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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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big
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The biggest beneficiary is the Oxfordshire Drug Dependency Team, which receives twenty-seven thousand pounds.
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Q.. You were one of the biggest beneficiaries of telecommunication PACs.
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Bank shares, which have been among the biggest beneficiaries of the inflow of foreign funds, were mostly winners.
main
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However, employers are probably the main beneficiaries of any reduction in absenteeism.
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Then we spend our money on software whose main beneficiary is the computer itself.
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The main beneficiaries would not be war veterans so much as people with proven farming ability.
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The main beneficiary in both cases was the head of the family, Anthony earl Rivers.
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The main beneficiary of it was the agricultural worker and the principal loser the landowner.
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It was not obvious, however, that Labour would be the main beneficiary of this change.
major
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He was a major beneficiary of the video boom and used his profits to diversify and expand abroad.
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Another major beneficiary is education, where spending per pupil is expected to rise by more than £500 over four years.
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It was middle classes who were the major beneficiaries of the economic and social changes which occurred during the inter-war years.
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MacDonald also had condemned the Lloyd George coalition as corrupt and unprincipled and had been a major beneficiary of its fall.
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Offices as centres of information - processing in organizations, are major beneficiaries of this new technology.
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Paradoxically, the other major beneficiary from apparent disillusion with the established parties was the far right Front national.
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Ironically, Wang's sons have been major beneficiaries of those reforms.
principal
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The first defendant is the principal beneficiary under the 18 April document.
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The principal beneficiaries of these grants were the middling and lesser nobility.
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The principal victims or beneficiaries of this change of direction are the historic tied houses.
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medicare
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In California, 38 percent of Medicare beneficiaries are members of HMOs, compared with about 11. 5 percent nationally.
■ VERB
become
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The discipline and profession of town planning became a beneficiary of this wider frame of social concern.
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As the smoke cleared, it became apparent that the beneficiaries included Mr Walesa himself.
pay
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Thus, lower rates will be payable if the income is paid to beneficiaries with low incomes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Single mothers will be the chief beneficiaries of this new policy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And they, the despised and rejected of the earth, were both its beneficiaries and its heralds.
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Both sides, the benefactor and beneficiary , were equally needy.
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How were local economic development strategies carried out, what were their outcomes and impacts, and who were their beneficiaries?
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In practice, beneficiary households have to pool their meager grants in order to buy a farm from a willing seller.
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The legal costs will be paid from your Estate so there will be less to divide between relatives and other beneficiaries.
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The trustee has a legal interest in the property; the beneficiaries have an equitable interest.