I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a board/ball game
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board games such as Monopoly and Scrabble
a boarding school (= a school where children also live and sleep )
a chess board (= with black and white squares on it )
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There was a chess board set up on the table.
a committee/staff/board etc meeting
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A staff meeting will be held at 3 p.m.
a display board
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Some schools have a display board with photographs of all the staff.
a review body/committee/panel/board
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We will set up a pay review body for all staff.
above board
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His plans for opening a coffee shop are completely above board.
as stiff as a board (= very stiff )
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The next morning I was as stiff as a board .
bed and board
board a coach formal (= get on one )
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When everyone was there, we boarded the coach for the journey home.
board a flight (= get on a flight )
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We arrived at the departure lounge to board the flight to Madrid.
board and lodging (= meals and a room )
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It’s £90 a week for board and lodging .
board exams American English (= in order to become a nurse or doctor )
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He failed his board exams in psychiatry.
board game
board of governors
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the hospital’s board of governors
board shorts
boarding card
boarding house
boarding pass
boarding school
boarding/quarantine kennels
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The puppy, which may have rabies, is at a quarantine kennel.
boogie board
bulletin board
chairman of the board
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Williams has been chairman of the board for five years.
chopping board
circuit board
College Boards
cutting board
departures board
diving board
draft board
drain board
draining board
drawing board
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The current system just isn’t working – we need to go back to the drawing board and start afresh.
emery board
England and Wales Cricket Board, the
full board
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A two-night break costs £125 full board.
get on/board a train
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At Stoke, another passenger boarded the train.
half board
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half board accommodation
ironing board
kite boarding
message board
mountain board
Ouija board
parole board
passengers board a plane/train formal (= get on it )
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The first three cars were reserved for passengers boarding in Queens.
room and board
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You’ll receive free room and board with the job.
sandwich board
school board
skirting board
sounding board
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John always used her as a sounding board for new ideas.
Surface Transportation Board, the
the departures board (= a board showing the times of planes or trains )
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I scanned the departures board for details of my flight.
the school board American English (= the group of people who are elected to govern a school or group of schools )
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The courts have upheld the school board's right to dismiss striking teachers.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
editorial
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The Club controlled a section of Tribune, Gollancz eventually replacing Mellor on its editorial board .
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The Journal of Medical Screening aims to be international and multidisciplinary, and the editorial board reflects these aims.
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Now according to Jung, the Animus operates as a not-nice, all-male editorial board somewhere inside your fluffy head!
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She was on the editorial board of the radical magazine Black Dwarf.
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If an elected official did anything remotely similar, the editorial boards of both daily newspapers would howl for their heads.
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Clearly a serious publication, it enjoys the support of a number of leading academics on its editorial board .
full
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Supplements per person per night: No single room supp; Full board £6.25.
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The full board will take up the matter Monday, and passage is expected.
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Front sea view and balcony £3.25; Full board £3.50.
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At present, the full board meets every other month.
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First, however, the full board must give the go-ahead.
licensing
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The purpose of the subsection is to ensure that there is local representation on the licensing board for a division.
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Where an applicant is convicted, the licensing board may refuse to consider the application with which the conviction was concerned.
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Voting at meetings of licensing boards .
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For the meetings of licensing boards , see 55.4 and 5.
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The issue of whether a church represents a significant body of opinion is a matter for the decision of the licensing board .
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The most disappointing aspect of this matter is that he should have seen fit to introduce politics into licensing board affairs.
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The licensing board require to give reasonably full reasons for their decision.
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This Part of the Act imposes certain duties upon licensing boards in respect of seamen's canteens.
local
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In further education, it devolves power from local authorities to local self-governing boards .
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Ohio uses local boards to manage its outpatient mental health and mental retardation services.
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A few just leave it up to the local school board .
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One of the three local boards was in an impoverished, mainly black section of Brooklyn called Ocean Hill-Brownsville.
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The Contract also aims to dismantle the Department of Education and transfer its funds to families and local school boards .
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State law, however, gives control of instruction to local school boards .
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In any given year there may be 120,000 or 130,000 elections held, most of them for local school boards .
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State laws, local board policies, and collective bargaining agreements set forth the specific reasons why teachers can be dismissed.
medical
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After repeated pleas he secured a medical board to consider his case.
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Soldo and his co-developer, librarian Richard Schiff, visited many state medical boards to introduce the concept.
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A Maryland medical board ordered him to perform 100 hours of service in an Aids clinic.
