I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bridge links sth to/with sth
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There's a road bridge linking the site with Stockton town centre.
a direct link/connection
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The campaign makes a direct link between global warming and the consumption of energy in the home.
a link to a website (= something on one website that takes you to another website )
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His home page has a link to the website.
a linking verb ( also copula ) (= a verb that connects the subject of a sentence with a word that describes the subject, for example 'seem' in the sentence 'the house seems big' )
a rail link (= that makes train travel between two places possible )
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He proposed building a high-speed rail link between the two airports.
causal relationship/link/factor etc
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a causal relationship between unemployment and crime
cuff link
establish relations/links/contact etc (with sb)
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Hungary established diplomatic relations with Chile in 1990.
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I wondered why he should bother to try and establish contact with me.
forge a relationship/alliance/link etc (with sb)
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In 1776 the United States forged an alliance with France.
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The two women had forged a close bond.
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Back in the 1980s, they were attempting to forge a new kind of rock music.
golf links
hot link
linking verb
linking word
missing link
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Could this be the missing link in the search for a cure for cancer?
sever ties/relations/connections/links etc (with/between sb)
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The two countries severed diplomatic relations.
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She had severed all contact with her ex-husband.
strengthen ties/bonds/links
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He wants to strengthen ties with the West.
tenuous link/connection etc
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The United Peace Alliance had only a tenuous connection with the organized Labour movement.
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The link between her family and the King’s is rather tenuous.
transport links
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The region has good transport links to the capital.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
closely
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This is closely linked to their passivity: it does not occur to them that they could make changes in their world.
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Two closely linked factors produced this result.
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Social mobility, therefore, is again closely linked to spatial mobility.
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In that way, too, they were closely linked together; they were both suffering gods.
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Our integrity as researchers and the integrity of our research are closely linked .
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It was not unlikely that they were closely linked , or even identical, with the forces of gravity and of electromagnetism.
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Within linguistics, then, as we have seen within other disciplines, these two concepts are closely linked .
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The development of Confucianism was closely linked with the teaching of the educated classes.
directly
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Subsistence crises ceased after the 1850s and their disappearance can be linked directly with the rise of the railways.
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The second phase also provides upgraded services for 200 to 300 research facilities directly linked to this backbone.
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The collapse was not directly linked to the motor car side, but it threatened the cars' future.
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Dialogue also gives readers an interesting-sounding, firsthand account of information directly linked to your subject.
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The brick-making operations were often directly linked with the railway, as for instance at Whittlesea, near Peterborough.
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Some of the trips, like the trip to Walden Pond described earlier, are directly linked to academics.
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Needless to say you can link directly to the vendor's Web site from the listings.
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From the 1930s, the clearing banks directly linked their interest rates to Bank Rate.
inextricably
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As young models, Liz and Vanessa become friends and then rivals, their lives linked inextricably over the years.
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Self-constituting activity is inextricably linked with meaning-producing activity 4.
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The representation of syntactic information in the lexicon is inextricably linked with the grammar being used.
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It is then that the questions of who and what we are become inextricably linked with those about the nature of reality.
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The end product of such a course of evolution is an obligate parasite that is inextricably linked to a particular host.
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Of course, the two mothering modifications are inextricably linked .
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We think of parrots as inextricably linked with our world.
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Thus, how the world presents itself to me and how I understand myself are inextricably linked .
strongly
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They had a strong sense of shared identity, had been trained together, and were strongly linked by kinship ties.
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Demonstratives and the definite article are terms whose mobilisation and use would be strongly linked to this kind of deixis.
■ NOUN
activity
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Increasingly, they have been linked to more nefarious activities , from cheating on taxes to financing cocaine traffickers.
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Self-constituting activity is inextricably linked with meaning-producing activity 4.
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Did he have any reason to link their activities with the murder of Garland's son?
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This may be linked to functional activities , like lifting a cup to the mouth.
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The daemons are closely linked with religious cult activity .
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Over the past 10years whale and dolphin deaths have been linked to increased fishing activity .
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However, a more realistic approach is to see trips as forming a chain, linking activities through the day.
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They are created as firms seek new advantages by linking together markets and activities that previously were kept separate.
arm
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Lady Isabella linked her arm through his.
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Julia Patterson as she linked arms with two other senators and escaped down the marble stairs.
