noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
conversion course
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A qualified pilot would still need a conversion course to fly microlight aircraft.
deathbed confession/conversion etc (= made when you are dying )
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The disease allowed no time for a deathbed repentance.
loft conversion (= changed the loft into bedrooms )
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Our neighbours have just done a loft conversion .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
religious
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In the absence of rational criteria to guide theory choice, theory change becomes akin to religious conversion .
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Franciscans oversaw construction of San Xavier del Bac during a time when mandatory religious conversion was considered politically correct.
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It might have been a religious conversion , in which the partner did not share.
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He remembered hymns and baptisms down on this lake; religious conversion and arms reaching up in real belief.
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I was suffering another religious conversion: good-bye Kuo Wah.
retrospective
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Mechanisms for selective retrospective conversion of catalogues and the enrichment of catalogues should be sought.
■ NOUN
barn
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On it lay plans for a barn conversion .
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This barn conversion had about two acres of totally untouched field surrounding it.
costs
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For four additional options considered, boiler conversion costs are estimated at $ 47 per kilowatt.
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Also, these conversion costs remain constant for any gas / coal fuel ratio.
course
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All conversion courses must be approved by the National Board of the country of practice.
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I proved my ability in further education and attempted to gain a position on a conversion course .
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Another group of supervisors from light manufacturing industry are undertaking a conversion course to catering supervisor.
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From now on all aircrew went through either a full conversion course or a short refresher course.
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The difference was just as large if one compares men and women studying on conversion courses only.
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At Seletar he had been flying Vildebeest torpedo bombers, and he now underwent a conversion course on to the more modern Beauforts.
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Enrolled training would be phased out as fast as possible, with existing enrolled nurses given opportunities for conversion courses .
energy
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Cheap solar energy conversion has been a dream of some scientists since the first oil crisis back in the late 1970s.
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Electricity produced by radioactive isotopes, strontium 90, polonium 210, by thermoelectric energy conversion .
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The Nobel citation noted that his discovery would be useful for energy conversion technology.
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The proportion of this energy conversion accounted for by agriculture however, is small, but even this is not exploited.
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Bills completed by 1980 laid special emphasis on recycling and energy conversion .
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Conventional solar cells rely on silicon crystals, and energy conversion is around 10 percent.
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Energy from the Sea Wave energy conversion offers huge amounts of power but demands a great deal more new technology than wind energy.
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Grätzel has turned this precise, and expensive, physicist's approach to solar energy conversion on its head.
experience
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Some conversion experiences have been more successful than others.
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According to this model, change is like a conversion experience .
loft
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We put the tacker through its paces on a loft conversion .
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Done in a sympathetic way, a loft conversion can blend in almost anywhere.
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Provided there is space you will be able to install a traditional-style staircase for access to your loft conversion .
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Greg starts fantasising about a loft conversion .
process
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During the conversion process there are a wide range of options available to the user.
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In short, the conversion process must operate with political skill and political will.
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It is produced in the body from linoleic acid, but the conversion process is inefficient.
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Bureaucracies are involved to some extent in the input and conversion processes as they are in the output phase.
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The conversion process requires free space equivalent to three times the size of the file being converted.
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Despite the considerable losses of useful energy in the conversion process , electricity is indispensable for its flexibility of use.
rate
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If there is conversion from memory to naive phenotype, the conversion rate will be significantly greater than zero.
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The number of shares of stock into which the bond may be converted is known as the conversion rate .
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Milk yields, crop yields and food conversion rates were all similar to those of the better farms in Britain.
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It has always been bred with an emphasis on good food conversion rates , whether for the production of meat or milk.
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The food conversion rate on roughage or forage is good.
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Dealerco to inform Manelux of dealer conversion rate , number of outlets, staffing levels and worker morale.
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This allowed a conversion rate to be calculated, calibrating the racemization rate for that site.
■ VERB
add
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Glynn White added the conversion to put Alton ahead.
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Newly added is the software conversion utility to the Unix world.
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Watt, Millard and Gray scored the other tries with Dods adding two conversions and one penalty.
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The video ref gave it and Lansdowne Road erupted, especially after O'Gara added the conversion from wide on the touchline.
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Colin Stephens added the conversion to go with an earlier penalty for a 10-0 lead.
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John Robertson scored both the Heriots' tries and Henry Murray added both conversions .
follow
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During 1939, following the trolleybus conversions in North London, a number of rolling stock changes were made.
kick
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Both missed with other attempts before Stephens made amends in the second half, landing another three penalties and kicking three conversions .
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Darryl Grason kicked three conversions and two penalties.
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Full-back Brian Roach kicked the conversion but was wide with several penalty attempts.
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Gary Parker, who was playing at scrum-half, kicked two conversions while David Leighton landed a drop goal.
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Merceron scored a try, and kicked two conversions and six penalties.
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Hartlepool went down 22-13 whose try scorers were Courty, Smith and Hall, Hails kicking two conversions and two penalties.
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Andy Craggs kicked two conversions and two penalties.
undergo
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Regulators have undergone a similar conversion .
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Their cars can undergo a potentially expensive conversion to the R-134a coolant that is being used in new cars.
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At Seletar he had been flying Vildebeest torpedo bombers, and he now underwent a conversion course on to the more modern Beauforts.
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Was she undergoing some odd conversion ?
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He may have received psychotherapy, but has not yet undergone conversion surgery even if he is contemplating it.
undertake
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Finally do you know anyone who undertakes this conversion work.
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Another group of supervisors from light manufacturing industry are undertaking a conversion course to catering supervisor.
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To date they have undertaken four conversions , with others reportedly under way.
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Bell acquired it in 1957 and undertook the two-seat conversion .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Local people are protesting about the proposed conversion of a church into a late-night bar.
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The Aggies successfully completed a two-point conversion and led 24-21.
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The company buys raw material such as wool for conversion into cloth.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the baggage which is usually implied with it, which includes demands for evidence of instant and dramatic conversion experiences!
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Gary Parker, who was playing at scrum-half, kicked two conversions while David Leighton landed a drop goal.
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He developed new psychologies to explain conversion but not new techniques for spreading it.
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However, the conversion of these was done rather arbitrarily, and some people won extra years while others lost.
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I had a very good man in to see to the heating and lighting, and the whole conversion was done professionally.
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In short, the conversion process must operate with political skill and political will.
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Of the SERC-funded students alone, there was an 80:20 split between students on conversion and specialist courses.
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To provide a focus, Section 11. 4 describes three conceptual approaches to oil boiler conversion to gas-coal burning.