adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
absolutely/perfectly/entirely correct (= completely correct )
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What he said was perfectly correct.
completely/entirely random
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The atomic particles seem to move in a completely random direction.
completely/fully/totally/entirely satisfied
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If you’re not completely satisfied, you can get your money back.
consist entirely/solely of sb/sth
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The area does not consist entirely of rich people, despite popular belief.
entirely distinct
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two entirely distinct languages
highly/entirely/wholly appropriate
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I thought his remark was highly appropriate, given the circumstances.
not entirely clear
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Sam’s reasons for leaving were not entirely clear.
not entirely unexpected
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Hague’s announcement was not entirely unexpected .
not entirely/wholly/completely
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Frege’s theory is not entirely satisfactory.
not quite/entirely sure
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‘What are they?’ ‘I’m not entirely sure.’
not strictly/entirely/completely accurate
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The evidence she gave to the court was not strictly accurate not exactly accurate .
not...entirely blameless (= are guilty of doing something bad )
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The police are not always entirely blameless in these matters.
partly/largely/entirely etc to blame
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Television is partly to blame.
perfectly/entirely reasonable ( also eminently reasonable formal ) (= completely reasonable )
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The proposal sounds perfectly reasonable.
purely/completely/entirely coincidental
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Any similarity between this film and real events is purely coincidental.
totally/completely/entirely unnecessary
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The suffering of these animals is totally unnecessary.
wholly/entirely useless
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From his point of view qualifications are wholly useless.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
accurate
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The picture of a dovish president pulled in opposite directions by thugs on both right and left is not entirely accurate .
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But it is not entirely accurate .
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This has a certain ring to it, but apparently it is not entirely accurate .
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She found that the membership list with which Hilary Roberts had supplied her was a not entirely accurate document.
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The popular image of him as a laconic, amiable figure is not entirely accurate .
appropriate
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Administration officials said it was entirely appropriate for the Clintons to host overnight guests.
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The freakishness of their own appearance seemed entirely appropriate .
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That the world should be so enchanting after the enchantment of Vitor's lovemaking was entirely appropriate .
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Young Fowler thinks it entirely appropriate .
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Her reaction, he wrote, was entirely appropriate .
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It is therefore entirely appropriate that today Pompeii still represents the cutting edge of archaeological research and development.
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Theological answers are necessary and entirely appropriate to this doubt.
clear
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It is not entirely clear what factors the court must take into account when creating the hypothetical similar child.
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The exact relation between net water uptake and osmolality is not entirely clear from our findings.
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These rules are longstanding and entirely clear .
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The relevance of SSAPs to the public sector has never been entirely clear .
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Typically, public agencies are not entirely clear about their goals, or are in fact aiming at the wrong goals.
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This gives the buyer the opportunity to query anything that is not entirely clear .
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Reasons for this increase are not entirely clear .
dependent
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You're not entirely dependent on your husband.
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Although they worked through institutions, they had no regular sources of income and were entirely dependent on providence.
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The National Blood Transfusion Service is entirely dependent on voluntary blood donors.
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She could move little more than her eyes, and she remained entirely dependent on her iron tomb for breath.
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Beyond that, the matter is entirely dependent upon agreement.
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Travel and tourism is now the world's biggest industry, and many countries are almost entirely dependent on tourism.
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Through incubation and fledging, it is entirely dependent on the care of its adopted parents.
different
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It was soon clear that this was an entirely different kettle of fish.
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How the exterior would function was an entirely different concern.
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Before his fight with Fitzmaurice took place, Burke achieved fame in entirely different circumstances.
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What finally evolves as standard jargon may be entirely different than anything suggested so far.
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Human beings are entirely different from swallows.
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This shows how a name can be derived from one entirely different from its original.
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They came to Stanford at the same time, but from entirely different directions.
free
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Family meals, a compulsory ritual, were not entirely free of hazard.
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Treatment, inclusive of medicines, surgery, hospitalisation and even food, was entirely free .
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Soloist Annette Servadei played beautifully with an involvement entirely free from any kind of ostentation.
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From the time she had bought the tickets out of her savings she had not been entirely free of fear.
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Where there is no joint action, each member state is entirely free to act on its own.
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In this connection we must consider the animal phobias of which no child is entirely free .
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Nevertheless, the wording is not entirely free from ambiguity, and no doubt some officials decided to play it safe.