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Madeleine linked her arm into Louis's.
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The two-minute video shows the protesters casually entering the office before linking arms through the tubes.
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Margaret linked her arm through mine and we walked to the zebra-crossing.
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Athelstan linked his arm through that of the coroner and they carefully made their way down Cheapside.
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Outside in the street Maggie linked arms with Laura.
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He walked between us, linking arms .
chain
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A chain linking her handcuffs was tied to a bar above her, and Sams warned there were boulders over her head.
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In some minerals two single chains are combined to form double chains, in which the chains are linked by cations.
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This is the first time a high street fast food chain has linked up with a theme park.
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It is a rope to hang ourselves, or a chain to link together diverse peoples.
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However, a more realistic approach is to see trips as forming a chain , linking activities through the day.
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He argued that the sinister-looking chain-link is actually a safety measure, preventing fighters from tumbling into the crowd.
city
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Through the World's Edge Mountains great fortified underground roads linked their underground cities .
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They extended horizontally into the desert but were linked to the center city by good roads and a trolley system.
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But it managed to reach them, convert them, link them to its cities , and exploit their resources.
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Praha Metro is also planning a fourth route linking the city centre and the southern suburbs.
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The canals linking the city to St Petersburg in the south were built by slave labour in Stalin's days.
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The Highland Railway, which linked these two cities in 1863, followed Mitchell's line almost exactly.
computer
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Atari wants to link home computers to school computers via telephone lines.
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PalmPilots can install software only by linking to a personal computer .
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Small children are queuing to take it in turns to sit in a special armchair linked up to a computer .
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Customers will be linked to a local computer dealer, which will deliver the products.
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This can be established by programs in which the actual experimental apparatus is linked to a computer simulation.
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Each country runs a national network that links to a host computer in a research institution that acts as a national hub.
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Central reservation systems Large groups of hotels which are linked by computer usually operate their own central reservation system.
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The need for securing the communications link between computers via encryption is expected to rise.
death
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But bereavement is usually linked to the death of some one close, like our parents.
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Several studies have shown that the physical stresses of repeatedly gaining and losing weight are linked with earl, deaths .
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Pepper spray has been linked to the deaths of 39 people in California and 80 people across the country.
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This week, health officials are linking the death of a 3-week-old boy in Indiana to the pet iguana.
evidence
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There was no forensic evidence to link Mr Nichol to the attack.
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Giuliani said there was no evidence the shooting was linked to anything else.
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While the evidence linking increased cell proliferation and colorectal cancer is good, the converse is less clear cut.
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Still, he said physical evidence linking Ray to the crime is overwhelming.
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It would also take account of the fact that evidence linking hazardous waste with harm to human health is uncertain, at best.
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In the lab and in the courtroom, the evidence linking implants and disease is lacking.
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Soil temperature was not controlled in our study, and so the evidence linking temperature and root mortality is circumstantial.
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Meanwhile, studies published in the Western Journal of Medicine found no evidence linking implants with connective tissue diseases.
name
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Public outrage at the enormity linked the names of Mary and Bothwell.
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The concept is so closely linked with his names that it is difficult, sometimes, to separate the two.
network
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Strictly speaking, the Internet is an international network of computers linked up to exchange information.
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Complex applications will require several networks to be linked together.
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Visa Delta is a debit card network linked with the Visa credit card network.
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State and Campus Networks State and campus networks link into regional networks.
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Unlike Xinet, the network does not link machines made by more than one company.
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Each country runs a national network that links to a host computer in a research institution that acts as a national hub.
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The departmental network is linked to the University's mainframe computer services for statistical analysis packages and similar services.
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It is estimated that every thirty minutes a major network links into the Internet.
rail
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In many cases they have the public on their side as the recent furore over the rail links with London has demonstrated.
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Encouraging full use of the potential of the County's rail links with Channel Tunnel rail terminals.
road
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This required 18 traverses, short stretches of road linked by sharp bends, with beyond it a ravine.
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Narrow dirt roads connect the farms to the wider dirt road which links North Chittendon with Montpelier and Barre.
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The road , linking Gateshead to the Tyne Bridge, needs repairs totalling £700,000.
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Newby is a quiet village between the busy A65 and the old road linking Ingleton and Clapham with road access to both.
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The sub-arterial road was to be an intermediate class of road designed to link up the main arterials to the local roads.