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The activity of state medical boards is directly related to their independence and financial backing, Winn said.
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Three times during that year, Cottle was called before medical boards to assess his fitness for active service.
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An elected health commissioner would run the system with an appointed medical advisory board and regional directors.
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He promised to take duplicitous physicians before a medical ethics board and strip them of their credentials.
■ NOUN
bulletin
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At least, that's the case when downloading from a bulletin board .
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To call a local computer bulletin board , you would use: A.. The Terminal program in Windows.
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The case will be quickly followed by a second action taken against a large electronic bulletin board company.
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The parents had been alerted to the amendment through postings on their electronic bulletin boards .
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If you have a modem you can log on to a bulletin board and download it.
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The ideal bulletin board is a local call away, with a crowd you like and lots of cool shareware for downloading.
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The use of bulletin boards and list servers will be evaluated in the section focusing on the scientific arena. 5.2.3.
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No longer was it enough to write a program that connected reliably with local computer bulletin boards or even national on-line services.
chairman
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The five man selection team is completed by county board chairman Jack Wall and secretary Seamus Aldrdige.
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After ordering investigations of many others, Texas state prison board chairman Allan Polunsky has a new target: himself.
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While Eckstrom and Bronson both supported Grijalva for board chairman , there was considerable debate over that position among the three Demos.
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Last week, board chairman Allan Polunsky ordered an audit of all the contracts.
circuit
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The disadvantages are that the batteries are inconvenient to change and severe battery leakage can be disastrous to the circuit board .
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The brain is not a printed circuit board .
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Complete circuit diagram for the Quick Prom interface Fig. 4. printed circuit board component layout and full size copper foil master pattern.
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They regarded its motherboard, the main circuit board , as a beautiful work of art.
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The purpose of the circuit board fault diagnostic aid is to assist the diagnosis performed using automatic test equipment.
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You do this by plugging in special circuit boards .
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Generally, however, printed circuit boards will be protected, through their preparatory drawings, by copyright.
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Morrison said Apple had recently discovered flawed chips on the computers' main circuit boards could make them freeze up.
drawing
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The balancing of these main curves is done on the drawing board .
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But evolution never starts from a clean drawing board .
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You have to discard the propeller engine and go back to the drawing board .
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These are then traced on a touch-sensitive drawing board to make digital data signals which are dumped in the computer memory.
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The new ship, which has been on the drawing boards since the late 1970s, will be a research vessel.
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They must go back to the drawing board and review the whole of youth training.
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They want to see the road plan sent back to the drawing board .
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There are also different kinds of drawing boards which will hold the paper firmly down and provide moving X and Y axes.
game
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Their ingenious green creations included a submarine, car, baby's rattle, hand puppets and board games .
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Lots of computer-generated technical dazzle in this fantasy about jungle animals escaping a supernatural board game and terrorizing a New Hampshire town.
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Certainly one to add to the collection of board games available on shareware such as monopoly and chess.
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He saw her playing with the video games , checking out the board games, giving the stuffed animals trial hugs.
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Certainly on warm windless days board games , comics and recorder corners can be encouraged in playgrounds.
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Cyril said, throwing the board games , one by one, downward.
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In the 1880s halma was rejuvenated as a board game Waddington's-style for two to four players.
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My nephew and godson Peter loves board games and sports, so these are more prevalent in his home than in mine.
health
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As part of its general consultation process, Greater Glasgow health board consulted in respect of its acute services strategy for Glasgow.
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How much money has his Department spent in conjunction with the health board on those applications?
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From the general practice side this matter is being urgently discussed with both the health board and management executive.
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To some extent there is a mismatch between teachers and health board staff in the perceived role of the health board.
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Today's announcement could mean some of those health boards won't be running any of the hospitals in their area.
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It was the only health board with a well organised congenital malformation register.
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These include returning: Via a back to nursing or re-entry programme organised by your local health board or district health authority.
level
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This will cause both feet to rest on the windward rail, making it difficult to keep the board level .
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Representation at board level of the workers is declared, in effect, to be a natural right.
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As you start, therefore, concentrate on keeping the board level and getting it to move as quickly as possible.
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Place your front foot in the training strap, using the back foot to keep the board level . 3.
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The decision was discussed and agreed at board level , including the amount of space taken.
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Not keeping the board level with the back foot. 6.
meeting
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An emergency board meeting is called for November 28.
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The idea first came up in Thoroughbred Owners of California board meetings in June.
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After the board meeting , they drove fifty miles south of Auckland to meet Forster for lunch.
