adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
eminently qualified
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He is eminently qualified for the role.
very/highly/eminently readable
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The book is informative and highly readable.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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readable
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Sir Ian provides an eminently readable and always scholarly account of these very diverse matters.
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Rather, it serves as an eminently readable reference book for those considering a life in food biz.
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This, combined with the richness of the data, makes the material eminently readable even for the non-researcher.
reasonable
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These suppositions may strike those of us who are attracted by empiricism as eminently reasonable .
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The letter was long and well thought out, and her request was eminently reasonable .
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It is eminently reasonable for an individual to choose the treatment that is likely to generate the most QALYs.
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It is sponsored by the old-line Protestant denominations, the eminently reasonable Congregationalists and Presbyterians and such.
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At a glance this seems eminently reasonable - not least if it protects us from Family videos.
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This was an eminently reasonable arrangement and nobody could possibly object.
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This is eminently reasonable as effective action by big waves must extend above the level of the highest tide.
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This eminently reasonable development cut their sales by half.
sensible
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This seems to me to be an eminently sensible arrangement, and I think this sort of structure could also work here.
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The idea of putting large numbers of people to sleep struck me at first as being eminently sensible .
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Some at least of the leading Romans felt and behaved in a way which seemed to him perfectly understandable and eminently sensible .
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This seems eminently sensible , and indeed studies indicate that this approach can work best for some people.
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Some of the reforms are eminently sensible and have been introduced.
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I agreed with her and thought that her comments were eminently sensible .
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At face value, decentralisation of services into communities seems eminently sensible , and reference centres have been effective in some countries.
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This is a further, but eminently sensible , erosion of the principle of orality.
suitable
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Indeed, the reasonably quick and informal procedure of industrial tribunals is eminently suitable for most cases.
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He thought I would be eminently suitable as a wife.
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He remembered a certain dark-haired servant, one who had seemed eminently suitable for several weeks.
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Venus could not object to a goddess for her daughter-in-law; the alliance had become eminently suitable .
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The dish was also eminently suitable for service in a restaurant, good to look at and practical to assemble.
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Experiments over the centuries resulted in the predominance of the Cheviot breed with a fleece eminently suitable for finer grades of cloth.
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It is a doctrine eminently suitable for a nation overwhelmingly populated by sheep.
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The cavern was eminently suitable for the work intended for it.
■ VERB
seem
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He remembered a certain dark-haired servant, one who had seemed eminently suitable for several weeks.
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At a glance this seems eminently reasonable - not least if it protects us from Family videos.
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This seems eminently sensible, and indeed studies indicate that this approach can work best for some people.
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Dolly at least is alive and well and her first lamb, Bonnie, seems eminently healthy and normal.
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This seems eminently human, if for no other reason than that people fall in love and want to trust each other.
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At face value, decentralisation of services into communities seems eminently sensible, and reference centres have been effective in some countries.
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We had a story to tell, and the story seemed eminently worth the telling.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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From the flute is eminently suited to quiet melodic work, florid or otherwise.
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In its usage of the real or referent as signifier, surrealism eminently illustrated de-differentiated signification.
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There was just something eminently likeable about him.
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There were no eulogies, only mourners eminently qualified to have given them.
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These suppositions may strike those of us who are attracted by empiricism as eminently reasonable.
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This seems eminently human, if for no other reason than that people fall in love and want to trust each other.
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This seems eminently sensible, and indeed studies indicate that this approach can work best for some people.