I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
borrow a phrase (= use what someone else has said )
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To borrow a phrase , if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
prepositional phrase
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
famous
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Neville Chamberlain's famous phrase says it all.
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I had not then heard the famous phrase .
favourite
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Never has his favourite phrase sounded so dismally precise: My, my, ain't the world strange.
key
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Robert, who found he was sweating, started to try to recall some key phrases from Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi.
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Each one was slightly different - but key phrases were repeated.
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The implication can be seen by thinking of the instruction part and the key phrase or word.
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The key factor, phrase or words bold Use a different colour or symbol to identify each part of your question.
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Include in the card any figures, quotations, names, key phrases or other material which you wish to state exactly.
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Intended to develop recognition and efficient production of key functional phrases , improve listening ability, and expand basic business vocabulary.
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The key factor, phrase or word is more important than the main topic.
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You could even underline key phrases or words in your speech notes.
prepositional
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This network defines acceptable noun phrases as consisting of the categories determiner, optional adjective string, noun and optional prepositional phrases.
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In fact, a large part of the syntactic complexity of the sentence comes from the use of prepositional phrases .
short
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Most of their examples show the activation of a single word or a short phrase .
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Paul had mostly very short phrases left in him, but there was one long exclamation he could still put together.
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The choreographer can make an overall rhythm fur a long phrase of music and within it shorter phrases.
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This should be extended to include short colloquial phrases .
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These are marked by three of the dancers whilst another performs a solo to a short phrase .
■ NOUN
book
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She had read the words, widen your scope, in a phrase book .
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He drew out the phrase book and flicked through the pages.
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He placed the phrase book on the table beside the coffee.
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My Swahili, such as it is, comes from a Berlitz tape and a phrase book .
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With only his home-made phrase book to help him, Twoflower was trying to explain the mysteries of inn-sewer-ants to Broadman.
noun
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Church augmented his tagging program to locate noun phrases .
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The probability of each part of speech starting and ending a noun phrase was then determined from this data.
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Impressive results were obtained, with only 5 out of 243 noun phrase brackets being omitted.
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Similarly, the noun phrase object can be questioned just like any other.
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In both cases, we have a minor constituent of the category noun phrase without any special marking.
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This network defines acceptable noun phrases as consisting of the categories determiner, optional adjective string, noun and optional prepositional phrases.
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By his analysis almost two thirds of these noun phrase types are represented only once.
verb
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Subcategorization for noun phrases and verb phrases of all types. iii.
■ VERB
borrow
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Well, to borrow another phrase from film, that was then and this is now.
coin
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He was going to have fun if it killed him, to coin a phrase .
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I had to find out the hard way - to coin a phrase .
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In a school gymnasium full of caucus-goers in Des Moines, Dole inadvertently coined the best phrase of this perplexing campaign.
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But Michael Foot was a formidable orator and on occasions he could coin a phrase which captured the mood perfectly.
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The corner is awkward, much more awkward than was recognised when, in 1965, Professor Robinson coined the phrase .
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The problems faced by dual-career families have been well researched since the Rapoports coined the phrase in 1969.
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It is an odd sidelight, to coin a phrase , on road accidents.
contain
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Does the text contain idiomatic phrases and if so, with what kind of dialect or register are these idioms associated?
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The prosurvival engram is not a manic; it can and does contain at times manic phrases .
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It contained words and phrases likely to cause offence-this time to blacks.
hear
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He had just remembered where he'd heard the phrase with which Crepi had rung off.
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You select an Esperanto phrase , then hear the phrase as spoken by a native speaker.
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She could hear him repeating phrases to himself through the thin wall between her room and his.
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We hear those phrases all the time.
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How many times had she heard the phrase that she had just used so easily.
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I had not then heard the famous phrase .
include
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Development of this method to cope with other types of phrases would require a larger training set that included these phrase types.
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The page includes a phrase generator for making generic gossip, and two extensive bits on George Stephanopoulos.
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This should be extended to include short colloquial phrases .
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The experimental law will include a phrase to counter the excuse offered by many bowlers when their actions are questioned.
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That is to say, it includes homophones and homophonic phrases .
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When the nouns are used with numerals the appropriate classifier word must be included in the phrase .
mean
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In natural conversation the smooth flow and blending of sounds mean that whole phrases make a phonetic whole.
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Linney and Ruffalo's relationship gives meaning to the phrase emotional intelligence.
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What did she mean by the phrase ?
repeat
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The resource person may correct a serious error and repeat the phrase again but with no trace of disapproval or reproach.
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His scripts are full of little gems, repeated phrases , unexplained back story and odd rhythms.
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He repeated the words and phrases while his father looked proudly on.
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As Primo unpacks and carries stacks of books and clothes into the bedroom he repeats aloud the phrases from the program.
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That indeed is the principle of the lullaby, whose slow rhythm and repeated words and phrases promote a state of drowsiness.
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He always repeats certain phrases over and over.
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But don't just repeat the phrase hundreds of times in a tiny point size.
use
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Our door is painted a bright green colour with numerous messages using inappropriate language and phrases covering its exterior.
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Maybe the child who had first heard that story would use that phrase , but not the scientist talking to me now.
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The drafter should also take care to use defined words and phrases consistently.
