noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a career path (= a way of making a career )
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There’s no fixed career path for becoming an actor.
a cliff path
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I followed the cliff path down to the bay.
a coast path
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There were wonderful sea views from the coast path.
a cycle path/track (= path for cycles in a park, wood etc, or beside a road )
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The forest is full of beautiful cycle paths.
a garden path
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Elaine walked up the garden path and into the house.
a steep path/road
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She stood at the top of the steep path leading down to the beach.
an obstacle in the way/path
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There were still a number of obstacles in the way of an agreement.
bridle path
coastal path
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the coastal path
critical path
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Costs can be calculated once the critical path has been established.
cycle path
flight path
maze of streets/paths/tunnels etc
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the maze of narrow streets
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I was led through a maze of corridors.
narrow street/road/path etc
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a long narrow road
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the narrow passage between the cottage and the house
the flight path (= the route taken by an aircraft )
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They lived directly underneath a busy flight path.
well-trodden path/road/ground etc
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Andrew was on his well-trodden path to conquering another willing lady.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
coastal
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Volunteers will be constructing steps along a coastal path .
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The coastal path , Peddars Way, and Thetford Forest provide many interesting walks.
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Walks abound, along the coastal and cliff paths and the river, and through local woods.
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The coastal path alone is sixty-five miles long.
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Easily Accessible: Dartmoor, with its woods, tors and ancient sites, and the long coastal path provide numerous walks.
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The work includes constructing steps along the coastal path and several days pitching on the nearby Glen River path.
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In winter we look for work on the more difficult lowland sites such as coastal paths .
critical
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The critical path through the network is the longest sequence of activities from the beginning of the network through to the end.
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In drawing up networks, estimating times and identifying critical paths , a number of rules and conventions have to be applied.
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Not dissimilar from the system known as critical path analysis, the approach envisaged should show a time-scale allocation against each task.
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The thing reportedly couldn't find its critical paths and gave off false signals that everything was hunky-dory when it wasn't.
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The planning, however, is done on the Gantt chart with the critical path clearly shown by colour or shading.
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The optimum linking of the various stages is called the critical path .
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They can also be utilised in programming work including network analysis and critical path .
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Sophisticated software already exists at moderate cost to effectively undertake critical path analyses.
different
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The turbulence will have carried them over different paths .
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Take a different path in every time.
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Without Marlowe, Shakespeare s career might have taken a different path .
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Information from the planetary probes indicates that all the terrestrial planets have undergone differentiation, but they have followed different evolutionary paths .
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The Elves of the old frontier province had taken a far different path from the High Elves.
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Diet gurus offer their followers many different paths to lightness, though each believes that theirs is the only true way.
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They had marched along different paths .
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But each man follows a very different path .
narrow
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They moved away from the house complex down one of the narrower paths .
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Through well-tended gardens beyond her patio, narrow stone paths diverge.
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She stepped out on to a narrow cement path .
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Keep him on the narrow path .
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The jeep reached the River Orne and we turned off the road on to a narrow path just wide enough for the jeep.
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He walks along a narrow path to a ridge where wild boar, hyenas and the golden mole rat occasionally roam.
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Morrison's aerial photographs show narrow paths going straight across miles of rugged countryside.
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In this new world, any departure from the narrowest fiscal path is hazardous to the health of the offending country.
right
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I went the wrong way when I was twenty-one, and have never found the right path again.
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Game participants were supposed to draw personality Cards and Subject Cards to aid them in searching out the right career path .
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Set him on the right path with a good education.
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As is often the case, the attack from both sides most likely means that Netanyahu is on the right path .
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On the other hand, the soft parts of most dinosaurs took the right evolutionary path .
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They want to help them to find the right path , to each his own.
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We stuff the damp ropes into our sacks and walk back to the car, this time on the right path .
steep
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Ruth went out of the house and ran down the steep moorland path all the way to Ilkley.
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I didn't want to have to negotiate the steep north-side paths in darkness.
