adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a central bank (= the main financial authority in a country )
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The Bundesbank is the central bank of Germany.
a central feature (= an important feature )
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Cultural diversity is a central feature of modern British society.
a central metaphor (= one that a poem or book is based around )
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The poet as something carried by the ocean is a central metaphor in the book.
a key/central role
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The report recognized the key role of teachers.
a key/central/important concept
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The title tells you something about the central concept of the poem.
central bank
central casting
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Wearing black shoes and a pinstripe suit, he looked like central casting’s idea of the perfect civil servant.
central government
central heating
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the central heating boiler
central locking
central nervous system
central processing unit
central reservation
central/basic/fundamental etc tenet
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one of the basic tenets of democracy
central/fundamental importance
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The central importance of interest rates is widely recognized.
central/national government (= that deals with national rather than local things )
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Funding will continue to be available from central government for further education for adults.
coastal/border/central etc region
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Flooding is likely in some coastal regions of the Northeast during the early part of the week.
main/chief/central etc preoccupation
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Their main preoccupation was how to feed their families.
sb's central concern
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Our organization's central concern is to help people at all levels of society.
the central dilemma (= the main one )
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The Prime Minister's central dilemma was whether war was justified.
the central focus (= most important )
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The film’s central focus is the relationship between the two women.
the main/central/dominant theme
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The main theme of the book is the importance of honesty.
the main/central/leading character
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Alec is the central character in the play.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
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Residents in the central area would get a 90 % discount.
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This central area was the scene of three great changes, one after another.
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Urban growth is often reflected morphologically by the appearance of a distinctive central area .
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He went down the corridor that led off the central area .
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The central area is volcanic in origin.
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So far, northern and central areas , gripped by unusually cold weather since autumn, have been worst hit.
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The city has few modern buildings in the central area which do not conform to the height or style of their surroundings.
authority
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But the deeper imprint of the central authority , and the harsher side to its reformist zeal, left scars.
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The problem is made worse by the lack of a central authority for water management.
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It also inherited the Roman virtue of sound organization, based on a powerful central authority , and preserved by strict legalism.
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There is often a lack of real coordination between area or central authorities and individual service points.
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Only a strong central authority could guarantee internal peace and economic stability.
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The central authorities were instructed to send 100 million roubles to pay the railwaymen.
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There was little chance to look towards democracy or any political liberalisation, moreover, while the party remained the central authority .
bank
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The legislation transformed it into a new central bank and introduced a new tier of commercial banks and other lending institutions.
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The central bank yesterday said current interest rate settings are consistent with the pace of growth and prospects for inflation.
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Frequent sales from central banks over the past few years have barely eaten into stocks.
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The central bank shaved its benchmark repo rate by 0. 25 percentage point to 8. 75 percent.
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But it would signal a policy shift by the central bank that could crimp the economy severely later on.
banker
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The job of central bankers would be easier if governments trimmed their budget deficits as soon as recovery was under way.
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Secondly, central bankers , like other human beings, can take the wrong decisions.
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Yet, with all due respect, are there not too many central bankers stalking the globe?
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While some pundits denounce them, I believe they play a useful role, keeping politicians and central bankers honest.
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Seldom has a central banker looked more secure in his war against marauding politicians.
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Volcker may have had exalted credentials as a central banker , but he was not deemed politically safe enough by Ronald Reagan.
character
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The problem is the presence of Depardieu as the central character , Valjean.
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Donna Barbara had a woman as central character .
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The central character presents the case for Mackay's individualist anarchism.
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You are the storyteller, which makes you a central character in each story.
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Players see the games through the point of view of a central character , giving them a three-dimensional look.
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Prusiner, by the way, is the one central character in the prion saga whom Rhodes was unable to interview.
committee
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Other central committee members urged the party to speed up its own reform and to anticipate the changes happening in the country.
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The central committee of Tehiya voted to leave the coalition government.
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A joint central committee and joint congresses endeavoured to secure some co-ordination.
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He was apparently replaced by Ros Chhun, a party central committee member who was close to Chea Sim.
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Secret tapes of Stalin's conversations were played to the central committee .
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The central committee ideology department accused Kharchev of unnecessary interference in the internal affairs of churches and of financial indiscipline.
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For example, we see individual universities establishing their own central committee for overseeing academic standards across all disciplines.
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He held the post of special adviser to the Communist party central committee , and appeared at ceremonial occasions.
concern
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This will be a central concern of Chapter 5.
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The individual was his central concern .
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The central concerns of the kinship school hardly need restating.
