I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a childhood experience
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Our childhood experiences make us who we are.
a painful experience
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It must have been a painful experience for you.
a positive experience
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Working here has been a very positive experience for me.
an experienced driver (= who has a lot of experience of driving )
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Young drivers are ten times more likely to be killed on the road than experienced drivers.
cathartic experience
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a cathartic experience
clinical medicine/experience/training etc (= medicine etc that deals directly with people, rather than with research or ideas )
depth of knowledge/understanding/experience
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I was impressed by the depth of her knowledge.
direct experience
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People learn best through direct experience.
do work experience
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Why do I have to do work experience ?
draw on sb's experience
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The books have drawn on the experience of practising teachers.
emotional experience
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The funeral was a very emotional experience for all of us.
encounter/experience a problem
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You shouldn’t encounter any further problems.
experience a feeling
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I remember experiencing a feeling of tremendous excitement.
experience delays
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People are experiencing considerable delays in receiving their mail.
experience pain formal
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Animals caught in the trap experience great pain before they die.
experience
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The experience you can gain in a small advertising agency will be very valuable.
experience/encounter difficulties formal (= have difficulties )
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Graduates often experience considerable difficulties in getting their first job.
experience/encounter prejudice
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Students with learning difficulties often encounter prejudice.
experience/face discrimination
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Government figures suggest that ethnic minorities face discrimination looking for jobs.
experience/suffer hardship ( also endure hardship formal )
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Many pensioners experienced hardship paying the tax.
experience/suffer symptoms
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I had suffered mild symptoms of asthma as a child.
feel/experience an emotion
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Seeing him with his new wife, she felt emotions that she did not want to feel again.
feel/experience joy
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He had never felt the joy of watching the seasons come and go.
feel/have/experience a sensation
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He felt a tingling sensation down his left side.
gain experience
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In her first job, she gained experience as a programme manager.
hands-on experience
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a chance to get some hands-on experience of the job
harrowing experience
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a harrowing experience
humbling experience
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a humbling experience
knew from experience
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She knew from experience that exams made her very nervous.
learn from experience
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The student will learn from experience about the importance of planning.
moving experience
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Attending the memorial service was a moving experience .
out-of-body experience
personal experience
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I have had personal experience of unemployment.
practical experience
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You have to gain practical experience before you qualify as a solicitor.
prior experience
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He had no prior experience of teaching.
salutary experience/lesson/reminder etc
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Losing money in this way taught young Jones a salutary lesson.
suffer/experience a recession
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The country was suffering a deep recession.
terrifying experience/ordeal
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He told her of his terrifying experience.
unnerving experience
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an unnerving experience
work experience placement/programme/scheme etc
work experience
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She’s well qualified but has no relevant work experience.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
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But what happens if work is demonstrably and objectively a bad experience ?
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Long jumping was a bad experience , and Edwards never distinguished himself in it.
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However, invariably, it is not only bad experiences of learning that are committed to memory.
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If they had a bad experience , it could be they wish not to speak to us.
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Hardness A hard Rottweiler is one who does not allow bad experiences to affect him permanently.
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They may have bad experiences from visiting prisons in the past.
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As I say I've not had anything like the bad experience of it that a lot of people have had.
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The survey examined bad debt experience , credit periods and credit management compared with three years earlier.
bitter
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Union attitudes have been powerfully conditioned by long and bitter experience .
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Yet he knew from bitter experience that forging such a bond in the late twentieth century entailed experimentation and error.
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I've learnt that from bitter experience !
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Had she forgotten the bitter experience of her own childhood?
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All three, from their different perspectives, and each with bitter experience , saw the dangers of noble egoism.
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She knew from bitter experience how treacherous such feelings could be, and the blind alleyways down which they led.
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Some of these fears have been forged out of bitter experience .
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Many had also learnt from bitter experience that a good education was needed in the continuing battle against colour prejudice.
direct
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Such direct experience helps the nurse to develop sensitivity and self-awareness.
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She has no direct experience but has heard from other kids that it exists.
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In this paragraph we have the basis for Brian Way's philosophy: he is interested in introducing direct experience into education.
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Like the Gnostics, he based his spirituality on direct experience rather than on syllogisms.
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As the first medical officer of health for Lambeth he gained direct experience of cholera and other water-borne diseases.
