I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a painful process
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It was just part of the painful process of growing up.
a review process
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We cannot comment until the review process is over.
a transition process/a process of transition
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He will deal with any problems that might arise during the transition process.
a transition process/a process of transition
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He will deal with any problems that might arise during the transition process.
a word processing program (= one that you use for writing documents )
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All word processing programs can check your spelling.
batch processing
central processing unit
creative process
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the creative process of writing a poem
data processing (= using computers to store and organize information )
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They’ve got a very efficient system for data processing.
data processing
democratic process
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the role of the media in the democratic process
developmental process
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Higher education is a continuing developmental process .
due process
laborious process/task/business etc
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Collecting the raw materials proved a long and laborious task.
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the laborious business of drying the crops
parallel processing
process an application (= officially deal with it )
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Your application for British citizenship will be processed by the Immigration Service.
process data (= store and organize it using computers )
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Newer computers can process data much more quickly.
process of osmosis
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He seems to absorb information through a process of osmosis .
processed cheese (= with substances added to preserve it )
production costs/facilities/processes etc
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high-tech production methods
reverse a process
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We cannot reverse the ageing process.
straightforward matter/task/process etc
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For someone who can’t read, shopping is by no means a straightforward matter.
the appeal process
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The appeal process could take as long as three years.
the assessment procedure/process
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Parents need to feel part of the assessment procedure.
the consultation process/period
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an eight-week consultation process
the disarmament process
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The disarmament process seems to have come to a halt.
the peace process
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Britain is still committed to the peace process.
the process of decay
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The natural processes of decay gradually destroys archaeological sites.
the selection process/procedure
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Before the selection process begins, candidates need to be clear about what the job entails.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
creative
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Epic poetry, like sculpture, is an Apolline art, and all such art involves a quite different creative process .
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And secondly, that the creative process is not that of the confessional.
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All these images were twisted and changed and combined by the creative process of Coleridge's mind into the superb poem.
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It is the creative process that gives each its special character.
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It is a creative and individual process reflecting the relationship between yourself and the patient.
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A multi-dimensional approach has the potential to discover and support creative processes in the local community.
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The creative process does not lie in the act of dreaming, but in the communication of a dream.
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His creative processes were working all the time, even with technique.
democratic
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There will be just enough time for some semblance of the democratic process within the party to operate.
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What is relevant is what the whole thing is doing to the democratic process .
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However, on Aug. 12 Milongo asserted that he was satisfied with the progress of the democratic process .
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Little has really changed despite lip service paid to the democratic process .
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To improve the effectiveness of democratic processes .
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In the coming millennium, Dahl predicted, new telecommunications technology will exert a powerful influence for change on the democratic process .
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Best value's framework incorporates the potential for achieving quality service provision underlined by fair, democratic processes .
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But many still feel that the prisoners must be released first for a truly democratic process to take place on the island.
due
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Such total contempt for due process of law demands serious sanctions.
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Tenured teachers have a property interest in continued employment and therefore are always entitled to due process protections prior to dismissal.
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The first was due process in procedure, and the general limitation of official discretion within the criminal justice system.
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But that liberty is not guaranteed absolutely against deprivation, only against deprivation without due process of law.
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One rationale emphasises the connection between procedural due process and the substantive justice of the final outcome.
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Neither Till nor Parker benefited from that due process thing.
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Anger at what has been perpetrated and an insistence on due process are the essential combination in dealing with war crimes.
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Although most school districts comply with Loudermill, there are cases where courts still find due process violations.
lengthy
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This is hardly surprising as establishing new artists is a costly and lengthy process .
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For some, the feeling that they were making progress was all that kept them going through the painful and lengthy process .
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It is a lengthy and wearing process .
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The new system was developed after a lengthy review process , including consultation with industry leaders and other experts.
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Kikkoman Soy Sauce takes its pure and subtle flavour from the lengthy natural fermentation process .
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The purchase process for a new house, car, cooker or video recorder may have been a quite lengthy process.
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I find this a lengthy process , even Nanette Newman's bubbles don't do the job first time.
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Michelle knows all too well how lengthy the legal process can be and she's relieved her case is at last being heard.
mental
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One is a primary teacher who was interested in the mental processes of children tackling simple addition.
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Also, Piaget did infer the existence of internal mental processes .
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More important, the mental processes being studied are still only crudely defined.
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William James viewed mental processes as a stream, or river.
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I am not, for example, denying that there occur mental processes .
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Pros: A great way to temporarily impair mental processes without having to take medication.
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Doing long division is a mental process and so is making a joke.
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It is a mental process which is so much part of ourselves that it may almost be called instinctive.
natural
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Agricultural subsidies and a thoughtless disregard for natural processes are washing away the commonwealth of land, its soils and wildlife.
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It is not a deliberate, self-conscious activity, but a natural process that takes place unconsciously.
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Sometimes the natural processes of erosion will etch a perfect specimen.
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Such abstraction is essential to human understanding, and it has opened up comprehension of natural processes in an amazing way.
