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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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also
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All Henley postgraduate students are registered at Brunel University which also confers the degree.
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The Schedule also confers a right of appeal on an unsuccessful applicant or objector to the sheriff.
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Such arrangements also confer the power to veto airport development, and hence, often, to keep out competitors' flights.
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You have much greater freedom of choice how you spend your time -but that freedom also confers greater responsibility on you.
on
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Your popularity might be tarnished, but now you have conferred on your people the gift of a nation in the making.
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The Constitution confers on the President the whole executive power.
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Their finding suggests that pregnancy may confer on some women a protective factor making them less likely to act on suicidal urges.
upon
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Stewart was in the partnership strictly at his invitation, and that conferred upon Stewart a junior status.
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act
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Section 19 of that Act , in particular, confers general powers of seizure.
advantage
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The natural projection of the land along the Thames conferred distinct advantages on West Ham as a site for the new docks.
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In this sense, a small private company may confer no great advantage over the personal liability of a partner.
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Though many genetic fluctuations do occur, most die out because they fail to confer any survival advantages on gut-dwelling microbes.
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An exception arises only where there are concomitant changes that confer an advantage on the rarer types.
authority
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Such laws frequently confer considerable discretionary authority on public administrators.
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In committing the count's rights to written record, Henry's clerks had conferred on them new authority .
benefit
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It is difficult to avoid concluding that, where they do persist, transposable elements must be conferring some benefit .
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So it would not be surprising if it conferred its benefits on the heart by altering several things at once.
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It is not an argument over which of the two screening strategies will confer the greater medical benefit .
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Adtranz argues that California law allows the reimbursement if the action conferred a significant benefit to the public.
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In conclusion oesophageal transection and gastric devascularisation appears to confer no benefit over endoscopic sclerotherapy in terms of long term survival after variceal haemorrhage.
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In other words, multimedia must confer real benefits .
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That is, it is infrastructural and confers a public benefit , from which enterprises in general will gain.
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Anchoresses were believed to confer great spiritual benefits on a neighbourhood and all big towns liked to have one.
degree
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Therefore, this region may confer some degree of specialization to the protein, in terms of cellular location and/or tissue specificity.
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All Henley postgraduate students are registered at Brunel University which also confers the degree .
government
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The policy of the United Kingdom is now not to confer recognition on governments as opposed to on states.
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It does not deny the truth of the assertion that Parliament could, if it wished, confer such powers upon government .
honour
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Poets confer honour neither on themselves nor on their work by using a sophisticated diction.
legitimacy
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People who run countries have all too often fallen for the notion that sporting success somehow confers political legitimacy .
power
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Indeed, one of the justifications of private property takes as its premise the idea that property ownership confers power .
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It gave Becton the title of chief executive officer and conferred extraordinary powers upon him.
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It can confer certain powers and responsibilities upon regional and local authorities, and it can also remove those powers.
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It seems to confer a strange power on the practitioner.
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Numerical strength does not necessarily confer power , but in Whitehall it has always counted towards influence.
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Secrecy confers power on those who know the secret while those who do not are at a disadvantage.
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Such arrangements also confer the power to veto airport development, and hence, often, to keep out competitors' flights.
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That contract confers power on the directors of the company to manage the company.
right
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The overall aim is to confer the right on professionals to have their qualifications recognised in all member states.
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A person's power to confer rights on others by his consent does, however, expose him to blackmail and abuse.
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Hence, regulations confer individual rights and duties which must be respected by the courts of the member states.
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Industrial safety legislation will normally confer a right on persons employed.
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The Schedule also confers a right of appeal on an unsuccessful applicant or objector to the sheriff.
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Private ownership of parts of the system confers only strictly limited rights and powers of control over operation and revenue.
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However, such an arrangement confers no rights to exploit minerals if found.
status
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To confer the status of value upon excess and extremism is to bring these things back within the pale of decency.
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Carrying a pager once conferred status .
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Others are purchased because the buyer feels that ownership will confer separateness and status .
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The court concluded that it would be inconsistent with these purposes for it to confer tenure status on a teacher.
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Oldfield was never conferred with boffin status , unlike his contemporary, Mr Ambient himself, Brian Eno.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The President trusted him so much that he conferred on him the role of "Principal Advisor".
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The university has already conferred honorary degrees on several prime ministers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bethel indicated that all institutions conducting courses at degree level in all countries except the United Kingdom conferred their own awards.
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He conferred privately with key congressional leaders and together they started the Manhattan Project.
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In other words, multimedia must confer real benefits.
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It gave Becton the title of chief executive officer and conferred extraordinary powers upon him.
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Some specific functions can only be conferred by an order made by the Lord Chancellor.
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The effect of this order was to confer second-class citizenship on the proud Washington.
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With the first mover advantage conferred by this partnership, we expect to take the lion's share of that new business.