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In board meetings all across the nation, many are discussed, but few are ever chosen for implementation.
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What would be the point of my disagreeing with my husband at a board meeting ?
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They attend monthly board meetings and pepper them with pointed questions and barbs.
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It was to have been discussed at the next Shanks &038; McEwan board meeting in early October.
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Doyle voiced his criticisms at a board meeting in Stoke 10 days ago.
member
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Public Employees Retirement System board members receive $ 100 a day when in session plus business expenses.
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Outside board members also would be required to own at least 1, 000 Nynex shares during their board tenure.
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They have been most successful when they have been able to win the trust and acceptance of the other management board members .
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Four current board members , Markkula included, were up for re-election.
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He was subsequently appointed director, Reprocessing Engineering Division, and became technical director and also a main board member in 1984.
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Turner, also a Time Warner board member , suggested more such deals may be in the works.
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Councillors rejected completely the proposal for a management board with its implied differentiation of councillors into board members and the rest.
notice
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They are not merely abstract theory or pious statements of intent that look good posted on the staff notice board .
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It's amazing how many schools that front busy roads have name boards but no notice boards.
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A I think that the design considerations of your notice board should be given some careful thought.
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It was a notice board devoted exclusively to funeral announcements, and the lawyer's death was well represented.
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Memos of this type are often displayed on notice boards for general information.
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A notice board placed in a suitable part of the ward is useful for presenting learning material.
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Students are responsible for keeping themselves acquainted with notices posted on official notice boards . 4.
review
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The study was approved by the institutional review board of the Mayo Clinic and all patients gave written consent.
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Among the 18 members on the review board will be the Rev.
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Late last year the Northern Ireland sentence review board recommended that Adair be freed from Maghaberry.
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Plant officials were awaiting approval of the plans by a review board of senior managers.
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The price review board was set up as a result of the new patent legislation.
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The report of the review board concludes unequivocally that the accident was caused by a high-altitude aerial explosion of an asteroidal body.
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So Mr Burgreen, doing all that he could, said he would add a civilian to his internal review board .
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The three-person review board met anyway.
room
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He did not look like a businessman about to discuss optical lenses in the board room at the Zeiss works.
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I remember walking into the board room tingling with fear and energy.
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Approval was given only after De Virgilio was called into the board room and given the chance to clarify Capetti's doubts.
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George and Donald decided against looking into the board room and made their way together and silently from the ground.
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On the top floor Franklin D. Hauser was addressing executives inside the large board room .
school
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In Mobile, Alabama, when the school board proposed a teacher competency test, the union objected.
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He serves on the school board , as well as doctoring the people of Atteridgeville.
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The school board and Superintendent Iris Metts requested a $ 1.1 billion budget.
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Even among all of the confusion over Ebonics, the Oakland school board has performed a service.
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Before tenured teachers can be dismissed, school boards must show cause why they are not fit to teach.
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The teachers then appeared before the school board , asking that they be treated as a group in any disciplinary proceedings.
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Can a new school board refuse to reappoint a teacher because of his or her association with former board members?
■ VERB
join
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Anyway, shortly after my joining the board of United Racecourses, it became necessary to find a manager.
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In 1994, Alexander joined the board of directors of Martin Marietta Corp.
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He joined the board of the Hearst Corporation in June 1995.
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She also joins the Helicon board .
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But since last January when Tom Davies joined the two conservative board members, the board is generating increasing public discussion.
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He then persuaded the late Robert Maxwell to join the board .
serve
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Since the autumn of 1990 she had served on the board where she co-ordinated the work of Treuhand's 15 regional offices.
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Many of the delegates work for him or have been appointed to serve on prestigious boards .
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He serves on the school board , as well as doctoring the people of Atteridgeville.
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He served on the school board for ten years and donated firewood.
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Rusty's success is due to the fact that he serves the board .
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We are grateful to him and to all the other people who serve on the advisory board of the know-how fund.
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Deglazing is simple: Remove the roast from the oven, and transfer the meat to a serving platter or cutting board .
sit
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He became a nationally prominent horse breeder, fostered charities, sat on corporate boards , served in the Connecticut legislature.
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Three family members sit on the board as non-executive directors.
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I sit on the boards of twenty organizations, and most are customers of this bank.
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Although D'Arcy sat on the board of the new company he was not disposed to play any further significant role.
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Supervisor Michael Yaki sits on the retirement board .
