I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a lifestyle choice (= a choice about how you live )
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We can significantly reduce our risks of getting certain diseases through lifestyle choices.
a multiple choice question (= where you are given a set of possible answers )
a multiple choice test (= in which each question has a list of answers to choose from )
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There is some debate about whether multiple-choice tests are a good way of assessing student’s knowledge.
a rational decision/choice
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The patient was incapable of making a rational decision.
a wide range/variety/choice etc (of sth)
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This year’s festival includes a wide range of entertainers.
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holidays to a wide choice of destinations
Compassion & Choices
consumer choice
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Competition between businesses leads to more consumer choice.
Hobson's choice
influence a decision/outcome/choice etc
leave sb with no choice/option (= force someone to take a particular action )
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You leave me with no choice but to fire you.
life choice
multiple choice
stark choice
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We are faced with a stark choice .
straight choice
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It was a straight choice between my career or my family.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
free
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Any change would be gradual and for the time local parties were left with a free choice .
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Let me not draw back from the Sacrifice I have made of my free choice and conviction.
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Students have a free choice deciding on five honours subjects, which are chosen from a total list of about thirty.
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It was not a free choice .
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How could I phrase the question so that I could distinguish between free choice and manipulative coercion?
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Assuming a free choice becomes possible, it is difficult to foresee any great increase in the numbers of limited partnerships.
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Minor students have a free choice of final-year units but do not write a dissertation in History.
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Much less coal has to be moved and so factory owners have a freer choice of position.
good
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Check whether an off-peak electric storage heater or a gas fire might be better choice .
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These wines are precious enough to be good choices for restaurant wine lists.
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Many people take a part-time or lower-paid job because it suits their circumstances and is a good choice for them.
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Geranium though was obviously a good choice because of its diuretic properties - and bergamot for its cheerful and uplifting aroma.
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A renovated reincarnation of Cassandra would be a good choice for co-anchor.
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Nymphaea William Falconer, a medium grower, would be a better choice for the average pond.
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Of these closely related professions, an occupational therapist is a better choice to evaluate fine-motor weaknesses.
great
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There is, too, greater choice than ever before as to whether and how long the marriage will continue.
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The range of options is greater-choice is king.
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A reduction in computational complexity will provide greater flexibility in choice of models used to predict outcomes and correlations.
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There was still much to do to ensure greater choice and better quality for drinkers.
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The Government should review its own employees' retirement age and early pension entitlements to allow older people greater choice .
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You have a great deal of choice in the matter but there are also certain rules designed to protect you.
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But while increased freedom and greater choice are positive movements, they are being countered by mounting inflation and unemployment.
little
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Well, we have very little choice , in my opinion.
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After being introduced, the officials from the two sides had little choice but to mingle.
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To begin with, we have little choice .
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But Dole had little choice but to roll the dice in a way that surprised even the most astute political observers.
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If she was honest, no money meant no food - which left her with very little choice .
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In other parts of the country, coaches have little choice because the weather is hot and humid everywhere.
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He really had very little choice in the matter.
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Reagan had little choice under the circumstances, but nevertheless his actions were critical to this happy out-come.
multiple
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There are two basic possibilities for questions, multiple choice or supply type.
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The 777 is quieter, has user-friendly storage bins and a sophisticated entertainment system with multiple choices .
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Answers to multiple choice test on Part 3 Trainees should obtain nine points or more before moving on to Goal 4.
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It's time for the multiple-choice test every parent dreads.
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These should be worked through in order before attempting the multiple choice questionnaire on Part 4.
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These would culminate in the sitting of a multiple choice paper.
obvious
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Most flooring can be laid anywhere in the house but there are some obvious choices for certain rooms.
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Says Ted: My father was the obvious choice .
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Given the nature of the project, Pontus Hulten was an obvious choice to direct the artistic activities of the new Kunsthalle.
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Best apres ski: The obvious choice is Rainbow Lodge.
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This is not, I suspect, the most obvious of choices , so perhaps some explanation is necessary.
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Duncan Sandys was the obvious choice .
personal
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Right: No-one can tell you what fish to buy - that's a personal choice .
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Deciding when insurance is warranted is a personal choice .
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It would be even nicer if people remembered that the way you feed your baby is a matter of personal choice .
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But grading and promotion are personal choices .