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She has difficulty with prostitution as something to be understood because she has no direct experience with it-it is beyond her comprehension.
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I further suggested that he broadened the scope of the drama lesson by including all sorts of direct sense experiences .
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Representational thought is carried out more rapidly than thought through movement because the former is not tied to direct experience .
early
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Tell me about your early experience as a dancer.
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Language develop-ment, for instance, is particularly dependent upon early experiences .
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Fundholding only a partial solution Early experience with the fundholding scheme has shown that general practitioners can be effective purchasers of care.
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Most importantly, however, we have found that these traits can be influenced significantly by early and later experiences .
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We forget that early experiences of grief must have been communal, and still are in many societies.
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Caregivers and families need to recognize that they, too, have been influenced by their own earlier experiences and genetic makeup.
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This period has seen a sharp fall in the average rate of growth as compared to the earlier post-war experience .
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The impact of this became obvious to me during an early experience with the divisiveness of homophobia.
emotional
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It was without end or beginning, paling all emotional experiences into insignificance.
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They took subordinates' departures of all sorts as emotional experiences: The difficulty comes when the truly unexpected happens.
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These ideas from psychotherapy help our background understanding of emotional experiences in the later part of the life-cycle.
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After using the relaxation exercise you then conjure up a positive emotional experience .
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It was a very emotional experience .
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I think the sharing and the emotional experiences are part of the miracle of Lourdes.
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So performing live in the Land of Song for the first time was an emotional experience for Kylie and her relatives.
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The basis of his argument is that emotional experience and emotional behaviour involve separate, although interlinked, parts of the brain.
human
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Yet Moore did not think value could only occur in relation to human experience .
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Nothing in dance is foreign to human experience .
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They can be woven into the fabric of everyday life, the human experiences of trying and failing.
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What is to him the heights of human experience ?
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He is very much alive and kicking, strongly represented in the intertestamental literature, the New Testament and human experience .
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How do mouse studies correlate with human experience ?
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Yet water is strangely ambivalent in human experience .
long
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These important nuances are often recognised only after a long and intimate experience of the couple under study.
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From long experience I know I will feel a little better in the morning.
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The two principals she served under were men coming to the end of their service after long experience as leaders.
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So he nominated Derby, praising him for his maturity and long experience in dealing with people.
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Union attitudes have been powerfully conditioned by long and bitter experience .
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Again, I know this from my long experience of yoga.
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In fact, we have 50 long years of experience making business environments sparkling clean.
painful
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Breakfast was a painful experience for me.
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As with any painful experience , the parents may be much stronger after they have gone through these reactions together. 15.
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And there was no bloody bobby there at all. Painful experience taught you when to use an avoidance tactic.
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It can be a painful experience for viewing loved ones.
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There were times when Rose felt as if she were split in half - an interesting rather than a painful experience .
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United could have made it an even more painful experience for Bradford manager Paul Jewell.
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Like many, she has her own stock of painful experiences which sometimes affect her present life.
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Although a few had had quick and relatively painless births, many had found it a very painful experience .
past
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What research has shown is that these tendencies to behave in certain ways are deeply embedded in past experiences .
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We also looked at how past experiences affected current relationships.
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But Tess, in answer to your question, whatever you do, don't tell your future husband anything about your past experience .
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First, we sense the information and then we digest it through past experiences , attitudes, values and beliefs.
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We delve deeply into the psyche for memories of past experience and sensation to judge any work of art.
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However we don't always acknowledge them in ourselves, perhaps because we have been hurt from a past experience .
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Others are noted for continuity with past experience and structures.
personal
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However, Marxists distinguish two kinds of dissenting consciousness which can be fostered amongst workers by personal experience and by collective organization.
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It challenges you, as a leaded to make change as personal an experience for yourself as it is for others.
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This survey of personal experiences , ranging from close combat to literary society, constructs a memorable portrait of the last war.
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He later rewrote it to include more personal experiences and a few chapters of background material.
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As a personal experience I found it fascinating and stimulating.
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Both Abu Nidal and Gandhi were deeply troubled and ultimately mobilized into political action by their personal experiences .
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That would suggest a degree of personal experience .
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Is it Balzac the individual, furnished by his personal experience with a philosophy of Woman?
practical
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The half-day courses include two hours practical experience of firing and driving with full instruction on safety and how the engine works.
