I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a booking fee ( also a service fee American English ) (= a charge you pay when buying a ticket )
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Tickets for the concert are £45, plus a booking fee.
a book/magazine cover
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There was a blonde girl on the magazine cover.
a book/volume/collection of poems
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She has a new collection of poems coming out soon.
a book/volume/collection of poetry
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He had two books of poetry published.
a cheque book (= a book of cheques that your bank gives you to use )
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When you open a bank account you will be given your own cheque book.
a cookery book (= telling you how to cook food )
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She opened her cookery book and chose a recipe.
a library book
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She's gone into town to change her library books.
a poetry book
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He has just brought out another poetry book.
a prayer book (= book containing prayers )
a rent book British English (= a book that shows the payments you have made in rent )
a stamp/coin/book/glass etc collection
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an impressive Roman coin collection
a travel book/guide
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Kyushu looks so lovely in the travel books.
an address book (= a book or a file on your computer, where you keep people’s addresses )
an instruction book/manual
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The instruction manual for the camera is over 150 pages long.
appointment book
blue book
book a flight (= reserve a seat on a particular plane )
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I booked the flight over the Internet.
book a holiday
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I booked the holiday online.
book an appointment British English , schedule an appointment American English (= make an appointment )
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Have you booked another appointment at the clinic?
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I’ve scheduled your appointment for 9.30.
book club
book group
book token
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She gave me a book token for Christmas.
book value
booking office
book/reserve a seat
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You can book seats online.
book/reserve a table (= in a restaurant )
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I've booked a table for four at a local restaurant.
book/reserve a ticket
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We booked our tickets well in advance.
book...venue
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The first thing to do is book a venue .
car/ticket/book etc sales
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Car sales have fallen every month for the past two years.
coffee table book
colouring book
confirm a booking/reservation/appointment
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I am writing to confirm a booking for a single room for the night of 6 June.
cookery book
exercise book
fiddle the books (= give false figures in a company’s financial records )
fully booked
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The restaurant is fully booked this evening.
guest book
had gone by the book (= had obeyed all the rules )
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There was no doubt that the referee had gone by the book .
hymn book
log book
order book
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Our order books are full at the moment.
paying-in book
pension book
phone book
picture book
prayer book
recipe book
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a recipe book
reference book
self-help books
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a shelf of self-help books
statute book
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The government would like to see this new law on the statute book as soon as possible.
talking book
telephone book
the arms/timber/book etc trade
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Britain is heavily involved in the arms trade.
use every excuse in the book (= use every possible excuse )
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He used every excuse in the book to avoid seeing the doctor.
visitors' book
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
comic
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Not the comic book characters, soup cans, flags and targets, of course.
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The film dramatises and elaborates these fears in a knockabout, comic-book style with slightly implausible plot complications.
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You can use the programs to edit photos and create greeting cards, certificates, comic books , labels and other goodies.
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It's a comic book sort of thing, doing everything in your power to present yourselves as greater than your audience.
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Alcohol, comic books and mouthwash all bask under the superior reputation of the market.
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Tex Avery cartoons of comic book bodies and slapstick violence.
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I had a ton of comic books , too.
■ NOUN
address
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The address book stores all the essential name and address details and provides room for telephone numbers and a general comment.
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Ray Rawlins called everybody he knew and told them to bring whisky; then he went through his address book for girls.
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For example, they might send themselves to all the contacts in your email address book .
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After the address book came the false names.
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A basic address book can be up and working in under half an hour.
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All of human existence was no more than a huge address book .
history
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There are individual differences, but all history books tend to organise information in an hierarchical way.
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The history book could not get by in the same manner.
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The Prescot Playhouse Players brought the history books to life at the town's pageant this week.
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In his home, he had more labor history books than the Library of Congress.
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Alas, like so many things which get into the history books , it wasn't quite like that.
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But those are experiences which Clinton and his contemporaries in leadership know only from the history books .
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The first pictorial record of flowers from a sixteenth-century garden marks the highlight of this sale of travel and natural history books .
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Indeed, the 1996 campaign season is headed for the history books as the most costly in history.
order
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These would be commercial travellers, wanting to write up their order books in peace.
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The other driving force is cold cash and order books .
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Payment will be made in arrears every four weeks or quarterly, whichever you prefer. Order book .
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And nobody's order books had been full this summer.
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Now one has a healthier order book while the other finds its delivery times and its storage needs slashed.
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By 1950 the order book was full to overflowing.