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The road serving Kinlochbervie is linked to the A.838, branching off at Rhiconich.
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It is located on the road which links the two.
system
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TSMDesk is a Helpdesk management system , linking users and information support staff, and third party support agencies if required.
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In fact, variations in several other neurotransmitter systems have been tentatively linked to alcoholism.
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What is clear is that the most successful computerised personnel systems link payroll and personnel together.
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School-to-work systems generally link learning at school and at work to help young people see the connections between the two.
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It therefore comes as no great surprise that these systems are not easily linked up to talk to one another.
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Chapter 9 analyzes the alternative frameworks through which the political system and the economic system are linked .
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The systems developed will link economic, social and environmental data.
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The greater challenge is to create a system that links these individual programs into some sort of coherent whole.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be inextricably linked/bound up/mixed etc
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For in fact political theories, doctrines or ideologies, and political action are inextricably bound up with each other.
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In her mind the murder and the attack at the Chagall museum were inextricably bound up with the secret of the Durances.
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It makes you understand that you are inextricably bound up with each other and that your fortunes depend on one another.
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Within the workplace inequality and conflict are inextricably bound up, irrespective of the relationship between particular managements and workforces.
intimate link/connection etc
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Heat had intimate links with chemistry, and optics with astronomy.
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Mythologies all over the world describe the intimate connection, often antipathy, between birds and snakes.
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Traditionally, an intimate connection has been seen between style and an author's personality.
the missing link
the weak/weakest link
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A patio door could be the weak link in your domestic security chain.
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Anderson is the weakest link in his.
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Below that speed it is impossible to generate sufficient lift to overload the weak link.
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Breaking the weak link proved a bigger hazard than actual cable breaks or power failures.
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This boy was more the Weakest Link as he ducked out of taking two decisions to deny Leeds the win they deserved.
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This is the weakest link in the chain, and we have a system for chasing referees and eventually going elsewhere.
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This time, it was the primacy of the office as gathering place that was the weak link in the chain.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All the PCs in the office are linked to a main server.
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An intense concern for human rights links the two poets.
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Batangas and Puerto Galera are linked by a ferry service which runs twice daily.
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For centuries farmers have linked the behavior of animals and plants to changes in the weather.
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His name has been linked with several famous actresses since he and his wife separated last year.
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Interstate 5 links San Diego and Los Angeles.
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Police are linking the availability of alcohol and a recent rise in the number of teenage arrests.
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The Brooklyn Bridge links Brooklyn and Manhattan.
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The Channel Tunnel has linked Britain with mainland Europe for the first time.
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The college provides technology to all faculty members and students to link them to the Internet.
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The health department has linked several cases of food poisoning with contaminated shellfish.
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The two TV stations are linked by satellite.
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There's a fault in the wire that links the printer with the computer.
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There is an underwater telephone cable linking the two islands.
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They are planning a new high-speed railway to link the two capitals.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A private television circuit will link Clinton with his questioners.
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Busy traffic very soon humanized these inland seas, linking their coasts, their civilizations and their history.
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GISs allow geographically oriented information about disease distribution and occurrence to be visually and analytically linked to images of the environment.
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It is also linked to Lotus, so that information needs can be addressed in different formats.
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Nigel Clough was instructed to link in attack with Shearer.
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Smoking takes place in a smoke house which is linked by a pipe to a firebox.
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State and Campus Networks State and campus networks link into regional networks.
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This is closely linked to their passivity: it does not occur to them that they could make changes in their world.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
causal
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We want a link between belief and truth to prevent this happening, and a causal link looks promising.
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In other words it enables one to modify the artificially simplistic notion of clear-cut dependent and independent variables having one-way causal links .
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The material causal links may not always be readily perceivable, but they are there all the same.
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Some courts have however looked to the causal link between the existence of a hearing and the final outcome.
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The cognitive model proposes a direct causal link: participation brings about enhanced information on goals, and so performance is improved.
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There could be a causal link between demanding social justice and realism as a method, but it is not shown.
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If this causal link is not present the application will fail.
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Explanation extends our understanding of the world, by moving beyond simple observation of events to the causal links underpinning them.
clear
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There must be a clear link between information and argument.
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Once established, initiatives in the vision of how must sustain a clear and compelling link to performance.
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There was a clear link with past practices of fitting the ideology to the needs of the state rather than its constituent members.
