I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a criminal offence/act (= a crime )
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Cruelty to animals is a criminal offence.
a lawyer acts for/defends/represents sb
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a group of lawyers who represent the airline
a novelty act (= a performance that is unusual and different )
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Mike Michaels the Mechanical Magician was one of the best novelty acts I've seen.
a symbolic act
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Lighting the Olympic flame is a symbolic act.
a teaching/acting/sporting career
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Her acting career lasted for more than 50 years.
a terrorist attack/bombing/act
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More than 50 people were injured in the terrorist attack.
act as a catalyst
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They hope his election will act as a catalyst for reform.
act as a consultant (= be a consultant on a particular project )
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He acted as a historical consultant on the film.
act as an incentive (= be an incentive )
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The chance of promotion acts as an incentive for many employees.
act as...a deterrent
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The small fines for this type of crime do not act as much of a deterrent .
act decisively
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Yet again, we have failed to act decisively .
act for/on behalf of a client
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The lawyer will write confirming that he agrees to act for his client.
act of aggression
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an unprovoked act of aggression
act of worship (= religious ceremony )
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We were invited to join in their act of worship .
act on an impulse (= do something because you have a sudden desire to do it )
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Acting on an impulse, he decided to visit his sister.
act your age (= behave in the way that a person of your age should behave )
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It’s time he started acting his age.
act/behave responsibly
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Can I rely on you to behave responsibly while I’m away?
acted as...intermediary
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Jackson acted as an intermediary between the two parties.
acted deceitfully
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His lawyer argued that his client had not acted deceitfully .
acted in good faith
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The company had acted in good faith .
acted on...own initiative (= he was not told what to do )
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Lt. Carlos was not obeying orders. He acted on his own initiative .
act/gesture of defiance
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Running away was an act of defiance against his parents.
acting ability
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Her acting abilities were obvious straightaway.
acting as agents
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We’re acting as agents for Mr Watson.
acting in bad faith
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In order to sue, you have to prove that the company was acting in bad faith .
acting suspiciously
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He saw two youths acting suspiciously .
act/perform/appear in a play
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She acted in many plays on the London stage.
acts as camouflage
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The whiteness of the arctic fox acts as camouflage , hiding it from its enemies.
acts of generosity
acts of sabotage
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The terrorists were planning acts of sabotage to destabilize the country.
act/serve as a go-between
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A UN representative will act as a go-between for leaders of the two countries.
an act of parliament (= a law that has been passed by parliament )
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Their rights are guaranteed by Act of Parliament.
an act of revenge
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The men were shot dead in an act of revenge for Khan’s assassination.
an act of terrorism
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The prosecution alleged that the men had been responsible for many acts of terrorism.
an act of violence
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Police warned that acts of violence would not be tolerated.
an illegal act
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Driving without insurance is an illegal act.
balancing act
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Gilmore had to perform the difficult balancing act of attracting moderate voters without losing his Conservative base.
catch sb in the act (of doing sth) (= catch someone while they are doing something illegal )
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The gang was caught in the act of unloading the cigarettes.
circus act (= a trick performed in a circus )
commit an act of violence/terrorism/aggression etc
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Anyone committing an act of terrorism will be severely punished.
despicable act
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a despicable act of terrorism
double act
film/acting/directorial etc debut
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His Broadway debut was ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’.
get in on the act (= become involved in something exciting or interesting )
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The scheme has proved very successful, and now other local authorities are keen to get in on the act .
pass a law/bill/act
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The first Transport Act was passed in 1907.
prosecute sb under a law/Act etc
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The company is to be prosecuted under the Health and Safety Act.
provocative act
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a provocative act by a terrorist group
serve as/act as a reminder (= be a reminder )
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The photograph will serve as a lovely reminder of your visit.
stay/act within the law (= not do illegal things )
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The security forces must act within the law.
violent acts/behaviour
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His dad terrified them all with his violent behaviour.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
criminal
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They chose to attract public attention and demonstrate contradictions in justice and the law by criminal acts .
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I am ashamed to think that you believe me capable of such a shameful and criminal act .
