noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cheerful
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Her cheerful disposition , sympathy, and tact made her popular.
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A cheerful and supportive disposition is what you are being assessed for.
nervous
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She was of a nervous disposition , Miss Kilspindie.
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And any such aberration includes a nervous disposition toward children.
sunny
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It makes a fine coupling for the E flat Quartet, being of a comparably sunny disposition .
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Makes for strong bones and a sunny disposition .
■ VERB
make
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I had been overwhelmed with duties as head of the government, and had made no dispositions for the emergency which occurred.
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They determine whether to sentence him to prison, confine him in a psychiatric facility or make some other appropriate disposition .
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It too had plenty of time to make its dispositions .
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Thus he had already started to make dispositions for the future.
show
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Never did she show any disposition to leave my chapel, where her repose was respected.
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I c shows the disposition of wastes managed by commercial facilities in other states.
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Id shows the disposition of wastes managed on-site.
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Figure I 5. 1 b shows the disposition of wastes treated by commercial facilities within Ohio.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But such rectitude could only come when the inner disposition was right.
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But Thieu Tri had chosen him as heir because of his mild disposition , and visitors to his court confirmed his moderation.
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Her cheerful disposition , sympathy, and tact made her popular.
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It also works to create a disposition of self-confidence and thus to keep gates open to new possibilities.
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Once the private car and Tokimo were put solely at the disposition of Amy, Amelia, and Muriel.
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The precise disposition , organisation and arrangement of these two discourses constitutes the basic fabric of Nizan's fictional technique.
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This is not a film for those in search of easy entertainment or simple dispositions of good and evil.
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This sense of order is a given, fundamental, rather than negotiated, disposition .