verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
enhance sb’s reputation (= make it better )
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The performance enhanced his reputation as one of our most promising young actors.
enhance...prestige
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The king wanted to enhance his prestige through war.
improve/enhance the appearance of sth/sb
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Fresh air improves the appearance of the skin.
improve/enhance the flavour
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You can enhance the flavour by adding some cream.
improve/enhance the quality
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The measures will improve the quality of the water in the river.
increase/improve/enhance sb’s understanding
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The classes really helped to increase our understanding of the subject.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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also
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The company will also enhance its Nomadic Computing Environment and develop multimedia applications for the SPARCbook.
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In addition, cable telephone technology might also enhance local infrastructure in some countries.
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Buses could more effectively operate them when integrated with the rest of the bus network, which would also enhance its profitability.
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Music also enhances your ability to think and solve problems.
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They may also enhance endorphin release.
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The use of pantomime also enhances the sentimental force of the play.
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It may also enhance our understanding of contemporary legal institutions and practices.
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It also enhanced the national rivalries that would eventually touch off the First World War.
further
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We've further enhanced speed by adding 32K of CompuAdd engineered cache memory.
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The Secretary General is requested to make a study on how participation of NGOs can be further enhanced .
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Any biological data that are available must therefore further enhance our understanding.
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The sanctuary was further enhanced by a mysterious and delightful flower-like odor which proceeded from the coffin.
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If Cadbury buys Orangina, as appears likely, its position will be further enhanced .
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We will further enhance its role as an instrument for the integration of these States in resolving security problems.
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The market is further enhanced by live performers who act out the varied timeless arts.
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The pleasure of this story was further enhanced by an incident that took place a few weeks later.
greatly
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The tune is in the key of E and the whole package is greatly enhanced by Cliff's innovative guitar playing.
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This in itself greatly enhances their knowledge and understanding.
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Colour is another important point to consider with fine hair, because it can greatly enhance its appearance.
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Informal as it was, this feedback greatly enhanced the managers' ability to learn from experience.
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This greatly enhances their life when using standard chargers.
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Salads with mixed greens and top quality olive oil or walnut oil can also be greatly enhanced by confit.
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With a little imagination the quality and interest value of videos can be enhanced greatly .
only
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This attention to detail only enhances the beauty and warmth of the voice itself, the ideal instrument for the part.
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Now the grand structure can only enhance property values.
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Glitz, glamour and gloss can not replace substance, they can only enhance it.
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The follow-up only enhances an already compelling program.
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But medical advance not only enhances clinical capability, it carries with it profound ethical, legal, social and economic implications.
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Such stunts, so typical of Ellet, not only enhanced his own reputation but also focused public attention on his project.
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And if the Debut looks stylish too, it can only enhance the look of your kitchen.
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However, it was once again observed that risk only enhances recognition performance in certain situations.
significantly
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Over the years they have significantly enhanced the quality of the education and the facilities available to our students.
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Unix International says Application Linking capabilities will significantly enhance the attractiveness of Unix-based applications in general-use environments.
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ability
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Such a mechanism could enhance our national ability to compete with other world class research communities.
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Informal as it was, this feedback greatly enhanced the managers' ability to learn from experience.
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Finally, appraisal procedures must be established which monitor and enhance the individual's ability to work to maximum effectiveness.
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This model was an F7 that had been modified to give it greater lifting power and enhanced load-carrying ability .
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Indeed, the use of electronic documentation systems should enhance a organisation's ability to maintain full and accurate records.
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Music also enhances your ability to think and solve problems.
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Education may enhance the ability to produce justifications, rather than eliminate racism toutcourt.
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Such capacity is expected to greatly enhance the ability of researchers to perform complex analyses using remote resources.
activity
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This apparent role of the cholinergic system in enhancing synaptic activity seems to be mediated by the phosphoinositide system.
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They further suggest that we are presently living in a time of enhanced cratering activity .
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After the programme, those enrolled showed enhanced brain activity while reading.