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Slaughtering of this magnitude is nothing short of a criminal act , indicating incompetence in policy and management chaos.
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Interception of cell phone calls has been a criminal act since 1986, when those devices were included in federal wiretap statutes.
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A further difficulty is the impossibility of including all criminal acts in a questionnaire or interview.
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The show uses video surveillance footage, interviews and re-enactments to focus on lamebrain criminal acts .
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Which means that you witnessed a criminal act however willing she was.
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Nevertheless, they do occur and occasional assaults and other criminal acts are committed.
double
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The act now took the form of a double act.
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The reason for this double act becomes obvious the minute you set off.
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It could have been an interesting double act but it was bunkered immediately by all the showbiz flannel.
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Bill used to be half of a double act with Dave Allen.
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They make a good double act in the Treasury team, where she is shadow Chief Secretary.
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And brimming with fun in bowler hats, the visitors raised more smiles than Downing Street's double act .
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Thankfully, the engine and gearbox make a great double act .
final
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Mellor's resignation was the final act in a drama running since July, when his romance with Antonia was exposed.
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In the final act Ricardo confronts his son with his horrible crimes.
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Looking down he saw the final fearful act of that day.
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The final act takes place in the square in front of Westminster Bridge.
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One of his final acts was to take Britain's Nigel Mansell from Williams.
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The final act was its dissolution.
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This was her final act of spite, to take the piece and leave Paige to face the consequences.
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Creed preceded the final act , the Red Hot Chili Peppers, on the east stage.
hard
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A hard act to follow, but its stars are confident that the small screen version will prove just as popular.
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Clearly Amelia was a hard act to follow.
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It was a hard act to follow, but the poor did what they could to provide respectable funerals for their dead.
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John's is, of course, a hard act to follow.
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There is no question that Mr Brown's will be an exceedingly hard act to follow.
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You've certainly set us a hard act to follow!
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A hard act to swallow ... Dangerous Dan and his latest flame.
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Colm Toibin's piece will be a hard act to follow but I suspect you are up to it.
illegal
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The initial founding of a squatter settlement is, itself, an illegal act and, therefore, a challenge to authority.
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State action to prevent illegal and unauthorised acts of local authorities.
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The raid was an illegal act , without any authorisation by the United Nations.
simple
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One which caused trouble was the simple act of opening a window.
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By the simple act of hiding the desk something is clearly said about teaching and learning.
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The simple act of giving up a sedentary occupation brought about the improved the state of health.
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A simple act , maybe, but it changed the rules of engagement for ever.
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Why is it that the simple act of purchasing something can often be hell?
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New energy and resolve erupted from the simple act of moving their tiny toys out of doors!
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Even the simple act of observing a sleeper normally requires forgoing sleep oneself.
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But just the simple act of leafing through and talking about a book can help.
symbolic
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The deeply symbolic ritual act of treading the earth affirms the relationship of human beings to their native soil.
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It was as though that one, symbolic act gave him permission to live his life his way.
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Yet there could be no more symbolic act of defiance than a currency with a separate exchange rate against the rouble.
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The wearing of an armband to express certain views is the kind of symbolic act protected by that amendment.
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The symbolic act could not have been more significant.
unlawful
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There are two types of crime which will not suffice as the unlawful act: crimes of negligence and crimes of omission.
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Possessing a knife was not perse an unlawful act under the Prevention of Crime Act 1953, s.1.
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Where there is no unlawful act , there is no unlawful act manslaughter.
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The unlawful act was arson, and he was reckless as to the risk of injury.
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The requirement of mens rea for unlawful act manslaughter may be easily satisfied.
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If the accused kills by fire, the unlawful act is arson.
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A lawful act such as a killing in self-defence is not an unlawful act for this purpose.
violent
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We have, therefore to consider these other aspects of violent acts .
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Ultimately the batterer is himself tricked by his lustful appetite, and his violent acts inevitably escalate.
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Outrage at the injustices erupted in violent acts .
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By contrast, 1 percent of Channel 4 programmes contained violence, with an average frequency of one violent act per hour.
