BAND

Meaning of BAND in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a band of cloud (= a long narrow area )

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Long narrow bands of cloud stretched across the valley.

a dance band (= playing music that people can dance to )

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a professional dance band

band practice

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Have you got band practice tonight?

big band

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Tommy Dorsey’s big band

boy band

brass band

Citizens' Band

dance band

elastic band

garage band

marching band

massed choir/band British English (= several choirs or bands singing or playing together as one large group )

one-man band

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The company is really a one-man band.

rubber band

steel band

tribute band

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

big

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The big bands ran into other economic barriers as well.

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When they did get good they'd be one of the biggest bands in the world, the Fish predicted.

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Henderson had recorded with a big band before -- three tunes, in fact, in 1992.

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He has also had many composing commissions for radio big bands and symphony orchestras.

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The rise of modern jazz through bebop coincided with the demise of the big bands .

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It lasted until summer 1947, but big bands were on a downward slide and Armstrong found leading a headache.

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If they compromise in very small amounts they will become a stronger and bigger band .

brass

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Like the brass band title music, this seemed to be entertainment for another age or at least for another demographic.

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Five steamboats loaded with thrill seekers arrived from Lake Erie, each with a brass band on deck.

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Its cargo of supporters and media will be greeted by brass bands and fireworks at 10 ports.

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When we went down to dinner that evening there was a foot race going on, accompanied by a brass band .

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She only came occasionally and when she did, she stood out like a brass band .

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Crawdaddy-O, for general purposes, describe themselves as a Cajun brass band .

elastic

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The Castaways Quality Circle, comprising, looked at the method of strapping moulds together with the use of elastic bands .

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A leather ring fitted over each shoulder, with an elastic band stretched between them across my back.

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Tights are close fitting with elastic waist band .

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The envelopes were packed together in bundles and secured with thick elastic bands .

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Then flick the elastic band a couple of times.

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Then he starts to loop his hair into an elastic band first thing every morning.

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It is worth buying covered elastic bands or using a ribbon.

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Anaesthetised mice were placed supine on cork boards and steadied by elastic bands around the four limbs.

live

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The evening programme is aimed at teenagers and features a live band and soup kitchen.

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It features carnival rides, live bands and a dance pavilion along with booths for food, arts and crafts.

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They rose to the bait and decided they needed to prove a point, putting together their nine-piece Bootsy Collins-featuring live band .

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We wanted to use as few effects as possible and make it sound like a live band .

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The Wedding Present consolidated their reputation as a fine live band during 1988 but released a dearth of new material.

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Our Exmoor club is free to residents - and you can enjoy regular entertainment, discos and live bands .

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It has a great dance floor and discos and live bands are staged here regularly.

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I have a great live band , probably one of the best in the world.

local

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Craft fairs, local events, bands and art exhibitions will all be on offer.

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I tend to like to do it like local bands do.

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Madge Main bought an old building near her home to give a local band somewhere to practise.

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The local Aasen band performed a variety of pieces of music, including one that was specially composed for the occasion.

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A began making music at thirteen with local Cape bands , and was mostly noted for his singing.

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And trendsetters will almost certainly be talking about this week's U2 concert and the latest single from local band , Therapy.

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For 8 years she's hired out the old gym near her home to local bands .

narrow

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There are times when prejudice only contributes to conflict in the narrow band of outlook and experience where that prejudice exists.

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It is red-orange, with five or six narrow violet-blue bands on the sides.

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To perform well it has to be tightly targeted to cope with quite a narrow band of frequencies.

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So, fixed exchange rates or narrow bands simply do not allow countries the flexibility to solve their internal economic troubles.

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It shifted, became a narrow band of darkness, then widened again.

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A monochromator is a device for selecting a narrow band of wavelengths from a continuous spectrum.

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It is fun to create a pretty effect by sowing them in a narrow band , weaving between the brassicas like ribbon.

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We will put the pound into the narrow band of the Exchange Rate Mechanism.

new

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An average of 10 to 14 percent of the record's retail selling price is the average for a new band .

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At the first onset of this new band of warriors the Trojans wavered; they thought Achilles led them on.

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This labyrinthine venue is good for new bands and has sporadic club nights.

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Now that he's touring with a new band , Helm still opts to leave the past in the past.

