noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a display case/cabinet (= small cupboard with a glass front )
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There was a display case full of medals.
bedside lamp/table/cabinet etc
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The clock on her bedside table said half past four.
Cabinet minister
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a senior Cabinet minister
Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms
Cabinet reshuffle
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a Cabinet reshuffle
cabinet/ministerial rank
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As promised, a minister of cabinet rank has now been appointed to supervise its operation
file cabinet
filing cabinet
kitchen cabinet
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
filing
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They supply those - and filing cabinets and desks and desk chairs and all that sort of thing.
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Crashing and echoing, the filing cabinet toppled end-over-end down the stairs as the thing heaved itself through the door aperture.
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Shelley closed the filing cabinet and the desk, and wondered whether he had forgotten her.
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Froebe rushed into his office from his private quarters, which were behind a door concealed by the filing cabinet .
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They fell down the back of a filing cabinet .
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Maybe I have a filing cabinet stuffed under the mat.
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This, no doubt, was where Jimmy had found the filing cabinet .
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Vic hesitated, then sprang on to the filing cabinet .
new
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The new cabinet and other ministerial appointments are announced within a matter of days, sometimes within a matter of hours.
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Perhaps the clearest indication of this was the difficulty he encountered in filling the job of finance minister in his new cabinet .
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Proving very popular are the new serpentine bedside cabinets in real satinwood handpainted with classical motifs, at about £600.
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This raises questions / concerns about installing new kitchen cabinets that will have their own back resting against the outside wall.
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She had a new sink and new bright yellow cabinets to go with them.
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Do we need to be concerned about moisture formation with the new cabinets ?
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A new environmental cabinet permits simulation of weathering in a wide range of environments.
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The new cabinet could be finalised over the weekend, he said.
small
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No pictures, but a small cabinet of porcelain figures.
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Chairs, small tables and cabinets may cost several hundred dollars.
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In a small glass cabinet are examples of Tennyson's clay pipes and writing quills.
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The Manual Revival Sequencer was contained in a small cabinet at the head of the coffin-shaped hibernaculum.
■ NOUN
bathroom
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Both men went hurtling backwards, Scott slamming the newcomer's head against the bathroom cabinet .
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Almost certainly, his bathroom cabinet would be stocked with anti-depressants.
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Do not put shelves or bathroom cabinets immediately above the washbasin.
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In my case it is the bathroom cabinet .
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Sullivan opened the bathroom cabinets and checked beneath the sink, smiling at the neatness of his theory.
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The face in the mirror of the marine blue bathroom cabinet looked terrified and ill.
bedside
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Proving very popular are the new serpentine bedside cabinets in real satinwood handpainted with classical motifs, at about £600.
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The bedside cabinet held a bottle of aspirin; they might help.
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He slammed the milk bottle down on top of the bedside cabinet , pulling the drawer open.
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For an instant, his gaze had shifted to the bedside cabinet , where their whisky glasses stood beneath the lamp.
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She had bumped her arm on the little bedside cabinet .
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Slipping off her ring, she put it on the bedside cabinet with an inward sigh.
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Harry propped himself up on one elbow and pulled open the top drawer of the bedside cabinet .
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Cadogan cherrywood bedside cabinet , with bronzed effect handles.
china
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When they get there the china cabinet is still in one piece but the budgie is dead.
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My grandmother sat down in the carved chair next to the china cabinet .
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A suicide note was found on a china cabinet .
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She stood behind the china cabinet and watched as he poured it down the sink.
cocktail
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He reached the cocktail cabinet and leaned over it to scoop up a couple of two-hundred-year-old goblets.
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One calls it a console and it looks much like an awful cocktail cabinet .
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Other lots of interest included: mahogany four door cocktail cabinet , £230.
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A new furniture shop with a three-piece suite in uncut moquette in the window next to a cocktail cabinet shiny as toffee.
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Shattered by this thought he had emptied the cocktail cabinet , only to spend the next day nursing a monumental hangover.
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The rest was just glasses and booze from Cliff's musical cocktail cabinet .
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Bunny dropped the lighter into a china vase in the cocktail cabinet in the prop-room and burnt the letter on the fire.
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As Juliet scurried shocked to the cocktail cabinet , Charles asked himself whether he was in fact an alcoholic.
colleague
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But Churchill's enthusiasm for a summit meeting was not yet fully shared by the Foreign Office and cabinet colleagues .
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To the consternation of his cabinet colleagues , he is currently conducting a wide-ranging review of public spending.
committee
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A cabinet committee , including the prime minister, existed on Northern Ireland.
