I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a line/channel of communication (= a way of exchanging information, especially in an organization )
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It's important to maintain good lines of communication between managers and staff.
channel surfing
channel your energy into sth ( also devote your energy to sth ) (= use most of your energy doing something )
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She should channel more of her energy into her studies.
cross the Atlantic/the Channel etc
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the first steamship to cross the Atlantic
diplomatic channels (= diplomatic methods used for achieving something )
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The President said that he hoped the situation could be resolved by diplomatic channels.
public access channel
switch channels (= start watching a different TV channel )
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Rod switched channels with the remote control.
the Channel Tunnel (= the tunnel under the sea between England and France )
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They went by train via the Channel Tunnel.
TV series/programme/show/station/channel etc
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a TV series based on the novel
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
commercial
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The commercial channel had lured away two of its top acts, Morecambe and Wise and Bruce Forsyth.
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The bill includes proposals for a new television channel , three new national commercial radio channels and numerous local services.
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At least on commercial channels they have ad breaks for this sort of thing.
deep
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In deeper channels , black and highly carbonaceous muds eventually form to create anaerobic conditions.
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Spoons and shrimp have been effective baits in deeper channels of the river.
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And deep channels of silence isolate certain islands entirely.
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On one side of the street ran a sluggish stream in a deep channel cut through the earth.
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Almost blind in the shallow muddy water, it is swimming by instinct, following the deepest sand channels .
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Here the Severn, squeezed between the wooded walls of the gorge, churns relentlessly, eroding an ever deeper channel .
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Three hundred and twenty-eight yards from the tee the Suez Canal cuts a deep channel across the course.
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A short, deep channel introduced the fruit of her lips.
different
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The Midi Mate allows you to send up to three patch changes on three different channels and offers three different operational modes.
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A customer uses her remote control to shop different channels with the touch of a button.
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This, in turn, is sold through a different channel .
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Only now had it occurred to him that it was moving along quite different channels .
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He had a different channel to set up and he was determined to do it differently.
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Also, they use four different channels simultaneously in normal operation.
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Maybe he has four of them, silently playing different channels .
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Many of the coaxial links in the ground today can carry only a handful of different channels at the same time.
diplomatic
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The diplomatic channel was generally used, and few bilateral treaties dealt with the subject.
direct
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Posters were the main form of communication because of the lack of a direct channel between the party leaders and the people.
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Employers have the clearest and most direct channels of communication to enormous numbers of people.
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A direct marketing channel moves goods directly from manufacturer to consumer.
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One the other hand abstract mathematical analysis and the experimental laboratory do not provide a direct channel to the subject studied.
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Channel A represents a direct marketing channel .
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Because everyone knows they have a direct channel of communication to the Palace, their ear is sought.
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There will be two direct channels - a fast-answer telephone service for sophisticated customers and a postal service for the less sophisticated.
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This strategy was possible because they have sold mainframes mostly to computer vendors in the country concerned rather than through direct sales channels .
indirect
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An indirect channel utilises intermediaries or middlemen, such as wholesalers. 25.
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Fifty percent of Sun's business comes from indirect channels and this will remain so in future, said Thompson.
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It sells entirely through indirect channels .
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CLARiiON will not use Data General's own sales force to market the products, only indirect channels .
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Channel C represents one of the shorter indirect channels , where the retailer is omitted.
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Arguably the indirect consular channel , like the modes of transmission still to be noted, is solely a creature of conventions.
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Channel D is another version of a shorter, indirect channel .
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The first is the selection as the primary or preferred mode of transmission of the indirect consular channel .
local
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A student-produced news program broadcasts once a week on a local cable channel .
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Satellite customers who are wired for cable sometimes keep the service to get local channels .
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You know, the twenty-four-hour local news channel .
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We had five or six local channels back then and that was really enough.
main
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The scheme involves dredging the main channel of the Medway estuary to provide a storage base for import-export cargoes.
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None of the figures for any of the four main channels shows a significant increase in the number of people offended.
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For the ordinary user there are two main channels to buy a computer through - either direct or from a dealer.
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Again, we should note the interdependence and mutual necessity of the main and minor channels of mystical power.
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At this point the river is divided into three main channels and there are numerous bridges crossing these waterways throughout the city.
narrow
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After entering the basin she had to negotiate the lock, a narrow channel which connected the basin to the dock proper.
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It was a peculiar sort of fog which lay on the sea in dense banks striped with narrow , clear channels .
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Boats have to negotiate a narrow winding channel between high slate walls to reach it.
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Water tumbled headlong down narrow channels into the valley.
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If the Ruritanian tributary was to flow into the country of junior fiction, it could only be in a narrower channel .
national
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The bill includes proposals for a new television channel , three new national commercial radio channels and numerous local services.
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We can cut costs by bulk purchasing and take advantage of national retail distribution channels .
new
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The firm is promising to develop new distribution channels , predicting that resellers will private label their own systems with Integrix components.
