I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a comprehensive guide
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You’ll need to have a comprehensive guide to university courses.
a guide dog (= trained to guide a blind person )
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No dogs except guide dogs are allowed in the store.
a guiding principle (= a principle that helps you decide what to do )
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Fairness is the guiding principle.
a travel book/guide
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Kyushu looks so lovely in the travel books.
definitive study/work/guide etc
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the definitive study of Victorian railway stations
guide dog
guided missile
guided tour
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You will be taken on a guided tour of the palace.
guided tour
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a guided tour around the Kennedy Space Center
lead/guide sb through the minefield of sth (= help someone avoid problems )
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Talk to a financial advisor, who can guide you through the minefield of stocks and shares.
step-by-step guide/approach/instructions etc
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a step-by-step guide to making it in the music business
tour guide
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Kim worked as a tour guide in Cambridge last summer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
comprehensive
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Accommodation: The Bruges tourist office produces a comprehensive guide .
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Anthony Cowgill has produced the only comprehensive guide to the Maastricht Treaty.
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Look out for our comprehensive guide to protection equipment next summer.
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This comprehensive guide has 3,000 full-colour photographs and includes more than 500 step-by-step sequences.
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This volume will not include the slate crags, and by now a comprehensive new guide to these popular diversions should be available.
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A comprehensive trouble-shooting guide is given opposite which summarises most problems that arise.
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The booklet endeavours to be a comprehensive guide both to individuals and governing bodies on all aspects of drugs and sport.
definitive
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Halliwell's Film Guide the definitive guide to the movies. 4.
general
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Miranda Seymour's lucid biography arrives as the general reader's guide to Mary Shelley's ascent to academic cult status.
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Don McCormack, a former newspaper reporter and editor, publishes relocation and general information guides about Northern California counties.
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However, I hope that these notes will be good enough to serve as a general guide .
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The list given here is intended only as a general guide .
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The foregoing is a general guide and each claim must be considered on its merits.
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Table 11.1 gives a general guide to the number of time zones between the United Kingdom and other countries.
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As a general guide , at least half to one hour is needed, depending on the situation.
good
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As for prices, one of the best guides to the relative cheapness of housing is the ratio of house prices to incomes.
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Bring binoculars, sunscreen, walking shoes, hat and a good bird guide .
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A simple comparison of total estimated income from the competing products may provide as good a guide to decision making.
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Color seen in thin sections is a good , quick guide to the identification of certain minerals.
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Shorty was also a good guide and mentor for a growing lad, as good a father as any man could want.
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For this first contact, travellers, journalists and geographers are the best guides .
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The emphasis was on good visual guides with courses on the methods used to identify these objects.
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They turned out to be better guides than the pros.
local
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The local guide book will provide information on local churches and public services.
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After a vineyard visit, members head to Greymouth for hiking up the Franz Joseph Glacier with a local guide .
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This is due to the very experienced local guides who will lead every tour.
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In most cities we hired local guides , with mixed success.
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A local guide book. 24.
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Our local guide will give us an unrivalled insight into places of interest and bird habitat.
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Avon Health 89-90 is believed to be the only local guide in the country to both orthodox and complementary health.
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Local telephone directories, A-Z street maps, local guides and dictionaries all proved invaluable.
practical
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It's increasingly popular and this book's a practical guide to using the remedies.
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This is the how-to, practical guide that will help you avoid opportunistic detours and stay on track.
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This book is a practical and timely guide to the journey leading to that return.
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My colleagues on Fishkeeping Answers have produced a practical guide to tank safety in their November issue which is on sale now.
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Birmingham Midshires has launched a debt counselling service in the form of a practical guide for home owners.
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And a more detailed practical guide to involving users would have been good.
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Feel free to use the cakes here as a source of inspiration as well as a practical guide .
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This is a practical guide to real-time programming, the programs provided having been tested and proved.
reliable
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The numbers could still be a reliable guide to a player's position even with all the playing formations these days.
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Actually, neither is a reliable guide .
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None the less, the earth's magnetic field is a much more reliable guide .
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In the history of science, beauty has proved itself a reliable guide to truth.
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For there, waiting on the platform, would be our ever reliable guide , philosopher and friend, Sam Davies.
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He is an honest, warm human as well as an excellent, completely reliable guide .
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That is why they are a more reliable guide to completeness.