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Modules could then be directed at issues which teachers themselves see as of central concern .
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The central concern for all these groups is with what they perceive to be declining moral standards.
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The relationship between syntactic and semantic processing has been a central concern of psycholinguistics for the last two decades.
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Readers will find a central concern about the factors that influence social welfare a characteristic of many writings on social policy.
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The subconscious having become a central concern of the age, a host of artists took the elemental self as their subject.
control
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The most remarkable extension of central control has been in the field of local government.
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For most of the industrial revolution, serious wealth was made by bringing processes under central control .
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The communications and information revolution has permitted progressively greater central control over their financial affairs.
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Apparent Disadvantages of Swarm Systems NonoptimalBecause they are redundant and have no central control , swarm systems are inefficient.
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First under the poll tax and now under the council tax, central control has replaced local democracy in determining spending.
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The first application to use the services is Tivoli/FSM, which manages Unix client-server file sharing mechanisms from a central control point.
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Find the central control and one might just find the Volvo.
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They evidently prefer strict discipline and central control to fair competition.
defender
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But key central defender Alan McDonald is out after being released from hospital with bruised kidneys.
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He is following in his father's footsteps as a central defender .
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The 24-year-old central defender will miss a promotion run-in and a breakthrough on the international scene.
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And as for selling Newsome/Wetherall ... tell me, who is going to be the next generation of central defenders ?
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The 24-year-old central defender was carried off at Tranmere Rovers on Friday night when his knee locked.
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Having had a jinxed left back position it looks like we now have a jinxed central defender position!
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There is no other recognised central defender at Ayresome Park to partner Nicky Mohan.
feature
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Predominantly affecting young women, the central feature of this disorder is an abnormally low weight achieved by extreme caloric restriction.
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Hospital care remained a central feature of provision but its role was changed.
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The marketing mix is a central feature of an organization's tactical plan for a particular market.
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A central feature is the attempt to elicit the degree of identification of a community.
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One of the central features of the company is that it separates out the functions of ownership and management.
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Indeed, in large measures, that could be identified as a central feature of Mr Major's ministerial career.
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Other factors, such as access via doorways or accommodation of central features , also had to be taken into account.
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Some central features of narrative construction were studied, including the gradual embellishment of stories and their emotional content.
figure
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He was Man-of-the-match in the All Ireland club final, a central figure in Sarsfield's historic victory.
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A stele from Beaune museum shows him as the three-headed central figure of a triad of naked seated gods.
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First, you should get it clear in your mind just what the private-eye who is the central figure is.
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Ann Black, the central figure in State and Main, is, however, classic Mamet.
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He had married one of the daughters of Sir John Conyers, the central figure of the Middleham connection.
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For example, the two central figures are Paul, the brother, and Lise, the sister.
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The King was a central figure in the ritual of the church.
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Yet these women, particularly Mary Magdalene, are central figures in all four Gospel accounts of the Resurrection.
focus
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This is the composite word on the triangle which is the central focus of every Royal Arch chapter.
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It will provide a comprehensive district-wide service for the first time, and act as a central focus for the community.
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The central focus is the development of leisure interests during adolescence and the theoretical framework draws upon recent work in social cognition.
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The central focus of the analysis is therefore on developments in, and changes in the interrelationships between, sport and medicine.
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Authority is the central focus of hierarchy, which is the chief coordinating mechanism of work organizations.
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Next Time A central focus of the next issues will be on communicating research.
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Rather, the central focus of the magic is the weather-vane on top of the Great Tower.
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The central focus of all this railway activity was, however, the railway station.
government
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At the same Lime local government is responsible for implementing central government policy and hence we may find mutual dependency between organisations.
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Social security, for example, is the responsibility of central government but housing benefit is handled through local authorities.
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The programme of education reforms currently being introduced by central government requires schools simultaneously to introduce several major innovations.
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A series of uniform regulations would be promulgated to allow the central government to exert overall budget control.
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Teachers, parents, central government .
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This total would be cut by half if they transferred their educational budgets to central government .
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I dare say that my hon. Friend's constituents complain about their district council, county council and central Government .
heating
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It includes master bedroom with ensuite shower room, three further bedrooms, second bathroom, gas central heating , double garage.
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In flats with central heating , rent includes the cost of heating and is about £2.50 per week higher.
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Let's leap from the television to the central heating .
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Archway House benefits from sealed unit double glazed windows and Gas fired central heating throughout.
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If installing new central heating , fit an energy-efficient gas-condensing boiler.
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A little house with two bedrooms and no form of central heating .
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They'd be on to central heating systems next.