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Indeed many are still advice workers and are thus constantly furnished with very real on-going practical experience to support their tutoring role.
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The programme included practical experience in Breathing, movement with apparatus, and movement accompaniment.
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The traditional approach to the training and selection of headteachers has been on the basis of technical competence reinforced by practical experience .
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As a consequence there is no practical experience and no feedback to modify the approach in the design of subsequent estates.
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Chamberlain's practical experience of first-class cricket is slim, confined to six matches for Northamptonshire shortly after the war.
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Candidates should be conversant with international economic and financial issues and have practical experience using personal computers.
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General members will be those without much practical experience of mediation.
previous
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His teacher's explanation would help to consolidate his previous experiences .
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As a consequence, few of those involved in the training program had had any previous experience in the country.
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He noted that the son of a senior Conservative aristocrat had walked into a directorship without previous training or experience .
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They also complete an application essay about their previous experiences , which is used as evidence of qualities like persistence and initiative.
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A person's previous research experience will obviously determine the level of research which is to be begun.
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The central differences among the groups are level of education and previous work experience .
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He emphasized that he had chosen ministers on grounds of expertise - only three members of the Cabinet had previous ministerial experience .
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She had not asked me of my previous experiences .
religious
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He had that resigned helplessness which hospital patients and people in the thrall of religious experience have.
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Such a thought finds a corroboration in religious experience and thought.
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Scientists themselves have often drawn parallels between the experience of a scientific vocation and certain forms of religious experience.
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A visit to the ancient ruins, especially on a quiet weekday, comes close to a religious experience .
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Let me take the example of religious experience .
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For Crevecoeur it was a religious experience as well as a frightening one.
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Art, undoubtedly. Religious experience ? outside her range.
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The learning is an intense cultural and religious experience .
■ NOUN
work
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Information on childhood history, family, peer and work experiences was obtained, as well as detailed information on current circumstances.
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My work experience is in a Third World country rather than in the United States or other industrialized country.
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Her work experience has been various, including that of Director of an environmental research institute.
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She also spent time shadowing health-care professionals and getting hands-on work experience .
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They are designed primarily for practitioners who are either currently working or who have previous work experience in the industry.
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Knowledge of management principles and practices, gained through work experience and formal education, is important.
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The poor showing of school work experience is striking.
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He did set out to secure work experience .
■ VERB
based
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Sometimes when we project into the future we have a reasonable expectation, based on experience , of what will happen.
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When Julie had a home problem, her two best friends at work tried to offer advice based on their own experiences .
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There is some scepticism and much caution, based on past experiences .
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His judgments were also swayed by preconceptions based on past experiences or even personal idiosyncrasies.
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The regulation will be through training and a points system, based on experience gained in mediation.
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There is another approach to school reform based on career-related experiences .
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Much of this belief is soundly based in experience but part of it is based on wishful thinking.
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The curriculum includes an eight-week work-\#based experience .
describe
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Sibylle Alexander describes her experience as a protagonist in this story with grace and eloquence.
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She talked to many patients who described near-death experiences , in which they encountered white light and unconditional love.
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Bertinotti described the experience as' a long march in the desert in order to arrive at an oasis.
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To describe the experience is not easy.
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Words we might employ to describe that experience would include authenticity, first-handedness, liveliness and immediacy.
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At supper that night he tried to describe the experience to Kathy.
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She wrote a long and moving letter, describing her terrifying experience of being raped whilst on holiday with two friends.
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We considered Brooks' words carefully, amazed at how accurately they described our own experience .
draw
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These Rape Crisis groups usually draw extensively on the experience and sense of priorities of women who have been raped.
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Men have always drawn on their experience in organized athletics to meet the challenges of a competitive workplace.
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Gil Benson draws on his experience .
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His books draw heavily on his experiences as a therapist.
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Also considers the potential for car-free housing, drawing on experience from Bremen, Amsterdam and Edinburgh.
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Naturally, most draw on their personal experiences .
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Many horse owners today can not draw upon years of experience and therefore rely heavily on advice from others.
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So often they bring to their training elements drawn from their own experience of school.
gain
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With equipment and a trained mechanic loaned by the maintenance firm Kwik-Fit, students gain hands-on experience as part of their curriculum.
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She would treat this as an unexpected opportunity to gain experience in mass-production fashion.
