verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bullet enters sb's chest/brain etc
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There was a scar where the bullet had entered his shoulder.
breaking and entering
enter a competition
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You must be over 16 to enter the competition.
enter a contest (= take part in one )
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Anyone over 18 years old can enter the contest.
enter a stage
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He is entering a new stage of his career.
enter a zone
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He didn’t see the sign saying he’d entered a 20 mph zone.
enter an era
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We have entered an era of instant global communication.
enter education (= start going to school, college etc )
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The number of students entering higher education has risen.
enter (into) a contract
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You will enter a two-year training contract with your chosen employer.
enter into an agreement formal (= make an official agreement, which has legal responsibilities )
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In 2006 the city authorities entered into an agreement with a private firm to operate the gardens.
enter into talks (= start having talks )
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The Ambassador stated that France was prepared to enter into talks on the issue.
enter into the spirit of the occasion (= join in a social occasion in an eager way )
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People entered into the spirit of the occasion by enjoying a picnic before the outdoor concert.
enter into...correspondence
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The magazine is unable to enter into any correspondence on medical matters.
enter into/open negotiations (= start negotiations )
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They have entered into negotiations to acquire another company.
enter sb/sth in a race
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The horse is entered in a race at Worcester the day after tomorrow.
enter the home stretch
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As they enter the home stretch of the campaign, the president’s lead has grown.
entered the ministry (= started working as a church leader )
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Converted in his early teens, he entered the ministry in 1855.
enter/get into parliament (= be elected as a member of parliament )
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Tony Blair first entered Parliament in 1983.
enter/go into/join a profession
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Hugh intended to enter the medical profession.
enter/join the race
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There was speculation that another candidate might enter the race.
go into/enter into an alliance with sb
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Spain then entered into an alliance with France.
go into/enter the charts
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The album entered the UK charts at number 2.
join/enter the fray
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The other soldiers quickly joined the fray, launching missile attacks in the city.
make/enter a plea
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Adams entered a plea of ‘not guilty’.
sth enters/comes into the equation (= something begins to have an effect )
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Consumer confidence also enters the equation.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
agreement
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We have entered into agreements in good faith.
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Some had entered into employment agreements after their first year in law school.
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Similarly, business has to enter into agreements .
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As an associate, he said was not involved in entering into specific agreements with clients for legal work.
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The Post Office and its unions have entered into agreements which are designed to improve productivity.
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The city needs to legally evict the owners before it can enter into another lease agreement .
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The Halifax had entered a similar agreement with Hyde housing association and other agreements were being negotiated.
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David Holton and Hughes already have entered into an agreement with the local state attorney to settle criminal charges.
business
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In 1895 he entered the alkali business .
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And by the time Louie and Kathy decided to enter our business , the money was long gone.
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But managers know the unwritten rules when they enter the business .
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PepsiCo entered the restaurant business in 1977 by purchasing Pizza Hut.
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X terminal makers simply can not imagine Sun not entering the business since it must defend its historical market, the desktop.
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Microsoft this week entered the Internet server business by giving away its software.
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And later this year, Sanyo plans to enter the business of home automation itself - albeit in a limited way.
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The phone companies have invested in technologies and strategic alliances designed to enter the business .
church
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At first when you enter , the church seems forbidding and rather a muddle.
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When the bodyguards have parked and walked to his car, he gets out and enters the church .
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They could not enter the church , were excommunicated and were never to eat meat.
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She told me about her brother being handed a pink azalea plant as he entered church for the funeral service.
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People walked many miles just to enter a church building even once a month.
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On entering a church the Roman Catholic drops to one knee and makes the sign of the cross.
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From here cross the road and enter the church gate.
competition
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It all started when wine buff Liz entered another competition in the Express.
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Enlargement of that pie does not yet seem to have occurred to those who enter these increasingly unhappy competitions .
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To enter our competition , just answer this question.
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They might have entered competitions sponsored by local companies to provide innovative solutions to real-world problems.
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In fact, there is now a competition circuit in which many of the same pianists enter competition after competition.
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He'd encouraged her to enter a writing competition .
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There is an idea for a classroom project, an easy to enter prize competition plus a special cartoon.
contest
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You may receive promotional offers after entering this contest .
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To enter this super contest simply answer the following question and state which hand-held you would like to win.
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Of course, if you are the type who will enter this contest , you probably already own it.
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Boat Show, of course, as will all other contest entrants, making everybody who entered the contest a winner.
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Other players could still enter the contest , but it is increasingly unlikely that any would be acceptable to the United board.
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Once upon a time, I entered chili contests .
contract
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It will be entering into contracts to both buy and sell specific currencies on or between specific dates.
