verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
arbitrarily chosen
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an arbitrarily chosen number
carefully planned/chosen/controlled etc
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carefully chosen words
choose a leader/choose sb as leader
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The party is meeting to choose a new leader.
choose a leader/choose sb as leader
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The party is meeting to choose a new leader.
choose a moment to do sth (= do something at a particular time )
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She always seemed to choose the worst moment to interrupt his thoughts.
choose an occupation
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Young people need help with choosing a suitable occupation.
choose an option
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Fewer women are choosing the option of motherhood.
choose/appoint a successor
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The Board met to choose his successor.
choose/order sth from the menu
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He ordered a chicken dish from the menu.
chosen by lot
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In Athens at that time, judges were chosen by lot .
sb’s chosen career
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His parents encouraged him in his chosen career as a scientist.
select/choose a candidate
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Taylor was selected as Tory candidate.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
carefully
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Designer blasts from the past carefully chosen to look nice in a west London living room.
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A few people carefully chosen , highly visible, whose deaths might be noticed.
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It is even possible to dissolve certain types of crystal if the foods used are special diets, carefully chosen by vets.
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The best suggestion when searching for a coworker-editor: choose carefully .
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He could afford to take it easy and he picked and chose carefully whatever he wanted to do.
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Augmenting the club-like atmosphere are the carefully chosen dark wood paneling, beveled stained glass and forest-green carpets.
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I read every message and carefully choose ones which will appeal to a wide range of your fellow readers.
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The three Volunteers assigned to Huamanga had been carefully chosen by the Peace Corps staff.
■ NOUN
moment
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Disillusioned with managing the national team, Andy Beattie chose the most inappropriate moment to tender his resignation.
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The next step is inevitable, and the only thing that matters now is to choose the right moment .
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Buell Gallagher was not the leader City might have chosen for such a moment .
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She always chose that moment to talk about Durkin, and always in a disparaging way.
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Angry and hurt at the continuing racism and sexism at Columbia, Joanne speaks out but tries to choose her moments .
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But choosing that particular moment to do it was a rebuff as callous and shocking as a slap in the face.
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Perhaps we could have chosen a different moment .
name
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Artists who group together for financial reasons may choose a name which is no more explanatory than a number or numbers.
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When children are allowed to choose the name , Disney can have a big influence.
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Choose the Filter sub menu, then choose the name of your filter.
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I asked Redlin about choosing the name .
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When he published a small booklet last year offering advice on choosing a last name , it sold out immediately.
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Some choose names based on personal reasons.
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I choose that name to show its connection to a parallel ideal of personal morality.
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How did the Solomons choose their last name ? 8.
option
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As the recession deepens, it is going to force the TECs into choosing between three undesirable options .
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Experience shows that it is above all the last option that was chosen .
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Only those who chose the last option survived.
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Members choose the option that best fits their Internet usage needs.
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We underestimated the amount of counselling required to ensure that students choose appropriate options .
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Once we choose an option and make personal commitments to each other, we have another new project.
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Most enterprises have to choose one of three options .
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Most of the time, all you need to do is choose the Extract Files option under the Unzip menu.
site
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Shipbuilding had always been important to Saltash, which was chosen as the site for a Royal Naval base and dockyard.
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If it is chosen , the underground site could start receiving canisters of waste in 2010, Olds said.
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He chose a site for an aviary and gave very exact and imperious directions as to the materials and measurements.
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The only significant discussion centered on criteria used by the commission to choose sites for the initial housing programs.
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A breeding pair will chose a site for spawning and defend it with typical cichlid aggression.
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The class had originally chosen a site directly across the highway from the school.
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We chose three sites within Dermakot that had been logged 10 years, four years and one year ago.
student
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We underestimated the amount of counselling required to ensure that students choose appropriate options.
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If no students chose to pray, the teacher was permitted to pray for a period of up to five minutes.
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These courses are recognised as preparation for professional registration and students can choose either general nursing or mental health nursing.
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Every day students choose a desk to serve as their home base and fill it with their supplies.
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A key feature of the module is that the programme should reflect activities and contexts which the student values and has chosen .
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One reason: a sharp drop in the number of undergraduate students choosing economics as a major.
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Each student may choose to concentrate on either Graphics or Photography.
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Deciding whether home-school students could choose to play at any public school or only the one in their attendance district.
woman
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In the end the woman chooses to renounce both men and sets out on her own path.
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This woman of noble birth chose to study philosophy rather than relish in her beauty.
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But it will defend equally vigorously the rights of women who choose to look after their children full-time.
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Agents said the women chosen as couriers mainly were in their 20s with middle-class appearances.
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Then men or women could choose what kind of contribution they are gong to make to all societies work.
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In this narrow framework, work and family do conflict, and therefore women must choose one.
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Perhaps women choose this style because it fits with their own, perfectly valid interactional or social goals.
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That is why women who refuse to choose often find themselves torn in two.
word
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To sum up, when looking for a choral text, choose words which are simple, direct, and poetic.
