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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
better
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Those that became extinct were replaced by better adapted ones.
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It favors species better adapted to their environments and kills off those less suitable.
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As better adapted successors emerge, others are forced into a corner.
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Children develop the capacity to see the view of others, consider intentions, and better adapt to the social world.
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The independent Red Army press was rather better adapted to its readership.
quickly
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Land use itself also quickly adapts to price signals, and the economic margin of cultivation can therefore change very rapidly.
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After initially responding to new smells, they quickly adapt and stop responding once the smell becomes familiar.
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During the six months I spent there I realised how important it was to adapt quickly .
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As we will see in more detail in the next chapter, the body adapts quickly to caffeine.
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Malayan barn owls are adapting quickly to this rich habitat and are reproducing much faster than elsewhere.
specially
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In aquatic insects they are often specially adapted as swimming organs.
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Squid have no penises at all, using a specially adapted arm instead.
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The Montegos have been specially adapted to cope with the extreme climate.
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As you can see, we have specially adapted the sitting-room to accommodate our experts.
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The radio series the Archers has been specially adapted for the theatre and is playing to packed houses.
to
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One interesting thing about this fish is the temperature that it can apparently adapt to .
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Their tadpoles can exploit bodies of water not excessively populated with competitors, and some are adapted to very restricted niches.
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Intensive research has been directed to the ways in which early communities adapted to and utilized their environments.
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Other speakers adapt to far more, perhaps to most of them, at one time or another.
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Her data from Dudley, West Midlands, shows that this is one of the first Creole features adapted to .
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Old buildings and streets, well cared for and adapted to today's needs, vastly enhance the quality of life.
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What they can read without any introduction is certainly possible for literate adults to adapt to.
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It must now face the imperial impotence that Britain has found it so difficult to adapt to.
well
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This particular formula is well adapted to an environment consisting of test-tubes provided with ready-made replicase.
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All three varietals seem to be adapting well to California, considering that they are recent immigrants.
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Before modern institutions for extending credit were available, insignia and jewels were well adapted to serve as sureties for loans.
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Based on the structure of the organ, we think that it is well adapted for detecting very low levels of light.
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It enjoys slightly acidic water and seems to adapt well to higher than usual temperatures.
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Their long arms are particularly well adapted to life in trees.
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But the offspring of those biotech fish are less well adapted to survive.
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They families say that people with severe learning difficulties do not adapt well to sudden changes of environment.
■ NOUN
ability
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It inherits not a fixed set of actions, but the ability to adapt to many.
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In all of these situations the dominant social system lost its ability to adapt .
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Moreover, social values and structures have shown a remarkable ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
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Training will be provided for recruits who have the ability to adapt their skills to the needs of our programmes.
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Stanley Mill has survived, largely because of its ability to adapt to the changing needs of the market.
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He showed his ability to adapt his performance as either the whim took him or as he was taken by circumstances.
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It is an interesting fact that countries can be divided by their ability to adapt to other cultures.
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The projections build in the ability of farmers to adapt to climate change by changing crops and farming methods.
change
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They have to adapt and change .
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This means the network could learn continuously and adapt to changes over time.
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Eating habits have changed under external influences, and it is not always easy for farming to adapt to such changes.
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Retraining of the network to adapt to changes in the operating environment requires only processing time and new data.
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Having to adapt to changes in the school and to undergo a second deskilling.
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You will either adapt to changes or become unemployed.
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The gonococcus has to adapt to any changes in its environment, particularly those which may compromise its chances of survival.
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Its advanced manufacturing center helps local industries adapt to changes in technology and reduce costs.
circumstances
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Clearly all organisations, if they are to be successful need to adapt to changed circumstances .
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It constitutes an assembly of different relationships and powers, the product of traditional institutions being adapted to meet changing circumstances .
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Their various facets are constantly being adapted in the light of changing circumstances and requirements.
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In order to survive, a species must be capable of adapting to changing circumstances .
demand
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The regulation of these factors is widely considered to be the way in which the small intestine adapts to nutritional demands .
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You need to adapt to the demands of your own particular life-style.
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More often, however, the cause is simple frustration at being unable to adapt to the technical demands of the art.
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Teaching those with learning disability, sometimes physically disabled as well, to adapt to the demands of society.
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This method of planning was widely criticised for its inefficiency and its inability to adapt to changing demands .