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She entered into a fresh contract each academic year.
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Traders must consider domestic and foreign exchange control regulations when entering into contracts and seeking settlement.
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It will depend on how many choose to enter the type of contract that I have described.
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A statement is not an actionable misrepresentation unless it induced the other party to enter the contract .
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Reforms to property rights, pension ear-marking and changes to allow couples to enter enforceable cohabitation contracts are also suggested.
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Opportunities to enter into contracts with providers outside Grampian exist and practices are looking to develop services in house.
correspondence
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Unfortunately, Practically Speaking can not enter into personal correspondence on any topic - all correspondence must be conducted via Practically Speaking.
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Lesley regrets that she can not enter into any direct correspondence with readers.
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Robin Dewhurst is unable to enter into any correspondence regarding holiday enquiries.
country
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Paul Ride has been jailed for seven years for illegally entering the country .
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Yet he felt like some one entering a foreign country without knowing anything about the language.
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Pataki later revealed that his maternal grandmother and an uncle had entered the country illegally.
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In addition, and for the first time, a register will be established for all works of art entering the country .
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In the documents, Clinton proposed restoring benefits to about 250, 000 non-citizens who became disabled after they entered the country .
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Though a mere 150 miles away, it was indeed like entering another country , another world.
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Takatlyan was charged with illegal weapons possession, bribery, entering the country illegally and using false documents.
discussion
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Every family health services authority should enter into discussions with its general practitioners to establish guidelines for the employment of counsellors.
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It would not be pertinent for me to attempt to enter into a detailed discussion of such questions.
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Studies of students taking part in seminars suggest that posture is also used to indicate a desire to enter the discussion .
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Like other staff, they enter into the discussions and decision-making which surround their work.
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Now, a new aspect has entered the discussions between consultancies and their clients: Creativity.
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It can enable the reluctant and shy to enter into discussion with greater enthusiasm at home or at work.
force
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The treaty was due to enter into force after ratification by the parliaments of the five signatories by Jan. 1, 1992.
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In the 1970s as the baby boom generation entered the labor force , capital-labor ratios rose more slowly or even fell.
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Biotechnology unless.politically directed will be forced to enter the forces of production on those terms.
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And during this time, we can expect still more millions of young people to enter the shrinking work force .
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Of the 244 recruits, 151 joined the army, 76 entered the air force and 17 opted for the navy.
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Numerous surveys show how poorly equipped students are to enter a work force that faces increasing technical complexity and intensifying competition.
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Married women who entered the labour force to supplement the family income tended for example, to display all the traditional self-sacrificing attitudes.
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A residence was entered by force .
fray
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Gradually, the number of individual objectors prepared to enter the fray began to expand outside the initial handful.
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Home venture, will enter the fray next month.
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The field is being actively investigated and is at an exciting stage; computational chemists have entered the fray .
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But the outcome is neither random, nor completely orderly: probability has entered into the fray .
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Credit-card companies have entered the fray , offering an additional 15 to 20 percent off service charges if their card is used.
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This, he believed, would spur us on before we entered the fray .
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This, of course, was before the Denver Broncos and Buffalo Bills decided to enter the fray .
house
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He waited at the house until the bride and groom arrived but he could not be persuaded to enter the house.
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The locks was broken with bullets and one hour later we enter the house .
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Huy entered his house , and its drabness both depressed and reproached him.
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The number of those who consider the 72-year-old too old to enter the White House has increased.
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He entered the house by the front door and was confronted by a flustered maidservant.
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Then she crosses herself and enters the house .
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When she entered the house , it was silent and empty.
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Several reporters and camera crews have tried to enter the house uninvited, according to one member.
market
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Some of the best established tea companies are now entering the herbal tea market , offering blends for evening and morning drinking.
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It reiterated that it will work with other cable modem makers, noting that 3Com Corp. will enter the market .
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Such analysis by some firms obliges others to gather similar information to protect themselves, or attempt to enter the market .
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The fear of chemicals can also delay new miracle drugs from entering the market .
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We shall be entering the single market in the coming year.
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Photographs are a good way to enter the fine-art market .
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The fall in the birth rate in the 1970s means that the number of people entering the labour market today is falling.
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Furthermore, the costs of entering the housing market have risen substantially.
mind
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And it entered his mind uninvited to wonder about the strangeness of human relationships.
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It began entering my mind when I was putting.
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They have entered your mind and there they add to the charge with which you are writing your book.
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Going to college, by the way, just never entered my mind .
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Every thought and feeling that had entered Ace's mind had appeared simultaneously on her face.
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And here a niggling doubt enters the mind .