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Each researcher must make a personal choice , in the multiplicity of circumstances which now exist.
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Through figurative abstracted works on paper, Tempe artist Ron Bimrose taps into light themes like transition, fate and personal choice .
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The Soviet President's personal choice - also operating on his own.
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A better word was values, with its inference of personal choice and personal responsibility.
real
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You will have real choice as to how your pension payments are invested.
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With that money, we could have provided what the people wanted and real choice .
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Voters were offered real choices , within limits.
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There is no reason to be optimistic that elections provide citizens with a real and reliable choice of policies.
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The real choice is not between the global economy and the end of the global economy.
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It is these very services which can disable people, limiting the amount of real choice they have in their lives.
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It is only by offering women real choices that we can begin to meet the challenges of Hindutva.
right
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The right choice will give inspiration to choreographer and performer alike and add to the pleasure of the audience.
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Instead, the 30-year-old actor appears to have made all the right choices for all the right reasons.
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Applications can be like teaching machines, coaxing users to the right choices without penalties, says Sippl.
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Of course women want the right to make choices as free and independent individuals.
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Even when they make the right choice , they don't let the choice go through.
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Likewise, making the right environmental choice depends on how many times consumers reuse the bags.
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Really it is a case of keeping a careful watch on the tank and making the right choices .
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But are students making the right choices among post-secondary institutions?
wide
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Shop around brokers for a wider choice .
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But defenses, especially weapons, now offered a wider array of choices .
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Magnet's wide choice of kitchen units includes traditional and modern styles, and prices to fit any budget.
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I had been astonished that day that the wide range of choices did not disrupt her plan.
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Yet some companies are known to be keen to offer a wide fund choice from well regarded external fund managers.
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The lists of poems presented... offer a wide choice for each grade.
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The larger the holding and the stronger the soil, the wider your choice .
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Dining out is a real pleasure with a wide and tempting choice of menus and venues at a very affordable prices.
■ VERB
exercise
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Only those who can afford to ignore these constraints feel capable of exercising a choice to retain a more traditional agricultural landscape.
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Within the next month, Fred was home and, presumably, exercising his choice .
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Many of them were also completely cut off from the normal trading conditions that enable people to exercise choice .
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People must exercise their own choice and take their own action.
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Until now, I have unfalteringly exercised that choice to postpone motherhood.
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I note yet again the Labour party's hostility to any persons exercising any choice in the interests of their family.
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It must be shown that the plaintiff acted voluntarily in the sense that he could exercise a free choice .
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Editors must, then, exercise a choice and exercising a choice inevitably involves ignoring certain options.
face
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The judge's decision can not be over-turned, and it leaves Exxon facing some unappealing choices .
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Even knowledgeable thrift presidents felt they faced a choice be-tween rape and slow suicide.
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Clearly, those responsible for the development of the various systems are faced with design choices .
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Leapor is faced with a choice between her job and her poetry.
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He also faces a choice of methods.
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This often applies where a patient is faced by alternative choices .
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Anyone concerned with selecting a class book for teaching a language will face a wide choice of texts.
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Demands for persuasive justification arise in contexts where an agent is faced with a choice .
give
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This gives the customers some choice about what they will have for each meal, and when they have it.
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People already in Yosemite were given the choice of staying or being evacuated.
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We have also introduced a reform which will give people more choice as to who represents them legally in court.
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The firm takes as given the variety choice and pricing strategies of other firms in the industry.
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The C A R E service gives a choice of five subscription schemes ranging from £69 to £30.
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I gave him several birthday choices .
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It's not as if I gave you much choice .
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Of course, we are not given this choice .
influence
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For whether knowingly or unknowingly, through fact or fiction, their stories can influence the traveller's choice of destination.
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The industrialist Philibert Vrau, influenced this choice .
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Recent occurrence appears to have influenced the other choices .
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The type of research, including its clinical component, may well influence future career choice and opportunity.
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Values will influence the choice of topic, as they do in all branches of science, but methods should be value-free.
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The pamphlets had explicitly sought to influence voters in their choice of candidate in the general election.
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The factors influencing their choices can be understood, and these influences lie at two levels.
leave
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Aenarion was left with no choice .
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Better perhaps to leave these choices to the next president, and encourage further debate in the fall campaign.
