I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
substitute teacher
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
adequate
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Nevertheless, it is still open to question whether these arrangements are an adequate substitute for parliamentary scrutiny.
good
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Gravel is a good substitute for a lawn, especially in a very small garden.
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Leftovers make a good substitute for canned tuna in salads or sandwiches.
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Thus a person who takes up jogging for health reasons may regard aerobic fitness classes or cycling as a good substitute .
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He is not a very good substitute .
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It is a good substitute for rice vinegar in Oriental cookery.
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Here there are few good substitute products to which consumers can turn as prices rise.
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I chose Tufa which is cheap and easily obtainable and quite a good substitute for real coral rock.
poor
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That was the most she could ever be, a poor substitute for the child he had lost.
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The muffin is tasteless, being a very poor substitute for bread, which is served on the Continent.
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We also showed how the indiscriminate use of praise is a poor substitute for positive and specific feedback.
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Dorothea is saddened by this breach; sustaining thoughts are poor substitutes for lively companionship.
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They found their local bus service a poor substitute .
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I used to eat Bourbon biscuits and Custard Creams in similar ways, though they were just poor substitutes for custard tarts.
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Unity of ambition is a poor substitute for unity of vision.
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Many easterners see these ideas as a poor substitute for concessions on trade, but welcome them as a step towards membership.
■ NOUN
meat
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Future foods will feature synthesized meat substitutes , like the fungus protein of today.
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Consumers spent more than $ 100 million on meat substitutes in 1995, according to the market-research company A. C. Nielsen.
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In February, questions surfaced about a $ 33. 7 million contract to buy a soy-based meat substitute called VitaPro.
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But the manufacturers of meat substitutes say vegetarians are a small niche in their target market.
teacher
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It was not their fault; they had done nothing to deserve substitute teachers .
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According to the children in the class, of whom about one fourth were Negro, they had very few substitute teachers .
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Are there special liability standards for substitute teachers and student teachers?
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In Third Grade he was in a class that had substitute teachers much of the year.
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Most of the year before that, he had a row of substitute teachers too.
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Smiechowski, 42, is a substitute teacher for Catholic schools and works part time in real estate.
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We have had 17 substitute teachers this year.
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There is a math and science substitute teacher filling in for the regular teacher.
■ VERB
become
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At worst, they become a time-consuming bureaucratic substitute for the real thing.
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The glass has become a kind of substitute money.
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It was the fate of countless unfortunates a few seasons ago to become the terraces' substitute for Sylvester Stallone.
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Letting go is more difficult when children have become comforting substitutes for disappointment in a marriage.
find
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Correct the inappropriate image or find a substitute .
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This news he took to Admetus, who at once set about finding a substitute for himself.
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Mackey was supposed to ask Guy Banister to find a substitute for our boy.
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More people compete creatively for ways to develop or find substitutes .
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At last in despair he went back to his house and there he found a substitute .
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She found substitute teaching surprisingly rewarding and enriching.
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If you overeat at night to unwind or relieve stress, find a substitute .
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As a result, she is further inclined to suppress her originality and to deny true awareness by finding less demoralizing substitutes .
use
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Two choices exist, either to sell the material for scrap or use it as a substitute .
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So he stopped by the road and pulled up a sapling to use for a substitute .
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But with other films it sometimes looks as if money has been used as a substitute for imagination and ingenuity.
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For these last three uses , sensitive may substitute .
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But with Wigan using up all their substitutes when Skerrett came off, Hull stepped up the tempo in the second half.
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Speculation that the Dolphin Centre could be used as a substitute has been ruled out by Mr Boyle as too expensive.
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It was used as a cheap substitute for pewter and as a base for electroplate finishes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Egg substitutes cost 20 to 50 percent more than eggs.
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If Marsh has not fully recovered, his likely substitute will be Robinson.
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Ten minutes into the second half Davies was brought on as substitute for Ward.
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Today we had a substitute in history class.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Ask how the agency screens employees and monitors workers, and if there are substitutes when needed.
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But they are no substitute for action by governments.
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Gina Smouse notes that by using low-fat evaporated milk and egg substitute , the fat content of the pudding will be lower.
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He had heard of girls marrying a father substitute , but he had not met one before.
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Switching to protein substitutes, like soy, could cost millions, but Kessler believes it is worth it.
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Writing is downgraded as if it is a clumsy substitute for more efficient means of preserving data and the findings or conclusions.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
court
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They also indicate that, despite this, the courts will often just substitute their own opinion.
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Rather than increasing the sentence, three appeal court judges substituted a three-year probation order requiring him to undergo treatment or counselling.
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To require more runs the risk of the courts substituting their view for that of the authority.
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A court can not substitute a care order for a supervision order on an application for discharge.
judgment
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The court accepted that it should not substitute its judgment for that of the agency.
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This is not a question of substituting the judgment of the court for that of the legislature.
view
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Feminists have accused political sociologists of substituting their own views of what should be the case in the place of evidence.
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To require more runs the risk of the courts substituting their view for that of the authority.
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I can not substitute my own view of the evidence, which I have not heard.
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The court should not, he said, substitute its view for that of the Corporation.
word
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Again, a graphic character is substituted for each word to give a better idea of sentence complexity.
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They may substitute a word that, by either sound or meaning, is related to the correct one.
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I have substituted the similar word larder, referring to a place where food is stored.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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If plums are difficult to find, figs can be substituted.
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You can substitute margarine for butter in this recipe.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Angry Jemson suffered the embarrassment of coming on as substitute and then being substituted himself at Carrow Road.
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Eventually money becomes worthless, and people are forced to barter or substitute with other sorts of currencies, like cigarettes.
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Parliament itself could substitute an act for an earlier one.
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So movement neither substitutes for spatial information nor disrupts it.
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The conductor deserved plaudits for substituting the Kodaly dances for an originally slated Mendelssohn overture.
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This may undermine public service and professional values, substituting commercial ones.