I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a championship game/match
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He was playing in his first championship game of the season.
a charity match/concert/show etc
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The band appeared at a charity concert for free.
a chess game/match
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Who won the chess game?
a colour matches sth (= it is the same colour )
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The colour in this tin of paint doesn’t match the walls.
a cricket match (= a game of cricket )
a football match/game
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Do you often go to football matches?
a matching colour (= one that is the same as something else )
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I bought some gloves and a scarf in a matching colour.
a match/marriage made in heaven (= a happy and successful marriage )
an exact match (= something that is exactly the same as something else )
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The two DNA samples were an exact match.
clinch a match/championship/victory etc
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A last-minute touchdown clinched the game.
debut match/performance etc
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He scored in his debut match for the club.
fit/match a description (= be like the person in a police description )
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The first man they arrested did not fit the description given by the victim.
match point
match/suit sb's mood
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The terrible weather matched her mood.
return match
safety match
shooting match
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We’re having a big church wedding with bridesmaids, a pageboy – the whole shooting match.
shouting match
slanging match
test match
win a game/match
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It’s supposed to be easier to win your home games.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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They loiter outside the big match with fistfuls of grubby tickets priced at many times their face value.
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He may be a talented shot-maker, but as a big match strategist, he is an acknowledged fool.
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Today the Echo offers you the chance to become one of the big match mascots.
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Worse followed when 10,000 coupons were handed out at a big match at Hull - but 9,999 vanished.
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With only 9,000 tickets allocated to the county, many are faced with the prospect of watching the big match on television.
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But if Liverpool are playing in a big match , we let them stay up until the end.
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A winner for the authentic big match atmosphere every time.
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Then Vivienne joined in and the three of us had a big slanging match .
final
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Waysiders will accompany Moray out of Division Five after only drawing 5-5 in their final match at Glenrothes.
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The final three-day match against the full Leewards side was a slight disappointment.
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The series now stands at one match each, and there is all to play for in the final match in Colombo.
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In the fifth and final match , nobody expected Nestor to pull off more of his Friday night magic.
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He finally drew the cigar into red heat and discarded the final match .
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They are two points behind Portadown and would need to beat City of Derry by a landslide in their final match .
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The final match against the local Lozère Regional Select U21s was won comfortably 54-3.
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All of which means that Shorts require just three points from their final match of the season to clinch the championship.
good
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In his eyes a good match is one for which sponsors cough up cash.
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In fact, it would be a better match than the one Aharon made.
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Not surprisingly, some of the best matches of the week were those involving the top players.
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He hurried out exceedingly pleased with himself and enjoying the prospect of what promised to be a very good wrestling match .
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Now he is known best for writing and talking a good match .
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The cloud thought the wind would be a good match , because he was even stronger than the cloud.
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A good match should fit the original very closely.
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All this granted, it couldn't be a better match .
international
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Where was this important international match played?
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Instinctively, they are good players; what they need is exposure to international matches .
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It concluded that international matches should be the pre-eminent parameter to fixture programming.
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Maybe this was brought on because of fatigue from travelling for international matches in midweek.
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Gimbert is young, this was his first real international match and he didn't know how to handle it.
opening
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She was handed a number to indicate her challenger for the opening match .
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The new pitches at Judges Road have been meticulously prepared over the summer for this weekend's opening match .
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He will need to keep his eye on the ball during an opening match against rookie Peter Ebdon.
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And then he battered his highest score of the tour, hitting 165 in the opening Test match .
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The Teessiders finished fifth in the opening match , but were only 40 points behind winners Leicester Coritanian.
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Lendl's 7-6 6-2 defeat by Omar Camporese follows his opening match loss at last week's Madrid Open.
perfect
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As far as our school was concerned the timing of this initiative was a perfect match with our stage of development.
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Not that it was a perfect match .
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A perfect match my sister used to say.
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Salmon, with its reddish color, is a perfect match , as is ahi tuna.
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His body, as though accustomed to her shape, her rhythm, accommodated itself to hers in perfect match .