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Sponsorship and additional funding will be sought, to enhance company activities .
appearance
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Colour is another important point to consider with fine hair, because it can greatly enhance its appearance .
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Clever use of make-up can greatly enhance your appearance and leading make-up artist Teresa Fairminer will give you expert advice.
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Women have an even broader latitude for enhancing their appearance .
capability
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But medical advance not only enhances clinical capability , it carries with it profound ethical, legal, social and economic implications.
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Scanning technology would enhance their capability even further, allowing transfer of physical pictures.
chance
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To enhance our chances of making such discoveries many of us use maps of one kind or another.
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By restricting yourself to seven or less you will enhance your chances of making the report effective.
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What particular objectives do you need to achieve to add value to projects and enhance your own chances for progression?
development
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Performance management: providing the means to enhance competency and stimulate development in order to achieve organisational objectives. 4.
effect
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Sometimes natural oils are used to enhance the overall effect on the nervous and muscular system.
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Ones that enhance the serotonin effects are often helpful in chronic pain disorders.
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Some of the blue will show through but this enhances the effect .
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But a small extra quantity of water could enhance the greenhouse effect to the point where present conditions would result.
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Trail more bandages over the sarcophagus to enhance the effect .
effectiveness
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Our aim is to ensure that we become more efficient and enhance the effectiveness of our sharp end research.
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Drugs that enhance the effectiveness of norepinephrine and serotonin are commonly used as antidepressants.
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He may have wanted to enhance the League's effectiveness .
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Careful timing and choice of chemical can greatly enhance the effectiveness of a natural enemy.
environment
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Rentokil Tropical Plants add prestige and enhance the work environment .
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The skilled teacher who welcomes and values the child's contribution can do much to enhance the learning environment .
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The company will also enhance its Nomadic Computing Environment and develop multimedia applications for the SPARCbook.
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All of this stresses the need to ensure that future development must enhance rather than damage the environment .
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An equally important aim is to ensure that the planning system continues to protect and enhance the environment .
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Tailor-made to your personal specifications to enhance every environment - from private study to entire office suite.
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To protect and enhance the environment .
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Its mandate would include technology transfers and the encouragement of investment in projects which would enhance or safeguard the environment .
experience
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Of course, there are times when a greater sense of control does more than simply enhance the driving experience .
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But in disaster might come opportunity to enhance the Yosemite experience for the millions of annual visitors, says Griffin.
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Setting the Scene A calm, comfortable setting will enhance the experience of aromatherapy massage.
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Performance artist Mat Bevel enhances the intimate experience with his sculptural creations and interpretive lighting.
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They enhance the Web experience by letting you interact better with your virtual surroundings.
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We are always looking for ways to add convenience and enhance the banking experience for our customers.
image
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However, good practices established by the Commissioner can only help to enhance her image within the trade union movement.
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Such a move could enhance the UMass image in academia much as its basketball team has done in the sports arena.
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Pizazz Plus is a software package with screen capture and file conversion utilities that will allow you to enhance your printed images .
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Woods, meanwhile, used some of the donated funds to enhance his image among national colleagues.
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The handling of the threshold applications has done little to enhance the image of teaching.
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But one small group enhanced those images electronically, studied them avidly, and painstakingly identified each of the perpetrators.
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Attractively presented product information is also a good public relations vehicle, enhancing the image of the store in a general sense.
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Retouching a means of altering artwork or colour separations to correct faults or enhance the image .
life
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Generally they must save or enhance lives and offer an advance on current therapy.
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We are grateful for all these contributions which have substantially enhanced the quality of life of the residents at Sussexdown.
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Old buildings and streets, well cared for and adapted to today's needs, vastly enhance the quality of life .
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This greatly enhances their life when using standard chargers.
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With adequate resourcing and well designed support systems, relocation can enhance lives .
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Food is there to keep you healthy and to enhance your enjoyment of life .
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We believe that the funds generated by a National Lottery should be used to enhance the life of our nation.
