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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
attention/emphasis/focus shifts
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In this stage of a rape case, the focus often shifts onto the victim and her conduct.
the emphasis switches/is switched to sth
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The emphasis has switched to defence.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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different
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This is that they have a different emphasis according to whether they are being applied to consumer markets or industrial markets.
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The factory, an interactive site celebrating color and artistry, has two floors, with a different emphasis on each.
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Blaug presented his argument with a rather different emphasis .
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They may play in a different key and with a somewhat different emphasis but the tune can often be heard all the same.
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Subsequently these variations will be translated into different degrees of emphasis in ordering.
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The mix of skills should also be very different with an emphasis on analytical and contracting expertise.
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For industrial markets, the variables have a different emphasis .
great
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It was written by individuals who believed the company should place a greater emphasis on customer service.
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Its proponents saw it as a way of mobilizing national attention to greater emphasis on quality.
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The committee called for greater emphasis on language at all educational levels, with increased spending on staffing, accommodation and other resources.
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There are several reasons why it received greater emphasis as the years went by.
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However, after 1984 a greater emphasis was placed on schemes designed to boost the physical regeneration of the inner cities.
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But is Kant right to place such great emphasis on the powers of the mind?
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The new rules laid greater emphasis on economic factors such as professional qualifications and work skills.
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Towards the end of the decade, with elections looming, land distribution decreased in favour of greater emphasis on raising agricultural yields.
heavy
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A heavy emphasis will be placed on evaluating the benefits to local people.
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A record-player shuffled a few simple chords violently together, then dealt them out with heavy emphasis .
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File management Introduction All quality standards place heavy emphasis on file management.
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Active enquiry is a feature of the course which places a heavy emphasis on the use of primary and secondary sources.
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Ordinary people, she said with heavy emphasis , who you despise.
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Lenin's heavy emphasis on discipline and centralized control within the Party was particularly unattractive to activists drawn from the minority nationalities.
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Under Ford's influence, Jaguar is placing heavy emphasis on building the car efficiently, speedily and at low cost.
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The tribalism of the town's Ga majority was given heavy emphasis .
increased
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In spite of the increased emphasis on planning and focused decision-making, admission to local authority care was often hasty and ill-planned.
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This mirrored the increased emphasis on confession evidence within the police forces around the country.
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The report, Policy Implications of Global Warming, calls for increased emphasis on energy efficiency and conservation.
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Lang has also pledged himself to an increased emphasis on the teaching of art history at secondary school and college level.
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Repeated attempts to cut back the global total of public spending have placed an increased emphasis on control of public spending.
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Longer term consequences of this trend could include an increased counterproductive emphasis on first author publication.
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There would be increased emphasis on nuclear propulsion for maritime purposes.
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This awareness, and the increased emphasis on the development of this asset is epitomised in the term human resource management.
increasing
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The programmes of regional type are research-oriented; an increasing emphasis is being placed on environmental protection.
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Sociological explanations include the increasing emphasis on individualism in our society and the breakdown of family and community ties.
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Recent years have seen an increasing emphasis on the importance of inspection as a means of securing quality performance.
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However, like other reds, it has been exported successfully, especially with the increasing emphasis on the polled type.
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Throughout this period, an increasing emphasis was placed on tight monetary policy in an attempt to eradicate inflation.
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The third and fourth years are devoted to geology alone, with an increasing emphasis on independent project work.
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The reason is the increasing emphasis on individualism that industrial capitalist society imposes.
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The corollary of this is the increasing emphasis that has been placed on urban policies, such as Inner-City Partnerships and Enterprise Zones.
main
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The direct analysis approach is only mentioned briefly, with the main emphasis on overcoming heterogeneity effects.
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Despite these reservations, the main emphasis is right.
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I issue a monthly list, with the main emphasis on Roman coins.
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The main emphasis of Hume's book is the inter-relationships between nutrition, reproductive performance and life histories of marsupials.
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Rich pinks are the main emphasis in early August, but earlier in the year blue delphiniums predominate.
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The debate has continued ever since on whether the main emphasis should be on their economic or their social role.