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And then the word Agnes entered my mind .
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Absolut Vodka has used its bottle shape to enter the minds of millions.
module
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You should enter a known module issue.
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The procedure performs two passes, the first to enter packages only, the second to enter non-package modules .
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This user is seen as the person who will create, enter and modify individual modules and packages.
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Action: A file of the same name has already been entered in the Module Relations.
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Therefore, a user may prefer to enter package modules manually, and use the procedural interface to enter the modules thereafter.
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This option is used to read or enter modules .
name
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You should enter a valid package name .
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We are also requested to enter either a file name for the test file or the recall file.
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You can use macros to enter often-used names and phrases as well as complex format changes.
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When setting up Correct Letters you are prompted to enter your name , company address, telephone, fax number, and so on.
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So far, he had entered the last name .
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If you enter a document name , the sorted list will be saved on the disk under that name.
negotiation
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As a result local government policies have changed, and employment strategy has entered a phase of negotiation .
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They may be more careful as they enter into negotiations with our competitors in the future.
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I know the other party and I are going to work out a deal when we enter negotiations .
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This involved a moped engine designed by the plaintiff who entered into informal negotiations with the defendant; no contract was executed.
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After the Security Council ultimatum was issued, Bush offered to enter into direct negotiations .
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To sort out the non-priority debts, possibly entering into negotiation with the lenders.
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Rabin and his aides entered the Kissinger negotiations as hard bargainers with a clear sense of their bottom line.
number
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The 4 box is where you would enter a cast on number .
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As soon as you enter the number , the cursor returns to the bottom prompt.
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These quantitative measures of uncertainty will then be entered in a number of investment formulations to see how they perform.
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With this mandate, slaveholders claiming blacks as their property now entered Florida in large numbers .
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You should enter an approximate number of 512 byte blocks which this media type can hold.
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All the complex calculations are built into the software; all you do is enter the numbers in the right boxes.
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This, as various minutes in these boxes have reminded me, was two days after Harold Wilson entered Number Ten.
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Press 9 to select the Conditional End of Page option, then enter the number of lines. 5.
phase
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If the originator chooses to proceed, he or she enters the next phase , referred to as initial screening.
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He began a passionate romance with the social sciences, which were then entering an avant-garde phase .
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Marketers said the ad campaign would enter a second phase in June, when tickets become available to the general public.
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A young titan enters the decisive phase of his life when he resolves on marriage and career.
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In other words, these licensing factors stimulate the chromosomes to enter the S phase .
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Groceries in hand, I crossed the threshold and moved into the entering phase of breaking and entering.
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As a consequence we seem to have entered a strongly conservative phase with an unmistakable emphasis on consumer rights.
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And so the courtship enters a second phase .
plea
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So may I enter a plea for simplicity, homeliness and humour, in the teaching of chemistry?
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Bokin, wearing a jailhouse orange shirt and slacks, did not enter a plea during his court hearing.
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He is not required to enter a plea at this point.
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His first appearance, an arraignment to enter a plea of guilty or not-guilty, is required by law.
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He entered no plea , but had previously denied any involvement in the killings.
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Highway 101 near Asti July 11, but entered a plea of no contest to assaulting the peace officer during the escape.
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Neither suspect entered a plea Tuesday.
room
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Anyone entering the room just then would have thought what a very handsome couple they were.
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Online host: NoClue has entered the room .
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Been ogling her up and down ever since she'd entered the room .
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Everyone stopped talking briefly when the president entered the room .
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A few seconds later-they enter the main waiting room .
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The door handles fell out of their doors when guests turned them to enter their rooms .
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When Dorothea enters the Lydgate drawing room , she sees distraught Will comforting weeping Rosamond.
school
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These children had completed their preparatory year and were of normal intelligence but severe physical problems prohibited them from entering regular school .
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Accordingly, peer interactions are of particular cognitive importance from the time the child enters school .
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He had duly entered the army from school , and seemed to enjoy the life.
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Many of the students entering high school today will still be working in the year 2050.
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The high-jump stand was thrown into the garage and I entered the Grove Model School on a 20-week course.
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When I entered Columbia Law School my military deferment was in default.
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For example, a parallel rise in the number of children entering schools will result in an increased need for student teachers.
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Though he entered law school , Kelly was teaching dance a few months later.
spirit
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Jules, entering into the charioteer spirit , drove standing up and the mare went along at a spanking trot.
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Flagellation and other exotic practices formed part of its creed and Rasputin entered into the spirit of these with enthusiasm.
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Mozart decided to enter into the prevailing spirit of the place.
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Benefit yourself and others and enter into the community spirit for the coming year.
