I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cookery course
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I decided to take a three-week cookery course.
a course of action
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Have you decided on a course of action?
a course of conduct (= a set of actions )
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The court said that when Harris had embarked on this course of conduct, he knew that it would put lives at risk.
a course/track record (= the best score for a particular golf course or time for a racecourse or track )
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Lewis set the fastest lap with a new track record.
a degree course
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I didn't enjoy the first year of my degree course.
a golf course (= an area of land designed for playing golf )
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an 18-hole golf course
a training course/programme
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All staff are invited to take any training course at company expense.
a university course
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He studied history at school and was now planning to take a university course.
access course
assault course
change the course of history (= do something that has many important effects )
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Roosevelt and Churchill helped to change the course of history.
conversion course
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A qualified pilot would still need a conversion course to fly microlight aircraft.
correspondence course
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I’m taking a correspondence course in business studies.
crash course
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a crash course in Spanish
damp course
damp-proof course
foundation course
golf course
in the course of duty (= while doing your job, especially for your country )
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Stewart received a medal for outstanding bravery in the course of duty.
induction course/programme/period etc
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a two-day induction course
introductory course
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an introductory course in data processing
main course
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What are you going to have for your main course?
obstacle course
of course
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Well, she won, of course.
plotted...course
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We plotted a course across the Pacific.
refresher course
sandwich course
steer a middle course
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I try to steer a middle course between keeping control of the project and giving responsibility to others.
steer a middle course (= chose a strategy that was not extreme )
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The government chose to steer a middle course between the two strategies .
survey course
the course of events (= the way in which a series of events happens )
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Nothing you could have done would have changed the course of events.
undergraduate student/course/degree etc
veered off course
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The plane veered off course .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
due
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In due course , when economic circumstances permit, we would like to rebuild it.
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I shall return to a fuller discussion of anthracnose pathology in due course .
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In due course the principle could be extended to cover child care for older children.
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In due course I shall return to my private education on the London trading floor.
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It is also a very helpful discipline if you are considering applying in due course for a Legal Aid Board franchise.
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He looked forward to practising it himself on others in due course .
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Any photographs lent to the Society will be returned in due course .
main
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These are all main course salads.
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It was not included in the main embalming course .
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Breakfast is a buffet, and guests are offered a choice of main course at dinner.
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Typically, 2 birds are required per person for a main course and 1 bird per person for a salad course.
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She then had a delectable mushroom soup - and for the main course she chose something that was entirely new to her.
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But protocol called for the opening push, like soup before the main course .
normal
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In the normal course of events they would not have publicised their conclusion without further tests.
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With that in mind, the president may ultimately decide to let the appeals process take its normal course .
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He just had to let things run their normal course .
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He gave the impression that further information would he available in the normal course of things, depending.
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What is the normal course of progression of addictive disease?
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In the normal course of conversation I wouldn't talk about politics, I'd talk more about shagging.
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Only the young, intending teachers, and medicals were allowed the full normal course for their subject.
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In the normal course of events, such agencies can be relied upon to pursue conscientiously the president's programme.
ordinary
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Clearly selling a second-hand car without an ignition key or registration document would not be acting in the ordinary course of business.
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Workers have become expendable parts for sale in the ordinary course of commerce.
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It was in fact made without protest and in the ordinary course of customs business.
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In the ordinary course of everyday living we are immersed completely in the personality.
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However, although it will not be accepted, it will not in the ordinary course of events be anticipated.
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In the ordinary course of banking the victim gets the cheque back but after encashment.
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These have no place in the ordinary course of nature.
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In the ordinary course of event.
short
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The exercises a being piloted by a small number of students with a view to presenting a short course or self-study package later this year.
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The instructor who gave us a short course on operating the vehicle was thorough and patient.
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Lord C told her to take a spot of leave before reporting for a short parachute course .
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Cornell University also offers a large variety of short courses on specific themes, held during the summer session.
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A portfolio of over 30 short courses complements the longer programmes and also meets more specialist requirements.
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These are followed up by a short course on computer simulation in Physics for all students in third year.
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Programme A course of instruction with a pre-determined timespan, content and structure, whether a short or long course.
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It is treated by a short course of drugs, the main one used being metronidazole.
undergraduate
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These activities enrich the course programme by informing undergraduate courses with the latest principles and practices emerging from international boardrooms and marketplaces.
