noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a capacity crowd (= the maximum number of people that a place can hold )
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The band performed brilliantly to a capacity crowd.
a capacity/packed audience (= the largest number of people who can fit into a hall, theatre etc )
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The lecture attracted a capacity audience.
advisory role/capacity
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He was employed in a purely advisory role.
at maximum capacity
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The plant is operating at maximum capacity .
engine capacity (= an engine's size or power )
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The engine capacity of motorcycles ranges from 50cc to 1800cc.
sb's official capacity (= someone's official position or duty )
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He spent Wednesday in Washington acting in his official capacity as Senate majority leader.
seating capacity
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The hall has a seating capacity of 650.
spare capacity (= the ability to produce more than can be sold )
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A decline in beer sales had left the industry with spare capacity .
storage space/capacity (= space etc for keeping things in )
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They moved to a house with lots of storage space.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
advisory
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The department emphasised last night that it had agreed to meet Acas in its advisory capacity .
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Hernandez says he believes the community should act in an advisory capacity rather than as a combatant.
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The Commission acts in an advisory capacity to the government.
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Some civilians are upset at the prospect of sharing power with the armed forces, even in an advisory capacity .
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John was called in initially in an advisory capacity with Laings and the architects.
excess
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The crash also pushed down the output-capital ratio, by an average of one tenth, as excess capacity mounted.
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In 1994 the world was awash in excess production capacity .
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They have, in effect, invested in excess capacity , though whether this was deliberate or accidental is harder to judge.
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Analysts said the region has 10 percent, or 1. 43 million barrels a day, excess refining capacity .
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According to company secretary Lawrence Bland, the aim was to get rid of excess capacity .
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First, the assumption that there is no excess capacity is particularly suspect.
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Such a large amount of excess capacity must severely impair the effective functioning of the accelerator.
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And higher education has enjoyed excess capacity .
full
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They are apparently quite relaxed about living next to railway stations, provided they are not used to their full capacity .
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The whole system requires several people to operate it if it is to be used to its full capacity .
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But the eight solar panels were not working to full capacity .
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Already there are sawmills that can not operate at full capacity because of wood shortages.
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They live in unsaturated habitats where harsh, unpredictable conditions keep populations from reaching full capacity .
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Enterprises have sacked workers and are running at much less than their full capacity .
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By early 1977, Tarrytown was back at full capacity with a work force of nearly 3, 800 workers.
great
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The more serious the decision, the greater the capacity required.
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Power filters or high capacity air-lift filters are practical for tanks of 25 to 30 gallons or greater capacity.
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He bad a good platform manner and a great capacity for work but he was an inveterate intriguer.
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Because fiber optic cable has a greater bandwidth capacity than coaxial cable, it can send more channels to subscribers' homes.
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The potential of joy is vastly greater than our capacity to absorb it all.
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Caring for newborns often leaves parents amazed by how great their human capacity is.
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Tilda cared nothing for the future, and had, as a result, a great capacity for happiness.
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Perhaps they have unknowingly discovered a great human capacity .
high
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Secondly, they want scalable systems for immediate high capacity of data storage with low entry cost.
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Power filters or high capacity air-lift filters are practical for tanks of 25 to 30 gallons or greater capacity.
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The new vehicles built as replacements during the 1980s were generally of higher capacity , privately owned and fitted with air brakes.
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A high capacity electric pump flooded the engine and no return for excess fuel was fitted.
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Memorex promises to offer its higher capacity libraries to AS/400 users soon.
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No large scale expansion in high capacity radio relay equipment is foreseen, despite the re-engineering of networks to give digital operation.
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But humans have a far higher capacity than lower-order animals. 2.
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Performance and comfort: this is a good all-season bag with a high loft capacity and good insulation.
human
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That it failed to do so-refused to do so-is testimony to the human capacity for evasion and self-delusion.
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The human capacity for love comes under especially close scrutiny.
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A great deal hangs upon the species difference, the human capacity of the less subnormal, and the potentiality of normal infants.
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Caring for newborns often leaves parents amazed by how great their human capacity is.
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They plunged over the very edge of the human capacity to feel.
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Perhaps they have unknowingly discovered a great human capacity .
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It is about the false use of personal chronology as an indicator or touchstone of human capacity and worth.
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He saw people driven by their passions, but self-regulated by their ability to reason and their uniquely human capacity for compassion.
large
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For that period the buyers were therefore without its larger capacity and therefore unable to cater for a larger volume of business.
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More people are looking for a versatile vehicle, one that would have towing capacity and larger cargo capacity.
