noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a marriage certificate
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He found a copy of his parents' marriage certificate.
a marriage ends in divorce
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Five years later, their marriage ended in divorce.
a marriage (guidance) counsellor (= helping with marriage problems )
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You should talk to a marriage counsellor about your problem.
a marriage licence (= a licence that allows two people to marry each other )
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We went to get a marriage licence.
a match/marriage made in heaven (= a happy and successful marriage )
a relation by marriage
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She’s a relation by marriage because she married my cousin.
a relative by marriage
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How many women would be willing to care for distant relatives by marriage?
a wedding/marriage ceremony
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It was a beautiful wedding ceremony.
a wedding/marriage feast
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This dish is traditionally served at wedding feasts.
an unhappy marriage
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Her parents had had an unhappy marriage.
arranged marriage
childless couple/woman/marriage
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It was a happy but childless marriage.
contract a marriage/alliance etc (= agree to marry someone, form a relationship with them etc )
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Most of the marriages were contracted when the brides were very young.
failing marriage
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his efforts to save his failing marriage
had...marriage blessed
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The couple later had their marriage blessed in their local parish church.
loveless marriage/childhood/relationship etc
marriage bureau
marriage certificate
marriage guidance
marriage licence
marriage lines
marriage of convenience
marriage split
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rumours of a marriage split
marriage vow
marriage/funeral/christening etc service
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a memorial service for the disaster victims
marriage/marital breakdown
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problems caused by the increase in marital breakdown
marriage/wedding vows
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She wrote her own marriage vows.
mixed marriage
open marriage
premarital sex/sex before marriage (= sex happening before marriage )
register a birth/death/marriage
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The baby’s birth was registered this morning.
same-sex marriage
the institution of marriage/monarchy etc
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The scandal threatened to undermine the institution of the presidency.
ties of marriage/friendship/blood etc
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The ties of friendship that unite the two countries.
troubled marriage/relationship
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
broken
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That and alcoholism and broken marriages .
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Cathy was a too-real story about inner-city squalor, broken marriages , homelessness and a shot-to-hell welfare system.
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Childless men, especially those with a broken marriage , were more likely to be ambitious, highly educated professionals.
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And I've seen too much unhappiness caused by broken marriages .
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The two broken marriages and then the obvious fact that he didn't think much of her.
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She is entitled to sympathy for a broken marriage which was not purely of her doing.
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Over 28 years I've had two broken marriages and broken homes, family and friends.
early
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Did the prospect of such an early marriage , of leaving school and cutting off her education disappoint the Al Ain bride-to-be?
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This was amusing early in our marriage .
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The less well-to-do may encourage early marriage and give priority to settling down to stable family life.
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Among middle-class women, early marriage played a similar role in increasing risk of depression.
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Furthermore social surveys had shown that early marriage , by unskilled workers could lead to poverty and destitution.
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The correlation between the proportion of early marriages and later infecundity is positive and significant.
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Those early days of marriage were lived modestly in a one-bedroom flat in Clapham, South London.
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For example, early marriage has been noted as being associated with particular forms of abuse and neglect.
gay
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But they are wrong to see gay marriage as trivial or frivolous.
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In a test case, the state of Hawaii may become the first to legalize gay marriage , next year.
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Would gay marriage weaken the standard variety?
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Public opinion polls show as many as 70 percent of respondents oppose gay marriages .
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He supports a ban on gay marriages .
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But it looks like Clinton has been grandstanding on the subject of gay marriage .
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Some people, even within the lesbian and gay community, are opposed to the idea of gay marriage .
happy
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But, although she had progressed from happy childhood to happy marriage , all the while a conflict was raging within her.
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She simply wanted a happy marriage .
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His first wife christened Emily, affectionately and universally known as Pem died on Christmas Day 1988 after 53 years happy marriage .
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Perfect looks, a happy marriage , a successful career.
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Their happy marriage , their seeming perfection, was porcelain: they daren't raise their voices for fear of shattering it.
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While this proves a very happy marriage , it also gives Eleonora the influence she desires.
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No, Jack, man is a monogamous animal and there's no partnership on earth to touch a happy marriage .
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It take s lot more than just physical attraction to make a lasting, happy marriage .
loveless
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Forcing her into a loveless marriage the same way he's forcing you pair into marrying the Costello sisters.
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Her primary target is the arranged or loveless marriage .
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They shared their responsibilities for the smooth running of Zone I with the enthusiasm of those bound by a loveless marriage .
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He knew he was forcing his two sons into loveless marriages with the Costello sisters so that they could gain the Costello acres.
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It told a story of an empty and loveless marriage , of dreams shattered and hope vanquished.
previous
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There was also another son from a previous marriage .
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Ties between the woman and her daughters by a previous marriage were almost nonexistent, the neighbor said.
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She had been married 19 years; they had no children together, but each had a son from a previous marriage .
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Steve Merrill, for example, has been the target of anonymous faxes about his previous marriages .
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She had one son of her previous marriage .
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Debon has three children from a previous marriage , who were reared by their father.