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And I heard remarkable stories of distinguished Marxist academics at other schools who flat out refused to teach undergraduate courses .
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It also makes an ideal text to support an undergraduate degree course in analytical chemistry.
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An average undergraduate course costs around £4,000 a year for each student.
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The review deals with undergraduate courses and manages to condense a great deal of material into a concise and readable form.
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Students would normally have completed an undergraduate course in orchestration.
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The three-year undergraduate course begins next September.
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Titles will primarily concentrate on subjects covered in the initial stages of an undergraduate chemistry course .
■ NOUN
collision
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The ruling last week puts the courts on a collision course with Mr Mugabe and the police.
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The advancing ship suddenly veered off collision course .
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In addition, the Kee affair had put him on a collision course with his parents.
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If executed close enough to the Moon, this maneuver can place the spacecraft on a collision course with the Moon.
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Suddenly I found that he and I were on a collision course , both in Atlas aircraft.
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The Croatan was on a collision course with the twenty-foot branch and its two passengers.
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It needed no great powers of prophecy to realize that Nigel and I were on a collision course .
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Underpants rose from unexpected corners, on collision courses with snaking socks.
degree
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Not all of these subjects, however, may necessarily be acceptable as admission requirements for particular degree courses or particular faculties.
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In addition, applicants to the faculty must have passes in the subjects specified for each degree course .
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In these cases the degree course requirements will be higher than for other courses.
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Many Master's degree courses are paired with ones for Diplomas which have coursework and examinations in common with the degree.
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Most degree courses have certain subjects specified as essential, but usually some choice is allowed.
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This year's Great Grant Grab is now under way as thousands of school leavers prepare to start degree courses .
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The normal duration of these degree courses is four years.
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He returned to Cambridge and completed his degree course in 1929.
golf
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Saturday morning, we arrive at the golf course a bit later than we should for our 7: 30 tee time.
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We do not find them on the golf courses or lounging in the private clubs.
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Seated on one of the barstools nearby was Mr Finlayson, the greenkeeper at the local golf course .
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Sand traps are prominent, but not sand boxes -- while golf courses are plenty, parks are few and far between.
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The trip includes airfare, accommodation, car rental and admission tickets to the golf course for all practice and match days.
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Here were the hazards a golf course ought to have: a sense of hazard itself, j sense of mortality.
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That doesn't necessarily mean you will take more time to get around the golf course .
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And the northernmost town has several sprawling communities dotted with golf courses and street after street of lush, green lawns.
training
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One of its main activities is the development of training courses and training materials to assist in the application of new technologies.
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The Division has a particularly important task in promoting training courses for industry and commerce.
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From next week, all bouncers will undergo a compulsory two-week training course and examination run by Northumbria police.
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We have some spare places and would welcome any Q.T's who are interested in seeing the training course in action.
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Sarah Jacobs has tried to build herself a life, saving for four years to buy furniture and applying for training courses .
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Beware any sudden invitation to a company training course , particularly if they show a film.
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After short training courses , they continued literacy work and adult education, mostly in the communities where they lived.
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We run self-help groups and training courses .
■ VERB
attend
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Spouses may be encouraged to attend language courses at colleges of further education.
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The production manager attends a two-week training course in Atlanta on leading work-unit teams.
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The take-up has been disappointing in some respects, with the most highly motivated members attending several courses .
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Church musicians might be encouraged to attend such courses together with the clergy.
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Women who have attended the Dow-Stoker Returner courses can always give the course tutor as a referee.
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Course contracts Temporary contracts of employment may be offered to you if you attend a course which has a high clinical input.
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Situations such as these could perhaps be redeemed by the farmer's wife attending the course in his place.
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Think of a medical student attending a course in the X-ray diagnosis of pulmonary diseases.
change
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The way she saw Bella had changed during the course of that afternoon.
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He could carry out the intricate navigational corrections, and execute the necessary flight maneuvers when it was time to change course .
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You need to keep your options open in order to change courses at a moment's notice.
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That was changing , of course , as everything did.
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The influence of the three High Elf Mages changed the course of the war.
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In that instant he had changed the course of science and paved the way for the exploitation of Niagara Falls power.
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Then he remembered that Woolley had changed the course before he, Callaghan, saw the plane.
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What happened after the war changed my course of life.
complete
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Four horses and riders set out to complete the cross-country course , although only three must finish to score.
