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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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While the above are possibly reinforcing features, school curricula, may also evoke tensions in gender identities.
still
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The face, although sad, still evoked a feeling of serenity.
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Motherhood is still evoked as a religious calling, a state of being that elevates women above the human condition.
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This image is almost entirely man-made, save perhaps for the palm-tree, yet it still evokes a sense of paradise.
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Hence 60 years on the name Dunkirk still evokes images of triumph in the face of great odds.
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It was absurd to imagine that a modern city could still evoke that kind of magic!
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This small, inland town still evokes a timeless quality and a feeling of quiet seclusion.
■ NOUN
atmosphere
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He evokes its atmosphere with uncanny skill.
event
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Here also the infinitive evokes an event which actually occurred but which very well might not have.
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Endo-wed with a prodigious memory, he remembered the names of old comrades, or evoked events dating back decades.
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In some of its uses, the to infinitive evokes an event as non-realized or yet to be realized.
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Get evokes the infinitive's event as a result which has been achieved or obtained but does not specify by what means.
image
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They evoke romantic images of humming orchard hives and summer sweetness, presided over by veiled eccentrics steeped in arcane lore.
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Linked often enough, their various connections evoked images in the media of a conspiracy involving cash-and-carry favors.
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Hence 60 years on the name Dunkirk still evokes images of triumph in the face of great odds.
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The image of the governor sending soldiers to block a courthouse door, they say, evokes images of segregationist Gov.
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Some have made pilgrimages to re-enact ancient rituals in caves, others have dressed in costumes and objects evoking traditional Goddess images .
memory
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In these, however, no special attempt was made by the interviewers to evoke memories of grandparents or other old people.
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Wild rice, perhaps because it is so much rarer and costlier than corn, evokes different kinds of memories and feelings.
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Sanchez's touchline histrionics evoked memories of some of Martin O'Neill's maddest moments on the same turf.
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The recollection of the summer evening sunlight coming through the large window behind the preacher's head evokes many nostalgic memories .
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Aroma, like music, can often evoke memories .
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Now the smell has become rosy, it evokes strings of memory that weave into something new.
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It may even evoke a memory of a place.
name
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Some one suggested the Mayor of St Louis, Missouri, thinking that the consonance of names might perhaps evoke sympathy.
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Hence 60 years on the name Dunkirk still evokes images of triumph in the face of great odds.
reaction
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The suddenness of the pits crisis evoked a popular reaction , and the miners' voice is being heard.
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Let us look first at the question why Kant evoked such different reactions .
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I was hooked, I knew my singing wasn't good enough to evoke that kind of reaction from an audience.
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Mesmeric and hypnotic, his prodigious output evokes strong reactions .
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At first this procedure evoked a strong reaction from faculty heads who perceived the dangers of over-personalised accounts.
response
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Gentle pressure over the hindquarters as shown may first be necessary to evoke the required response .
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The current awareness that the modern nation-state has become severely strained, or even ineffectual, has evoked a range of responses .
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The couple launched an appeal which evoked a generous response from organisations, companies and individuals.
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That is, a single schema had been used to evoke a behavioral response .
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Or they may fail to evoke a response at all.
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Virtually anything waved around in the receptive fields of these cells will evoke a response under the right conditions.
sense
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This image is almost entirely man-made, save perhaps for the palm-tree, yet it still evokes a sense of paradise.
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Its archetypal shape and colour have universal appeal, evoking a sense of fun and childhood.
state
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Cellular phones, too, often evoke a confused state of dread.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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David hardly needed any encouragement to visit the sea, since it still evoked for him the happiest memories.
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Her speech today evoked surprise and outrage from many French officials.
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Jackson's speech evoked strong responses from the audience.
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She tried everything in an attempt to evoke sympathy and pity from her parents.
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The movie evokes a simpler time when life was less complicated.
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The names Witches Well, Candlemaker Row and Grassmarket Square evoke visions of another era.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bee swarms, on the other hand, evoke another sort of awe.
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For instance, the poetry of Blaise Cendrars evoked the motion of the Trans-Siberian Express.
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It evokes a fact, i.e. an object of conception, rather than an object of perception.
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It is one of the ways in which the Spirit evokes prayer in the people of the Messiah.
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Since joining the business world I have seen similar techniques evoke similarly successful results.
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The above are the main questions evoked during the interviews.