adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bright child (= intelligent )
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He was a bright child – always asking questions.
a bright idea (= a very good idea - often used ironically )
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Whose bright idea was it to leave the washing out in the rain?
a bright patch
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Poppies and daisies provided bright patches of colour along the edge of the field.
a bright smile written (= when you look very happy, but you may not feel happy )
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She forced a bright smile.
a bright sun
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It was a warm day with a bright sun overhead.
a bright/strong colour (= strong and noticeable )
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Bright colours look good in strong sunlight.
be too bright/modern etc for sb’s taste
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The building was too modern for my taste.
bright pink
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bright pink lipstick
bright pinks
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Her room was decorated in bright pinks and purples.
bright red
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We painted the door bright red .
bright sunlight
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She shaded her eyes against the bright sunlight.
bright (= happy or excited )
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the bright eyes of the children
bright
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The moon was very bright.
bright
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the brightest star in the night sky
bright/brilliant/blazing/dazzling sunshine
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We stepped out of the plane into the bright sunshine of Corfu.
bright/clear/cloudless (= without clouds )
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The sun rose higher in the cloudless sky.
bright/promising (= showing signs of being successful )
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Her future as a tennis player looks promising.
bright/strong
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The light was so bright he had to shut his eyes.
dark/light/pale/bright blue
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a dark blue raincoat
dark/light/pale/bright green
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a dark green dress
one bright spot
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The computer industry is the one bright spot in the economy at the moment.
only bright spot
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The only bright spot of the evening was when the food arrived.
the bright side (= the good things about a situation )
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It was her nature to look on the bright side.
the future looks good/bright etc
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The future looks good for the company.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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The skin on the face was deeply wrinkled all over, but the eyes were as bright as two stars.
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The screen still is not as bright as it could be, though.
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Some of them are frail physically but are as bright as a button in their minds.
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The most direct interpretation is that one entire night was about as bright as day.
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The picture of the Virgin, on the other hand, was as bright as if painted yesterday.
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Their team is not as strong now, nor its future as bright , as when previous applications were rejected.
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Next day, when he awoke at noon, he was as bright and cheerful as if nothing at all had happened.
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The dark is lit as bright as day.
so
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And he was already so bright , anyway.
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Richard used to tell me about the stars, billions of miles away, so bright .
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Now I led the way - which was not so bright , after all.
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The moon was so bright I could see a figure running flat out up into the rocky hills.
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It was so bright and sharp.
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The full moon last night was so bright I could almost read by it.
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Today the three groups' future no longer looks so bright .
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The gloss on the story was that I was so bright that I understood them if they told me to stay somewhere.
too
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Often the light is too bright , which can cause difficulties for all children.
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It was far too bright to be a star, but one could look directly at its tiny disk without discomfort.
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The shadows are like black pits and the gaslight is too bright .
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Ha cheeks were two vivid spots of colour and her eyes were too bright .
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Other requirements: Light: Requires subdued light from above. Too bright light will harm the plant.
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You may have too bright a light and a reduction in this, or the addition of floating plants, might help.
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Not too bright at all, I put just that bit of white in like you said and it's coming on lovely.
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Out of doors it was too bright to see, the sun brilliant in contrast to the interior.
very
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If you want to use some very bright red flowers choose a subtle, gentle background with which they can blend.
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In addition to being very bright , he was very witty.
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He didn't look very bright , which he was.
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There was Peggy Cass, who was very bright , quick and funny, and we were a beautiful contrast.
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One of my friends at Binbrook was Sheila - tall, awkward, difficult, but a very bright girl.
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I know now that there is a difference between being very bright and very effective.
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The male is a little larger than the female and has very bright orange ventral fins when in breeding colouration.
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Our restaurant business has tremendous financial strength and a very bright future.
■ NOUN
blue
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White predominated, sea-green and bright blue were also favourites.
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He was wearing some kind of uniform, navy blue with bright blue buttons.
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It is divided horizontally by color with bright blue on the head and back and yellow on the stomach and tail.
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The sky was bright blue , and the woods glowed with light.
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The rims of the eyes also have this same bright blue , and they retain this coloration in the adult stage.
child
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It was difficult to imagine a more stimulating environment for bright children who might otherwise have lost out on their education.
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The brightest children would be expected to do about six questions within 30 minutes.
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But what can we do to help the bright child who works well during term but bombs in exams through nerves?
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Despite this, she was a bright child and did well at school.