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But in a sense Helmsman is the perfect match for him.
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All in all it is a perfect match reel.
return
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In the return match , however, Sheffield thrashed Derby by 34 runs to win handsomely.
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In the return match at the Basin Reserve he took five wickets in the first innings and scored a handy 42.
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Although, to be honest, I'd understand if he turned down the offer of a return match .
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The return match is to be held next week at Leeds United's home ground, Elland Road.
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I could hardly wait for a return match .
whole
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They did not like it, argued against it - argued against the whole match - but she held firm.
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Why not rerun the whole shooting match in every state that was too close to call?
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According to the Telegraph, Man City had only 3 attacks of note in the whole match .
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One old stalwart who stuck with the whole match contracted such a severe cold that he died of exposure.
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It completed the 4-0 sweep and proved to be one of the key moments of the whole match .
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Wetherall did very well against Dowie who was literally a handful the whole match .
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The whole match was very difficult for us.
■ NOUN
championship
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However, the field will again be widened and seating capacity adjusted to 54, 000 for the championship match .
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In those five seasons of triumph, 86 of their 140 championship matches were won and only 20 lost.
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Declan Bonner was not in the Donegal line-up - he was far too busy running the show in a club championship match .
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Meanwhile, Essex and Lancashire were again frustrated by the Manchester weather on the final day of their championship match .
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The World Championship match will not be the first time the two players have contested a world title.
cricket
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One man had taken photographs in the churchyard ... and at that cricket match when Flyte had been scoring.
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Let Lopwitz watch all the cricket matches he wants to!
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Looking down, Branson could see a cricket match in progress in the grounds.
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He is at the cricket match today?
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There his spot was to organize a Tonbridge v Clifton cricket match , news of which hit the national press.
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Tomorrow, which was a Saturday, David was going to a cricket match at Luke's school.
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He walked off and I gazed blankly at the cricket match .
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First a cricket match with a murder at the end of it, then having to face Mama.
cup
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Now the Walker Cup match is over, certain players should think hard before chasing a mirage.
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The distribution of tickets late in the day on Tuesday for the sale of Saturday's Cup match are a good example.
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Extra Time - Can be played if a cup match is drawn.
football
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On Tuesdays we may have a school football match but we usually do not have one.
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A football match with a one-legged goalkeeper and all of the crowd bearing arms was one of many memorable scenes.
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We may have a football match planned but not always.
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Even the kick-off for the Barcelona v Liverpool football match was delayed to accommodate the episode.
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It degenerated into a three-sided football match , with blue, yellow and red-lit supporters all but waving rattles in support of their teams.
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An equal amount of injury might have happened at a football match but that was beside the point.
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However, visitors from outlying areas to attend football matches will contribute substantially to the local economy of the cities mentioned above.
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The others were discussing a battalion football match .
home
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If I remember right, first home matches have been similar for a few years now.
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Last home match , Gloucester ran in 6 tries and 38 points against Bristol.
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Wright will be replaced by Gary Harker for Boro's home match against Huddersfield.
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In a home match against Huddersfield Town, Newcastle were 3-2 down after conceding a questionable penalty to the visitors.
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If it is a home match , though, he will usually get up around two-thirty.
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Starting with next Saturday's home match against Towcestrians they face three successive league matches, with Durham Cup ties in midweek.
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Ironside's one-month loan spell will be completed after the home match against play-off outsiders Gillingham.
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The following week, they play their first league home match , when Bective will provide the opposition.
league
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The team lost nine of their last 11 league matches and have now won only seven out of 49.
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Richardson Report: Gloucester's league match at Saracens was a cliff hanger right until the very last kick of the game.
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In the event he need not have worried as Liverpool won six of their remaining seven league matches and drew the other.
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But Torquay had a League match at Colchester on the same night, with the black star out with a calf injury!
point
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He needed seven match points before beating his opponent.
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Muster angrily smashed his racket on the court after double-faulting on match point and could be fined.
