I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a teaching aid (= a piece of equipment that a teacher uses in the classroom )
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The school is equipped with modern teaching aids, including interactive whiteboards.
accept aid
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Egypt gratefully accepted American economic aid.
administer first aid
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This unit teaches students how to administer first aid .
aid sb’s recovery (= help someone to recover )
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Although it is not a cure, the drug can aid recovery.
aid worker
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UN aid workers
aid/financial/benefits etc package
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Many banks are offering financial packages for students.
an aid/relief/humanitarian convoy (= taking food, clothes, medicine etc to people in disaster areas )
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The United Nations aid convoy finally reached the border.
development aid (= money given to help development in poor areas )
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Education made up 22.5 percent of development aid last year.
emergency aid/relief/help (= things such as food and medicine that are given to people when they are in a very dangerous situation )
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The charity made a television appeal for emergency aid to the region.
financial aid
first aid kit
first aid
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Being given first aid at the scene of the accident probably saved his life.
given first aid
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Being given first aid at the scene of the accident probably saved his life.
hearing aid
humanitarian aid/assistance/relief
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Humanitarian aid is being sent to the refugees.
legal aid
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They have been granted legal aid and now intend to take their case to court.
relief supplies/aid
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US troops had helped distribute relief supplies to Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq.
spring to sb’s aid/assistance (= move quickly to help someone )
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One of the young policemen sprang to her assistance.
visual aid
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
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We have provided valuable economic and humanitarian aid to ease the transition to a market economy.
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He warned that no economic aid could be forthcoming until a long-term constitutional solution had been found.
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Buchanan has said he would gradually eliminate all foreign economic aid and give only limited assistance in instances of humanitarian disasters.
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International support is urgently needed, both in terms of economic aid and political support.
federal
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In accordance with the form in Emergency Plan White, a presidential proclamation extending federal aid was drafted.
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It operates under exemptions that allow it to receive federal aid without meeting the same requirements as other states' programs.
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Another source of increasing tension in the federal aid system concerned citizen participation in decisionmaking.
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Administrative organization is another factor that impeded attempts to acquire federal aid .
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To the states' taxpayers who will have to take up the slack as federal aid recedes?
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It was an effort to roll back federal aid to the poor across a much broader front.
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The fiscal problems of the city, since 1979, have not been attributable to decreases in federal aid .
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Counties are also bracing for the brunt of federal welfare reform, expected to mark a significant loss of federal aid dollars.
financial
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The company chose Wrexham partly because of the generous financial aid available.
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Fifty students received financial aid ranging from $ 3, 000 to $ 12, 000.
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The Guild receives financial aid from the Council, and relies heavily on the enthusiasm and dedication of its members.
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Students must contact the community college's financial aid office for an application.
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New legislation, the Local Government and Planning Act 1980, changed the basis of financial aid to local government.
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Their aim was to see what incentive effects financial aid to poor families would produce.
foreign
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And despite lobbying of government and foreign aid agencies in Ouagadougou, there is still nothing but the foundations in place.
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Major budget cuts, including foreign aid by 76 percent, defence by 10 percent.
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To unblock the well or drill a new one would require a new allocation of foreign aid .
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They said their town had been overlooked by foreign aid agencies.
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Rich countries increasingly use foreign aid as a lever to promote political pluralism and individual freedoms.
humanitarian
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The resolution refers specifically to detention centres and humanitarian aid .
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Baker was reported to have spoken with Bufi about human and political rights and to have promised US$6,000,000 in immediate humanitarian aid .
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If the hon. Gentleman is going to talk about humanitarian aid , I hope that he will get his facts right.
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Major, for his part, praised Clinton's initiative to airlift humanitarian aid to Bosnia.
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We need increased levels of humanitarian and development aid across the region, and the promotion of grassroots peace efforts.
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They had refused to pay the toll as they were delivering humanitarian aid .
international
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While the locals are reassured by international aid and the presence of specialists, they also look to other sources of succour.
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Even more worrying, perhaps, is the possibility that international aid may be fuelling the conflict.
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This sparked an unprecedented international aid effort.
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These have frequently been made in response to pressure from major international aid donors.
legal
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The Government announced on 19 February that it was abandoning its plan to abolish legal aid in asylum cases.