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Soul searching Look no further for a hot new boy band .

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Other members of the Ramones have mentioned starting new bands or keeping a hand in the music business.

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Most new artists and bands aren't in a strong bargaining position.

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I never thought of us as a punk band , a metal band, or a new wave band.

rock

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He entered the elite Waseda University, where he formed a rock band with some friends, but he later dropped out.

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We were the big rock band coming in to crush the little elite alternative festival.

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Aren't they a rock band ?

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A.' s finest rock band .

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Their much-vaunted looser approach sees the band edging perilously towards becoming just another pop-\#rock band.

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Thornton played in a rock band .

rubber

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Avoid rubber bands , spiky brushes and combs, and do cover up your hair in the sun.

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Receiver is attached to battery with servo tape - rubber bands are for added security.

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Each team was provided with crepe paper, pins, a needle, rubber band , a doily and a paper plate.

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Place a rubber band over your first and second fingers and hold your right hand facing downwards.

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Never use rubber bands to tie back your hair: it's a sure way to get hair breakage.

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Thérèse lifted out bunches of letters held together by rubber bands .

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I wear sweats and my hair is pulled from my face with a rubber band .

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Hold it in place with a rubber band .

■ NOUN

dance

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Trumpet players in dance bands possess many different sorts of mutes with a corresponding number of resultant timbres.

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Mart Kenney was a perfectionist, and his high standards set an example for scores of dance bands across the country.

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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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The dance band is playing, sounds like a military tune, certainly not like the local dances back home.

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The first dance band at the Show Room was made up of people in the dale and they called themselves the Arcadians.

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This gives us an unbalanced picture of dance band and jazz arrangements today.

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They're a dance band with a message, pleasure politicians with some Big Ideas.

jazz

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And somewhere, behind it all, a bland jazz band .

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They range from non-performing beginner groups to an auditioned jazz band that meets an hour before school starts.

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Young men formed neighbourhood jazz bands , creating uniforms out of crêpe paper and competing against one another for modest prices.

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At least the club had a good jazz band , and a first-class cabaret.

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Jazzy appeal: Recruits are wanted for the Lockwood Lions jazz band which was formed a year ago.

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We have, for instance, a jazz band and the more advanced patients do some very good playing.

member

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The only other band member was bass player, Keith Gregory.

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Spitzer said he was interested, met with parents of the band members and began making some plans.

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Gedge used the other band members as arbitrators of the material, especially Gregory who contributes his own bass lines to songs.

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By Nov. 18, band members delivered to the travel agent about $ 100, 000 to pay for the trip.

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The conservatism of the group's fans even spread to the band members themselves.

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When hiring band members , Lawrence always preferred less talented musicians of good character over brilliant musicians of unstable character.

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Probably, some band members will contribute more than others.

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Something of an all-star outfit, each band member is an accomplished musician with an impressive r sum and enormous talent.

pop

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Nautical William are a pop band .

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A proper pop band , not a pretend one.

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Nomatterwhat they say, they're a pop band , and a damn fine one at that.

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If you say we're more of a pop band , then that's a compliment.

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It was a time when Madness seemed the most immortal of pop bands .

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High spot of the concert was a guest appearance by top pop band Shakatak.

steel

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Other facilities include two swimming pools and nightly entertainment featuring steel bands , limbo dancing and calypso music.

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His cell was eight by fifteen with a solid oak door supported by steel bands .

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Read in studio A group of schoolchildren have formed their own Carribean steel band .

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Beeton Rumford staff then transformed the ship's hold, with a steel band , palms and exotic flowers.

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These human beasts of burden also wore heavy leg-irons chained to thick steel bands clamped around their waists.

tax

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Last year, in a symbolic gesture, he introduced a 20p tax band .

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All taxpayers will benefit from the widening of the 10p income tax band .

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And all workers will get an extra £3 a week from the widening of the bottom-rate 10p income tax band .

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But the local council has put it in the highest council tax band - for houses worth at least three hundred thousand pounds.

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Tax cuts through the increase in the 10p income tax band will mean everyone has a little more in their pocket.

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How will widening the 10p tax band be made to look like a tax cut for everybody?

■ VERB

form

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When you are forming a band , try to make sure that everyone involved shares the same commitment and dedication.