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First, there are services to enhance the quality of life of children living at home with their families.
opportunity
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In all its acquisitions, Guinness has sought business opportunities that have enhanced and strengthened its core activities.
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But in disaster might come opportunity to enhance the Yosemite experience for the millions of annual visitors, says Griffin.
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The opportunity to enhance income through night visits may soften less agreeable effects of practice with the contract.
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The opportunity has been enhanced by recent farm reforms.
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There are many opportunities to learn or enhance computing skills.
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The education authority is of course responsible for promoting equality of opportunity and ensuring that its equal opportunities policies are enhanced through Compact.
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Graduates are active both in creating innovative opportunities to enhance further agricultural efficiency and in applying scientific findings to production practice.
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There would also be an opportunity to enhance the Square.
performance
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But how can we best explain the widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs in cycling?
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Raducan's positive testing evidently came as a result of having taken a cold medicine, not a performance-enhancing stimulant.
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Appraisal is thus a process of negotiating individual targets in order to improve personal performance and so enhance the quality of educational provision.
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Query performance is enhanced by support of query input-output parallelism.
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One such area concerns the relationship between the development of sports medicine and the development and use of performance-enhancing drugs.
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The use of performance-enhancing substances within the sporting context is, then, a very longstanding phenomenon.
position
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With the conference at last on the calendar, the various countries began preparatory activities to enhance their bargaining positions .
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Economically, militarily and culturally, Washington rules the planet, and it seeks to enhance that position in the new century.
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The princes needed to support the dominant imperial candidate to maintain and enhance their positions .
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The store manager appeared to possess a certain charisma which enhanced his position as a manager of others.
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The Armagnacs thus lost the foundations of a potential power-base in Provence, but had greatly enhanced their position in the south-west.
power
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Critics of the democratizing vision of the corporation contended that specialized technical knowledge would substantially enhance the power of management.
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The population trend, observers said, enhances the power of states that are becoming more Republican.
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And we want to enhance their democratic power too.
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As pressure on prices has increased, pharmacies have sought to enhance their buying power and reduce overhead expenses by growing larger.
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In many of them assertive political leaders are trying to enhance their power .
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But the great monarchs of the sixteenth century knew very well how to use that adulation to enhance their power .
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The resident intellectual speaks an arcane language designed to enhance his own power .
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They fear that ministers intend to downgrade their economic role and enhance the powers of local enterprise companies.
prestige
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The victory at Sluys enhanced Edward's military prestige , but he was unable to follow it up.
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Law professor Derek Bell has even argued that black intellectuals disavow militants in order to enhance their prestige with whites.
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The sums that will pass through them ought surely to enhance their prestige , and at a symbolic time.
product
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In this way we can enhance our gross national product for the benefit of all.
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Most are employed simply to enhance product appeal: colour, smell, texture or flavour.
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This would enhance efficiency and slow product proliferation.
quality
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It is these processes which provide the principles for staff management and enhance the quality of working relationships within the organisation.
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The palace enhances this quality through its long flat courtyard, which leads us directly to the rising horns.
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He has some electronic equipment originally intended for the language laboratory, which enhances the sound quality .
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Reengineering is the systematic work-redesign process that helps organizations make similar savings in time and money, while enhancing quality .
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Over the years they have significantly enhanced the quality of the education and the facilities available to our students.
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Appraisal is thus a process of negotiating individual targets in order to improve personal performance and so enhance the quality of educational provision.
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Pupils are given the opportunity to use technology in a creative way and enhance the quality of their own learning.
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We are grateful for all these contributions which have substantially enhanced the quality of life of the residents at Sussexdown.
relationship
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But all couples can enhance their own relationships , making their marriages so solid that infidelity is unlikely to occur.
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The family dynamics of the characters are subtly enhanced by the real-life relationship of the actors.
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This level of communication can not do much to enhance a relationship because it is too noncommittal.
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These children not only feel nurtured through play; they also learn social skills that will enhance their relationships with peers.