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Men were twice as likely as women to perceive those violent acts as improving the relationship.
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Police departments are accustomed to an increase in violent acts when the moon is fall.
■ NOUN
class
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But DataEase is definitely a class act that deserves its position.
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That was a class act to come in and ask.
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I doubt that she is much like the real Gertrude Lawrence but she is decidedly a class act .
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Running back Emmitt Smith is a class act and quarterback Troy Aikman is cool, tough and dignified.
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Stewart rates Gascoigne and Beardsley as the top class acts of the hundreds he appeared with at club level.
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Trenches Throughout everything, the divisions of class act as trenches as surely as those dug by the soldiers.
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They looked a class act and for once came away with a result to match.
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You're going to be a class act as Prime Minister, really you are.
riot
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Nearly all gone now, worse luck, and the guv'nor's arrived to read the riot act .
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One approach was to read these young people the riot act and let them repent or retreat.
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Afterwards, Waziri would read the riot act in Kinyankole, the smoke from the matooke grates swirling behind him.
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He then proceeded to read the riot act to his headstrong brother.
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After reining in the regional barons and tackling the business oligarchs, Mr Putin read the riot act to the generals.
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What good were riot acts being read?
speech
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In fact, he suggests that speech act theory and deconstruction complement, rather than contradict, each other.
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Students of literature who are sympathetic to, and at least partially acquainted with, speech act theory should find the arguments stimulating.
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Even resistant readers will find much informative discussion of speech act theory and related matters.
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An approach which tries to formulate how such knowledge is brought into play is speech act theory.
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Could speech act theory have helped them decide?
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This lack of explicitness will surely limit the significance of the book for researchers working in speech act theory and related fields.
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Of course, there is no reason why a book on speech act theory should discuss alternative approaches at all.
■ VERB
balance
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But it's a crucial balancing act where you have to prioritise on a daily basis.
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Using political power to reduce market inequalities requires a high-wire balancing act .
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This is a delicate balancing act for Mr Carr, however.
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Now that balancing act has become more precarious than ever.
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This is a tricky balancing act .
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President Clinton called attention to the broader issues with his veto of the balanced budget act .
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This meeting, he realized, was part of some kind of good cop, bad cop balancing act Giuliani was encouraging.
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That's a balancing act that few southwestern cities have managed -- as Tucson's crumbling streets and contaminated wells attest.
clean
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More recently Lou has cleaned up his act and started setting the world to rights.
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Citibank insists it has cleaned up its act .
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The industry was effectively warned to clean up its act or face legislation.
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Naming and shaming remains an option should the company not clean up its act .
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But he eventually sees their potential and cleans up his act just in time.
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Despite Mr Haider's grandiose, unbelievable last-minute pledges to clean up his act , there should be no wavering.
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Drivers whose vehicles give off more poisonous chemicals than are allowed have ten days to clean up their act .
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Legislation aimed at forcing the power firms to clean up their act is being fought tooth and nail by the polluters.
commit
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It is often said that an assault can be committed only by an act and that an omission is not sufficient.
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For a submariner, he had committed a grievous act -- mixing alcohol with duty.
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Now that the partisans were well organized in the Province of Parma they committed many acts of sabotage.
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What is the price tag for keeping decent, nonviolent people from having to commit the very act that Davis committed?
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The offence would be committed by a single act of distribution, and the recipient may be a single person.
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He was eventually convicted of committing an injurious act , a misdemeanor, police said.
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The Court of Appeal allowed the appellant's appeal against conviction of committing an act of gross indecency.
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The appellant, Norman Mattison, was charged with committing an act of gross indecency with his co-defendant.
follow
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A hard act to follow , but its stars are confident that the small screen version will prove just as popular.
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Clearly Amelia was a hard act to follow .
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I know that she will be a tough act to follow .
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Congress got in the act in the following years, lending the academy $ 255, 000 to expand the dairy.
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It was a hard act to follow , but the poor did what they could to provide respectable funerals for their dead.
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Under the best of circumstances, Weiss' Marat-Sade is a difficult two acts to follow .
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John's is, of course, a hard act to follow .
