I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a chain of events (= a series of events where each one causes the next )
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He set in motion a chain of events that he couldn’t control.
a chain/group of islands
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Our destination was a chain of islands, sixty miles east of Taiwan.
a cinema chain (= a group of cinemas owned by the same company )
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He works for a well-known cinema chain.
a mountain range/chain (= a number of mountains in a line )
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The Alps are the largest mountain range in Europe.
a restaurant chain (= one that is owned or managed by the same company or person )
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Café Rouge is part of a large restaurant chain.
ball and chain
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The lower-tech side of the business was seen as a ball and chain.
chain gang
chain letter
chain mail
chain of command
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Symonds is third in the chain of command.
chain reaction
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A sudden drop on Wall Street can set off a chain reaction in other financial markets.
chain stitch
chain store
choke chain
daisy chain
food chain
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Pollution is affecting many creatures lower down the food chain.
gold watch/chain/ring etc
key chain
retail outlet/shop/store/chain
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We are looking for more retail outlets for our products.
snow chains
the chain/line of command (= a system of passing decisions from people at the the top to the bottom )
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Our company has a traditional management chain of command.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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Many big chains had pushed for a 2 percent reduction, but believe the 1 percent cut could still help.
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One day I was going to go to Petland and get one of those big chains , the stainless steel ones.
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A handful of new outlets will be launched next year and if successful, will lead to an even bigger chain .
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The big supermarket chains certainly regained favour in 2000.
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But none of them have really rattled the big chains until Food Giant came along.
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They used to have big chains right round, fore and aft to keep them together.
gold
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It was a gold chain , and on the end of it was a picture of a very beautiful woman.
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She wore a little gold chain around her neck.
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We didn't care about the magazine we just wanted to trace back the gold chain see who handled it.
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The gold chains were gone now, too.
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On one ankle she wears a gold chain .
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Her jewelry was gold , delicate chains at her wrist and throat.
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Elizabeth had let him wear a gold chain of hers round his neck.
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Even though her neck was repeatedly sliced, several gold chains she wore were not broken.
heavy
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Wearing a chic, low cut dress and heavy gold chain she meets our gaze with a challenging look.
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He rode between cars, gripping the heavy chain .
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Perhaps the most impressive beast of all, is the Current Trends Lion with a heavy duty bicycle chain for its mane.
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They were linked by a slack, heavy , silvery chain that swayed lazily when he raised his hands.
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From its rear chassis, two heavy chains were securely attached to the steel bars of the gates.
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Earrings and heavy chains around the neck are a no-no on the field.
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Hesione is standing with her hands bound behind her back and held in position by two heavy chains attached to weights.
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We dined among men with heavy watch chains and heavier bellies.
human
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We can form a human chain of Berliners along the Wall which no one dare break, nomatterhow many soldiers they send.
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With a half-life of 12 years, tritium could build up in the Tamar estuary and eventually enter the human food chain .
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Rally organizers with colored arm-bands link hands, forming a human chain at the crosswalks.
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The crowd was on the point of becoming a lynch mob, but were still linked in a human chain .
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Traders sitting elbow to elbow formed a human chain .
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Firefighters formed a human chain to carry the four brothers to safety but they found to be dead at hospital.
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They had dropped out of the human chain of ancestors and descendants that had formerly bound them all together.
large
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Months later it merged with the considerably larger Mothercare chain in a reverse take-over.
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Saying they were losing money there, large grocery chains began moving out of inner-city neighborhoods in the 1980s.
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Hospitals, which used to be almost exclusively not-for-profit institutions, are being taken over by large corporate chains .
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From an operations district manager from a large retail chain .
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Thrifty Payless Inc., the largest drugstore chain in the West, operates 1, 048 stores in 11 Western states.
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Some large chains of supermarkets publish booklets on calorie, fat, and fibre content of their foods.
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The critical composition at which phase separation is first detected is then and which indicates that at infinitely large chain length.
long
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Under these conditions, however, ethylene forms short chains or rings, rather than the long chains of the solid polymer.
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In general, the longer the chain , the less stable the interacting web to environmental disruption.
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In reality, of course, they are the result of a long chain of conscious decision making.
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Viscosity, or resistance to flow, is a property of fluids containing long molecular chains that tangle and intertwine.
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I was a very small link in an immensely long chain .
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Simply put, the longer the chain , the easier it is for an alcohol to mix with fat.
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They key to the parent was the longest chain of carbon atoms.
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The warder peered through the observation slot then selected a key from the long chain that dangled from his belt.
major
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So far 4,411 retailers with 10,789 shops, including some major chains , have signed up to take part in the scheme.