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Such an agreement, however, has clearer links with the factory floor than the consulting room.
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Research has shown clear links between the level of crime and number of children brought up in poverty in families in difficulty.
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I also discussed with Marshal Shaposhnikov the ways in which we could establish clearer links between us and our staffs.
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In the event, no clear link was detected.
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There is a clear link between the intensity of cell proliferation and susceptibility to neoplasia.
close
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It is important that the close link with the local authority remains.
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More recently, philosophy has had very close links with mathematics and artificial intelligence.
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There were close links between the alchemists and the gnostics, and for the gnostics the picture was bleaker still.
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Pierpont Morgan was attacked by populist Democrats - whose descendants now argue for closer links between banks and industry.
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There were close links between the Brush Electrical Engineering Co.
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The enduring point is that close links did not make finance the slave of industry.
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In line with an earlier discussion in this Report, the Commission recommends that local churches establish close working links with school music departments.
direct
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Any direct link between this and the McMahon Act is unlikely.
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But it is Azima who is the direct link between Thompson and the current fund-raising furor.
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The study of small mammal fossils Fossils provide one of our most direct links with the prehistoric past.
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All major on-line services have offered access to the Internet news groups and now have direct links to remote systems.
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This is most obviously important where there is a direct link between the degree subject and occupation.
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But so far, no direct link has been made between any of these corpses and the Pernkopf anatomy.
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In fact there is no direct link between the status of women and the reckoning of descent in one line or another.
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By train, it will take just 40 minutes on the direct rail link from Liverpool Street.
economic
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However, even political hostility did not entirely break these old economic links .
formal
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By establishing formal links with the universities, and international specialists, they hope to redress the balance.
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Partnerships - How to forge more formal links with your foreign counterparts for joint ventures.
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An individual could have formal links with one but still keep informal connections with the other.
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However, this document, Guidelines on Risk Issues, does not have a formal link with the framework outlined overleaf.
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Only infrequently is there a formal link .
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Some IFAs have no formal links with a group of providers but work on commission.
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Notice that there are no formal links in any of the exchanges, but they are nevertheless easy to understand.
important
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At the same time he established important links with the continental book trade.
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This forgotten highway once formed part of an important link between Saltash, Crafthole and the sea.
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They were also an important link between agitation out of doors and influence within the walls of parliament.
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Threatened groups bring in wives from outside and thus establish important social links promising external support and succour.
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There is an important link between the equity objective and the concept of need.
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The most important links are political.
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There are many important links between them, as also with the Constitution on the Liturgy.
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This illustrates the important link between objectives and assessment.
international
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To facilitate international links between the public networks, efforts are being made to standardise different countries' ISDNs.
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Until recently, most governments have exercised either direct or indirect control over national telecommunications as well as international links .
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The council had a committee dealing satisfactorily with the promotion of Cheltenham's existing international links .
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In addition to seeking goodwill and international business links , Brown will receive an honorary doctorate from Seoul University.
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This would be a first step in working towards forming international links and networks.
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For philosophies to spread so readily, there had to be innumerable international links .
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All the big firms have strong international links that cushion them somewhat from domestic troubles.
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In addition, users are charged according to the service they use on international links , which are expensive to support.
main
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Allestry died in 1670, but Martyn continued as the Society's main link with the book trade for another decade.
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Television provides the main link between sport and corporate sponsorship.
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The main link between the two productions lies in David Troughton s dazzling performance.
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Furthermore, it was only during this period that scientific advance identified the main links between insanitary conditions and disease.
missing
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Here the missing link is frequently the directly observed contextual detail which is so crucial in anthropological field work.
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I have no doubt it would contain some valuable missing links and insights to the historian.
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This is meaningful conversation between missing links took place after a rapid.
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This uncharted section was finally penetrated after arduous effort in 1983 and the mystery of the missing link solved.
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Where there is a co-ordination problem the issuing of an authoritative directive can supply the missing link in the argument.
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Garau was the missing link who sold drugs to both Debbie Maxwell and to the shepherds.
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The grid diameter is 100-150m and the facilities involved are very simple paths, bridges and short missing links .
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The missing link is the shareholders.
possible
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The movement between nodes is made possible by activating links , which connect related concepts or nodes.
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Finally, I made the point that relates to the possible links between animal and human communication.