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Many factors can contribute to thinning hair, including stress, diet, illness and even pregnancy as well as the natural ageing process .
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As the natural brewing process has been halted, the beer can not generate its own carbon dioxide.
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If this book helps in the selection of remedies to assist the natural healing process then it will have achieved its purpose.
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Eventually it will be dispersed by a combination of the natural processes of evaporation and marine bacterial breakdown.
political
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It came about not for economic reasons but as a consequence of complex political processes .
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Individuals become participants in the political process , but they do not give up their orientations as subjects or as parochials.
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The consequences of the emancipation were to be even more remarkable than the political process from which the statutes emerged.
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We are literally starving the political process .
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The realist state-centric model may seem least appropriate to analysis of contemporary political processes .
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But public doubts about congressional integrity generally, and of the political process as a whole, remain high.
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It is the role people play in political processes , not the job they officially hold, that matters in our analysis.
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The 1992 political process demonstrated the impact of this dramatic episode on the electoral politics.
slow
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This is a slow process normally taking an hour per unit of alcohol.
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To the extent that proletarianization is occurring, it may be a long, slow process .
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Annealing was the heating and slow cooling process by which the resulting metal was toughened.
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Taylor signed for $ 700,000, then started what would become a very slow nurturing process .
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The slowest processes come at the top of the hierarchy, and provide the environment for faster processes.
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It is important to remember, though, that medical research is an agonizingly slow process .
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The slow modification process is quite different.
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Even 20 or 30 years ago, finding the fish was a slow process .
social
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There is a danger that a concentration on spatial manifestation masks the realities of social processes , that space itself is fetishised.
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This identity and continuity impinged itself upon the social process .
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Civil society is constituted by the social relationships and processes outside paid employment and not immediately affected by the state.
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The constructionist accounts also stress the central role of language and communication in the social process of knowledge.
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From these data it will be possible to examine the social structure and processes that occur within a particular industry.
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The three areas can be described as ones of political - religious mediation occurring at different levels of social process .
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I am arguing that the process of creating abstractions at the level or shared consciousness - knowledge - is a social process.
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Sportsmen are not born: they are made and they are made through social processes .
whole
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As we have already said, the whole process is an enormous game of chance.
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Some drives come with software that simplifies the whole process .
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It is made from fermented soya beans and the whole process of producing the sauce should take at least a year.
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The whole process of massage involves yielding to another's care.
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This brings us back to the recovery phase and the whole process starts over again.
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Or without extending the whole process so that it takes nearly a year to change anything?
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From the small gallery above the operating theatre the whole process was obscure, if sickeningly bloody, to the watching Cowley.
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The whole process was one of the most tiring and yet satisfying things I have ever done in my life.
■ NOUN
consultation
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And that the Department could make better use of the great store of experience within the teaching profession during the consultation process .
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This Secretary of State does not feel the need to go through such a consultation process .
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Finally, the consultation process induced us to broaden our proposed provision quite considerably.
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As part of its general consultation process , Greater Glasgow health board consulted in respect of its acute services strategy for Glasgow.
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This was an attempt to gather the views of people who are often underrepresented in formal consultation processes .
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There is a statutory procedure laid down for the consultation process .
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We accepted the Secretary of State's invitation to engage in the consultation process which he initiated.
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This means time for the consultation process will be short.
learning
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In accrediting prior learning , the focus is on the outcomes or achievements of learning and not on the learning process itself.
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So the formal stage is an essential step in the learning process .
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Adjusting to her style of leadership must have been a learning process for not only the maintenance man.
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It's part of the whole learning process .
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All teachers are managers, for they have to manage the learning process .
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The implications of the National Curriculum on our determination to enliven the learning process are not wholly discouraging.
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The exercises outlined here should be regarded as steps in your learning process .
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But for everyone, rehabilitation is at least partly a learning process .
peace
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According to diplomatic sources, Baker warned that failure to address the charges could derail the peace process .
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They can play no part in any inclusive dialogue which can create a genuine peace process .
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However, it is ingenuous to suppose that peace process brokers do not have their strategic interests first and foremost in mind.
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Divisions over the direction of the Middle East peace process led to the collapse of the coalition government in March 1990.
production
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Thus production processes require careful planning and controlling. 2.
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Today industry knows better, and workers are more involved in making decisions about the production processes .
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Upper level managers need no longer be geographically close to production processes .
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They meet on call to present and analyze recommended improvements of the interaction of the teams or of specific production processes .
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Inventions - the discovery of new information about the production process - are a particular example of this general theme.
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The intent of the project is to identify those parameters which most affect the production process .
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The decision to stop the line is with the employee, as is the decision to review the production process .
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They differ mainly in the season of the year when they are made and in the details of the production process .
thought
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I think you may have a fundamental flaw in your thought processes .
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Might not some essential aspects of quantum theory also be playing crucial roles in the physics that underlies our thought processes ?
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Foveal and peripheral awareness Our senses, and our thought processes too, function through centres of energy.
