I. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an outside toilet (= one that is outside a house, not in it )
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The house was small, with no hot water and an outside toilet.
an outside/a remote chance (= a very small chance )
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He still has an outside chance of winning the championship.
an outside/independent consultant (= one who does not belong to your organization )
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An educational programme was planned by outside consultants.
be born outside marriage (= be born when your parents are not married )
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Four in ten children are born outside marriage.
be within/outside sb’s remit
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Marketing is outside our remit.
cold out/outside
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It’s too cold out – I’m staying at home.
fall outside the scope of sth (= not be included in it )
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His later exploits in Persia fall outside the scope of this book.
in/outside sb’s price range (= used when saying that someone can/cannot afford to pay for something )
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Unfortunately, there was nothing in our price range.
outside our control
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Flight delays do occur, for reasons that are outside our control .
outside/external influence (= happening from outside a country or a situation )
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They must make their own decisions, free from external influence.
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The US remains the biggest outside influence on the country.
outside/within the domain of sth/sb
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This problem is outside the domain of medical science.
sex before/outside marriage
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Her religious beliefs prevented sex before marriage.
the inside/middle/outside lane
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Use the outside lane for overtaking only.
the outside/outer edge
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The airport is located on the outer edge of town.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the outside world
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Hong Kong constitutes a critical economic gateway between the mainland and the outside world .
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In essential schizophrenia the characteristic pattern is of withdrawal from the impacts of experience in the outside world .
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It gives us everything from our connection to the outside world to our artistic and intellectual systems.
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It was from this room that he wrote his first and only communications with the outside world .
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Prisoners' confinement and lack of contact with the outside world compound their problems.
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She is not afraid of the outside world , but recognizes its beauty, and therein lies a danger.
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Such pets will be fully animated robots, in constant communication with the outside world in order to serve you.
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What if the outside world was unaware of what was happening at Heymouth?
think outside the box
within/outside the purview of sb/sth
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Mr. Davis felt constrained to accept that such a case might be within the purview of the legislation.
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S.U. was to be encouraged, eliminating chains of assessment and decision making which had lain within the purview of the superintendent.
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Salary negotiations are normally not within the purview of the president.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Outside , joggers in shorts and t-shirts ran by.
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Could I speak with you outside in the hall for just a minute?
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It's cold outside .
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It's such a nice day. Why don't you play outside ?
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Lonnie, take the dog outside .
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There were a couple of guards standing outside .
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When I woke up it was still dark outside .
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
agency
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They can be primary or special schools, mixed groups of teaching and outside agency staff.
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Then I discovered Columbia had h4ed an outside agency to make these calls on their behalf.
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A large electronic price board displays current in-house information in the Exchange, which is relayed to outside agencies .
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They are introduced to the day centre and attend regular training sessions organised by the project and other outside agencies .
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Support for the residents would be provided either by social services staff or workers from an outside agency .
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She documents the considerable difficulties involved for researchers in approaching bereaved families and countering the disapproval of many outside agencies .
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They reject help from outside agencies which they see as interfering and so often show a poor response to therapy and intervention.
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Education Management: Issues of management, organization and links with outside agencies .
air
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They no longer rely on outside air to fill the bladder, but have special glands for manufacturing gas.
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The refrigerant carries the heat to the outside coil where the fan cools it, blowing the heat into the outside air .
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The building will need to be carefully leak-proofed against the outside air , and customers will have to enter by an air-lock.
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When temperatures approach freezing, water vapor from the outside air will condense on the outdoor coil and freeze.
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The outside air temperature was above minimum, but I switched on the engine anti-ice anyway, just to be sure.
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They also use an air supply system to bring in outside air for combustion, rather than interior air.
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His cheek, shaved, ready for the outside air , presses mine, which is still warm and undifferentiated.
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She was about to try something else when the outside air pressure indicator above her visor started to move.
body
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Somewhat the same difficulty arises when outside bodies wish to deal with the civil service as such.
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It is important that this representation on outside bodies is fully maintained in the interest of the people whom the councillor represents.
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The students were drawn from 88 trade unions, and some outside bodies .
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In most cases allowances to members apply when the councillor attends such outside bodies .
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Pearce has found that his involvement in so many outside bodies has helped to broaden his knowledge and outlook.
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Staff appropriate to Florey's aims had to be recruited and grants to pay them obtained from outside bodies .
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The University encourages links with industry and other outside bodies .
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The quality of the finished products should at least match the standards of comparable outside bodies .
chance
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There is also an outside chance Cadbury may itself be a bid target.
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Some shrewd Iowa pols also see an outside chance for former Gov.
