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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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avoid
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On major and minor issues you should give fair answers to queries about the job to avoid misunderstandings and resentment later on.
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This helps avoid a lot of misunderstandings down the shared road of life.
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However, there is no practical way in which it is possible to avoid all such misunderstandings and conflict.
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Take care to avoid needless misunderstandings .
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This will help to avoid any misunderstandings or arguments as to when, how and what will be settled by contra.
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So she wrote to the box number and suggested a date for a preliminary viewing to avoid disappointment or misunderstandings .
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Any restrictions on our ability to act should be clearly set out to avoid misunderstandings .
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To avoid misunderstanding , even disappointment, it needs some careful qualification.
based
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I was attending elsewhere to an immigration problem which was based on a misunderstanding between the Home Office and the Foreign Office.
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But such incidents are wildly exceptional, and based on fanatical misunderstandings of what fiction does or seeks to do.
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The remarks about top-up by local offices was also based on a misunderstanding .
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All this is based on a fundamental misunderstanding about the social life of cats.
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So this account seems to be based on a misunderstanding of what Labov's work has been about.
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I shall deal with the second recommendation first, because it is based upon a complete misunderstanding .
cause
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Here are some reasons: Mishearing can cause misunderstandings which may be embarrassing or even funny but certainly not reassuring.
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This difference of opinion was not caused by cultural misunderstanding but by social conflict.
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This can cause misunderstanding and conflict when in later life they talk to one another.
clear
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You seem to have cleared this whole misunderstanding up quite satisfactorily.
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The best partners have a trust that clears up all misunderstandings .
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They are there to help you and will want to clear away any misunderstanding .
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Cultural exchange can do much to clear up misunderstandings .
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I did succeed a bit in keeping some degree of order, asking clarifying questions, and clearing up misunderstandings .
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He even met with the Anti-Defamation League to try and clear the air of misunderstandings .
lead
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It's an important issue, and has led to some serious misunderstandings about the teaching of drama.
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This can lead to misunderstanding , mutual frustration, anger, quarrelling and perhaps aggression.
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The regulations state specifically that such investigations shall be held in private, and this sometimes leads to misunderstanding .
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This can lead to considerable misunderstanding between members of different societies as the following example provided by Otto Klineberg shows.
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This can lead to misunderstandings and conclusions which can be misleading.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Misunderstandings can be caused by cultural differences between workers.
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Cultural differences between people from different countries can sometimes lead to misunderstandings.
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Listening carefully reduces misunderstandings.
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There seems to have been a misunderstanding . I didn't order steak.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He even met with the Anti-Defamation League to try and clear the air of misunderstandings.
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It is no wonder that misunderstandings arose, but they should not have affected our professional relationship.
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On another front, Farrakhan met last week with 10 Phoenix area business and community leaders to try to erase misunderstandings.
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There has been a misunderstanding of the Government's plans from the point of view of social security benefits.
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This helps avoid a lot of misunderstandings down the shared road of life.