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Rolls-Royce has a strong order book in aero gas turbines and the prospect of further large orders in a buoyant aircraft market.
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It hopes its own order book is solid but knows that double ordering is going on in the sector.
phone
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It's in the phone book .
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Inside the booth, he secured the door with his foot and thumbed through the phone book .
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This is rough on the phone company, which still organizes the phone book by first names.
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That whittled the field down from the white pages of the Paris phone book .
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Nicola Hammond looked in the phone book .
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She had to look up the number in the phone book .
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And there didn't seem to be a phone book .
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Hicks moved the phone book out of her way.
picture
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Bodiam is a picture book castle and a favourite with children of all ages.
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They listen to stories, memorize nursery rhymes, look at picture books and gain other experiences that prepare them to read.
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Roald Dahl's last picture book tells how Billy rescued the tiny Minpins from the smoke belching Gruncher.
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A five-page picture book is needed to explain the steps required to release and lift the hood of army vehicles.
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Apparently she often approached him with a picture book or toy to engage him in play with her.
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One of the greatest historians for children is the author Jean Fritz who has written historical novels and picture books .
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Colouring books help their writing skills ... picture books help their reading skills ... counting books help them with their numbers.
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One-night picture books require parents to select and begin a new story every night.
prayer
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We need to see the comfort a confused old person derives from holding a prayer book or rosary.
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A congregation in Tampa sent over some prayer books , while Unity of Leesburg donated a pulpit.
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At her girdle hung a gold chain and cross, and she carried a handkerchief and a little prayer book bound in gold.
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The care with which Christians had treasured their Bibles, prayer books and hymn books was very touching.
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When he reached his church, he missed the prayer book , and hurried back.
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Some of them wept as the preacher opened up his prayer book and the coffin was gently lowered into the grave.
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These prayers will be found in the prayer book immediately after the psalms.
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The vicar paced behind, holding his prayer book , his hair floating up and down in the draught from the door.
reference
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As a visual aid to anatomical familiarity, a reference book such as this has undoubted value.
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In the meantime, publishers continue to publish, between two covers, all sorts of reference books .
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Make yourself a present of Silences and keep it by you as a reference book .
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Perhaps if the rest of the writing had had the same approach we would have a worthy materials reference book .
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Forms of address and titles for important personages can be found in reference books .
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Although U/V, ozone and protein skimmers were known, reference books often claimed they were unnecessary.
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The panel will explore the recruit's experience with reference books of any sort.
statute
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But what happens if there are two Acts on the statute books which conflict with one another?
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Most work at uninspiring tasks, pore over old court decisions and statute books , and draft memos for their higher-ups.
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The hon. Gentleman said that I had said that we would keep internment on the statute book .
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The southern states now relied on tightening enforcement measures already on the statute books and increasing the alertness of the patrols.
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The number of laws on the statute book increases cumulatively since governments repeal relatively few laws.
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I repeat what I have said before: internment has been retained on the statute book .
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It is clear that the Government are determined that the Bill will be on the statute book before the general election.
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Governments will then be hard put to get it on to their national statute books by mid-1993.
value
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A revaluation of the brewer's 1,600 pubs showed that they are now worth £255million more than their book value .
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It was sold at current book value .
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The goodwill reflects the premium over book value Wells paid for its Los Angeles-based rival.
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It can be drawn up on the basis of historic-cost book values , current-cost book values or market values.
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Now they carry a collective book value of more than $ 8, 000.
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Describe what is meant by the net book value and the written down value of an asset?
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Perhaps the best way to understand book value is by means of an example.
■ VERB
balance
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Mr Lamont declared the Tories stuck to their election pledges but he faces immense pressure to balance the books .
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Nature always balances her books , and Jupiter had lost exactly as much momentum as Discovery had gained.
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Jobs threat: Five teachers at York's Lowfield School could face redundancy unless the opted-out school can balance its books .
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All supply people dreamed of a way to balance the books once and for all-without all that trading and shuffling.
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Voice over Derby had one more chance to balance the books but Paul Kitson wasted a glorious opportunity by blasting wide.
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How has it balanced its books with the rest of the world?
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But the council had to balance its books , he said.
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As treasurer of the R.A.D.D., he once balanced the books , which had a serious deficit, with a handsome donation.
close
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At last he closed his books and went to bed.
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He is holding a closed book , signifying a mystery, possibly a stage in the alchemical process.
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The police have closed the book on the Hannah Davies case.
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Before every architect closes this book in disgust, let me explain.
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He closed the book and slipped it into a polythene bag.