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Between 1983 and 1987 just over 2,000 underwent specialist training with 82 percent completing the courses successfully.
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Without them I could not have completed my course .
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Many delegates were concerned about increasing numbers of young people leaving schools and colleges before completing their courses .
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After completing the course , just three trainers were competent at compressions and only two could ventilate adequately.
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This year he completed the course in a record time.
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How many years will it take to complete the course by full-time study?
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Self-help groups can be developed by interested clients who have completed structured anxiety management courses .
follow
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Management of welfare thus follows the course of a large chess game.
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The factor that prevents gay men from following this course is the unique way gay society replenishes itself.
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Sarah is glad to lead a more settled lifestyle now and is following a teacher training course in Birmingham.
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In this venture, Clinton is following a course set by a number of his predecessors.
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Behind us, following our weaving course , the police car was closing in.
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Course Material: To allow maximum flexibility, all pupils follow the same basic course , though at different rates.
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But you know how every dream is apt to follow its own course .
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The process of forming a nation state did not, evidently, follow the same course everywhere.
offer
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The modules can be offered as free standing courses , or linked together or with other modules in integrated programmes.
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Among them are hundreds of university journalism professors who routinely offer courses in investigative reporting at their schools.
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In combination with other departments the Department of Electrical Engineering also offers joint-honours courses leading to the BEng degree.
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Experts said parents can ask schools to offer conflict resolution courses or peer mediation programs.
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Of the thirty polytechnics, all but seven now offer courses of initial or in-service teacher training, or both.
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Ciao Trattoria is offering a four-course menu.
provide
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Firstly, there is a deliberate effort made to provide courses that are vocationally relevant.
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Initially, Shearman provided lectures and courses within the originally planned twenty-mile radius of Bedford.
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Those with a professional approach have provided structured courses for church musicians lasting a year or more.
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They may provide non-academic as well as academic courses , but academic courses predominate.
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I enjoyed the courses with Charles Cliffe, and Roy Sutton and hope your efforts will provide future memorable courses.
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The Committee pronounced four members expelled for failure to provide information in the course of investigations.
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The ERCs provide short courses for men and women who need help in regaining their confidence and fitness for work.
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However, most adult education classes will include something on flower arranging and many colleges provide courses on floristry.
run
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Both craft businesses are run by professionals and courses are held on the premises.
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Du Camp waited for this one to run its course like a fever.
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Now, as the debilitating treatment runs its course , Vivian's intellectual skills no longer serve her.
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They run over cross-country courses and pay through the nose for it.
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A bitter national depression, born of the panic of 1893, was near to running its course .
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The Arundell Arms Hotel in Devon runs a variety of courses in wet and dry fly fishing for salmon and trout.
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In running the same course of action is likely to do little more than raise a few curious glances from fellow competitors.
stay
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The player's manager will have no objection to whatever it is that is guiding McCoist staying firmly on course this evening.
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Remember, most dieters fail to stay the course .
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Investors who stay the course would have none of this.
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Perhaps three out of ten who began Jesuit formation stayed the course .
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My son had stayed the course .
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Both sales and profits must climb if the company is to stay on course for success.
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Ya wan na defend yurself, ya stay the course .
steer
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Even so, it's safe for captains to steer their courses by them.
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Managers must steer a middle course between political correctness and political babble.
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The student must be left to steer his own course between this Scylla and Charybdis.
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It may come as a pleasant surprise that a few members of Congress are attempting to steer a drastically different course .
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I usually steer a middle course which avoids both waste and effort.
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But within this framework, each of the three high schools in the district was allowed to steer its own course .
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He steered a middle course between intimacy and aloofness which would have endeared him to the most demanding of guests.
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You can practise this skill by deliberately steering a bad variable course ad feel the pressure changing in the hands.
take
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Never mind nature taking its course , it sounds as though you're plotting to seduce him.
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With that in mind, the president may ultimately decide to let the appeals process take its normal course .
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Such is our conclusion if we passively let things take their course .
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Don't stick to this rigidly if the discussion takes a different course to the one you expected.
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Those who do not have high-school diplomas begin taking courses toward a general-equivalency diploma.
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Computational Physics students take a first-level course in Computer Science.
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The most basic way to learn to operate your computer is: A. Take a course at a community college.
teach
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We don't do teaching courses , although we have a team of experts who give advice.
