I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a compass bearing/reading (= a direction shown by a compass )
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We took a compass bearing to ensure we were walking in the right direction.
ball bearing
bear a scar formal (= have it on your body )
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He still bore the scars of its teeth on his leg.
bear a slogan (= have a slogan printed on something )
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a badge bearing a campaign slogan
bear a/some similarity to sth (= be like something )
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The murder bore a striking similarity to another shooting 25 miles away.
bear claw
bear hug
bear little/no resemblance to sb/sth
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He bore little resemblance to the photograph in the newspaper.
bear market
bear no relation to reality (= not match what is really happening or true )
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His vision of European politics bears no relation to reality.
bear no/little relationship to sth
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The allegations bore no relationship to the facts.
bear resentment (= feel it )
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My father's favourite was my younger sister, and I'd always borne him some resentment for this.
bear responsibility for sth (= be responsible for something bad )
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Developed countries must bear much of the responsibility for environmental problems.
bear signs of sth (= have signs )
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The bed was neatly made and bore no signs of having been slept in.
Bear Stearns
bear the hallmark of
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Their performance did not bear the hallmark of European champions.
bear the suspense
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She couldn’t bear the suspense a moment longer.
bear/carry a grudge
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Wallace said the rumors had been started by someone who bore a grudge against him.
bear/carry a watermark
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The sheet bears the watermark ‘1836’.
bear/carry/shoulder the burden (= be responsible for something )
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At the age of 16, Suzy bore the burden of providing for her family.
bear/have a resemblance to sb/sth
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People said he bore a striking resemblance to the President.
bear/hold etc no grudge
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He insisted that he held no grudge against Taylor.
bearing in mind (= because of )
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More money should be given to housing, bearing in mind the problem of homelessness.
bore...malice (= did not feel any malice towards her )
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James bore her no malice .
bore...the stamp of (= had )
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The speech bore the stamp of authority.
bring pressure to bear on sb (= put pressure on them )
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These groups have brought pressure to bear on the government.
can’t bear the thought of sth
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I can’t bear the thought of you being hurt.
carry/bear scars (= to suffer from feelings of fear or sadness )
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These children will carry their emotional scars with them for the rest of their lives.
full bore
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Kate took a huge slice and was going at it full bore.
grizzly bear
have...crosses to bear
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I feel sorry for you, but we all have our crosses to bear .
hold/bear sth aloft
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He emerged, holding a baby aloft.
meet/bear the cost of sth (= pay for something, especially with difficulty )
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His family were unable to meet the cost of his operation.
not stand up to scrutiny/not bear scrutiny (= be found to have faults when examined )
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Such arguments do not stand up to careful scrutiny.
polar bear
teddy bear
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
hardly
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She could hardly bear to listen to them, smiling Clyde, amiable Harvey, fat Marlene.
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Heartrending, Rob thought; he could hardly bear to look.
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The two sides of the equation did not balance and she could hardly bear the implications of that.
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I am so homesick I can hardly bear it.
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At school the next day I hurt so much I could hardly bear to stay sitting down.
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I remember being filled with such excitement I could hardly bear it.
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What that will do to Strachan's nerves hardly bears thinking about.
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He could hardly bear to go on.
■ NOUN
brunt
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A recent report showed how older workers bear the brunt of economic recession.
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It will bear the brunt of the estimated $ 1 billion cost for the changes on Okinawa.
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The depot is bearing the brunt of a package of cost cutting measures across three sites.
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Southern California, where the banks had the most overlap, will bear the brunt of the cuts.
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He thought that the garrison of Richmond ought now to bear the brunt of the fighting.
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Millions of carers argue that they bear the brunt of the job ... without recognition, or proper payment.
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Retailers are in the immediate line of fire and were first to bear the brunt of cost cutting.
burden
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Those people may have roughly the same income and circumstances and they may all be able to bear the same burden .
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To what extent are the various taxes shifted and who bears the ultimate burden ?
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People can not afford to bear a heavier burden , and we shall not put a heavier burden on them.
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Wives bore a greater burden in dealing with these daily difficulties than did their preoccupied husbands.
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If this applies, small indexed sequential files bear a heavy burden compared with larger files.
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Some have struggled all their lives, and now are forced to bear this unexpected burden during retirement.
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Is the potential for misidentification any less when the defence bear the burden of proof?