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It split up the back, and, at the shoulders, the sleeves came entirely free .
happy
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But he is not entirely happy with the service.
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Although I was not entirely happy with the quality of our game, I was pleased with the outcome.
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However, I was not entirely happy with the situation because aromatherapy was being used mainly as a palliative.
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He wasn't entirely happy about that.
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They did not seem entirely happy , to Esther, but Esther put her suspicions down to jealousy.
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The Filbert Street fans are not entirely happy despite Leicester's healthy position in the table.
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Alchemy, it seemed, was not an entirely happy affair.
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This satisfaction is relative, one or either may emerge less than entirely happy with the result.
new
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Like Venice, it is impossible to say anything entirely new about them.
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Through this process Walden itself becomes an entirely new world.
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She then had a delectable mushroom soup - and for the main course she chose something that was entirely new to her.
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Web browsers, once limited to displaying text and graphics and downloading files, have created an entirely new element of risk.
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For the Colonial Service, this was something entirely new .
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All this is not entirely new .
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Although it shares many features and concepts with the R22, the R44 is an entirely new design.
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And in the process we stumbled across a great idea, an entirely new security.
possible
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It is entirely possible that our backwater of a planet is literally the only one that has ever borne life.
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It is entirely possible that the trustees will be wrong.
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And it would have been entirely possible with the right companion.
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It is entirely possible that there isn't.
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It was entirely possible that Jos was still trying to warn him off, for his own good.
satisfactory
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This, though a more realistic standard of judgement, was also not entirely satisfactory .
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The penalty under Section 242, when only one individual acted, was still not entirely satisfactory .
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For most novels of literary merit, neither the dualist nor the monist doctrine will be entirely satisfactory .
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Neither method is entirely satisfactory since apparently homologous muscles may change their sites of attachment during evolution and alter their functions.
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For reasons explained in the rolling stock chapter, they were not entirely satisfactory and were returned at the end of 1923.
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Yet neither of these explanations on their own seems to me to be entirely satisfactory .
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They were not entirely satisfactory and had a tendency to derail on the very sharp corner at Pitlake.
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But these provisions are not entirely satisfactory .
sure
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I wasn't entirely sure whether he was joking or not.
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He was in fact confused himself, not entirely sure how his career had carried him here.
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Brian and I weren't entirely sure how to deal with the Yanks' antagonisms.
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The policy-makers are still not entirely sure why inflation has remained so low despite a 5. 3 percent unemployment rate.
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Alice was not entirely sure how.
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It is too early to be entirely sure , but it looks as though the tide may well have turned.
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Mrs Webster, though not entirely sure that they were unnecessarily worried, pitied their anxiety none the less.
unexpected
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The news was not entirely unexpected .
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It was entirely unexpected , and its cause a mystery, so much so that poison was inevitably suspected.
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This omission was not entirely unexpected .
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The amount and quality ofthe sculpture unearthed was not entirely unexpected .
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But this was not entirely unexpected .
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Since that showed a degree of consistency in attitudes, it was not entirely unexpected .
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Not entirely unexpected , but still remarkable.
■ VERB
agree
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I agree entirely with my hon. Friend on that matter.
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That district authority and I agree entirely on the future of local government.
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Before anybody complains that all this is very sexist and demeaning - I entirely agree .
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Mr. King I entirely agree with my hon. Friend.
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I entirely agree that salaries should be performance-related and subject to shareholder control.
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I entirely agree and would be content to adopt the judgment of Taylor L.J. as my own.
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The Prime Minister I agree entirely with my hon. Friend's analysis on that point.
based
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The claim to legitimacy of particular possession is based entirely upon the institutionalization of rights.
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Maybe you prefer not to think of yourself as some one whose value to baseball is entirely based on the revenue you provide.
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Finally, if cut-price really does equal cut-corners, why are contributions based entirely on gross fees?
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There was a time when law was entirely based on the oral tradition.
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But the Fed's timing may not have been based entirely on domestic considerations.
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Their plans are made far in advance, based entirely on their own thinking.
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Contamination of water supplies by oily mists threatens agriculture in the region since it is almost entirely based on irrigation.
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His idea of success is based entirely on the growth of his budget, staff and political profile.
consist
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Certainly, it is no justification in itself for ruling out ads consisting entirely of words.
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He proposed designing a plane consisting entirely of flat triangles.
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In these terms, the original puzzle becomes that of why natural selection does not produce a population consisting entirely of hawks.