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Your editor should ask for your opinions, why you chose certain words or decided to include or omit information.
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In cases like this, the solution is to choose for teaching the words most likely to be needed by your pupils.
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Her carefully chosen words , and Hattie Crews's personal insight, moved the membership.
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I hope that I chose my words with some care.
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The officer asked it a second time, choosing different words , and exchanged a smile with the younger officer.
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Under her page boy haircut, her brow is knit; she tries to choose her words carefully.
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She is choosing her words so carefully that her friend can picture the dueling waves that she describes.
■ VERB
allow
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At Liverpool, the Principal was not allowed to choose his own secretary.
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Instead, tell them what needs to be done and the results desired. Allow them to choose the method.
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I sewed curtains and quilts and the boys were allowed to choose their own colour schemes and furnishings.
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When children are allowed to choose the name, Disney can have a big influence.
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They both allow people to choose their own time horizons, which can be anything from two to 25 years.
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This system allows for maximum flexibility, including interactive multimedia connections that allow each consumer to choose his or her own programs.
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He was equally tolerant when it came to allowing buyers to choose colours that would go with their interior decoration.
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Two years ago, the Public Utility Commission instituted a program allowing residents to choose their electricity supplier.
help
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Readers at Borders Books shops helped to choose the short list.
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Supplemental Help: A new device to help consumers choose nutritional supplements may be coming to a drugstore near you.
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We help women choose and use make- up.
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We hope that the pictures, done by Kathleen White, one of the authors, will help you in choosing lessons.
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Always visualise your audience when practising, as this will help you in choosing the right tone for your voice.
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In-house information technology people began to shift from building customized applications to helping their companies choose wisely among open systems vendors.
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At present I require assistance to help me to choose the most suitable occupation.
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The Palo Alto startup is quietly developing an online service that will help businesses and consumers choose and manage health plans.
pick
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It not only receives, it picks and chooses and processes all it receives.
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According to their ability they will be able to pick and choose which clues they will utilize and which they will ignore.
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At Thrush Green she would be able to pick and choose her employers.
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As the kids say, get real. Pick and choose how you spend your time and energy.
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That means picking and choosing his skipper's games to allow him the rest he needs these days.
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And so you can pick and choose and try to get the right mixture or balance.
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He could always pick and choose over whom to arrest and on whom to give the Nelson touch.
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They could pick and choose their jobs and charge high prices.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pick and choose
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You can't just pick and choose which laws you're going to follow.
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And so you can pick and choose and try to get the right mixture or balance.
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At Thrush Green she would be able to pick and choose her employers.
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But if you've got your own boat and you're not allergic to work, you can pick and choose.
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Friendlies are the easiest to start with, as you can pick and choose your opponents.
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He could afford to take it easy and he picked and chose carefully whatever he wanted to do.
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Remember, however, to pick and choose your wheat berries according to type.
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There have been no secret meetings of the Democrat majority to pick and choose personnel.
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Unlike us correspondents, who could pick and choose our risks, they had no choice.
the (privileged/chosen) few
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A decade ago this was Checkpoint Charlie, one of the few gaps in an otherwise impenetrable barrier a hundred miles long.
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But then Jeffries said that that article was one of the few that had examined his ideas on the merits.
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Date palms are one of the few fruit trees that can be safely transplanted at full maturity.
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Hundreds of people could be seen walking along the roadside or waiting patiently for the few overcrowded buses.
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I had underlined the few shady connections which made it into the open.
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Stirling sensibly argued that it was illogical to form two new battalions when the few men he required were being denied him.
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The major drawback for all immigrant firms has been the difficulty in recruiting the few highly skilled key workers essential to production.
the chosen few
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Where do you want to go?" "You choose this time."
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A committee will be selected to choose the new leader.
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Companies are now using computers to help them choose new workers.
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Eventually, Jane was chosen to deliver the message.
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I can't decide what I want. You choose .
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I told him to drive more slowly, but he chose to ignore my advice.
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Import restrictions will reduce the number of cars buyers have to choose from.
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It took her three hours to choose which dress to wear.
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Many of the industries chosen for government investment have in fact already gone bankrupt.
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More and more young couples today are choosing not to marry.
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Seattle has been chosen as the venue for next year's conference.
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The board has unanimously chosen Cole as Gray's temporary replacement.
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The city chose a new mayor on Tuesday.
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The fabric that she chose to be made into a dress is a combination of silk and cotton.
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We have to choose between doing geography or studying another language.
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Why do so few women choose to become engineers?
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Will you help me choose a present for Warren?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And with so much wood in the room, a natural colour scheme has been chosen to complement it.
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Beattie has taken a big risk here by choosing to tell her tale through the wan and washed-out Jean.
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But which to choose from his marvellous output?
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He chose Armagh as his center of power.
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He could afford to take it easy and he picked and chose carefully whatever he wanted to do.
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We are a people who have chosen to deny poor children clothes, medicine and school supplies.
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We should not have to choose .
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You will need to choose trees that flower at the same time.