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Norman pitched his into the heart of the green and had an outside chance for birdie.
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Here are two more from the downs with an outside chance and one from Wendover in Buckinghamshire.
consultant
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It is likely that outside consultants will be employed by the Health and Safety Executive.
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Invite a professional writer into your group, whether a company technical or marketing writer or an outside consultant .
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It is management that have to address themselves to the solutions, either by using internal resources or by engaging outside consultants .
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The hospital has hired an outside consultant to review staffing levels, she said, but has made no changes.
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Frequently the systems planning team also includes an outside consultant .
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He said he had not cleared my involvement, or the involvement of any other outside consultant , with his boss.
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The team is being supported by from outside consultants Andersen Consulting.
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This computerisation involves both Survey staff and outside consultants appointed to establish the large digitised archive.
contractor
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The disadvantages include the possible unreliability of outside contractors and fewer opportunities to integrate all aspects of provision into a corporate whole.
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The positions of those employees were transferred to outside contractors , saving millions of dollars.
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We do not want this work to be carried out by outside contractors .
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For instance, the telephones at 3Com are answered by people who work for an outside contractor .
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A popular means of saving costs is to reduce the work-force and hire outside contractors to perform the same duties.
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Some local authorities continued to engage outside contractors but others that had done so reverted to in-house provision.
door
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Promptly at quarter to six there was a knock on the outside door .
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As McMenamy pushed the cart to the outside door of the bank, Fish followed, scanning the parking lot.
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Double glaze windows, add lobbies to outside doors .
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It may not be as strong as the main outside door .
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They could be banging on the outside doors right now, and he wouldn't hear a thing.
edge
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Use morning and/or night and dot a pinhead amount underneath and around the outside edge .
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Most decks are supported on the outside edge by a beam that is notched into the post tops.
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Start at the ridge at the base of the toes and work to outside edge of the heel.
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The legspinner beat the outside edge many a time in the ongoing psychological thriller of the summer.
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The second turning starts at the outside edge turning the whole field including the double row towards the hedgerow.
help
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Another was that generous outside help would strengthen, not weaken, Mr Yeltsin's position at home.
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But no outside help materialized and after a few days he prudently took refuge across the border in Milan.
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Can you do it yourself or do you need outside help ?
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But when necessity dictated, the patrol was adept in suppressing rebellion without outside help .
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Even so, some analysts question whether the company can finance a new model costing, perhaps, £250 million without outside help .
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Well, Bernard also decided to get some outside help .
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If you suffer from a phobia, you would probably do best to seek outside help from a professional.
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Jane managed to help me and bring up two children without outside help.
influence
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The Dalmatians from Ragusa represented the most important of the outside influences which penetrated into the heart of the Balkans.
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The outside influences have no bearing on what you can do for your basketball team....
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Her geographical position, like Athens', was accessible to outside influences and radical thinking.
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Investigators have concluded that outside influence drove numerous personnel decisions and resulted in slanted broadcasts.
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The development of an idea is a tortuous process involving many outside influences .
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But society should not expect those outside influences to do the job a parent should, nor should a parent expect that.
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The affable manager said no, it was simply a style of cooking open to outside influences , like California cuisine.
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As a result of these outside influences , employees have even less trust in their own plant management. 4.
interest
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It is desperately important to have an outside interest if you're in politics.
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His primary outside interest is golf, though he disparages his 15 handicap.
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Now Martin is looking forward to spending his retirement enjoying outside interests which will include travelling, walking and watching cricket.
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This would force campaigns to pay less attention to outside interests and more to the people at home.
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His outside interests were numerous and varied.
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Making a mental note not to let outside interests interfere with her work, she began to inject the puppies.
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Some of his many outside interests include reading, theatre and debating.
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Although it started off as a school project, the spider catcher has attracted a lot of outside interest .
interference
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The skill becomes increasingly resistant to stress influences and can be continued despite outside interference .
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They are expected suddenly to adapt to the modern world after a century of colonial domination and outside interference .
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I remember resenting even this slender evidence of outside interference .
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Again it's cheap, and offers the least resistance to outside interference .
investor
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Yet most countries now have rules against insider dealing, not least because it can put outside investors off securities markets.
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The business community rallied to him for fear that Duke's election would scare off tourism and outside investors .
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Lehman has already raised the possibility of a capital injection by issuing new shares to outside investors .
lane
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Voice over On the M40, our police driver struggles to keep up with a car in the outside lane .
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Allan was allowed in as a guest in the 200 metres, but was given the outside lane .
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She was waiting in the outside lane of a busy road in St Helens to turn right when the accident happened.