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Lord Mackay appeared to rule out an extension of legal aid to cover defamation cases.
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The self-certification procedure may also be used to seek legal aid for related proceedings which do not qualify for free legal aid.
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No order for costs. Legal aid taxation.
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The equation is simple: no contribution, no legal aid; no legal aid, no court case.
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Who benefits? Legal aid will be available after this first hearing if warranted and if a not guilty plea is indicated.
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He has already done so in respect of civil non-matrimonial legal aid and is considering the responses to that.
medical
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Judge Nina Barkova rejected Pope's request during the trial for international medical aid .
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There was no-one in the town whom the lepers could turn to for medical aid .
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The initiative is part of Durham's appeal for food and medical aid for the county's twin town of Kostroma.
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There is often no teacher, and the nearest medical aid is in the town.
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Aid officials and provisional government spokespersons appealed for urgent medical and food aid .
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She responded to this outrage with her customary fortitude, refusing medical aid .
military
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The United States suspended military and economic aid , but such support had been worth only US$16,400,000 in 1990.
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Truman did not actually sign the military aid legislation until July 26, 1950.
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Eighty-four per cent of the funding will take the form of military aid .
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It needed no bayonets to protect it, and required no military aid to execute its judgments.
mutual
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Yet on the other hand an agreement had been reached for mutual military aid as early as 1609.
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Though such competition frustrated him, Allen poured energies into welfare work, mutual aid , and preaching.
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The principles of mutual aid are that members should be involved in a reciprocal supportive role.
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First of all, we called it a mutual aid society.
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The Co-operative movement was a form of mutual aid with a wider working-class appeal although it also largely excluded the poorest.
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They join a rural community life and a society based on mutual aid .
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It is a close drawing together of two worlds and is there for mutual aid .
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They depend heavily on local mutual aid and are staffed largely by volunteers.
overseas
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The quality of Britain's overseas aid programme is second to none.
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This was after all, Gerald explained to his wife, how most overseas aid was distributed.
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It has to come from the overseas aid budgets of governments.
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Preston should ask where the overseas aid will go.
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Less than 2 percent of all overseas aid is going to improve communications.
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We will close the Defence Export Services Organisation and ensure that overseas aid is not linked in any way to arms purchases.
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Homelessness, overseas aid , prison overcrowding, electoral reform and the maintenance of peace are all on the agenda.
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A list of thirty measures ranging from recycling resources to doubling overseas aid were proposed.
soviet
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Officials take heart that the economy has not collapsed since the withdrawal of Soviet aid .
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For two years following October 1936, Soviet aid helped the Republic to fight on.
visual
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Full use should be made of visual aids and internal specialist advice should be taken.
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No scientific lecture is ever given without slides or other visual aids , especially if chemical structures are to be shown.
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Time-charts and time-lines should become important visual aids .
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Without benefit of notes, visual aids , gestures or humor she spoke for ninety oddly mesmerizing minutes.
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Any visual aid should be carefully selected and planned to add clarity to the presentation. 2.
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As a visual aid to anatomical familiarity, a reference book such as this has undoubted value.
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In general, all visual aids were used for a purpose.
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By making the most of new visual aid technology.
western
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Mr Gorbachev endorsed the letter, giving Mr Yavlinsky the authority to negotiate a new reform plan with western aid .
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He said he got a positive reaction from council members to his remarks about Western aid but declined to elaborate.
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Even though the authorities were unwilling to acknowledge the extent of the disaster, some Western aid was accepted.
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Too often the governments that are most genuinely concerned are the ones refused Western aid .
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Opposition groups dismissed the constitutional changes as a device to gain Western aid and approval at a time of economic crisis.
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With the exception of western humanitarian aid , none of their hopes of an rapid improvement in the economy was fulfilled.
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Is he also aware that there is apprehension about the possibility of strings being attached to western aid ?
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Under what conditions is western aid being given to the former Soviet Union?
■ NOUN
agency
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And despite lobbying of government and foreign aid agencies in Ouagadougou, there is still nothing but the foundations in place.
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Increasingly, nongovernmental aid agencies large and small carefully assess security before committing themselves to a country.
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He accepts that aid agencies are grappling with highly complex issues.
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The aid agencies were starting to sound panicky, as well they might.
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Under those circumstances, foreign aid agencies saw a vacuum which they felt themselves able to fill.