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Established in 1978, this group has grown rapidly, and there is considerable opportunity for you to gain management experience .
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They are designed to give those not wishing to continue full-time education the chance to gain work experience , training and education.
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The promising Belfast youngster has been gaining experience on the international front among the Federation Cup aspirants in Nottingham.
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This allows the small company with little planning expertise to gain experience for an outlay at the £100 level.
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Here he gained valuable experience and, though occupied with much routine work, commenced innovative research.
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She was the one who gained by the exquisite experience , wasn't she?
lack
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He entirely lacks financial and business experience .
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But because men lack the experience and confidence, infant care training can help.
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They lack experience , principle and vision.
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Once in office, however, the Clinton adminstration was quickly accused of being too young and lacking in experience .
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The view that they lack work experience is contradicted by a substantial body of evidence.
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In addition, he lacked experience in the vital sphere of foreign affairs.
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Roache and Kolender dismiss Ruff as a well-spoken and nice man who lacks the management experience to be sheriff.
learn
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Instead, you can use something like that as a learning experience .
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It would be useless to ask him; she had learned that much from experience .
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Washington, which has had notification laws on the books for seven years, quickly learned from the arson experience .
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But he has also learned from the experience .
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Becoming a manager was largely a process of learning from experience .
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Of course, you will have already acquired some people skills through an adhoc process of learning from experience .
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For many boys, competitive games represent one of their critical formative learning experiences .
provide
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Medical appointments in military units were believed to provide useful experience to recent graduates or students, and were much in demand.
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The job provided a wonderful experience .
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Such an attitude provides the inner experience of conflict for many.
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These centers provide education and experiences to apprentices that the individual companies can not.
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They act as a bond between people through providing amusement or an experience shared and believed to be held in common.
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But in addition we will be providing an interactive experience .
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For non-troglodytes, with a penchant for the unusual, the trip can provide a memorable experience .
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They provide practical experience in all facets of the funeral service from embalming to transporting remains.
share
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This social aspect of reading, of sharing a pleasurable experience , should begin at this stage.
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Ask them to share experiences with slides.
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It is healthy that people move in and out, and thus contribute to a sharing of experience .
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Like DeWine, other lawmakers shared their personal experiences with organ donation on Tuesday.
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The event will offer opportunities for partnerships new and old to share experiences and learn from each other.
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Participating in the videos are real doctors and patients sharing their experiences .
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The conference also included sessions led by local people with personal knowledge of poverty in Preston who will share their experiences .
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Other companies had second thoughts after they expressed interest in sharing their experiences .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chalk it up to experience
first-hand experience/knowledge/account etc
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And now I know from first-hand experience it's the wrong approach.
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At one time, physical presence was a prerequisite for first-hand experience.
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Besides, the people of Waterloo had first-hand knowledge of the advantages of public ownership.
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International research tends to involve analyzing international data, rather than acquiring first-hand knowledge about international operations in other countries.
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It reflects, often, a first-hand experience of the events it describes.
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Millions of people across the world have first-hand experience of what it can do.
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Their testimony on it represents crucial, first-hand experience of which those planning for the hospital-based sector must take significant account.
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This understanding needs to be informed, up-to-date and backed by first-hand experience, not based on hearsay or second-hand impressions.
outside interests/experiences etc
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He has got to ask how things are going at home or about my outside interests.
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His outside interests were numerous and varied.
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Making a mental note not to let outside interests interfere with her work, she began to inject the puppies.
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Now Martin is looking forward to spending his retirement enjoying outside interests which will include travelling, walking and watching cricket.
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One sees again and again that such people grow in outside interests.
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Others found that the sheer workload of the course left them unable to develop outside interests, such as reading or the theatre.
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Some of his many outside interests include reading, theatre and debating.
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This would force campaigns to pay less attention to outside interests and more to the people at home.
put it down to experience
the chance/experience etc of a lifetime
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Jim assured him that hearing me sing was the experience of a lifetime , but Dad wasn't having that.
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There is also the chance of a lifetime for the talented teams who win through to the final.
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This was the chance of a lifetime .
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We are offering the experience of a lifetime , and it seems to appeal to people from all over the world.
the voice of reason/experience etc
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However, while the voice of reason is presently peripheral, its steady hum may well be heard.
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It was the voice of reason.