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The best he could do was to save a match point and take the third game.
report
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Could anyone please post a full match report please?
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Does anyone have any team news, or a match report ?
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Inflated language sometimes enlivened a dull game but most match reports were glib and full of clichés.
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Referee Alf Buksh is understood to have complained in his match report of being verbally abused by officials from both teams.
tennis
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During a tennis match , the movements of the foot can gradually loosen laces.
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Enthusiastically squired to polo matches , luncheons, swims, and tennis matches, Margarett did not miss Eddie.
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Well, no, but an interesting verbal tennis match did take place.
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He watched the two student sections like a tennis match , his head swiveling back and forth as the refrain continued.
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Adam recalled the table tennis match .
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Celestine had remained totally silent, her eyes moving as in a tennis match between her professor and Leah.
test
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As a commentator he achieved an international double by being behind the microphone for two Test matches and one rugby international.
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This had been his first Test match on home soil and he was far from satisfied.
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Mine helped to lose a Test match .
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After all, they all had another Test match in four days' time.
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The deal marks the first time a Test match will be shown live, in full, from the sub-continent.
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Mr Major, meanwhile, cancelled a scheduled visit to Manchester to watch the Test match and worked on his speech instead.
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But during the heat of a test match battle, the instantaneous decision by a captain can have an irreversible effect.
■ VERB
light
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She heard Ludovico stumble, curse and then light a match .
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You just sit on the ground, chant, douse yourself with gasoline and light a match .
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Basil also remembers he smoked a pipe which he managed to fill and light with matches , entirely unaided.
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Walter lit a match and lowered his face toward it.
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He had been mischievously lighting matches and throwing them around the room.
lose
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McEnroe, who lost a tough match with Stefano Pescosolido, 7-6 1-6 6-4, said he was losing his mental edge.
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Trinidad lost its first match , falling to El Salvador 3-2.
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On their last trip to these shores, the Aussies lost their opening match embarrassingly to Ian Botham's Worcestershire.
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The Galaxy, who had lost their five previous matches , knotted the game early in the second half.
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But only if he beats Ivanisevic today and Courier loses his match with Chang.
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Mine helped to lose a Test match .
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Marsden was bowled early on the third morning for 16 so losing the match by an overwhelming innings and 50 runs.
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Trace Coley, who'd lost a match and a lover in as many minutes, burst into tears.
meet
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But they met their match in Ryde School from the Isle of Wight, who pipped them for victory.
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He has met his match , and probably better.
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It was downstairs in the hotel's night-bar that the unfortunate Simonsen met her undignified match .
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Two years ago the 41year-old received a similar amount when his former teams of Liverpool and Arsenal met for a testimonial match .
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It was low tide at St Catherine's Dock, and the Thames was about to meet its match .
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It seemed on this occasion she had met her match .
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But in political lobbyist Palmer Stoat he meets his match .
miss
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He was skipper of the relegated Robins side last year and missed just one match .
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It could mean him missing the next match as a result.
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Influence Dewi Morris is back at scrum-half after missing the middle match of the divisional season.
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What's more, I got back home late, and missed most of the match on Sportsnight.
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After being ruled out of Leeds' championship run-in last season, he's now set to miss Saturday's match against Wimbledon.
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Winger John Hendrie misses the match with a calf injury.
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Les Smith - who at 77 never misses a match - is one of many left bitterly disappointed.
play
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We played the match and won, and just before saying goodbye I said I'd see him at Birkdale.
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After playing in a match during a snowstorm he caught pneumonia which led to fatal tuberculosis.
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But if Liverpool are playing in a big match , we let them stay up until the end.
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Children playing with matches killed 37 people in one year.
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They'd played with matches in their room, lighting a fire in the garden of their dolls' house.
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He could play his first match for Lazio on Sunday September 13 at home to Fiorentina.
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He did not leave Hampshire until 1936, during which lengthy spell he played 700 matches - a record - for them.
shout
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Precipitating the shouting match at Lindale was a 25-cent increase in the $ 1 admission fee.