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Christie was in a group of paedophiles who targeted charities and aid agencies to gain access to children.
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They said their town had been overlooked by foreign aid agencies .
budget
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The amount is the equivalent of trebling every wealthy country's aid budget to the third world.
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Mr. Townsend Will my right hon. Friend confirm that that excellent facility is not supported from the aid budget ?
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It has to come from the overseas aid budgets of governments.
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The rest, the bilateral aid budget , is spent directly by governments in developing countries.
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If the Tories were elected Mr Streeter would double the amount of the bilateral aid budget that goes to the charities.
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The value of the investments and exports it backs far outstrips Britain's annual aid budget .
convoy
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The statement followed assurances from country's warring factions that they would no longer block aid convoys or distribution.
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Gen Morillon was also negotiating with local commanders yesterday to try to get aid convoys moving again in eastern Bosnia.
donor
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The attention of all the principal aid donors is concentrated there.
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These have frequently been made in response to pressure from major international aid donors .
emergency
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A new cellular phone has been introduced which directly links the car to emergency aid within seconds.
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On Monday Britain offered an additional $ 800,000 in emergency aid on top of the $ 2.7m it has already given.
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The mock load could be ammunition or supplies for ground troops ... or emergency aid for refugees.
food
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Will my right hon. Friend do what he can to ensure that they receive that food aid from the United Kingdom?
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Objective: Provision of food aid and emergency relief to developing countries.
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That means food aid , and it means more painful diplomacy in the search for peace.
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As a way of encouraging them to return, food aid to the refugee camps has been withheld since last summer.
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I note what the hon. Gentleman said about the siphoning off of food aid .
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Others are prioritising programmes such as food aid .
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Only 100,000 tonnes of an estimated 500,000 tonnes of food aid required throughout the country had been distributed by early July.
grant
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One student looking still had some time to go before his grant aid ended.
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Grant aid: Two historic sites in Whitby are to get grant aid from Scarborough Council.
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Newcastle has seen a massive £1.4m in major project grant aid for the construction of a new North stand.
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However a letter giving the details of grant aid for 1988 was not available for us until Easter.
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Statutory agencies can encourage the establishment of local ethnically focused voluntary organizations by targeting specific grant aid .
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Three schemes next to and at Stockton Station will receive grant aid .
hearing
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Some venues have an induction loop fitted to assist hearing aid users.
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Headphones are not practicable for hearing aid wearers because the proximity of the headphone causes acoustic feedback in the aids.
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Similarly, the transistor took decades to become incorporated into commercial products such as hearing aids , navigational instruments and computers.
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This room was equipped with an induction loop to transmit sound to people with suitably receptive hearing aids .
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This saves explanations, searching for hearing aid and general inconvenience.
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The deaf are finding that their hearing aids are amplifying more than just the voices of their friends.
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I think he should get a hearing aid - it's easier than shouting all the time.
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One thing I had in common with Nigel was our National Health hearing aid .
package
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Their resettlement was to be assisted by a US$47,000,000 aid package approved by the United States Congress.
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But the aid package will not control drugs-because the policy fails to recognize the roots of the conflict.
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Yet the aid package passed in an instinctively isolationist Congress with only a modest handful of dissenters.
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Foreign relations On Sept. 16 the United Kingdom government announced an aid package to assist in the process of democratization.
programme
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The quality of Britain's overseas aid programme is second to none.
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A systematic aid programme might have averted the near-famine and encouraged the North to open faster.
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A shrewd aid programme does us a favour.
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In the light of that, will she review the aid programme ?
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Tackling poverty will be the top priority of our aid programme .
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A substantial aid programme aimed at promoting sustainable economic and social progress and good government in developing countries will be maintained.
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The latter designated special weeks for the production or collection of goods to be contributed to the aid programme .
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For those who do say that, it does not reflect the underlying growth in the aid programme .
scheme
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Thus the legal aid scheme permits those eligible to take the risk of litigation at the possible expense of the Fund.
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Therefore, we consider first the operation of the legal aid scheme .
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For the areas of work traditionally offered by lawyers, the legal aid scheme provides very good coverage for the poor.
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Compounding the problem were proposals to remove asylum seekers right of access to a solicitor under the legal aid scheme .