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The only reliable guide to that is the demand at present.
rough
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We assume to start with that the weighted patterns provide a rough guide to playing the game.
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Charges differ throughout the country but 40p per cubic metre is a rough guide .
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However, as a rough guide , it feels slightly more Gibson-like than it does Fenderish, if that helps.
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Although individuals vary a great deal, a very rough guide is that the liver removes one unit of alcohol each hour.
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The latter is calibrated in centimetres, but most people will probably only use the rod as a rough guide .
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As a rough guide , first scrub or wash, peel and slice them.
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Charts, then, are only a rough guide to ideal weight.
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Here we need only to establish a rough and preliminary guide .
useful
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Brooks MacDonald Gayer has just launched a useful guide to the subject.
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Purdy modified it slightly but finds it a useful guide , particularly when working to remove fat from baked products.
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Retiring Abroad, published by the Financial Times is a useful guide to the making the break.
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Crux is useful as a guide .
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The acquisition by schools would seem sensible as this forms a useful and accurate guide to vessel and organ location.
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A useful guide to life in the Kremlin snake pit?
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Agenda Brugge is a useful free guide to what's on each month.
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Documentation is also a useful guide to the perspective of the supplier.
■ NOUN
book
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A third group, the humble parish churches, have their guide books .
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Keep all your printouts in a folder or a binder and start putting together your own guide book and itinerary.
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These, referred to in his diary, may just have been to illustrate special copies of other authors' guide books .
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Our TICs stock a wide range of publications, brochures, guide books , maps and free leaflets.
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Detailed guide books and catalogues available.
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These were often used as copies to illustrate the numerous different guide books that were being sold.
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The whole connection is so slight that the legend only appears in tourist-orientated guide books of the twentieth century.
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A children's guide book and schools pack are available along with a wealth of source material relating to the house's history.
books
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Old prejudices die hard and it is only very recently that chapels have been noticed at all in guide books or architectural histories.
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A third group, the humble parish churches, have their guide books .
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These, referred to in his diary, may just have been to illustrate special copies of other authors' guide books .
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Our TICs stock a wide range of publications, brochures, guide books , maps and free leaflets.
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Detailed guide books and catalogues available.
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These were often used as copies to illustrate the numerous different guide books that were being sold.
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The whole connection is so slight that the legend only appears in tourist-orientated guide books of the twentieth century.
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Both of them poring over maps and guide books , planning the itinerary of every marvellous day.
field
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It is not a comprehensive field guide .
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Using field guides , their notes, and samples, they work on producing a catalog of the plot.
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I flipped through the pages of my field guide .
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There was no need for anyone to consult his pocket field guide .
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An outline of the geology has been given in the field guide .
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It is clearly marked on the map recommended for use with this, and the field guide .
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A field guide to the Quaternary deposits has been completed; it includes descriptions of important interglacial deposits found during the survey.
tour
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He likes his new life as a tour guide better, he says, because he likes people.
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Was I expected to take time off from work to play tour guide , as our host in New Zealand had?
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The official tour guide , a close-cropped ragga called Garfield Logan, asks us to leave our shoes outside.
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This act of gross indecency provoked stern disapproval from the tour guide .
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The tour guides say it took a year to sculpt each ceiling.
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Most of these groups are missing from both hipster tour guides and the colonial archive.
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Hostetler served as tour guide , supervising an offense that shed its lingering turnover habit.
■ VERB
act
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Rather, they can act only as a guide to decision making by making the assumptions underlying the decisions explicit.
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My only function is to act as a guide .
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Office of Innovation facilitators can act as a guide for those involved with innovation.
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The buses stop at hotels, rather than train stations, and the drivers also act as guides .
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Species lists are also available, to act as a guide in identifying characins.
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The world of neural networks and pattern recognition is likely to act as a major guide .
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Kaye's role was collate and to act as guide .
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Above: Richly robed, the Samburu tribesman who acted as guide to the party.
follow
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If you think that monthly interest would be a useful supplement to your income, follow our guide .
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The following guides suggest how to maximize the dollars for these products.
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Just follow our simple step-by-step guide now and unleash the stellar power of your mobile phone.
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Because of my ongoing involvement, almost every teacher in the school may follow this one curriculum guide .
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In the table that follows we provide a guide to avoiding discriminatory language.
offer
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Here we offer a guide to what is worth pushing your way to the front of the crowd for.