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Then the shouting matches would commence.
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Once, amid a furious shouting match reported by Clinton biographer David Maraniss, then-Gov.
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Not only did the two men hate each other personally, but their disputes often degenerated into shouting matches at mission meetings.
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Board meetings deteriorated into black-white shouting matches .
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It ended in a shouting match , with Milken being escorted from the building by a security guard.
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International observers and journalists crowded around each minor scuffle and shouting match .
strike
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He took one of the smaller candles and, striking a match , held it to the wick.
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She was so cold that she struck a match for warmth.
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It's like striking a match , Meg.
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Eulah Mae saw her sharply strike a match against a square match box to light a cigarette over a fresh beer.
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She had so obviously struck a match with some one else.
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She struck a match and blew it out.
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Some one struck a match at the open door of the landing bedroom.
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She saw these things when she struck her matches that she was supposed to sell.
watch
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I got back to Durham today after staying on in Leeds to watch the Villa match !
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Let Lopwitz watch all the cricket matches he wants to!
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It will cost me a packet to travel down to watch the rescheduled match !
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Sometimes after I watch a match , I feel sick because of it.
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She wished she hadn't watched the match .
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You just press a button and watch the match .
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My father and two brothers had been watching the match on television.
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With only 9,000 tickets allocated to the county, many are faced with the prospect of watching the big match on television.
win
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They could; and should have won this match and the players have to look to themselves.
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Deep Blue made history by winning the match with two victories against one loss and three draws.
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Herefordshire were the team to catch in the Eastern Division by winning their first two matches - just.
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Even then they battled until the service run was broken and Cotswold took the set 15-12 to win the match 3-0.
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In this way, short-handed teams still have a chance to win and the match is therefore meaningful.
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We went out there and knew we were going to win our matches and crush them.
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Wycombe will draw level on points with Colchester if they win their Conference match at Farnborough this afternoon.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(match sb) stride for stride
benefit concert/performance/match
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Browne played a benefit concert at Zellerbach Hall on the UC-Berkeley campus Thursday night.
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He later played a benefit concert in aid of the protest.
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Last August, after leaving a rehearsal for the benefit performance, Hicks witnessed a stabbing and wound up being the suspect.
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Most significant for a county player was the opportunity to have a benefit match.
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This group also organized musicians to play benefit concerts for the campaign.
evenly matched
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The teams seem pretty evenly matched, so it's hard to say who will win.
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As a result, the two parties ended up being fairly evenly matched.
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Flow is experienced when people perceive opportunities for action being evenly matched by their capabilities.
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Importance of national security considerations Public opinion polls published on the eve of the election showed the two main parties evenly matched.
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In the early stage the sides were evenly matched effectively cancelling each other out.
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Leeds scored through Wallace with 7 minutes to go in an evenly matched game.
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Outside, the sexes are more evenly matched, I admit.
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Sometimes there will be two candidates who are fairly evenly matched and there may be uncertainty about which should be appointed.
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When fighting does occur - as when two evenly matched individuals meet - it seldom results in injury.
grudge fight/match
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None of the combatants in this grunge grudge match are over 20.
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Six other players were sin-binned as Britain beat New Zealand 3-2 in a grudge match.
meet your match
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I slowly started to realize I had met my match in Nigel.
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It seems Connoly's finally met her political match.
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She's a good player but she'll meet her match when she plays Sara.
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All that changes when she meets her match in Doug.
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And, in any case, I think she realised she had met her match.
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But in political lobbyist Palmer Stoat he meets his match.
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But they met their match in Ryde School from the Isle of Wight, who pipped them for victory.
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He has met his match, and probably better.
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It seemed on this occasion she had met her match.
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It was low tide at St Catherine's Dock, and the Thames was about to meet its match.
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Well, this time you've met your match, Adam Burns.
mix and match
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You can mix and match this home-office furniture to fit your needs.
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But juicy fruit-punch shades like orange and lime to be mixed and matched are equally hot.
