adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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And this can be as destructive to enjoyment and adventure as inflated claims or solemn incantations.
environmentally
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Although it is good to see the end of environmentally destructive quarrying, the landscaping seems a little excessive.
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But more competitive does not necessarily mean more environmentally destructive farming.
more
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The effect, enhanced in buildings and enclosed spaces, can be up to 16 times more destructive than conventional high explosives.
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They should be seen for what they are: symptoms of a larger and much more destructive phenomenon.&038;.
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Surely there could not have been a more destructive fire than Calvary; but more was to come.
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Nothing is more destructive to a partnership than for one partner to feel that he or she is being taken advantage of.
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Slanging matches rarely achieve anything positive, and other anger responses can be even more destructive .
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Could this be a prelude to a trade war even more destructive of world prosperity than a military war?
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It was far worse, more insidious, more destructive .
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Mr Brown said he really couldn't wish for a more destructive class.
most
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Arguably it was the last point that has proved most destructive of the international effort.
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The most unfortunate, the most destructive , and oftentimes the most stubbornly-fought conflicts are those of an intra-provincial or civil character.
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Sugar was one of the most destructive elements of the new diet.
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But it was the Chickasaw, commanded by George H.. Perkins, that fired the most destructive shots.
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The most destructive thing to do is to take complicated swing theory or swing movements on to the golf course.
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This emphasizes also his primitive appeal to fire as the most destructive force.
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Of all the reversals, though, the most destructive in the long run was the about-face of the Communist world.
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It was the most destructive that had been fought during the war, considering the length of time the engagement lasted.
potentially
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It is also a potentially destructive one.
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Competence addressed without concern for its potentially destructive possibilities is hardly preferable to a benign ineptitude.
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The interior, too, contains elements which are potentially destructive .
so
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Club members oppose electoral slates as these proved so destructive of the Tribune Group and Campaign Group.
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Why can't you do that, instead of being so ... so destructive .
very
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Like most of the true crabs they can be very destructive in the reef tank.
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Kim was also very destructive of any property not her own.
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Ballantyne's boys simply stare while one of Golding's boys is not appreciative and very destructive towards the tree.
■ NOUN
behaviour
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Teenagers often make inappropriate responses to conflicts such as aggression, withdrawing, sulking, tantrums or destructive behaviour .
force
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All that destructive force - and all of it directed towards her.
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The Titans introduced into the world of man the disruptive and destructive force of strife and killing.
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Conflicting views' Of course arable land in some places is going out of cultivation because of erosion and other destructive forces .
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This emphasizes also his primitive appeal to fire as the most destructive force .
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Fanning the flames of hatred on the street, on television or in the so-called intellectual press feeds destructive forces .
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This avenging boar, the agent of the insulted goddess, is henceforth identified with the destructive forces that produce tragedy.
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In addition they help conserve the existing soil structure by protecting the surface from the destructive force of winter rain.
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Civil wars were not the only destructive forces in the Merovingian kingdoms.
forces
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Conflicting views' Of course arable land in some places is going out of cultivation because of erosion and other destructive forces .
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Fanning the flames of hatred on the street, on television or in the so-called intellectual press feeds destructive forces .
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This avenging boar, the agent of the insulted goddess, is henceforth identified with the destructive forces that produce tragedy.
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Civil wars were not the only destructive forces in the Merovingian kingdoms.
power
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If multiple warheads are deployed, the different blast waves reinforce each other, increasing their destructive power .
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Their destructive power was enough to upset the whole economy of a strong and healthy country.
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But, given the destructive power of modern weapons, they did not believe that civilization could be protected by war.
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In later poems she is usually shown as treacherous and malicious, exerting a deadly and destructive power over men.
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It was seen as having both healing and destructive power .
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The neo-Confucians, by contrast, limited the scope of human destructive power to humanity itself.
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Her destructive powers are even greater than Ewan's!
process
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And now, on with the considerably more destructive process of deleting applications from Windows.
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The result is a gripping sense of guilt which locks victims into an even more destructive process of self-blaming.
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The problem solver pushes into the unknown intermediate region, alternatively employing constructive and destructive processes .
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This doesn't mean, I hasten to insist, that natural selection is a purely destructive process .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Alcoholics often tend to have stormy and destructive relationships.
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Jealousy is a very destructive emotion.
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Residents were awed by the earthquake's destructive force.
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The destructive side-effects of pesticides are now well known.
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The border war has been wasteful and destructive .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Cizek's method of criticism is constructive, never destructive .
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Clearly, people choose to act selfishly and in destructive ways despite the pain their actions will bring to others.
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It is impossibly complex, outrageously expensive, overly intrusive, economically destructive and manifestly unfair.
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It is the hiding that is destructive , not the pain.
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The potential for a destructive arms race is ever present.
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This is unfortunate, for such marriages are destructive to both partners.
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We ran up to the firing range one morning to try out our destructive techniques for real.
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Yet another effort to save the banks from the destructive effects of this river.