I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hard-fought battle/contest/game etc
▪
one of the most hard-fought games this season
▪
a hard-fought battle for the presidency
a popularity contest (= competition to find who the most popular person is )
▪
All election campaigns are popularity contests to some degree.
a talent contest/show/competition
▪
Don’t assume winning a talent contest is a passport to success.
beauty contest
contest a seat ( also run for a seat ) (= try to win it )
▪
Twenty-four candidates contested the five seats.
▪
He ran for the seat as a Republican.
hotly contested
▪
one of the most hotly contested congressional elections
leadership contest
▪
the Conservative leadership contest
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
▪
Their bosses, who play the same game with their bosses, join in the annual contest of hide and seek.
▪
An annual contest for authors of programs that can fool human judges at least some of the time was suspended last year.
▪
The Midvale Park neighborhood sparks up a million little beacons with its annual holiday lighting contest .
big
▪
But one thing remained constant: In a big contest , Gretzky will come through in a big way.
▪
She win big writing contest , which not surprise me.
close
▪
Any Conservative you care to converse with will predict a close contest at the next election.
▪
But it's a close contest .
▪
As the scores were read out like a football draw it became clear that it would be a close contest .
▪
In 1966 it produced the closest contest of any post-war election with a three-vote Conservative win after seven recounts.
▪
Following what promises to be the closest contest for 50 years, publishers are dreading a rush of ink to the head.
electoral
▪
Tibbu further complicated electoral contests there.
▪
Yeltsin has entered an electoral contest that may be less bloody but even harder for him to win.
▪
He is both sharply divided from his party opponents and emotionally involved in electoral contests .
fair
▪
The grievance between the Bank Assistants and the Bank for parity was a fair contest .
political
▪
The mischief produced by this institution was incalculable because it made religious differences the deciding factor in every political contest .
presidential
▪
Last week Iowa delivered the first results of the presidential contest of 2000.
▪
The number of illiterate adults exceeds by 16 million the entire vote cast for the winner in the 1980 presidential contest .
▪
It's a familiar routine, as Bush continues to work the centre ground in his presidential contest with Al Gore.
▪
Both the Clinton and Dole campaigns had assumed the presidential contest in Ohio would go down the wire.
▪
Dole is considered to be the man to beat in the Republican presidential contest .
▪
Kerrey is considered a potential rival of Gore in the next presidential contest .
▪
Politics was discussed at the dinner table every night, and in 1960, the Kennedy-Nixon presidential contest divided his parents.
▪
But on Tuesday, Louisiana is set to hold the first caucuses of the 1996 presidential contest .
primary
▪
There were also primary contests in South Dakota and Mississippi.
▪
In another similarity to a primary contest , political activists say a surprisingly large portion of the Iowa Republicans remain undecided.
republican
▪
As predicted, the Republican contest was duly won by Bush, whilst Harkin massively outscored his Democratic rivals.
▪
Dole is considered to be the man to beat in the Republican presidential contest .
▪
In the Republican contest Bush won 76 percent of the votes in Illinois, compared with 22 percent for Buchanan.
unequal
▪
The interlopers soon give up the unequal contest .
▪
It was an unequal contest , and Lorton was tired of playing the loser.
▪
It can become an unequal contest .
▪
You will find it an unequal contest .
■ NOUN
beauty
▪
Just like the outside world, only in a beauty contest you are more aware of it!
▪
Most interviewers did their jobs like judges at a beauty contest .
▪
Fortunately, he ate his last slice long before the advent of pub beauty contests .
▪
College football is as much a beauty contest as it is a game.
▪
Dave Simpson's adult comedy, set in a beauty contest , returns to Liverpool after a successful run last year.
▪
Mrs Wexford had a magnificent figure and a fine profile although she had never been of the stuff that wins beauty contests .
▪
He said he had been to a beauty contest where the audience were mostly farmers.
▪
The play is set in a seedy northern beauty contest , which gives Paula the chance to use her original Mancunian accent.
leadership
▪
By the closing date for nominations for the leadership contest of Nov. 15 only Thatcher and Heseltine had been nominated.
▪
He presided over the 1990 leadership contest that saw the departure of Margaret Thatcher and the arrival of John Major.
▪
Labour's National Executive Committee agreed last night that the leadership contest should take place at a special conference on July 18.
▪
Refuse to play games Is there an alternative for Labour to the introspection of leadership contests and inquests?
