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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
white
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In obligatory white lab coat and cotton cap he was touring the Boots factory in Airdrie.
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He describes clusters of young workers dressed in white lab coats learning about the latest mechanical instrument introduced in the plant.
■ NOUN
coat
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In obligatory white lab coat and cotton cap he was touring the Boots factory in Airdrie.
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Diane came back without the lab coat .
crime
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The group is working to establish national crime lab standards.
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He also criticized crime lab officials for not allowing him to do a proper evaluation of the case.
photo
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Your basic bad hair day at the photo lab .
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When she did, on Nov. 2, two plainclothes detectives reported to the photo lab near Kendall Square.
research
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It is the first stand-alone research lab to be registered to ISO9001.
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Here there may be a strong interaction with other areas of the local service-base, e.g. universities, industry research labs etc.
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The research lab will form part of a space station.
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What sorts of devices are available in research labs or in companies?
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They raid research labs and let out the animals, that sort of thing.
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Polythene was perhaps the most significant invention ever to come from our research labs .
science
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He says that they can make full use of the science labs and workshops.
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Meanwhile a new school in Maine tried to do the same thing with its library, cafeteria and science lab .
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Mum, did you know that our Lab is the oldest forensic science lab in the country?
technician
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Morenz would be caught by the police sooner or later, the lab technicians would be subpoenaed-it would make the scandal worse.
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A beagle with her intestines lying on the concrete, and lab technicians microwaving animals out of boredom.
test
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He let me do lab tests sometimes.
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The anti-viral drug has also been shown to inhibit the growth of borna virus in lab tests .
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He was known for facilitating the process whereby tumor markers, or lab tests for tumors, were brought into the marketplace.
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But only lab tests , he said, will prove a definitive link.
work
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By contrast, some past winners have lamented that the prize diverts them from their beloved lab work .
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Today, an important scientific paper may represent the best thinking and patient lab work of hundreds of people.
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You told me yourself it was unheard of for somebody like you to have done all that lab work by yourself.
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He even does a bit of lab work .
■ VERB
run
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Because these tests were run by a private lab at the request of a concerned supervisor at Tucson Water.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a stores manager, Horne finds that the quantity of 1,1,1 used in labs is small.
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He was known for facilitating the process whereby tumor markers, or lab tests for tumors, were brought into the marketplace.
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In the forties, many lab scientists labored at their benches pursuing vaccines with inactivated or killed viruses.
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It was a fun lab project.
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SunSoft Inc claims to have a multiprocessing version of Solaris 2.0-on-Intel running in the lab .
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The anti-viral drug has also been shown to inhibit the growth of borna virus in lab tests.
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This is Graham's lab of effusion.
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This is Gram's lab of diffusion.