I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a right of access (= the right to enter a place, use something, or see someone )
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You have rights of access to data held about you.
access a file (= open or read it )
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You won’t be able to access the file if another user has opened it.
access course
access point
access provider
access records ( also have/gain access to records ) (= be able to look at them )
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Every citizen has the right to access their medical records.
access road
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the access road to the farm
access the Internet/connect to the Internet
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You can access the Internet from your mobile phone.
access time
direct access
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Very few people have direct access to the President.
direct access
disabled parking/toilet/access etc (= for physically disabled people )
equal access (= the same right to do or receive something )
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The law states that disabled people must have equal access to employment.
exclusive access to sth
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Regulations prohibit anyone having exclusive access to the data.
free access
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Patients are now allowed free access to their medical records.
Internet access
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Not everyone has Internet access at home.
open access TV
public access channel
public access
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full public access to information
random access memory
remote access
unrestricted access
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unrestricted access to information
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
direct
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I've seen the homes they live in-mud-floored shacks with no sanitation or direct access to running water.
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CompuServe recently shut down direct access to certain newsgroups containing indecent photographs and material.
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The former will tend to require an indexed sequential file on a direct access device.
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AlterNet customers use dial-up or high-speed leased lines for direct access to the full range of services available over the Internet.
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They have also signed a deal with Freeserve, the internet service provider, offering direct access for students.
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Candidates who successfully complete this qualification can often gain direct access to a master's degree.
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Guests have the use of the spacious ground-floor living room with direct access to the large south-facing terrace.
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But there are also forms of direct access of interests to the state, notably through relationships with individual state agencies.
easy
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The northwest, before the days of air travel, was not as easy of access as it is today.
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Copies of this schedule should be constructed in such a fashion that easy access be afforded the data collection process.
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For the most part sited high above the sea, it is climbable at all times and offers easy access .
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The United States has traditionally offered the poor relatively easy access to the middle class if they can find steady work.
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Quick and easy access to mainframe data bases. 10.
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Without easy access to wealthy first world markets, economic development is difficult if not impossible in the second and third worlds.
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We had deliberately chosen a villa with easy access to the sea, but the children preferred their own pool.
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The project could include a pedestrian bridge over Valley Parkway that would allow easy access to the arts center and City Hall.
equal
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We will encourage all TECs to adopt plans to help women trainees have equal access to training opportunities.
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Finally, two apartments had to be remodeled to comply with federal laws assuring equal access for handicapped persons.
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Questions about equal access to services and equal rights to treatment also raise important issues about the value of particular interventions.
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There are instead just students, each and every one of them having equal access to the curriculum.
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Screening services are often fragmented, and the public may not have equal access to particular screening programmes.
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For hundreds of years, women and minorities have been denied equal access to a range of opportunities.
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The Lib-Dems' annual conference demanded equal access to abortion throughout the country.
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And, finally, and most important, making sure that women have equal access to opportunities.
free
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The huge black doors of the boat-house had been fastened back to allow free access .
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Southwestern Cable is providing free access to its high-speed Roadrunner Internet service in 14 public libraries within its service area.
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Does an open school mean totally free access to teachers, class rooms and corridors at all times?
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The first state to offer residents free access to the Internet was Maryland.
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In the past year, some companies have begun to offer free Internet access .
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When that happens, unlimited free access to their Web sites could be the first casualty.
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The document advocates free access to information, as well as free expression.
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That said, there are still places to get free Internet access .
full
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Although he had full access to legal counsel, he was not allowed to reveal details of his abduction to the judges.
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Club 18-30 guests at the Bohem have full access to all these facilities.
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It seems appropriate therefore that disruptive pupils have full access to the curriculum which requires that schools acknowledge this in their planning.
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The aim is to allow full public access to the site.
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What modifications are necessary to ensure fuller curriculum access ?
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These are students who have organised themselves to undertake surveys of buildings requiring modification for full public access .
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The advantage is that executables have full access to the computer when loaded.
immediate
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With no words spoken the crowd parted before the old man, allowing him immediate access to the bar.
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Interactive telecommunications increasingly give ordinary citizens immediate access to the major political decisions that affect their lives and property.
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Those unable to gain immediate access to their offices were advised to go to Guildhall, where company representatives would be waiting.
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As a consequence, only laboratories with immediate access to particle accelerators can carry out this sort of work.
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Do you require immediate access to your money?
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Switching on the overdrive channel, however, gave immediate access to the right stuff.
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Memory-the part of the computer which stores information for immediate access .
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Financial media normally has immediate and easy access to any client.
instant
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You will not enjoy absolutely instant access , but the extra interest is worth the wait.
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You get instant access 24 hours, seven days a week.