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It also discussed the possibility of a World Bank grant to help industry to adapt to the demands of the protocol.
environment
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Indoors, there are many ways in which you can adapt your environment to suit the needs of your pets.
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The stomach is a biological structure that animals use to adapt to their environment .
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In such occupations autonomy is cherished as a means of adapting to an uncertain environment .
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It favors species better adapted to their environments and kills off those less suitable.
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This particular formula is well adapted to an environment consisting of test-tubes provided with ready-made replicase.
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As we adapt biologically to our environment , we adapt intellectually.
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Progress is often alarmingly rapid as their enthusiasm and natural abilities adapt to the new environment .
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Intellectual and biological activity are both part of the overall process by which an organism adapts to the environment and organizes experience.
idea
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We can only generalize, and leave the composer to adapt the ideas put forward here to his own needs.
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In adapting this idea for child actors and an audience of children, Storni removed certain elements and added others.
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As farming methods changed, so the designs of farm buildings may have been changed to adapt to the new ideas .
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I can probably adapt some of his ideas .
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There are all sorts of ways you can adapt these ideas to make the patterns give your exclusive results.
life
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All penguins are flightless but are perfectly adapted to life in water and to withstanding cold.
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Little by little, Quinn adapted to his new life .
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Their long arms are particularly well adapted to life in trees.
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Most epileptics are quite emotionally stable and have no more difficulty adapting to life situations than the average person.
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These adapted themselves to a life in and out of work since they had a strong street culture with which to identify.
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Most cryptocorynes are adapted to life in situations with insufficient light.
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He asked that she be given six months' grace at Althorp so she could adapt to life without him.
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Entire communities of invertebrates have adapted to life at vents.
material
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Musicians will be sensitive to the mood of the congregation and adapt their material as the service proceeds.
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Overseas teaching materials-particularly from the United States-are often used, but in an adapted form.
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Making or adapting these materials can be a time-consuming business and the help of ancillary assistance can be welcome.
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A wide range of examples illustrate the text, designed to help teachers evaluate and adapt the materials they themselves use.
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The research team has also lobbied firms about updating and adapting their video material for deaf parents.
method
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If the owner had sufficient capital to adapt to the new methods , he did so.
need
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There was clearly a need to adapt my lifestyle, but playing the role of victim was never among my plans.
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Clearly all organisations, if they are to be successful need to adapt to changed circumstances.
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As the nature of insider dealing changed, there was a corresponding need to adapt other legal doctrines to fit the abuse.
purpose
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It used to be the normal practice to adapt buildings for different purposes over their lives.
range
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Hill climbing can be adapted to a range of situations.
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It would do - just - although they would have to shorten some of the solos and adapt the range .
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The group has adapted to a range of marine and fresh water habitats where they are often filter-feeders.
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This idea is so simple yet so effective that other manufacturers will surely adapt it in their ranges .
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They are ideal non-aggressive community fish for the most part adapting to wide range of water conditions.
recipe
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But instead of adapting the whole recipe at once, we fiddled with one ingredient at a time.
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Taking careful note, Zahler then adapted the recipes for the home cook and put together this beguiling book.
role
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In adapting to this expanded role the auditor faces many difficulties.
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Often families, like the patients, floundered in their efforts to adapt to new roles and changed life stories.
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In the second movement, the instruments seem divided into groups and gradually adapt roles .
situation
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Teaching strategies need to adapt to this new situation , to exploit the potential offered by computers.
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Most epileptics are quite emotionally stable and have no more difficulty adapting to life situations than the average person.
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This, however, is the reality of nursing, and the student must be helped to adapt to all situations .
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Most cryptocorynes are adapted to life in situations with insufficient light.
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Clientelism is a strategy used by capitalists and workers to adapt to a situation where there is limited mobility.
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In that case, he adapted to his new situation with remarkable speed.
species
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It is composed of species adapted to the urban environment and is influenced strongly by the availability of seeds.
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The astonishing diversity of life, with species adapted for every conceivable habitat.
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These birds, the icon of all evolution textbooks, show why species adapted to different ways of life stay separate.
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It favors species better adapted to their environments and kills off those less suitable.
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Were there species adapted for living at particular depths?
structure
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Pupitres were adapted from these structures , although it is still uncertain who first employed them commercially for remuage.
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They will also adapt their social structure under different environmental conditions.
style
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He could hardly adapt the style of the building's closest neighbour, the Soviet-like Novotel Hotel.
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The feedback also taught the managers to adapt their style to the subordinate.
