noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a body blow (= a very serious difficulty which could cause something to fail completely )
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A tax on books would be a body blow for education.
a body of data (= a large amount of data )
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There is an enormous body of data in support of the theory.
a body of research (= results from several pieces of research )
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There is a large body of research which indicates that passive smoking causes cancer.
a dead body
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A dead body has been found in the woods.
a government body ( also a government agency American English ) (= an organization run by the government )
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Patents are granted by the U.K. Patent Office, a government body.
a professional body/association (= organization that people from a particular profession can belong to )
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Is your architect a member of a professional body?
a review body/committee/panel/board
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We will set up a pay review body for all staff.
a voluntary organization/group/body/agency
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The day care scheme was run by a voluntary organization.
advisory committee/body
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the Environmental Protection Advisory Committee
body armour
body bag
body blow
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Hopes of economic recovery were dealt a body blow by this latest announcement.
body building
body clock
body count
body double
body dysmorphic disorder
body language
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It was obvious from Luke’s body language that he was nervous.
body mass index
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Your body mass index is your weight in kilograms divided by the square of your height in meters.
body odour
body piercing
body politic
body popping
body search
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Everyone entering the building had a body search.
body shape
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If you’re not happy with your body shape, you should do more exercise.
body shop
body spray
body stocking
body suit
body warmer
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a fleece body warmer
body/shoulder/foot etc massage
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A full-body massage lasts around one hour.
celestial bodies (= the sun, moon, stars etc )
executive body/committee etc (= a group of people who have the power to make decisions )
frail body/physique
governing body (= the group of people who control it )
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FIFA is the governing body of world soccer .
governmental body (= organization controlled by the government )
heavenly bodies (= the Moon, planets, and stars )
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heavenly bodies
identified the body
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The police took fingerprints and identified the body .
independent body (= group of people who work together )
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An independent body has been set up to monitor government spending.
legislative assembly/council/body etc (= one with the power to make laws )
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the main legislative body of the EC
lifeless body
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Anton’s lifeless body was found floating in the lake.
parts of the body
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The cancer may spread to other parts of the body.
prostrate body/figure/form
racked...body
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Great sobs racked her body .
regulatory body/authority/agency
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New drugs have been approved by the regulatory authority.
ruling body
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the ruling body of American golf
sb's body temperature
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His body temperature was high and he was dehydrated.
student body
the human body
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The diagram shows all the organs in the human body.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
advisory
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For the time being the parliament serves only as an advisory body of Noriega loyalists.
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Also installed in March was a 19-member advisory body , the Council of State.
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Two practitioner-based advisory bodies were also assembled.
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There is also a national advisory body , without executive powers, the Bishops' Committee on Church Music.
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Most of the people sitting on supposedly independent government advisory bodies have direct links to biotechnology companies.
dead
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My goodness no - over your dead body .
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For $ 20, 000, you can appear as a dead body .
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A dead body is liable to do that.
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Following her hanging, a horse and cart set out from the Grassmarket carrying what was presumed to be her dead body .
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Then I was taken to the room where the dead body lay.
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A dead body smells exactly the same as a dead animal.
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Christopher's dead body is in the next room.
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Over my dead body , thought the rector, who loved the diminutive stone building that the parish had erected in 1879.
governing
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To protect privacy, phone numbers have only been included for those governing bodies which have an office.
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The choice of the selection panel has to be endorsed by the governing body as a whole.
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And again: stand for election to the governing body of a Compact school.
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The Governing body will review the situation later in the year.
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A school's annual budget share has to be managed by the governing body .
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The Governing body of Somerville College has decided to admit both men and women from next year.
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It is hoped that governing bodies will be fully represented with, where possible, their Drug/Doping Liaison Officer.
heavenly
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This moving image manifests itself in the motions of the heavenly bodies .
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Thus, in particular, heavenly bodies moving in a gravitational field are well described by such geodesics.
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All the movements of the heavenly bodies are caused by wind.
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For untold generations the priests of the kingdom of Babylonia meticulously observed and recorded the movements of the heavenly bodies .
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It goes back to the days when people used to worship heavenly bodies as gods.
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Awareness of the stars and their light pervades the Koran, which reflects the brightness of the heavenly bodies in many verses.
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The problem, therefore, was to account for the apparent motion of the heavenly bodies given these two assumptions.