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Rather, the Taylors offered a guide they met along the road fifteen francs to bring it back.
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Nor is there offered a guide to accountancy principles and practice.
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To assist novices, the magazine is offering a free guide to solving cryptic crosswords.
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That he'd offer to be her guide ?
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What we offer here is a guide for you to follow when you list your own goals.
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Benefits guide: Age Concern Cleveland is offering the most up-to-date guide to money benefits for older people.
produce
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Accommodation: The Bruges tourist office produces a comprehensive guide .
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My colleagues on Fishkeeping Answers have produced a practical guide to tank safety in their November issue which is on sale now.
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She also helps to produce a user guide for A/V workshops.
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Anthony Cowgill has produced the only comprehensive guide to the Maastricht Treaty.
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The money will be used to set up the trail and to produce a waterproof colour guide .
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Michael Haines has produced a nontechnical guide to the natural, economic and social factors which shape the modern industry.
provide
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Many libraries provide printed guides on the use of the library as part of their orientation programme.
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The Scriptures alone provide an absolute guide to proper human conduct.
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It certainly demonstrates the power of conjugation and provides a definite guide for further puzzles of this type.
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Many areas are producing books, brochures and maps to provide a guide to this history.
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The manometer readings provide the best guide to circulatory volume and thus allow fluid replacement therapy to be accurately calculated.
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However, it does provide a unique guide to Leonardo's inner self.
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Zhang Qian then sent out other envoys to the neighbouring states and the Wusun provided them with guides and interpreters.
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The lecture provides a guide to the subject-matter and sets out the foundations on which the student must build.
publish
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New York-based Martindale-Hubbell publishes an eight-volume guide to the legal profession which contains entries for 700,000 lawyers and 44,000 law firms.
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The World Bank has published a guide to help nonspecialists choose a sanitation system.
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Future generations will probably publish guides to the galaxy.
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The Service has also published a comprehensive guide to project design and support proposal preparation called the Proposal Writing Workshop.
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Gabbitas, Truman &038; Thring will give advice, and they also publish a helpful guide to colleges.
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Both case studies and policies will be published as a guide for curriculum planners.
serve
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To prevent this there must exist rules capable of serving as effective guides to action.
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The proposal serves as a guide to the hypothesis testing process which embodies the specific purpose of the study effort.
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Tradition serves as a guide , not an absolute.
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Hostetler served as tour guide , supervising an offense that shed its lingering turnover habit.
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These areas served as guides for subsequent excavation.
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Stewart was a versatile artist; painting was his lifelong passion and his pictures can serve as a guide to his career.
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However, I hope that these notes will be good enough to serve as a general guide .
write
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I think I should write a guide book because I have the appreciation value for cheesy things.
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Some have written guides for children.
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This well written , concise guide is presented in a very easy to use A5 ring bound format.
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At the time of writing the guide Flora's knowledge and love of Liphook's countryside and footpaths was well-known.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
guiding light/hand/star
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And that is what Aeneas's young son did under the guiding hand of Alecto.
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Eddie was his hero, his guiding light.
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Father Peter, its guiding light, was also its provider of funds and sustenance.
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That will be the guiding light of the next Labour government.
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To followers, he is more than just a guiding light - he is the Messiah.
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Under Mr Yarrow's guiding hand, the reputation of the school was untarnished, these five long years.
guiding principle
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Although controversies still abound, there are some guiding principles for the conduct of daily schooling.
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Competition, time-serving, jockeying for advantage, and avoiding blame were the new guiding principles.
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His presidency lacked an over-arching theme or a guiding principle.
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Prudence would be the guiding principle.
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That principle is the guiding principle in the assessment of damages in personal injuries cases.
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The guiding principle of the Okapi research is that the system must adapt itself to the user rather than the converse.
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They can do this by establishing clear guiding principles against which all actions need to be evaluated.
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They take as their guiding principle that they will safeguard this right. 37.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A guide for hospital staff will be published shortly, covering everything from simple hygiene to security regulations.
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a free guide to financial planning
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A friend's experience isn't always the best guide for you.
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a tour guide
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One of our guides helped me set up the tent.
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Our guide and interpreter said he enjoyed the work because he himself had learned much about the city.
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That seems like a question for our experienced tour guide , Monika Koppel.
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The book is an extremely useful guide to starting your own business.
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the Good Schools Guide
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This simple guide is essential if you are thinking of taking up hill walking.