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He went further and said that the prosecution bore that burden whenever the issue of prejudice through delay was raised.
child
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Others develop the feeling of bearing a child more gradually.
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Reproductive system After the menopause, women are no longer able to bear children , as their ovaries stop releasing eggs.
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Quintana, who works at a car wash, said she bore her first child at age 13.
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Next, their wives were fed since they could bear more children .
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She bore two children , was banished from the colony and yet reappeared later.
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She was a lady of unearthly beauty who married a Count of Anjou and bore him four children .
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Even if women are raped, he says, they should be legally required to bear the children .
cost
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And who will bear the cost ?
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Such action forces potential offenders, under the threat of legal action, to bear all the costs associated with their production.
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The buyers therefore had to bear the costs of the deterioration.
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Instead, landowner Peter Dillingham will bear the cost .
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A long debate determines who will be unlucky and bear the cost of eggs rather than sperm.
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Retailers are in the immediate line of fire and were first to bear the brunt of cost cutting.
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The insured must bear the costs of the Engineers fees unless liability is subsequently established under the policy.
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The Society are now seeking a skilled modeller to carry out this work and have undertaken to bear the costs involved.
costs
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The buyers therefore had to bear the costs of the deterioration.
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In terms of our organizational behavior model, costs bring the fear of low performance immediately to bear .
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The Legal Aid Fund bears the costs risk rather than the litigant.
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Such action forces potential offenders, under the threat of legal action, to bear all the costs associated with their production.
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For the moment, capital was bearing the costs of overaccumulation.
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Other terms Purchaser and vendor to bear their own costs .
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The insured must bear the costs of the Engineers fees unless liability is subsequently established under the policy.
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Any exports to the mainland have to bear high transport costs .
cross
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We all have our crosses to bear .
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Was this his Cross to bear ?
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Each symbol was placed in front of larger crosses bearing the name and crest of the unit or group.
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He says it's a cross to bear .
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Look - you've got your cross to bear , all right, I've got mine.
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Thought it has a supportive county council and a productive work force, yet it has its cross to bear .
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A tall stone cross on the site bears the following dedication: To the Brave of Both Nations.
fruit
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Some investment does not bear fruit .
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They began to see that devoting time and energy to this endeavor bore fruit .
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The first is that the policies have largely been implemented as intended and that they are bearing fruit .
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What contacts there are do not always bear fruit .
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Whether the 90s will bear further fruit remains to be seen.
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It bears fruit continuously throughout the growing season.
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The years of work and attention were bearing fruit now, and suddenly this stroke of luck with Betty.
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Never would she let the earth bear fruit until she had seen her daughter.
grudge
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Drought-lovers are natural container plants and will not bear a grudge if you forget to water them.
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Otis, who bore lifelong grudges over provocations infinitely smaller than this, was realistic enough to know when he was had.
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It would not do to have Miss Blagden imagine she bore any grudge .
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Does some one bear a grudge against Vallejo?
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Lets hope they don't bear a grudge !
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He said both men came from deprived backgrounds and bore a grudge against the area in which they lived.
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Guenelon bears a grudge in his heart, which eventually blossoms into a scheme for revenge.
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Y/N 7 I am willing to forgive people who have upset me and do not bear grudges against them.
hallmark
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It also bears the hallmarks of a long-cherished project.
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The attack bore all the hallmarks of a loyalist murder bid.
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Whatever it was, it didn't bear the hallmark of life in Knockglen.
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In singling out gay men, the offence bears the hallmarks of homophobic prejudice, and belongs to the less tolerant era.
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Cricket is primarily a man's game, bearing all the hallmarks of male camaraderie.
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The sculptures bear all the hallmarks of the Braun workshop and date from 1713-19.
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But they said the type of attack bore all the hallmarks of the I-R-A.
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It does not, in other words, bear the hallmarks of Thatcherism.
influence
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Nor was noble influence brought to bear only in moments of crisis.
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Campaigning can bring political influences to bear on the students that might affect them detrimentally. 3.
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The outside influences have no bearing on what you can do for your basketball team....
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He also wrote letters to bring the full weight of the family's influence to bear on Cambridge University.
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All sorts of influences are brought to bear upon us every time we turn on the radio or open a newspaper.
mark
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A large piece of whale blubber, bearing the marks of fleshing knives, has been discovered off west Falkland.
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The imam still bore the mark of that experience in his gaunt frame and sallow, jaundiced complexion.