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Sadly the voices of reason are overwhelmed or ignored, even though in the long-term they are safer guardians of our values.
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Satan does not realise that real freedom is found in obeying the voice of reason.
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Whereas Ian would be resourceful and brave, Barbara would be the voice of reason, relating their experiences in human terms.
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You could not hear the voice of reason, only the terrible curiosity, insisting that it be satisfied.
with the benefit of hindsight/experience
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But let's not get too smart-aleck with the benefit of hindsight.
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Hugh Young, fund manager, admitted that with the benefit of hindsight the original launch was not large enough.
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If I should wander into the uncharted minefield of personal opinion it is only with the benefit of hindsight.
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Neither player took it seriously but, with the benefit of hindsight, both admitted that the offer was probably serious.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After she retired, Hannah wrote a book about her experiences as a war reporter.
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Fran is gaining valuable experience working for her father's firm.
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Have you had any previous experience as a construction worker?
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I'm glad I had this experience but I wouldn't want to do it again.
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I have a little bit of experience working in a hotel.
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Living alone has been a good experience for her.
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She's very bright and ambitious but she doesn't have much experience .
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She has plenty of experience of dealing with difficult situations.
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Simulators are very realistic, but they don't compare to the actual experience of flying an airplane.
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The job requires five years' secretarial experience .
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The job requires two years of teaching experience .
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Tonight on Channel 4, young people will be discussing their experiences of racism.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Fourth, it can aid the process of life review, and fifth, it is an enjoyable and stimulating experience .
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He has had no experience of democracy.
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I get to develop the character and have different experiences.
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Meanwhile, each leads us to expect the arms race which experience confirms.
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On the contrary, he is still campaigning on his resume and the argument that his experience is what his party needs.
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One career academy that had fewer problems arranging work experiences for students was the Health Academy.
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Send tips or experiences about working on houses, to Home Work, &.
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The regulation will be through training and a points system, based on experience gained in mediation.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
ever
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It was the most marvellous feeling Constance had ever experienced .
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Now Midleigh realized that no tide he had ever experienced had come close to the fury of the deceptive river.
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It was like nothing I'd ever experienced before - so much feeling, so much exquisite joy.
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Have you ever experienced the high involvement high vulnerability principle?
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I can honestly say it was the greatest thrill I have ever experienced .
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Men on both sides of the stream later called the duel the worst they had ever experienced .
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I was in more pain than I think I have ever experienced .
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Have you ever experienced a similar problem?
never
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Just being in the same room as him sent shivers of something down her spine that up to now she had never experienced .
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He said he had never experienced racism in swimming.
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Evelyn had never experienced such utter despair.
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We swept forward, and as we did, there was just an absolute scene of carnage like I have never experienced .
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You can never experience the real satisfaction of growing roses well by following a list of step-by-step instructions.
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What was happening in the white-washed former warehouse was that people were experiencing things they had never experienced before.
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I had never experienced his obduracy before or, if I had, had identified it as something else.
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And he discovered that his peers responded to him now in a way he had never experienced at Groton.
■ NOUN
change
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Since the war urban Britain has experienced a rate of change unparalleled since the early days of the Industrial Revolution.
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That required finding ways for sales people to experience the change in a performance context that mattered.
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The banking sector, in particular, is likely to experience change .
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To build capabilities, they had to get other consultants to experience change , not just read and think about it.
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Protected areas of global importance, including the Wolong Panda Reserve, may experience radical changes .
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Few have actually experienced the changes at hand.
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Computers for history teaching Computer technology is experiencing rapid change .
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You must continually create the performance commitments and contexts that give people a chance to experience change .
difficulty
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In another way, however, the difficulties experienced by new courses or fields in gaining acceptance are functional and desirable.
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And surely enough, the difficulties he had been experiencing with reality were in time obviated.
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Ideally, take another flight straight away so that you can master any difficulties you may have experienced on the first flight.
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The fact that it does may underlie a great deal of the difficulty experienced by many beginning readers.
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The union's involvement in insurance stems from the difficulties musicians have experienced in getting car or van insurance.
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One particular difficulty experienced by the trade with the single-piece gown related to the positioning of the limbs.
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The second related to the difficulties experienced by deaf and dumb school-leavers in finding suitable employment and particularly in entering skilled trades.
growth
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Economic growth A country must experience economic growth if it is to produce a greater output of goods and services.