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Both require a minimum investment of £1, give instant access and include gifts.
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All three pay 6.85 per cent, offer instant access , and welcome deposits from £1.
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Other accounts offer better rates, but give you instant access to your cash without penalising you.
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Money that you may need in an emergency should go into an instant access account.
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These had advantages in handling and in instant access to a desired image without any winding.
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There is instant access to funds at each maturity date.
internet
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Apart from your Internet access subscription, you pay only for the local phone call.
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Many other companies that provide Internet access can accommodate 10 percent of their subscribers at once, analysts say.
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As he moved through internet access , the minimum wage and family tax credits, the heckling began.
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If you want Internet access , go with an Internet provider.
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Farmplan is now offering farmers the complete package: computers with internet access already installed.
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Netcom On-Line Communications, the leading provider of Internet access to consumers, was hit especially hard.
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It provides every mod con for high-tech tenants: built-in computer networking and high-speed internet access .
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For example, in some cases the bill would make it illegal for Internet users to access information not protected by copyright.
open
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However, the therapist did not think that the situation had improved and therefore offered further open access .
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AT&T might even offer open access within that time.
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The therapist thought Mary appeared to benefit from these telephone contacts and had not abused the availability of open access .
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This sort of open access to school resources goes on throughout the day.
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Other freight and passenger operators will have open access rights to this network.
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A stainless steel clip holds the lid open when access is needed for compost or liquid removal.
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We will have franchisees and people who are not franchisees but just wish to run on open access .
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There is open access to undergraduate and postgraduate courses as well as reciprocal facilities in Science and Social Science departments.
public
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A Cornish Coastal Footpath has been opened to give the public access to walk along the cliffs.
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Clinton also issued a federal report showing 65 percent of public schools have access to the Internet.
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They suggested that a public access catalogue would be a suitably demanding trial application.
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The College of Law premises are not a place of unrestricted public access .
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Of course, first it has to be put online, and granted public access .
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In problematical cases the following test might help - Has the general public access ?
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The main factor for a road is public access , but where to draw the line causes difficulty.
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The protest walks are aimed at regaining and protecting public rights of access to the countryside.
random
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Playing time is longer about one hour of straight playing time per side - but random access is less accurate.
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In fact, it had no random access memory at all.
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Myth-1: All disk drive requests are random access .
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It comes with eight megabytes of random access memory, a must since it also comes with Windows 95.
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In order to do this with the minimum access time, random access files are necessary.
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Fig. 5.7 Index sequential files - overflow block Random access offers another way of organising data on disk for quick access.
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The difficultly of achieving high-speed random access can be reduced by careful design of the data layout.
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Please specify Y if this media unit is a serial device or N if it is a random access device.
remote
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The new ScaNet/RemotePC is designed to give ScaNet users remote access from personal computers via a modem.
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There is also no character-based interface for remote access making it clumsy as a server.
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Applications include mobile facsimile, data sharing and transfer and remote computer access .
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This ability to share the desktop has many useful features, like allowing remote access to your office computer.
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Auto-dialling and remote access is possible from touch-tone telephones and electronic mail and voice-mail functions may be incorporated at a later date.
unlimited
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Rules were relaxed to allow the first privately owned locomotives unlimited access to the national rail network.
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The bottom line here is that if you pay for unlimited access , you should receive unlimited access.
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Parliament would have unlimited access to the funds, but would have to pass specific resolutions to appropriate money.
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They had unlimited access to company cheques and used £109,561 to set up their own property firm.
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Prices are expected to be in the $ 27 to $ 30 per month range for unlimited Internet access .
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Play Matters is the national toy library association and membership costs £17.50 a year for unlimited access to toys!
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When that happens, unlimited free access to their Web sites could be the first casualty.
unrestricted
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A report by development services director Stephen Tapper says bus lanes produce considerable time savings by allowing public transport unrestricted access .
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The College of Law premises are not a place of unrestricted public access .
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Open drives provide unrestricted access to the rear of a property.
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Some enclosed hotel parking. Unrestricted access to rooms.
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We should be allowed unrestricted access to outside money sources.
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Bright, comfortable rooms all with showers. Unrestricted access and ample street parking.
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At the other extreme is the park to which the public has unrestricted access during daylight hours.
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And individuals who want unrestricted access to the internet can simply obtain a service provider in a neighbouring country.
■ NOUN
code
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The computer itself could only be activated by an access code known solely to Bailey.
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The five-digit access code is required until at least March 1997, when the state market is more fully deregulated.
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After feeding in the access code he sat back and stifled a yawn.
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This provides you with a voice message telephone number and access code .
provider
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The growth of some local access providers has been astounding.
