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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
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This view received added impetus from the proposal to construct the Trans-Siberian Railway.
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New products are introduced every quarter to give the sales force fresh impetus .
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Fresh legs do not always bring fresh impetus , unless they belong to Joe Worsley or Trevor Woodman.
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Mozart had brought fresh impetus to a time-worn formula thanks to his recent exposure to exciting new developments in Paris.
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In Kwangju a protester received a near-fatal beating by police in an incident which served to give fresh impetus to the protests.
further
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The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1829 provided further impetus .
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While responses to the Kirklees Report were being discussed, a further incident gave impetus to more precise anti-racist policies.
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So it was that the companies gradually came to terms with the increasing traffic and provided it with a further impetus .
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The popularity of rap and hip-hop with young white provided further impetus and black directors were suddenly in demand.
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All of the capacities could have evolved independently, but then obtained further impetus for change from the gradual emergence of language.
initial
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The same consideration applies to the initial impetus for your story.
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Mann's children may provide the initial impetus for her practice, but the conceptual agenda lies beyond them.
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This means you are not given the same level of initial impetus .
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The initial impetus for the rethink came not from the officials but from Sir Stafford Cripps in the summer of 1946.
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The enquiry's initial impetus was being lost and now they were all groping.
major
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A major impetus has been that users found this detailed budgetary accounting confusing.
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But the major inflationary impetus was provided by the conjunction of two factors.
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This provides a major impetus for the involvement of tenants in the management of their homes.
new
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Researching the area to be covered in advance puts a new impetus back into flying.
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For the Downland, sheep remained dominant; it was in the coastal plain and Weald that a new impetus was given.
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But it has been given a new impetus , even an urgency, by the advent of modern computer technology.
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Each wild rumour adds new impetus to the exodus.
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In recent years, they have given a new impetus to the forecasting of natural disasters.
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The coming of war in 1914 quickly gave new impetus to the hitherto rather limited and amateurish propaganda efforts of governments.
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In the middle of the recession, the economy needs new impetus not a tax cut.
■ VERB
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Each wild rumour adds new impetus to the exodus.
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Their negative reaction was added impetus .
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Technological change, especially in military weapons, gave added impetus to the new expansionism.
come
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In many ways the most powerful impetus to greater concentrations came from the state.
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The impetus must come from the top.
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During the 1920s and 1930s interest in occupational family allowances grew but the impetus to introduce them came largely from individuals.
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Where, then, does the impetus for creativity come from?
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The impetus will have to come from older people themselves.
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The impetus came from the unions.
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The impetus for these practices came from the need to remunerate the rapidly expanding number of clerks in royal service.
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But a lot of the impetus has come from the cash Thorn paid when he sold the record company.
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Government policy does not believe transport planning gives road haulage impetus !
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But impulses can start anywhere, given enough impetus .
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Nevertheless there are important factors that give a strong impetus to a reductivist reasoning.
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They would drop almost into range, and then make use of the slope to give impetus to their charge.
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At all events, it was this group of the dispossessed that gave the first successful impetus to the Revolution.
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The crises of 1947 and 1949 might have given strong impetus to planning.
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On New Year's Day they briefly topped the division, but since then have lost players and impetus .
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Gorbad's wound causes him to become weaker and weaker, until the Waaagh gradually loses impetus .
provide
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The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1829 provided further impetus .
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This laser provided an early impetus for studies of instabilities by tending to produce noisy, spiked output even under quasi-steady excitation.
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Mann's children may provide the initial impetus for her practice, but the conceptual agenda lies beyond them.
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This provides a major impetus for the involvement of tenants in the management of their homes.
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Promoting enterprise Government needs to provide an immediate impetus to get the economy moving.
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That in turn would hopefully provide an impetus for closer political union.
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This type of study provided the impetus to investigation of the role of angioplasty for residual thrombosis following thrombolytic therapy.
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Yesterday it was Chris Evert, normally her rival, who provided the impetus .
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The process of proletarianisation has also received some impetus from the spread of agribusiness in the region.
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The area where the Industrial Revolution had received its greatest impetus was soon one of high unemployment.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Press criticism has been the main impetus behind the government reforms.
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The impetus for change in the industry was provided by a new management team.
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The Surgeon General's speech will give new impetus to the anti-smoking campaign.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A major impetus has been that users found this detailed budgetary accounting confusing.
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During the 1920s and 1930s interest in occupational family allowances grew but the impetus to introduce them came largely from individuals.
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Gathering research data has an impetus of its own and this part of the research procedure was carried through reasonably smoothly.
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Nevertheless there are important factors that give a strong impetus to a reductivist reasoning.
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She seized the handle, but the impetus was too great, and it was wrenched from her convulsive grasp.
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The same consideration applies to the initial impetus for your story.