adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
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The seats are excellent too, with support where it's needed and basically good driving position, adjustable for height.
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What do you do with a basically good child who helped commit a murder?
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Some families who ask for help have a basically good relationship with their children.
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It was a basically good design which needed further improvements to it.
similar
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It would appear that one, two, four and six are marked in a basically similar fashion.
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But tax harmonizing brings with it an implicit harmonization of spending levels, since total tax burdens must be basically similar .
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Payment of fees and grants Fees set by each drama school do differ slightly, though they can be considered basically similar .
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Despite their differences, the two oceans support basically similar food webs, with high seasonal productivity from small overwintering standing crops.
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The epidemiology in subtropical areas is basically similar to that in temperate zones, except that the seasonable timing of events is different.
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The guidance appears to suggest that the approach to urban and rural industrial and commercial developments should be basically similar .
■ VERB
mean
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The handicap is caused by a chromosomal abnormality which basically means that there is an additional chromosome in the cells.
tell
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But how difficult is it to tell basically the same story four times?
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Those rules basically tell pilots how to recognize icing conditions and what to do to avoid it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Basically we're looking for someone who can work three afternoons a week.
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Basically , you just have to write what the teachers want.
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Norwegian and Danish are basically the same.
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The film appears to be quite complicated but it's basically a love story.
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The office was very basically equipped.
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We only took a few shirts and a pair of jeans. That's basically it, really.
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Well, basically , she's just a lot of fun to work with.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But he says the company basically is in the same predicament it was 10 years ago.
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He knew that basically he had enjoyed the careful battle of wits.
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He made films that were designed basically for the drive-in movie, to be glimpsed between clinches.
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People are basically selfish, angry and mean.
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The identity of a man is basically no different from that of any other animal.
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William Green was basically a family man.
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You got to know the people. ... I don't think you can do the job basically , in an office.