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He taught courses in engineering and metallurgy.
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The staff teaching these courses should be qualified by appropriate experience and specialist academic study.
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Community college faculty teach courses at the high schools.
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Where will the staff to teach these courses come from?
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Smith never taught a course in economics; in fact, Smith never even took a course in economics.
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With his background in teaching and politics, Davis said he might turn to teaching a college course in practical politics.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as a matter of course/routine
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Voters expected as a matter of course that candidates would not keep all their promises.
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Blood samples should be taken to measure the client's electrolyte and urea levels as a matter of routine.
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By May first, I was able to walk from ten to twelve yards as a matter of routine.
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Enemy redoubts were strewn with booby traps as a matter of course.
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If they meet as a matter of course throughout the year they can review and plan on a regular basis.
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Search at the police station should not be undertaken as a matter of routine but only where justified under Lindley v. Rutter.
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Their general health is better and they do not suffer repeated or unwanted pregnancies as a matter of course.
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They are very learned about cooking in San Francisco-people seem to expect as a matter of course things which we consider luxurious.
be on a collision course
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Newspaper reports say that the two nations are on a collision course that could lead to war.
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It needed no great powers of prophecy to realize that Nigel and I were on a collision course.
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Nurses lodge 10 Nurses are on a collision course with the Government after lodging a claim for a ten percent pay rise.
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Suddenly I found that he and I were on a collision course, both in Atlas aircraft.
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The Croatan was on a collision course with the twenty-foot branch and its two passengers.
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Union leaders representing more than 8,000 white-collar staff gave warning of more stoppages and said the company was on a collision course.
be par for the course
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If you want to be a politician, a little criticism is par for the course.
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It rained all week, but I guess that's par for the course in Ireland.
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It seems in some of those countries that political torture and assassination are par for the course.
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Alesis reverb units are par for the course in home studios; and their 3630 should enjoy the same popularity.
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In my trade this is thought to be par for the course.
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So were my years of flying in and out of countries where political torture and assassination were par for the course.
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Such service companies want your agency's business and lavish lunches and gifts are par for the course.
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This was par for the course, they seemed to be saying.
follow a pattern/course/trend etc
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For troubled marriages, researcher Karen Kayser has found, follow a pattern.
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He followed a pattern set two years ago by former Sen.
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In this venture, Clinton is following a course set by a number of his predecessors.
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Lesson four: don't follow trends Like Buddhism and Epping Forest, the road to fitness has many paths.
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The results of these contradictions tend to follow a pattern.
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These sections naturally follow one from the other, and thus the organization of the headings in these two chapters follows patterns.
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This observation follows a pattern frequently encountered in research in this area.
horses for courses
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And Ballymoney college chiefs say it isn't a case of horses for courses.
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But it was a question of horses for courses.
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It does suggest horses for courses, men with the metal for matchplay golf.
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Rather, Mr Bush is choosing horses for courses.
in due course
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All the information obtained is being collated and will be published in the Journal in due course.
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Emap will immediately commence the search for a new Finance Director and will announce an appointment in due course.
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Further details will be sent out in due course but please lodge your interest early to help them plan the event.
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I look forward to hearing from you in due course.
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I look forward, therefore, to receiving your cheque for £1300 in due course.
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If the case became important, Holder figured, paperwork would cross his desk in due course.
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There he was in due course tried on indictment, convicted and sentenced for the offences.
in the normal course of events
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Your copies of the books will follow in the normal course of events and should be with you soon.
in-service training/courses etc
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A national in-service training programme will ensure that all teachers are fully qualified in the subject they are teaching.
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Both should receive official sanction and both require in-service training opportunities to acquire the necessary skills.
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If trainees are attending a regular in-service training course, individual viewing could be built into the syllabus.
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In some cases school finances are being pooled to fund in-service training, large expensive resources and joint activities for the children.
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Organizers of in-service training courses will also find them useful.
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Some apply for every in-service training course that is going.
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The potential contributions of the academic and in-service courses must be left for another occasion.
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The second one, which is two hours long, is designed for teachers, college lecturers and in-service training.
let nature take its course
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Just relax and let nature take its course.
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With a cold, it's better to just let nature take its course.
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I meant that, in the case of any other industry, we probably would have let nature take its course.
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I think we should let nature take its course.
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Should I just let nature take its course or stop it now?