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Now police are investigating possible links between his killing and the murder last week of caretaker Andrew Collier in London.
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Scientists can also understand more about possible links with extreme weather like hurricanes.
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The possible links with other unsolved child murders began to be explored.
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There have been a number of studies of possible links between cancer in children and proximity to high voltage cables.
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Detectives say they are looking at possible links with recent assaults on women in Oxford.
strong
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The Centre also has strong links with the industry and policy community in the field.
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But there often is not a strong link between these work experiences and their classes.
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Or at the least very strong links have to be created with those customers.
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Symbols are very important in this stage, and names can provide a strong link with a perceived regional past.
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The college has built up strong links with local industry and this will be reflected on the board.
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Memorial services are still held here and strong links are maintained with the 351st Bomber Group Association. 11.
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Indeed, they already store numerous records generated by government agencies and have developed strong links with the producers of machine-readable data.
tenuous
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Shift work added to the tenuous links between incomer men and their Shetlander neighbours.
vital
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Missi continued to be expected to supervise counts, and to act as vital links between palace and counties.
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Hams snap into action during times of crisis, providing vital links when traditional modes of communication crumble.
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In principle therefore payment of an Affiliation Fee would be an overt recognition of this vital link and mutual benefit. 5.
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Everywhere in the world, he provides the vital link between nature and the musician.
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For over five million passengers, Aurigny has become part of their holiday memories or a vital link with the outside world.
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The road from Salen is the tenuous lifeline of Ardnamurchan, the vital link with the world outside its boundaries.
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Public transport is seen as a vital link to the shops and services of the town centre.
weak
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Breaking the weak link proved a bigger hazard than actual cable breaks or power failures.
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Anderson is the weakest link in his.
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With such fundamental changes involved, a business can only be as strong as its weakest link .
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This time, it was the primacy of the office as gathering place that was the weak link in the chain.
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The layer reinforces the wall's weak link - the mortar.
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Therefore, the leadership challenge is to have no weak links .
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This is the weakest link in the chain, and we have a system for chasing referees and eventually going elsewhere.
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It can not solve all problems, and like any system it is only as strong as its weakest link .
■ NOUN
chain
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But in the end the resident was only allowed to inspect the security of the chain link fence around the dump.
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About every third property boasted a brand-new chain link fence, erected to corral Cod knows what kind of beast.
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Through the mouth there appears to be the remains of a chain link from which the knife would have been suspended.
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A couple of the boys did once, climbing over the high chain link fence around the playground.
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Before she had taken five steps she hit the chain link fencing that was invisible in the darkness.
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The Republicans have fenced off the convention with chain link .
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Poking through chain link fences at factories and construction sites.
cuff
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The bishop never took off his suit jacket or removed the glittering cuff links engraved with his episcopal shield.
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In I.. Magnin they have house detectives who look great, cuff links , tailored suits.
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For example, when Jasper turned fifty I gave him a pair of malachite cuff links .
rail
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Will he take note of the campaign to sink the link , as the channel tunnel rail link passes Gravesend and Northfleet?
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I stress that King's Cross would offer advantages even if no rail link were built.
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By train, it will take just 40 minutes on the direct rail link from Liverpool Street.
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However, outlying villages had been attacked and the city's rail link with Phnom Penh was frequently severed.
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The Government have made their position clear on the route of the high-speed rail link and there is no reconsideration.
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He also knows that there are plans for a high-speed rail link to run through Stratford.
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The completion date for the rail link is uncertain.
road
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Road access will be via a purpose-built junction on the M56 airport link road.
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He had spotted another lay-by, beyond Jena, just before the link road to the autobahn back to the border.
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It is part of the £17.5m link road between the M53 and A55.
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The link road to the M1 now uses this very route.
satellite
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Filling in the gaps in local services by leasing dedicated satellite links and other telecoms services adds just 7 percent to costs.
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She might arrange for a satellite link thousands of miles away, or a microwave link around the corner.
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They say some cafes have illegal direct satellite links to the internet, to which the authorities often turn a blind eye.
telephone
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When it was first launched in 1982 a Minitel terminal consisted of a small monitor with a keyboard and a telephone link .
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The President and I agreed to establish a secure telephone link between our two offices.
■ VERB
break
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Personnel changes confirmed the new liberalism in the Soviet Union and the attempt to break links with past behaviour.