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Ellison also sits on the board of Next.
sweep
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Now comes a fine Teldec Digital Experience disc which sonically sweeps the board .
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Last season, they swept the board with all four leading places.
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If the reformists emerge as the largest group, they will sweep the board .
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Still, when the outcome was finally confirmed, reformers had swept the board .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(go) back to the drawing board
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Voters rejected the bridge expansion plan, so it's back to the drawing board for city engineers.
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For San Jose, it was back to the drawing board.
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So Superman, once the most recognized and revered hero in comic books, was sent back to the drawing board.
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Sometimes, you also have to go back to the drawing board.
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The Cta episode has therefore sent the whole idea of direct dating of petroglyphs back to the drawing board.
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They must go back to the drawing board and review the whole of youth training.
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They want to see the road plan sent back to the drawing board.
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You also could go back to the drawing board with that budget, trying to reduce costs.
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You have to discard the propeller engine and go back to the drawing board.
on the drawing board
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Additional programs in international studies and telecommunications were on the drawing board.
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Parisians remain unconvinced that the project will be approved, especially since it is not the only idea on the drawing board.
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Plans also are on the drawing board to develop chips for the cable industry.
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The balancing of these main curves is done on the drawing board.
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Until that changes, the Tobin tax will remain on the drawing board.
sweep the board
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If the reformists emerge as the largest group, they will sweep the board.
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Last season, they swept the board with all four leading places.
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Now comes a fine Teldec Digital Experience disc which sonically sweeps the board.
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Still, when the outcome was finally confirmed, reformers had swept the board.
tread the boards
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And rather than treading the boards ... they were teetering two feet above them.
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I was 22 or 23 before I decided to tread the boards.
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If they start today they have something under three weeks before treading the boards.
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Morris had no idea she had trodden the boards.
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So it is with a good few of the faithful with whom I trod the boards in my schooldays.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a cutting board
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I'll put an announcement up on the board .
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If you don't agree with the result etc you can appeal to the board of examiners.
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In October, the school board recommended that uniforms become compulsory.
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Room and board is $3,000 per semester.
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The licensing board has refused us permission to sell alcohol on the premises.
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We got the cedar boards from an old fence.
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Where's the chess board ?
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Your homework assignment is written on the board .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An apparent ring, which had its own people inside, was responsible for earlier Sparc 2 board thieves.
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And a more frantic presence was trapped behind the skirting board .
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For six years, Lowman worked with the Los Angeles school board to get more teaching programs and transportation for handicapped children.
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It was a notice board devoted exclusively to funeral announcements, and the lawyer's death was well represented.
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Mr Balmuth joined Caldor in 1987 as president and was elected to the board in 1989.
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The board argued that the dispute was not protected by the First Amendment since it was an internal personnel matter.
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The floor boards are one quarter-inch thick and come in 34 designs.
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The track led only to Scudder's Cottage, the name crudely painted on a board nailed to the gate.
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(go) back to the drawing board
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Voters rejected the bridge expansion plan, so it's back to the drawing board for city engineers.
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For San Jose, it was back to the drawing board.
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So Superman, once the most recognized and revered hero in comic books, was sent back to the drawing board.
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Sometimes, you also have to go back to the drawing board.
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The Cta episode has therefore sent the whole idea of direct dating of petroglyphs back to the drawing board.
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They must go back to the drawing board and review the whole of youth training.
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They want to see the road plan sent back to the drawing board.
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You also could go back to the drawing board with that budget, trying to reduce costs.
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You have to discard the propeller engine and go back to the drawing board.
on the drawing board
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Additional programs in international studies and telecommunications were on the drawing board.
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Parisians remain unconvinced that the project will be approved, especially since it is not the only idea on the drawing board.
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Plans also are on the drawing board to develop chips for the cable industry.
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The balancing of these main curves is done on the drawing board.
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Until that changes, the Tobin tax will remain on the drawing board.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A week later he boarded a ship bound for New York.
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Before boarding the plane, Jenny tried once more to call home.
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Flight 503 for Toronto is now boarding.
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I board with the Nicholsons during the week.
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I boarded with the Jansens until I found a place of my own.
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Phoebe boards here during the week and goes home at weekends.
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They boarded a flight for Israel.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her parents offered no explanation when police boarded their plane at Chicago airport yesterday to arrest them for abandoning their children.
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My only knowledge is the pubs that still remain but are boarded up.
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Police boarded the Aberdeen to Newcastle plane after the pilot radioed for help.
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The sooner Morgan boarded the chopper and pushed off the better.