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Any change would be gradual and for the time local parties were left with a free choice .
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But Thieu Tri declined to bargain and left Percival no choice but to free the dignitaries and sail away.
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When Blunkett rumbled him, he was left with no choice but to resign.
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Which left me without a choice .
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In this situation the authority may leave the choice to individuals.
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The judge has left jurors no choice .
make
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The view is that a consent is not valid unless the patient has enough information to make an informed choice .
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But he had made his choice and he had to abide by it.
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OF course libraries operate on restricted budgets and must make choices between books.
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For instance, how is one to decide whether or not an individual makes undesirable choices when better options are available?
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This professional year helps students to relate theory to practice and later to make more informed career choices .
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There are some problems facing the supes in making these choices .
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Of course women want the right to make choices as free and independent individuals.
offer
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Indeed, outside of London few cities can offer such a choice of different places to eat.
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The emergence of the team as an alternative to the classic working group of individuals offers a powerful choice .
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We offer a choice of car, from economy to roomy.
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Employers will by law be required to offer employees a choice among at least three so-called Food Benefit Plans.
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Most stakeholder pensions will only offer investors a limited choice of mainstream funds, such as index trackers.
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Of course, Tesoro offers plenty of choices for the beer drinker as well.
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Yet some companies are known to be keen to offer a wide fund choice from well regarded external fund managers.
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And dozens of cities now offer choice , including Rochester, New York.
spoilt
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There was such a vast variety of decorated bowls and jugs and plates that she was spoilt for choice .
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Anyway, the upshot of it all was that they were not actually spoilt for choice as to locations.
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With so much within easy reach, we were clearly spoilt for choice and decided to sleep on it.
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In the West Country, buyers are spoilt for choice .
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There isn't a hotel restaurant, but when it comes to eating out in Stuttgart you're spoilt for choice .
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We are spoilt for choice with insulins.
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If, like me, you prefer the sporting life, then you are spoilt for choice here.
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Available in white, green, red, black or mustard, you're spoilt for choice .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a matter of (personal) taste/choice/preference
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If you think torturing babies is good, that is a matter of taste.
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In the United States, food is a matter of taste, time and price.
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Quite what that means is a matter of taste, because a breed does not exist until it has been named.
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Switching to the Normal channel I would say that using the crunch option for rock solo work is a matter of taste.
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The amount of the increase or decrease is a matter of preference.
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The first is a matter of taste.
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The size of the pleat is a matter of choice.
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This is a matter of choice.
be spoilt/spoiled for choice
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As the Empire player you are spoiled for choice.
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Often, we seem to be spoiled for choice and hampered, even paralysed, by our fear of the unknown.
first choice
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Atkins was the producers' first choice for the part of the maid.
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Brittany was our first choice as a name for the baby.
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Parents choosing schools for their children are rarely given their first choice.
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Twenty-six percent of the students said that teaching was their first choice of occupations.
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According to some sources Goh was not Lee's first choice for the succession; at least one other minister reportedly declined the post.
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Because of its superior contrast capabilities magnetic resonance imaging is the current first choice technique for assessing instability of the cervical spine.
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Carbamazepine is the drug of first choice.
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Holly again would be my first choice.
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Loose powder is the first choice of makeup artists because it's lighter than pressed and just disappears into your skin.
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Some parents do have the luck to settle on their first choice, as we did.
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Their first choice is not always available but the week should achieve the aim of broadening their horizons and their experience.
freedom of choice
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Health insurance plans that offer patients greater freedom of choice in selecting doctors are becoming too expensive for most people.
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Because people have freedom of choice where to shop there is some overlap between these spheres of influence.
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Flexibility, freedom of choice - and complete peace of mind.
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In daily life, therefore, the individual rediscovered a certain freedom of choice.
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In practice there will not be complete freedom of choice for the individual.
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It should always be carried out with tact, care and respect for the individual's privacy and freedom of choice.
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Making insurance compulsory would - they say - not only free Health Service resources, but guarantee freedom of choice.
informed decision/choice/judgment etc
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And now supermarkets throughout the country are helping the shopper to make more informed choices.
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As with a question of fact, the more informed judgement could be the mistaken one.
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Information is vital Good information is essential if people are to make informed choices about services.
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Micky Burns from the players' union advises and assists on the options to help them make informed choices about their futures.