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I mean, I formed the band , and so I've accepted the responsibility.

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Meanwhile, Giap faced the task of forming guerrilla bands , which would ultimately become the core of an army.

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If these people are so keen on farming, why did they bother forming a band ?

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He entered the elite Waseda University, where he formed a rock band with some friends, but he later dropped out.

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The resulting set of lines forms a band envelope.

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They've formed their own band , and have just released their first single.

join

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To top it all off, a girl wants to join the band !

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Support bands have yet to be confirmed, but Deep Joyn will join the band for most dates.

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I joined a band to achieve something, to go home with a record and show my mum and dad.

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He joined the Ellington band following the final departure of Sonny Greer from 1951-3.

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I make no apology for joining a distinguished band of predecessors.

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My parents had moved to the outskirts of Glasgow and I joined the local pipe band and met Duncan McIntyre.

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She knew Scathach's quest was for Bavduin, but he was not himself Jaguthin; he had merely joined the band .

lead

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He briefly worked with Sonny Stitt and led his own band before military service, which ended in 1962.

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It seemed incredible; what would the Axis want with a bunch of small-town men and boys led by a band conductor?

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Many leading local Manchester bands have already bought into the site.

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The subject in all these photographs was Mr Greene, leading his band .

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Harry Pryce led the band and Andrew Allan produced, except on occasions when I was asked to handle the production.

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Within months he is leading a band and writing his own music.

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For the music to be led by a worship band seems to me to be more appropriate to our culture.

march

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The old town square was filled with people and the jubilant sound of the marching band as performers juggled fire.

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It started with a marching band , or at least the lingering sounds of one.

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Patriots march to brass bands , and firework displays are held in most cities.

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And people no longer look to the parties to provide them with parades, marching bands , and Thanksgiving turkeys.

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Fans watched highlights of the season on a large video screen as they waited for the players and marching bands .

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Another kind of KLEZmer group had the instrumentation of a small military or marching band .

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Klein says she stays involved as editor of her high school paper, and Nyberg makes friends in the school marching band .

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But he also is in a community symphony, plays in the school marching band , and writes music.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

cult film/band/figure etc

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Brad Pitt in the cult film Fight Club was a fraudulent soap salesman.

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He became a cult figure in which notions of salvation by innocent suffering have a place.

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He is loved to the point of becoming a cult figure.

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He often introduces himself to boomer types as the B-string lyricist for that perennial underground cult band, the Grateful Dead.

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Healing spas were based on a local cult figure and the devotees underwent rituals which included bathing and communal eating.

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I start by telling him that he's quite the cult figure here in Annapolis, and he looks stunned.

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This, however, did not prevent him from becoming a cult figure among some of the Jacobins and other revolutionaries.

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Vanessa Nygaard is a cult figure waiting to happen, a gale-force personality blowing through Maples Pavilion.

gastric band

to beat the band

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It's raining to beat the band.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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a black snake with orange bands around its back

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a country-and-western band

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a small band of rebels

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a wide silk band

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an elastic band

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As you move into the higher income bands, the charges start to increase.

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How many bands of colour are there in a rainbow?

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There's a good band on Friday night at El Club.

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There are orange bands around the snake's back.

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There was a band of yellow in the rock.

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These changes will not affect people in the lowest tax band .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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As we taxied up and the motors were turned off, we could hear martial music from a khaki-clad military band .

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It is red-orange, with five or six narrow violet-blue bands on the sides.

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More importantly, they adapted to the conditions far more effectively than Gavin Hastings' band of teetotallers.

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The band were pleased with the excellent treatment they received from foreign promoters.

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The Sensational what band ? he said.

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There are an orchestra, a concert band , an intermediate band and a 25-member jazz ensemble.

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

together

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But the traditional banana-producing countries are banding together to save their skins.

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Some of the storekeepers had banded together to hire their own detective force; so had the railroads and hotels.

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So desperate has the situation become that 18 estates have banded together and called in Dave Dunn.

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They were forced to band together because the city was doing nothing for them.

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They feel that they can band together with others in a kind of joint enterprise to beat the disease.

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Fortunately a small group of folk banded together determined to save the bird and the rescue operation began.

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They can band together into a little guerrilla action.