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The mosque and the Koran belong to women as much as do the heavenly bodies .
human
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These invade the human body through the skin.
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On the Moon, the human body had to learn a whole new set of reflexes.
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Of course, any number of fascinating and nasty parasites can join this microbial community and make the human body their home.
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And what about the human body ?
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Behind the fringe of orange crime-scene tape, on the street, the chalked outline of a human body .
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I do not mean by this only the human body .
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This use of the names of parts of the human body sometimes goes way beyond physical appearance.
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To understand how exercise affects sleep, you must understand the circadian rhythm of the human body .
independent
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An independent regulatory body should monitor the performance of all operators.
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It is an independent statutory body , which can give you advice and may take up your enquiry with Royal Mail.
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An independent review body has described the lessons as overly generous.
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It is an independent body and the courses are drawn up by specialist committees including representatives from government, industry and teaching.
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The Centre is an independent body , with charitable status.
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It is an independent , non-political body , which exists to focus graduate opinion.
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Each is the independent body recognised by government as responsible for promoting training in its own part of the economy.
large
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Therefore, increased fasting volumes in patients with acromegaly might be explained by their large body size.
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In the grey-green water we could dimly see a large , pale body beneath the grey fin.
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A large brain relative to body size is an almost universal foetal characteristic of vertebrates, and certainly of mammals.
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He had tried but failed to get his large body through the window.
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This is why large bodies of cells, working coherently towards the same cooperative ends, have evolved.
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But clearly the real hazard lies with larger , rarer bodies .
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Suddenly I found myself in a sack much larger than my body , but completely dark.
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In front of the line was an expanse of woods in which Jackson placed large bodies of skirmishers.
legislative
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The Assembly was not a true legislative body .
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It must be marvelous to just belong to some legislative body and just pick money out of the air.
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Policy goals and objectives are set by legislative bodies , made up of politicians.
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Never blame a legislative body for not doing something.
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The results of these activities are subsequently evaluated by the legislative body in order to determine whether objectives have been met.
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In our democracy, the making of public policy is usually reserved for duly elected legislative bodies .
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There is no elected national legislative body .
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Legislators introduce bills in the legislative body and examine and vote on bills introduced by other legislators.
main
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And the trouble with names extends to quotations in the main body of the text.
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The other main body in the south ern movement is the Council of Conservative Citizens, which has about 15,000 members.
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Parts were easy to replace and the chassis and main body built to withstand mileage.
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A main body with a small monitor sitting above the main workings of the machine, all encased in plastic.
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The main body spots are grouped in rosettes.
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Crews had yet to recover the main body of the plane and the engine.
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I took a seat a little way from the knot of people that formed the main body of our party.
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The main body of the plume registers over 100 parts per billion, high enough to cause long-term problems.
other
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Courses on the latter are open to non-members who are actively involved with other voluntary conservation bodies .
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Alternatively or in addition he may be co-opted on to other public bodies , such as hospital authorities, water authorities, etc.
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Priorities concern improved membership services, relationships with other bodies , public relations, Hospitality magazine and staff training.
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The hepatitis B antigen is found in blood, saliva, urine, semen, vaginal secretions and possibly other body fluids.
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Blood and other body fluids in contact with the skin should be washed off with soap and water.
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Clothing and sheets soiled with blood and other body fluids should be washed in a machine at a high temperature setting.
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Accidents and injuries involving blood or other body fluids were widely believed to be under-reported.
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Forearm training is frequently omitted because of all the work the forearms do while training other body parts.
professional
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The qualification may be membership of a particular professional body or the holding of a particular academic degree or professional certificate.
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It is likely that in future further legal professions or professional bodies as appropriate will be added to the two lists.
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You may need to develop contacts with schools, special agencies, universities, the Department of Employment, professional bodies and so on.
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In addition, the Technician and Business Education Councils and a wide range of professional bodies validate courses leading to their awards.
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Statutory consultation is expected later this year after receipt of responses to these proposals from purchasers, providers, and professional bodies .
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But local authority associations, professional bodies and voluntary groups must not become scapegoats for government complacency and inaction.
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The bill envisages that non-lawyers belonging to professional bodies may be given rights to conduct litigation in some types of cases.
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The ombudsman will have power to recommend that a lawyer or professional body pay compensation, but not to compel payment.
public
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Indeed they can. Public bodies may apply for a compulsory purchase order in respect of certain property.
