noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a capacity audience (= the largest number of people who can fill a theatre, hall etc )
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The lecture attracted a capacity audience.
a cinema audience (= the people who watch a film )
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His new movie is sure to bring in big cinema audiences.
appreciative audience/crowd
audience applauded
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The audience applauded loudly.
audience participation
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entertainment with plenty of audience participation
enthusiastic crowd/audience
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It’s nice to see such an enthusiastic crowd at the match.
live audience (= an audience watching a live performance )
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It’s always different when you perform in front of a live audience .
receptive audience
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a receptive audience
studio audience
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
appreciative
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Else Lynes had also brought along her active class to perform a display item before a most appreciative audience .
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Among those literary wanderers of the day who sought a wide and appreciative audience , exaggeration was the fashion.
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Only those who want to read do so; the rest form an appreciative audience .
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I've even told appreciative audiences at dinner parties about it when I've judged the moment to be right.
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Forty years on Marcel's wife Ellen now makes up his appreciative audience .
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Nell McCafferty, Bernadette Devlin and other notables vented their feminist spleen at an appreciative audience .
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In giving her the chance to shine in front of an appreciative Tory audience Heath probably sealed his own doom.
big
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Yet to win the big audiences that would attract advertising, the companies had to spend large sums on attractive programmes.
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Whatever succeeds in bringing in the biggest audience is not only acceptable but welcomed.
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But big audiences meant that country guitarists were quick to realise the benefits of an amplified electric guitar.
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In this he had had some success and these days Rana often played in the big capitals before audiences of thousands.
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How big are the audiences for sport on television?
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The bigger the audience , the bigger the advertising revenue.
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To attract bigger audiences was not just a bonus, it was part of the whole logic of the industry.
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I wanted to be able to attract a big audience .
captive
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Verbal, as opposed to written, reports give you more freedom to exploit your captive audience .
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Father Tim saw at once that the truest meaning of the term captive audience was being demonstrated right before his eyes.
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He was a real showman, and however he was feeling, he always rose to the bait of a captive audience !
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And so when I talk to a young person I have a captive audience .
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His family were a captive audience , especially at meal times, which were central to their day.
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But beyond the hedge, Mundin had run into a captive audience .
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He really loved the hairdressing profession as it gave him a captive audience to bounce his latest jokes off.
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Many education officials derided the effort as exploitation of a captive youth audience .
different
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Ever an initiator, Jo took the work out to a range of different audiences .
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Students can rewrite an explanation for a different audience , such as their younger brothers and sisters.
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In contrast to television, the press was highly differentiated: different papers reached very different audiences with very different messages.
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Artistic director Christopher Gable has injected it with a new lease of life and brought it to a completely different audience .
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John Ward had a rather different audience .
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Yes-but we need to distinguish between these different audiences when presenting research results.
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It would not affect different audiences in different ways.
general
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He excelled in conveying information in a palatable, humorous, and exciting form to a general audience .
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In writing a book for a general audience , I have relied heavily on the research of experts in the field.
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There is a rising interest both at colleges and with general audiences , and it has been recently popularised by television.
large
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When you talk to a large audience in a positive way, some critics don't dig that.
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Returning missionaries spoke to large audiences who were eager to hear how their efforts elevated the heathen.
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In democratic societies it is inevitable that politicians will be attracted to large audiences .
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For the next four years it drew critical plaudits and large audiences everywhere it was shown.
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The first uses large , two metres tall puppets which can be easily seen by large audiences .
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Television will bring these Olympics to a larger audience than any previous sporting event.
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Nevertheless it was felt that the papers deserved a wider circulation because of their intrinsic interest to a larger audience .
live
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By all means read some of these but there is no substitute for practising on a live audience .
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The comedian expressed doubts about his ability to perform without a live audience , but agreed to do it.
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Or is it to be videoed in front of a live audience with the risk of loosing some of the dialogue?
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I like writing for live audiences with no agenda at all except to enjoy the work.
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We had a live audience of one, Richard's wife, Elizabeth Taylor.
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I had been in television studios before but never with a live audience , so that was a bit different.
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The programme was filmed in front of a live audience who had to clap, laugh and commiserate in all the appropriate places.
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The experience of watching some one lecture to a live audience is very different from being there yourself.
mass
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These ideas were expounded to mass audiences .
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Only television can reach a truly mass audience .
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This is to be avoided at all costs if the channel is to remain a mass audience broadcaster.
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The mass audiences and the technology for reaching them are what give the press and electronic media their character as mass media.
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Radio brought entertainment to a mass audience , in particular light musical entertainment: it produced the age of the great dance bands.
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At present, radio is the only communication medium in the country which has achieved a mass audience .
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Today the terrible injustice done to those prisoners reaches a mass audience .
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The new audience was a mass audience but no previous audience in history had ever been given so much careful attention.
receptive
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Indeed, Freemantle not only provided Leapor with a receptive audience for her mature work, but actively promoted it.
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She'd had a really good, receptive , large audience .
small
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He then took from his pocket a filthy blue handkerchief, reversing it so that his small audience could examine both sides.
