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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
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The citations also refer to the provisions on which the measure is based.
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We also refer to one factor of production as labor and to the other as capital.
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Pyrenees may also refer to small ewes' milk cheeses that are produced in the same area.
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Such brochures also refer to two other types of valuation or survey.
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In some chapters the authors also refer back to earlier volumes in the series for a more detailed discussion of theoretical issues.
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I also refer you to the Sub-Regional Engineer's letter reply of 2 March 1990.
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Police in this country will also refer your friend to rape crisis centres and victim support agencies.
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Flat-footed and high arches also refer to foot type.
back
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This saves them having to refer back and forth between their message and your answer.
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Note the Heading and then refer back to the localiser.
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Here, we can perhaps refer back to the discussion of graduate employment presented early in the chapter.
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I refer back to my earlier remarks about classroom organisation.
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In some chapters the authors also refer back to earlier volumes in the series for a more detailed discussion of theoretical issues.
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Most of these refer back to the content of the video but repeat viewing is not suggested.
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We will refer back to these examples later in the book.
often
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Advertisements for houses for sale often refer to their proximity to Buzz, Go and EasyJet destinations.
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Students and teachers often refer to the academies as an extended family.
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Writers often refer to uneven development between sectors, for example, or between firms within a sector.
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It is interesting to note that we often refer to the training rather than education of language teachers.
only
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Yet these painted colours refer only rather loosely to the ten colour-terms listed in the text.
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Instead. these people only refer to farmers when there is news like a food scare to react to.
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The numbers refer only to mergers of large companies where assets worth over 5 are acquired through the merger.
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Which need not refer only to Pericles, though the historian can not have forgotten him.
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I will only refer to 2 projects in the short time available.
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Estimates refer only to the cost of allocative inefficiency.
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For the face as simulacrum can only refer us to yet another image, there being no true face behind the mask.
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Such relations only refer to the name of the referenced module.
please
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Hotel Amenities Please refer to page 154 for a guide to the bedroom amenities and public facilities of the hotels featured here.
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Please refer to the back cover of this brochure for more details.
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Please refer to the individual hotel descriptions for full details.
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Please refer to our tariff of charges for details of these services.
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Please refer to the catalogue for the full range of products available.
to
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The first of these we might refer to as appraisal.
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The last component of the rainbow coalition that I want to refer to is feminism.
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The media are obviously hard up for stories because they seem interested in what they refer to as our overcrowding problems here.
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The exemption you refer to certainly needs clarification.
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The habitat I refer to , as you may have guessed, is the garden.
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What does all this refer to in the third sentence?
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This political response is what I refer to as labourism.
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Secondly, it causes the lights to be surrounded by a ring of light, which I refer to as their halo.
■ NOUN
case
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But he has now refused either to grant the long-expected pardon or refer the case back to the Court of Appeal.
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Our discussion will refer particularly to the case in Fig. 24.2.
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I refer to the case of Mustapha Akkawi, who was killed after being tortured in prison just over a week ago.
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Attempts are also being made to refer the more difficult cases to foster families.
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The judge refused to refer the case back to magistrates.
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It can not refer to individual cases .
dispute
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Consider the case of two people who refer a dispute to an arbitrator.
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Normal practice is to refer the matters in dispute to an independent accountant.
friend
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Police in this country will also refer your friend to rape crisis centres and victim support agencies.
gentleman
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I refer the hon. Gentleman to the reply that I gave some moments ago.
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I refer , gentlemen , to the developing decline and fall of the Galactic Empire.
letter
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The vendor should be required to refer in the disclosure letter to the reason why the documents have been disclosed.
matter
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I have no desire to rake over the past but we should have the right to refer to matters of historical record.
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It was finally decided to refer the matter to the departmental assemblies.
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The supervisor must then refer the matter to the court which may make an order cancelling or varying the treatment requirement.
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You said that you would refer the matter to the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.
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How can we refer this matter ?
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Of course, the parameters that determine the drop's energy refer to nuclear matter and not to any familiar liquid.
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Normal practice is to refer the matters in dispute to an independent accountant.
minister
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The Minister refused to refer a complaint to the committee and the complainant sought mandamus.
numbers
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The numbers refer only to mergers of large companies where assets worth over 5 are acquired through the merger.
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Real numbers refer to a mathematical idealization rather than to any actual physically objective quantity.
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The numbers in her text refer to footnotes in which she spears the novelist with chapter and verse.
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Numbers to the right of each row refer to the nucleotide position, numbers to the left refer to amino acids.
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Page numbers refer to this brochure.
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All mandibular numbers in the tables refer to half mandibles, as for maxillae.
section
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To rectify a problem you should refer to Section 6 - Design Change System.
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This bizarre combat is a very dangerous one - refer to the Profiles section .
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For further information on the Design Change System, refer to Section 6 of this manual.
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For further information on Issues and Products, refer to Section 9 of this manual.
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Both letters refer to a small section of between the end of the footway and the start of the flood bank proper.
term
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In the present context, we are using these terms to refer to phonetic characteristics of syllables.
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The various terms refer to the types of oar used, or the number of strokers involved.
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A joint communiqué issued after the meetings was couched in general terms and did not refer to the cessation of hostilities.
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To what, then, might the term feminine economy refer ?
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Both terms refer to styles of depicting the arms of spouses on a single shield.
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Using the terms that more accurately refer to the present career realities, these people have all turned themselves into businesses.
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We shall use the term secondary radiation to refer to radiation coming from or absorbed in a plant.
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These terms usually refer to a public company whose shares were bought up by a small group.
word
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I like to understand the meanings of words and always refer to a dictionary when I come on a new word.
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To whom could her words refer ?
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We do not, for example, tend to have words which refer to both sentient beings and to events.
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The primary significance of the words which refer to the bread seems to belong to the image of the messianic kingdom.
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Formerly, the Anglo-Saxon words were used to refer to both the meat and the animals.
■ VERB
use
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In the present context, we are using these terms to refer to phonetic characteristics of syllables.
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It can be used to refer to some one who is physically or temperamentally very ugly: a real MEESkait.
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Strictly speaking, this should be used to refer to an auditory sensation experienced by the hearer.
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These are later used to refer to specific citations in the text.
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A demonstrative is used to refer to a temporal aspect.
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It also explains how we can use a name to refer literally to things that bear that name.
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In practice, the word seems to be used mostly to refer to animal sonar.
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It was Adam Smith, interestingly, who first used industry to refer to manufacturing and other productive activities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Did he refer to the high standards of social protection in this country?
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Only ten refer - usually more briefly - to their elderly parents, and only eight to their own ageing.
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The commanders can not actually see what Lord Raglan intends to refer to.
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The exemption you refer to certainly needs clarification.
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We shall therefore refer to it as the Fundamental Theorem of Vector Programming.
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What does all this refer to in the third sentence?