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The great Leinster dinner service of 1747 was his swansong: no silver bearing his mark appears thereafter.
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Products graded in accordance with established standards bear the appropriate grade marks .
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And her body, bearing one tiny mark , had been found with a bird's head, near the barrow.
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Krupat's face, which I knew so well, bore some recent marks .
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Some of you have the look of lords, yet you bear the mark of hard travelling and your steeds are scarred.
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None the less, nationalization still bore the mark of long struggles by the labour movement to further working class interests.
mind
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You should also bear in mind that social security payments might be higher abroad.
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And bear in mind that it was an hour later and in the middle of the week.
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And while that would seem to leave Jen open to offers, bear in mind that she can be a difficult customer.
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The Home Secretary should bear in mind the fact that this case is subjudice.
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Meredith, bearing in mind Harriet's warning that this horse might kick, prudently moved away a little.
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I have no authority to do that in a half-day debate, but perhaps hon. Members will bear it in mind .
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We should bear in mind continually that the whole field is controversial.
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To approach this question, we bear in mind the principle that variability in language is socially functional.
name
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He devised a set of heavy draft horse casting hobbles which are now outmoded but still bear his name .
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The Lechmere chain traces its roots to merchant Abraham Cohen, who opened a harness store that bore his name in 1913.
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The large old building, with its sign over the door bearing the Grenfell name , stood silent and empty.
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Croix, who was dizzy and nauseated when he penciled in the river that bears his name .
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Each symbol was placed in front of larger crosses bearing the name and crest of the unit or group.
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Conoco currently operates in 37 states from Texas to Montana, with 5, 125 service stations bearing the Conoco name .
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There was a second edition in 1803, bearing Coleman's name .
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They all bore the name of the same author.
pressure
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He brought undue pressure to bear on his parents by giving them an entirely misleading account of the documents.
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With all the pressure brought to bear upon them, both President Lincoln and General Halleck stood by me....
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This concession would not have happened but for the pressure brought to bear on the authorities.
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In London Channel 4 journalists and Insight News, the production company, brought pressure to bear .
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As consumers in a capitalist society we have great power to bring pressure to bear .
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On his eastern border, Ine brought pressure to bear on the eastern Saxons who were sheltering exiles from his kingdom.
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Those groups have brought pressure to bear on government to provide resources or pursue policies to the benefit of their members.
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No pressure was brought to bear on visitors who were reluctant to co-operate.
relation
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The yardage on the card often bears little relation to the club you select.
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The punishment in this instance is not arbitrary; it bears some relation to the punishable behavior.
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They bear little enough relation to the land that now lies west of Jerusalem.
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It bore no relation to the equivalent of aerodynamic facts, namely, anthropological evidence as a whole.
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Hence the amount of Business Rate each local authority receives will bear no relation to the amount actually collected in each area.
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This bull market bears no relation to that gambling spree.
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The picture bore no relation to the blotchy, snotty, shouting face of angry childhood.
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Furthermore, who told the stories about whom seemed to bear some relation to the conventional pecking order.
relationship
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This chapter has reviewed a wide range of research which may bear on relationships between subjective risk and memory for driving situations.
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Why is life so unfair-whether you live or die bears no relationship to what kind of person you are.
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The available statistical evidence bears out this crude relationship between years of education and earnings.
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The symbols used in a language are arbitrary and bear no relationship to what they represent.
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Availability of resources and their actual use seem frequently to bear little relationship to each other.
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Expiatory punishment is arbitrary in character because it does not bear any relationship to the offense.
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They too complain of pain whose severity bears little or no relationship to the tissue destruction.
resemblance
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The oldest Tertiary rocks contained archaic mammals that bore no resemblance to the living families within the class.
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The rumors bore an uncanny resemblance to whatever people feared most.
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I say nuclear catastrophe partly because any exchange of nuclear arsenals will bear no resemblance to anything that could be called war.
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But his co-defendant, Terry Nichols, bears no resemblance to the sketch of John Doe 2.
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And he was helped by the fact that he bears a slight resemblance to the blond singer in Abba, too.
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She bore little resemblance to the fashionable woman she had been just a few weeks ago.
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They say that the handwriting at the top bears no resemblance to that of any Press office staff.
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Citations commonly bore little resemblance to events.
responsibility
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No one likes to bear the responsibility for such decisions.