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Already, Internet access providers and universities have moved to limit certain material.
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Verio was recognized for its progression from an Internet-access provider to an e-commerce and Web hosting leader.
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Internet access providers generally charge $ 20 a month but offer an unlimited number of hours per month.
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These backbone access providers link users and ecommerce application providers.
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A special Internet Setup Assistant helps users find an Internet access provider .
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To answer these challenges, any budding access provider will need to develop strong marketing strategies and programs to support future growth.
road
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Car drivers will now have to negotiate the dangers of an access road hidden by a bend on a hill.
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Only by driving down the restricted and guarded government access road leading to the site can one see the valley of antennas.
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Take the track which is a continuation of the access road to the Arnside Knott car park.
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And both Yosemite and SequoiaKing National Parks became inaccessible as rising water washed out their main access roads but created new waterfalls.
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The nature of the access road to the site and adjoining development can be influential with regard to market potential.
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Local or access roads , or on-ramps, simplify linkages between businesses, schools, and homes to the communications backbone.
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Would follow a route east of the existing road , bypassing local communities and leaving A701 as a quiet access road.
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Never drive unaccompanied on quarry access roads , used by marble-transporting trucks.
■ VERB
allow
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The demolition was about two-thirds complete, allowing both access and cover.
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One of its programs, appropriately called Stock Mania, allows users to access stock prices free of charge.
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The special link allows Jane access to all of Frank's modules, but not viceversa.
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After Major League Baseball agreed to cooperate, the Giants allowed film crews access to the stadium.
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It will produce the hard data needed to analyse resource utilisation and will trigger an alarm mechanism allowing managers to control access .
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She also allowed me access to virtually everything the team did.
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This is a slightly warmer channel and allows access to the cloaking device if required.
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We should be allowed unrestricted access to outside money sources.
deny
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However, they soon comprised, for the most part, Roma children who were denied access to mainstream education.
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On what grounds can they deny access ?
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For ten more months, doctors in Britain can continue, legally, to deny people access to their own medical records.
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It is important for administrators to protect against denial-of-service threats without denying access to legitimate users.
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Unemployment is at 38 %, and thousands are being denied access to humanitarian aid, food supplies and work.
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Forty years ago, female reporters were denied access to the congressional press galleries with the same excuse.
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This increase occurred after the 1996 Asylum and Immigration Act, which denied refugees access to social housing, began to bite.
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Indeed, advocates for the elderly say some seniors have complained about being denied access to home health benefits.
gain
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Some of the more sensational reports claimed that Misrati had used his attractive young daughter to gain access to information.
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And within that, we must have a strong, equal and unfettered opportunity to compete and gain access .
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The firm may be market-seeking, in the sense that it wishes to gain access to more customers and consumers.
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So, since they could not gain access to the public arena, they worked mainly through family networks.
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To gain access again to the Lumsdens' house?
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You gain access to those 4 million square miles, and you gain access to tremendous natural resources.
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I need to gain access to the space under the floor.
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Money users can pay bills, gain access to their accounts and download bank information.
give
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He's launched a scheme which gives these farmers access to modern farm machinery and he teaches them how to use it.
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Interactive telecommunications increasingly give ordinary citizens immediate access to the major political decisions that affect their lives and property.
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It is designed to give physicians faster access to results on new and re-examined medical treatments.
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The Internet gives people access to a world of information.
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The new ScaNet/RemotePC is designed to give ScaNet users remote access from personal computers via a modem.
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The companion ladder, engine box and associated panels are very easy to remove, giving excellent access to the auxiliary.
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Paths give access here while espalier fruit can be both productive and a real space saver in a small garden.
grant
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We should have provision for granting supervised access to the same resources as staff.
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Finally, he grants Bennett access to his old papers, but Bennett can make little headway with them.
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Eventually, in January 1989, she was awarded custody of their daughters and the earl was granted access .
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Mike Leavitt has signed into law a bill banning public schools from granting recognition or access to gay or lesbian student groups.
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Of course, Jody could not grant me access to the players themselves.
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In return, Blackpool trams were granted access to the Company tracks as far as Lytham, but rarely exercised the privilege.
improve
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This would at once limit access to the city by private vehicles and improve access for buses and coaches.
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The problem resulted from work the company is undertaking as it tries to improve access for its customers.
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We also believe there is scope to improve public access to the countryside beyond the Rights of Way network.
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We will tighten controls against exploitation, we will create more National Parks and we will improve access to the countryside.
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We will improve access to legal aid and, when resources allow, extend it to tribunal hearings.
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A large proportion of the new money has been spent to improve access for scientists.
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Such practices can improve accessibility and access .