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The goal of reading is to be done with it, to be able to close the book and play.
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And, by definitively closing the book on the past, the language of socialism also remains trapped in Stalinism's wreckage.
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I closed the book , touching it gently.
open
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Joan and her sister Ruth appeared early in the saga, and young Paul opened the very first book of the series.
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Slowly she would open the book and begin the story.
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Before you even open the book , make sure that you are comfortable.
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She opens a book , hands it to me, points to a passage.
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He opened a book with his thumbnail, as if afraid of dirtying his fingers.
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I looked over and saw that Gordon had opened a book .
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Is there any point in opening a book on who our Howard will drop to make way for rodders.
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He turned the chair around, positioning himself with his back to the window, and opened the book .
publish
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The Norwich Union has published a useful book called Education Planning.
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Paul and I are the only Grunwalds who are not publishing a book this month.
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Another way of finding useful or appropriate things to read is to look at library catalogues which have been published as books .
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The Alcoholics Anonymous World Services publishes a book whose purpose is to provide an interpretation of the twelve steps.
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Kletz also plans to publish a book that Patrick Eddington is writing about his Gulf War findings.
read
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But what I really want is for the book to be read and enjoyed by the people who read the other books.
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We can read the books children are reading, find out what happens in class, ask what the guidance counselor said.
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There are few things worse than being bludgeoned into reading a book you hate.
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I read the books and all that stuff.
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This will help you to decide whether you really need to read the whole book or only certain parts of it.
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Maybe the best thing to do in this case is to just stay home and read the book .
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How could his son become a priest if he read such books ?
write
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In 1975 author Francis Hitching was commissioned to write a book and television documentary entitled Earth Magic.
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Though I hardly seemed qualified to write a book about a twenty-year marriage, the novel came easily.
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Before they left, the priest wrote in their temple books .
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This knowledge allows him to trace the development of Proustian themes and reconstruct how Proust wrote his book , step by step.
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I would stay here for a year, study the language, live with people, write my book .
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Although I began to research the subject, I never wrote that book .
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There is no story, no plot, no action-nothing but a man sitting alone in a room and writing a book .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a closed book (to sb)
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But your own past can be a closed book, even at fourteen.
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He is holding a closed book, signifying a mystery, possibly a stage in the alchemical process.
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I can not believe that it can be right that this late in the game Poetry is still a closed book.
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I tell myself it's a closed book, but my cover story becomes an old man's compensation.
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Linear preoccupation in the past remains a closed book to modern understanding.
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The highly organised St Stephen's Society programme which she now leads was at that time a closed book to her!
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The kitchenette is a closed book.
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The Shoah will never be a closed book.
a turn-up for the book(s)
advance planning/warning/booking etc
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For course details details and advance booking forms contact:.
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However, Redmond and Manschreck acknowledged that they had not billed for or received any money for the advance planning.
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If we could list those we'd have advance warning of shortage problems on the assembly lines two months before they occur.
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It will also repay advance bookings.
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Perhaps the most widely used online service is travel planning, both to research a destination and to do advance bookings.
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Significant moments in history do not happen without some kind of advance warning.
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The most obvious features are the tall watchtowers scattered across the Silk Road to provide advance warning of Xiongnu attack.
balance the books
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All supply people dreamed of a way to balance the books once and for all-without all that trading and shuffling.
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As treasurer of the R.A.D.D., he once balanced the books, which had a serious deficit, with a handsome donation.
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But it is still difficult balancing the books.
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Mr Lamont declared the Tories stuck to their election pledges but he faces immense pressure to balance the books.
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Saving seed can help balance the books, but it's not to be undertaken lightly.
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The days of balancing the books are over.
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Voice over Derby had one more chance to balance the books but Paul Kitson wasted a glorious opportunity by blasting wide.
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We are now considering new taxes to balance the books.
be an open book
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I'd always thought of Jeff as an open book.
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Our foreign dealings are an open book generally a check book.
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To them my future was an open book.
be in sb's good books
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I think I'm back in Corinne's good books again.
be singing from the same hymn book/sheet
be singing from the same hymn sheet/book
book/antiques/craft/trade etc fair
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Antiques Fair , Social Centre, Yarm.
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Attractions include over 100 trade stands, refreshment tents and licensed bars, caravan site and craft fair .
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Champagne was also prospering during this time from the great trade fairs .
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Chartwell Travel is offering discounted air fares to the Frankfurt Book Fair from £108 return.
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Eighty countries plan to attend the Baghdad trade fair in November.