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Chairman Charles Dolan moves close to realizing his longtime vision of mixing and matching sporting events on different levels of television.
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Creative maps have been drawn, land swaps considered, municipal powers mixed and matched.
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Female speaker Voice over It's mix and match at Chipping Norton, where they're staging their first ever mixed fours.
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Lenders may mix and match Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac requirements.
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The mix and match formula ensures that shareholders are treated on an equal basis.
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The units may be mixed and matched with topics already being delivered in early stages to provide a scientific context.
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This is what allows you to adjust the colours and mix and match them for your new palette.
seal a victory/win/match
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Andy Cole's first international goal sealed victory in injury time.
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He then supplied the finishing touch to a 32-pass move to seal victory.
strike a match
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Eulah Mae saw her sharply strike a match against a square match box to light a cigarette over a fresh beer.
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Four Negro GIs went apeshit striking matches on sleek bottoms.
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He took one of the smaller candles and, striking a match, held it to the wick.
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It's like striking a match, Meg.
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She struck a match and blew it out.
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She had so obviously struck a match with some one else.
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She was so cold that she struck a match for warmth.
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Some one struck a match at the open door of the landing bedroom.
the whole shooting match
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Why not rerun the whole shooting match in every state that was too close to call?
throw a match/game/fight
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This year, he is throwing a game party at his home in Austin.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A cricket match was in progress on the school sports field.
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a tennis match
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Are you going to the match tomorrow?
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Chess experts expected Kadparov to win the next match .
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Doctors failed to find a match for the bone marrow transplant.
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Eric scored the only goal in the match against Albany.
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If we win the next three matches, we could still go through to the semi-final.
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Keith sprained his wrist in a wrestling match .
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Stores will mix paints so you can get a good match for your curtains.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A fairytale match it is - makes one wish one were young again!
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Do I fear for her chances of making another match ?
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Female speaker Don't play with matches and don't play near fires.
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From what I saw of the match he played well.
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Furthermore, Gregor Townsend, the 19-year-old fly-half, had an excellent match to confirm he is a player of rich potential.
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Sir Thomas now welcomes the match that he first feared.
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The other goal in that match is quite amusing as well when he chips the goalie.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
closely
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Use a foundation that closely matches your skintone, topped with transparent loose powder to set, then add your pinks.
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I would try to guide a child to work with texts in which the pictures more closely match the words.
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Table 3.5 shows that sterling and non-sterling liabilities are quite closely matched by corresponding assets.
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These are the environments that, in terms at least of summer climates, most closely match milder parts of the northern tundra.
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The first is that the data model more closely matches some real-world entities.
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The stored characters that most closely match the input are identified as the most likely interpretation of that input.
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These firms are closely matched in terms of industry, size, and complexity.
evenly
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Outside, the sexes are more evenly matched , I admit.
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As a result, the two parties ended up being fairly evenly matched .
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In the early stage the sides were evenly matched effectively cancelling each other out.
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Flow is experienced when people perceive opportunities for action being evenly matched by their capabilities.
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Even if the cars were evenly matched , he knew he couldn't out-drive the police.
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Teams were evenly matched with experienced players and beginners carefully balanced.
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Teams were evenly matched and all games proved to be very close affairs with penalties deciding many of them.
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Edward felt that he and the malign force were fairly evenly matched .
exactly
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This almost exactly matches up with the periodic variation present in the Mercury-transit data.
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At this extreme duration the researchers noticed that the respirations of man and algae were not exactly matched .
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This light is tuned so that the photon energy exactly matches the desired atomic transition energy.
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He was dressed in a scrupulously clean but threadbare dhoti and he wore a pale blue turban which exactly matched his eyes.
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The structure will therefore match exactly what is achieved by the use of ordinary predicative position.
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Tailor your list of achievements to match exactly the requirements of your future position, and leave everything else off.
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When the losses incurred on the call are exactly matched by the profits received from the shares.
