adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a remote/isolated area (= a long way from towns and cities )
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a remote area of northeast Afghanistan
an isolated incident (= one that happens on its own, not together with others )
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Luckily the attack turned out to be an isolated incident.
isolated individuals (= one on their own, not in a group with others )
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Society does not consist of isolated individuals.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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The jaws were unrecognizable by this stage, and all the teeth were exposed as isolated teeth.
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Nor was I as isolated as might at first appear.
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They remain as isolated upland masses.
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But she wanted to squeeze Dinah, make her think she was as isolated as possible.
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Public transport to Roos is poor: without a private car, residents are as isolated as their forefathers were.
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The Montgomeryshire breed survived as isolated individuals in 1919 but it, too, has become extinct.
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Furthermore, women are not as isolated from each other as they are in the world of the 1980s.
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However, the image of modern families as isolated and inward-looking does not only extend to relationships with kin.
increasingly
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Adapting the curriculum just for children with special educational needs may lead to their becoming increasingly isolated and segregated within the classroom.
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Ever since Prost confirmed his intention to leave McLaren, he claims to have been increasingly isolated within the team.
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The contest ended in a stalemate, but as the year progressed Aoun became increasingly isolated .
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She had no Cabinet intimate and seemed increasingly isolated on her lofty eminence.
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Throughout the 1930s she was an increasingly isolated figure.
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But he is old, deeply unpopular, and increasingly isolated from his own party.
more
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Outside the Cabinet the rejected Mr Heath became an even more isolated political figure.
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I was left on the memorial bench, more isolated than ever.
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In many respects, this village was more isolated than Brackley.
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Women are much more isolated , since their culture and religion control their public appearances.
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It is hard to imagine anyone else in this island who was more isolated and more materially deprived.
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That, in turn, makes her feel even more isolated .
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Today the farm worker is more isolated as an individual.
rather
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His life is remote and rather isolated from the rest of Britain.
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It is completely restored, set in about ten acres of land, rather isolated but with fine views.
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Until relatively recently, Instructors delivering National Certificate modules in prisons tended to be rather isolated .
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She struck me as a rather isolated figure, psychologically as well as physically, sitting at that distant table.
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Actually Alpha is rather isolated from the rest of the constellation.
relatively
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Parsons' view is that the modern industrial family is relatively isolated from society, certainly more so than its pre-industrial predecessor.
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Dynamo theory had developed as a relatively isolated discipline within geophysics, and not just because it thrived in Great Britain.
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The sense of involvement has grown considerably and what had previously been a relatively isolated job has now become increasingly rich.
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The church now stands relatively isolated with settlement earthworks to west and east.
so
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We live so isolated an existence here that to me it seems quite odd.
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But you see at home, it's so isolated we never see anyone, I never learned how to behave properly.
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He had never felt so lonely, so isolated .
socially
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Making sure that she remained in contact with people and not socially isolated .
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It is clear that the vast majority of older people are neither socially isolated nor overwhelmed with feelings of loneliness.
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He is socially isolated during this time.
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A more socially isolated person might become depressed and forgetful, and not be able to cope.
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Are all older people socially isolated ?
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These families are characterized as being socio-economically disadvantaged and socially isolated .
very
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For those who have a problem and feel very isolated , these groups are a valuable way of re-introducing themselves to society.
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He lived a very isolated existence and was something of a recluse.
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At the beginning, she was very isolated .
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Such conditions produced a very isolated way of life for fenland farmers.
■ NOUN
area
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Furthermore, these changes have spread to not only the more isolated areas but also to the protected landscapes of national parks.
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They're a unique record of some of the world's most isolated areas ... and the people who live in them.
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The drains were at last able to carry the surface water and only a few isolated areas remained flooded.
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In the more isolated areas , such as Brenod and Chezery, the average age of farmers was high - over 65 years.
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Unlike national parks in some other countries, these are not supposed to be wilderness or isolated areas .
case
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Uncle Buck isn't an isolated case .