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There is no question that Mr Brown's will be an exceedingly hard act to follow .
pass
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Once Parliament has passed an act , it becomes the law of the land.
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At the same time, Congress passed an act reducing tariff rates.
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She passed several acts to make legal strikes all but impossible, and to imprison her opponents at will.
perform
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Its purpose Augean - no less than to perform an act of reparation for the sins of students everywhere.
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He was like a robot kitchen helper, he sometimes thought, who performed acts without understanding what he was doing.
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There's always a reason why a person performs the murder act .
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Kronos performs an equally strange act .
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Instead he will, in best bib and tucker, be performing his last official act as the Masters champion.
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Consequently the mayoral incumbent must perform a delicate juggling act to maintain constituent support.
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It is used in respect of sacred trees, shrines, etc., and is performed as an act of reverence or respect.
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Scrapbooks and bottles of paste and cutout articles of the young Dove braving gales in canoes, performing heroic acts .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
act as a brake on sth
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In April 1992 they persuaded Boris Yeltsin to put three industrialists into the government to act as a brake on the free-marketeers.
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Post-war development of parachutes acting as brakes on jet aircraft are also covered in this rarely written about subject.
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To what extent do girls act as brakes on, or motivators of, delinquent behaviour in masculine adolescent gang-culture, for example?
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Unfortunately, widespread foot-dragging continues to act as a brake on debt relief.
act/play the goat
acting manager/head teacher/director etc
an act of faith
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Allowing Ken to be in charge of the project was a total act of faith .
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It is, even, a bit of an act of faith comparing two concurrent campaigns' performance.
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It was an act of faith to open up and know that we might not have any money two weeks later.
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It was by an act of faith in his science that a trim Shepelev crawled into the chamber and sealed the door.
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Six were at sea, on the business of trade - an act of faith that he might have cause to regret.
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The objection to the claim is that it is mere assertion or, more kindly, an act of faith .
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There is no continuous evolution towards it; it requires, somewhere along the line, an act of faith on the part of management.
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This is where boating turns into an act of faith .
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To conclude that the universe exists because it permits us to exist is an act of faith , not reason.
be a hard act to follow
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Clearly Amelia was a hard act to follow .
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Colm Toibin's piece will be a hard act to follow but I suspect you are up to it.
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It was a hard act to follow , but the poor did what they could to provide respectable funerals for their dead.
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Judith will be a hard act to follow .
clean up your act
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Gwen finally told her troubled son to clean up his act or get out of her house.
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She told her son to clean up his act or move out.
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Tish has really cleaned up her act - she doesn't drink or smoke pot any more.
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But he eventually sees their potential and cleans up his act just in time.
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Citibank insists it has cleaned up its act.
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Despite Mr Haider's grandiose, unbelievable last-minute pledges to clean up his act, there should be no wavering.
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Drivers whose vehicles give off more poisonous chemicals than are allowed have ten days to clean up their act.
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Legislation aimed at forcing the power firms to clean up their act is being fought tooth and nail by the polluters.
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More recently Lou has cleaned up his act and started setting the world to rights.
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Naming and shaming remains an option should the company not clean up its act.
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The industry was effectively warned to clean up its act or face legislation.
deeds/acts etc of derring-do
read (sb) the riot act
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Stephanie read Ted the riot act for seeing his old girlfriend.
smarten up your act/ideas
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Despite the encouraging figures, the Chunnel has prompted ferry companies to smarten up their act, and offer better deals.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a criminal act
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a one-act play
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an act of Congress
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He was injured in a circus act that went wrong.
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In Act 2, Ross and Diane get married.
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Kinison's outrageous comedy act
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Our next act is a young singer all the way from Dallas, Texas.
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Part of his act involves dressing up as a woman.
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Saving the boys from the river was an act of great courage.
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the 1991 Prevention of Terrorism Act
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the Civil Rights Act
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The festival will be an all-day event featuring a lot of different acts.
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The Wagner Act prohibited employers from firing workers for joining a union.
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The whole nation is very grateful for the numerous acts of kindness rendered in this time of crisis.
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Tony tries to be so macho, but it's just an act .