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Today, major chain stores and automakers are slated to release December sales figures.
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Selling price is around £30, from Argos, Texas, other major chain and d-i-y stores, and specialist electrical shops.
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No one at Safeway Stores, the other major grocery chain in the Washington-Baltimore area, was available for comment.
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According to their localization, these deletions or duplications frequently provoke major respiratory chain function defects, with consequent cellular energy supply deficiencies.
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Discussions with another major supermarket chain should yield an own-label deal soon.
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A major chain of retailers has agreed to withdraw them from sale, but hundreds are still thought to be in use.
national
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The suspect meat, more than eight tonnes of it, ended up in three national supermarket chains .
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The deal should allow Glynwed's food service division to sell complete cooking and refrigeration equipment ranges to national supermarket chains .
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A national discount chain had opened several warehouse outlets in a geographic region the retailer had long dominated.
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His paper is part of a national chain .
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One national chain is currently charging $ 299 for the Playstation and $ 249 for Saturn.
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Yeewho had managed regional offices of national retail chains for two decades before founding Zhenwas skeptical about branching out into department stores.
retail
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The above reference to large and powerful retail chains implies that they can exert a strong influence in the marketplace.
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But they face opposition from a lobbying powerhouse of credit card companies, banks, auto companies and retail chains .
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Numerous downsized banks, insurers and retail chains have seen their customers' satisfaction plummet.
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The license limit has prevented retail chains from selling alcoholic beverages at all but a handful of locations.
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Retail systems. Retail chains vary from being very long to very short.
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The company also manufactures a line of denim clothing for the Express retail chain , Viramontes said.
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The environmentally friendly retail chain will combine its Web operations with its retail and mail order activities.
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Upscale retail chains are doing the same with specially formulated baby creams and lotions.
small
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One of the things that distinguished Belmodes from its rivals was the small chain of shops Rose herself had launched.
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Hundreds of smaller chains and stores went out of business, many hurt by price wars waged by appliance chains.
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Most active construction is coming from the smaller chains and operators like Quality Inns.
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This small chain specialises in banking, business, accountancy and law.
■ NOUN
choke
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Here the choke chain is relaxed, Note that the leash itself is held in your right hand.
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Similarly the choke chain will again tighten, encouraging your pet to walk alongside you.
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Also, long walks, like choke chains , are out of the question.
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Remove the normal collar before fitting the choke chain , so that they can not become tangled together.
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This is the approximate length of choke chain which will be required.
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Always ensure that the choke chain is positioned correctly.
daisy
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He got out the cheating stick and clipped the peg, swarming up in a daisy chain of quick-draws.
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We were all linked in a vast and rhythmic coincidence, a daisy chain of rumor, suspicion and secret wish.
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Have you ever made a daisy chain ?
food
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Caesium accumulates up the food chain from the soil through vegetation to contaminate meat.
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The next step: Move down the food chain and look for retail partners such as drugstores.
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Evidence has also emerged that oil has entered the food chain after being ingested by fish such as salmon.
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The only true amateurs left are the ones on the bottom end of the highlights-film, commercial-endorsement food chain .
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This is the first time a high street fast food chain has linked up with a theme park.
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In 1993 more than 500 people fell ill and four died after eating hamburgers from the Jack-in-the-Box fast food chain .
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Environmentalists have warned that dioxins accumulate in fat and milk and will work their way through the food chain .
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Once formulated, they remain for ever in the environment and build up in food chains and ultimately in our bodies.
gang
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He did a stint on a chain gang , and he became a professional boxer for a while.
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Citizens have loved his reintroduction of the chain gang and the Army-surplus tents he erected to ease jail overcrowding.
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Tethered like a chain gang , the herd is led away between koonkies.
hotel
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Average room and car rates based on averages from 10 leading hotel chains and six car-rental companies.
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Its strength and abrasion resistance have made it ideal for shoe cleaning cloths, as provided by most hotel chains .
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The group would continue to manage its various hotel chains , which include Sofitel, Mercure and Novotel.
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Acorn would provide us with a ready-made hotel chain ripe for further expansion.
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We worked with one hotel chain that avowed to the point of dementia its commitment to customer service and comfort.
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But although he now runs a hotel chain with 160 properties in 47 countries, he has never actually managed a hotel.
link
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But in the end the resident was only allowed to inspect the security of the chain link fence around the dump.
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About every third property boasted a brand-new chain link fence, erected to corral Cod knows what kind of beast.
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Through the mouth there appears to be the remains of a chain link from which the knife would have been suspended.
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A couple of the boys did once, climbing over the high chain link fence around the playground.