▪
He certainly welcomed the leadership contest , but then so did many others.
popularity
▪
It will be a popularity contest .
▪
Popularity is nice, but this is no popularity contest .
▪
Like most goods, stocks are a kind of popularity contest .
talent
▪
Finally, don't assume winning a talent contest is a passport to success.
▪
The talent contest had taken place in a marquee.
■ VERB
enter
▪
You may receive promotional offers after entering this contest .
▪
To enter this super contest simply answer the following question and state which hand-held you would like to win.
▪
Of course, if you are the type who will enter this contest , you probably already own it.
▪
Boat Show, of course, as will all other contest entrants, making everybody who entered the contest a winner.
▪
Other players could still enter the contest , but it is increasingly unlikely that any would be acceptable to the United board.
▪
Once upon a time, I entered chili contests .
hold
▪
In 1905, Britain held its first beauty contest in Newcastle.
▪
This month they are holding a long-drive contest .
▪
Stone decided to hold a contest to see who could come up with a motto that would best capture that value.
lose
▪
Davies first confirmed that intruders do usually lose contests over territories.
▪
Spaulding said the design firms who lost in the contest will be encouraged to submit plans for individual buildings on the campus.
▪
You lost that contest with my Sam because I decided you had to lose it.
plead
▪
The company also pleaded no contest to falsifying its records to hide the illegal contributions.
▪
Irvin is on probation after pleading no contest in July to a felony charge of cocaine possession.
▪
The study excluded cases in which defendants pleaded guilty or no contest , and it did not involve new interviews with defendants.
▪
Unocal later pleads no contest to 12 criminal counts filed by the state and agrees to pay a $ 3 million fine.
▪
Last month, he pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor voter-fraud charge.
▪
Earlier this week, Sherrod pleaded no contest to contempt of court for fleeing Holley.
▪
Irvin served a five-game suspension this season after pleading no contest to felony cocaine possession.
▪
Burgess pleaded no contest and was fined $ 150.
win
▪
He looked very nice in it and he did win the contest , so Ken did know what he was doing.
▪
It was like winning the contest , numbers flashing, applause.
▪
Finally, don't assume winning a talent contest is a passport to success.
▪
She win big writing contest , which not surprise me.
▪
Barbara has won countless Glamorous Grandmother contests since becoming the first ever winner of the Widnes title in 1977.
▪
The company is 100 years old, and its birds win tasting contests all the time.
▪
MacQuillan was destined to win the contest , but I was prepared to get a strike or two in first.
▪
He has won every contest since then.
withdraw
▪
His close rival, the Maharaja of Rewa, reached a total of 500 and then withdrew from the contest .
▪
Paul Tsongas, who had formally withdrawn from the contest , polled 12, 8 and 10 percent respectively.
▪
In any event, in mid-April he withdrew from the contest .
▪
Wallace then withdrew from the contest after running 51 7 miles in 7 7 hours.
▪
Two candidates had withdrawn from the contest , leaving him as sole contender.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
three-cornered contest/fight
▪
Third, after a terrific three-cornered fight, were David Hoskins and David James.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
a close contest for the mayor's job
▪
Harriet decided to enter Henry in the cute baby contest .
▪
Jack always wins the pub's karaoke contest .
▪
Jake always enters the arm-wrestling contest at the local fair.
▪
She won several beauty contests when she was in her early twenties.
▪
The essay contest is open to all teenagers.
▪
The event, held every four years in Fort Worth, Texas, is the country's leading piano contest .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
As the boss of this contest , you get to set the rules.
▪
But one thing remained constant: In a big contest , Gretzky will come through in a big way.
▪
Did I mention that the contest is also a fund-raiser?
▪
He looked very nice in it and he did win the contest , so Ken did know what he was doing.
▪
In the tactical contest Wilkinson emerged on top.
▪
Lena knew that she had entered the contest without the support of others in the church.
▪
The company also pleaded no contest to falsifying its records to hide the illegal contributions.
▪
We had many good contests on the track and there was some conflict off the track as well.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
bitterly
▪
Lincoln's role in determining the future of the Barnes is bound to be contested bitterly .
▪
Denney created an atmosphere of strict discipline that was resented and bitterly contested by patients for years.
fiercely
▪
The region has been fiercely contested by guerrillas and the paramilitary forces for the past few years.