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The Green Form scheme is the only relevant part of the legal aid scheme and will provide advice only.
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The obvious impact of these principles has been to graft the legal aid scheme on to the existing structure of private practice.
state
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In 1839 the government set up an inspectorate to further central supervision of the way the growing state aid was being spent.
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As a result, both candidates for governor are considering earmarking some state aid for salary increases.
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However, unlike Nissan, Toyota received no state aid towards its investment, as Derbyshire was not an eligible area.
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Lemon involved two appeals about the constitutionality of Pennsylvania and Rhode Island statutes providing state aid to church-related schools.
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We have no state aid and individuals such as yourself are the life blood of our conservation work.
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There will be no state aid for them.
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And Britain's state aid for industry generally falls far short of the sums seen in other countries.
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Labour will introduce state aid for political parties and pay salaries to local councillors.
worker
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Now aid workers are trying to ensure the children's own health and welfare.
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Diplomats and aid workers say they believe the rebels may take Kisangani within days.
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As a volunteer aid worker I was a failure.
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Five foreign aid workers were murdered and others came under fire.
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Few foreign aid workers have dared to venture into Helmund province.
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The United Nations said it was considering evacuating foreign aid workers .
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It has expelled aid workers who said more was needed.
■ VERB
administer
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Mike Chittenden staggered in flames into a neighbouring office, where terrified workers doused the flames and administered first aid .
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Rolly single-handedly attempted to apprehend the youths, put out the fire and administer first aid to barman Wheeler.
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Bandaging Having administered first aid immediately, the next priority is to minimise further damage.
come
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Her fertile and inventive imagination came to her aid .
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Jacinto, her boy friend and one of the soldiers, comes to her aid as she yells for help.
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She came to Gentle's aid as soon as he appeared, the exchange between them short and functional: was he badly hurt?
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If I was injured, he'd be the first to come to my aid .
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It is worth remembering that luck often comes to the aid of the experimenter.
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Many ships passed them before Pride of Burgundy, crossing from Calais to Dover, came to their aid .
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Again, hidden reserves came to his aid .
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It came to her aid , bringing her all the strength she needed.
cut
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The Lord Chancellor's proposals to cut eligibility for legal aid were put forward with no prior consultation.
give
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The poor are actually giving aid to the rich.
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And if one great power gave aid , the other would certainly have to match it.
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It also gives especial aid to poorer areas that lost a lot of income in the changeover.
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The most striking finding is that individuals which most frequently gave aid are those which most frequently receive it.
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Our resources are limited, but we try to give as much aid as possible tot he nascent profession in these countries.
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Farmers are also being given access to grant aid to help in setting up extra activities to supplement their farming income.
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It is always sensible to avoid contact with blood spillages as much as possible when giving first aid to anyone.
hear
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Their fishing poles are secured in holders on the sides of their wheelchairs, and their hearing aids are turned off.
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An old-fashioned kind of hearing aid was called an ear trumpet.
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If Lois had to shout in her conscientious efforts, Paul had turned out to be naturally brilliant around hearing aids .
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Glover hesitated and then refrained from adjusting his hearing aid .
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Too many people talked at once; his hearing aids popped like corn in a pan of oil.
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By the time she was 11, she was wearing hearing aids .
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They may simply need eyeglasses, hearing aids or even just breakfast.
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Margaret became one of the early users of a hearing aid .
increase
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President Clinton is asking Congress to increase federal aid to higher education by more than 50 percent by the year 2002.
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Chirac has repeatedly called on the United States to increase aid to developing nations.
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High-level ministers have talked openly about increasing aid to agriculture and shifting economic policy from one of stabilization to one of growth.
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Everything in the Kennedy record pointed to increased aid to Diem, and nearly everyone in the Kennedy administration supported the decision.
need
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But still they need the aid .
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But they needed other aids , for their teeth and nails could not readily dismember anything larger than a rabbit.
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These countries need aid and support to help sort out their main problems ie family planning, health, starvation etc.
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Educators also say the size of freshman classes makes it unlikely for professors to know which students most need the new aid .
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They may simply need eyeglasses, hearing aids or even just breakfast.
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The help of an occupational therapist may be needed to recommend aids and adaptations to help the older person.
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The situation is now so critical that the very structure that is needed to use the aid effectively has disintegrated.
provide
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But it provides a powerful aid to the understanding of some of the more baffling political manifestations of our time.
