verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
comply with/adhere to/conform to a code formal (= follow one )
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All staff must sign and strictly adhere to a Code of Business Ethics.
comply with/meet/conform to regulations
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Hotel kitchens must comply with these regulations.
conform to/adhere to convention formal (= do what is accepted and normal )
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He’d always chosen not to conform to convention.
fit/conform to a stereotype (= be like the usual idea of something )
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He doesn’t fit the stereotype of a Stanford student.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
to
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Those women who do not conform to constructed aesthetic ideals are punished and excluded.
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Girls are supposed to be conformist; but what appealing models are there for them to conform to?
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And Brotherhood was the only object one was expected to conform to in becoming a member.
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Women's power lies in conforming to and consolidating these statuses.
■ NOUN
expectations
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Most of the time, things will indeed conform to our expectations .
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Musical notation also did not conform to traditional expectations .
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Because certain people do not conform to academic expectations or social abilities of others, this can not place them outside society.
ideal
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Those women who do not conform to constructed aesthetic ideals are punished and excluded.
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Banning books which don't conform to that ideal is another.
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However, the shy beauty of Freud's young woman does not conform to the glamourous ideals of the age.
image
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It conformed to her image of what a public school should look like.
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Conversely, while pupils are expected to conform to certain role images , pupils who exaggerate these are also problematic.
law
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He realises that he does not have to conform to the laws which have been set down by his community.
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Kennedy responded that marshals would be removed when state officials kept order and conformed to federal law .
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And multinationals must conform to national laws and regulations on additives, flavourings, colourings and artificial low-calorie sweeteners.
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The formulation is strange, since it suggests that one can measure a person's ability to conform to the law .
norm
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We have refused to repress our desires, in spite of enormous pressure to conform to heterosexual norms .
pattern
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Quotations conform to the same pattern of assessment and explanation type.
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In nearly every way, false open-mindedness conforms to the pattern of a self-defeating organizational behavior.
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ONCE again, we had been let down by the refusal of human beings to conform to expected patterns .
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When he considered the twelve-foot window spacings, it became clear that individual office sizes would have to conform to this pattern .
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Activity has been made to conform to rational pattern .
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They must conform to the pattern and standard size laid down by the Post Office.
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The Partnership Programmes began to appear in 1978, tending to conform to a standard pattern .
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It conformed to this pattern , with plenty of free time and many independent meals.
pressure
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Once such norms have been developed, there are strong pressures on people to conform to them.
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As women get higher and higher in powerful corporate ranks, the pressure to conform increases proportionately.
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With women especially, there is a great deal of social pressure to conform to a certain physical shape.
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And the trouble is that once one person plays the stress card, the pressure to conform is huge.
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We have refused to repress our desires, in spite of enormous pressure to conform to heterosexual norms.
principle
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How might the non-fatal offences be reformed soas to conform with the principle of fair labelling?
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They are a utility like gas, and they conform to the elemental principles of accountancy.
requirement
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Traherne must have conformed to the religious requirements of the Commonwealth.
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Indeed, few files seem in practice to conform to this requirement .
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Failure to conform to Commission requirements within 45 days would lead to their compulsory introduction.
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A failure to conform to the legal requirements in contracting a marriage will render that marriage void.
rule
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She doesn't conform to the rules of society.
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It is so much easier to conform to arbitrary rules imposed by some one else on the basis of age.
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Kasparov conforms to the rules when playing P-K4, but that is not why he picks P-K4 from among his legal options.
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Furthermore, such modes of discussion are expected to conform also to the rules of professional literacy discourse.
specification
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UIM/X automatically generates C source code based on Motif, conforming to standard specifications for C so that the code is extremely portable.
standard
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Depending on the strength of identification with the reference groups an individual may conform to its standards and norms.
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Perhaps being gay, they do not feel obliged to conform to traditional male standards .
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Secondary aims included conforming to existing industry standards and defining interfaces to other languages.
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Britain should conform to international standards .
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Where they conform to any lesser standard they will not provide protection.
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This means it can support integrated applications with any system conforming to the standard .
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This is an intolerable situation and society has to remove those who will not conform to reasonable standards of behaviour.
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Silver of this period should conform to the Britannia standard but does not always do so.
stereotype
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The problem is, however, that real history rarely conforms to later stereotypes .
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I don't need to conform to a prevailing stereotype in the search for distinguished and illustrious positions.
■ VERB
ensure
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When such material is used it must be ensured that it conforms approximately in density and shape with the natural beach material.
expect
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And Brotherhood was the only object one was expected to conform to in becoming a member.
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Members of the group will come to expect one another to conform to these patterns if they wish to remain members of it.
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Furthermore, such modes of discussion are expected to conform also to the rules of professional literacy discourse.
fail
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The chief aesthetic charge against the art works was that their characteristically modernist expressionist distortions failed to conform to a naturalistic realism.
make
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Activity has been made to conform to rational pattern.
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Criticism and poetics both constrict the text by making it conform to a meaning or to a model.
refuse
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As is so often the case, however, nature refuses to conform to such a convenient theory.
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To refuse to conform is to risk threats to national independence.
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Senators who refused to conform to these inherently conservative norms were condemned to ineffectiveness.
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He resolutely refused to conform to local customs and made not the slightest effort to understand the people.
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She was always the outsider, refusing to conform to traditions, obstinate and impudent.
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Illness occurs when these pictures are refused the opportunity to conform with pictures of life as it actually is.
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It nevertheless refuses to conform to the narrative conventions of nineteenth-century realism.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Getting everyone on the team to conform has taken a long time.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His triumphal entry into Jerusalem, for example, represents an attempt to conform to one of them.
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Indeed, few files seem in practice to conform to this requirement.
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Neither of them conforms to the default format, but they both work.
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Techniques such as object oriented design and structured programming will have to be followed to conform to engineering practice.
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They do not conform well to national polls.