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Another layer of guilt was added for brighter children who acclimatised sufficiently to start pulling ahead of their classmates.
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The brighter children or youngsters tends to do somewhat worse on such exams.
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In an interview with the Guardian last month, he said A-levels were too easy for the brightest children .
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It is not that teachers in our primary schools dislike teaching bright children .
color
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People drove out to see it, a patch of bright colors in the snow, and dropped in to see him.
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Joop sent his boys out in Tyroleaninspired hats, many in flashy bright colors and some in animal skins.
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In their bright colors , they looked like an exotic group of forest creatures grazing their natural habitat.
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She prefers bright colors in floral patterns or wide stripes.
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This woman, the campesina, had painted it in bright colors .
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Looks real black and white now-very clear-but back then everything came at you in these bright colors .
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She had a stick painted with bands of bright colors , from which hung a gong.
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Therefore, it is not surprising that they are the only mammals decorated with bright colors such as blue and pink.
colour
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This is not simple mimicry, which would only entail being the same bright colour as a distasteful species.
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Their tart flavour adds piquancy and the bright colour looks stunning.
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I awake at seven, amazed at myself, and bathe and dress in a bright colour .
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The dream flashed across my mind in bright colour .
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All they need is a patch of bright colour on their tails.
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Wear gloves in another bright colour , thick tights in yet another.
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Darwin's explanation of bright colour has lain dormant and untested for over a century.
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The red robe they gave her there was the first bright colour she had worn.
colours
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Those were the days before people dyed their hair bright colours , the days of henna.
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They can be had in bright colours , like the new Eheim or more laid-back, like the new Interpet.
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He dyed doves various bright colours to fly around and adorn the folly and the town.
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But extra light will accentuate the bright colours of the leaves and accelerate bushy growth.
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Ribbons and slashing are of contrasting bright colours identifying the individual regiments.
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It is one of the most popular rasboras despite complete lack of any bright colours .
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A more continuing change has been the wearing of smarter suits by most males and of brighter colours by many ladies.
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One of the H. Fire development bright colours within only a few days and began a reign of terror.
day
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It was a bright day and the official Zil lurched towards them.
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Until one bright day , at long last, a green shadow appeared.
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A large, empty room with high, narrow windows through which the bright day filtered slowly on to various shades of brown.
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Another bright day , almost hot, and the trees along the road flamed up in brilliant reds and golds.
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It was a fine bright day and he felt sure he had made the right decision.
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It was a cold, bright day .
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In the cool light of this brighter day it was hard to conceive of it as a visitation of demons.
future
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To summarise therefore, a big change, but a happy one, and a bright future in the Norfolk countryside.
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Our restaurant business has tremendous financial strength and a very bright future .
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No bright future Stephanie Nettell controlled her over-large panel well, asking probing questions to lead them on their way.
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All four look set for a bright future .
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Bioremediation is a promising and rapidly developing treatment technology with a bright future .
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He's hoping for a bright future .
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A bright future spread out before him.
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The shorts are betting that theirs is an industry with a bright future .
green
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They were loose-legged and bright green with white lace.
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The snow pea leaves should be bright green in color.
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They are ribbon-shaped and bright green .
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Heat very briefly so that the snow peas just turn bright green .
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Description: The leaves of the submerged plant are bright green , lance-shaped or even oval.
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The valley beckons the hiker with rolling grasslands that are bright green in spring and golden in autumn.
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Buy them fresh and bright green , with no dark marks.
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The bright green , narrow, lance-shaped leaves are arranged round the stem.
idea
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A Newcastle school aims to open a shop to sell pupils' bright ideas .
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That bright idea , understandably, provoked howls of protest and is so obviously wrong that Rep.
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This year's Better Environment Awards for Industry include a new category: for companies with bright ideas on recovering waste.
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In this faded house among the ferns, a bright idea was inevitably taking form.
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Moira was full of bright ideas about the mixing, and some synth effects she wanted me to lay down.
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In May 1988, Tudorbury dealers had the bright idea of fixing a football game with Harvard Securities.
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Angela soon had quite a bright idea .
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Some one must have thought it was a bright idea , though.
light
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Circles of bright light ... and ... a woman.
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At first the hot, bright light was unbearable.
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It had to be the cold air and the bright lights against the darkness.
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Whiston worried, of course, that bright lights might also falter when trying to deliver a time signal at sea.
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In the bright lights of the foyer his face was clearly illuminated.
