I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
constituent assembly
the component/constituent parts of sth (= the separate parts that form it )
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The body is a complex thing with many constituent parts.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
important
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Glutathione is an important constituent of intracellular protective mechanisms against a number of noxious stimuli including oxidative stress.
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His portraits must in turn be considered an important constituent in their power, as compensation for their more corporeal weaknesses.
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A minor, but important constituent of many sandstones are the heavy minerals, with a specific gravity in excess of 2.9.
main
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Nevertheless, if the academic historians followed their by-way of scholarship, history remained the main constituent of the new social sciences.
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It is one of the main constituents of the old lawn sand method of weed-killing in lawns.
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The main chemical constituent of mucus is a waterproof high molecular weight glycoprotein.
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Uncooked Quick Quaker Oats was the main constituent .
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The genes code information for the formation of protein, the main constituent of our tissues and enzymes.
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Thujone, the main constituent of sage, is now known to have mild stimulatory properties.
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Tobago, the smaller of the country's two main constituent islands, achieved full internal self-government in early 1987.
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The main constituents of wine are acid, tannin, alcohol and sugar.
■ NOUN
assembly
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Opposition parties repeated their call for the election of a national constituent assembly to draw up a new constitution.
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On April 30 Lekhanya announced proposals to set up a national constituent assembly to draw up a new constitution.
congress
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Plans for a constituent congress were in progress.
■ VERB
represent
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Every Member of Parliament here tonight probably represents thousands of constituents who will be affected by this mean little regulation.
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The hon. Gentleman should represent his constituents by writing a letter with specific complaints.
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Urry's model can thus be seen as representing the constituents of a place.
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Given the hon. Gentleman's background, he will clearly represent the constituents who elected him last week.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Magnesium and sodium are the main constituents of salt.
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Police found the constituents of a bomb inside an abandoned car.
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Scientists have to break the compound down into its constituents in order to analyze it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A disabled constituent of mine was short changed by more than £2 in his community care grant for an orthopaedic bed.
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Can he say anything this afternoon that will enable me to reassure my very worried constituents?
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Glutathione is an important constituent of intracellular protective mechanisms against a number of noxious stimuli including oxidative stress.
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It also put pressure on them to show their constituents some real action.
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The predominant clay mineral constituents in lake muds from both regions include smectite, illite-smectites and lesser kaolinite.
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These distinctive characteristics come from differences in minute quantities of flavouring constituents whose concentrations are at the threshold of human sensory perception.
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They are a complex mixture of up to 80 percent hydrocarbons with smaller amounts of fatty acids, alkyl esters and other constituents.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
assembly
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Voters also heavily endorsed a clause on the ballot paper calling for the convening of a constituent assembly to reform the Constitution.
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These included the dissolution of the present government and constituent assembly .
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The classical idea of a constituent assembly submitting a constitution to referendum was thus to be mediated through the Landtage.
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Elections should then follow for a constituent assembly which would draft a constitution.
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Phase Two would begin with the election of the constituent assembly , replacing the existing tri-cameral parliament from which blacks were excluded.
group
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It could be produced, for example, by an even split in each main constituent group in the country.
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These prerogatives are what differentiate organizational owners from the members of other constituent groups .
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It prevents an enterprise from falling into the self-defeating trap of rewarding one constituent group repeatedly, and repeatedly penalizing others.
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It not only builds trust among constituent groups , but also promotes accountability within the ranks.
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High organizational performance can not be sustained if one or two constituent groups are perpetually rewarded or afflicted.
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Each constituent group has its unique role and set of interests.
member
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There was a clear link with past practices of fitting the ideology to the needs of the state rather than its constituent members .
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Societies that treat their constituent members as identical pawns soon run into trouble.
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Behind this report is a determination by the Board to take and hold the initiative over its constituent members .
part
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There is a general consensus that psychological processes are a function of the whole brain, not of its constituent parts .
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These states are constituent parts of the United States.
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It makes sense as an economic unit in a way its constituent parts alone do not.
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It communicates among its constituent parts real fast.
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The sample is injected into the flame which then breaks up into its constituent parts .
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In June 1992, Dubcek was re-elected to parliament as the country headed towards splitting into its two constituent parts .
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The constituent parts of this promise do not seem to add up to a huge amount.
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The state was by no means a constituent part of the productive relations, which economic theory has been called upon to study.
republic
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The Treaty defined the demarcation of powers between the federation and the constituent republics as a component element of the new Constitution.
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It was not a Yugoslav constituent nation, nor a constituent republic .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The treaty will give even greater powers to the country's 15 constituent republics.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a result segmentation of the signal into the constituent units of speech is difficult and requires knowledge of the language.
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Each constituent group has its unique role and set of interests.
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Lack of consent is therefore not a constituent element in theft.
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Such displacements can be decomposed into constituent displacements along standard directions.
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The theorem is applicable to polygons whose constituent triangles share the above properties.
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These states are constituent parts of the United States.
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Voters also heavily endorsed a clause on the ballot paper calling for the convening of a constituent assembly to reform the Constitution.