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The reader might wonder what factors cause a country to experience economic growth .
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Retail sales were described as disappointing, but manufacturing and commercial real estate experienced growth .
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The leisure sector has experienced phenomenal growth over the last few years.
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Forecasters suggested the economy will experience much slower growth this year than previously thought.
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In comparison with these industries, retail trade and public administration have experienced limited job growth .
increase
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Men, too, can experience an increase in libido once the pressures of work have ceased.
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As a result of its total quality management program, a manufacturing firm we worked with experienced a significant increase in business.
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C Ingle, Ilford Friends and colleagues, most of you I expect are experiencing heavy increases in house and car insurance.
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Younger age groups are experiencing a rapid increase in the proportion of minorities among their ranks.
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Clearly Oswiu experienced a tremendous increase in personal power and prestige following his victory at the Winwaed.
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Men also experienced an increase in their hours of work over this period by an average of about 100 hours.
life
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Audio visual and special effects will allow visitors to realistically experience life at sea.
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Lohr also charged that Medtronic failed to warn her or her doctors that the device could experience life-threatening failure.
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For example, we already know the physical laws that govern everything that we experience in everyday life .
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The more appropriate mythic admonishment would be, so to live their marriages that in this world they may experience life everlasting.
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She was taking her revenge now on Bathsheba for the difficulties she had experienced in her life .
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Through dance we experience our own bodies as alive, and we experience the life that flows rhythmically through all creation.
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She had her first operation when she was 21 days old and has never experienced the life of a healthy child.
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There are experiences in life which seem barren, vapid or peripheral.
loss
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Nearly every person experiences memory loss as a normal part of the aging process.
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These patients had other diseases not normally seen in combination and had experienced profound weight loss and general debilitation.
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But it caused her to experience nearly fatal losses among conservatives.
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So we had already experienced the general loss of illusions in socialism.
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In the earlier volumes the supreme moment of love is experienced as loss of identity.
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Elders from minority groups may experience particular dimensions of loss which will be further explored in the following section.
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In this situation, she was experiencing the loss of her former identity as a competent working woman.
pain
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It is necessary to experience anxiety, pain , and death because we are alive.
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An involuntary action is set up which causes him to withdraw his hand even before he experiences any sensation of pain .
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As the Old Bailey Chronicle reported, Smith experienced excessive pain when first turned off, but that ceased almost immediately.
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Left fielder Billy Ashley experienced pain in his left hamstring Saturday while running out of the box.
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When the patient's spasticity is controlled, he will no longer experience any pain .
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But the company is experiencing growing pains as competition heats up.
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At some time in our lives most of us will experience back pain - for some the consequences can be devastating.
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Like them, she has experienced the pain of being fat, and can even joke about it.
patient
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This patient had experienced several episodes of palpitations although she was otherwise well.
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Some patients experience a slow decline in their health as the effectiveness of the drugs gradually decreases.
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The aim is to reinforce the correct patterns of movement which the patient has experienced under the guidance of the physiotherapist.
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The Dying Tirne then becomes the last adventure, an adventure as great as any others that patients have experienced .
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Most patients were experiencing a large drop in viral load.
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The new administration leaned toward a more extreme view on contagion than patients had experienced in years.
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Occasionally, patients experience side effects at peak levels.
problem
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The nursery tells it has experienced no problems at all, except that the composts are a bit more expensive.
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Frustrated customers who are experiencing the same problems have filed several class-action lawsuits.
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Again within each type of disability the majority of those who experience the problem reside in the community.
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Persians, with their pushed-in faces, can experience problems breathing.
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Humans experience few of these problems when reading.
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Ripken began to experience problems with his back in July.
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Clearly, there is a gap between the Opposition Front Bench and those who have experienced these problems in their constituencies.
sense
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Besides he was beginning to experience that inordinate sense of relief which tells you that you have done the right thing.
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They allow us to experience history with our senses and emotions rather than just understand it with our minds.
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One approach to sites is to look at the way we experience them through our senses .
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You will experience a remarkable sense of freedom.
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Looking down at the dead man Wycliffe felt guilty because he was experiencing a sense of mild elation.
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When they are moved into the private sector, they often experience the same sense of liberation.
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He experienced a sense of fatalism that kept fear at bay.