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But then I saw this bright light at the window.
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It is helpful for pupils not to have to look into bright light .
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Under the bright lights in the train, both boy and man look pale, lifeless.
red
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There is an enormous range of colours available, from bright reds and yellows, through buffs and browns, to purplish-black.
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They were longer than the claws of a grizzly, perfectly groomed and polished bright red .
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Spike finally makes it-he's bright red from running.
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Then she rears upward, and up it comes, naked and pink, her hairy baby, its stump bright red .
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Only these caps with Yankees and Mets logos are hot pink and bright red , hardly the stuff of traditionalists.
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My face and neck are flushed bright red .
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Finally she brushed past us toward the office, her cheek bright red .
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Without three pars, the balance sheet for the week would be bright red .
side
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On the bright side , conditions at Nagashima have improved.
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Another is that they have an in-built bias towards optimism, always looking on the bright side of life.
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Experts believe it is all part of a wartime spirit of looking on the bright side .
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Few people look at the bright side of impromptu, outdoor conversations with hibernating neighbors.
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This is the bright side of extreme free enterprise.
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Look on the bright side , Cuz.
smile
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With her bouffant hairdo, elaborate plumage, gushing charm and bright smile she is a caricature of a countess.
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He was looking at them in turn with his bright smile .
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Indeed, she had scarcely enough presence of mind to return Sybil's bright smile and bid farewell to the genial innkeepers.
spark
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Here, some bright spark thought Windsor Castle was on fire and called the fire brigade!
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Quo and Maiden are in the lead but a few bright sparks voted for Saxon.
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Some academics try to counteract this trend by trying to identify the bright sparks and arrange special seminars for them.
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The growers appeared to be facing ruin until one bright spark hit on an idea.
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She watched the bright spark of the spear approaching, and felt nothing but a dull kind of relief.
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I should have realised that genius, as some bright spark in the office said, has a lot to do with genes.
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Too many bright sparks have been lost to Britain in the past.
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It didn't take long for some bright spark to try out the Doom Diver Catapult in a battle.
spot
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It was a thin, elegant face with bright spots of red on the cheeks, like a painted lady.
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Yet the South Carolina economy does have bright spots .
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This and our unbelievable performance against Northtown have been the only bright spots in another nightmare week.
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I kept on seeing little bright spots , so I kept on turning my legs.
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Their only bright spot , thus far, being a 5-1 defeat of Swindon.
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These are the bright spots in this 257-page discourse.
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One bright spot will be a new materials research centre at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California.
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There was some bright spots in the October trade report.
star
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Norma is very obscure; its brightest star , Gamma, is only of magnitude 4.0.
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Discovered in the early 1960s, quasars at first seemed to be small, bright stars .
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He became a bright star in a contemporary galaxy of writing-masters.
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It appears in the constellation Pisces, which has no bright stars .
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The nearest fairly bright star to the constellation is Nu Hydræ.
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Also in the line of the rings was the bright star of Titan, and the fainter sparks of the other moons.
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Most of the brighter stars plotted are of the second magnitude, while the fainter ones are of the fourth.
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Away from the haze and lights of the city, bright stars fill the spectacularly clear sky.
stars
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It is a beautiful night, a full moon and a few bright stars against the black sky over the Heath.
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Later, as he drove, the night cooled, sagging low with bright stars that flooded every street and yard.
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Then it erupted in a shower of cold, bright stars , brilliant with a sharp, astonishing, searing pain.
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Even as it was, the glare of the Earth, filling half the sky, drowned all but the brighter stars .
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Most of the brighter stars plotted are of the second magnitude, while the fainter ones are of the fourth.
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Discovered in the early 1960s, quasars at first seemed to be small, bright stars .
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Altair, at a distance of 17 light-years, is one of the closest of the bright stars .
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It appears in the constellation Pisces, which has no bright stars .
sunlight
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Now the rattle and roar of the tube faded abruptly as it surfaced into bright sunlight .
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They slept, and when they woke again in the strong bright sunlight , Cristalena pinched him.
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Actually, of course, the only time wearing shades is anonymous is in bright sunlight .
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Even in the bright sunlight the air feels thick and soiled.
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Hopelessly she walked outside and stood in bright sunlight wondering what to do; a few thoughtful seconds later she knew.
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Dark glasses are also recommended in bright sunlight .
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Wings embracing, they play in bright sunlight , Necks caressing roam the blue clouds.