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It was hard to tell which side bore more responsibility for the disorders, the police or the rioters.
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Ironically, the papacy must bear some responsibility for these developments.
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But women bear some responsibility , too.
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But he bears primary responsibility for tax and economic policies that lost Labour the election.
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In the past, the companies have said they bear no responsibility for the actions of dealers who sell guns.
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It was as though she were dead and he bore the responsibility for killing her.
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He must bear primary responsibility for the chaos that descended upon the White House when such disclosure did occur.
scar
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His twice broken kneecap still bears the scars - for Lawrence today was the test he's been waiting for.
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All bore ugly scars from repeated knife fights on the streets and in the dives around Clinton Avenue.
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This boat was used in an Indiana Jones film and still bears the scars .
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She still bore the scars of battle, a battle she had nearly lost.
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He had only ever been discovered once and still bore the scars on his wrist from the Alsatian's razor-sharp-teeth.
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He still bore the scars of her teeth on his calf and upper thigh.
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And within a week Aseta was playing again-though she still bears the scar today.
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Many people bear permanent scars from such encounters.
similarity
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If this was Richard's first experience of war it bore an ironical similarity to his last.
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They say the cases bear no similarity .
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The interiors of these churches are tall and dark and bear strong similarities to inverted ships.
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In fact, of course, much of this material bore only a tenuous similarity to its genuinely customary counterparts.
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This description bears marked similarities to those offered by a number of eminent sociologists who adopt the trait approach.
son
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Eleven months later she bore his son .
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She would bear him a son named Epaphus, and live for ever after happy and honored.
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He further conquered her by ensuring she fell in love with him, and she bore him three sons .
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After she died in 1647, a new wife bore him one more son in his sixtieth year.
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She was jealous that I was to bear her husband's son - I could not hate her for that.
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She bore him one posthumous son .
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Somehow that was easier to bear than a son .
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For example, the ability to bear sons remained important in early twentieth-century farming communities.
stamp
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It did not, now, bear the stamp of Duncan on it.
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His early work, produced between 1930 and 1933, bears the stamp of sectarianism.
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In the first two weeks of January 1992, 18 more people were killed in murders bearing the stamp of death squads.
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The scheme bore the unmistakable stamp of Kurt Hahn and his trust system that Charles had seen in operation at Gordonstoun.
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How could she produce anything that bore the stamp of continuity and at the same time managed to be fresh and original?
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Wycliffe lifted out a man's wrist watch and a little wad of letters still in their envelopes and bearing foreign stamps .
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Such cheques will bear the bank's stamp and a bank official's signature on their face.
thought
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Riley, Riley, I can't bear the thought of your leaving.
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You couldn't bear the thought of a chit of a girl sweeping in and scooping the jackpot.
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And she couldn't bear the thought of being sucked back into the ebb tide of loneliness again either.
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He simply can not bear the thought of his hated enemy getting hold of young Adam.
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I can't bear the thought of Batty playing against Leeds.
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I couldn't bear the thought that it was you he loved.
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She longed to encounter some other human presence and could not bear the thought of it.
weight
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But to my mind neither section 8 nor the Gillick decision will bear the weight which he seeks to place upon them.
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I went down the steps, slowly, enjoying the way each step bore my weight .
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Yet these will hardly bear the weight of a theory so grand as the fusion of legacy and trust.
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Differences that had seemed slight when they were in their early twenties now bore social weight .
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The Hooper who existed in Brideshead Revisited, though, bore all the weight of Waugh's opprobrium.
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If the floor is properly framed, you should not need extra support underneath to bear the weight of the fireplace.
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As a foundation it is inadequate to bear the weight of the case that Mr. McGregor sought to build upon it.
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His arms were numb, his hands too weak to bear his weight .
witness
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I did not steal or bear false witness .
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There, too, literature bears witness .
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Sparrow's books bear witness to his movement in the most exclusive circles.
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They also bear witness to trade over long distances.
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The Prisoner of Zenda and its sequel certainly bear witness to their author's craftsmanship.
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Those empty houses bore mute witness to the violence of the times.
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The Mutawas, clothed in self-righteousness, were there to bear witness to the appropriate punishment.
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Half way across the site, the earth is scorched, and the remnants of dwellings bear witness to a horrendous fire.
■ VERB
bring
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This would bring financial pressure to bear on his friends and family, and besides it was profitable.
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Mummy and I will bring our guns to bear .