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Laurent, presented a show of only 29 models to a small , select audience .
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Platform services supervisor Bob Tryanor made the presentation before a small audience of platform staff.
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At best the ads would attract a very small incremental audience to the network.
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If so, be prepared for a small audience and accusations of favouritism.
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The small audience had begun to fidget on their rickety folded chairs.
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In general, keep animation files small or your audience will have disappeared by the time they've downloaded and run.
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As a result, a smaller than average audience was there to hear Bobby's current band.
wide
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The debate is a profound one and it is only just beginning to reach out to a wider audience .
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Curtis, who rates an above-average 32, seems like the better choice to appeal to a wider audience .
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But language, because of its complexity and its technicalities can not easily be revealed to a wide audience .
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Among those literary wanderers of the day who sought a wide and appreciative audience , exaggeration was the fashion.
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An original fusion of music, film, movement, text and design accessible to a wide audience .
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It is being incorporated into the World Wide Web browsers such as NetScape, giving it a wider audience .
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A large section is devoted to Peter Leonard of Soho whose graceful gothic shapes in slender metal certainly deserve a wider audience .
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Worse, Apple had stopped bundling MacPaint with every Macintosh, depriving Atkinson of the widest possible audience .
young
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He will be taking the young audience on an exciting musical safari to meet animals from around the world.
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He had to admit it was an ingenious way to phrase the question to a young audience .
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I think they are a young audience and a gig-going audience who like to buy exciting records.
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The tempo is usually fast since some programmers believe that fast-paced news programs attract younger audiences .
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The site ran a feature about the recently pierced singer, in an attempt to attract a younger audience .
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But there was no denying the passion of this young audience .
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In a weird symmetry, Hendrix, with his young white-teen audience , was a sixties equivalent of Chuck Berry.
■ NOUN
member
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As an audience member , you can give much of your attention to evaluation.
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Another audience member expresses her frustration: Are we talking about a chemical imbalance?
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In one event after another, audience members from diverse backgrounds asked questions that focused as much on writing as on reading.
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We have a nightclub act in central Massachusetts where we sing while drawing caricatures of audience members .
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The recording was made in a Hamburg nightclub on a portable tape recorder by audience member Edward W Taylor.
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Beyond the lights, Cameron got the impression of audience members thronging the exits, trying to get out of the concert hall.
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Beyond the monster human cyclone of a moshpit, audience member stood frozen like rabbits in the glare of juggernaut halogens.
participation
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There's a sort of audience participation because nobody can control these crowds.
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Brown is deft at handling audience participation .
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This is a good trick for audience participation .
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During the movie, though, my audience participation mostly took the form of loud, raucous laughter.
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Practical examples called for willing audience participation to drive the message home: Chemistry is everywhere - and it's fun.
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I was booing and hissing the bad guys with the best of them, and I usually hate audience participation .
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Consequently, the enjoyable show relied heavily on voluntary audience participation to act out the battle scenes.
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I know it's time for audience participation .
studio
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It's controlled from a panel above the studio audience .
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The show was certainly not as great as the studio audience apparently felt it was.
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He did so, and he looked like the questioner in the studio audience rather than the answerer.
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Nobody was using a studio audience and that was an accident.
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Inside the studio we were brought back sharply to reality by a studio audience , all of whom shared two characteristics.
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It simply involves Morton, a small studio audience and the cameras.
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It was five or ten minutes before they and the studio audience could control themselves.
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The studio audience at the Sally Jessy Raphael show roared approval.
target
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Some 60m pieces of diamond jewellery are sold every year, indicating a sizeable target audience .
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The key is to analyze the target audience , Half said.
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It is worth reiterating here the point that the media offer a means of influencing your target audiences .
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The team rejected traditional Biblical phrasing, figuring they would be unfamiliar or unappealing to the target audience .
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But, as Mr Malik kept reminding him, this was not the target audience of the school.
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The target audience should be identified giving details of level and syllabuses to which the program relates.
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The key target audience for the reports was overwhelmingly stated as being the company's own employees.
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Every radio station needs a target audience .
television
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A generation of sell-out shows and peak-time television audiences witnessed the Black and White shows.
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The truth was that by 1988 the television audience had entirely replaced the convention delegates as the focus of attention.
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Such agencies utilise consumer panels, readership surveys and television audience measurement to generate their information. 17.
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Meanwhile, three other candidates demonstrated for a national television audience their growing irrelevance to the struggle for the nomination.
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Hardly surprising then that budgets were kept low and most films were aimed at the television audience .
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A national network television audience can judge for itself when the Suns visit the Lakers and attempt to break a two-game skid.
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These are all editorial choices, and few of them create positive images for television audiences .
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Pilobolus now performs for stage and television audiences all over the world.
■ VERB
address
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Administrator Michael Barnes was given a standing ovation after addressing the audience .
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Gabriel, acting as narrator and addressing the audience throughout, comes to realize he has never truly known his wife.
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It did not disconcert Sly that he found himself addressing an audience who were all wearing false dingo ears.