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It is a language that needs a large memory capacity and for the first time there were machines available to use it.
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Most pump machines also have larger water capacities than steam machines.
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Working on a tight budget, we opted for more on-board memory at the expense of a large capacity harddisk.
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They see our larger capacities , and compare our, to them, successful strivings with their unrequited ones.
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Most manufacturers are able to supply a larger capacity battery for this purpose.
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By 1860 the steam colliers were in demand because of their larger capacity and reliability.
maximum
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For many types of work, its maximum production capacity is well below the level of ten years ago.
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The maximum capacity for students in the girls' physical education locker room is 30.
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What is your maximum running capacity ?
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Historically, we tended to concentrate on high volume products and maximum utilisation of capacity .
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As a consequence, undergraduate teaching laboratories operated close to maximum capacity throughout the year.
mental
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A great deal of research has been carried out with respect to the effects of ageing on physical and mental capacities .
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Numerous mental capacities show similar constancy.
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Gen Pinochet's lawyers argued successfully that a series of minor strokes had left their client with limited mental capacity .
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One of them, 33-year-old Oliver Cruz, had a mental capacity of a child.
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And don't think that by developing the second half of your brain you will merely be doubling your mental capacity .
official
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Previously he had been engaged in making a geological map of Devon and he now continued this work in an official capacity .
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Dole spent Wednesday in Washington acting in his official capacity as Senate majority leader.
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In our official capacities that is all that we need do.
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That is part of what downsizing is all about, yet down-sizing is not reflected in official indexes of capacity .
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We allow officials acting in their official capacity no such area at all.
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No one who was not in some official capacity was to approach within fifty yards.
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He was staying on Sula Sgeir with the guga hunters to make observations in his official capacity .
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But since, technically, she'd never even been employed in any official capacity , she could hardly have cared less.
productive
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Both building professionals and production managers are concerned with providing a working environment that optimises productive capacity .
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Classes emerge when the productive capacity of society expands beyond the level required for subsistence.
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The resulting slump left a considerable proportion of productive capacity idle.
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The company's current output is 40,000 units per month, which represents 90% of the company's productive capacity .
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The potential for inflation after 1945 was great because the productive capacity of the country had been distorted and damaged.
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Britain's productive capacity was falling more rapidly than at any time since the dawn of the industrial age.
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The first possibility is that such an increase in productive capacity is not undertaken.
professional
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Such as a function you have to attend in your professional capacity ?
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She is, in her professional capacity , the site of convergence of many discourses but the generator of none.
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Although I regularly travel through it, this will be in a professional capacity .
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It takes into account their experience, any special knowledge and also whether they are acting in a business or professional capacity .
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Clearly, a bank trust corporation will qualify and so should an accountant acting in a professional capacity .
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It has raised the profile of solicitors that when we act for clients, we act in a professional capacity .
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In a professional capacity , I mean.
spare
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Smaller companies that can't afford these luxuries can sometimes arrange to use spare capacity on the network of a nearby multinational.
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In the meantime fundholding practices can use the spare capacity that exists.
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Despite planned closures, the continuing decline in demand will continue to generate spare capacity .
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Much also depends on how much spare capacity there actually is in manufacturing industry.
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A final difference with the Marshall era is the lack of spare capacity in the developed world.
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These non-critical elements can be either spread throughout the time-scale or tackled when spare capacity is available.
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Foster Yeoman sees potential in selling spare capacity on its trains to other users.
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One of the hospitals in Grampian had spare capacity in radiology and made a presentation to the fundholding group.
total
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A phase two Terminal 2 development planned for 1997/98 will increase that total capacity by another six million passengers a year.
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He said Eurotunnel had granted 50 percent of its total capacity to the national railways.
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Their position in the whole network of assets will need to be considered and how the total capacity contributes to strategic success.
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In 1998, the residential property tax classification accounted for approximately 59 percent of the city's total tax capacity .
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Today I believe the total capacity has been increased to 700 megabytes, which equals 80 minutes of music.
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The main point was that the total genetic capacity of a species may increase due to gene duplication.
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It had a total seating capacity of 378.
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A 250-bedroom extension to the Excelsior will increase total capacity to 1,576 rooms not counting Skyway's 450 rooms.
■ NOUN
crowd
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They didn't get the 60,000 capacity crowd .
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Her body was worn out from performing to a capacity crowd at Town Hall.
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There was a highly enthusiastic capacity crowd .
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The match will be all-ticket with an anticipated 25,000 capacity crowd and distribution arrangements will be announced shortly.
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A capacity crowd of 40,000 turned up.