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We drove up a steep gravel path , and soon beheld the well, Tobernalt.
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Cross the footbridge and follow the steep zig-zag path up to the wall and the ladder stile.
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A steep path cut down from the quarry edge to the meadow.
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A very steep paths leads down from the summit.
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It's a steep , zigzag path up a mountainside.
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On the steep path to the fortress the fires still burned.
■ NOUN
career
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Though Kent has established a career path , it does not exclude a move back to service provision.
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I draw on people from other regions in the company whose career paths I am not likely to cross any time soon.
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Some will have a clear career path , other will just be seeking education.
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Game participants were supposed to draw personality Cards and Subject Cards to aid them in searching out the right career path .
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The Banks promised them a career path which never materialised.
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Born in 1934, his career path was notable for its craggy leaps and reverses.
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He said that involvement in Association activities should not interfere with promotional prospects or a proper career path .
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And it limited bumping to one career path and based it primarily on performance ratings, not seniority.
flight
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Living near an airport which is proposing to add an extra flight path - over your house.
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It soars the length of the awning, wings flapping once, twice to propel it along an unerring flight path .
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Meadow pipits, commonest of upland birds, negotiated undulating flight paths over white tufts of cotton grass.
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As the gaggle crossed the next village on our flight path , many ships called in hits.
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No way was I going out with a Famlio ship in my flight path .
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She would then try to adjust her flight path to the fist by altering direction into the wind.
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That way it may get out of the bat's flight path before it enters the detection range.
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We must be under a flight path .
garden
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Laying bricks or paviors on a bed of sand is probably the easiest way of making a garden path .
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Elaine walked up the garden path and he followed her.
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The concrete garden path has been bricked over and vines adorn the white-painted exterior.
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And so they merely shook hands, and she walked off down the garden path to her door.
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Up the garden path and a frisson of unease: there is no house, but a vista of a majestic lake.
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But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path .
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Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed.
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That is the garden path down which Bill and Ricky will come.
■ VERB
beat
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The students - and their professors - beat a path to his door.
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Most of the sites the company has in mind to visit are far off any beaten path .
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It has become such an attraction that local tour operators are beating a path to its door.
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Soon it is not going to be so easy to get off the beaten path .
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The company is now just waiting for the world to beat a well-worn path to its door.
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To say that Crenshaw is off the beaten path is an understatement.
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They were beating a clear path .
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I called on the Birth Grandmother to help me beat a path through the honyaek to the windows.
block
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He then walked out of the shop, despite the efforts of staff to block his path .
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Investigators said this included having some one fall in front of the candidate to block his path .
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The person or creature is blocking your path , so walk up and speak with it.
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When such costs are taken seriously, the resulting fear effectively blocks the path to minimizing and blaming.
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There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path .
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I could see the muzzle flashes in the tree line fifty yards away, which blocked our take-off path .
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She was moving slowly along the edge of the pavement when a car door swung open in front of her, blocking her path .
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Edwards had a dream in which many of his friends and relatives were blocking the path down the triple-jump runway.
choose
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He just kept his eyes carefully on the ground as he chose his path .
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Clearly, different regions are choosing different paths .
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Do not place the blame anywhere but on yourself, because you alone have chosen that path .
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One of his eight siblings, Michael, chose a different path .
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Rather, learn from your actions and then choose the path which will lead you to inner peace and self-respect.
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Finally, don't forget to tell us something about yourself and why you have chosen this path .
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She said I'd chosen the path to failure.
continue
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But in the long run, it has proved impossible to continue down this path .
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George wanted to make sure that after contact with the ball his clubhead continued on a path away from his body.
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The works become more abstract as a visitor continues along the path toward the Birch Grove and Gold Garden.
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At the road go through two more kissing gates and continue on the path along the park wall.
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I shook my head no and continued down the path .
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So the largely hereditary, geriatric, nominated, meritocratic House of Lords continues on its useful path .
cross
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This was just as well, for I saw only just in time a hen crossing my path in the most leisurely manner.