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You are advised not to enter the Kenyan game reserves without a guide .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A total of 377 schools are featured in the guide - now in its second edition - from across the United Kingdom.
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Both guides cost $ 9. 95.
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I shared a canoe with our guide , Kaz.
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Not sure what that means; we check the press guide .
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The $ 9. 95 guides are sold at bookstores or can be ordered by calling 1-800-222-3602.
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The two students who had been walking with our guide quickly disappeared into the trees.
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There is some need for such a guide , but unfortunately Lead on the Brain does not fill it.
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This guide will help you to take the case.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
action
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As this has never been attempted by the Department, there is no experience to guide such actions .
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The issues to be decided are contemporary as are the actors with motives or ideas to guide or justify action .
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Like Kant's Ideas they have a regulative function, guiding our actions and our cognitive efforts in a certain direction.
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He was not a prophet who had a vision around which he constructed a schema to guide his action .
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They need encouragement as a plant needs water, especially in being guided towards pro-social actions .
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The second states the general character of the considerations which should guide the actions of authorities.
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From this position, perceptions can be seen to guide human action .
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Individuals should follow an indirect strategy, guiding their action by one standard in order better to conform to another.
choice
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I would not try to guide the nation's choice .
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As always, performance should guide your choice .
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Some of Lakatos's remarks suggest that his criterion of rationality was intended to guide theory choice .
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It may well have been the presence of a check that guided Mozart's choice .
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In the absence of rational criteria to guide theory choice , theory change becomes akin to religious conversion.
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An ideal compromise between the two, based on the sharpness of your own reflexes, should guide your choice .
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Even some form of simplified logistics involving issue and shelf counts can provide useful information to guide the choice of subject areas.
hand
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Once again, I must stress that I do not see a great male conspiracy behind this, nor invisible hands guiding it.
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A sense of displacement forced her to respond to the pressure of his hand on her back guiding her.
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He saw himself proudly standing in that wondrous car, his hands triumphantly guiding those steeds which Jove himself could not master.
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He felt like the hand guiding a giant firearm.
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Flanner, eight years older, took her in hand , guided her to theater, concerts, and exhibitions.
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She kept hold of his hand and guided him from the room.
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And the wisp of a child kept hold of her hand , guiding her.
principle
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This overview sets out the origins of case management, its transformation into care management, and the principles guiding its practice.
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Through analyzing these competencies, businesses can discover the most important principles that should guide organizational change and development through uncertain periods.
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But what ethical principles should guide the allocation of resources?
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If you predominantly agree, use the ten new management principles to guide your efforts.
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In man also there seems to be a similar principle to guide him on his journey.
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Today, there are certain economic principles guiding factors of the law.
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I asked him what he did, and what principles guided him.
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Next, the team decided they needed a set of values and principles to guide them.
rule
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There are some rules which can guide us.
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Excuses and equity function retrospectively in particular cases rather than as general prospective rules seeking to guide conduct.
tour
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Seemed like a question for an expert like professional Viennese tour guide Monika Koppl.
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A journalist, who liked traveling, started a new career in her forties as a tour guide .
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The free event includes educational tours , guided programs, living history re-enactments and exhibits galore.
■ VERB
help
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Using a finger or pen helps to guide the eye.
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The book highlights the lack of good signposts to help guide grieving individuals.
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Let me pick out three aspects that may help to guide us.
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How can we use them to help guide us into our not so distant future?
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Programmed ventricular stimulation not only helps to guide the selection of antiarrhythmic drug therapy but also provides important prognostic information.
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And remember, at every stage you're helped and guided by Britain's leading self build home company.
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He had lost another close companion, another friend, one who had helped and guided him and given him such pleasure.
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Objectives help to guide a student's learning by specifying the range of experience available.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Sammler was a huge help, guiding me through the dangers of the city streets.
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The pilot guided the plane to a safe landing.
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The travellers were guided around the Hindu Kush by local people who had lived there all their lives.
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We were always guided by the belief that we would be rescued.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He guided David Smith's Perth to the world title in 1991.
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I guided Doreen away from the grave.
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In man also there seems to be a similar principle to guide him on his journey.
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One day, the primary teacher guiding children through their instructional computer program may be able to prevent reading failure altogether.
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Permissive parents, on the other hand, are too lax about guiding their children.
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The constellation of values that these stories promulgate has guided the family for several generations now.