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Running alongside was a trade fair .
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Then, on the third day, he would be a guest at a trade fair held in New Jersey.
book/record/gift token
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A £10 book token will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution opened on Thursday 7 March.
book/record/wine etc club
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Bristol brought on record club buy Ray Atteveld for the injured Martin Scott after 16 minutes.
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Four were circulars - two were reminders that his subscriptions to a book club and the golf club were overdue.
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I think we all know that the book clubs are not naive.
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Last fall, Winfrey decided to give fiction a boost by creating her on-air book club .
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The kids belong to a book club .
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The recently reestablished library club was described and the possibility of a book club considered.
can read sb like a book
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I can read you like a book - some book I've read six times already.
close the book on sth
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And, by definitively closing the book on the past, the language of socialism also remains trapped in Stalinism's wreckage.
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Rady made a motion to close the book on the matter.
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The police have closed the book on the Hannah Davies case.
cook the books
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Officials at the bank were found to have cooked the books.
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The directors of the company made millions from cooking the books before the fraud investigators caught them.
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We've just found out Alec's been cooking the books.
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Lost himself in a welter of ambitions, unsafe buildings, cheaper materials; he cooked the books to make more blocks.
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Martin I hate to disturb you when you're cooking the books, but there's a delivery.
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One solution would be to make the cities more habitable, but a much more sure-fire way is cooking the books.
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When it came to cooking the books, Dennis was in the Raymond Blanc class.
don't judge a book by its cover
full-length play/book/film etc
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How to turn a tightly compressed event into a full-length book?
have your nose in a book/magazine/newspaper
illuminated manuscript/book
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An in-depth study of the production of hand-written illuminated manuscripts by medieval monks.
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Here there are 100,000 old books and illuminated manuscripts, some dating back to the tenth century.
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His own collection of miniatures was begun, he has said, because he could not afford to purchase entire illuminated manuscripts.
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It selects 140 illuminated books such as the Sherborne Missal and the Bedford Hours.
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She also restored illuminated manuscripts for Ruskin.
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The result is a candidate for the best book on illuminated manuscripts ever written.
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The screens of our word-machines glow as serenely as illuminated manuscripts.
learned books/works etc
on the statute book
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Some of those old laws are still on the statute book.
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I repeat what I have said before: internment has been retained on the statute book.
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It is clear that the Government are determined that the Bill will be on the statute book before the general election.
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The Act enshrines principles social workers fought hard to get on the statute book.
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The fact remains that internment is on the statute book and is available to the Government to use.
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The hon. Gentleman said that I had said that we would keep internment on the statute book.
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The number of laws on the statute book increases cumulatively since governments repeal relatively few laws.
pop-up book/card etc
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Robert Sabuda is fast gaining a reputation as a master of the art of making intricate and appealing pop-up books.
renew a book
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Library books can be renewed by telephone.
sb wrote the book on sth
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Cheryl wrote the book on being irresponsible.
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Hartley wrote the book on self-serving.
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It wrote the book on quality control.
set book/text etc
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But not in his set books!
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Galsworthy was a set book: I felt I knew the Forsyte Saga by heart.
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One of the set texts for Advent dealt with the birth of John the Baptist.
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So was Naipaul, the writer of a book which was a classroom set text.
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When a graphics element is placed on a page there is now an option to set text wraparound.
suit sb's book
take a leaf out of sb's book
the Good Book
the good book
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All by all this is one of the better books on chemometrics.
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And by the way, I still believe Dermot Somers' was immeasurably the better book.
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I gave her the best books To read; she read them greedily.
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Male speaker I think it's the best book I ever read.
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So which is the better book?
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The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.
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The Bourne Identity is the best book I've read or ever will read.
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The result is a candidate for the best book on illuminated manuscripts ever written.
the history books
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Alas, like so many things which get into the history books, it wasn't quite like that.
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And straight into the history books at Royal Belfast Academical Institution.
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Democrats want a convention for the history books.
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Every New Hampshire presidential primary is one for the history books.
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Moms have always worked, but it was a big secret left out of the history books.
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The battle is important in the history books as one of the final skirmishes in that war, as Gen.
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The blighters have even been immortalised in the history books.
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Where does the dividing line come between yesterday's news and the history books?
the record books
throw the book at sb
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Judge Smith threw the book at Flynn, fining him $1.6 million and giving him six years in prison.
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From the beginning, he seemed determined to throw the book at her.
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In short, they threw the book at him.
use/try every trick in the book
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I tried every trick in the book to reform him.