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We condemn all acts of violence, no matter what the reason.
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We used to do a comedy act together.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A lawful act such as a killing in self-defence is not an unlawful act for this purpose.
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I recently saw a circus act with contortionists folding themselves in amazing ways.
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Naming and shaming remains an option should the company not clean up its act .
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Nicasio gave Cecilia poisoned water, believing she would reveal his perfidious acts.
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One of his final acts was to take Britain's Nigel Mansell from Williams.
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Some lawyers believed this act violated the establishment clause.
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The act of physically putting the drive in the computer is relatively easy.
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When her act split up, he offered her a permanent studio within the premises where she could run her own classes.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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He does not, but his genes act as if they do.
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These verbal clues act as links between major and subordinate points.
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And I could act as if running a new household was an ambition f could concentrate on and fall in love with.
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After a period of training, co-counsellors are paired off, and thereafter act as both counsellor and client to each other.
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At times, she became panicky and acted as if she were seeing something scary or having something scary happen to her.
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These people need to be enabled to act as representatives for their agencies and as link-persons with other agencies.
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These channels act as on-ramps to the Internet or other on-line information services.
decisively
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The bluelight was supposed to give her foreknowledge so she could act decisively .
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Thirty years ago, farmers say, the government acted decisively and quickly to contain hoof and mouth.
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Pressure to act decisively came, among others, from Mr Smith's predecessor, Neil Kinnock.
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Too few managers and supervisors had learned to act decisively not withstanding their new decision-making authority.
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When he felt fully in command of the situation, he acted decisively .
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The heads of Great Groups have to act decisively , but never arbitrarily.
on
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Since 1984, 22 Bills have not been acted on .
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Thus this second part is simply the tape that supposed to act on .
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Many general practitioners still need to be convinced that their views will be listened to and where appropriate acted on .
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Have they acted on users' suggestions for improvements?
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A concrete choice could be the four-momentum of a test body acted on by gravitational and non-gravitational forces.
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And he continued his signature practice of appointing teams to come up with recommendations that he could act on quickly.
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They are really promises - promises intended to be binding, intended to be acted on , and in fact acted on.
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Computers and the Brain A conventional computer is typically a single processor acting on explicitly programmed instructions.
out
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She has become a parody of herself, doomed to spend the rest of her life acting out her own mythical qualities.
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They acted out of a conscience that patriots despised but at least could understand.
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A reaction to these difficulties may be withdrawal, apathy, or acting out behaviour.
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Other children act out in school and have nightmares, the parents say.
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The market is further enhanced by live performers who act out the varied timeless arts.
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The dialogue-based text is ideal for reading aloud in class or for encouraging pupils to act out the stories.
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There have been several cases in the past where it appeared people were acting out violent scenes from films.
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Magistrates are also reported to want to reconstruct the raid using volunteers to act out the roles.
quickly
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Mr Keating is being urged to act quickly to avoid years of uncertainty while new claims are fought through the courts.
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Democrats are pushing Woods and other Republicans to act quickly .
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But police say they had to act quickly to protect staff and shoppers.
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The group said it was acting quickly because it feared that the new law would have an immediate effect on the Internet.
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He hadn't acted quickly enough.
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Major airlines always act quickly to nip back.
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They have to plan and act quickly to prevent any spread to other animals or humans.
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Marquez, realizing he must act quickly , marched toward Queretaro.
responsibly
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Both require political intervention: the market alone has no capacity to act responsibly or intelligently.
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There is a simple lesson here: give a student a real responsibility, and he or she will act responsibly .
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You can't force him to act responsibly but you can make sure he doesn't treat you like a doormat.
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He is acting responsibly , being faithful to his employer.
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That being so, the vice-chancellors are acting responsibly to explore alternative sources of funding.
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A vote for the Greens will put pressure on the other parties to act responsibly .
together
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The two experimental set-ups were different, incompatible, and so could not act together .
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Fifthly, the periodic meetings of Great Powers which together acted as self-appointed guarantors of international law and order.
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It had been unthinkable that either one of them could be ignored, much less the two acting together .