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Short-term monitoring rather than forecasting is still the main emphasis .
new
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The new emphasis is on management skills and giving value for money.
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There is a new emphasis on asking households to pay for water.
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With a new emphasis on the importance of the Word, the trend has been away from hymns, anthems and settings.
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With boundary-to-boundary skiing, says Carey, comes a new emphasis on educating skiers about the potential dangers.
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In came renewed assaults on Militant, luncheons in the City and the new emphasis on competition and even markets.
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The new emphasis was to be on dining rather than drinking, and the design was as sensitive as it could have been.
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The new emphasis is on helping the economic Upturn which will bring down Unemployment, currently heading towards 3 million.
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Running and sport took on a new emphasis as it was the only way to keep warm.
particular
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Olson's early work laid particular emphasis on individual behaviour and motivation.
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The School places particular emphasis on its research activities in accounting and finance.
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As the previous section indicated, interactionism adopts a similar approach with particular emphasis on the process of interaction.
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By 1950 it was devoting over a third of its space to sport with particular emphasis on football.
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However, there are also two general principles which seem to signal a particular emphasis in the public sector.
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Plans are made as a whole and the analysis of failed innovations places particular emphasis on wholeness.
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Fifth, identify the characteristics of successful firms with particular emphasis on marketing factors.
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Methodology places particular emphasis on the language of persuasion.
special
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This is where the special evangelical emphasis in the Party becomes interesting.
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But there should be special emphasis placed on the very latest research and literature.
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Algebra is given a special emphasis as well as the application of Mathematics in the form of problem-solving and investigative work.
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When your life is on the line that takes on special emphasis .
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Concentrates on the language of letter-writing itself, with special emphasis on the build-up of vocabulary.
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Bills completed by 1980 laid special emphasis on recycling and energy conversion.
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These prices exclude Christmas and Easter. Special emphasis on good food and comfort.
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Prince's Garden Centre will stock a wide range of horticultural goods, with special emphasis on top-quality indoor plants.
strong
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Behaviour was subject to the decrees of custom and this led to a strong emphasis on pragmatism and the averting of any confrontation.
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Many school-to-work programs place a strong emphasis on SCANS-type competencies.
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Level Most public library authorities place a strong emphasis on introductory materials and standard works, rather than on advanced material.
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Consequently, there follows a strong emphasis on the lack of any priority between the two.
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The cards show a strong emphasis on quality with many products still being finished by hand, giving them special appeal.
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The company invests in industrial, commercial and service ventures with a strong emphasis in textiles.
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But woman-centred feminists outside psychology place strong emphasis on method.
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They were raised in Hancock Park by parents who placed a strong emphasis on education.
■ VERB
change
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For example, the attempt in the past thirty years to incorporate more divergent factors changes the emphasis towards inductive and creative abilities.
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This would change the emphasis from quantity to quality, encouraging people to write more genuinely important works.
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Perhaps the time had now come to change the emphasis to more efficient production.
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During my time, I changed the emphasis because I thought child abuse was far more serious.
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Peace-keeping operations have also significantly changed in emphasis .
give
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The author gives much emphasis to those aspects of his character which support this view; but is it a fair one?
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All points seemed to be given equal emphasis .
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She had no need to give it further emphasis , it could not have been clearer.
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Algebra is given a special emphasis as well as the application of Mathematics in the form of problem-solving and investigative work.
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He gives it no emphasis , doesn't try to persuade.
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It gives greater rhematic emphasis to the previous chunk of information: was being a little hard to take.
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However, in drawing this conclusion, Piaget is giving undue emphasis to the more negative aspects of his results.
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Here the aims were three-fold: curbing expenditure, raising standards and giving greater emphasis to health promotion and illness prevention.
increase
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As the rewards to be gained from sporting success have increased , so the emphasis placed on winning has also increased.
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The increasing emphasis on meatless meals in restaurants and in cookbooks also provides inspiration to home cooks minding a budget.
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There is increasing emphasis in the development of innovative methodologies in order to secure funding for research.
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Value for money does not remove political judgment - it may well increase the emphasis on it.