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We get a new body, mind structure and destiny which exactly matches our mental impressions, desires and tendencies.
never
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The delay has led to fears that the leukaemia unit will never match the fund raisers' hopes.
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Two remakes never matched this original, which was named best foreign film by the New York Film Critics.
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Whatever he does, his degree of energy will never match mine.
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He came for several weeks just to watch Halsey, who never matched his performance of that first evening.
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What a shame it must one day become reality - it will never match these views for charm and elegance.
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Socata's engineers first looked at the Mooney 301 left, concluding it could never match such performance.
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Ferry never matches his college promise.
only
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Some long utterances may contain phoneme sequences which only match the intended words.
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The majesty of life in the White House is matched only by its isolation.
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Blanche, whose enjoyment in wearing elegant clothes was matched only by resentment at their ludicrous cost, suddenly felt over-dressed.
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These days, the media loves dads whose high-profile positions are matched only by their high-profile paternity.
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My relief on gaining the stance was matched only by the strength of my desire to finish the route.
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Lowercase letters will match either lowercase or uppercase characters in the document, but upper-case characters will only match their exact counterparts.
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Wilson's disappointment was matched only by her horror at Ellen's suggestion - never would she return to East Retford.
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The dizzy rapidity of changes in the ministry was matched only by the accelerating deficit.
perfectly
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Crossover distortion is actually due to the fact that the two halves of the circuit are not perfectly matched .
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Computerised records ensure that colours are perfectly matched on return visits.
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Everything matched perfectly , even her pink beads.
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Their brown colouration perfectly matches the decaying leaves around them, their blotches and lines disrupt their outlines.
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Whether stylish laminate, natural wood or high-gloss finish, the Miele Specialist can tailor a kitchen to perfectly match your requirements.
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The simplest method of all, where body concealment is concerned, is to match perfectly the colour of the background.
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Her gorgeously drowsy voice is perfectly matched to shimmering, twilight atmospherics.
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The girl friendly school Unfortunately the pattern of option choice and attitude differences is not perfectly matched within each school.
quite
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We found that they matched quite closely.
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Reality did not quite match the myth.
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As with so much of what he envisaged, the reality did not quite match the vision.
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No dam after Hoover has ever quite matched its grace and glorious detail.
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Somehow a little business in Deptford didn't quite match up with his own ideas of McCloy's origins.
up
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Where there are gaps in matching up goals to resources, what can you do about it?
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We seem to know where our basic talents match up .
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He wanted her every day and no girl he had met since had remotely matched up to her.
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This line should match up well with the offensive lines on the 49ers' championship teams.
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This almost exactly matches up with the periodic variation present in the Mercury-transit data.
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What he says or does is not as important as the extent to which he matches up to an ideal.
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In a Clinton / Dole match up , Dole is ahead 49 percent to 40 percent.
■ NOUN
attempt
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But soon he had to slacken, for Nora made no attempt to match his pace.
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The Democratic National Committee, in its failed attempt to match Republican fund raising, went a little bananas.
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Initially these were organized rather haphazardly with little serious attempt to match contributions to prospective claims on the funds.
description
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Any word could follow any other word, just so long as it matched the phonetic input description .
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Only one matched the description of some one they arrested.
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The parodic elements of Gay's pastorals are matched by close descriptions and a genuine sympathy for rural life.
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The designs on the robes also matched the descriptions of those robes in which the Saint had been enveloped in 1104.
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A car matching police descriptions had been found in Jedforest rugby club car park.
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Imagine how difficult it would be to videotape the pictures to match that description .
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Those that matched Darby's description had been borrowed from the newsroom and the wording of the death threat typed on them.
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Scrambling turned to roped up exploration as the frustrating hunt for anything remotely matching the guidebook description ensued.
expectations
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It is also the intention to match the expectations of the parties and their legal advisers against eventual outcome.
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If possible, you should test-market this road map to make sure it matches your expectations . 3.
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Failure to match performance to expectations has developed into something of a national neurosis.
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But even those that match expectations get no free ride.