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That's why I think it could be a group of them acting together .
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The strong impression I had was of a people who acted together because of a preconceived plan: a people programmed.
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Ducal servants from all areas acted together .
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Compassion is feeling and acting together .
upon
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These recommendations have already been acted upon .
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Speaking a language involves producing sounds for others to hear, understand, and act upon .
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It has become customary to assume that the subject is that which acts and the object is that which is acted upon .
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The suggestion was acted upon at once.
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If the government acted upon this report the Raika stood to gain certain privileges.
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Headley also illustrates what could happen if operational intelligence was rapidly gathered and acted upon .
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The Enlightenment made claims for equality that waited to be acted upon .
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Issues not subsequently acted upon by Congress would be resubmitted for the voters to decide.
■ NOUN
advice
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But at the moment Thamesdown Borough Council isn't acting on that advice ... because its worried about the legal implications.
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She was acting on the advice of her therapist in speaking thus.
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The only reason the bank advanced was that it was acting on the advice of the Federal Reserve.
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In performing this duty the directors usually act on the advice of the issuing house and the lawyers acting.
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He added progress would be limited until housing and social services merged and acted on the advice of clients.
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No one knows what society would be like if everyone acted on the advice of those who openly advocate it.
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Here the garrison, acting on advice from Philip, refused to admit him.
agent
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And within this relationship local authorities were seen as decentralized administrative agents , acting at the behest of the centre.
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But it was unlikely the police agents acted without the approval of their superiors.
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The two parties may agree a price for the land or ask an agent to act on their behalf.
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Sales agents acting on behalf of manufacturers, are vigilant in preventing retailers from selling at lower prices by threatening to cut future supplies.
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The people to be interviewed are known as freight forwarding agents , who act for individual exporters and importers.
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Yesterday, a spokesman for the Shrewsbury-based agents acting for Hafodunos Estates said discussions were continuing.
authority
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Parliament has expressly given him power to intervene when the local authority is acting unreasonably.
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The board has authority to act in several ways.
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Parents and local authorities are expected to act in partnership motivated by the child's best interests.
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He said the Attorney General's office overstepped its authority and acted improperly.
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On what authority was International Rescue acting ?
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H grants Caltrans the authority to act .
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The dependence thesis does not claim that authorities always act for dependent reasons, but merely that they should do so.
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To deal with disputes over such matters, regional health authorities will act as conciliators.
behalf
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In due course you should find ways to reward the achievements of those who have acted on your behalf .
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The governors will often give the chairman discretion to act on their behalf .
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They agreed that they would really be acting on Altus's behalf .
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If there was an attempt to steal the election, it was by the Florida court acting on Gore's behalf .
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He would act on your behalf to the chief constable.
catalyst
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Such evidence may also act as a catalyst for improving the methods by which meta-analyses are conducted.
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They act as a catalyst for a company and help it to focus on a higher level of performance.
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As its name suggests, the dual perspective argues that rights and movements actually encourage each other, acting as mutual catalysts .
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The developer or his land buyer should act as the catalyst in such situations.
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It also acted as the catalyst to form fossil fuels from tiny animals millions of years ago.
deterrent
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The black and white stripes of the skunks act as a powerful deterrent , even from a great distance.
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In addition, divided catalogues or separate classified catalogues could also have acted as a deterrent to subject searching.
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This sentence certainly will not act as a deterrent to other drunk drivers.
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Whether that would act as a deterrent is, of course, another question altogether.
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A half squadron of gendarmes has been stationed in Maripasoula, their presence supposedly acting as a deterrent .
faith
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The Vendor ought to act in good faith and disclose any such matters.
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School officials can lose this qualified privilege if they act in bad faith or without regard for whether the statements are true.
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And some councils are acting in bad faith .
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If you act in good faith you might get out of this with your skin on.
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Such a State should act in good faith so as not to frustrate the objects of the treaty.
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Any person who acts in good faith will not, however, be required to make repayment.
role
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They will act in a facilitating role to help in focusing on more general social and economic need.
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But men do not feature prominently as family members acting in their familial role .