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It comes complete with full gas central heating , double glazing, a fully fitted kitchen and integral garage.
idea
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Certainly there is a variety of ways in which the central idea of conspiracy is expressed.
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That is one of its central ideas and one of the reasons for its worldwide success.
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Yet it s a one-joke play that teases out its central idea to the point of nervous exhaustion.
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It should be sufficient to state the central idea verbally and to indicate the connection to dynamical systems theory.
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Pelling's central idea is that the value of this concept is variable and its use needs care.
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The reader will soon discover that I think very little of certain of the central ideas of economics.
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Look and listen for the central ideas .
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The central idea , on the other hand, was simple, beautiful, and profound.
importance
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The novel finding, of central importance here, comes from the behaviour shown by a third group of subjects.
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Of central importance are recent demographic shifts in the pool from which colleges must pick their first-year classes.
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But Shakespeare's central importance within Renaissance writing was not a contemporary phenomenon, rather the result of later critical judgements.
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The State, albeit in an anti-metaphysical sense, was thus viewed as being of central importance .
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The role of large aggregations of individuals for appreciable periods is probably of central importance here.
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The emphasis on the craft of writing is of central importance in the recommendations of my National Curriculum Working Group.
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It is already clear, however, that the notion of acquired distinctiveness is of central importance in discussions of perceptual learning.
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These developments in cost-accounting are likely to be of central importance in resource-allocation decisions for the foreseeable future.
issue
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It never seems to have been a central issue .
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In Wisconsin and Michigan the future of state education is a central issue .
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The central issue facing the Labour Party is how to regain power.
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As in my other books, I have used interviews with individuals to explore and illustrate the central issues .
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I can tackle the central issue , head on.
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The central issues were nowhere near ready for com promise.
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We here came to a central issue in all our discussions.
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Balancing the budget is important, but it is not the central issue .
office
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They believed that the real power base lay outside the centres in the social services central offices .
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Many were calling the central office to complain.
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Members of the society were sending 100,000 enquiries a year to its central office about credit worthiness.
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Administrators in school district central offices manage public schools under their jurisdiction.
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I read - I do not know whether it came from the Department of Energy or from Conservative central office .
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Some principals and central office administrators have a doctorate or specialized degree in education administration.
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Multiples Multiples are organisations with ten or more shops controlled from a central office .
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In December, the Kohl government said it was setting up a central office to coordinate federal and state efforts against Scientology.
part
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Most also embrace economic development and education for work as a central part of their missions.
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A central part of our view of individual agents is our conviction that there is an explanatory link between belief and action.
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At any rate, the Horton demonization haunted Atwater enough to become a central part of his deathbed apologies.
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The buses and taxis I determined to avoid became a central part of nearly every painting.
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Yet today, school-to-work is rarely thought of as a central part of the school-reform movement.
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Of course he had some other assets, but the collapse of the central part of his fortune did not make for buoyancy.
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They are carrying out one of the central parts of their educational experience at CPESSthe community / school service requirement.
plank
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Another central plank in this revisionist argument was that there was no such thing as the popular will.
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The central plank of the new policy was rural development.
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Wilson had made National Self-Determination the central plank of his 1916 election campaign for a second term in office.
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The plan was the central plank of the Government's strategy to save 18,500 post offices around Britain.
point
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The imaginary central point in the sail through which the power of the sail acts.
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The central point in this context is, however, the role of subjective risk in the two theories.
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The central point is the village square and harbour, and there is also a very pleasant lakeside promenade.
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It could make that the central point of its election manifesto if it is so profoundly excited by it.
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The electricity industry has an extra desire: to switch consumers' equipment on and off from a central point .
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Windows that pivot from a central point are frequently fitted in modern flats for ease of cleaning.
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This was their central point and they found evidence to support it which has stood the test of time.
position
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All this reinforces custody in a central position .
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The Anatom has a removable orthopaedic footbed which locates the foot firmly in a central position .
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You take your map in your hand and try to find the most central position - the town hall or post office.
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From its central position perched high on the cliffs, it offers a breathtaking view across the Bay of Naples.
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With adjustment, the essential feature was the fixed but adjustable exchange rate structure in which the dollar held a central position .
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Often the squares are placed in a central position and enclose a figured medallion.
problem
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Clarke had a passionate interest in calculating the figure of the Earth, another central problem for an accurate topographical survey.
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Yet, although attitudes changed, the central problem remained.
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The central problem was that the chronically unemployed could not be covered by insurance.
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These two central problems associated with nuclear power can be ignored only at our peril.