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He gave each show approximately one second to catch his attention before he hurried on to a new channel .
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Overnight, in a flash-flood, it will dramatically move its banks, depositing shoals and cutting new channels .
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The goal is to offer its customers hundreds of new cable channels and video services.
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The bill also refers to a new channel , to be known as channel 5.
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Some analysts believe Westinghouse decided to make a deal because it realized the difficulty of starting new channels from scratch.
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We have introduced new opportunities for television, and we will introduce a new channel - Channel 5.
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But cable representatives say the subscribers will also get more: two new channels .
normal
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You know how long these things can take through normal channels ....
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Blue searched through all the normal channels and came up empty.
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Switching to the Normal channel I would say that using the crunch option for rock solo work is a matter of taste.
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Any replies will arrive through the normal channels .
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The last control on this channel is a volume pot which enables it to be balanced with the Normal channel.
single
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If the problem is occurring at a skylight, a single channel may solve it.
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The technique allows 10 or more simultaneous conversations over a single channel that could carry only one analog call.
terrestrial
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The compression will let digital audio-visual services be carried by terrestrial and satellite channels , telecommunications networks or digital storage devices.
usual
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The request was first submitted a number of months ago, but all attempts through the usual channels have failed.
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This evening the usual channels , through my right hon. Friend, are the authors of the automatic timetable.
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I suggest that the usual channels have a strong interest in seeing that they control this important piece of procedure.
■ NOUN
cable
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There are now 21 talk shows on daytime television; two cable channels run them around the clock.
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The show also runs on other cable channels .
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This and more already happens on satellite and cable channels , which are under the more lenient gaze of the Cable Authority.
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A student-produced news program broadcasts once a week on a local cable channel .
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The national broadcasting organisations have been threatened by deregulation which has encouraged the growth of private satellite and cable channels .
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His departure from Time Warner coincided with sluggish operating results at the cable channel .
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The goal is to offer its customers hundreds of new cable channels and video services.
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Most basic cable channels have one or more fashion programs.
communication
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Formal organisations have an explicit hierarchy in a well- defined structure; job specifications and communication channels are also well-defined.
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This included new forms of magnetic tapes, each of which could hold hundreds of intercepted microwave communications channels .
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Official communication channels may be side-stepped.
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A sender transmits information through a communication channel to a receiver.
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The purpose of the magazine is to provide a communication channel for staff throughout the company.
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The communication channels to senior management are more direct.
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All available communication channels should be used to promote these techniques.
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Authority is top down, and utilizes formal communication channels , usually vertical, and well-defined policies and procedures.
distribution
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Its offerings are now also sold via Sage's existing international distribution channels .
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What is the extent of our distribution channel ?...
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The firm is promising to develop new distribution channels , predicting that resellers will private label their own systems with Integrix components.
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We can cut costs by bulk purchasing and take advantage of national retail distribution channels .
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With Bertelsmann involved, it is not surprising that book clubs as well as electronics and book stores are being targeted as distribution channels .
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That would be another major breakthrough, offering a huge distribution channel for the product.
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The development greatly improves our own internal focus and accountability for both distribution channels .
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Should it work enthusiastically toward changing the distribution channels ?
news
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His 24-hour all-\#news channel tends to focus on disasters.
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You know, the twenty-four-hour local news channel .
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There are at least four companies, perhaps five, that would like to start a 24-hour news channel .
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The shoddy performance of the networks and cable news channels is indefensible.
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The session started early and finished late, and was broadcast live on all cable news channels .
river
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When there are sudden floods over the banks, more sand and mud are deposited, mainly near the river channel .
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One of the craters is especially promising because it lies near what seem to be dried-out river channels , Barlow said.
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The inland areas became lower than the silty areas near the coast and lower than the river channels .
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In this way the river channel is slowly changing its position.
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When the river channel fills and then overflows more mud is spread right across the floodplain.
satellite
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Freeze-frame pictures consume less bandwidth on the satellite channel and so cost less.
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The compression will let digital audio-visual services be carried by terrestrial and satellite channels , telecommunications networks or digital storage devices.
television
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There is the underfunded Black Entertainment Television channel on cable.
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I wrote to the editors of all the major newspapers and television channels asking them to cover the anniversary.
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The bill includes proposals for a new television channel , three new national commercial radio channels and numerous local services.
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It is a free television channel to three-to five-star hotels in London.
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The fiercest competition of all, therefore, is between the rival television channels .
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The prospect of a future which provides hundreds of television channels gives Madison Avenue nightmares.
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Have new television channels , satellite cable etc. made the film critic redundant and fit for an academic existence only?
■ VERB
change
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He switched the set back on, changing the channel to a news programme.
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It ended, finally, and she changed the channel .
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The living room was so small that I didn't need a remote to change channels without leaving my seat.
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If you came looking for offense, Orange-ya glad you could change the channel ?