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The company secretarial department of the firm can and have acted in this role on occasions.
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Crowe brings much more than acting to the role .
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How have the parents acted as role models?
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Hunters might seek to kill them, but they are quite capable of turning the tables and acting out the agent role .
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You may act as a role model and a mentor to others.
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Magistrates are also reported to want to reconstruct the raid using volunteers to act out the roles .
solicitor
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It is envisaged that the wife and the new husband will have a solicitor who acts for both of them.
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Given that these defendants are unlikely to know the names of solicitors the responsibility for acting quickly settles on the duty solicitor.
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A solicitor or accountant can act as an Executor if you so wish.
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You are strongly advised to consult a solicitor without delay to act for you in your appeal.
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On both occasions the solicitor had acted without authority and the transactions were frauds on the bank.
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The effect may be to limit greatly the opportunity for solicitors to act as advocates in more serious criminal cases.
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Two Kirkwall solicitors were acting for the four families.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
act as a brake on sth
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In April 1992 they persuaded Boris Yeltsin to put three industrialists into the government to act as a brake on the free-marketeers.
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Post-war development of parachutes acting as brakes on jet aircraft are also covered in this rarely written about subject.
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To what extent do girls act as brakes on, or motivators of, delinquent behaviour in masculine adolescent gang-culture, for example?
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Unfortunately, widespread foot-dragging continues to act as a brake on debt relief.
act/play the goat
acting manager/head teacher/director etc
an act of faith
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Allowing Ken to be in charge of the project was a total act of faith .
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It is, even, a bit of an act of faith comparing two concurrent campaigns' performance.
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It was an act of faith to open up and know that we might not have any money two weeks later.
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It was by an act of faith in his science that a trim Shepelev crawled into the chamber and sealed the door.
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Six were at sea, on the business of trade - an act of faith that he might have cause to regret.
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The objection to the claim is that it is mere assertion or, more kindly, an act of faith .
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There is no continuous evolution towards it; it requires, somewhere along the line, an act of faith on the part of management.
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This is where boating turns into an act of faith .
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To conclude that the universe exists because it permits us to exist is an act of faith , not reason.
deeds/acts etc of derring-do
play/act the fool
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Don't play the fool with me. You know why I moved away.
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But the trouble with the picture is that it does absolutely nothing with its various prognostications except play the fool with them.
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Dominic and Lee had been playing the fool as only young men can.
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Don't go acting the fool , Carl.
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He acted the fool , losing at first to whet their appetites, but in an hour emptied his three victims' purses.
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He likes me to play the fool .
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In class he never played the fool , never challenged the teacher.
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Narouz had been angry, first with the girl for playing the fool and then with the eunuch for not finding her.
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Those on the path of mastery are willing to take chances, play the fool ....
read (sb) the riot act
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Stephanie read Ted the riot act for seeing his old girlfriend.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a fast-acting decongestant
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Congress must act soon on this vital legislation.
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Critics accuse the company of acting too slowly in notifying residents of the chemical leak.
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Despite the crisis, the Commission seems unwilling to act .
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He has been accused of acting like a dictator.
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He learned to act when he was in highschool.
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I acted more out of compassion than anything else.
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In recent years Lewis has been acting in television dramas.
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It takes a couple of minutes for the drug to act .
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Larry was acting really weird.
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Morganstern claims he was acting in self-defense.
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She acts as if she owns the place and we're her servants.
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That woman just can't act !
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The picture has a good script and is wonderfully acted.
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The report says the officers acted professionally and responsibly.
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Tina's been acting very strangely lately.
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We must act before the situation gets out of control.
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You're acting stupid and I don't want to talk to you anymore.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As often as not, the government would then act against the loyalists to prevent the increase in tension.
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Bernard in the twelfth century: The river enters the abbey as much as the well acting as a check allows.
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But it seemed to me that most of us were just acting.
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But there are many other ways in which we could act .
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Even in towns women did not normally act as traders.
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It is not the world we seem to experience and act in.
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It will no longer act as a spring but at least it will give the cabin a more solid base.
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Morgan Stanley will act as co-global coordinator.