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This standard would also apply to an individual appointed as a member of such a public body .
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Why, after all, should public bodies be specially protected from the grievances of citizens who feel strongly enough to litigate?
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Alternatively or in addition he may be co-opted on to other public bodies , such as hospital authorities, water authorities, etc.
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The fundamental principle is that the courts will intervene to ensure that the powers of public decision-making bodies are exercised lawfully.
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The woman will be employed by a charity or public body and will be resident with the people being cared for.
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Judicial review is the key mechanism by which the decisions of public bodies or officers can be challenged.
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This does not apply to membership or employment in any public body , e.g., an electricity authority.
recognised
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Miscellaneous R.19 requires a recognised body to notify the Society of certain changes and occurrences.
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R.22 contains provisions as to the name of a recognised body .
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They share the characteristic of being established recognised professional bodies: The Association of Consulting Engineers.
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Have we now reached the stage where there is a recognised body of work produced over the 1980s by women artists?
regulatory
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It is a characteristic of both adjudicatory and regulatory bodies that they produce a binding determination of the issue before them.
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A key question is whether firms should be able to decide which regulatory body to join.
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If these regulatory bodies succeed, it will be one of the most interesting developments of the nineties.
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Laws about toxic emissions, like membership of regulatory bodies , have been dictated by industry lobbyists.
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It will provide a national regulatory system and a regulatory body to replace those of individual cantons.
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A regulatory body to investigate complaints should also be established.
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Rayosan, patented by Pailthorpe, is made from commercially available chemicals approved by international regulatory bodies .
whole
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His whole body felt as if it would explode.
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Our emotions swim in a soup of hormones and peptides that percolate through our whole body .
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As if struck by invisible lightning, she felt her whole body tense and prickle with reaction.
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He paused this way for several seconds; then slowly his whole body inched backwards along the carpet.
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By three to four minutes their whole bodies slumped in despair.
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Her whole body was seized with a terrible cold.
■ NOUN
clock
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The need for time-cues to produce a body clock with a stable 24-hour period has already been described.
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However, people living normal routines also can benefit from a knowledge of what their body clocks are telling them.
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This result might indicate that the body clock is slow to mature in premature babies.
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Do they result from the body clock , from sleep loss - or from some mixture of these factors?
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Our body clock as well as our habits will need modification.
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So this external factor offsets the fact that performance in the evening due to the body clock might be deteriorating.
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We have stressed the regularity that is observed in free-running experiments and interpreted it as evidence for the body clock .
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In addition it is difficult to attribute more errors or a poorer performance wholly to the effects of a body clock .
language
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Many skills such as reading body language are culture bound.
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In every culture, body language is crucial and complex.
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Upon meeting them you instantly see what they look like, and quickly observe their facial expressions, gestures and body language .
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You need to see the body language .
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This taught us how to tell what a person is feeling by merely observing their body language and facial mannerisms.
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Electronic media, filtering tone of voice and body language out of messages, also hinder feedback regarding how recipients are reacting.
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It is expressed in the otter's body language .
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Her body language reinforced the impression.
size
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This species has small testes for its body size , even though the literature records that females associate with several males.
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Almost all of us can improve our body size and shape with a good fitness program, but only to a point.
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The other part of the explanation is body size .
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Their brains are larger in absolute terms than those of chimps but relative to body size , they are considerably smaller.
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This applies particularly to traits, such as body size , which are themselves related to age.
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Goals for body size may need minor re-adjustment too.
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Therefore, increased fasting volumes in patients with acromegaly might be explained by their large body size .
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A large brain relative to body size is an almost universal foetal characteristic of vertebrates, and certainly of mammals.
student
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It was decisive, in that it was marked by a shift in the character of the student body .
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In schools with an all-white student body , the average ran up to $ 350 allocated per pupil per year.
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Black-jacketed on the podium, he was on a different plane from the student body , silent and scribbling at his feet.
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The makeup of the student body is a prototype of schools that fail.
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There is a strong sense of community amongst the self-governing student body .
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By 1972, well over half of the student body had scored under 80 in high school.
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The student body is cosmopolitan, including individuals from all continents.
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The 10-player team is recruited from a student body of 96, only 42 of which are girls.
temperature
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Packed so closely together, they kept each other warm, thus saving those calories that were burned up maintaining body temperature .
