Two promoted silk stockings and Florence Stack appeared in newspaper advertisements praising Tokalon beauty products.
radio
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Desperate, his wife Irene chased up a radio advertisement for drop-in surgery performed with only a local anaesthetic.
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Proponents relied on radio advertisements to get their message across to voters.
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The campaign uses posters and newspaper and radio advertisements .
television
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This makes the usual noises about the careful research which goes into making television advertisements , not to mention the advice-seeking.
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They ran a series of television advertisements , which they placed in prime time they purchased early in the campaign.
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Today the government launched its latest weapons in a campaign against speeding including this hard hitting television advertisement .
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As Arkansas governor, he had built public support for key legislation with television advertisements largely financed by corporate donations.
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In July 1990 a television advertisement by the Cot Death Association advised against placing infants to sleep prone.
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Just before Easter, I received a letter about a series of television advertisements .
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To a large extent, the election has been fought on the airwaves, with both candidates delivering television advertisements attacking each other.
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By way of exception, the Regulations do not give the Director General powers in relation to commercial radio and television advertisements or to cable advertisements.
■ VERB
answer
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I answered an advertisement for knitters.
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You will be choosing the organization and then selling yourself to them, rather than relying solely upon answering newspaper advertisements .
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About this time crochet garments were in vogue, so I answered another advertisement .
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Looking for a change, she answered a newspaper advertisement .
appear
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Hershiser and Brown will be paid for appearing in the milk advertisements .
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For the last year, her face has appeared in CitriMax advertisements .
carry
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The Independent, which had declined to carry the advertisements , claimed on Feb. 7 that they were fraudulent.
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By this time it carried the advertisements of a well-known whisky, and had lost some of its charisma.
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Of these the Norfolk Democrat and Suffolk Punch, both printed and carrying advertisements , were particularly impressive.
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The Company magazine is also criticised for carrying another controversial Benetton advertisement showing a black soldier holding a human thigh bone.
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Agencies advertise locally in newspapers, and may carry regular advertisements in the national nursing press.
contain
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In practice this may not be onerous as very limited factual information is contained in the typical advertisement .
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Can administrators ban the distribution of underground newspapers that contain advertisements for drug paraphernalia?
issue
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We would generally issue these advertisements as agent for the vendor.
place
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In addition the church might consider placing paid advertisements from time to time, highlighting forthcoming events which could be made especially attractive to the outsider.
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It is essential that sections 0404 and 0405 of this manual on Investment Advertisements is read and understood before placing any advertisements .
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Neild placed advertisements in the newspapers appealing for donations.
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When you do, place an advertisement in the personal column of the International Herald Tribune to read as follows.
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Spooky ... Switching to a smaller scale, we placed advertisements in South London newsagents.
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How do place advertisements create meanings for different localities?
read
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Catherine took the paper and read the advertisement he indicated.
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She read the advertisement carefully: they helped you if you were pregnant!
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I spent a long time reading the advertisements .
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It is as much as you can do to read the job advertisements in the Times Educational Supplement, let alone the leader.
respond
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The Northern responded to three newspaper advertisements placed by people selling the sought-after vouchers and asked the selling price.
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Tests have shown that women are more likely to respond to unbiased employment advertisements .
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The panellists were selected from a group of 111 people who had responded to newspaper advertisements .
run
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Since then the importers have run more advertisements asking owners to contact them.
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Both men are running nasty television advertisements in California against illegal immigration.
see
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Then, going through the Wanted Ads in the newspaper, I actually saw three advertisements asking for dental mechanics' assistants.
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Recently I saw an advertisement featuring a bare-chested man in staggeringly good condition.
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Why don't we see positive advertisements about social work?
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But, so far, no one has been able to reliably monitor who is seeing online advertisements .
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In 1975 she saw an advertisement for executive officers in the civil service.
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On the second day in the city, he had wandered by the Tribune and seen the advertisement of Stark and Evans.
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I saw an advertisement in the local paper, answered it, and was accepted.
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She saw the advertisement for a technical translator in the newspaper.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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At this time of year, the papers are full of advertisements for skiing holidays.
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Most car advertisements are aimed at men.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For the last year, her face has appeared in CitriMax advertisements.
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Hershiser and Brown will be paid for appearing in the milk advertisements.
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In response to the story-boards, it became clear that attitudes towards the advertisements were mixed.
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She loved the advertisements especially, so gorgeously puzzling.
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There were no advertisements for staff.