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But that he would deliberately attempt to break that link was something that he would never admit, even to himself.
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Pensioners will be worse off every week because the Government broke the link with earnings.
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However, even political hostility did not entirely break these old economic links .
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But can Cobra go mass-market without breaking its umbilical link to curry?
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Whereas conceptual art chooses to break the link between art and craft, it is this link that any painting re-enacts.
build
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The goal of all Catholic schools must be to build close links with both partners.
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The college has built up strong links with local industry and this will be reflected on the board.
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These may be very useful where it is hoped to build in cross-curricular links .
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A joint economic commission was established to build on the growing links between the two countries.
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He mocked Britain's failure to start building a high-speed link from London to its side of the tunnel.
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The site will build links to Emap's leading entertainment websites to provide additional content and user benefits.
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A World of Work centre is being built , with strong links to local businesses, which provide vocational training.
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But building international links across sectors can help build links against enemies.
create
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Which were the main industrial towns in the hinterland created by the canal links ?
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There had to be meeting points for the exchange of ideas, institutions that would create links among the citizens.
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When we calculated that we lacked aesthetic sensibility, we created the link .
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It also helps create links between the additional context of the experiment and the real-life world of the classroom.
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Hence, Congress immediately perceived the practicality of creating a physical link between them, and approved the necessary funds.
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Before you continue to create the links , you must save your file into the directory that will be permanently storing it.
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Cluster headings are used to create a link between the criteria and each process.
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To create a link , click the image to select it and choose Insert, Hyperlink.
develop
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People need freedom to develop good links with the community.
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As a result he developed links with Hastings as well as Gloucester, but it was the latter which dictated his actions in 1483.
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In recognition of their importance and the need to train more volunteers, we want to develop links with individual churches.
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Indeed, they already store numerous records generated by government agencies and have developed strong links with the producers of machine-readable data.
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In order to assure industry relevance, the association would wish to develop close links at an early stage with institutions seeking accreditation.
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We plan to develop links to enable Finance staff to access the financial parts of the package directly.
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Community businesses, it was suggested, should develop links with the trade union movement and the public sector.
establish
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The Profitboss has a simple way of establishing the contribution link to profit.
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Many Northern Ireland companies already have well established exporting links .
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Lydecker established a mental link with Keiko.
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Threatened groups bring in wives from outside and thus establish important social links promising external support and succour.
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Even if such reports were accurate, these phenomena have no established link with the onset of earthquakes.
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To reiterate: every language has its own devices for establishing cohesive links .
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Its mission is to establish effective links between education and business.
forge
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Partnerships - How to forge more formal links with your foreign counterparts for joint ventures.
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These organizations played a decisive role in forging patient links with the outside world.
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It is the verb to bring down that forges the link between the otherwise still nouns and pronoun in the sentence.
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The details of how Strominger and collaborators forged the link are highly mathematical arguments only a physicist could love.
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They at least are aware of the potential of relationships between the different levels and may be forging some co-operative links between them.
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It has refused to explain itself to the mainstream media, or to forge strong links with anyone outside the protest community.
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You are the people who make our work possible and I try to forge more tangible links between us.
form
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It's time, while Mercury is forming a sharp link to Jupiter, to find out how smart you really are.
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Furthermore, by the time of the first appointment, the Volunteers had already formed strong in-group links and loyal. ties.
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Initially, therefore, the tutor forms the link between the student and the course.
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Depending on the state of the remaining infrastructure, this could form a central link in the future network.
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This would be a first step in working towards forming international links and networks.
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The village stands at the terminus of the great trench occupied by the inland Loch Maree, the river forming a link .
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There were others whom I felt I was unable to form any kind of link during the interview.
maintain
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The couple still maintain close links with local schools, where they spend hours researching, sketching and absorbing jokes.
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Morton accepted but always maintained links to Sellers in Philadelphia, a hundred miles to the south.
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It maintains a link with Fiat, though - its 1.4-litre engine is the same as that used in the Tipo.
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The routine was unvarying, and I deliberately kept it as a technique of maintaining a personal link between us.
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The Centre aims to maintain a strong focus on those questions affecting the voluntary sector and to maintain close links with it.
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But Harwood was infuriated by the perceived loss of his friend and sought to maintain the link .
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Convocation is the organisation through which graduates can maintain links with each other and with the University.
