adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be easily/readily/freely available (= easy to get )
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The material used was cheap and readily available.
clearly/easily/readily distinguishable
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The cheese is easily distinguishable by its colour.
easily/readily accessible
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Computers should be made readily accessible to teachers and pupils.
freely/readily/openly admit sth (= admit without being ashamed )
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I freely admit I’m hopeless at maths.
gladly/willingly/readily accept
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She invited him for a drink and he gladly accepted.
readily acknowledge
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This is a fact that most smokers readily acknowledge .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
accessible
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These books need to be readily accessible to pupils, both in the classroom and in the school library.
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They became permanent and readily accessible reference material in the painters' studios.
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Easy-to-learn performance and production techniques, together with readily accessible models in recorded form, change the way music is made.
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One of the more readily accessible sites, Las Fuentes workshop was located in an area of commercial maquila concentration.
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Respondents requested this information, and pointed out that it is not always readily accessible .
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When the sound timber is clean and readily accessible it can be treated with insecticide.
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Today the collection is one of the best in the country, and more readily accessible than that at Lord's.
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Plainly, this process is facilitated if the working areas are readily accessible , well lit and well ventilated.
apparent
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But the superficiality became readily apparent in yesterday's absurd statement by the Employment Minister, Michael Forsyth.
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These defects are readily apparent in this case.
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These concepts are not however self-executing; that much is readily apparent from the previous analysis.
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The allure of foreign bonds is readily apparent .
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Quite what the taxpayer got for the extra money is not readily apparent .
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This pattern is readily apparent whenever researchers look at the sculpted surface of the open sea.
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Captain Dawson sensed that there was more behind the request than was readily apparent .
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With travel and entertainment expenses, the bona fides of the expense may not be so readily apparent .
available
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But it will only work if further orders are required and other suppliers are not readily available .
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The rest is readily available at any hardware store.
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She says it has made me think why is there no local transport readily available .
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Less commonly used, primarily because stone was so readily available , was a rubber-like ball made from a native plant resin.
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Conclusions: The velvet cloth is a near perfect black, but more expensive and less readily available than the other materials.
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Therefore, grant-aided benefits and enforced improvements have not been as readily available to rural householders.
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Because the technology is based on readily available material it can be produced anywhere, creating jobs outside industrial areas.
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One was effective and readily available from commercial breeders.
identifiable
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The adversarial nature of contentious proceedings before the International Court ensures that the parties are readily identifiable .
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Each pair, often by different photographers, famous or little-known, is readily identifiable by their matching frames.
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Hence, there is a readily identifiable gain to both parties.
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Most of this money came from domestic sources readily identifiable as seekers of federal favors.
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She is, however, described as a senior State Department official and is readily identifiable in Washington circles.
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It is based principally on morphological characteristics readily identifiable in the field.
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Presentational infidelity is less clear-cut and less readily identifiable than selectivity or measurement distortion.
■ VERB
accept
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Consistently, the results indicate that this mixture is readily accepted by the plant.
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Yet they readily accepted Joseph Alsop when he arrived in 1902.
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One readily accepts this interpretative excellent, but what is the cost?
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In accepting both what I like and don't like in her, I can more readily accept both aspects in myself.
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Those who have differing political philosophies may readily accept and utilise a concept of proportionality.
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What is more, painful remedies have been most readily accepted from those governments unburdened by past mistakes and old dogmas.
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Now, I was more readily accepted by my black friends than my white friends.
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This document won praise from the liberal majority at the Council, and was readily accepted , subject to a few amendments.
acknowledge
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I readily acknowledge the need for time to debate the Bill in Committee.
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Against one sees the influence of Park which Hughes readily acknowledges .
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They also readily acknowledge that the symbols are not as important as the impressions, imaginings and emotions they provoke.
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Numerous interviews with cold callers, all reluctant to be named, readily acknowledge that they rarely call women.
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By doing so, I readily acknowledge that we are changing, ever so slightly, the role of the Crown with regard to sentencing.
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I readily acknowledge that this is a very difficult request but I am afraid the timescale has to he met.
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Our exchanges have been by telephone or Royal Mail, so I readily acknowledge that there may be some problems there.
admit
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Most of us, men especially, do not readily admit to depression.
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In the South, the de jure segregation of the past has been readily admitted , and even lauded, by segregationists.
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Even the Church will today readily admit this, while remaining loath to relinquish many of the benefits obtained by the deception.
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Allison readily admits his vocal style is influenced by country-blues figures he heard while growing up in the Mississippi delta.
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Money, Suggs readily admits , was a prime concern.
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Voice over David readily admits he hates the cold!
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James, as Steve readily admitted , more than deserved his place in the boat.