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She shaded her eyes and shivered in the bright sunlight .
sunshine
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This hasn't grown so well this year compared to previous summers, probably because of the lack of really bright sunshine .
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Once you have dragged yourself from your bed, go into the bright sunshine as soon as possible.
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By the time of the start, the early morning rain and fog had given way to warm bright sunshine .
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He was suddenly aware of the sun, of bright sunshine pouring into the car.
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You will never think you can survive, when suddenly you are back out in the bright sunshine , racing forward.
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She went back out into the bright sunshine while Julius made all the arrangements for Eleanor's departure.
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It is dark in there after the bright sunshine and snow outside.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bright idea
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George came up with the bright idea of visiting every pub we passed.
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I don't know what kind of present she'd like -- if you have any bright ideas let me know.
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I like it! It sounds like a really bright idea .
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Whose bright idea was it to give the cat a bath?
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Whose bright idea was it to start major road repairs right at the start of the holiday season?
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Why not ask Sylvia? She's always full of bright ideas .
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A Newcastle school aims to open a shop to sell pupils' bright ideas .
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Angela soon had quite a bright idea .
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Del Plonka recalls that some one once got the bright idea of pumping water from the Saigon River into nearby tunnels.
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If even one-tenth of those bright ideas published could be brought to fruition, the world would be transformed.
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In May 1988, Tudorbury dealers had the bright idea of fixing a football game with Harvard Securities.
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In this faded house among the ferns, a bright idea was inevitably taking form.
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Their bright ideas and bad judgments are the standards by which the record industry still rates its progress and practices.
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Your bright idea could even earn you some extra cash.
bright spot
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But for every bright spot in the region there was a laggard.
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But now even those bright spots may be fading.
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I kept on seeing little bright spots , so I kept on turning my legs.
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Redland was a bright spot , up 34p at 481p, after figures and the Steetley merger.
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The money was the one bright spot the evening had produced so far, the carrot to the threat of the stick.
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The only bright spot was the news that Lewis should be fit to bowl in the final Test.
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This and our unbelievable performance against Northtown have been the only bright spots in another nightmare week.
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Yet the South Carolina economy does have bright spots .
even bigger/better/brighter etc
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But he actually proved even better than I thought.
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He had hoped to play an even bigger, more traditional role.
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I sort of thought the accident would make us play even better.
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It was even better when I got a hug and a kiss from the former Miss Minnesota!
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Many companies do so because smart managers know the importance of rewarding good work and inspiring even better efforts.
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There was something spontaneous and lively in his manner of speaking that made whatever he was saying sound even better.
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This show will be even better than the last one and is not to be missed!
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What is the best way of stemming this decline or, even better, of regenerating the economy?
sunny/bright intervals
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Any overnight mist or fog will clear quickly to leave most of the country with sunny intervals and scattered showers.
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East Anglia: Rather cloudy, mainly dry, some sunny intervals .
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Many sheltered central and south-eastern areas might stay dry with perhaps some sunny intervals .
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Outlook for tomorrow and Sunday: Mainly dry and mild, with sunny intervals after clearance of any early mist or fog.
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The day should gradually become dry with sunny intervals .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a bright and promising career in the Navy
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a bright eight-year-old girl
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a bright idea
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a bright smile
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a bright yellow van
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a bright , airy room
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a book with bright , bold illustrations
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After so long indoors the bright sunshine hurt Jack's eyes.
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Claire had a lovely bright bedroom which was decorated in yellow and white.
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Companies want to prevent their best and brightest employees from being headhunted by rival organizations.
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Even as a small child, it was obvious that Bobby was very bright .
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From the top of the hill they could see the bright lights of the city below them.
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If you are cycling at night, always wear something bright .
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Many of the houses were painted bright colors.
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That wasn't a very bright thing to do.
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the bright afternoon sun
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The artist clearly loved bright colours.
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The big windows in this room make it nice and bright .
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The front door was painted bright red.
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The light in here is not bright enough to read by.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Deng responded optimistically that the outlook was still bright .
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He has a triangular version of Rupert's stylised muzzle with the same pricked ears and bright black-button eyes.
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It was a bright , cheerful morning and she was in a bright and cheerful mood.
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Natalie is bright and she knows it.
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The text is helpful, and the maps are bright and cheery.
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These are not just interesting hypotheses or bright ideas.
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They never bothered that we were just spectating-we were driving a bright red Carrera 911 with a great exhaust note!