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Stay calm and let nature take its course.
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The best is to obtain juveniles from a number of sources, rear them together and let nature take its course.
middle course/way etc
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But I can find no middle course.
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He steered a middle course between intimacy and aloofness which would have endeared him to the most demanding of guests.
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How wide is the floodplain of the River Wharfe in this middle course of the valley?
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I usually steer a middle course which avoids both waste and effort.
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In sum, the mixed economy is a middle way between the market and the command political economies.
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Managers must steer a middle course between political correctness and political babble.
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Pendulums move to extremes before they steady to the middle course, and so do journalistic trends.
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To help him resolve it, he brought in General Joseph McNarney, who eventually decided on a middle way.
of course not/course not
pervert the course of justice
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Another Leeds player, defender Michael Duberry, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
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Archer denies perjury, perverting the course of justice and using a false instrument.
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But tonight Crabb is starting a life sentence for murder and Taylor was given nine years for perverting the course of justice.
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It is claimed Metclafe inflicted grievous bodily harm to a man and then attempted to pervert the course of justice.
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Six officers were originally charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and the seventh with unlawful wounding.
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The friend, Ted Francis, denies perverting the course of justice.
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They are also accused of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
remedial course/class/teacher etc
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About one quarter of entering college students now take at least one remedial course.
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Middle-class children thus tend to fill the honors and advanced-placement classes while poor children take the general and remedial classes.
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Most of these students take remedial classes in all three fields.
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People were appointed to co-ordinate the work of remedial teachers in schools.
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Some run efficient remedial courses, which could surely be used for youngsters who had taken a broader sixth-form course.
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The Association has branches throughout the country that provide information and hold remedial classes.
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Their placement in a remedial course confirmed their suspicions.
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These students traverse course after remedial course, becoming increasingly turned off to writing, increasingly convinced that they are hopelessly inadequate.
residential course/school etc
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As a challenge the chief of the Poltava guberniia Department of Education offered him the directorship of this residential school for war-orphans.
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Casey is now in a residential school for children with emotional problems and / or learning disabilities.
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In fact I hear that several Outward Bound schools are offering fortnight-long residential courses on the safe removal of the fleecy top.
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The residential course will be a combination of talks, demonstrations and hands-on experience.
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The money raised will pay for two outdoor residential courses, organised for college students and Fairbridge.
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Therefore, the concerns raised do not apply necessarily or equally to all residential schools working with such children.
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They joined the six-day residential course after a careful selection process.
run its course
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Greenspan suggested the recession might run its course by midyear.
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Once the disease has run its course, it's not likely to return.
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But meiosis in eggs may take half a century to run its course.
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Her academic job had run its course.
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Indeed, the recent pickup in some measures of wages suggests that the transition may already be running its course.
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It is by no means clear that the process of financial innovation has run its course.
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Now, as the debilitating treatment runs its course, Vivian's intellectual skills no longer serve her.
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One useful source was the huge number of glossy magazines about money that had proliferated as the yuppy decade ran its course.
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That agency opted to let nature run its course.
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We would let his interest run its course.
stay the course
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Republicans are vowing to stay the course.
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Congratulations go to everyone who participated - they all stayed the course and helped to raise a staggering £2,180 for Cancer Research.
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Instead, the focus was always on staying the course, keeping at it and not quitting.
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Investors who stay the course would have none of this.
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My son had stayed the course.
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Perhaps three out of ten who began Jesuit formation stayed the course.
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Remember, most dieters fail to stay the course.
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Some lovers split after three days, some stay the course until they die.
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Ya wan na defend yurself, ya stay the course.
steer a course
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It is hard for doctors to steer a course between everyone's different requirements.
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It was not easy to steer a course between absolute pacifism and revolutionary violence.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a course in music journalism
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a cross-country ski course
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a five-course banquet
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All hunters applying for licenses are required to take a hunting safety course .
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Are you enjoying the course ?
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For the main course we had roast turkey with vegetables.
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I've decided to do a course in aromatherapy.
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Investigators say the plane was over 800 miles off course when it crashed.
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Scientists are monitoring the course of the measles epidemic throughout the state.
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She began a 12 week course on modern art.
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The course of the water was marked by a line of willow trees.
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The captain decided to change the ship's course to avoid the storm.
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The college is offering three basic computer courses this year.
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The council met last week to decide on a future course for peace.