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Before she had taken five steps she hit the chain link fencing that was invisible in the darkness.
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The Republicans have fenced off the convention with chain link .
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Poking through chain link fences at factories and construction sites.
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Eleventh-century Norman knight with chain mail coat, kite-shaped shield, sword and long lance which could be used from horseback.
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It began to appear more convoluted, interlocking chain mail ... some sort of suit.
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Knight, mounting his horse, wearing chain mail of the type developed from eastern sources during Barbarossa's reign.
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Within a space of some twenty years, chain mail virtually replaced a variety of earlier forms of armour.
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Round shields, chain mail and simple conical helmets are clearly visible.
mountain
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The whole mountain chain originated from this cleft as lava surged up and spilled down on both sides.
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The edge of the overriding plate is crumpled and uplifted to form a mountain chain parallel to the trench.
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They are crude and narrow compared to the Dwarf mines of the other mountain chains and prone to collapsing unexpectedly.
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During that time continents, oceans, and mountain chains have moved horizontally and vertically through large distances.
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The thickened edges of these rafts are of course the mountain chains such as the Andes.
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Sibley lives in a remote corner of a remote mountain chain in the wilds of Arizona.
polymer
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As soon as such heterogeneity enters into a polymer chain , information technology becomes a theoretical possibility.
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The forces between atoms on a polymer chain are about two orders of magnitude stronger than those between chains.
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Scientists predicted that solitons should be very mobile, but only along the polymer chains .
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The alignment of polymer chains at specific distances from one another to form crystalline nuclei will be assisted when intermolecular forces are strong.
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The parameter is the average mean square of the unperturbed dimension, which is a characteristic parameter for a given polymer chain .
reaction
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The sample was finally resuspended in 50 µl of TRIS-EDTA buffer. polymerase chain reactions Two sets of primers were used.
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The demise of Woosung could have a chain reaction on other subcontractors relying on a government helping hand, analysts said.
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Details of the polymerase chain reaction are given in a previous publication.
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His answer sparked a chain reaction that led, almost forty years after the article was published, to the Macintosh computer.
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Instability would spread like a chain reaction .
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A new cycle of chain reactions could destabilize the system of people who use, provide and pay for health care.
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Metaphor: e.g. chain reaction 3.
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In a chain reaction on a world scale, prices on innumerable commodities skyrocketed within weeks.
restaurant
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Burger King is widely regarded as the quality fast food hamburger restaurant chain .
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And other quick-serve restaurant chains , such as Boston Market, are jumping on the bandwagon.
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The steak restaurant chain Buffalo Grill withdrew the cuts from its menus last weekend.
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The Golden-based restaurant chain has jumped 12 percent in the last two trading sessions.
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The demographic data we have provided is accurate enough, but no resemblance to any existing restaurant chain is intended.
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A fast food restaurant chain in the United States is pioneering the use of pagers for its waiters.
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Lately, the restaurant chain , which caters mainly to blue-collar diners, has been hurt by competition.
store
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The Habitat store chain was yesterday fined £8,800 at Basingstoke for overcharging.
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The department store chain will consolidate its regional businesses into its Schaumburg, Illinois.
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But Agriculture Minister Nick Brown stressed he does not blame the store chains .
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The department store chain is giving up a well-located outlet in its bid to compete in the shrinking department store retailing world.
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Branching out: A northern store chain is helping to open branches of a different kind.
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Department store chain Shekem was off 0. 25 percent.
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The site features several large retailers, including Gottschalks Inc., a California based department store chain .
supermarket
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The suspect meat, more than eight tonnes of it, ended up in three national supermarket chains .
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That shuts out producers such as supermarket chains , where loaves are baked from batches of frozen dough made elsewhere.
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Some retailers use distinctive packaging for their own brands, eg one supermarket chain packaged everything in bright yellow.
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Prices even vary within supermarket chains .
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A supermarket chain gave the name Pemberley to its own brand of champagne.
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Consider Britain, where Tesco, a supermarket chain , is now the brand with the biggest ad budget.
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Forecourts are drastically cutting prices after the Tesco supermarket chain announced a massive drop in the cost of a gallon.
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The big supermarket chains certainly regained favour in 2000.
supply
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According to SynQuest, this will allow Ford to plan and simulate its logistics process, making the supply chain more reliable.
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The toy store, fried chicken and office supply chains were stated since Lew became chairman in 1991.
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There are four stages to the project: Vision of Guinness Brewing's future supply chain requirements.
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Discovery of the present supply chain capabilities and the gap between where the company is today and the vision for the future.
