I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a relaxed attitude/manner/style etc
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She has a fairly relaxed approach to housework.
baroque style
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furnished in a baroque style
flamboyant style/character/personality
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his flamboyant style of play
hands-off style
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a hands-off style of management
lapidary style
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the lapidary style of the poem
sports/style/business/travel etc section (= particular part of a newspaper )
style sheet
suit sb's style
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Choose a racket that suits your style of play.
writing style
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Different newspapers tend to use different writing styles.
your own inimitable way/style etc
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He entertained us in his own inimitable style.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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Within quite a short time great rivalries grew up between students of different styles .
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Flocks of executives entered the company from competing firms, bringing different styles , values, and corporate cultures with them.
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It wanted to give the club a different style of management.
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You get to see all those different styles , their advantages and disadvantages.
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The same data are plotted in b but the species are categorised into three different life styles denoted by different symbols.
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You look at how your bosses ran things and see a lot of different management styles .
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Different situations may require different styles of leadership and a good leader may be one who uses a combination of different styles.
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Experiment with a different hair style or food.
fine
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Rich and imposing, here the features are grand, and the fine , traditional style impressive.
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But although she slammed the phone down in fine style , she was shaken horribly.
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I won the 200 metres in fine style , clocking my best indoor time of 21.05 seconds.
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The façade is late Renaissance, with friezes and status in fine style .
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United began to step up their pressure and took the lead after 30 minutes when Sharpe celebrated his recall in fine style .
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Both are notable for their fine sense of style and for playing of passionate commitment.
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Ian led the pack in fine style , well supported by second rower Warren Aspinall until he retired with a damaged shoulder.
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The orchestral accompaniment her was again alert, matching the pianist's skill in fine style .
gothic
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The organ is a rare example of the Gothic Revival style from the beginning of the 18C.
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Most remarkable, however, are his two houses in the Gothic style .
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Dedicated to St Paul, it is stone built in an early Gothic style .
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From the fourteenth century onwards considerable building was carried out in the Gothic style .
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Carter had worked under James Wyatt, one of the first professional architects to recognize the Gothic style in the eighteenth century.
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The Gothic style of the mansion has made it an ideal film set in the past.
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The lower floor is early Gothic in style , with deep set windows and a groined vaulted roof.
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The vicarage house is a handsome brick building in the Gothic style .
grand
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We had started off in grand style , rattling right round the station plaza with a great tooting of horns.
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Opening the evening in grand style is Norm Marini, doing his reality-twisting routines tableside.
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The grand style is echoed in the hotel's 108 bedrooms which are traditional but have large modern bathrooms.
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He opened in the grandest possible style , with Janacek s mighty Sinfonietta.
modern
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Daniel Hersheson then set to work on Pamela's hair, cutting it into a more tailored and modern style .
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But he quickly changed my direction toward modern tango style .
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Magnet's wide choice of kitchen units includes traditional and modern styles , and prices to fit any budget.
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A.R. What do you feel about working in the more modern style of play after your classical work with Stratford?
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Classic and modern styles , glowing with lights, colour, and gilding.
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Modern style After studying the above ballets it may well be asked what is modern style?
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Each is furnished in a modern style with private facilities and at least one balcony.
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He led Coffin to a bright back kitchen, furnished in the most modern style , with new canary-yellow paint.
new
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Classroom management for the use of computers A new style of classroom management may be required when using computers in history teaching.
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He had, perhaps unconsciously, formulated a new style of disengagement.
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Mr Sampson's report is the second of a new style of intermediate force inspections and falls between the biennial major inspections.
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The changes are expected to cut the time it takes to develop new styles of sunglasses and lower costs, Echols said.
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So successful was he that he named the new style after the insect.
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The thematic range and the technique of the earlier poems have not been replaced by a new poetic style .
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Modern civilization was not now so decayed that the new style proposed by the Mediaevalists was justified.
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So, in our example, it would be the experimental group which was exposed to the new teaching style .
old
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There's a case for bringing back those old style Tory values.
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The old styles are all coming back.
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They want a return to the old style system of independent assessors for every match.
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The result was predictable: the briefers stopped attacking ministers and others in the old style .
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The bedrooms are furnished in older style and have a private bathroom, though they do vary in size.
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The blank face will serve the same purpose as old style screens.
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The old style , however, persisted.