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The plane had to change course to avoid the storm.
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The waiter brought the first course , a simple leek and potato soup.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Advanced courses afford the opportunity to study classical religious and anti-religious texts of influential philosophers from Plato to Sartre.
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After the course , I began taking more interest in how other departments were tackling quality assurance.
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And there are few opportunities for students to develop such ability before they enroll in those courses.
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It was more about learning from-and networking with-your fellow students than a straight forward taught course .
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It will be some years yet before the full uptake picture becomes available because the traditional courses are still being phased out.
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No clear, specific regulations for these adult education classes and courses existed before 1924.
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They are not linked to a particular course or to a particular method of study.
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Which is, of course , nonsense.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
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The tears which coursed down his cheeks were not for the head groom.
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Franca became aware that tears were coursing down her face.
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Pulses of energy coursed down the beam.
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She turned her head away, scalding tears coursing down her cheeks and on to the pillow which had absorbed her earlier grief.
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Water coursed down Simon's body as he stood, shaking with cold, on the beam.
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Cranston leaned suddenly against the wall, wiping away the sweat now coursing down his face.
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In the end we just stood holding each other close, as the tears coursed down our faces.
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She had kept out of sight, not wishing them to see the tears coursing down her face.
■ NOUN
cheek
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The tears which coursed down his cheeks were not for the head groom.
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She turned her head away, scalding tears coursing down her cheeks and on to the pillow which had absorbed her earlier grief.
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Shelley realised that tears were coursing down her cheeks , and that the cook was watching her.
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He could not stop the tears coursing down his cheeks .
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Once aware she fell silent, tears coursing down her cheeks .
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Jean couldn't take her eyes off the broken body, and felt the warm tears coursing down her cheeks .
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Tears coursed down her cheeks and she ran blindly down the wild jungle of the grounds parallel to the thicket.
face
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Franca became aware that tears were coursing down her face .
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I crouched, holding my bruised temple and cursing the arrow of pain which coursed through my face .
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Cranston leaned suddenly against the wall, wiping away the sweat now coursing down his face .
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In the end we just stood holding each other close, as the tears coursed down our faces .
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She had kept out of sight, not wishing them to see the tears coursing down her face .
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Tears coursed down her face , but he did not know.
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Ma Katz coughed and spluttered, yellow tears coursing down her face .
tear
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The tears which coursed down his cheeks were not for the head groom.
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Franca became aware that tears were coursing down her face.
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She turned her head away, scalding tears coursing down her cheeks and on to the pillow which had absorbed her earlier grief.
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He stood quite still, shoulders shaking, tears coursing along the freckles.
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In the end we just stood holding each other close, as the tears coursed down our faces.
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She had kept out of sight, not wishing them to see the tears coursing down her face.
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Shelley realised that tears were coursing down her cheeks, and that the cook was watching her.
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He could not stop the tears coursing down his cheeks.
vein
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We can feel the blood coursing through our veins again.
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He could feel his strength returning; could feel the brandy coursing through his veins , filling him with a warm glow.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as a matter of course/routine
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Voters expected as a matter of course that candidates would not keep all their promises.
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Blood samples should be taken to measure the client's electrolyte and urea levels as a matter of routine.
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By May first, I was able to walk from ten to twelve yards as a matter of routine.
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Enemy redoubts were strewn with booby traps as a matter of course.
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If they meet as a matter of course throughout the year they can review and plan on a regular basis.
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Search at the police station should not be undertaken as a matter of routine but only where justified under Lindley v. Rutter.
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Their general health is better and they do not suffer repeated or unwanted pregnancies as a matter of course.
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They are very learned about cooking in San Francisco-people seem to expect as a matter of course things which we consider luxurious.
be on a collision course
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Newspaper reports say that the two nations are on a collision course that could lead to war.
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It needed no great powers of prophecy to realize that Nigel and I were on a collision course.
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Nurses lodge 10 Nurses are on a collision course with the Government after lodging a claim for a ten percent pay rise.
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Suddenly I found that he and I were on a collision course, both in Atlas aircraft.
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The Croatan was on a collision course with the twenty-foot branch and its two passengers.
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Union leaders representing more than 8,000 white-collar staff gave warning of more stoppages and said the company was on a collision course.
be par for the course
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If you want to be a politician, a little criticism is par for the course.
