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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
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Both stations are designed to accommodate six-\#car trains.
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Nearby would be a trail head that could accommodate 15 cars and 10 horse trailers.
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The building was enlarged in 1911, as seen here, to accommodate the seasonal toastrack cars used on the Circular Tour.
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The road was scarcely wide enough to accommodate two cars travelling abreast but the Audi ploughed up a grass verge.
change
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To accommodate that change , it also means a knock-out, rather than round-robin format, which is never exactly satisfactory.
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Centers will maintain the flexibility to accommodate changes in specific projects as the need for information changes.
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It is among a small number of churches designed specifically to accommodate the liturgical changes which followed from the Second Vatican Council.
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Still other industries, such as manufacturing, will find it more difficult to accommodate regulatory change .
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But homeotherms are not so well structured to accommodate chronic changes in temperature.
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People change and so do opportunities; there is a need continually to make choices to accommodate these changes.
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Increasingly, change was more easily accommodated as political relationships changes.
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These changes also had a significant impact at the political level as government sought to introduce reforms to accommodate these changes.
child
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Section 46 gives the police power to remove and accommodate children in an emergency.
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A family centre may also accommodate the child and his family while they receive advice, guidance and counselling.
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Local authorities have a duty to accommodate children in certain circumstances and a power to do so in others.
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A vast building programme began, to accommodate all children from 11 to 15, and later to 16.
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They needed two tables to accommodate the ten children .
demand
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The culture is about accepting the statusquo, about accommodating to the demands of the industrial system.
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The network was upgraded several times over the last decade to accommodate the increasing demand .
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In turn, this stimulated development of switches and routers to accommodate the increasing demands of the networks.
family
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The city or suburban dwellings of the new class were at first too small to accommodate the extended family .
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Large bedrooms with two large beds accommodating the family for little or no extra cost means revenue from extra meals and drinks.
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She serves complementary wine and great conversation for those who wish and is willing to accommodate a family .
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Buildings designed to accommodate families as independent units were more individual and less institutionalized.
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Every one of them insists our public policies must do a better job of supporting and accommodating and encouraging the family .
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Not every employer is able to accommodate every work / family conflict and stay in business.
growth
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About 70% of all new aircraft will be bought by airlines just to accommodate that growth , says Boeing.
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To accommodate the ongoing growth , the company has now added a highly advanced environmentally controlled pressure sensor calibration laboratory.
guest
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The Grand Hall has its own kitchen and bar facility and can accommodate up to 160 guests .
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Two ground-floor bedrooms have been designed to accommodate disabled guests .
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And perhaps, occasionally, you may be asked to accommodate some very special guests .
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The Studios can accommodate up to 300 guests .
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Adjoining is the York Suite which accommodates up to 30 guests .
increase
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This increase was exclusively confined to the private sector which recorded a massive 115 percent increase in the number accommodated .
need
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However, given prior notice, they will accommodate guests' needs .
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Your education programs should be designed to accommodate different needs within your workforce.
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By and large, the academic community seems content simply to accommodate to the instrumental needs of post-industrial society.
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News directors accommodate the visual needs of politicians because television needs pictures.
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Community Based Planners will have to consider alternatives to accommodating the needs of those living in more rural areas.
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Spreadsheets and general ledger systems alone can not accommodate the information needs of all managers and executives.
number
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The school was extended to accommodate the increased number of children and an additional school was built for the infants.
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Set them at distances to accommodate the largest possible number or other entry in that column.
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Drove roads have wide verges originally to accommodate large numbers of animals on the move.
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To accommodate such large numbers , visitors were asked to arrive at different times, all carefully co-ordinated to avoid a jam.
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Even with a much smaller capacity than Wembley, Swindon's County Ground accommodates the same number of disabled fans.
passenger
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Despite their great size, the new cars only seated 56, although their massive platforms could accommodate many standing passengers .
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Passengers will sail aboard a 95-foot vessel, which accommodates up to 12 passengers.
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One of these saloons, built in 1905, had two double and seven single berths, and accommodated eleven passengers .
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Nineteen cabins, more than any other ship, are designed to accommodate disabled passengers .
people
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The idea that you can accommodate people with these special needs in large units.
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However, it has scheduled three extra round trips between Phoenix and Las Vegas on Sunday, to accommodate people staying there.