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It's a heavy burden, one with which teachers readily admit they need as much help as they can get.
agree
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This was readily agreed , and Mr. Ball the elder held the post efficiently throughout the remainder of the war.
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Since she wished to work in the slums, some medical training was essential, to which Mother Teresa readily agreed .
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Aware of the interest Wilson had long shown in Soviet affairs, Maclean readily agreed to approach him.
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Always curious about such things myself, I readily agreed to go.
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He readily agreed to the event, and the local Ludlow/Hereford Group offered assistance with publicity and accommodation.
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If Father van Exem thought that the Archbishop would readily agree , he was mistaken.
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Lady Grafton had agreed readily with her spouse.
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However, on this occasion she was intrigued and agreed readily enough.
appreciate
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What is not readily appreciated by the newcomer is the stagger of the line lengths.
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It has been completely restored and its former importance can be readily appreciated even if it has now lost its earlier charm.
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The first of these properties is readily appreciated by looking at an atlas.
become
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But the superficiality became readily apparent in yesterday's absurd statement by the Employment Minister, Michael Forsyth.
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The body becomes readily subject to bruising, sometimes spontaneously.
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Not until his death and resurrection could that same Spirit become readily available for his followers.
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However, there are several others on the stocks ready to go should funding become readily available. 26.
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Published compilations of documents have become readily available.
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Solid state transducers have the important advantage that they can be used in the ambulatory patient and are becoming readily available.
concede
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If Mr. Brilliant fails on this point, he readily concedes that that is the end of his appeal.
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Levy, 46, readily concedes that the road map is an odd choice as a collector's item.
explain
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Life-history theory could readily explain dwarfing if juvenile, but not adult, male mortality were large.
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All told, these costs can readily explain the large differential in prices.
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The evening engagements were readily explained by Betty Bell herself.
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In Staffordshire and Shropshire this was even more marked, and, unlike in Gloucestershire, the shortage is not readily explained .
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Standish shows in his new work that the dynamical evidence for Planet X is readily explained by uncertainties in planetary ephemerides.
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His behaviour at this point can be readily explained by the fact that he was Sigismund's son-in-law.
find
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It is to be observed that the determinant of A is readily found from the condensation procedure.
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Those series listed below are either still being published or are still readily found in most libraries.
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Having obtained the eigenvalues, can readily find the corresponding eigenvectors.
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You can readily find them in an introductory economics text.
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If we need outside expertise it is because the experience can not be readily found in that country.
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The natural dyestuffs have the advantage of being readily found in the natural environment.
identify
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But not one I can readily identify with.
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For this reason, you can readily identify them as valid or invalid.
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Baby hedgehogs do not have the spines that so readily identify their parents, but these soon start to grow.
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Invalid Descriptive Beliefr Valid descriptive beliefs are easily and readily identified .
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Kelpies may be readily identified by their hoof-marks, for their strange inverted pad leaves the reverse of those of normal horses.
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The system can readily identify relationships, record details of referred work, select individuals or places for specific mailings.
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Individual junctions were defined by two fixed points which could be readily identified from the video record.
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The site of the grave in the Atacama desert had ensured the preservation of the corpses which were readily identified .
see
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One can readily see how a correlation of this kind can arise in a mean shear flow.
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I can readily see why the government should object to the publication of that book.
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The underground and radical publications more readily saw some of the intentions of the script and the overall concept.
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It can be readily seen that sodium is the principal extracellular cation and that chloride and bicarbonate are the principal extracellular anions.
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We can readily see the first steps in this transformation process when we consider the impact of computer technology on capital-investment decisions.
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Reading between the lines, I can readily see that her weeks of weaning were punctuated with episodes of near suffocation.
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The distress they show has been subsumed into other more modern conditions like schizophrenia, which can not be so readily seen .
understand
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What is not so readily understood is that many of these people are paid extensively on commission.
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Reliability is somewhat more readily understood .
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It also has the advantage of including the main symptom - that is, pain, and being readily understood by patients.
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This can operate in both ways - the patient might use words which the nurse does not readily understand and viceversa.
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All involve difficult decisions and demand a fair assessment that employees can readily understand .
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From these assumptions we can readily understand surplus value.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Beth was very tired and readily accepted a seat when it was offered.
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Fresh cilantro is readily available in most supermarkets.
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He readily agreed to all our suggestions.
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McGrath readily agreed to go.
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Parsons readily took responsibility for the show's failure.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And, they will help snow slide off the roof more readily .
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By some lucky balance of nature, the Alpha rays, although deadly, can not penetrate matter readily .
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Figures for Steve Forbes were not readily available.
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Food without frontiers is the norm now with quiche, tacos or tapas and coronation chicken readily supplied by outside caterers.
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Punkish local kids may all too readily be confused with big-city operators.
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This type is not readily available - its mourning connotations have made it unfashionable.