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The buy-out advances Nissan's supply chain restructuring and gives Vantec independence to pursue third party business aggressively.
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If you want more information on supply chains , contact your departmental representative on the project.
■ VERB
break
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The defendants were held not liable for this injury, as the plaintiff's unreasonable conduct broke the chain of causation.
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Unable to bear the humiliation, one night he broke the chain and ran away, never to return.
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I let it get up to seventy, and then broke the chain in my panic.
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Because such a policy did nothing to break the chain of capitalism worldwide.
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The defendant was held liable for the loss, as the thief's act did not break the chain of causation.
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In order to break the chain of causation the third party act must be independent of the breach of duty.
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The effect was to trigger off a largely middle-class uprising designed to break the chains hampering economic growth and professional advancement.
form
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Under these conditions, however, ethylene forms short chains or rings, rather than the long chains of the solid polymer.
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Rally organizers with colored arm-bands link hands, forming a human chain at the crosswalks.
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We can form a human chain of Berliners along the Wall which no one dare break, nomatterhow many soldiers they send.
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Primary structure refers to the joining of the amino acids through peptide bonds to form polypeptide chains .
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The policy process is dynamic, with inputs, conversion, outputs and feedback forming a continuous chain .
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The edge of the overriding plate is crumpled and uplifted to form a mountain chain parallel to the trench.
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These may be simple or complex, forming saddles when intermediate chains are shortened.
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In some minerals two single chains are combined to form double chains, in which the chains are linked by cations.
own
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Lord Kemsley and Lord Rothermere owned chains of provincial dailies too.
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Keen on promoting venture capital, Viney owns a chain of wine bars as a sideline.
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In 1910, only sixty-two dailies were owned by chains , which averaged less than five newspapers per chain.
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Now, when the economy shifts daily, owning the whole chain of production is a liability.
pull
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Hugh called from the loo to tell her that pulling the chain produced a cascade of silence.
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He pulled the chain that hung above his right shoulder.
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Each time you wanted to go up or down you had to pull a chain .
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At the left of the altar, he reached up and pulled the chain that brought down the attic stairs.
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He pulled the chain that hung down from the water tank.
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He pulled the chain above the commode and there was a rush of water.
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He pulled the chain above him.
set
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What the defendant has done is to set in motion a chain of events.
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You set up a money chain that makes it impossible to trace the source.
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That sets off a chain reaction of difficulties.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
human chain
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Firefighters formed a human chain to carry the four brothers to safety but they found to be dead at hospital.
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Rally organizers with colored arm-bands link hands, forming a human chain at the crosswalks.
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The crowd was on the point of becoming a lynch mob, but were still linked in a human chain.
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They had dropped out of the human chain of ancestors and descendants that had formerly bound them all together.
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Traders sitting elbow to elbow formed a human chain.
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We can form a human chain of Berliners along the Wall which no one dare break, nomatterhow many soldiers they send.
link in the chain
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Development itself can be a link in the chain of stress and violence.
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He felt like a useless and unused link in the chain.
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I am a link in the chain, a bond of connection between persons.
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That's what I was - a link in the chain.
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The law does not allow the consumer to ignore the intermediate links in the chain.
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The schools are a critical link in the chain, but only one.
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This is the weakest link in the chain, and we have a system for chasing referees and eventually going elsewhere.
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This time, it was the primacy of the office as gathering place that was the weak link in the chain.
the food chain
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Pollution is having a long-term impact on the food chain in the bay.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A mugger tore Sylvia's gold chain from her neck.
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It's the largest mountain chain in North America.
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The gates were held shut with a chain and a padlock.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For this reason any purchaser will wish to see that all documents in the chain of title are properly stamped.
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Hanging from hooks on the wall were sets of wire-pulling devices, complete with chain winch and gripper.
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He came to the defense of his younger brother, Von, by swinging a chain at his attacker.
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He opened the door, allowing it to reach only the length of the chain .
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Hundreds of smaller chains and stores went out of business, many hurt by price wars waged by appliance chains.
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Lewis's, a provincial chain of department stores which employed 3,400 people, is in the hands of the receivers.
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The coffee chain has rolled out the concept in a number of markets across the country.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
together
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Into this pool plunge rank after rank of children chained together .
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The tape shows that the women were not chained together .
up
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And he was chained up - possibly to a Roman soldier.
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Patients were chained up , and the noise would have been incredible.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The gates were chained shut.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Fettered and chained, with a mat of coarse brown hair, with sly, utterly mad eyes, but Human.
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Have these people been in a time-machine or chained in dimly-lit rooms in Beirut?
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Like that to chain her up and keep all the food away.