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Occasionally a big tanker or a bulk gas-carrier, like a bloated grain silo floating on its side, crossed our path .
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I fear for the world and for that misguided man who crossed my path in such a bruising way yesterday and Friday.
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I had crossed paths with Brian for the previous decade as we played solo gigs around the Valley.
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The trail of the branch crossed the path and led under the trees.
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Suddenly we crossed the path of one of the rainclouds, and the hard dirt road turned to glue.
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It was then believed that if a cat crossed your path and did you no harm, you had been incredibly lucky.
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These towers of loops never cease to amuse us because inevitably the messages circulating along them cross their own paths .
find
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Hypotheses are ranked by decreasing shortfall, the goal being to find the path with the smallest shortfall covering the whole utterance.
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Trapped between inadequate beliefs and unwarranted apprehensions, they find the path to high performance blocked.
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Rather he guides the student to likely sources and tries to teach him how to find paths to other sources.
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They want to help them to find the right path , to each his own.
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I went the wrong way when I was twenty-one, and have never found the right path again.
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Their dead they buried at the summit in order that their souls find the path to heaven more easily.
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If the costs on the paths are non-decreasing with length then this algorithm is guaranteed to find the cheapest path first.
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I find the path that leads under the green boughs into its depths.
follow
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Smell the rich, damp forest air. Follow the path as it winds its way through the forest.
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Our party can never follow the path of protectionism.
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We followed the well-marked paths across the ice.
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I have believed in carving a straight path to my objective and following that path.
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Cross the footbridge and follow the steep zig-zag path up to the wall and the ladder stile.
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It was pitch dark, but a man could follow the path by the pale line of sky between the branches.
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The giraffes were following gravel paths , were pausing to munch sugar pears from treetops.
lead
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Alexander took her hand and led her to the door that led out on to the path that wound down towards the beach.
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Hamilton came back and led us down the path .
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The reader has to be led up the garden path .
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And frustration could lead you down dangerous paths .
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They may even lead us down a path that destroys us.
retrace
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Meredith's finger, running down the calendar, retraced its path and lingered over Sunday.
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Turning, she began to retrace her path towards the house.
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I parked at Ala Wai School, retracing the path from the playground through the park toward the canal.
smooth
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Much thought is required to smooth the path if this scheme hopes to meet with success.
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Hadn't there always been some one to make decisions for her, smooth her path ?
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Vaughan accompanied Elizabeth Mowbray and her daughter to London and, on arrival, smoothed their path ably and tactfully.
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Oiling the wheels, smoothing the path - very necessary components which pay dividends.
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Thus the Act goes a long way in smoothing the path of the prosecutor.
take
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When you reach some steps turn left and take the path to the beach.
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For a different look at the mission, take the path up a small hill nearby.
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From Watersmeet take the path signed Hillsford Bridge and head south on the east of the river.
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In addition to berrying in the bog, I now also took the path up on to Mount Tumbledown again.
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One group took the same path as the sea slugs did in more recent times and lost their shells altogether.
tread
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Where before we saw only vaguely, now we begin to see things more clearly as we tread the esoteric path .
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Radical activism was no hindrance to Chidley's treading the path to prosperity during the 1650s.
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From those thousands who have trodden the same paths in earlier times, the energy is inexhaustible.
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Two men stumbled along ahead of the wheels treading out a safe path across the seething grass.
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Since then he has trod the well-worn path from radical to conservative.
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But that, after all, is to tread a path that many trod.
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After all, he is treading a very delicate path .
walk
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As Troy walked along the path , he noticed it was very muddy, and covered with plants.
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Had walked the path leading to a real other house.
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Elaine walked up the garden path and he followed her.
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As she walked along the path toward Talfinger Hall her friends fell into place around her.
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The horrific attack happened in Middlesbrough as the victim was walking along an unlit path .
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We bought into it, walking those tree-lined paths , leaving them to trip lightly over the greensward.