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I was really disappointed with it I suppose, it just didn't match up to my expectations .
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Or will they watch the market drift lower until the overall yield matches their new expectations ?
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She undertook work experience with a tour operator to find out whether the reality matched her expectations .
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Yet this dilemma is generated nationally, not locally, by the failure to match resources and expectations .
increase
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The amount of cover is index linked to match increases in building costs.
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The rise in student numbers in polytechnics has not been matched by an increase in teaching staff.
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But both companies' increase in money sales merely matched the six-fold increase in the retail prices index over the 20 years.
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The decrease in the percentage classed as good is matched by an increase in the percentage defined as fairly good.
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But the increase in incomes was not matched by a similar increase in the cash becoming available to farmers.
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However, the growth has not been matched by an increase in lessees' sophistication.
need
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It merely seems to stimulate the body to produce more and more to match the daily need .
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Post-secondary institutions have a better track record of designing programs that match labor-market needs and place their graduates in jobs.
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Constant vigilance to match appropriate services to needs , assessed along tight guidelines, is one way to avoid temptation.
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In my view, it is a programme of legislation which matches the needs of the time.
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The Bill matches the needs of the times, and I commend it to the House.
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Colleges could match the needs of the Catholic school system either in numbers or range of subjects.
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First he looks for the one that he likes or that matches his needs , then he sees if it fits.
pattern
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It also pays to try and match the pattern of the border at the joint.
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In many cases a number of possible matches will be found as parts of other words will match the input pattern .
performance
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This level of ability is matched by the performance of the brakes.
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If the economy falters in 1996, corporate earnings will be hard-pressed to match the performance of the past few years.
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Socata's engineers first looked at the Mooney 301 left, concluding it could never match such performance .
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He came for several weeks just to watch Halsey, who never matched his performance of that first evening.
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He has given it continuity and confidence, matching perspiration with performance .
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Instead, they try simply to match the performance of a market benchmark, such as the S &038; P 500.
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Failure to match performance to expectations has developed into something of a national neurosis.
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The evening's proceedings struggle to match up to Jesse's performance .
word
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Thus, the lexical access component may have to match each word against every possible alignment of the input with the lexicon.
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I would try to guide a child to work with texts in which the pictures more closely match the words .
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Equally, it is important that the creditor nations match words with deeds.
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People have learned what to say, but their actions do not match their words .
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Some long utterances may contain phoneme sequences which only match the intended words .
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Clearly if Henry's protests were to be taken seriously he would have to match his words with deeds.
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The result can be that line endings may not match or letter and word spacing are different.
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Firstly there is the whole word approach, whereby shape and pattern recognition procedures attempt to match directly with complete words.
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fail
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But they expressed disappointment that sales decisions failed to match the Government's rhetoric.
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The Democratic National Committee, in its failed attempt to match Republican fund raising, went a little bananas.
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But it has failed to match the risks.
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An island-driving algorithm will explore those paths that ultimately fail to match the beginning and ending of the utterance.
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But these side-effects can become intolerable if political freedom fails to match economic liberty.
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Sadourny at 34 was a rare gem of invention and sleek skill, but other veterans failed to match him.
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We do make a great deal of fuss when children fail to match our expectations particularly when standards of behaviour are concerned.
hope
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Naturally, the young cricketers of the present could never hope to match the deeds of the past.
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He hopes to apply for matching funds by next week.
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She bought from pictures, hoping things would match .
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She didn't want some tarted-up part-time hooker spoiling it with tales about him she couldn't possibly hope to match .
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He can not hope to match the advances which the likes of Waite, McCarthy and Terry Anderson could command.
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Sixth formers in the midst of A-Level examinations hope their grades match university requirements or job expectations.
mix
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You have to offer customised make-up, which is mixed or matched to the client's personal needs.
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So plan ahead. Mix and match your favorite combo, and enjoy.
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The units may be mixed and matched with topics already being delivered in early stages to provide a scientific context.