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The central problem for the government was the central element in its case - the Thomas Leavy birth certificate.
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The three central problems are energy, mineral resources, and food.
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We can see that Bukharin had put his finger upon a central problem .
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One of the central problems confronting any discussion of a text for the play is which version should be used.
question
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These are still the central questions , more than ten years after the Great Debate.
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The central question in the case was whether Burroughs could assert a patent claim before it knew whether the drug worked.
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The central question asked is why certain land-uses take place.
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That was the central question of a conference last weekend in Monterey.
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The central question , however, is: what does it feel like to be a humanities student?
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In any psychotherapy program, a central question , or set of questions, is being asked.
region
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It is around 7700 light-years away, with a central region about 25 light-years in diameter.
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Indeed, there are no taste buds in this central region .
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The image of the insect may pass over the edge of my retina rather than the more acute central region .
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The family comes from the central region of Annam, I believe.
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In many cases the headquarters were retained in the central region and only the production processes were decentralized.
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Do not completely cover the tank bottom with mops, just place a few in the central region of the tank.
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In the process, population and economic pressures could be relieved from the heavily developed central region .
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The study specifically examined the chemical and energy industries in the central region around Leipzig, Halle and Bitterfeld.
reservation
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Central reservation systems Large groups of hotels which are linked by computer usually operate their own central reservation system.
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The 800 number led directly to central reservations -- normally a toll call.
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Bands appear in the streets, and folklore groups are dancing and singing in the central reservations and gardens of Funchal.
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In the case of a crossing split into two crossings by a central reservation each crossing should be classed as separate crossings.
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Mr Clarke said he assumed it had done a U-turn across the central reservation .
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She hid in bushes while the fiend ran to the central reservation before losing sight of her and driving off.
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Until recently the central reservation had deteriorated into use as a car-park.
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How does the central reservations system operate? 10.
role
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Banks play a central role as consultants, advisers and agents in acquisition situations.
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Magic plays a central role in Magic City.
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Because of their involvement and understanding, engineers have a central role in the control of risk.
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One was Alan Hayling, who was later to play a central role in the story of News on Sunday.
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The state according to Castells's perspective, had the central role of ensuring a healthy capitalist economy.
system
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However, his own plans rely on strengthening the central system .
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It has no officer corps and has never developed a uniform central system of recruitment and management.
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Thus: surprise can not tell us about the development of the central systems .
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The updated file can then be copied back to the central system , by modem and telephone if necessary.
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What I have been referring to vaguely as the knowledge system , Fodor calls the central systems.
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Data is stored in the central system , where specialist software looks after billing.
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It is our intention to provide a high level service for planning work using the central system .
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Those responsible for contributory benefits are concerned with the paying out of amounts determined by a largely computerized central system .
tenet
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Equally, revisionist conclusions conflict with many of the central tenets of Soviet orthodoxy.
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Thus the vast age of the Earth became the central tenet of geology.
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In this respect Hirschi shared the long-standing positivist rejection of the central tenet of classicism: deterrence.
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This was a central tenet of the bureaucratic model.
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This particular view has become one of the central tenets of the present Conservative government's economic policy.
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Some of the central tenets of these belief systems are as follows: 1.
theme
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If Alexander has a central theme , it is devolution.
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Many scholars agree that a concern for salvation is a central theme in Orphism.
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Firstly, a workshop must have a central theme .
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Their story echoes the central themes in Part 1 of this book:-Principles.
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It is a central theme throughout the book, and she criticises frequently the Catholic beliefs and customs.
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Fforde acknowledges that all this appears to invalidate the central theme of his book.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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central London
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a house with central heating
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Crime is going to be the central issue of the mayoral campaign.
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Political rights have always been the central concern of feminism.
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The central part of the building tends to be warmer in the winter.
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The central theme of this novel is the desire for money.
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The computers are linked to a central database.
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the farming areas of central California
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The houses face onto a central courtyard.
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The right to vote is central to our democratic system of government.
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the tropical rainforest in central Africa
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The use of weapons became the central issue dividing the tribes.
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Wingo is the troubled central character of Conroy's novel.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But this lofty and detached comment misses the central issues of comparison and equality in penal treatment.
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Centrophenoxine had the strongest biological activity, producing a mild stimulation of the central nervous system.
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Obviously, if a party changes its central principles, it becomes another party.
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On the contrary, it involves a recognition of its central mediating role in the use and learning of language.
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The central dogma is of course a theory, but there is no evidence to suggest that it is wrong.
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This review examines the evidence that abnormal oxidative metabolism is of central importance to active inflammatory bowel disease.