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All said they were experiencing a greater sense of control over their eating.
■ VERB
begin
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Suddenly, other districts of the city began to experience the arrival of the bulldozers.
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From the moment they began to climb, Converse began to experience a curious elation.
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In recent years it has begun to experience high levels of adult and youth unemployment.
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Ripken began to experience problems with his back in July.
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At the start of the season sufferers usually begin to experience problems when the pollen count reaches 50.
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It was at this time that Margaret joined the Franciscan tertiaries and began to experience visions and healing powers.
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First, the executives begin to experience each other as more supportive and constructive.
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Granato began experiencing headaches so severe, he sought medical help.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
first-hand experience/knowledge/account etc
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And now I know from first-hand experience it's the wrong approach.
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At one time, physical presence was a prerequisite for first-hand experience.
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Besides, the people of Waterloo had first-hand knowledge of the advantages of public ownership.
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International research tends to involve analyzing international data, rather than acquiring first-hand knowledge about international operations in other countries.
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It reflects, often, a first-hand experience of the events it describes.
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Millions of people across the world have first-hand experience of what it can do.
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Their testimony on it represents crucial, first-hand experience of which those planning for the hospital-based sector must take significant account.
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This understanding needs to be informed, up-to-date and backed by first-hand experience, not based on hearsay or second-hand impressions.
outside interests/experiences etc
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He has got to ask how things are going at home or about my outside interests.
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His outside interests were numerous and varied.
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Making a mental note not to let outside interests interfere with her work, she began to inject the puppies.
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Now Martin is looking forward to spending his retirement enjoying outside interests which will include travelling, walking and watching cricket.
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One sees again and again that such people grow in outside interests.
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Others found that the sheer workload of the course left them unable to develop outside interests, such as reading or the theatre.
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Some of his many outside interests include reading, theatre and debating.
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This would force campaigns to pay less attention to outside interests and more to the people at home.
the chance/experience etc of a lifetime
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Jim assured him that hearing me sing was the experience of a lifetime , but Dad wasn't having that.
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There is also the chance of a lifetime for the talented teams who win through to the final.
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This was the chance of a lifetime .
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We are offering the experience of a lifetime , and it seems to appeal to people from all over the world.
the voice of reason/experience etc
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However, while the voice of reason is presently peripheral, its steady hum may well be heard.
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It was the voice of reason.
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Sadly the voices of reason are overwhelmed or ignored, even though in the long-term they are safer guardians of our values.
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Satan does not realise that real freedom is found in obeying the voice of reason.
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Whereas Ian would be resourceful and brave, Barbara would be the voice of reason, relating their experiences in human terms.
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You could not hear the voice of reason, only the terrible curiosity, insisting that it be satisfied.
with the benefit of hindsight/experience
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But let's not get too smart-aleck with the benefit of hindsight.
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Hugh Young, fund manager, admitted that with the benefit of hindsight the original launch was not large enough.
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If I should wander into the uncharted minefield of personal opinion it is only with the benefit of hindsight.
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Neither player took it seriously but, with the benefit of hindsight, both admitted that the offer was probably serious.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As it grew, the city experienced an increase in crime.
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He said that he had never experienced such pain before.
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I experienced a great sense of loss when my father died.
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It is shocking to think of boys as young as sixteen experiencing at first hand the horrors of war.
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It was the first time she had ever experienced real poverty.
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Many cancer patients experience nausea following chemotherapy.
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Many local companies have recently been experiencing financial difficulties.
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Many regions are experiencing a shortage of food.
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They've experienced a lot of problems with their eldest son.
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When she was younger, my mother experienced a depression so severe she had to be hospitalized.
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When you first tried a cigarette, you probably experienced a feeling of dizziness.
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You may experience some dizziness after taking the medicine.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A debate would present a good opportunity to underline the fact that many countries are experiencing far more difficulties than we are.
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Clearly, there is a gap between the Opposition Front Bench and those who have experienced these problems in their constituencies.
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Despite that, its challenges in overcoming prior managerial conditioning were like those experienced at Irving.
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Employees at the plant are experiencing a-change overload. --- Changes came too fast and hit thern all at once.
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From the post-war years until the mid-1960s it had experienced steady decline.
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Stanley Spencer had been through the war; he had experienced the horror, the vulgarity, of war.