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Victoria used every trick in the book to undermine Patsy in order to get the new job colleagues knew Patsy had earned.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a book by Charles Dickens
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a book of matches
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a secondhand book dealer
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an address book
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Do you have any books on astronomy?
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Eric's reading a book by William Faulkner.
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Have you read this book ?
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I'm reading a book about a little girl who was a slave in 19th century Atlanta.
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I think Muriel Spark is a great writer, I love her books.
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I went and got a library book about it.
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It's a pretty good book .
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She wrote a book of short stories, but it never got published.
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What book are you reading at the moment?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His book had to be published by the obscure Middle Passage Press.
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In September 1930, on a day selected by his grandmother, he opened an exercise book and waited for inspiration.
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It told me, he will write books of status.
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Seth was paging through a book .
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That is the sad story Jim Carlton tells in his forthcoming book about Apple Computer.
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The book was an immediate success.
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We can not have the voluptuous strengths of new technology, but books have the attraction of maturity.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
already
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It promised about 25,000 people who have already booked that they will get refunds of up to £70 each.
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Visitors have already booked every hotel room within 80 miles of downtown Atlanta.
fully
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Oddly the cottage was fully booked when we tried to take it again at Easter.
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Coming back, we stood all the way from Naples to Paris on a fully booked train.
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Berths only become available to staff or relatives when the ship is not fully booked .
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The trip is now fully booked and money for tickets should be paid in as soon as possible.
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No one knows how many are coming; the fully booked hotels say perhaps 100,000.
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Two coaches are fully booked with dozens more Italia-bound by air, mini-bus and car.
■ NOUN
library
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In similar lessons in all sorts of schools, the students go on to scour textbooks and library books for more facts.
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Now, the same children borrow educational toys and games from Washington as if they were library books .
place
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Full details of this scheme will be given to fans when they book their places for the trip.
player
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Ardiles was critical of the performance of referee Edward Parker, who booked eight players .
room
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Wearily, Kelly made her way back to her car, drove to the nearest hotel and booked a room .
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Visitors have already booked every hotel room within 80 miles of downtown Atlanta.
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I booked two rooms at the Hotel Colombi from Frankfurt Airport.
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It will allow users to check out availability, pricing and book a room instantly.
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If you were sleeping with me, I'd have booked a double room .
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Parents have the option of staying in the kids' rooms or booking an adjacent room.
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Just off the square, in the quieter area of the Saarlandstrasse, the Joyces found a hotel and booked a room .
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Instead of booking a class, the passenger booked different forms of sleeping arrangement rather like booking a hotel room .
seat
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Some airlines even allow customers to book seats .
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I did not book his seat .
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They've all booked a seat on the plane, too.
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What does the bloke expect ... if you booked a seat at the theatre ... then lost your ticket ... your problem.
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And you can book your seat now by contacting the society at Banbridge 25131.
table
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Sergio had booked a table at a new restaurant called Senzala.
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Steven had booked a table at their favourite restaurant and was due to pick her up at 7.30.
trip
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Friends said that the couple, from Maesteg, Mid Glamorgan, booked the trip at the last minute.
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Some 250 passengers were booked on the return trip to Hamburg via Lisbon.
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Once you've booked your trip , don't bother packing loads of clothes.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a closed book (to sb)
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But your own past can be a closed book, even at fourteen.
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He is holding a closed book, signifying a mystery, possibly a stage in the alchemical process.
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I can not believe that it can be right that this late in the game Poetry is still a closed book.
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I tell myself it's a closed book, but my cover story becomes an old man's compensation.
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Linear preoccupation in the past remains a closed book to modern understanding.
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The highly organised St Stephen's Society programme which she now leads was at that time a closed book to her!
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The kitchenette is a closed book.
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The Shoah will never be a closed book.
a turn-up for the book(s)
advance planning/warning/booking etc
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For course details details and advance booking forms contact:.
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However, Redmond and Manschreck acknowledged that they had not billed for or received any money for the advance planning.
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If we could list those we'd have advance warning of shortage problems on the assembly lines two months before they occur.
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It will also repay advance bookings.
▪
Perhaps the most widely used online service is travel planning, both to research a destination and to do advance bookings.
▪
Significant moments in history do not happen without some kind of advance warning.
▪
The most obvious features are the tall watchtowers scattered across the Silk Road to provide advance warning of Xiongnu attack.
be an open book
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I'd always thought of Jeff as an open book.
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Our foreign dealings are an open book generally a check book.