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Through play, counselors enhance their relationship with the student and provide another opportunity for children to express themselves.
reputation
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A well handled complaint can enhance the supplier's reputation .
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The excuse that enhances rather than harms reputation .
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It certainly helped to enhance the reputation of our province at this level.
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Such stunts, so typical of Ellet, not only enhanced his own reputation but also focused public attention on his project.
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Zahedi enhanced this reputation and London society had a taste of the party giving that was to hit Washington ten years later.
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When you help colleagues to produce more, you enhance your own reputation .
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It is an uncontrolled shot and one which will definitely not enhance your reputation in the clubhouse!
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Throughout most of those countries the universal view is that Britain should do more to enhance its reputation through the fund.
role
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All of them continue to enhance the role of the church musician by their devotion and perseverance.
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We will further enhance its role as an instrument for the integration of these States in resolving security problems.
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Even so, the emphasis was on enhancing the federal role in urban affairs.
security
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Investment in the military by a state enhances its security only at the expense of its neighbours.
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A top priority: enhanced security .
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Whether any intelligence does much good or actually enhances a country's security is doubtful.
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Does it enhance or threaten our security or is it of no consequence to us?
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If it enhances our security we feel things like joy and peace.
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At that meeting both Governments reaffirmed their determination to work together to enhance security co-operation in every way possible.
service
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All resources would be pooled which would greatly enhance the services which could be offered to members of the new society.
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Verio also offers selected enhanced services such as Web hosting, electronic commerce and virtual private networks.
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Five regionally based personnel manager posts were created to enhance the personnel service offered to the retail division.
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But now, with customers expecting more, creating a seamless roaming environment and providing enhanced services will be the key.
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Approximately 53 % of total revenues were attributable to Web hosting and other enhanced services .
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Verio will also provide customers with a comprehensive range of productivity-enhancing managed services needed to run their online business effectively.
skill
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Opinions are sought at all levels and team-work training enhances management skills and customer service.
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An ecology of machines, on the other hand, enhances the limited skills of dumb machines.
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Most of all, by writing poetry and seeking to enhance his skills at it.
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This model was intended to enhance the practical skills and productivity of predominantly rural populations.
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There are many opportunities to learn or enhance computing skills .
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It was a kitchen to challenge rather than enhance the skills of any cook ambitious beyond the boiling of eggs.
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This allows individuals to enhance either their core skills , or their occupational specialisms.
status
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All seek to enhance their status at the cost of their rivals.
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Many people struggle for promotion in order to enhance their status within organisations.
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The workers' rights we believe in are those which enhance individuals' status and opportunities.
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The move from students to customers may appear to enhance their status within the system.
use
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It is generally assumed that the use of and will enhance plural reference in this example.
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The use of pantomime also enhances the sentimental force of the play.
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But how can we best explain the widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs in cycling?
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This low sensitivity rate has encouraged the use of instruments to enhance cell exfoliation.
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How successful has that policy been in terms of controlling the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport?
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One such area concerns the relationship between the development of sports medicine and the development and use of performance-enhancing drugs.
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He said: We have solid information that the use of drugs to enhance performance is really an epidemic.
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Should the governing bodies of sport be considering alternative approaches to the problems associated with the use of performance-enhancing drugs?
value
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An introduction explaining the nature and scope of the indexing language will enhance its value . 6.
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Now the grand structure can only enhance property values .
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Throughout the year, the Group continued to invest in maintaining and enhancing the value of its tree existing core brands.
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This would enhance the value of the property.
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As more and more information is gathered and the idea is further enhanced , its value to the organization becomes more apparent.
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Such provisions would go a considerable way toward protecting caretakers and thereby enhancing the value of caretaking in our society.
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Some additional topics, a degree of reorganisation and a tighter mode of exposition enhance the value of this excellent book.
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If you are enhancing customer value , then you will see it.
way
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They argue for ways to enhance health care that the Government can barely touch.
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Even with the occasional gaffe, marketers say placing products in movies is an increasingly important way to enhance exposure.