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It was taller than a man, and big enough to accommodate four or five people inside.
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Two wards, built for 60 patients each, came to accommodate more than 550 people .
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This artificial world would contain enough room to accommodate more than 1016 people .
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Sand had been shipped in to form a deeper and wider beach, to accommodate up to two hundred people .
room
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Our eleven purpose-built meeting halls and ten executive rooms can comfortably accommodate a meeting for six or a major conference hosting hundreds.
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This artificial world would contain enough room to accommodate more than 1016 people.
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All rooms accommodate up to 3 adults with a small number of rooms able to accommodate two adults and two children.
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Walls had been pulled down to make this a room that accommodated nearly all the ground floor.
space
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This space had previously accommodated the organ loft.
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The wider the curtains, or longer the blind, the more space needed to accommodate them.
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Some incorporated timber-framed lean-to houses, and the central open space could accommodate livestock.
student
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The Course also goes a long way to accommodate the not uncommon student experience of making a mistaken choice of degree subject.
system
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Spreadsheets and general ledger systems alone can not accommodate the information needs of all managers and executives.
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Flexibility should be built into the system to accommodate additional indices.
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Western models were influential because they met a need for a system that could accommodate diversity.
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The money was desperately needed to expand the system to accommodate an ever-increasing population.
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Further disk and tape systems can be accommodated , along with up to 64 Transputers.
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They were inevitable, for they were part of the capacity of the system to accommodate itself to change.
■ VERB
build
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In the early 1900s the 4,700-seat auditorium was built to accommodate growing audiences.
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The workhouse, erected with its fine boardroom in 1838 at a cost of £2,000, was built to accommodate 170 inmates.
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Also, conservatories need not necessarily be built to accommodate an existing door of the house.
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In the early eighties the marina was built and now accommodates hundreds of foreign yachts.
design
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Both stations are designed to accommodate six-car trains.
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Receptors come in dozens of varieties, each specially designed to accommodate one of the dozens of neurotransmitters used by the brain.
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Storage accommodation had to be designed to accommodate upwards of 10,000 items used in these repairs.
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Nineteen cabins, more than any other ship, are designed to accommodate disabled passengers.
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Two ground-floor bedrooms have been designed to accommodate disabled guests.
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Your education programs should be designed to accommodate different needs within your workforce.
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All vehicles carry videotapes and illustrative material and are designed to accommodate up to sixteen girls working in pairs at eight work stations.
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Buildings designed to accommodate families as independent units were more individual and less institutionalized.
expand
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First, you must expand your psyche to accommodate the bigger and better.
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The money was desperately needed to expand the system to accommodate an ever-increasing population.
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These reservoirs behave as imperfectly elastic containers, expanding and contracting to accommodate fluxes of melt.
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They could not expand enough to accommodate all who chose them.
try
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Why not, therefore, consider trying to accommodate that feature?
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Our park and land managers are trying to accommodate these reductions with the least impact on visitors.
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Now, steps are being taken to try to accommodate everyone.
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Naturally, I certainly tried to accommodate their wishes, but the final decision was mine to make.
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Jackson has tried to accommodate him by adding an offensive twist in which Rodman plays in the low post.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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If your microwave is large enough to accommodate the turkey, thaw it in a glass baking dish.
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Migrant workers to be accommodated near the place where they work.
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Nineteen cabins on the new ship are designed to accommodate disabled passengers.
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Once you been accepted at the university they promise to accommodate you in a dormitory.
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Students can study the habits of animals that have to accommodate to changes in weather.
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The hotel can only accommodate 200 people.
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We have made reasonable efforts to accommodate employees' requests for transfers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Centers will maintain the flexibility to accommodate changes in specific projects as the need for information changes.
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Coach Carr, please adjust the microphone to accommodate your 6 feet 6 inches.
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He is a natural opener, and Paul Terry has dropped down the order to accommodate him.
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His main task was tastefully to accommodate as many wedding presents into their new homes as was practicable.
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Nineteen cabins, more than any other ship, are designed to accommodate disabled passengers.
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Remember to adjust the straps at the beginning and the end of the season to accommodate either bare feet or boots.
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The ground floor of the new building will accommodate physiotherapy and hydrotherapy departments, orthopaedic clinic and an x-ray room.
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We needed all our land to accommodate our growing population.