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After his retirement, he chaired the committee on currency and foreign exchanges and served on the cabinet committee on indemnity.
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The matter was discussed in Cabinet and a special cabinet committee was established on to which Sir Roy was co-opted.
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The content and policy of the Bill must be approved by the appropriate cabinet committee and then by the full Cabinet.
display
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It triumphed in a different way, as a display cabinet of curious animals for Victorian London.
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On the side of the store are display cabinets built into the wall.
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The new stalls would have refrigerated display cabinets .
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Wolfgang Tillmans is exhibiting a compendium of 57 images, with yet more in display cabinets in the centre of the room.
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Never daring to use them on a regular basis, they were placed inside a display cabinet for many years.
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Here two men managed to forced open a display cabinet to steal jewellery despite closed-circuit camera surveillance.
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The ability to build large glass display cabinets without frames opens up a new world of design possibilities.
file
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Set them aside in a file either on your computer or in your file cabinet .
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It was small, furnished with two hard chairs, a metal file cabinet and a worktable with an ancient typewriter.
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Lydia goes to the file cabinet and rummages in a folder.
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There is a massive file cabinet stuffed with documents so old and densely packed they may be ready to ignite spontaneously.
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The renewal can be as simple as a few new plants and shoving some chairs and file cabinets around.
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They have no record of the discussion at all, no manuscript hidden in an old file cabinet .
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Just inside, a mound of debris spills across the floor: A toppled file cabinet .
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We began rifling through his personal correspondence, and looked around in his file cabinets for documents that might incriminate him.
glass
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Behind the harpsichord and under the window there was a low glass cabinet which contained two or three classical pieces.
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You can only stare at seemingly tame Dada graphics in nice little glass cabinets .
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In a small glass cabinet are examples of Tennyson's clay pipes and writing quills.
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A glass cabinet sat on the counter, crammed with dusty trinkets, leatherwork and tins of sardines.
kitchen
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Being all in one, the Concept slides neatly between kitchen cabinets without gaps, adjusting to fit flush with the worktop.
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If you have wall space that needs filling, look in your kitchen cabinets first before running out to buy something.
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With adjustable height skid feet and flush fitting sides, the Phase 2 fits easily into your kitchen cabinets .
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There is no kitchen table, no kitchen cabinets .
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Think of the man who has to hang a kitchen cabinet in a frame house.
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One family was loading kitchen cabinets , a sink, a refrigerator, a sofa and a radiator on to a large truck.
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Clean refrigerator and kitchen cabinet fronts.
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This raises questions / concerns about installing new kitchen cabinets that will have their own back resting against the outside wall.
maker
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An uncle from Hull, a cabinet maker , visited while they were there.
medicine
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There are the cleaning products kept under the sink and a well-stocked medicine cabinet to be explored.
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There was a stainless-steel sink, and a mirrored medicine cabinet .
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Barbara padded across the carpet to the en-suite bathroom and opened the medicine cabinet above the basin.
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By then, it was all over but the trip to the medicine cabinet to find the nearest aspirin bottle.
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These kits really are a must for any home medicine cabinet .
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Now it seems that Mom has her head in the medicine cabinet and divorce papers in her hand.
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A few days later I found some use-them-once plastic hypodermics in the medicine cabinet .
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A perusal of the medicine cabinet could have told them that much.
meeting
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Nevertheless, legislation still required his sanction, and he continued to preside over cabinet meetings .
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There was an outcry when it was revealed Rosalyn sat in on cabinet meetings .
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Heath was sufficiently encouraged to delay surrendering the seals of office and to have two further cabinet meetings .
member
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Four cabinet members were facing questions last night about their part in the fiasco.
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Studying the body language of cabinet members showed that could have been an over-estimation.
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Three cabinet members tainted with influence-peddling had to go.
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So far at least two cabinet members have confirmed acceptance of campaign contributions from the pachinko industry.
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Fellow shadow cabinet members John Prescott and David Blunkett abstained.
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Other cabinet members made sure they were in the same position.
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Clinton cabinet members will fly to their home states on Thursday to build support.
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He did not regard the shadow cabinet members or other recreational users of cannabis as criminals.
minister
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If so, William Waldegrave, Britain's cabinet minister for science, wants to hear from you.
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He set about drawing up a rescue plan amid a political storm that resulted in the resignation of two cabinet ministers .
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Or cabinet ministers more than fleetingly attached to exotic prostheses?