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Married at twenty-two a woman eleven years older than himself, with one son by a previous marriage .
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I heard she married a guy with two kids from a previous marriage .
unhappy
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If he ever married, then it would be an unhappy marriage .
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Perhaps this was a painful subject, what with his own unhappy marriage to Jane.
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Leapor does not make the case that women are always unhappy in marriage .
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Although in other poems Leapor shows that labouring class women can be desperately unhappy in marriage , she is not unequivocal.
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At the centre is a man from South Carolina who is unhappy in marriage .
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He revealed details of the royal couple's unhappy marriage and told of Diana's bulimia.
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Most of us know some one who is unhappy about their marriage situation.
■ NOUN
certificate
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It takes San Francisco marriage certificates for 1980 as its main data base.
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The Law Society will require evidence such as a marriage certificate , deed poll or statutory declaration.
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Your marriage certificate is a couple of pounds extra.
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No baptism has been traced, though his marriage certificate records him as the son of John Crockford, schoolmaster.
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We both believed that a marriage certificate wasn't that important.
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A marriage certificate in London and the telephone book had done the work for him.
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Spouses or newly-weds should carry a copy of their marriage certificate where passports and rickets are in different names.
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His birth certificate , however, casts doubts on the marriage certificate's claim that a Charles Downer was his father.
contract
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Society lays down the basic rules of the marriage contract .
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On 15 May 1679 the marriage contract was signed at Lisbon.
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In the event, as historians have observed, the spark was trivial - a man's signature on his marriage contract .
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These are intimately bound up together, not least because of the way in which the marriage contract is defined.
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Studies show that a typical marriage contract accords a couple 170 rights and responsibilities.
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This provision could be written into the marriage contract .
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The marriage contract is currently the most ambiguous of contracts.
guidance
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And even if there is a family counselling service or marriage guidance counselling there may be a waiting list.
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This may be perfectly legitimate but not all problems can be referred away. 2 Refer the parents for marriage guidance counselling.
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Courses on debt counselling followed together with requests for counselling courses to include bereavement and marriage guidance skills.
partner
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While first-cousins are often favoured as marriage partners , a distinction is very often made between parallel and cross-cousins.
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Both marriage partners must be willing.
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Then comes the greatest loss of all: that of their marriage partner .
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When seeking a marriage partner , intelligence is important to both sexes.
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In addition members of the class usually find marriage partners from the same class.
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A marriage partner can be a true soul-friend in this sense.
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First, it may be difficult for them to relinquish the closeness and identification with their twin in favour of a marriage partner .
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Obviously this typology has immense implications for educational methods, for communication generally, and for choice of marriage partner .
proposal
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She had given up counting the number of marriage proposals she had turned down over the years.
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Consider, for example, the question of marriage proposals .
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The refusal to accept a marriage proposal was often interpreted as a statement of superiority.
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Then his girlfriend decides to accept the marriage proposal of an-other man.
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Despite becoming constant companions, she says his marriage proposal still came as a shock.
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Since it was swiftly followed by a marriage proposal it must have gone down fairly well.
vow
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His father-in-law accused him of breaking his marriage vows and questioned his integrity as a Privy Councillor.
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Fortunately for Mrs Bush, her marriage lasted and delivered the kind of lifetime security that marriage vows imply.
■ VERB
arrange
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I realise the Lady Yolande is a noblewoman and that you were instrumental in arranging her marriage to the late King.
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An arranged marriage of eighteen years came to an end when her abusive husband was murdered in a brawl.
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In the first instance she arranges the marriage of Elgiva to the sensitive and naive king.
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I could have arranged a good marriage for her.
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I'd be like Emma and arrange a marriage for him, and with happier results.
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So the betrothal was arranged and the marriage soon followed.
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As Christians, arranged marriages were not customary in Mary's family.
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Polygamy and arranged and forced marriages became the rule.
born
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There was so much news to exchange - careers followed, children born , marriages made.
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Four out of 10 children were born outside marriage in 1999, compared with just one in 10 in 1979.
break
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But will they be able to break the marriage curse that seems to have fallen on the House of Windsor?
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This new reality helped engender a more sensitive ecclesial approach to the plight of Catholics in broken marriages .
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His father-in-law accused him of breaking his marriage vows and questioned his integrity as a Privy Councillor.
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A recent piece of research shows what, exactly, breaks up their marriages .
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The Isle of Skye promises to be a good spot to escape the rigors of work and a broken marriage .
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Like Kathy, she had found great spiritual consolation at Holy Trinity in the wake of a broken marriage .
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It was less cruel to end a short, passionate love affair than to break up a five-year marriage .
end
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In some ways ending a marriage is now easier than it has ever been.
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It was there, said McGann, that she decided to end the marriage .
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It seemed a funny way to end five years of marriage , packing socks and toothpaste and cold cream.
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Was it really so easy to end ten years of marriage ?
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Easier divorce makes ending an unsatisfactory marriage a real possibility.
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Concerned that his overweight body can not live up to feminine ideals, Dave's depression nearly ends his marriage .
fail
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And I finally had to admit that I was failing in my marriage to you.