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Restoring old chairs and weaving new old style traditional chairs is an art in itself.
particular
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The differing quality aspects of these zones make it impossible to specify a particular style of wine for Hautvillers.
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Bureaucracy is a particular structure and style through which the administration can operate.
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Here the break is more explicitly towards a particular style or more general cultural position.
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Regular perusal will make clear which journalists might be most sympathetic to your particular style .
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Colour masters Rather than any particular style , you may want to base your bedroom scheme on certain colours.
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Also used to refer to a complete set of characters forming a family in a particular design or style .
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In all cases, we reserve the right to use our discretion in offering students any particular style or type of accommodation.
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We also recommend four good quality, value-for-money wines from Sainsbury's, which typify a particular style or region.
personal
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Sununu's abrasive and often arrogant personal style won him few friends during his three-year tenure at the White House.
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With his dark good looks and meticulous personal style , he made a lasting, if rather forbidding impression on lay people.
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Shabba's dominance of reggae is due to his unique voice, strong personal style and quick wit.
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She did, and selected a woman about her own age with a personal style that seemed very similar to hers.
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Matters are not improved by his personal style .
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In school, Crowell stood out as the girl who eschewed the blandness of fashion in favor of personal style .
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This scene may give a rare glimpse of Charles's personal style as king.
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Fellini lacked any formal training in cinematography and developed his personal style only after a long apprenticeship as a scriptwriter.
traditional
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The bedrooms are furnished in a traditional style and have double glazing.
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Separate from these groups was the large mass of youth whose clothes were chain store versions of traditional styles .
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Magnet's wide choice of kitchen units includes traditional and modern styles , and prices to fit any budget.
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The pension is recently built, but is finished off in the traditional style .
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Julius Caesar favoured a traditional style of portrait, but used his image in a regal manner that traditionalists found offensive.
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Cast-metal cresting follows faithfully the traditional style .
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In just six months a new Hardys &038; Hansons traditional style pub will have been built on the spot.
■ NOUN
leadership
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His leadership style was to maintain power through a combination of force and cunning strategy.
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A leadership style that has made her a remarkably effective prime minister would be a crippling liability in the White House.
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Anne was not prepared for the more authoritative leadership style that Laura had developed since the old days.
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Changes are limited to internal sub-units, focusing on improving leadership styles , building teamwork, and resolving intergroup conflict.
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As his early moves and leadership style indicate, Barak personally will determine the agenda and reputation of his government.
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Perhaps Jobs should simply be forgiven for what can most kindly be described as an immature leadership style .
life
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In each case the life style and violent death is similar.
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In a no account is taken of the animals' life styles .
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The same data are plotted in b but the species are categorised into three different life styles denoted by different symbols.
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These benefits seem even more relevant in our present climate of hurried and stressful life styles .
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The three dotted lines have different elevations and denote differences in relative organ size associated with changes in life style .
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They will share a similar life style which to some degree will distinguish them from members of other social strata.
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In the case of birds, we know that meaningful clusters will be associated with birds' life styles .
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The young teacher who enjoys his work but also sees it as an attractive life style .
management
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Comments expressed in the survey revealed that a return to traditional manufacturing techniques and management styles would not be welcomed.
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These are, of course, three of the most commonly considered issues in the literature on management style .
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Norms are influenced by organizational factors such as policies, management style of superiors, and rules and procedures.
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You look at how your bosses ran things and see a lot of different management styles .
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More importantly, it helped lots of managers to recognize, and to question, the centralized management style .
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While an authority's management style is usually affected by environmental factors there always remains an element of choice.
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Perhaps surprisingly, Conran's management style and operating methods have changed little in the light of his vast experience.
■ VERB
adopt
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If adopting the tiger style , for instance, the hands would be shaped like claws.
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It is often the physician, as the person responsible for the activities required for patient care, who adopts this style .
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Now the tags automatically adopt the defined styles .
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Guest, adopting the faux documentary style , was only partially successful.
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From the 1500s, instruments started to adopt a more familiar style .
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I adopted this style of flying.
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The rationalization of modern life, suggest those who adopt the functionalist style , must be directly confronted.
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There may on occasions be sound educational reasons for adopting a style of interaction in which unfocused questions predominate.
build
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In Bombay the new stations were built in international concrete style .
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For others, the Nutrition Facts are a lifeline for building a healthier eating style .
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And giant superstores, fastened to the bypass, and built in the style of the farmer's bothy.