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Hamilton argues that this is the Cervantes excerpt, expanded and adapted in Shakespearean style .
system
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The two who stay may well be the ones who adapt to the new system the best.
technique
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Even the foreground artists had to be specially selected, because not everyone was willing or able to adapt his technique .
technology
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Over time, these have both adapted their technologies and developed many new product lines.
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Its advanced manufacturing center helps local industries adapt to changes in technology and reduce costs.
use
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And as you would expect in a town of enterprise, some of these buildings have been sensibly adapted to modern use .
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Even so, it had to be adapted to new uses , notably in the scientific field.
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During the 1950s further work on marine guidance was adapted for use in ballistic missiles.
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Such a barn is easy to load and unload and may be adapted for other uses when empty.
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The cash will be used to buy a computer which will be adapted for use by disabled children.
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This does not mean that these procedures can not be adapted to classroom use .
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What is needed in the long term is a larger worship area which can be adapted for other uses .
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At Winfrith, a range of skills developed for nuclear modelling and inspection were adapted for use by the offshore oil industry.
ways
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Tough targets have been set in quality and service levels and everyone has had to adapt to new ways of doing things.
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These birds, the icon of all evolution textbooks, show why species adapted to different ways of life stay separate.
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There is a quiet pride that the profession avoided the extremes in adapting to modern ways .
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It has been interpreted and adapted in widely different ways , relating to varied environments and concepts held by chief executives themselves.
work
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But I adapted to the work .
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They are typical in that they adapt non-literary work on language.
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All our women found adapting to university work and the social context difficult but exciting.
■ VERB
fail
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Those that failed to adapt perished.1 With his own eyes he saw proofs of it.
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The Quakers failed to adapt and almost died.
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Any species-any country-that fails to adapt will join the pantheon of the extinct.
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The parties have failed to adapt and have lost much of their power and influence and most of their reason for being.
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But retailers that fail to adapt swiftly, such as Marks &038; Spencer, are brutally punished.
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If the population as a whole fails to adapt under pressure, the species will be wiped out by a rival.
help
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It is you they need, and your skills they must be prepared to help you to adapt and improve.
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This revamping is geared toward helping workers adapt to changing times.
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A wide range of examples illustrate the text, designed to help teachers evaluate and adapt the materials they themselves use.
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Its advanced manufacturing center helps local industries adapt to changes in technology and reduce costs.
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But many farmers will need help to adapt to the new conditions, and we will continue to provide assistance.
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This, however, is the reality of nursing, and the student must be helped to adapt to all situations.
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It also discussed the possibility of a World Bank grant to help industry to adapt to the demands of the protocol.
learn
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However, resources are required for these opportunities for education to learn and adapt business approaches.
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This means the network could learn continuously and adapt to changes over time.
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While Man has stopped developing, animals seem to learn , adapt and change all the time.
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If they can not learn to adapt , they will suffer the consequences.
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I have learned to adapt the eating plan to my needs.
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I learned that everyone adapts and becomes concerned with the details of the job at hand, no matter how bizarre.
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What about learning how to change things for the better rather than merely learning to adapt to the way things are now?
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We must learn when to adapt and when to resist, or be swallowed up.
try
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In recent years, farmers have tried to adapt their product to a supposed demand for leaner beef.
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Certainly Jeanne had never tried to adapt him to the realities, a job for which she was remarkably ill equipped anyway.
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Pluralists have even tried to adapt Schumpeter's account, but have neglected his strong elitist account of input politics.
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I've tried to adapt an adult's one but haven't been very successful.
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Then they try and adapt and mould it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Le Carré's latest novel is soon to be adapted for television.
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The materials in the book can be adapted for use with older children.
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The movie was adapted by Forsyth from his own bestselling novel.
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These recipes can be easily adapted to suit vegetarians.
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They have adapted their house so they can look after their disabled son more easily.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the nature of insider dealing changed, there was a corresponding need to adapt other legal doctrines to fit the abuse.
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His typewriter was adapted to provide keys for mathematical symbols.
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In adapting to this expanded role the auditor faces many difficulties.
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Punishment must be fitted, closely tailored to the state of the spirit, adapted to the need of the soul.
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Supposedly, these are the ones that are best adapted to the area, and therefore grow happily without much help.
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This in turn made it a simple matter to adapt Watt's engine to provide rotary motion.
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Yet there was an opening for Rice if he carefully adapted his power strategies to the political situation.