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Laura believes that those of her sisters or cousins who defy the instructions are doomed to failed marriages .
propose
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Harrison had come back to propose marriage .
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She deflects the conversation, afraid that he will propose marriage .
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Since then, they had maintained their relationship - a kind of teasing familiarity - but he had never proposed marriage again.
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Harriet receives a letter from Robert Martin proposing marriage .
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A year later he proposed marriage .
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I told Oswin all of this and he proposed marriage .
recognize
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The truths that are recognized after marriage have very little to do with chamber pots.
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The bill also would bar the federal government from recognizing homosexual marriages .
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California law does not recognize gay marriages , but state appellate courts have adjudicated gay and lesbian palimony cases.
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California now recognizes marriages performed in other states.
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No state now recognizes gay marriages .
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No state currently recognizes marriages between homosexuals.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a marriage of convenience
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Gerard Depardieu plays a French immigrant in a marriage of convenience with Andie McDowell.
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After all, it was a marriage of convenience for her.
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He told me he was in a marriage of convenience .
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It was a marriage of convenience .
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The Home Office had suspected that it was a marriage of convenience , to get the woman in.
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Though the diplomatic courtship is at an early stage, the Foreign Office is optimistic about such a marriage of convenience .
be joined in marriage/holy matrimony
broken marriage
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a broken marriage
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And I've seen too much unhappiness caused by broken marriages.
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Cathy was a too-real story about inner-city squalor, broken marriages, homelessness and a shot-to-hell welfare system.
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Childless men, especially those with a broken marriage, were more likely to be ambitious, highly educated professionals.
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Like Kathy, she had found great spiritual consolation at Holy Trinity in the wake of a broken marriage.
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That and alcoholism and broken marriages.
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The Isle of Skye promises to be a good spot to escape the rigors of work and a broken marriage.
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The two broken marriages and then the obvious fact that he didn't think much of her.
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This new reality helped engender a more sensitive ecclesial approach to the plight of Catholics in broken marriages.
common-law marriage/husband/wife
cost sb their job/life/marriage etc
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And, for those who work in the travel and tourism industry, this tax could cost them their jobs.
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His plans to slash defence budgets by £6 billion would cost 100,000 more their jobs.
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I believe that it would cost many people their jobs and would cause far more damage than good.
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It could cost them their lives.
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The most far-reaching internal investigation in Phoenix police history cost four officers their jobs Friday for purchasing banned rifles under false pretenses.
propose marriage
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A year later he proposed marriage.
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Harriet receives a letter from Robert Martin proposing marriage.
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Harrison had come back to propose marriage.
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He falls in love with Clotilde and proposes marriage.
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I told Oswin all of this and he proposed marriage.
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She deflects the conversation, afraid that he will propose marriage.
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Since then, they had maintained their relationship - a kind of teasing familiarity - but he had never proposed marriage again.
sb's hand (in marriage)
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He finally asked for her hand in marriage.
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A fat person, down on his hands and knees, was doing something to the grass between the stones.
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Alan saw that she herself stroked the back of the child's head rhythmically with her right hand .
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But it does mean that weird opinions ought not to be rejected out of hand .
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But then it seemed as if the ball went through or over his hands as he came in front of Washington.
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It made our hands and fingers itch, but the tiny pieces of red flesh were delicious.
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Stories were told about how they had actually done considerable damage to some visiting fans when situations had got out of hand .
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The political opposition, on the other hand , is not convinced.
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When you fall forward, fully conscious or not, you put out your hands to break your fall.
solemnize a marriage
the sanctity of life/marriage etc
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The argument based on the sanctity of life is essentially a matter of religious dogma.
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Their outlook on the sanctity of marriage is usually stricter.
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This man who believed in the sanctity of life, its life, not hers.
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What she experienced in her abusive marriage eventually forced her to re-examine Scripture concerning the sanctity of marriage and personhood.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After a disastrous first marriage to a young soldier, Kylie didn't feel like rushing into another relationship.
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City Hall keeps a record of all the births, deaths and marriages in the county.
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Do you think marriage is still important to young people?
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Many people still disapprove of sex before marriage .
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My folks have had a long and happy marriage .
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One in three marriages ends in divorce.
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Over a third of all marriages now end in divorce.
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She already has two children from a previous marriage .
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The marriage took place at Bethel Lutheran church.
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The marriage took place without the bride's parents' consent.
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We had to bring our marriage certificate to prove that we are married.
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What's the secret of a successful marriage ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And entering upon a marriage calls for human decision.
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And she watched from the sidelines as his marriage dissolved and became scandal fodder.
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Did the marriage take place in wartime?
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It is remarkable that we have survived 43 years of marriage in such conflict.
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My first marriage , to Mandy, went wrong because we married too young.
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She imagines that marriage to such a man would offer mental enrichment and the opportunity for good works.
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She said she loved him, they said they loved him, but somehow nobody would fix a date for a marriage .
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Their marriage ended in divorce in 1995.