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But there were no complaints from the capacity crowd at Darlington Civic Theatre on opening night.
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We haven't got the capacity crowd we expected.
production
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For many types of work, its maximum production capacity is well below the level of ten years ago.
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The higher prices would dovetail nicely with production capacity increases that are already in the pipeline.
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With production capacity lagging behind the surging demand for nutrients from farmers around the world that trend is set to continue.
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Schneider said it was selling the business because there is not enough hog supply to meet production capacity .
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Damage to the plant's production capacity immediately affected world oil and petrol prices.
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In order to maintain efficiency, we have had to close the surplus production capacity .
storage
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This will store more than 50 times as much data as the floppy disks with the biggest storage capacity !
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A non-elastic limitation is the available disk storage capacity .
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What is clear is that the costs of memory and storage devices are decreasing, whilst storage capacity is increasing enormously.
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Woodacon Oils continued to be a steady performer, increasing its product storage capacity .
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As far as storage capacity is concerned, the situation is equally dire.
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The machine had a massive storage capacity which could nevertheless fit into a handbag.
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Instead, manufacturers are encouraging us to buy faster machines with more storage capacity and better displays.
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Woodacon Oils continued to perform steadily, increasing product storage capacity .
■ VERB
act
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I act in a consultative capacity to the Brits, when it comes to pools and patio windows.
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Dole spent Wednesday in Washington acting in his official capacity as Senate majority leader.
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A degree of interaction between themselves and their source is required for them to act in this capacity .
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Hernandez says he believes the community should act in an advisory capacity rather than as a combatant.
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Other market participants are able to act in a dual capacity .
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We allow officials acting in their official capacity no such area at all.
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Clearly, a bank trust corporation will qualify and so should an accountant acting in a professional capacity .
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It has raised the profile of solicitors that when we act for clients, we act in a professional capacity .
develop
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The most flexible attribute is the skills, these can be developed or changed in line with capacities and aspirations.
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Children develop the capacity to see the view of others, consider intentions, and better adapt to the social world.
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Such V-shaped ribs are not found on brachiopods, which have never developed the capacity for burrowing.
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Employee Development Programs help employees develop their talents and capacities through training sessions, workshops, and the like.
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Imaginative teaching is not what in the end matters - it is developing in pupils their capacity for imagination that counts.
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But as they developed more capacity to deliver services, their attention shifted.
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This means primary care needs to continue to develop its own capacity to question the decisions that are being taken.
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Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.
double
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Expansion plans announced over the weekend will enable the company to double its manufacturing capacity .
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The second generation will double that capacity .
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The scheme will nearly double the seating capacity of the stadium, creating an additional 7,650 seats.
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With Stacker 3.0 it's now possible to more than double your disk capacity using the package's customisable compression features.
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The Morestore can be expanded by the simple addition of a module unit, which doubles the storage capacity .
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The new satellite will double the country's capacity for information gathering from space.
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The brewhouse he installed then is now being replicated in mirror image to double that capacity .
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A techie's delight. 6 SuperStar Pro claims to roughly double the capacity of your hard disk.
expand
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Transaction costs have encouraged firms to expand their own internal capacity in preference to extensive reliance on outside suppliers.
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Chellam also said the memory-chip maker will expand production capacity more than 40 percent this year.
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A bladder which is frequently emptied does not expand to its full capacity and needs gentle stretching to bring this about.
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Officials say they will expand glyphosate capacity by about 50 % over the next three years.
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Its expanded capacity could provide enough water for an additional 1 million Phoenix-area residents, experts say.
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Satellite communications have recently expanded the capacity of governments to use the media to communicate with other governments.
fill
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Participants said the city's main square was filled to capacity .
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The room was filled to capacity that night with professionals all dressed up and on their best behavior.
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He bathed his face in the fountain of her body liquid, and filled his mouth to capacity .
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The ship, it is said, is filled to capacity with sperm oil.
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The Lake District National Park is filled to capacity for much of the summer.
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Four 26-week groups are run simultaneously and are always filled to capacity .
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A safety valve releases any excess pressure once the air chamber has been filled to capacity .
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Were the planes leaving Sky Harbor for Texas and Pennsylvania filled to capacity ?
increase
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A phase two Terminal 2 development planned for 1997/98 will increase that total capacity by another six million passengers a year.
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However, everyone is increasing channel capacity , and both approaches are likely to reach the same conclusion.
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We will reduce airport congestion by increasing the capacity of our air traffic control.
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Key reasons include an ability to increase capacity and to compete globally.
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Woodacon Oils continued to be a steady performer, increasing its product storage capacity .