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I met the old lady as I was walking down a steep path out of the village.
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But at lunch he often walks a two-mile path around the Otis campus with co-workers.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
beat a path to sb's door
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People are going to beat a path from all over to play these golf courses.
beat a path/track
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I called on the Birth Grandmother to help me beat a path through the honyaek to the windows.
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It has become such an attraction that local tour operators are beating a path to its door.
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Most of the sites the company has in mind to visit are far off any beaten path.
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Sights sight that's off the beaten track or when time is include Stratford-upon-Avon, Hadrian's Wall, limited.
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Soon it is not going to be so easy to get off the beaten path.
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The students - and their professors - beat a path to his door.
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They are off the beaten track.
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To say that Crenshaw is off the beaten path is an understatement.
block sb's way/path/exit/escape etc
lead sb up the garden path
off the beaten track/path
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Appenzell really is off the beaten track.
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Away from the Algarve, it's not hard to get off the beaten track.
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Soon it is not going to be so easy to get off the beaten path.
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They are off the beaten track.
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To say that Crenshaw is off the beaten path is an understatement.
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Unusual interests, off the beaten track experiences should be of interest.
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We kept off the beaten track, away from those traders who fixed high prices, for Shallot knew where to go.
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Yet for most visitors from overseas, Windisch with its treasure is definitely off the beaten track.
retrace your steps/path/route etc
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As he retraced his steps of the past day avoiding streets and roads, he stayed alert to the sounds around him.
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Ellsworth, who had gone ahead, retraced his steps to shepherd the two through.
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Frankie forgot the eggs and hurriedly retraced his steps.
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He kept walking; there was little point in making them suspicious by turning round and retracing his steps.
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It's an easy walk which can be extended as far as you wish without having to retrace your steps.
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It is best to retrace your steps for the return journey.
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There are several possible routes to choose - try retracing your steps as far as Suileag.
sb's paths cross
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Our paths did not cross again until 1941.
smooth the way/path for sth
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The company said it has assigned more than 2, 000 employees to help smooth the way for competition.
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Well, you could break all the moulds by smoothing the way for Mary O'Rourke to come through as your successor.
stick to the path/road etc
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For now she stuck to the road which took her to the right, towards the sea.
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So please stick to the path at this site and hopefully nothing else will need to be done.
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They clung to the towns, venturing out only by day, their big battalions sticking to the roads.
the line/path of least resistance
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If you take the line of least resistance or fail to be consistent, you will actually make things worse.
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Political will in such situations is a low explosive, blasting along the lines of least resistance .
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Pretty soon, the water, which follows the path of least resistance , has its own plan for your driveway.
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The priesthood built itself and if we help it along we are only following the line of least resistance .
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Usually he just takes the line of least resistance .
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When it constructs its tunnel underground the rabbit, naturally enough, takes the line of least resistance .
the primrose path
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She had walked out of the corner-shop and set off on the primrose path, which led rapidly downhill.
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That really is the primrose path.
tread a path
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But that, after all, is to tread a path that many trod.
well-trodden path/track/route etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a path through the woods
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A narrow path took us down to the river.
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He lead me down a path to a farmhouse.
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Mrs Smith was singing as she came up the garden path .
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Students had worn a path across the courtyard.
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the Earth's path around the sun
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The tornado destroyed everything in its path .
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Workers at the plant found their path was blocked by protesters.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And so, as she started down the path , she was alone.
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But historic paths make a difference.
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He turned slightly left, following the same path out as the last two times.
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Her path failed to cross with Vitor's, yet throughout the afternoon Ashley remained constantly aware of him.
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Louise walked ahead of him up the path carrying the pie in a wicker basket.
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She led him stealthily up the path Rodomonte had taken to the summit.
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Suddenly from above us a twenty-foot-long heavy log burst into view, careening down the path like a bobsled.
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There are many alternative paths available to follow and many of these paths will turn out to be dead ends.