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If no-one defends you, change channels .
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When I hear about deprivation and injustice in the world, I get up and change the channel . 71.
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That's too much: I use the remote control to change channels .
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Should it work enthusiastically toward changing the distribution channels ?
cross
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At low tide it is sometimes just possible to cross the channel without swimming.
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The seventy-one-year-old steel cantilever span narrows down to two lanes as it crosses a channel that connects the Gulf to the Mississippi.
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But we're just about to cross the shipping channel .
open
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Eventually, however, they managed to open a channel in the wedge and bring the leaders through to the barricades.
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Try warming up when you must write particularly difficult projects-it will open the word-use channels .
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I open myself as a channel to the Light.
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The opening of these channels either directly inhibits a neuron from firing or reduces the amount of neurotransmitter released into the synapse.
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Clearly we still have a long way to go to understand just how InsP 3 acts to open individual channels .
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In the living interface section we discussed how tone recognition opens emotional channels .
provide
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Small firms provide a useful channel for re-allocating labour from large firms without increasing official unemployment rates.
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The rally, according to Merrill, provides students a channel to express feelings of violation and pain.
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Puremix.com, which has taken two years to set up, will provide 40 channels of music.
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One the other hand abstract mathematical analysis and the experimental laboratory do not provide a direct channel to the subject studied.
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The purpose of the magazine is to provide a communication channel for staff throughout the company.
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It provided a channel for protest while the war continued.
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Since the Congress of Vienna, a general diplomatic system had provided the accepted channels of international relations.
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Cabinet sub-committees, bureaucratic sub-committees, commissions, boards and quangos provide the channels for processing corporatist interest intermediation.
switch
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He switched to the video channel and turned the machine on.
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Chris Wallace switched channels , for exactly how much we have not been told.
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To switch channels , you might walk into another building on fly up into the clouds.
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He immediately switched channels to some one else.
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If anyone claims to offer something else, we switch channels , the ultimate vote against.
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He switched channels with the remote, clasped his hands behind his head.
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It is all designed to stop you from using the remote-control button to switch channels .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
commercial radio/TV/channel etc
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At least on commercial channels they have ad breaks for this sort of thing.
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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.
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Local operators hope that, if national commercial radio takes off, some cash will trickle down to them.
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The commercial channel had lured away two of its top acts, Morecambe and Wise and Bruce Forsyth.
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The bill includes proposals for a new television channel, three new national commercial radio channels and numerous local services.
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There are fourteen commercial television companies, and a host of commercial radio stations.
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Two commercial radio broadcasters, two television stations and cable networks provide more news.
terrestrial TV/broadcasting/channels etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a channel for the water supply
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A lot of people switch channels during the commercials.
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Brent works in the news department at Channel 9.
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New channels of communication have opened up between the two governments.
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the English Channel
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The final episode will be shown on Channel 4 tonight.
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the sports channel on satellite TV
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There's a good movie on Channel 5 tonight.
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We need better distribution channels for our products.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Currently, the average household has access to dozens of channels.
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He had a different channel to set up and he was determined to do it differently.
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That would help to ensure that political and social tensions were guided through established channels and not forced on to the streets.
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The broadcasters say they need both analog and digital channels for 15 years to ensure a smooth transition to the digital age.
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The event assuredly was communicated throughout the nursing system by informal channels.
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The former media consultant to Republican presidents has headed the business news and talk show channel since August 1993.
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The purpose of the magazine is to provide a communication channel for staff throughout the company.
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This traffic also permitted the firm to act as a channel of communications between the two governments in wartime.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
energies
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But it is the experience at the school itself which prompts the youths to channel their energies into sport.
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They want to channel their energies in any direction they want, to do things their own way.
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It was hardly a success as he channelled most of his energies into drumming with local groups.
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He then organized a successful effort to channel the energies of civil rights activists into the politically preferable voting rights arena.
energy
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Rewarding performance Motivation is a choice to channel energy into certain activities in the expectation that valued goals will be rewarded.
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Caroline was not only learning, she was doing what she'd wanted to do, channelling her energy into something positive.
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I shut myself off from the female race and channelled all my energy into my work.
funds
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It said that it did not want the Government to channel funds in the direction of strategically selected industries.
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In Chapter 1 we said that it was the job of a financial system to channel funds from surplus to deficit sectors.
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A new group called the Thames Valley Parternship wants to channel private funds into schemes designed to tackle crime at its source.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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These pipes will channel water to the settlement.
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Water had channeled grooves in the rock.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For a number of reasons, therefore, planners may recommend that growth should be channelled into selected settlements.
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He brought back his foot as far as it would go and channelled all its hydraulic power into a forceful throw.
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It is argued that the lobby is used to channel dis-information to a gullible public.
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Some of this may have been channelled into Pathe, where Mr Fiorini is still co-chairman.
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This is achieved when scarce resources are channelled to their highest return uses.