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A section on the skyscraper with amazing scale models shows the growth and diversity in this monumental building style .
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Moon Beach Central had been built in the style of a temple.
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A kitchen, washing facilities and lavatories were to be built , camp style , in the open.
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Creating a structure on which to build your style .
change
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And clubs can't help cashing in - by constantly changing the colour and style of their football strips.
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Westy was given far more opportunity to change his style than any of his predecessors.
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The impact of this episode upon the efforts to change the style of services for mentally ill patients is hard to conjecture.
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You had to change your whole style .
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They are what they are and I don't see how they can change their style .
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Development involves people; and people must be at the focus of policies and other measures taken to change their living style .
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When I got back from training I told myself I would change my style .
create
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Do it well. Create a style .
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Instead, create this style by using Shift-Tab to release the left margin.
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The Pro-Style collection has been carefully designed to help create and control all styles on all hair types.
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To create great styles from one cut, you need versatile styling products.
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A mismatched, haphazard gang of pots looks terrible and it is worth investing some decent money in creating a cohesive style .
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To create this light style , the company address and other essential information can be relegated to the bottom of the page.
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As Ashton and MacMillan in many of their ballets, he has created a style appropriate to one particular ballet.
develop
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Boyd has developed a distinct style .
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The goal is to cut the time it takes to develop new styles of sunglasses and lower costs, said Bausch&038;.
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You can be as elaborate as you like and you will doubtless develop your own style .
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He encourages you to develop your own style .
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Over the decades the Legion had developed its own style of soldiering.
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He developed a political style to match.
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Fellini lacked any formal training in cinematography and developed his personal style only after a long apprenticeship as a scriptwriter.
write
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History books can sometimes be written in a style that is difficult to penetrate.
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She resists the polysyllabic playfulness that marks the writing of her brother, Bill, but she writes with clarity and style .
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Otherwise the chapter is clear and written in an accessible style , as is the whole volume.
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Jance has a very easy, smooth writing style .
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It is written in classical textbook style and is full of formulae, equations and flow sheets.
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Prolonged sitting also makes you restless, tired, and distracted, which weakens your writing style .
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It seems appropriate here to switch our writing style to first person and let Bill Illingworth share his experiences and his insights.
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The writer is also encouraged to revise and re-word any subheading to fit his own sense of appropriateness and writing style .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cramp sb's style
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John said he broke up with her because she cramps his style.
doggy style/fashion
fashion/style victim
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Aristos, being of course a complete media and fashion victim , had heard of it and ordered champagne.
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Blast is still going strong though, perhaps because its sound is too loud for wet fashion victims to handle.
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I don't want to be a fashion victim .
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It wasn't about creating quirky objects for kitsch fashion victim consumers, it was about improving the real world.
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Our intention was to dress a model for illustrative purposes, not to create fashion victims .
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Pleats create a weird-looking smock effect, appealing to the adventurous with a touch of fashion victim in them.
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There are a few male fashion victims; all women are victims of fashion.
form/mode/style of address
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Besides that, he used the intimate form of address , tum.
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Both were perceived as amoral sources of power which responded more or less predictably to specific modes of address .
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Even in a formal business letter you should use a personal and human form of address .
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He stuttered nervously before managing to answer herand when he did, he used the masculine form of address .
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Seating arrangements at conferences, forms of address and other issues of this kind remained a continual source of potential difficulty.
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The effect of this intense focus on modes of address is that personal pronouns become unusually prominent.
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The patient should be told of the mode of address used in that particular hospital for professional staff.
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Without the royal family, titles would be just that - forms of address for the self-important to dignify themselves.
high style/register
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All three, when they achieve greatness, have also an undeniable high style which separates them from the pedestrian mobs.
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Its high register gives brilliance and point when doubling at the octave phrases allotted to other wind instruments or to the violins.
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Like a high , high register.
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Solarium in the back, pillars and driveway fountain and the high style in the front.
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The high registers contain parameters passed from above the current procedure.
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This high style comes from Panache Fresh and simply stunning.
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This method of obscuring chords only in higher registers is quite usual, as it gives a good equilibrium to the harmony.
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We have divided the cellos in order to obtain intensity of tone from their high register.
style-setter/trend-setter/standard-setter etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a completely new style of painting
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an authoritarian style of leadership
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At this publisher, it isn't style to spell "worshipping" with one "p."