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His head moves for the first time to follow his eyes and maintain the essential link of communication signals.
provide
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Satcoms based on modern digital satellites like C-Sat could provide affordable data links .
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Sprint and Southwestern Bell are among the carriers providing links .
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Symbols are very important in this stage, and names can provide a strong link with a perceived regional past.
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Historical objects provide links with the people who made and used them.
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Hams snap into action during times of crisis, providing vital links when traditional modes of communication crumble.
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The class of models to be considered provides link between conventional time series and econometric models.
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The anytime / anyplace option gives flexibility to the organization, providing the links among its nodes.
sever
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The Consolidated Capital Fund would sever the link between finance and accounting.
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The girls who join know that they are expected to sever their links with family and loved ones.
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However, I know I myself don't want to sever my links with the past.
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To cross them was to break tradition, to sever one's links and become an outsider.
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Hundreds of members of the 100,000-strong party backed Mr Alton and threatened to sever their links with the party.
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Its values now those of a specialist activity, design severs the communicative link which formerly bound it to society.
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Often this was easier after they had severed their links with the movement.
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The answer must be that it could not since the fact of adopting depreciation accounting severs the link with finance.
strengthen
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Even gifts made to individuals are as a rule intended to strengthen family links .
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The banks are also strengthening their links with university researchers.
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Worse still, our elected representatives, far from strengthening their links with voters, actually become less accountable to them.
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Active steps were also taken to strengthen links with local trade unions.
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The Reception was a great success, and strengthened still further the link between the School and the Company.
suggest
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Some evidence suggests a link between no-fault laws and divorce.
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The bleaching of reefs has coincided with the hot years of the 1980s, suggesting a link with rising sea temperatures.
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For the most part, studies that have suggested a positive link have been those with the poorest research design.
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The frequent association of massive quantities of ignimbrite with large calderas suggests a genetic link .
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But on the whole, there is little evidence to suggest a link between male wage levels and fertility.
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Hence the pangolin suggests a link between animal and human kind.
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The portraits were arranged to form a three-dimensional family tree, and to suggest links with the imperial family in Rome.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be inextricably linked/bound up/mixed etc
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For in fact political theories, doctrines or ideologies, and political action are inextricably bound up with each other.
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In her mind the murder and the attack at the Chagall museum were inextricably bound up with the secret of the Durances.
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It makes you understand that you are inextricably bound up with each other and that your fortunes depend on one another.
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Within the workplace inequality and conflict are inextricably bound up, irrespective of the relationship between particular managements and workforces.
break a link/tie/connection
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Mr Eastwood argues it would break ties with local communities.
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Personnel changes confirmed the new liberalism in the Soviet Union and the attempt to break links with past behaviour.
intimate link/connection etc
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Heat had intimate links with chemistry, and optics with astronomy.
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Mythologies all over the world describe the intimate connection, often antipathy, between birds and snakes.
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Traditionally, an intimate connection has been seen between style and an author's personality.
the missing link
the weak/weakest link
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A patio door could be the weak link in your domestic security chain.
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Anderson is the weakest link in his.
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Below that speed it is impossible to generate sufficient lift to overload the weak link.
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Breaking the weak link proved a bigger hazard than actual cable breaks or power failures.
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This boy was more the Weakest Link as he ducked out of taking two decisions to deny Leeds the win they deserved.
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This is the weakest link in the chain, and we have a system for chasing referees and eventually going elsewhere.
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This time, it was the primacy of the office as gathering place that was the weak link in the chain.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a telephone link between the two presidents
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Police are investigating the scene to determine if there are any links with last week's bombing.
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Rebels bombed the Beira railroad, a vital link between the capital and the port.
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Some scientists believe there may be a link between caffeine and heart disease.
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The two TV stations are joined by a satellite link .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Certainly that link is strong and clear in the Old Testament Scriptures.
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Good telecommunications links can bring them closer to western markets, giving their skilled workers less incentive to emigrate.
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He is our link to the outside world.
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It is the verb to bring down that forges the link between the otherwise still nouns and pronoun in the sentence.
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Six devices have been sent to people with links to pest control, farming and hunting in the past fortnight.
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The material causal links may not always be readily perceivable, but they are there all the same.
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They were the only link with the people in the field.
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With such fundamental changes involved, a business can only be as strong as its weakest link .