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It seems so natural to use this phrase that we too easily forget its implications.
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I said, using one of his phrases .
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We used the same phrase once.
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I was simply using that phrase as a synonym for a short, single event.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a few choice words/phrases
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Meyer had a few choice words for federal bureaucrats after an error listed him as deceased.
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And he also had a few choice words about my means of protecting myself.
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Or has rapper Puff been on the blower from New York with a few choice words?
for want of a better word/phrase etc
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Just horses and ploughs and, for want of a better word, peasants.
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Now, hands are, well, handed for want of a better word.
idiomatic expression/phrase
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Does the text contain idiomatic phrases and if so, with what kind of dialect or register are these idioms associated?
to coin a phrase
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Miller was trying to help his career and, to coin a phrase, snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
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He was going to have fun if it killed him, to coin a phrase.
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I had to find out the hard way - to coin a phrase.
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It is an odd sidelight, to coin a phrase, on road accidents.
turn a phrase
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To turn a phrase in the midst of my instability.
turn of phrase
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For most of us, however, these are all metaphors, turns of phrase.
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He had a happy turn of phrase.
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He was a slow-talking Mississippian with a penchant for the rustic turn of phrase and a gift for storytelling.
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His brilliant turns of phrase, his dark, brooding eyes tempted me.
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It demands complicated puns, archaic semantic associations, and other comic turns of phrase.
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It was his habitual turn of phrase.
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Kant was not noted for his turn of phrase-his style was usually a plodding one.
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Sorry, an unfortunate turn of phrase, but maybe not so inaccurate.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"A bottle of whisky' is a noun phrase , and "really rather foolishly' is an adverb phrase.
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Are you familiar with the phrase "the old boy network'?
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Darwin gave the world the phrase , "survival of the fittest."
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His campaign is, to use one of his favourite phrases, 'as dead as Elvis'.
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I'm trying to learn some French phrases for my trip to Paris.
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I was criticized for using the phrase 'gay lifestyles'.
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The phrase 'a big black dog' is the subject of the sentence.
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The battle of El Alamein was, in Churchill's phrase , "the end of the beginning'.
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The head of the bank described the salary cuts as 'peanuts', a turn of phrase which angered many bank workers.
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There are some useful words and phrases at the end of each chapter in the Student's Book.
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Who first coined the phrase "Iron Curtain'?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After each phrase she slurped saliva in through her teeth.
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Like title fights, the Super Bowl would need a catchy name or phrase that symbolizes the magnitude of the cosmic event.
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Motifs Composers have sometimes used a recurring motif or melodic phrase to establish the atmosphere of a piece.
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Similarly there is also a probability distribution over the ordering of items in a phrase .
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The Interpreter features excellent quality, digitised speech and over 13,000 phrases.
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Very often a student creates his first phrase and then finds himself at a loss.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
question
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How could I phrase the question so that I could distinguish between free choice and manipulative coercion?
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He had to admit it was an ingenious way to phrase the question to a young audience.
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What the camera did was help you phrase questions .
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The child must phrase questions with care, compare and record answers, sift evidence and deduce the identity of the criminal.
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It's important to phrase the question correctly.
way
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The way they are phrased may make it hard for us to understand their origin.
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He had to admit it was an ingenious way to phrase the question to a young audience.
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The way she phrased it transformed the statement into a question.
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Most physicists would object to this way of phrasing things.
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Any message varies according to the way it is phrased .
word
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The course involves very little writing, except for words and phrases the students must scribble in the blanks on the pages.
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It matters little what value that particular philosophy or religion attaches to the use of the word , phrase or prayer.
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This enables them to slip over the difficult words or phrases , while following the central plot.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a few choice words/phrases
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Meyer had a few choice words for federal bureaucrats after an error listed him as deceased.
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And he also had a few choice words about my means of protecting myself.
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Or has rapper Puff been on the blower from New York with a few choice words?
for want of a better word/phrase etc
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Just horses and ploughs and, for want of a better word, peasants.
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Now, hands are, well, handed for want of a better word.
idiomatic expression/phrase
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Does the text contain idiomatic phrases and if so, with what kind of dialect or register are these idioms associated?
turn of phrase
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For most of us, however, these are all metaphors, turns of phrase.
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He had a happy turn of phrase.
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He was a slow-talking Mississippian with a penchant for the rustic turn of phrase and a gift for storytelling.
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His brilliant turns of phrase, his dark, brooding eyes tempted me.
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It demands complicated puns, archaic semantic associations, and other comic turns of phrase.
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It was his habitual turn of phrase.
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Kant was not noted for his turn of phrase-his style was usually a plodding one.
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Sorry, an unfortunate turn of phrase, but maybe not so inaccurate.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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How was the question phrased?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But something was missing, politeness maybe. although the inquiries were phrased nicely, the interest seemed like condescension.
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However, I would argue that it begs the question to phrase it in such a way.
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It could equally be phrased in a way that fits in more with the way of eminence.
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The phrasing is ample and idiomatic, the sincerity is heartbreaking.
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The ways various denyers, bouncers, et al., can be phrased are always beyond count.
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What makes you successful is that you can phrase things in a way that is inspirational, that makes coalitions possible.
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Whether or not they can sing, all these players have a tremendous understanding of how to phrase .