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Mr Nujoma proposed a cabinet late yesterday composed of a president and 17 cabinet ministers , including a prime minister.
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Paul Channon, another former cabinet minister .
post
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In addition, the opposition demanded the foreign ministry and five other cabinet posts .
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Franco's concern with internal equilibrium was also reflected in the occupants of what were arguably the two most important cabinet posts .
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He held numerous cabinet posts and was an ardent supporter of Mrs Thatcher.
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But yesterday Forum rejected the criticism and said it had put seven names to Mr Adamec for the cabinet posts .
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Mr Portillo, however, keeps his cabinet post .
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But he stopped that when there was speculation that she would get a cabinet post if he won.
reshuffle
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In 1982 eight ministers lost their jobs in a mid-year cabinet reshuffle .
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He is pinning some hope on a cabinet reshuffle .
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A cabinet reshuffle will probably happen this summer.
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A cabinet reshuffle is expected to follow.
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On the following day, a cabinet reshuffle was announced.
shadow
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The shadow cabinet elections are arousing unusual interest because of change at the top.
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He topped the poll for the shadow cabinet elections and played a leading role in the policy review process.
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There are good men and women, with their hearts in roughly the right place, in the shadow cabinet .
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And Bryan Gould could well survive despite his unsuccessful leadership challenge and decision to quit the shadow cabinet .
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Mr Portillo cast doubt over the tax policy as soon as he returned to the shadow cabinet this year.
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Fellow shadow cabinet members John Prescott and David Blunkett abstained.
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Members of the right-wing Solidarity Group picked up so many shadow cabinet posts that they no longer needed to organise.
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He also said he had long fought from within the shadow cabinet for a change in Euro policies.
storage
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D.W. opened the storage cabinet and a miniature snow squall resulted.
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He took several blankets from a storage cabinet and wrapped them around the bicycle.
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Frozen food storage cabinets are designed to accept pre-frozen food and hold it at the proper storage temperature - 18°C to -22°C.
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Build storage cabinets and shelves to hold a collection of records.
■ VERB
keep
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In practice, Mr Ozal keeps both cabinet and party on a short rein.
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The 1988 law banned automatic and pump-action guns and required that guns be kept in locked cabinets bolted to a wall.
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Mr Portillo, however, keeps his cabinet post.
open
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Quickly, he opened the filing cabinet , found his Biretta and its lightweight holster.
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He had taken a key from his pocket and opened a cabinet above a dry sink in the back of the cabin.
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D.W. opened the storage cabinet and a miniature snow squall resulted.
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Sullivan opened the bathroom cabinets and checked beneath the sink, smiling at the neatness of his theory.
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Here two men managed to forced open a display cabinet to steal jewellery despite closed-circuit camera surveillance.
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Sighing, she stood and unlocked the supply room, where she opened a cabinet , getting out what she needed.
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The moustached man opens a cabinet door.
stand
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Because treble frequencies are directional and bass frequencies are not, standing in front of a loudspeaker cabinet always gives a brighter sound.
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The clerk, standing beside the filing cabinet , began to tremble.
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She stood behind the china cabinet and watched as he poured it down the sink.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Shadow Cabinet
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Even before the formal resignation announcements, the jockeying for position within the Shadow Cabinet was well under way last night.
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It is a pity the more intelligent Shadow Cabinet members are led by an intellectual lightweight.
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Then came the first Shadow Cabinet meeting.
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There is almost no one in the Shadow Cabinet who doesn't, either, since Bryan Gould resigned.
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This should be discussed with the Shadow Cabinet spokesman on Education.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a Cabinet meeting
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a display cabinet full of jewelry
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She was appointed to the Cabinet as secretary of commerce.
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The cabinet meeting broke up after four-and-a-half hours.
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the kitchen cabinets
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The Prime Minister has offered Stroud a position in the cabinet .
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The spy scandal involved two cabinet ministers and several civil servants.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the sight of food, Blue realizes that he is hungry and hunts through the kitchen cabinet for something to eat.
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But in all these years the cabinet goes virtually unreported.
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He ran the torch over the shelves cabinets table drawers but there were no more photographs and no obvious photo albums.
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Most cabinets have reinforced frames at top and bottom where they can be fastened through the drywall to the framing underneath.
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Shelley closed the filing cabinet and the desk, and wondered whether he had forgotten her.
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The cabinet slammed full against the shape, pinning it down and jamming sideways at the bottom of the stairwell.
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The slide to this position of realism and justice is costing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nearly half his cabinet .