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It rained all week, but I guess that's par for the course in Ireland.
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It seems in some of those countries that political torture and assassination are par for the course.
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Alesis reverb units are par for the course in home studios; and their 3630 should enjoy the same popularity.
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In my trade this is thought to be par for the course.
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So were my years of flying in and out of countries where political torture and assassination were par for the course.
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Such service companies want your agency's business and lavish lunches and gifts are par for the course.
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This was par for the course, they seemed to be saying.
horses for courses
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And Ballymoney college chiefs say it isn't a case of horses for courses.
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But it was a question of horses for courses.
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It does suggest horses for courses, men with the metal for matchplay golf.
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Rather, Mr Bush is choosing horses for courses.
in due course
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All the information obtained is being collated and will be published in the Journal in due course.
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Emap will immediately commence the search for a new Finance Director and will announce an appointment in due course.
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Further details will be sent out in due course but please lodge your interest early to help them plan the event.
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I look forward to hearing from you in due course.
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I look forward, therefore, to receiving your cheque for £1300 in due course.
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If the case became important, Holder figured, paperwork would cross his desk in due course.
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There he was in due course tried on indictment, convicted and sentenced for the offences.
in the normal course of events
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Your copies of the books will follow in the normal course of events and should be with you soon.
in-service training/courses etc
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A national in-service training programme will ensure that all teachers are fully qualified in the subject they are teaching.
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Both should receive official sanction and both require in-service training opportunities to acquire the necessary skills.
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If trainees are attending a regular in-service training course, individual viewing could be built into the syllabus.
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In some cases school finances are being pooled to fund in-service training, large expensive resources and joint activities for the children.
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Organizers of in-service training courses will also find them useful.
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Some apply for every in-service training course that is going.
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The potential contributions of the academic and in-service courses must be left for another occasion.
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The second one, which is two hours long, is designed for teachers, college lecturers and in-service training.
let nature take its course
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Just relax and let nature take its course.
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With a cold, it's better to just let nature take its course.
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I meant that, in the case of any other industry, we probably would have let nature take its course.
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I think we should let nature take its course.
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Should I just let nature take its course or stop it now?
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Stay calm and let nature take its course.
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The best is to obtain juveniles from a number of sources, rear them together and let nature take its course.
middle course/way etc
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But I can find no middle course.
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He steered a middle course between intimacy and aloofness which would have endeared him to the most demanding of guests.
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How wide is the floodplain of the River Wharfe in this middle course of the valley?
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I usually steer a middle course which avoids both waste and effort.
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In sum, the mixed economy is a middle way between the market and the command political economies.
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Managers must steer a middle course between political correctness and political babble.
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Pendulums move to extremes before they steady to the middle course, and so do journalistic trends.
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To help him resolve it, he brought in General Joseph McNarney, who eventually decided on a middle way.
of course not/course not
remedial course/class/teacher etc
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About one quarter of entering college students now take at least one remedial course.
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Middle-class children thus tend to fill the honors and advanced-placement classes while poor children take the general and remedial classes.
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Most of these students take remedial classes in all three fields.
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People were appointed to co-ordinate the work of remedial teachers in schools.
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Some run efficient remedial courses, which could surely be used for youngsters who had taken a broader sixth-form course.
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The Association has branches throughout the country that provide information and hold remedial classes.
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Their placement in a remedial course confirmed their suspicions.
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These students traverse course after remedial course, becoming increasingly turned off to writing, increasingly convinced that they are hopelessly inadequate.
residential course/school etc
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As a challenge the chief of the Poltava guberniia Department of Education offered him the directorship of this residential school for war-orphans.
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Casey is now in a residential school for children with emotional problems and / or learning disabilities.
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In fact I hear that several Outward Bound schools are offering fortnight-long residential courses on the safe removal of the fleecy top.
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The residential course will be a combination of talks, demonstrations and hands-on experience.
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The money raised will pay for two outdoor residential courses, organised for college students and Fairbridge.
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Therefore, the concerns raised do not apply necessarily or equally to all residential schools working with such children.
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They joined the six-day residential course after a careful selection process.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The storm system coursed through Georgia and Alabama.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Franca became aware that tears were coursing down her face.
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He stood quite still, shoulders shaking, tears coursing along the freckles.
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Pulses of energy coursed down the beam.
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Water coursed down Simon's body as he stood, shaking with cold, on the beam.