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There is a finite amount of government resources we can bring to bear .
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Anyway, on with my story, for soon other pressures were to be brought to bear .
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In bringing the arts to bear on his discussion, Hardison shines brightly.
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Employers brought maximum pressure to bear on workers in order to restore order: recalcitrant strikers faced lockouts.
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He asserts that he is: bringing to bear the precision of photography in the illustration of our subject.
grin
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We just have to grin and bear it.
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It's not exactly affectionate, but we Limeys can grin and bear it.
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But she was not on the tour, so I had to grin and bear it.
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And up to now, you've had to quit or grin and bear it.
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Abu Salim decided that a third day wasn't necessary so I had to grin and bear it.
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There was no alternative but to grin and bear it.
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After debate the team concluded that they had to grin and bear it rather than descend into paranoia.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be borne in on/upon sb
bear the mark of sth
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A large piece of whale blubber, bearing the marks of fleshing knives, has been discovered off west Falkland.
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None the less, nationalization still bore the mark of long struggles by the labour movement to further working class interests.
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Some of you have the look of lords, yet you bear the mark of hard travelling and your steeds are scarred.
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The imam still bore the mark of that experience in his gaunt frame and sallow, jaundiced complexion.
bear/keep sb/sth in mind
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Bobcat. Keep that in mind .
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But they keep Soviet might in mind , however remote the threat now seems.
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If he had ... no conclusions yet, just bear it in mind .
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It is important to bear this in mind in any study of the role of school governors in meeting special educational needs.
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It is important to keep your audience in mind when writing a report.
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They might bear that in mind .
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To keep it in mind , at all costs.
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We've got to bear it in mind .
bear/take/suffer etc the brunt of sth
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Group comportment had deteriorated by the day, with yours truly bearing the brunt of the collective delinquency.
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He thought that the garrison of Richmond ought now to bear the brunt of the fighting.
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Her hands, which she threw up to protect her face took the brunt of the injury.
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It will bear the brunt of the estimated $ 1 billion cost for the changes on Okinawa.
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Retailers are in the immediate line of fire and were first to bear the brunt of cost cutting.
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Southern California, where the banks had the most overlap, will bear the brunt of the cuts.
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The depot is bearing the brunt of a package of cost cutting measures across three sites.
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The front of the car, and those in it, took the brunt of the impact.
bore sb silly
bore/scare etc the pants off sb
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He wasn't interested in the heavy political stuff which bored the pants off most people.
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It took ten minutes to reach Honey Cottage, with Yanto trying his best to scare the pants off Mary.
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Lovely people who scared the pants off him.
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The tests scare the pants off many managers.
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Though, mind you, it scares the pants off poor old Crumwallis.
have a/some/no etc bearing on sth
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And that it might have some bearing on what has happened now.
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But the facts of the past seemed to have no bearing on the facts of the present.
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It has come to have a bearing on the larger questions of civilized survival.
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Party political factors, professionalism and the dispositions of key personalities all usually have some bearing on internal management structures.
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The availability of security may, however, have a bearing on whether or not a particular loan will be granted.
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The observations on immortality in Chapter Thirteen may be seen to have some bearing on this.
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The outside influences have no bearing on what you can do for your basketball team....
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This year's form will have a bearing on all future claims.
water-borne/sea-borne/air-borne etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A messenger arrived, bearing a letter from the ambassador.
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An oak table bore several photographs of the family.
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At the head of the procession a group of dark-suited men bore the coffin into the church.
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He bore the pain stoically.
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Her loneliness was hard to bear , after her husband died.
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I really can't bear him.
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Jean will never be able to bear children.
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My leg really hurts -- I'm not sure how much longer I can bear it.
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Several of the guests arrived bearing gifts.
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She bears the title of "Executive Director."
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Talking to a counsellor can help divorcees to bear the pain of separation.
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The baby's narrow neck looked too fragile to bear the weight of its head.
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The ice wasn't thick enough to bear his weight.
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The list bore the names of people still missing after the disaster.
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The melon rind bore traces of a rare type of the Salmonella bacteria.
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The police are asking residents to keep an eye out for a person bearing this description.
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The trial was a great scandal but she bore it all with courage and dignity.
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The tunnel would have needed to be extremely strong to bear the full weight of the earth above.
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They arrived in Israel on the same plane that bore Assad's coffin.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A close scrutiny of films showing lions killing zebras does not bear this out.