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Mrs Peters is no isolated case .
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If this were an isolated case , it might simply be put down to an individual health authority overreacting to public embarrassment.
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The use of the infinitive after see is not an isolated case moreover.
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But that was an isolated case .
cell
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Montgomery etal isolated cells from 18 day fetal rat intestine by trypsin dissociation.
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There are some secrets which isolated cells or computers can not reveal.
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A decade later, parallel experiments were made with the isolated cells in culture, with similar results.
community
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Train services Railways are not really flexible enough to be able to serve isolated communities in rural areas.
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Small isolated communities did not produce sufficient children to fill village schools with easily ordered year groups.
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The isolated communities of the wooded highlands have been fortified.
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No constituency should be allowed to have an extraordinarily small electorate on the pretext that it comprises widely dispersed and isolated communities .
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It was the sense of identity to be felt in an isolated community , he thought.
example
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But this sculpture remains an isolated example , emphasizing the fact that in its earliest stage Cubism was primarily a pictorial revolution.
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Nor was this an isolated example .
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This concern over the movements of foreigners is far from being an isolated example of its kind.
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Various isolated examples of unrest acted as reminders to the authorities.
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His disappointment was by no means an isolated example .
farm
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The people in many isolated farms and villages also benefit from the tourists.
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Each isolated farm has electricity, a newish car or two and is full of gadgets and gizmos.
house
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In this isolated house , with the elements raging outside, and the windows rattling under the strain?
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She was alone in this isolated house and not a soul knew she was here except that wretched Marie.
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An isolated house was on their right, guarded by dark gloomy barns.
incident
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The shot putt and resultant hospital visit was not an isolated incident in Roy's life.
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This friendliness wasn't an isolated incident .
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Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents .
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The brutal suppression of the insurrection of the early 1980s was not an isolated incident .
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Police, however, say that so far only one or two isolated incidents have been reported.
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It is understood police believe it may have been an isolated incident .
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One apparently isolated incident can vividly illustrate a more generalized pattern of family life.
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At the other end of the scale three cases allegedly had been limited to one isolated incident .
individual
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The Harpies are vicious, hungry creatures who will gang up on any isolated individual .
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Others are isolated individuals with no church within miles of where they live.
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The Montgomeryshire breed survived as isolated individuals in 1919 but it, too, has become extinct.
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However, society does not consist of isolated individuals .
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In the decades before Emancipation only a few isolated individuals had carried dissent to the point of revolutionary commitment.
tooth
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The jaws were unrecognizable by this stage, and all the teeth were exposed as isolated teeth.
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Most of these were isolated teeth , although the sample size for isolated teeth was small.
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The results of the analysis in Table 3.9 show that several species have consistent deficits of isolated teeth in their prey assemblages.
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All show the same pattern of generally high proportions of cranial and postcranial elements and low proportions of isolated teeth .
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Table 3.9 Comparison of numbers of isolated teeth in pellet samples with numbers missing from mandibles and maxillae.
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There remain to be considered the three species for which there is an apparent excess of isolated teeth .
word
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Nor could these problems be predicted from studies of the inherent confusability of the lexicon which concentrated on isolated words .
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This creates a network of all possible word sequences rather than just a tree of isolated words.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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isolated thunderstorms
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an isolated mountain village
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Children of very rich parents can grow up isolated from the rest of society.
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During my first month here, I felt terribly isolated .
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If you travel to isolated areas, make sure you have a good guide.
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The area is extremely isolated because of the hills that surround it.
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The balloon had landed in an isolated area of the Northwest Territories.
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Young, single parents often feel isolated and unhappy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Morris didn't seem lonely or isolated himself, but a hard shell was usually a sign of vulnerability underneath.
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Smith, on the other hand, was isolated in a country just beginning to regain its mathematical confidence.
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The issue of disability culture was highlighted, with the role of disabled people viewed as being isolated away from wider society.
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This might be because Dickens is trying to tell us that society should be close-knit one and not isolated into different units.