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Cameron found my style aggressive, although I thought I was just being direct and honest.
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Her friendly style of management works well with small groups of people.
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Hundreds of novelists have tried to copy Hemingway's direct style .
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If you want a cellphone with style , this is the one for you.
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It does not really have the style and elegance of other luxury hotels.
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It was built in Colonial style to match the old part of the city.
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Pollock's style is instantly recognizable.
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Several of her early paintings were done in an expressionistic style .
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The new library is a blend of various architectural styles.
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The Thompsons always entertain in style .
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The women were wearing '50s style housedresses.
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What she lacked in looks she made up for with her sensational style .
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Whitaker went out in style , beating Pernell comfortably.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He met this challenge by manufacturing a sense of drama through his theatrical style of rule and through his ambitious policies.
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I tried to write them in an easygoing style , which was my hallmark.
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It has evolved over the years from a nouveau style to a more weighty red wine with distinctive black raspberry fruit.
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The bureaucratic style can be very efficient in a stable environment and when the organisation is of a large size.
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The cool narrative economy and unforced style recall early Fassbinder.
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The fashionable and becoming gown and girdle were her only concessions to style and conformity.
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There Angela sat smoking but not in her usual sensual and elegant style .
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You will come up with your own favoured tactics based on your own preferred style of play.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hair
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You can do this by using different after shaves and mouthwashes, and putting different styling products in your hair .
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Before you style your hair , lift sections of hair and spray with hairspray, concentrating on the root area.
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She was well built, with strong features, and she styled her dark brown hair in what they called earphones.
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After I had styled my hair it felt very soft and silky and it also seemed much thicker and more glossy.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
doggy style/fashion
fashion/style victim
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Aristos, being of course a complete media and fashion victim , had heard of it and ordered champagne.
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Blast is still going strong though, perhaps because its sound is too loud for wet fashion victims to handle.
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I don't want to be a fashion victim .
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It wasn't about creating quirky objects for kitsch fashion victim consumers, it was about improving the real world.
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Our intention was to dress a model for illustrative purposes, not to create fashion victims .
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Pleats create a weird-looking smock effect, appealing to the adventurous with a touch of fashion victim in them.
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There are a few male fashion victims; all women are victims of fashion.
form/mode/style of address
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Besides that, he used the intimate form of address , tum.
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Both were perceived as amoral sources of power which responded more or less predictably to specific modes of address .
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Even in a formal business letter you should use a personal and human form of address .
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He stuttered nervously before managing to answer herand when he did, he used the masculine form of address .
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Seating arrangements at conferences, forms of address and other issues of this kind remained a continual source of potential difficulty.
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The effect of this intense focus on modes of address is that personal pronouns become unusually prominent.
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The patient should be told of the mode of address used in that particular hospital for professional staff.
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Without the royal family, titles would be just that - forms of address for the self-important to dignify themselves.
high style/register
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All three, when they achieve greatness, have also an undeniable high style which separates them from the pedestrian mobs.
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Its high register gives brilliance and point when doubling at the octave phrases allotted to other wind instruments or to the violins.
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Like a high , high register.
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Solarium in the back, pillars and driveway fountain and the high style in the front.
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The high registers contain parameters passed from above the current procedure.
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This high style comes from Panache Fresh and simply stunning.
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This method of obscuring chords only in higher registers is quite usual, as it gives a good equilibrium to the harmony.
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We have divided the cellos in order to obtain intensity of tone from their high register.
style-setter/trend-setter/standard-setter etc
styling products/mousse/spray etc
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By Bryan at Rare Moods Add body and volume to fine hair with styling products and back-combing.
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Choose styling products formulated to give a natural-looking hold for casual styling.
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Look out for two great new styling products from Sebastian, the range favoured by professionals nationwide.
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To create a textured separated look with movement, use about a rounded tablespoon of styling mousse, as shown. 3.
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To create great styles from one cut, you need versatile styling products.
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Whichever curling method you choose, styling products are invaluable for setting hair beautifully.
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You can do this by using different after shaves and mouthwashes, and putting different styling products in your hair.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I only let Betty style my hair.
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The car was styled and engineered by Ford and Mazda.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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However researchers might style themselves-methodological individualists or collectivists-all social scientific research adopts a methodology that is implicitly individualistic.
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It was definitely easier to style and I would use it again without a doubt.
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Nygaard styles herself as a bruiser, reluctant to leave the interior.