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To them my future was an open book.
be in sb's good books
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I think I'm back in Corinne's good books again.
be singing from the same hymn book/sheet
block booking/voting
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Dress is formal and block bookings are available.
book/antiques/craft/trade etc fair
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Antiques Fair , Social Centre, Yarm.
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Attractions include over 100 trade stands, refreshment tents and licensed bars, caravan site and craft fair .
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Champagne was also prospering during this time from the great trade fairs .
▪
Chartwell Travel is offering discounted air fares to the Frankfurt Book Fair from £108 return.
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Eighty countries plan to attend the Baghdad trade fair in November.
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Running alongside was a trade fair .
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Then, on the third day, he would be a guest at a trade fair held in New Jersey.
book/record/gift token
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A £10 book token will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution opened on Thursday 7 March.
book/record/wine etc club
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Bristol brought on record club buy Ray Atteveld for the injured Martin Scott after 16 minutes.
▪
Four were circulars - two were reminders that his subscriptions to a book club and the golf club were overdue.
▪
I think we all know that the book clubs are not naive.
▪
Last fall, Winfrey decided to give fiction a boost by creating her on-air book club .
▪
The kids belong to a book club .
▪
The recently reestablished library club was described and the possibility of a book club considered.
full-length play/book/film etc
▪
How to turn a tightly compressed event into a full-length book?
have your nose in a book/magazine/newspaper
illuminated manuscript/book
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An in-depth study of the production of hand-written illuminated manuscripts by medieval monks.
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Here there are 100,000 old books and illuminated manuscripts, some dating back to the tenth century.
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His own collection of miniatures was begun, he has said, because he could not afford to purchase entire illuminated manuscripts.
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It selects 140 illuminated books such as the Sherborne Missal and the Bedford Hours.
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She also restored illuminated manuscripts for Ruskin.
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The result is a candidate for the best book on illuminated manuscripts ever written.
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The screens of our word-machines glow as serenely as illuminated manuscripts.
learned books/works etc
on the statute book
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Some of those old laws are still on the statute book.
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I repeat what I have said before: internment has been retained on the statute book.
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It is clear that the Government are determined that the Bill will be on the statute book before the general election.
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The Act enshrines principles social workers fought hard to get on the statute book.
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The fact remains that internment is on the statute book and is available to the Government to use.
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The hon. Gentleman said that I had said that we would keep internment on the statute book.
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The number of laws on the statute book increases cumulatively since governments repeal relatively few laws.
pop-up book/card etc
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Robert Sabuda is fast gaining a reputation as a master of the art of making intricate and appealing pop-up books.
set book/text etc
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But not in his set books!
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Galsworthy was a set book: I felt I knew the Forsyte Saga by heart.
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One of the set texts for Advent dealt with the birth of John the Baptist.
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So was Naipaul, the writer of a book which was a classroom set text.
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When a graphics element is placed on a page there is now an option to set text wraparound.
take a leaf out of sb's book
the Good Book
the good book
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All by all this is one of the better books on chemometrics.
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And by the way, I still believe Dermot Somers' was immeasurably the better book.
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I gave her the best books To read; she read them greedily.
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Male speaker I think it's the best book I ever read.
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So which is the better book?
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The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.
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The Bourne Identity is the best book I've read or ever will read.
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The result is a candidate for the best book on illuminated manuscripts ever written.
the history books
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Alas, like so many things which get into the history books, it wasn't quite like that.
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And straight into the history books at Royal Belfast Academical Institution.
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Democrats want a convention for the history books.
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Every New Hampshire presidential primary is one for the history books.
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Moms have always worked, but it was a big secret left out of the history books.
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The battle is important in the history books as one of the final skirmishes in that war, as Gen.
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The blighters have even been immortalised in the history books.
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Where does the dividing line come between yesterday's news and the history books?
the record books
use/try every trick in the book
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I tried every trick in the book to reform him.
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Victoria used every trick in the book to undermine Patsy in order to get the new job colleagues knew Patsy had earned.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dawkins was booked on suspicion of attempted murder.
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I booked a table for two at 8:00.
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Nelson was booked for a tour of Japan in August.
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Now, on Montana highways, you can really book .
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You'll have to book by tomorrow if you want the lower price.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But if you can book a ticket, the fare is good for nearly a year.
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I did not book his seat.
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I was booked in San Diego last night, you know?
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So he set the play in a hotel room, and Frank and Betty Spencer were the honeymoon couple who booked in.
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The open-top bus can be booked, the extra supplies of silver polish ordered.