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Exercise will raise your body temperature , allowing you to adjust to your new circadian rhythm.
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You sweat to keep your body temperature down.
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In addition, body temperature begins to drop and muscles begin to relax.
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They pick up the infant's heartbeat, respiration rate, body temperature , and so on.
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In most healthy individuals body temperature begins to rise during the last few hours of sleep just before they awaken.
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Also included is a plot of the time of peak of body temperature on successive days.
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In response, body temperature falls, metabolism slows, and we prepare to drop off.
weight
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Forces that can be up to five times your body weight on each stride.
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Thacker, who at 5-foot-1 once weighed 225 pounds, lost nearly half her body weight about five years ago.
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In this study, the dose of ursodeoxycholic acid varied with body weight .
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These results did not differ when acid output was expressed as mmol/h/kg lean body mass or mmol/h/kg fat free body weight .
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The student sits on the floor and opens his legs in front of him, pushing his body weight forward as far as it will go.
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We were not able to adjust for the possible confounding effect of body weight as this information has not been collected.
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Whilst riding, children are experiencing various speeds and directions which are influenced by their own body weight and steering ability.
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Note how the knees are still flexed and the bulk of the body weight has moved to the right.
■ VERB
find
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Three, she found the body and covered it up, but was too afraid to admit what she had done.
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He presided three times a year at the Convocation of York, which he found a happy body .
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Investigators said they have little hope of finding any intact bodies .
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A couple of days later we found his body in a disposal.
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In the morning, they found the body of the leopard at the foot of the cliff.
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I found my changing body very comical at times.
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We are unlikely to find the body of a bird that drops dead off its perch in a bush.
govern
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Which rather begs the question-shouldn't there be a governing body that regulates such questionable decisions?
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Parents were given rights to be represented on school governing bodies .
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In some sports many participants join neither club nor national governing body .
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This meant the subordination of all individuals and self governing bodies to the Government.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
foreign body/matter/object
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Make sure you remove all foreign matter from the wound.
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A group of prisoners was carefully picking foreign bodies from a mound of rice before cooking.
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Even for the last remaining superpower, domestic issues, not foreign matters, dominate national elections.
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Eyes inflamed from trauma or after foreign bodies have been removed.
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Lombardy was stopped and arrested on suspicion of rape by force; rape with a foreign object and false imprisonment.
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Nothing but the thrill of seeing your name in print, alongside your gut-wrenching tale of finding foreign objects in your food.
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Tell everyone to watch out for a foreign body?
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The resulting pellets are termed Type 90 reflecting the high percentage of hop material present compared to water and foreign matters.
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We describe two cases of accidental aspiration of a foreign body after use of a metered dose inhaler.
over my dead body
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You'll marry him over my dead body!
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Father gives the bridal sermon over my dead body.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a strong, healthy body
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Baby monkeys cling to their mothers' bodies until they are old enough to start climbing by themselves.
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Belfast City Airport Forum is a new advisory body set up to discuss environmental issues affecting the airport and the surrounding area.
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By the time I got home my body ached all over and I knew I was getting the flu.
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Calvin was not happy with his body , no matter how much he exercised.
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His body was flown home to be buried.
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If you don't start taking care of your body , you're going to have a heart attack one of these days.
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Jane Fonda has an amazing body for a woman of her age.
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Many teenagers are self-conscious about their bodies.
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Mr Price's long body and short arms and legs gave him a rather strange appearance.
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Police found the body of a young boy in Epping Forest last night.
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The bodies of the two soldiers were buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.
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The body of the plane broke in two.
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The black widow spider has red-orange markings on its body .
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The first time I ever saw a dead body was at my grandfather's funeral.
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The woman fell to her knees beside her son's body and began crying and wailing.
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There are over 1000 muscles in the human body .
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UEFA is the governing body for European football.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A given rocket booster could actually land more mass on these bodies than it could land on the Moon!
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From that time on, it seemed as though I loathed myself and looked for ways to punish my body .
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His body and amused gaze point at the camera, and he holds a cigarette in his free hand.
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Physical activities need to be monitored as sudden body contact or jarring of the head can bring about further dislocation.
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Push the body , it meets its limit.
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The matrix enables links to the awards of other examining bodies to be established.
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The village paths soon became covered with a mass of bodies, brains, blood and intestines.
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These too contain that interior form like a body with the arms and legs out.