adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
easy
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Provided proper rope management has been employed it is surprisingly easy to arrest a slide.
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The Chargers dominated the Raiders on both sides of the line, walking away with a surprisingly easy victory.
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If you don't want direct mail from any company there is a surprisingly easy remedy.
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It was surprisingly easy to get the wing aloft with a step backwards and a sharp tug on the front risers.
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It is surprisingly easy to pick up the physical tension and the negative emotions of others if you are at all sensitive.
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But it is a surprisingly easy drive.
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His strange quiet co-existence with Marcus was facilitated by his now surprisingly easy relations with Irina, they even teased each other.
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This lets you produce standalone applications for end-users and it's surprisingly easy to get started with.
good
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It was just a feel-good song, a piece of ephemera, and Lucy was feeling surprisingly good .
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A surprisingly good squad, considering they have almost all new starters and a new coach.
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The picture quality, even on a large screen, is surprisingly good .
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It can be surprisingly good or exceedingly bad.
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The result was often surprisingly good , with a considerable degree of wit although no humour.
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When we did start playing proper gigs we got surprisingly good money.
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We'd been on surprisingly good terms up till then.
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Unusually for a central London club, the Gardening Club is surprisingly good .
high
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Inevitably some fall by the wayside, but his success rate is surprisingly high considering the breadth of the repertoire he tackles.
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A surprisingly high number took them up on the deal, he said.
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John Gravelle says the standard here of individual players is surprisingly high .
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The tapes and scores which they produce come across with real sincerity, and display surprisingly high levels of competence.
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The agreement between the figures is surprisingly high .
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But it is usually there, in surprisingly high quantities.
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Eight times out of ten seeking ideas succeeds in eliciting an idea and that is a surprisingly high hit rate.
large
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The one-acre garden at Fenton is a surprisingly large oasis of peace, bounded by high walls.
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Arjunas must make up a surprisingly large fraction of the bodies striking Earth.
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Nevertheless, a surprisingly large number of artists continued to work in a realist manner.
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But there was a surprisingly large contingent of newsmen.
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There was also a surprisingly large contingent watching another golfer at his putting practice.
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In another similarity to a primary contest, political activists say a surprisingly large portion of the Iowa Republicans remain undecided.
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Franchise operations seem to provide a surprisingly large amount of luck to judge by their substantially better survival rates.
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Then add monthly totals together-it will be a surprisingly large total.
little
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Television coverage had surprisingly little impact on trends in party credibility.
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But there is surprisingly little weed.
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Yet surprisingly little research has been conducted into the subject, at least in Britain.
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Branch managers and staff have changed surprisingly little as a breed, for all the brighter uniforms and open plan offices.
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However, there is surprisingly little in this book on what marriage and divorce meant to the men and women involved.
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The town has changed surprisingly little over the years.
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There is surprisingly little literature which explores these questions in curricular terms.
low
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The profit margin in advertising is surprisingly low , currently about 1-2%.
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The climate is certainly milder, the atmosphere more relaxed, the golf unbeatable and the prices surprisingly low .
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Posy Simmonds' whimsical humour comes as a welcome relief in a medium that is surprisingly low on laughs.
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These numbers are surprisingly low , no junction had a mean accident or risk rating above the midpoint of the scale.
small
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Khotan itself, despite its prestige, was surprisingly small .
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The list of Golden Globes voters on the receiving end is surprisingly small .
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Even when he holds up his hands, they're surprisingly small and virtually unmarked.
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Even so, this is a surprisingly small area.
strong
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Her thin arms were surprisingly strong .
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Rohmer was surprisingly strong , but the impetus of Cardiff's lunge spun him away from the girl.
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The forces generated in this way are surprisingly strong .
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Strands of a cobweb are surprisingly strong but they can snap.
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I tried to force her back to bed, but her fever made her surprisingly strong .
■ VERB
seem
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For some one who appeared so gleefully wicked and amoral, Cleo seemed surprisingly dim when it came to character judgment.
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The experimental protocol was indeed there, but the actual details seemed surprisingly scant.
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They usually operate at 12 volts, but in the darkness of the garden even a low-powered light can seem surprisingly bright.
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At each round the Confederate artillerymen gave a shout, which seemed surprisingly near.
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It seemed surprisingly hot in the carriage for the time of year.
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It was small, but seemed surprisingly well stocked for a peasant's shack.
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Certainly he seemed surprisingly agile in that moment.
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Away from her home ground she seemed surprisingly ill at ease at first, almost shy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It's surprisingly warm this morning.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And surprisingly only one in five teenagers questioned had been taught about homosexuality and lesbianism in school.
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By this time, the Tour was, not surprisingly , in crisis.
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Not surprisingly the company turned to obvious areas of cost-cutting and revenue- raising.
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Not surprisingly , most companies eagerly accept this offer.
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Students are bright, articulate, self-confident and surprisingly mature.
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Television coverage had surprisingly little impact on trends in party credibility.
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The experimental protocol was indeed there, but the actual details seemed surprisingly scant.
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This, after I had learned how to work with people with cancer, often proved surprisingly effective.