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It may also have been encouraged by the increasing emphasis given to one-person exhibitions by living artists in commercial galleries and museums.
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We will increase emphasis on cost consciousness throughout the Group and continue to reduce overheads throughout 1993.
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The current volume continues the trend in previous editions of increasing the emphasis on clinical information.
lay
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The Labour government laid its emphasis upon local authority housing rather than on private building for sale.
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They laid little emphasis on the message of the prophets.
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They laid great emphasis on the value of a high level of participation by members of the lesbian and gay communities.
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Also, different kinds of organizations lay the emphasis on different views.
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Dobry laid great emphasis on consultations and meetings between applicants and the local planning authority, particularly in relation to Class B applications.
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Lord Watson laid the same emphasis in his speech, at p. 212.
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This view was so widely attractive that Themistokles himself was constrained to lay more emphasis on a nearer enemy, Aigina.
place
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It was written by individuals who believed the company should place a greater emphasis on customer service.
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Many school-to-work programs place a strong emphasis on SCANS-type competencies.
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A mixed group of students would be catered for by placing greater emphasis on electives.
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Some firewalls place a greater emphasis on blocking traffic, and others emphasize permitting traffic.
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They placed great emphasis on the individual's freedom to enter into personal relationships independent of church or state.
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Research has found that nationwide, many academies have not placed much emphasis on integrating academic and occupational courses.
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I place equal emphasis on both aspects.
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He placed the emphasis on high street fashion.
put
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The management prides itself on offering comfortable accommodation in elegant surroundings, and puts an emphasis on providing excellent service.
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Managed-care advocates say that puts the emphasis on keeping patients healthy.
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Nor will managers succeed by putting greater emphasis on planning or simply overlapping various stages in the development process.
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Carter preferred to put the emphasis on the word separately rather than Defense.
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All this put the emphasis on the content and was consequently responsible for the heterogeneous nature of literary studies.
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You learn the essence of team, and the parents take great pride in it and put such an emphasis on winning.
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Unveiled last year, Pastrana's plan addresses drug issues, but puts greater emphasis on economic development.
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Too bad this disc puts so much emphasis on traditional folk tunes in its lessons.
shift
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This points to shifting the emphasis away from direct tax on people's incomes and on to taxes on wealth or on spending.
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He was asking her to shift her emphasis , that was all.
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Unlike Hart's, Friedman's explanation shifts the emphasis from the subjects' deliberations to their action.
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By shifting the emphasis to treatment, the wrong message is broadcast: that drugs are the solution to this terrible problem.
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There were also shifts in emphasis on factors influencing decisions on where to place contracts.
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With the continuation of the disorders into 1968, the administration shifted its emphasis - to that of riot control.
switch
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Brandt switched the emphasis from geographical variation to the study of the annual cycle of plankton growth found in the northern oceans.
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I will switch emphasis from attending Branch meetings to meeting on a one to one basis with these people in each branch.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lay emphasis/stress on sth
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In addition to the need for humility, discipline and singleminded devotion in the quest for Truth Gandhi lays stress on prayer.
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In the matter of ultimate aesthetic evaluation it laid stress on the intuitive response of the general public.
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She said that her interview had laid stress on personal circumstances rather than experience and qualifications.
place value/importance/emphasis etc on sth
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A government department may place emphasis on careful administration and attention to detail, to research and to political manoeuvring.
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In fact, these words break the sentence rhythm, placing emphasis on the words that follow.
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It places emphasis on external evaluation and it undervalues the individual young reader's assessment.
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Some place emphasis on biotic, others on environmental factors.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The emphasis should be on the first syllable.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bills completed by 1980 laid special emphasis on recycling and energy conversion.
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Claire ranges back and forth at the foot of the bed, throwing her arms around for emphasis .
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It is worth examining briefly some of the possible explanations for this emphasis on remedial law.
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The emphasis was on what the student had to do that day and what might be accomplished.
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The emphasis was to be mainly on placements in inner city areas.
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The emphasis will be on real situations, real problems and real solutions.
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There has been an emphasis on, and lauding of, the continuity and stability.
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This emphasis on worship is at the heart of the gospel itself.