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Knowing who was servant and who mistress, I entered into the spirit of the farce.
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The procedure is very demanding in terms of time and trouble for the inspectors who enter wholly into the spirit of what is required.
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In most you will find intact the bones of Easter islanders who entered their spirit world centuries past.
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A good collie enters into the spirit of the hunt, up to a point.
student
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The critical decision is that of the Chair of the field which the student wishes to enter .
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Some programs also are encouraging students to enter four-year colleges who might not have done so in the past.
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Many of the students entering high school today will still be working in the year 2050.
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And when the program is ready, the student enters it simply by moving a light pen across the bar codes.
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Similar changes have already begun in the admissions process for undergraduate students entering in 1998.
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Bourner and Hamed used their data to calculate an A-level equivalent score for students entering with qualifications other than A-levels.
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When the soldiers blocked university students from entering campuses the next morning, name-calling and fights broke out.
woman
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Thousands upon thousands of women enter programmes, but few leave with babies.
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A woman who entered such a union embarked, like Yone Noguchi, on a voyage of threatening vastness.
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Last week a group of Mayan women entered the cathedral for a special mass.
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The rate at which women were entering the workforce slowed.
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The youngest woman entering the study was 20 years old, and 10 were 40 or older.
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The court in 1994 upheld some limits on how close protesters can get to women entering abortion clinics to terminate pregnancies.
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Married women who entered the labour force to supplement the family income tended for example, to display all the traditional self-sacrificing attitudes.
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The man in the flannel shirt heads toward the door but is stopped as two young women enter .
world
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Nora herself was just seventeen when I entered the material world .
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Instead, punk gave metal merchants a new avenue to enter the music world .
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A few months back you were ready and willing to enter a brave new world .
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We have to get outside our human perceptions and enter into another world .
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We have at long last entered a world which does begin to make sense.
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He has entered a new world .
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And it is at Shemya that we leave the world of geography and enter the world of international politics.
■ VERB
allow
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And it is the thematic meanings, of course, that allow the participants to enter fantasy or unfamiliar contexts.
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For this reason the authors released Formgen Fill, a package which does allow you to enter details on a predefined form.
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There were oils and creams squirreled away in that stark bedroom he was not allowed to enter .
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One day in August 1973, without warning, visitors were not allowed to enter the prison.
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The page allows information to be entered and displayed on the screen.
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Most states also allow school boards to enter into multiyear employment contracts with teachers.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cross/enter sb's mind
get/enter into the spirit (of sth)
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The children are making decorations to get into the spirit of the season.
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A good collie enters into the spirit of the hunt, up to a point.
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Flagellation and other exotic practices formed part of its creed and Rasputin entered into the spirit of these with enthusiasm.
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He tried hard to get into the spirit of the thing.
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It all began about 15 years ago when Pat Jackson got into the spirit and decided to decorate her house.
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Knowing who was servant and who mistress, I entered into the spirit of the farce.
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Meanwhile, the audience gets into the spirit of the occasion, courtesy of comedian, Bobby Bragg from Banbury.
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Mercer was entering into the spirit of things, Bambi also but more coolly.
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Thomas himself got into the spirit .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Enter the amount of money you wish to take out of your account.
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Enter the filename and click 'OK'.
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Enter your address and telephone number in the spaces provided.
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Enter your user name and hit the return key.
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A friend of mine entered me in the 10K race.
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A man was arrested for trying to enter the actress's Beverly Hills home.
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Army tanks entered the main square of the city.
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As part of his training program, Lauck has been entered in Sunday's race.
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As soon as he entered the room, he knew there was something wrong.
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Bacteria can enter through a cut or graze on the skin.
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Congress is considering raising the number of skilled workers who may enter the country each year.
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Eight horses were entered for the first race.
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Eighty percent of the children in the program had entered university with good grades.
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Everyone entering the country must show a passport.
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If a word is entered incorrectly the machine refuses to obey the command.
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It appears the burglars entered through a back window.
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Jason plans to enter the Navy.
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Jay and Cindy entered the dance competition for fun - they had no idea they would win.
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Last week, the governor entered the public debate on health-care reform.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Before this war commenced, the idea of doing what is called work never once entered my mind.
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He has entered a special defence of alibi in respect of the alleged taxi crimes.
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Mozart decided to enter into the prevailing spirit of the place.
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No direct rays could enter , and I knew that, as soon as I closed the hatch, I'd be travelling blind.
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People walked many miles just to enter a church building even once a month.
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Previously, people entered caves to Join with the Goddess's body.
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She'd entered and won a competiton run by a local photographer, Colin Wakeham.