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It is not possible to improve on equal access synonym handling in two cases.
limit
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This would at once limit access to the city by private vehicles and improve access for buses and coaches.
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It offered low-cost housing and was free of the deed restrictions that limited black access to other areas of Los Angeles.
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The password which will be used to limit access to the packages created.
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However, the portions of the bill limiting access to the courts were approved with almost no discussion.
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The Cinema has limited wheelchair access , and people with disabilities should contact the House Manager in advance.
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His openness is counter-cultural in these times of limited access , control-freak staffers, and ubiquitous security details.
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The actors will have only limited access .
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Texas inmates currently have only limited access to telephones.
need
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Those are the people who need access to education most of all.
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They need to audit all access to the network.
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But if teachers are to take such decisions they need to have access to these ideas.
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For markets to work well, consumers need access to adequate and accurate information.
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It needs to make access top information simple, right down to desktop level.
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Teachers, parents, and students all need access to better information about colleges and careers than is commonly available.
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I need to gain access to the space under the floor.
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You will need access to a lathe, bandsaw and planer thicknesser for this particular chair, though the latter is optional.
offer
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All three pay 6.85 per cent, offer instant access , and welcome deposits from £1.
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The service also offers access to the products and services of important Journal advertisers.
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On the back of the body, a plastic cover offers easy access to the control cavity.
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Other companies are turning to television, which offers access to a much broader but less affluent market.
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In the past year, some companies have begun to offer free Internet access .
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Largely made obsolete by V. 32bis technology, V. 32 modems can still offer inexpensive access to on-line services.
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It must also offer access to competing third-party freight operators' on fair commercial terms'.
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Mitsubishi and other companies to offer Internet access from cellular phones.
provide
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The Control Center provides a relatively easy access point to dBase.
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More importantly, they provide access to community members who otherwise would not be on the Net at all.
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These provide advice on access to and progression from each of the new awards, and on designing and running cross-module assessment.
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PSINet has said it wants to pare back to its core business of providing Internet access to business.
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It was a means of providing controlled access to the unspoilt beauty of the Park and keep it that way.
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PacketWorks has provided Internet access and related services to business customers in Central Florida since its founding in 1994.
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Affiliation to the National Confederation will provide your group with access to a network of services and expertise.
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The company also plans to provide Internet access for its customers.
restrict
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Instead they should restrict access to plants, control contracts and set up local industries to capitalise on biodiversity.
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Only by driving down the restricted and guarded government access road leading to the site can one see the valley of antennas.
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The Parkins' house stood in a drive marked at the entrance with a notice restricting access to residents only.
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The CyberArcade uses monitoring software to restrict computer access to inappropriate, adult-oriented Web sites.
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Internet Explorer and Netscape, for example, can restrict access according to a rating system.
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But some states have restricted access to medications.
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This may be difficult if both gatekeepers and policy in the buying company aim to restrict such access .
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If we attempt to restrict development without ensuring access for local people, the result will be to force them out.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gain access/entry/admittance etc (to sth)
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A bird had gained entry through one of the broken windows and flown helplessly around until it collided with her.
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Besides, neither of us has enough money to gain entry to that story.
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Finding herself unable to gain entry the plaintiff obtained an exparte injunction to readmit her to the premises.
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How will the public be able to gain access to the information that by law they have a right to see?
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It is even questionable that the electronic press has to await permission from a state legislature in order to gain entry.
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She used her pit-pass to gain entry, then made her way towards the motor home Ace used.
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So, since they could not gain access to the public arena, they worked mainly through family networks.
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Unfortunately, you can not gain access to your inner clock as easily as the clock on your kitchen wall.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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City officials are considering building a path to give the public access to the ruins.
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The entrance has been widened to give improved access for disabled people.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His reputation, along with luck and chutzpah, helped him get unique access to Ames.
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More than 60 companies have bid for access .
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The disk is not allowed access until it has been validated with the Disknet check program.
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The service also offers access to the products and services of important Journal advertisers.
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The therapist thought Mary appeared to benefit from these telephone contacts and had not abused the availability of open access .
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Without access to specific facts a criminal prosecution may be totally frustrated.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
data
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The first major problem is to access the arc data .
information
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Before accessing the information for a word, it is necessary to first know what word to obtain information for.
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In short, the Web provides a totally different and unique method of accessing information .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The balcony is accessed by a spiral staircase from the bar.
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The library's database can be accessed via workstations in the reference room.
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We don't want minors accessing pornography on the Internet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Many kinds of locks are available to prevent people from accessing your computer hard drive.
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Many queries can be answered by simply accessing the index.
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Note that you may only access the oldest 16 mail messages.
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The low wing design makes refuelling, fuel drains, and control linkages easy to access during the pre-flight inspection.