adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a leading/prominent businessman
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In many cities prominent businessmen encouraged and financed city centre improvements.
a leading/prominent citizen (= an important one )
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The protests were led by leading citizens in the community.
a leading/prominent politician
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The scandal ruined the careers of several leading politicians.
a prominent landmark (= one that is very noticeable )
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The castle sits on a hill above the town and is a prominent landmark.
a prominent role
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The military has played a prominent role in Burmese politics.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
increasingly
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The role of film licences has become an increasingly prominent one in the last few years.
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The structural analysis of ageing has become increasingly prominent in recent years.
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His brother, Crown Prince Hassan, is 12 years younger and taking an increasingly prominent part in state affairs.
more
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In fact, if anything, she only made it more prominent .
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Making Wente and the Livermore region more prominent in the wine world involves a lot more than name changes.
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As the campaign picks up speed, the issue of character is likely to become more prominent .
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Any one of these may be more prominent than the others.
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It was more prominent through the head having been turned to the opposite side.
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Publishers have come to assume an ever more prominent role.
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At Mao's side during that visit was his ever more prominent wife, Jiang Qing.
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In our wishful thinking about the 1960s, no figures occupy a more prominent place than the Kennedys.
most
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Martelli and Bettino Craxi, ex-leader of the Socialists are among its most prominent victims.
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Among these, the most prominent is the emphasis cities have placed on programs to develop or attract high-technology industries.
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In severe infections, diarrhoea is the most prominent clinical sign.
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The most prominent part of that property is Owens Peak, recognizable by its big, white P for Palomar.
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At any rate, the most prominent critic was Nick Seitz, the editorial director of Golf Digest and its sister publications.
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We will clarify the new landscape by taking an outside-in look at its most prominent landmarks.
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The most prominent and, as we had experienced, most problematic symbol of the Legion's past was the singing.
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The most prominent of these was Anna Thompson, the director of religious education.
particularly
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Erectile dysfunction may be particularly prominent among the appropriate conditions.
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Stanley Rosenberg from Channel 5, splendidly handsome except for particularly prominent front teeth, is the first to reach us.
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It was not coincidental that Interministerial Councils played a particularly prominent role in the formulation of economic and financial policy.
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Distal to the oral papillae the second oral tentacle pore is particularly prominent .
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Of the many perceptions apparent in our data, four seemed particularly prominent .
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Spatial analysis features particularly prominent on the research agenda relating to natural and technological hazards and geodemographics.
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Gus A were particularly prominent at 1118p, up 28p ahead of today's interim figures.
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The arms are distinctly noded, the ridges carrying the arm spines being particularly prominent .
so
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Chapter 4 considers why the female nude played so prominent a part in the making of modern art practice.
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James Carville, who had been so prominent in 1992, did not attend.
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Suffering is so prominent a part of the Gospel that it has been described as a Passion story with an introduction.
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Ramsey's friends thought that he was an agnostic and were surprised to see him so prominent at the mission.
very
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In Sri Lanka's constitution a very prominent place is given to the Buddhist religion.
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Trismus may be very prominent , resulting in a clinical presentation mimicking tetanus.
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In conventional historical description, three very prominent inter-related tendencies had been noticed.
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The Golden Globes have become very prominent .
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BOÖTES: the Herdsman A very prominent constellation.
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Some very prominent fathers have gone out of their way to share lessons acquired through family tragedies.
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Rhythmic pulse can be a very prominent and essential feature of the music.
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Corruption was also an important issue which became very prominent during 1988.
■ NOUN
citizen
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Questions are being asked by prominent citizens as to the extent of police laxity which permitted the perpetration of this vicious crime.
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Daley appointed the usual commission of prominent citizens and experts to investigate the riot.
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We had prominent citizens and influential groups cable the Prime Minister and the provincial Premier.
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More often than not the average member of the House, when first elected, is not a prominent citizen .
feature
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The same is true where harmonic colour is to be a prominent feature of the music.
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This gap is one of the most prominent features on the political landscape at the dawn of 1996.
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Transnational migration, by no means a novel phenomenon, is also a prominent feature of many communities.
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Renal magnesium wasting is a prominent feature .
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Moreover, a prominent feature in the gel retardation experiments is the presence of a smear between the two well-defined bands.
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Revision and recycling is a prominent feature of the course, pulling together all strands of students' learning to date.
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At around 40 pence per portion, they are a prominent feature on any chip shop menu.
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On the left, adjoining the bedroom, marble is a prominent feature of the King's bathroom.
figure
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As a prominent figure in Rottweiler rescue, she's stubbed her toe on more unfair bullying and downright idiocy than most.
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But while prominent figures such as the Rev.
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I went to Dubai and called on several prominent figures who had known him as a local businessman.
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A prominent figure in the major controversy that arose was Mrs Castle.
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Nicolas Walter adds: Andrei Sakharov was a convinced humanist and a prominent figure in the world humanist movement.
figures
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I went to Dubai and called on several prominent figures who had known him as a local businessman.
