noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
special
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Charity cash-raising activities to finance special adaptations .
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Also, in association with the Partially Sighted Society, special adaptations were made.
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Life in the ocean depths poses many special problems, requiring special adaptations .
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It does this through a special adaptation that allows it to adjust the concentration of its blood.
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Laying and distributing the eggs in small batches is a special adaptation to these hot desert conditions.
successful
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It is a highly successful adaptation of an advertisement which was first shown back in the early 1980s in Britain.
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The first attempts failed, but with collaboration from Hebb and others, successful adaptations were made.
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film
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Where a film adaptation could ventilate the humid bachelor atmosphere of Hornby's novel is in giving opportunities for women.
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Its film adaptation was a big hit and won five Oscars, including best picture.
stage
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Equally disappointing is the latest stage adaptation of a Roald Dahl story for children at Christmas.
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The censors had also insisted on a cut in his stage adaptation of Anna Karenina.
■ VERB
require
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For the male pied flycatcher, bigamy is obviously a successful strategy, but it also requires quite complex behavioural adaptations .
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It required cellular adaptations in thought and nerve fiber.
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Life in the ocean depths poses many special problems, requiring special adaptations .
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The application form asks if you require adaptations , and you must say what you need and why.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She was responsible for the adaptation of the book "The Witches of Eastwick" into a stage play.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In addition, a decrease in size seems to have accompanied adaptation to an exclusively arboreal life.
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In this way, provisional adaptations turn into routine commitments.
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It is simply that adaptation and ancestry can explain what adaptation alone can not.
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Its film adaptation was a big hit and won five Oscars, including best picture.
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The work does not involve major adaptations or renovation.
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This form developed bipedalism and other adaptations to the newly opening arid savannah landscape and eventually became the ancestor of man.