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In Sunday's final we were drawn in the outside lane .
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At worst they see the future as two motorway lanes blocked with slow lorries with just the outside lane for the car driver.
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In the final, I again had a good outside lane , which was important on this very tight 164 metres track.
observer
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As an outside observer drawn into the Statementing process by the professionals involved, I had a neutral but not disinterested role.
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Its history has come down to us only through oral traditions, archaeological research and the accounts of occasional outside observers .
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But it is not only the system's legitimacy with outside observers and the general public which is important.
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Although Bowman was nominal Captain on this phase of the mission, no outside observer could have deduced the fact.
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Two such distinct behaviours can at times be observed, either by the participant himself or by an outside observer .
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But outside observers have been sharply scaling back their estimates.
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At the Centre Mondial, it looks to the outside observer as if the problem is reversed.
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To the outside observer it offers every conceivable pattern of life, from the most archaic to the most modern and urban.
pressure
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Yet its value can change with frightening speed, depending on such unpredictable outside pressures as interest rates and recession.
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Furthermore, the very notion of self-determination implies the need to exclude any outside pressure on a country.
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Moreover, club directors were tolerably insulated from outside pressure .
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I put enough pressure on myself without having outside pressures as well.
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Most people think of stress as the outside pressures and problems that impinge upon them.
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It may be that you are happy with your partner but there are outside pressures to contend with.
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But even these demonstrated that the dynamics of change were largely generated by outside pressures and not by self-starting entrepreneurship.
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However, the local Kurds and outside pressure groups claim that the Ilisu dam would inundate much of the area including Hasankeyf.
source
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We can only know the truth about ourselves from an outside source .
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Once the dictionary was available, society gained in cohesion because anyone could refer to it as an outside source for comparison.
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Local authorities have always relied upon outside sources for many of the goods and services they require.
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An outside source gives part credit to a writer named John Hart, who worked for Abbott and Costello.
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In conducting this review the University has taken into account the feasibility of raising the necessary funding from outside sources .
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Local districts began turning to outside sources .
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It has never turned to outside sources of capital.
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An obvious route to reducing dependence on outside sources is to become more self-sufficient.
wall
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The wall should be a load-bearing wall preferably an outside wall.
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This raises questions / concerns about installing new kitchen cabinets that will have their own back resting against the outside wall .
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The first phase of the current project, now under way, is to clean and consolidate the outside walls .
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Hornaday winds up sliding into the outside wall .
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The old gallery will be found on the first floor of the house; previously on an outside wall facing East.
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For the outside walls , he used cinder-block masonry, with a patented concrete stucco sprayed on.
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It can leave the Tower if driven out in this way, but it must stay close to the outside walls .
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However, the newer systems can be installed anywhere you can get a flue to the outside wall .
work
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Psychosocial factors at work and outside work also predicted rates of sickness absence.
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Possibly he supplemented his income with some part-time outside work .
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Within and outside work people find their lives shaped by this relationship which creates much of the inequality in society.
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It's just that I'd like to be doing more outside work .
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Orkney, with its short summer season when almost all the outside work was tackled, preferred the winter period for training.
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What interests do you have outside work ?
world
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The whole place seemed designed to produce, not goods for the outside world , but misery for the inmates.
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The elements of the outside world that might have once detained her by now have been relegated to the past.
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I hope so, because residential homes are places where people become cut off from family life and the outside world .
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Democracy of the shared class-room experience is the cradle of democracy in the outside world .
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A particularly important role for the father is to act as an intermediary with the outside world .
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The only beneficial peculiarity of environment was the sense of detachment from the outside world .
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He is protected against the outside world .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Outside observers believe that the election was conducted fairly.
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an outside toilet
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Both sides say they are opposed to any outside interference in the conflict.
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The apartment is reached by an outside stairway.
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The government uses outside contractors for some of the work.
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There were seven applicants for the position, including three outside candidates.
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We plan to hire an outside design team to produce our brochures.
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When my dad was growing up, they only had an outside toilet.
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You reach the apartment by going up an outside staircase at the back of the building.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In most cases allowances to members apply when the councillor attends such outside bodies.
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Investigators have concluded that outside influence drove numerous personnel decisions and resulted in slanted broadcasts.
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Steve Cooper was standing in an outside doorway of the building he owns in downtown Olympia.
III. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In some countries it is only permissible to pass on the outside .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Election officials check the signatures on the outside of the envelope against a master file of signatures.
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From the outside , the glass wall allows a lighted view of all three levels of the arena.
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It would also involve such measures as not purchasing a bag with a mobile phone holder prominently attached to the outside .
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Write a number on the outside of each box.