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Dissident radicals of all sorts were assumed to bear loyalty to alien ideologies, and deportation became the fate of many.
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For Blanche the atmosphere bore no resemblance to the glamorous, fun-filled evening promised in the advertisements.
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I can not bear it any longer, I am crying now.
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Never would she let the earth bear fruit until she had seen her daughter.
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Some products that bear freshness dates are cheeses, breakfast cereals, bakery products, and mayonnaise.
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There Charles went solo again, unveiling a plaque - which bore both their names - as Diana stood meekly behind him.
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You know, as in, which one bore more excitement and panache.
II. noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be borne in on/upon sb
bear the mark of sth
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A large piece of whale blubber, bearing the marks of fleshing knives, has been discovered off west Falkland.
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None the less, nationalization still bore the mark of long struggles by the labour movement to further working class interests.
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Some of you have the look of lords, yet you bear the mark of hard travelling and your steeds are scarred.
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The imam still bore the mark of that experience in his gaunt frame and sallow, jaundiced complexion.
bear-baiting/badger-baiting etc
bear/keep sb/sth in mind
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Bobcat. Keep that in mind .
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But they keep Soviet might in mind , however remote the threat now seems.
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If he had ... no conclusions yet, just bear it in mind .
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It is important to bear this in mind in any study of the role of school governors in meeting special educational needs.
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It is important to keep your audience in mind when writing a report.
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They might bear that in mind .
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To keep it in mind , at all costs.
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We've got to bear it in mind .
bear/take/suffer etc the brunt of sth
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Group comportment had deteriorated by the day, with yours truly bearing the brunt of the collective delinquency.
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He thought that the garrison of Richmond ought now to bear the brunt of the fighting.
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Her hands, which she threw up to protect her face took the brunt of the injury.
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It will bear the brunt of the estimated $ 1 billion cost for the changes on Okinawa.
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Retailers are in the immediate line of fire and were first to bear the brunt of cost cutting.
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Southern California, where the banks had the most overlap, will bear the brunt of the cuts.
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The depot is bearing the brunt of a package of cost cutting measures across three sites.
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The front of the car, and those in it, took the brunt of the impact.
bore sb silly
bore/scare etc the pants off sb
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He wasn't interested in the heavy political stuff which bored the pants off most people.
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It took ten minutes to reach Honey Cottage, with Yanto trying his best to scare the pants off Mary.
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Lovely people who scared the pants off him.
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The tests scare the pants off many managers.
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Though, mind you, it scares the pants off poor old Crumwallis.
bring sth to bear (on/upon sth)
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Campaigning can bring political influences to bear on the students that might affect them detrimentally. 3.
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Employers brought maximum pressure to bear on workers in order to restore order: recalcitrant strikers faced lock-outs.
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He brought undue pressure to bear on his parents by giving them an entirely misleading account of the documents.
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He could not bring his mind to bear on the distant world her handwriting suggested.
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He resisted the pain, tried to bring the weapon to bear.
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Mummy and I will bring our guns to bear.
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Short of a hostile military intervention in Kosovo, there are other ways of bringing outside power to bear.
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Workers have their own organisations which can bring pressure to bear on governments and make demands on the state.
crashing bore
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At worst, a crashing bore.
grin and bear it
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Abu Salim decided that a third day wasn't necessary so I had to grin and bear it.
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After debate the team concluded that they had to grin and bear it rather than descend into paranoia.
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And up to now, you've had to quit or grin and bear it.
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But she was not on the tour, so I had to grin and bear it.
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It's not exactly affectionate, but we Limeys can grin and bear it.
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There was no alternative but to grin and bear it.
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We just have to grin and bear it.
sth doesn't bear repeating
water-borne/sea-borne/air-borne etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The federal estate tax form is a real bear to fill out.
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Visitors to the park are warned not to feed the bears.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After three weeks out in the field Skipper looked like an overgrown teddy bear .
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Also pictured with funnyman Les is Barnardos' best-known bear and official mascot, Barnaby.
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Barnett replied drily that Davis's best option was to feed the gingerbread to his bears.
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Buy teddy bear wrapping paper for decorations.
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Giraffes and upstanding bears are more popular than snakes, rats and spiders.
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With few bears and wolves about these days, elk rule their forest habitat.
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Zeus got after her one morning in the guise of a brown bear .