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These organizations usually consist entirely of older people committed to fighting elderly issues directly.
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The Giral government, consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans, was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation.
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These should consist entirely of high upland in which no agricultural or forestry activities would take place.
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He describes Lebna Dengel's capital as being the size of a town but consisting entirely of tents.
convince
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I am entirely convinced that Joseph Kosuth has never seen work by Claudio Parmiggiani either actually or in reproduction.
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Other critics were positive but not entirely convinced .
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Perhaps she still isn't entirely convinced .
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Although I am not entirely convinced by the contents of the motion, I agree with parts of it.
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Even the fashion world is not entirely convinced by the rehabilitation of fur-wearing.
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This is not an entirely convincing explanation either, but there is little else that can be suggested.
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They've got the one in hospital down as Hans-Heinz Lemke, but they aren't entirely convinced .
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This explanation is not entirely convincing .
depend
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How good the meal was depended entirely on what the cook was like, you couldn't believe the difference.
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Their numbers and size depend entirely on climate, and that climate must be perfect.
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In the second class, the jurisdiction depends entirely on the character of the parties.
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Manycommunities depend entirely on glacial meltwater.
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But the symbolic gesture is likely to be of dubious long-term value and will depend entirely on the personalities and circumstances involved.
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It will depend entirely on the subject, so be prepared to think laterally!
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The oasis is man-made and depends entirely on the river.
disappear
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But if we can achieve that, then their argument on the urgency for entry entirely disappears .
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About 1629, scarcely a quarter-century after the first accounts of it, the cahow disappeared entirely .
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Such taboos have not entirely disappeared today.
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The small lead to which Samuel had previously clung had entirely disappeared .
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Robertsbridge, the great Cistercian house, disappeared entirely , torn down by the local people.
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They lose much of their natural paranoia about predators, but is never disappears entirely .
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This is not to say that the age of the Great Leader has entirely disappeared .
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Embalming was rarely practised during the eighteenth century and it had almost entirely disappeared during the nineteenth century.
satisfy
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And as with all our offers we guarantee to refund your money if you're not entirely satisfied with your order.
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Clinton has been too protean to entirely satisfy either.
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But she wasn't entirely satisfied .
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The children themselves, 75 she continues, can be entirely satisfied .
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A similar structure would not entirely satisfy the Panel.
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And yet, am I entirely satisfied with my lot?
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She has said she will not give a penny until she is entirely satisfied the unit will go ahead as planned.
seem
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The freakishness of their own appearance seemed entirely appropriate.
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This seemed entirely logical and fair, but when state analysts finally looked at the results, they were horrified.
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Two years on, and Roughley's class seem entirely unfazed by the technology and being asked to present some research findings.
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Eleanor, on the other hand, seems entirely real.
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They did not seem entirely happy, to Esther, but Esther put her suspicions down to jealousy.
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No one - not even Buckingham Palace - seemed entirely sure.
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It seems entirely natural simply because most of us have been using it since we were teenagers.
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He sat down beside her and it seemed entirely natural that he should take one of her hands.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a (very/completely/entirely) different animal
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But as I take my very first step on to the ground she becomes a very different animal .
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Each dancer had to assume the actions of a different animal .
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I was a Territorial, a very different animal .
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My second example, although involving a very different animal , raises the same kind of questions.
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So in Utah now, Rivendell is really a different animal .
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You should repeat each test at least ten times using a different animal of the same kind for each test.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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At the very beginning of the project, Paul made it clear that he would be entirely in control.
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I'm not entirely sure what she meant.
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Jeff and Mike come from entirely different backgrounds.
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The audience consisted almost entirely of journalists.
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The foundation depends entirely on voluntary contributions.
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The reasons for his departure weren't entirely clear.
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The sculpture is made entirely of old car tires.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Abortion can be surgical, part-surgical or entirely non-surgical.
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For the first time in their careers, they are featured entirely naked in ecclesiastical, urban and pastoral contexts.
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Hong Kong swirled with news of his whereabouts, all of it entirely speculative.
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Of course it is a commonplace that a memory of a later time may color if not change entirely a former.
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Our physical world consists, is entirely made up, of these perceptions.
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Then I saw that the senders wanted something else entirely .
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These may be entirely contained within the borders of a single country even though their effects are transnational.
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When they come to depend almost entirely on staff members for every duty except voting?