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Many people insist that most of their political knowledge is based on their own rational thought processes .
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In higher doses it can happen. Thought processes become distorted and you hallucinate.
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Just to motivate the thought processes , let me suggest a possible set of goals.
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By which is meant that they have developed their ability to focus both senses and mind upon a thought process .
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Think about your normal thought processes .
■ VERB
involve
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He was very much involved in the process of publication as this account makes clear: It was a spartan regime.
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The present government is involved in a process of national reconciliation and is attempting to address the effects of decades of apartheid.
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Conveyancing and a Solicitor's Services Numerous people are involved in the moving process .
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And he started getting involved in the school process .
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This is not to suggest that historians should not be involved in the process .
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Some structures that are predominantly involved in the input process are political parties, interest groups, and the media of communication.
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Every transition needs to involve a mourning process .
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Structures predominantly involved in this process would include bureaucracies and courts.
reverse
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Local geologists hope the latest earthquake may help to reverse the process .
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Only then, after it was too late to reverse the process , did I feel remorse.
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Instead of growing up, I had, as it were, grown down, and thus reversed a natural biological process .
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Television and its congeners have begun to reverse the process that started with the invention of the printing press.
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We can't reverse the process , but we might be able to check it.
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On the plus side, weight loss and regular exercise have been shown to reverse this process .
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After some education they turn these patterns into print, or reverse the process , turning print into acoustic events.
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By keeping a close and constant watch on himself, Quinn was gradually able to reverse the process .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
reverse order/situation/process etc
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At the bottom of the pile, in reverse order of its importance, was the letter from the bishop.
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Cosmologists have supposed that the universe might go into reverse and run through with all its physical laws in reverse order.
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In fact we have just suggested the reverse order of development.
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The reverse process was used to install the launcher on pedestals at the pad.
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The reverse process, therefore, is to consider what we owe to other people.
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To take these points in reverse order, the initiation of the student into the rational life should occur in two directions.
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Ultimately you are involved in a reverse process of what the historian H underwent while writing the book.
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We discuss in reverse order these three ways that languages can have words that share sound and meaning.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an advanced industrial process
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The process of applying to a college is often very time-consuming.
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the aging process
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the human reproductive process
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it is, in a sense, a one-way process .
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Clinton even turned snafus in the Northern Ireland peace process into potential political advantage.
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He has taken out patents for the process and for the chips.
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One process improvement technique, for example, failed to sustain interest.
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The bipolar adversary process often involves paying little attention to these wider interests.
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The debate will continue over whether this process involves gain or loss.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
application
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All university applications have to be processed through this system.
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It takes an average of nine months to get a green card application processed , officials said.
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Thousands of applications are already being processed .
claim
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Just to say that claim had been processed at his end, had all relevant documentation, etc.
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In San Francisco, new Social Security claims are being processed and benefit checks are being mailed on schedule.
data
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All the input data is then processed to produce the nitrogen application maps.
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This notice orders a data user to cease processing personal data immediately.
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One of the advantages of list processing is that data can be processed sequentially without the records themselves being stored sequentially.
information
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It is simply more information than they can process .
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General Discussion Reaction time increases as a function of the amount of information required to be processed in the brain.
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Energy and information are processed by systems and sub-systems.
order
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Customers placing orders and employees processing orders required accurate and informative product descriptions, price quotes, and ordering information.
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Resistance merely takes and processes orders here, through the mail and via a slickly designed Web site.
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When he got back to his computer he had trouble processing the order .
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The new system processes customer orders and communications across more than 135 Schwab offices.
request
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It takes several weeks to process a request before it goes to the mayor.
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The truth could be that they are dragging their heels in processing these requests which makes it appear that way.
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Most of the time, though, he processed requests to collect radio signals from targeted coordinates.
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Data structure containing package and ancestors is empty An unexpected internal error has occurred while processing your request .
system
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Cable shopping channels have installed high-speed, large-capacity computerized systems to process millions of viewers' telephone credit card orders.
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The new system processes customer orders and communications across more than 135 Schwab offices.
transaction
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The opportunity was taken to get further information from customers about volumes and types of transactions being processed at these times.
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What is required is a satisfactory balance between technology for enabling secure transactions and the economic processing of these transactions.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Computers have given banks the power to process millions of transactions a day.
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It will take four to six weeks to process your loan application.
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The milk must be maintained at this temperature until it is processed.
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You should allow two weeks for your visa application to be processed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Distillers scrambled to develop processing techniques that would allow them to carve out their own niches.
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Slides were subsequently processed as for tissue sections.
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Such information is often laboriously collected by literature-searching and is conventionally processed as text.
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That is, until the next day when I started to use the word processing program.
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The expanding use of automation may make analysts more productive, allowing them to process more data in less time.
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The smelly and difficult business of processing and printing was placed, conveniently out of sight, in the factory.
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Unless you desire the whitest possible loaf, unbleached flour is processed less and certainly white enough for white bread.