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He said he found this a useful trick when addressing restive or sleepy audiences .
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It can be said he was addressing a captive audience ... of stooges.
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They have to address an unseen audience through the camera and they can prepare a script for their talk.
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On 22 April there was a mass rally at the Albert Hall where Mosley addressed an audience of 10,000 supporters.
attract
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The Final will attract the largest audience of any previous sporting event in world history.
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The tempo is usually fast since some programmers believe that fast-paced news programs attract younger audiences .
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His televised trial attracted huge audiences .
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They attract an audience with varied interests and offer on-line access to the greatest number of users throughout the United States.
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The real challenge will be to attract an audience and advertisers against formidable rivals.
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Some news show consultants believe in forming a television news pseudo-family to attract audiences .
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Why, for instance, are musicals assumed to be are the only way of attracting a popular audience ?
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Skating may not have to rely much longer on such naked attempts at attracting audiences .
draw
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Unfortunately, both clubs went bust just as we were starting to draw a decent audience !
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First, such programming draws huge audiences , which suggests that people are interested in both the subject matter and the subjects.
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They will be the first new episodes since the 1996 Christmas show, which drew an audience of 24m.
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I found myself being drawn out into the audience .
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Old repeats of the show have drawn in huge audiences and the sales of the videos have reached the millions.
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But they are in a competitive business, under pressure from executive producers, sales managers, and sponsors to draw audiences .
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His voice rose to a howl and drew the audience up with it into an excited, almost exalted, crescendo.
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Minstrel shows drew a good audience and visiting theater companies played at the Brooks Opera House.
grant
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An elderly woman threatened to kill herself unless she was granted a brief audience .
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And you took too much for granted by assuming your audience was familiar with sponges.
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Why should he suddenly grant you an audience ?
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The delegates had to return without the satisfaction of having been granted an audience .
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At the end of the conference the participants were granted an audience with the Pope.
reach
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Dave Thomas, spokesman for the band, said it was a good opportunity for the band to reach a wider audience .
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Typically, these messages travel over the Internet, where they reach a worldwide audience .
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Conferences and seminars as well as publications will ensure that research results reach a wider interested audience .
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We wanted to help the men who reached the audience and knew the music.
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As with Galileo, he wrote in the vernacular to reach a larger audience .
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Businesses and publications are leaving on-line services for the Internet as a way to reach a wider audience .
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It also wants to give higher priority to art in education in order to reach a wider audience .
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Today the terrible injustice done to those prisoners reaches a mass audience .
tell
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He had learned, he told his audience , that rumours have spread among you of my intention to abolish serfdom.
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His own rise from the bottom of the heap guarantees that he understands problems of a class-ridden society, he tells audiences .
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We don't hold up placards telling the audience what to do.
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The company has a habit of telling its audience exactly what it wants to hear.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
captive audience
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And so when I talk to a young person I have a captive audience.
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But beyond the hedge, Mundin had run into a captive audience.
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Father Tim saw at once that the truest meaning of the term captive audience was being demonstrated right before his eyes.
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He really loved the hairdressing profession as it gave him a captive audience to bounce his latest jokes off.
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He was a real showman, and however he was feeling, he always rose to the bait of a captive audience!
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His family were a captive audience, especially at meal times, which were central to their day.
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It can be said he was addressing a captive audience ... of stooges.
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Verbal, as opposed to written, reports give you more freedom to exploit your captive audience.
crowd-pleaser/audience-pleaser etc
target audience/group/area etc
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It is worth reiterating here the point that the media offer a means of influencing your target audiences.
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Most of its students are the provincial poor, the target audience of leftist guerrilla groups.
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Providing prevention materials to state health departments will ensure that target groups have ready access to such materials.
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The target areas were both moderate. income tracts of South Phoenix. 4.
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The approach involves identifying variations in the functioning of target areas and relating those variations to known differences in cortical function.
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The key is to analyze the target audience, Half said.
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The other major target group is those hospitalised with infectious illnesses.
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We know the terrain in the target area is complicated, rugged.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Actors, wearing masks, came down among the audience .
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I'm not sure that this film will appeal to British audiences.
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MTV's core audience is 18 to 24 year olds.
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The audience consisted mainly of young girls under sixteen.
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The audience danced and clapped and swayed to the music.
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The ad was inappropriate for a family audience .
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The program has an estimated audience of 5 million households.
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The second comedian really made the audience laugh.
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The show has delighted television audiences in the United States and Britain.
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There seemed to be quite a lot of young people in the audience .
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These two programs are both news and current affairs, but they cater for very different audiences.
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WMLD's audience is mainly young and black.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He wrote with a particular audience in mind and therefore emphasised the points of interest most suited to that audience.
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In a half-hour audience the King's new National Government was created.
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In their presence, the audience could feel its civilized surface annulled and replaced by a consoling sense of unity with nature.
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Some of the 250 people in the audience told the Post they believed the jokes were too harsh.
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The audience is invited to a celebrity reception following the reading.
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We will continue to advertise, and try to improve it, and build an audience .
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Your audience will be confused over it and that will give you a chance to think of something.