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But while prominent figures such as the Rev.
leader
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Thakin Nu was the one prominent leader to stay out of the Assembly.
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Code language for a prominent leader bringing a business through a difficult period and offering a better long-term contract to employees.
member
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A narrowly avoided divorce scandal involving a prominent Member of Parliament.
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The group included Mayor Owen McAleer and two prominent members of the water commission.
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As minister for social security, John Moore had been a prominent member of the Thatcher government until 1988.
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Within the main belt are several distinct orbital families of large asteroids, each family named for its most prominent member .
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He was a prominent member of the Liverpool branch of the Health of Towns Association, established in 1845.
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Paul Quinn, perhaps the most prominent member of the community, was also among the most upset.
opposition
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At the first and largest rally a prominent opposition leader, Vuk Draskovic, called for a campaign of civil disobedience.
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All three had been prominent opposition figures in the period before November 1989.
part
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Duty done, the vodka was playing a prominent part in his triumph.
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The most prominent part of that property is Owens Peak, recognizable by its big, white P for Palomar.
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These days, knitwear is a prominent part of every collection.
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The Brownes and their descendants lived here for many years and played a prominent part in the life of the village.
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His brother, Crown Prince Hassan, is 12 years younger and taking an increasingly prominent part in state affairs.
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Races were a prominent part of the fair.
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Mr Keyse played a prominent part in arranging the purchase of the railway following its closure in 1956.
people
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He was the latest victim of a series of killings of prominent people in the capital.
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Many prominent people did attend and lived to report how different the service was from what they had been taught to expect.
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Meanwhile, Hal was being called to serve some of the left's most prominent people .
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The mayor said Bal Harbour was little more than a mosquito-infested swamp until the late 1940s when it started attracting prominent people .
place
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In Sri Lanka's constitution a very prominent place is given to the Buddhist religion.
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The Phillips curve gets a prominent place , but so do its limitations.
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The popular daily press in the Edwardian years began to give quite a prominent place to sport.
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Housing occupies a prominent place in these debates.
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In our wishful thinking about the 1960s, no figures occupy a more prominent place than the Kennedys.
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This matter ought to occupy a prominent place in the Election Manifesto.
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Don't enter the firing ranges when the red flags are flying - usually from prominent places such as hilltops.
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The issue of censorship took a prominent place in the seminar discussions.
politician
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A number of prominent politicians made public statements supporting Stolpe, including the federal President, Richard von Weizsäcker.
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Others had been advisers to prominent politicians .
position
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The cars were painted khaki with the red cross in a prominent position .
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Wexford found the lead, obligingly left by Sheila in a prominent position on top of the refrigerator.
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Now there is talk of recruiting blacks and Latinos, traditionally absent from the higher union ranks, to more prominent positions .
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Falck's indifference to what is considered smart has cost him the more prominent position he once looked like occupying.
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Further, public response to works in prominent positions is rarely commented on.
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This year I bedded out a few of these house plants in a prominent position in the garden.
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We have already alluded in Chapter 2 to the prominent position this occupied in earlier Chomskyan grammar.
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Fire Precautions Instructions about what to do in case of fire are placed in prominent positions throughout your place of work.
republican
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One of the rarest creatures at a Washington cocktail party these days is a prominent Republican still working on the first marriage.
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This is not the first time Johnson has clashed with a prominent Republican .
role
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Publishers have come to assume an ever more prominent role .
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Modern geologists agree that earthquakes had a prominent role in creating the present spectacle of the valley.
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Baptism played a prominent role in Mithraic rites.
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Attorney General Grant Woods of Arizona has taken a prominent role in that effort, according to participants.
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The library maintains a prominent role however, with approximately ¼ million books.
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Semantics has not always enjoyed a prominent role in modern linguistics.
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These results could suggest a prominent role of tissue type plasminogen activator in the pathogenesis of endothelin induced gastric mucosal damage.
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His separation of science and religion was more accurately a differentiation in which theological arguments played a prominent role .
supporter
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On 28 January he was expelled from the Party, to be followed later by several prominent supporters of his campaign.
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Peron was one of its most prominent supporters .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a prominent business leader
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a heart-shaped face, slightly prominent teeth and small eyes
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Daguerre was a prominent Mexico City lawyer.
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Her nose was quite prominent , and she had small, even teeth.
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His face was tanned, the cheekbones high and prominent .
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Politicians who are prominent in public life may be at risk from terrorism.
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The conference was attended by both government officials and prominent academics.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her short wavy black hair was combed neatly back from a rather narrow sloping forehead with prominent brow ridges.
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In the process the owners themselves became prominent community leaders and among the biggest advertisers in the emerging gay press.
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It is marked by the three prominent black stripes.
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Martelli and Bettino Craxi, ex-leader of the Socialists are among its most prominent victims.
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Rheme position, on the other hand, is prominent on an overall discourse level.
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The housing needs of the elderly, in particular, must be a prominent policy issue in years to come.
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Their contentions are supported by several prominent researchers.
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Yet there were other new ideas that jostled together in his brain for some more prominent recognition.