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Another part of the response was to provide economic and technical aid to threatened nations.
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Northern countries should provide aid to help Southern nations improve their food standards.
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Significantly, section five of the amendment allowed Congress to provide military aid , if necessary, to enforce its provisions.
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With this in mind a Grammar Development Environment is provided as an aid to the development of a natural language grammar.
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It is about how best to provide federal aid for school children, to which children and how much.
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Labour mobility programmes are in an important sense different for they provide aid to labour rather than to industry.
receive
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Will my right hon. Friend do what he can to ensure that they receive that food aid from the United Kingdom?
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His welfare plan would allow people to receive aid for a maximum of five years over a lifetime.
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However, unlike Nissan, Toyota received no state aid towards its investment, as Derbyshire was not an eligible area.
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It operates under exemptions that allow it to receive federal aid without meeting the same requirements as other states' programs.
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In many cases the acquitted defendant will have been receiving legal aid .
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Today the mean yearly income of families of students receiving financial aid , she believes, is approximately $ 36, 000.
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Simon receives a sports aid grant of £5,000 this year, which is taxed.
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Several states received waivers that tie aid to the recipients' behavior.
seek
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They were also the women who went more and more to seek the aid of psychiatrists and marriage counsellors.
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He broached the idea of seeking direct government aid to a neighbor.
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The self-certification procedure may also be used to seek legal aid for related proceedings which do not qualify for free legal aid.
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She then went to Cortona to seek the aid of the Franciscans, who thereafter became her spiritual fathers.
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At the same time, he was totally loyal to Franco and unlikely to seek Allied aid to bring back the monarchy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Aid is not getting through to the refugees.
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An Italian aid worker was kidnapped by rebels last month, and still hasn't been released.
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Another harvest has failed, and international aid agencies warn of the threat of mass starvation.
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Each year, the U.S. sends more than $1.8 billion in aid to sub-Saharan Africa.
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The education programme is dependent on foreign aid , and the US Agency for International Development had been approached for funding.
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The Red Cross is delivering aid to the refugees.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a result, both candidates for governor are considering earmarking some state aid for salary increases.
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Gore even enlisted the aid of Newt Gingrich, the Speaker of the House.
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He was planning on enlisting the aid of the Association of Racing Commissioners to help get the law amended before next year.
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If you talk loudly, it can be very nasty on a hearing aid .
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It took three years of rehabilitation, but Meidl once again walked without the aid of crutches.
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The draft also provided for additional aid to industry to improve its competitiveness.
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The thesaurus functions not only as a retrieval aid , but also as a reference facility.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cause
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This helps agencies, but will it really aid the politicians' cause ?
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First are those who censor the truth knowingly, to aid their cause .
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Meanwhile its most valuable, perhaps unintended, contribution might be to aid the cause of grassroots subversion.
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The house was never shown, the garden aided no charitable cause .
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Moreover, those elected might then declare independence and seek foreign intervention to aid their cause .
understanding
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Tone greatly aids the researchers' understanding of Creole grammar, which appears less simple than was thought.
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This is a serious weakness in an approach intended to aid understanding of religion.
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It is useful to jot down a few examples under each point as this aids understanding and memory.
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It generally aids understanding to use short rather than long words.
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Such statistics aid our understanding of population movements but they mask the bewildering complexity that was the reality of the situation.
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Although they do not provide the real experience, they aid and increase understanding and motivation. 3.
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Both the actual process of creating such notes and the appropriateness and variety of the finished product will aid understanding and memorisation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Officers were aided in the search by drug-sniffing dogs.
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Our ability to combat organized crime has been aided by our partnership with local police.
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The country's economic recovery has been aided by increased international trade.
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The large number of Latino voters aided Garcia's victory in the last election.
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The new equipment has been provided to aid in the diagnosis of liver disorders.
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The new government grants are intended to aid small businesses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Checks bacteria, aids natural healing.
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It is useful to jot down a few examples under each point as this aids understanding and memory.
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Overlays can aid the build up of complex subjects. 2.
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have found that testosterone aids spatial thinking, but interferes with performance of spoken language.
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The thought of Miss Coldharbour's cool glance sweeping her face to detect any sign of tears aided her self-control.