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The view is that a consent is not valid unless the patient has enough information to make an informed choice.
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They provide young people with career exploration and counseling so they can make more informed decisions about their academic and occupational goals.
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This brochure empowers sufferers with knowledge to make informed decisions about their headache care.
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Who, we also want students to make well, informed decisions and that there are particular places like the 0.
inspired guess/choice etc
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As it happens, he made an inspired choice.
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But my father's was an inspired guess.
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If he can be persuaded to keep religion out of politics, he could prove an inspired choice.
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In Whitham's case it was different and he certainly was what could be termed an inspired choice by the Lightweight club.
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It could prove an inspired choice for New Zealand.
the/an obvious choice
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Duncan Sandys was the obvious choice.
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Given the nature of the project, Pontus Hulten was an obvious choice to direct the artistic activities of the new Kunsthalle.
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Mentheus of Caledor, the obvious choice, was dead.
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Most frequently the group had several alternative plants to consider for closure rather than an obvious choice.
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No problem, Mr Hinds had said, the obvious choice was Renie LaChance.
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Says Ted: My father was the obvious choice.
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That they have everybody back, another year bigger, stronger and smarter, makes them the obvious choice.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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freedom of choice
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Greece was our first choice for a vacation, but all the flights were full.
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He says he lives on the street by choice .
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I don't believe in fate - we all have freedom of choice .
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I don't like his choice of friends.
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I wouldn't ride without a helmet, but I think people should have the choice .
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It was a difficult choice , but we finally decided that Hannah should have the prize.
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Maria was very pleased with her choice .
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Patients are demanding greater choice in the type of treatment they get.
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Spooner says he had no choice but to file for bankruptcy.
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The choices you make now will affect you for many years.
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The board denied that financial considerations had influenced their choice .
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The school seems OK, but there isn't a great choice of courses.
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There's a small general store in town, but I don't think there will be much choice .
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There is a wide choice of hotels and hostels in the town.
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With her high grades and athletic skill, Celeste had her choice of colleges.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If people want to prescribe unproved forms of treatment, or to receive them, that is their choice .
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In the case of automobiles, you have a choice of valuation methods, and choosing the wrong one can be costly.
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Micky Burns from the players' union advises and assists on the options to help them make informed choices about their futures.
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Please indicate your choice on the form.
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Prey Selection Throughout its geographical range, Nucella lapillus has a choice of prey species.
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The choice of actress to play Joan has always been crucial.
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Thus for many families there is no choice but to spend some time on income support.
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We do always, however, have a choice about what we do - nobody forces us to do wrong.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
word
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The flash alerted the criminal, and with a few choice words exchanged, the car chase resumed.
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I'd have liked to have cut the face off of him with a few choice words .
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Or has rapper Puff been on the blower from New York with a few choice words ?
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Talks with all the choicest words ?
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He screamed back at her some choice words that he usually saved for the rent collector.
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When it happens again on the next cast I turn the air blue with some choice words .
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And he also had a few choice words about my means of protecting myself.
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An old soldier, he had a few choice words at his command.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a matter of (personal) taste/choice/preference
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If you think torturing babies is good, that is a matter of taste.
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In the United States, food is a matter of taste, time and price.
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Quite what that means is a matter of taste, because a breed does not exist until it has been named.
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Switching to the Normal channel I would say that using the crunch option for rock solo work is a matter of taste.
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The amount of the increase or decrease is a matter of preference.
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The first is a matter of taste.
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The size of the pleat is a matter of choice.
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This is a matter of choice.
freedom of choice
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Health insurance plans that offer patients greater freedom of choice in selecting doctors are becoming too expensive for most people.
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Because people have freedom of choice where to shop there is some overlap between these spheres of influence.
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Flexibility, freedom of choice - and complete peace of mind.
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In daily life, therefore, the individual rediscovered a certain freedom of choice.
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In practice there will not be complete freedom of choice for the individual.
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It should always be carried out with tact, care and respect for the individual's privacy and freedom of choice.
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Making insurance compulsory would - they say - not only free Health Service resources, but guarantee freedom of choice.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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choice apples
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Chances are that most of the choice summer jobs have already been taken.
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the choicest cuts of meat
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But he aimed his choicest barbs at occupants of the White House, or those trying to be.