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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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His big breakthrough was to get parliament to accept a high technology spending programme up to 1985 with a commitment to priorities.
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Had we taken their advice the nurses would never have received what has proved for them their biggest breakthrough since the war.
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Such abilities and equipment gave them the opportunity to make the big evolutionary breakthrough which eventually lead to Homosapiens.
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It finished the year with the launch of the Twingo, arguably the biggest breakthrough in small car design since the Mini.
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The project predicted that their big breakthrough , would come in 1990.
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One-Zon-Flexon was an early nineties breakthrough .
great
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Sir Patrick Mayhew, the latest incumbent of this difficult office, is not thought to be expecting any great political breakthrough .
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The great breakthrough of this century is that we can move information and ideas easily.
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The acquisition of those two characters constituted the next great evolutionary breakthrough .
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The greatest breakthrough came in the field of dating.
important
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A spokesman for Friends of the Earth described the statement as an important breakthrough .
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It was such an important breakthrough , however, that other states immediately began to look into it.
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The important breakthrough came late on Oct. 24 following a day of intensive negotiations.
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It went on to make important breakthroughs in satellites, radar and high-tech communications.
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The results of these, and other primaries held during June, included important political breakthroughs for women and black candidates.
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In Wiltshire trading standards officers have made an important breakthrough in cracking the crime.
major
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Police believe the items are a major breakthrough in the six-week-old inquiry.
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Acknowledging that connection has been one of the major intellectual breakthroughs of this century.
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That would be a major breakthrough and would certainly assist us in formulating our policy as we move towards government.
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That would be another major breakthrough , offering a huge distribution channel for the product.
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It is difficult to be optimistic about the prospect of a major breakthrough .
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So we can make a major breakthrough here.
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Whether or not the story is true, there is no doubt that the imprisonment was a major breakthrough for both religious and political Paisleyism.
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This was a major breakthrough for the objectors.
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For the doctor its a medical breakthrough ... drugs fired through the skin without piercing it.
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Travel surveys often sound as suspect as medical breakthroughs: Apples are the most healthful food.
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Meanwhile, thanks to a series of startling medical breakthroughs , his father was recovering from his debilitating strokes.
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There were positive byproducts of the dreaded bomb, including invaluable scientific and medical breakthroughs .
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Spectacular medical breakthroughs sometimes occur, but they occur more commonly in science fiction than in the course of everyday scientific research.
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Programs will be reviewed periodically with an eye on medical breakthroughs and will be updated as new information becomes available.
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The real breakthrough for polythene came, however, from yet another accident.
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The potential for a real breakthrough is there.
scientific
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Meanwhile the search goes on for a scientific breakthrough .
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There were positive byproducts of the dreaded bomb, including invaluable scientific and medical breakthroughs .
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It is a total exercise programme involving the very latest scientific breakthroughs in the field of muscular development.
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I told her I had the possibility of making a serious technological, even scientific breakthrough , but I needed some backing.
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If this scientific breakthrough comes, nature will unmistakably have yielded up another of its secrets.
significant
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By September Haig was desperate to achieve a significant breakthrough .
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The Postal Service announced Tuesday it has made a significant breakthrough in getting machines to read handwriting.
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The demonstration itself was filmed live by Czechoslovak television - itself a highly significant breakthrough .
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Mike Widmer, Caldaire's managing director, believes a Government promise to waive the clause could be a significant breakthrough .
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Behind virtually every significant performance breakthrough lies a trail of trial and error, qualified triumph, and failed experimentation.
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It was a mixed night for the Liberal Democrats, who also failed to make a significant breakthrough .
technological
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If I was a scientist it would be like finding a cure for for a disease or a technological breakthrough .
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In other words, a technological breakthrough supposedly ushered in new symbolic meanings.
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The Ti'Ko range is not only remarkable for its price, it also boasts a technological breakthrough in graphics speed.
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New switching techniques and other technological breakthroughs enable all types of information to travel to the home.
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Composed in 1849, Sellers says the piece owes its life to a technological breakthrough: the invention of the valve.
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This game is truly a technological breakthrough .
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And departmental power can change over time, depending on economic conditions, technological breakthroughs , and government legislation.
■ VERB
achieve
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Nevertheless, Nivelle resolved to attack, certain that he could achieve a decisive breakthrough .
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Successful diplomacy will be defined by the ability to avoid a crisis rather than achieve a breakthrough .
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President Bill Clinton paid a two-day visit to Northern Ireland with little expectation of achieving a breakthrough in the beleaguered political process.
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But once again, Dole did not soar in the polls and did not achieve a breakthrough .
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Boro were seen more as an attacking force in this half without achieving a breakthrough .
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In the end, General Sickles achieved his breakthrough .
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By September Haig was desperate to achieve a significant breakthrough .
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The new decoder uses an amplitude locked loop in combination with a phase locked loop to achieve this breakthrough .
lead
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The new discipline thus has the capacity to lead the way to breakthroughs in the treatment of any number of degenerative diseases.
make
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Moreover, other inventors may be stimulated by what they see to make a breakthrough in an entirely different area.
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This made possible the breakthrough which facilitated such massive installations as the one at the Niagara Falls.
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Rangers made the breakthrough five minutes into the second half.
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The Postal Service announced Tuesday it has made a significant breakthrough in getting machines to read handwriting.
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The Real team made a huge breakthrough with SureStream for G2 a couple of years ago.
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It went on to make important breakthroughs in satellites, radar and high-tech communications.
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Such abilities and equipment gave them the opportunity to make the big evolutionary breakthrough which eventually lead to Homosapiens.
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Cossio said his investigators also made some breakthroughs in kidnappings.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Egypt and Jordan welcomed news of the deal as a major breakthrough .
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Negotiators have made a breakthrough on the most difficult issue of employment security.
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Police say they have made a breakthrough in their search for the killer of Diane Sutton.
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Scientists are claiming a major breakthrough in the treatment of AIDS.
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Scientists at Merck were nearing a breakthrough on a new drug to treat HIV.
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The technique is being described as a breakthrough in the field of tele-medicine.
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There has been an important breakthrough in the search for safe nuclear energy.
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This was an important breakthrough that had an enormous impact on the scientific community.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Each at the cutting edge of possibility within its own historical context, each a breakthrough in the standards of its day.
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However, elements on both sides oppose further compromise, and on Monday there was little optimism about a breakthrough .
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I envisioned entire forests being spared by this breakthrough .
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One man's breakthrough is often another's trifling adaptation.
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Rather than fill me with ecstasy or gladness, this breakthrough overpowered me with dread.
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The announcement was widely hailed in the media as a breakthrough , but the extent of the restrictions was not specified.
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The real breakthrough for polythene came, however, from yet another accident.
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This made possible the breakthrough which facilitated such massive installations as the one at the Niagara Falls.