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Chairman Charles Dolan moves close to realizing his longtime vision of mixing and matching sporting events on different levels of television.
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Creative maps have been drawn, land swaps considered, municipal powers mixed and matched .
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Lenders may mix and match Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac requirements.
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Using the 15 double-sided plates and crayons, they can mix and match different body parts to make a thousand fantastic characters.
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But juicy fruit-punch shades like orange and lime to be mixed and matched are equally hot.
try
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When not trying to match his 15-hour days, they regale each other with endless stories about his idiosyncrasies and absent-mindedness.
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I remembered lessons from my geography classes and tried to match them with what I was seeing below.
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They are invited to sense sounds played in another room, or try to match patterned cards drawn elsewhere.
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I tried to match up couples with complementary hankies and key-chains.
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Some try to match the closure programme to meet the Staff needs.
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Under that, they pay the double-occupancy rate, and let the line try to match them with a roommate.
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She liked to look at the visitors as they arrived and try to match them with the patients.
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Instead, they try simply to match the performance of a market benchmark, such as the S &038; P 500.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(match sb) stride for stride
benefit concert/performance/match
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Browne played a benefit concert at Zellerbach Hall on the UC-Berkeley campus Thursday night.
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He later played a benefit concert in aid of the protest.
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Last August, after leaving a rehearsal for the benefit performance, Hicks witnessed a stabbing and wound up being the suspect.
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Most significant for a county player was the opportunity to have a benefit match.
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This group also organized musicians to play benefit concerts for the campaign.
evenly matched
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The teams seem pretty evenly matched, so it's hard to say who will win.
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As a result, the two parties ended up being fairly evenly matched.
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Flow is experienced when people perceive opportunities for action being evenly matched by their capabilities.
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Importance of national security considerations Public opinion polls published on the eve of the election showed the two main parties evenly matched.
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In the early stage the sides were evenly matched effectively cancelling each other out.
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Leeds scored through Wallace with 7 minutes to go in an evenly matched game.
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Outside, the sexes are more evenly matched, I admit.
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Sometimes there will be two candidates who are fairly evenly matched and there may be uncertainty about which should be appointed.
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When fighting does occur - as when two evenly matched individuals meet - it seldom results in injury.
grudge fight/match
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None of the combatants in this grunge grudge match are over 20.
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Six other players were sin-binned as Britain beat New Zealand 3-2 in a grudge match.
the whole shooting match
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Why not rerun the whole shooting match in every state that was too close to call?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Match the words on the left with the pictures on the right.
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Anderson will receive a bonus that matches his base salary.
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Baltimore's economic performance has not matched that of comparable cities.
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Double check that you have an invoice to match every check.
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For every outfit, Stephanie seemed to have a handbag and shoes to match .
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Forming alliances with other countries was the only way to match the power of the enemy.
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GMI tries to match students with companies that will hire them.
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I'm looking for a rug to match my bedroom curtains.
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In the lounge everything matched; the curtains, the sofa, the carpet and the cushions.
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Nothing we have ever seen matches this moment.
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She was wearing black high-heeled shoes that matched her skirt and jacket.
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Teresa got everything to match for the baby's room.
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The only cars which could match the acceleration of the Ferraris were the Shelby Cobras and Aston Martins.
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Their performance in government didn't quite match their election promises.
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This lipstick matches your blouse exactly.
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Tom's description and mine matched.
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Wages won't go up to match prices.
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You can't go out wearing socks that don't match .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But its sequences did not match those of herpes strains the researchers have been able to check so far.
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He wore motor-cyclist's leathers underneath, black and shiny, with calf-length boots to match .
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Her eyes tuned in, but her mind could not match them.
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If he loves her, such feelings are changeable; an impulse to match Harriet with disappointed Frank is quickly put by.
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Otherwise, Exe Directory is a way of matching the supply and demand of research ideas.
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The town was getting a woozy, criminal feeling that rather matched his own.
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We shall have to match his fighting spirit, and not let our fear overwhelm us before the first blow is struck.