noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a banner headline (= a very large headline across the top of the page )
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Le Monde ran its famous banner headline ' We are all Americans now'.
banner ad
banner headline
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The front-page banner headline read ‘Disgraced police chief to stand trial’.
banner year
Star-Spangled Banner, the
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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Once more the red and black banners indicating an epidemic floated over the capital.
large
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There were many more than two hundred behind that large banner , so was it the wisest move?
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He did as he was told and saw a large banner strung above the door.
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Many prisoners of war were now arriving in Liverpool and the girls in Sarah's office made a large Welcome Home banner .
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ad
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Part of the screen was taken up by a banner ad for TotalNews sponsor NewsPage, a personalized Internet news service.
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That banner ad obscured an ad on the Time site for PointCast, which competes with NewsPage.
headline
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It was given a banner headline on page one and was continued on two inner pages.
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In banner headlines , the Cataract Journal announced that he had saved the carnival.
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Success is celebrated in banner headlines .
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The story also earned a front-page banner headline in the national newspaper, the Globe and Mail.
year
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Nineteen seventy-seven was a banner year for me, because I was doing all four at once.
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I had a banner year , and it took another banner year to beat me.
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True, it had not been a banner year for Republican candidates, thanks to the resignation of President Nixon that summer.
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Further, she predicted that the division will have another banner year and set a new record in the current fiscal year.
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But even elsewhere, 1995 was a banner year for conspiracy theories.
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Realtors are pinning their hopes for another banner year on low mortgage rates.
■ VERB
carry
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But the motive behind her achievement was not self-interest alone, nor the desire to carry aloft the banner of feminism.
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Eugene McCarthy carried the anti-war banner successfully through one primary after another.
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Marchers carried banners to Northumberland Street for a symbolic crossing of the wall that divides them.
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Nader never admits to carrying anyone else's banner .
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If they're going to carry the banner , they're very worthy.
hold
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Perforations through his clenched hands suggest that he held weapons or banners .
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We all slid out of the car, junior holding the banner , all of us trying to remain cool.
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After he moved to Jersey, one year he held the banner of some New Jersey gay group.
hung
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Protesters hung banners from lamp-posts and forced police to block through traffic.
raise
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He realised that some were small, barely six inches high, while others had sword-arms raised or banners flying.
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In 1418, proclaiming himself the Prince of Pacification, Le Loi raised the banner of revolt.
read
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Though his banner read burlesque, he occasionally dabbled in slightly more legitimate vaudeville fare.
unfurl
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A single protester attempted to unfurl a banner in the square on June 3, but was quickly arrested by police.
wave
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That fundamental conflict between consumption and conservation has both sides of the molecular forestry debate waving environmental banners .
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Tonight, he could have shouted through the streets, blown a trumpet, waved a banner .
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Some of its leaders fear a revival of left-wing parties waving the banner of social justice.
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They spent the sixties knocking their country over dinner and waving banners at a liberal president.
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They waved banners and signed petitions.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The protesters were carrying anti-war banners.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A single protester attempted to unfurl a banner in the square on June 3, but was quickly arrested by police.
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Gephardt is the most logical champion to lift that banner .
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He is champion of the sceptics, and he sallies forth with his banners flying.
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He was not a brave man, and often said so, brandishing his supposed nervousness like a banner .
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On their shelters were slogans flying on red and yellow banners.
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Would we please hang up our sponsor banners so that we were not mistaken for refugees?