▪
Target shareholders can sometimes be circumspect about accepting ordinary shares in the offeror, particularly if the takeover has been fiercely contested .
▪
If this was truly representative of tomorrow's task then the event would be fiercely contested .
▪
In its case, although just viable, opinions over its right to life are fiercely contested .
hotly
▪
On the other hand, Best Supporting Actress was hotly contested .
▪
But privatization of any government function has been hotly contested issue in Sacramento.
▪
These last propositions were hotly contested in the apostolic community.
▪
That unit is expected to fetch about $ 9 billion in a hotly contested auction within a few weeks.
▪
The other awards, featured on page 15, may be more prestigious but they certainly won't be more hotly contested .
▪
H are the highest profile and most hotly contested items on the Nov. 4 ballot.
▪
The requests may signal that the jurors are focusing on the hotly contested blood evidence.
▪
On Wednesday, both sides of the hotly contested ballot initiative moved their battle into the courts.
vigorously
▪
Any reference to payment of rent by banker's order or credit transfer should be vigorously contested .
▪
The most vigorously contested races are for the Legislature, where term limits have forced out 13 Bay Area incumbents.
■ NOUN
candidate
▪
A total of 406 candidates contested the election and a 72 percent turnout was registered.
▪
Six candidates are contesting this sprawling seat, which stretches from the historic town of Stirling, north and west to Crianlarich.
case
▪
Mason is one of the few hardware suppliers to contest his case in court.
charge
▪
Last week, she won her freedom after agreeing not to contest charges of second-degree murder.
▪
Mullin, who was fired in August 1994, will contest the charges , his attorney has said.
election
▪
The five other parties contesting the election failed to secure sufficient support to gain representation.
▪
No one there had expected a contested election .
▪
The Tigers say they will not contest elections until there is peace.
▪
With 223 House Republicans elected so far, the winner in a contested election would need 112 votes to win.
▪
A total of 406 candidates contested the election and a 72 percent turnout was registered.
▪
By early 1989 over 230 parties had registered and a total of 93 parties contested the May 1990 elections .
▪
The AFL-CIO elected John Sweeney as president last October in the first contested election in its history.
leadership
▪
He was sensible not to contest the leadership as he commands less support across the party than Smith.
party
▪
The five other parties contesting the election failed to secure sufficient support to gain representation.
▪
Half a dozen other parties also contested the elections without securing representation.
▪
By early 1989 over 230 parties had registered and a total of 93 parties contested the May 1990 elections.
▪
A total of 667 candidates fielded by 17 political parties contested the 225 directly elected seats in the 325-member Assembly.
▪
Shevardnadze was expected to set about forming a coalition among some of the 36 parties which had contested parliamentary seats.
▪
Details of election results A total of 1,047 candidates - 223 independents and 824 party representatives - contested the 1992 elections.
▪
That is why the Tory Party always contests the Rhondda, for example.
▪
The party did not contest the October 1989 general election.
seat
▪
Candidates in December's local elections will be allowed to contest the seats only as independents, not on a party basis.
▪
When legislative elections were held in 1990 under domestic and international pressure, the opposition party won 392 of 485 contested seats .
▪
The vote for the Green Party, which did not contest the seat at the general election, was only 2 percent.
▪
Shevardnadze was expected to set about forming a coalition among some of the 36 parties which had contested parliamentary seats .
▪
In the 1984 Euro-election, when they contested only seventeen seats , they took 0.2 percent.
▪
He plans to contest a seat on Cookstown district council in the May elections.
▪
But it had decided to contest the seat next time, even before Mr Forsythe, 65, died suddenly in April.
▪
Six candidates are contesting this sprawling seat , which stretches from the historic town of Stirling, north and west to Crianlarich.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
In 1991 White contested the US Open and the J G Scott Trophy.-
▪
The leadership election will be contested by four candidates.
▪
The pharmacy company contested the agency's findings.
▪
The ruling party will contest 158 seats in Algeria's elections.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
Among domestic mergers, the buyout of Credito Romagnolo was the most contested.
▪
Congress had granted him another amnesty to contest the 1992 election.
▪
Medical science is contesting the will.
▪
No one seriously contests any more that a hostile tax climate has hurt New York's economy.
▪
She filed in the fall of 1989, and at that time, her former husband did not contest the petition.
▪
The region has been fiercely contested by guerrillas and the paramilitary forces for the past few years.
▪
These last propositions were hotly contested in the apostolic community.