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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
concept
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Both professions are concerned with the application to commercial life of rules that often embody generalised concepts .
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Charter schools embody concepts all public schools should have in the future.
form
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It follows that with extended reproduction a part of the surplus-value is embodied in the physical form of means of production.
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What does it mean to activate an algorithm, or to embody it in physical form ?
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The left asserts that far from helping the poor it props up capitalism and embodies unacceptable forms of social control.
idea
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The name that embodied the old idea comes to seem as if it no longer named anything.
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It is above all the school which is felt to embody the idea of the village as something alive and enduring.
kind
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No philosopher has done more to disown the idea that his writings embody some kind of masterly or authoritative wisdom.
principle
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It does however embody an important principle that a working operation, nomatterhow good, can not be absolutely clean.
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However, both the statutory construction of the company and the Caparo judgment embody a principle which should endure.
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The same is not true of the following feature of the model, which embodies a fundamental principle of biology.
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Remember that the contract you draw up must embody the principles of mutual caring.
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The following notes embody these principles and guide you through the pros and cons of the different troops.
spirit
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In fact it may be growing, as he comes to be seen as embodying the spirit of a proud nation.
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It is like they embody the spirit of adventure, that sense of infinite newness.
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He embodies the spirit of the age.
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Through either grace or happenstance, the architecture of the 140-year-old building embodies the spirit of the contemporary parish.
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Although hurriedly completed for the presentation, it was felt that it embodies the Jaguar spirit better than any of the others.
system
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That system was embodied in their structure.
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In no country are all the important laws that shape the system of government embodied in a constitutional document.
value
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Indeed it is hardly too much to speak of jade and gold as embodying distinct standards of value .
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Army bases compete for $ 10 million in prizes each year, based on how well they embody that value .
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While two innovations embodying quite different educational values attempt to coexist it is unlikely that both will be successful.
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Schools, he argues emphasise and embody middle-class values .
■ VERB
seem
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He seemed to embody in his person the entire history of the sport: he symbolized the Hawaiian spirit.
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It no longer represents the supreme moral and intellectual value that it seemed to embody in the eighteenth century.
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It seemed to embody a deep dislike, and she found that wounding.
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Quiet men with graceful manners were the ideal of her generation, and he seemed to embody it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Mrs. Miller embodies everything I admire in a teacher.
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The limits on nuclear weapons are embodied in two treaties from the 1970s.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gaia embodies the archaic Earth, from its earliest moments, through the times of the hunter-gatherers.
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His centrist, compromising instincts, embodied in the New Democrat covenant, alienated core constituencies while failing to impress opponents.
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In many ways, the poll tax embodies the attitude which dismisses our interdependence, and therefore our obligations towards each other.
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Or it may be that these animals somehow embody that peculiar quality of untamed wildness that readers admire and appreciate.
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The central dilemma of the war was embodied in these considerations.
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They are defined principally by what they embody on an imaginative level.
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We have embodied the highest possible standards in our ethical codes.