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He mentioned the need to bring out the practical application of subjects, in ways which would enhance rather than displace theoretical understanding.
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Surely this is not the way to protect and enhance communities.
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That's the promise of Contrasts High and Low lighting kits - the easy way to enhance your natural hair colour.
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Their dedication to the cause was in no way diminished by their exile, and in many ways was enhanced by it.
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The brunette was strikingly attractive in a way that was dramatically enhanced by make-up and clothes.
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In truth, the most impressive thing about this performance car is the way it enhances the performance of its driver.
ways
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They argue for ways to enhance health care that the Government can barely touch.
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He mentioned the need to bring out the practical application of subjects, in ways which would enhance rather than displace theoretical understanding.
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Their dedication to the cause was in no way diminished by their exile, and in many ways was enhanced by it.
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In addition, some prey behave in ways that enhance their conspicuousness once they have been spotted.
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Through the ages women have explored various ways of enhancing their bosoms.
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design
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It has made an environment assessment, and its proposals are designed to enhance the environmental interest of the area.
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The ethnological work construct is designed to enhance the utility of the mode of production notion.
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The Act is designed to conserve and enhance the land and prevent undesirable uses or developments.
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The resident intellectual speaks an arcane language designed to enhance his own power.
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The resource is designed to enhance children's creative and thinking skills.
help
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They certainly help to enhance a perspective that sees Faustus as a pawn between two more powerful forces.
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Soundwise, Acclaim brought in a big name to help enhance the game.
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However, good practices established by the Commissioner can only help to enhance her image within the trade union movement.
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The chancellor, meanwhile, directed unmatched fund-raising and helped enhance the graduate studies' program.
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It certainly helped to enhance the reputation of our province at this level.
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President Peter Quinn today welcomed the sponsorship package and expressed the hope that it will help to enhance the leagues.
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And if your car is fitted with a catalytic converter, Shell Advanced will help enhance the catalyst's performance.
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It fast became a glorious gathering place for the artistic intelligentsia of the day, who helped to enhance Biddesden further.
protect
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An equally important aim is to ensure that the planning system continues to protect and enhance the environment.
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Surely this is not the way to protect and enhance communities.
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To protect and enhance the environment.
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Such provisions would go a considerable way toward protecting caretakers and thereby enhancing the value of caretaking in our society.
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Magic can protect your army as well as enhance it.
seek
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At the next election, he will seek to enhance the so-called sovereignty of Parliament.
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As pressure on prices has increased, pharmacies have sought to enhance their buying power and reduce overhead expenses by growing larger.
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All seek to enhance their status at the cost of their rivals.
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Economically, militarily and culturally, Washington rules the planet, and it seeks to enhance that position in the new century.
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Sponsorship and additional funding will be sought , to enhance company activities.
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Most of all, by writing poetry and seeking to enhance his skills at it.
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These seek to enhance investor protection and promote the integrity of the securities, futures and options markets.
serve
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Prospects of even greater longevity in future among the already long-lived have served to enhance concern still further.
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Harmaline only serves to enhance this behavior { 28 }.
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Within this self are various drives and motivations, the most important of which serve to maintain and enhance this image.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Low lighting and soft music enhanced the atmosphere in the room.
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We're using technology to enhance our levels of service.
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You can enhance the flavour of most dishes with the careful use of herbs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All of them continue to enhance the role of the church musician by their devotion and perseverance.
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But medical advance not only enhances clinical capability, it carries with it profound ethical, legal, social and economic implications.
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But what specific actions can we take to enhance our satisfaction while at the same time reassuring our new acquaintances?
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Harmaline only serves to enhance this behavior { 28 }.
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He has some electronic equipment originally intended for the language laboratory, which enhances the sound quality.
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This image can then be enhanced and electronically analyzed.
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To some extent it is pOssible for parents to enhance certain aspects Of infant intelligence.
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When water is running it enhances the village aspect and in spring flotillas of ducklings can be seen on it.