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The power station plans to invest $ 150 million to increase its capacity over the next two years.
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Woodacon Oils continued to perform steadily, increasing product storage capacity .
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Pursuing new technologies to increase roadway capacity without adding travel lanes has become fashionable.
learn
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The idea is to encourage their capacity to learn .
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The less the capacity to learn and consider, the greater is the habit instinctive.
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The capacity to learn is always present.
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That all living creatures possess a capacity to learn is apparent from the way they find their way around an environment.
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Aged rats lose their capacity both to learn new tasks and to show potentiation.
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What assumptions are we, and the old people themselves, making about their capacity to learn ?
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All animals appear to have some capacity to learn from experience.
limit
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That way the general public's limited capacity for remembering the truths of any given case may not be exceeded.
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Computers traditionally talk to each other over phone lines, which have sharply limited capacity compared with cable.
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Gen Pinochet's lawyers argued successfully that a series of minor strokes had left their client with limited mental capacity .
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The service doesn't limit your storage capacity , and you get the usual sort of address book.
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These normally private functions can assume unusually large proportions if illness limits a person's capacity for self care.
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All of us, the overweight as well as the slim, have some body controls which limit our eating capacity .
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Carbon monoxide Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas which, when inhaled, limits the body's capacity to absorb oxygen.
lose
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Economic statistics are losing their credibility and capacity to depress.
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But they never lost their capacity for diplomacy no matter what the provocation.
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It was because of the possibility of literary devices losing their defamiliarizing capacity that the distinction between device and function was introduced.
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It could become so enamored with quantity-gaining more and more members-that it loses any capacity to make qualitative judgments.
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Often I worried I was losing the capacity to feel and be human.
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Have you lost all capacity for conversing?
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Aged rats lose their capacity both to learn new tasks and to show potentiation.
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But even the best wear out after repeated power outages and gradually lose their capacity to protect your equipment.
produce
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Bigger capacity engines produce more torque as more fuel is burnt per firing stroke, giving a bigger push to the piston.
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The result: As the need for food has grown, the capacity to produce it has diminished.
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Malt Whisky: There are 27 distilleries producing almost a third of the total industry capacity .
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The second area that is affected when a company focuses its data-processing capacity on producing information is its organization structure.
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With population growth outpacing the capacity to produce food, agriculture has reached a crossroads.
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Moreover, some type C strains having lost the capacity to produce beta-toxin failed to hybridize with the IS1151 probe.
provide
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These provide expanded capacity for platinum anti-cancer drugs and specialised organic pharmaceutical products.
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This will provide capacity for the half-hourly airport service, which will offer a 39 min journey to the city centre.
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A mix of local and express services will provide capacity for 41,000 passengers / h in each direction.
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They provide chamber capacities from 50-125 litres with large stainless steel chambers in relation to their footprint.
reduce
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While it may help protect the existing curriculum against falling rolls it will also reduce the curricular decision-making capacity of the school.
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Customers are offered a greater range of destinations and flight times, while carriers can reduce capacity and share costs.
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However, cuts in capital investment and fuel supply problems have reduced capacity growth to something around 3% per year.
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This reduces the bank's capacity to create credit.
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Greater pressure on staff time significantly reduces our capacity .
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Such producers were encouraged to reduce capacity and maintain prices.
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Bureaucratic forms of administration would reduce the state's capacity to direct the economy effectively.
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This way we get rid of several problems at one stroke, including probably reducing the agricultural capacity of farmers in Britain.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All the storage units were filled to capacity .
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Cheryl's capacity for understanding and compassion is impressive.
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Children have a remarkable capacity to learn language.
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He has an enormous capacity for hard work.
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He works for this firm in a legal capacity , giving advice on international law.
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I'm here in my capacity as Union Representative.
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In her capacity as war correspondent for ABC News, she has traveled all over the world.
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Rollins will be working in an advisory capacity on this project.
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The capacity of the tank should be 500 gallons or more.
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The car's fold-down rear seat increases the trunk capacity .
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The computer's memory has a capacity of over 200 megabytes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But they never lost their capacity for diplomacy no matter what the provocation.
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Getting moving here won't mitigate the despair; but it would at least show some capacity to think beyond the sourly inescapable.
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Hence Phoenix always keeps at least two of its garbage districts in public hands-so it will always have the capacity to compete.
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In the stage when she begins forming her own inner values, her capacities for paying attention reach a new dimension.
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Managerial candidates will need to call upon people who know them in different capacities to assist in their self-diagnosis.
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Soil water was restored weekly to field capacity .
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The resulting slump left a considerable proportion of productive capacity idle.