noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a changing environment
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In order to survive, you must adapt to a changing environment.
an artificial environment
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Animals hate being confined in an artificial environment.
built environment
congenial atmosphere/surroundings/environment
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The department provides a congenial atmosphere for research.
destroy the environment
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Some of these companies are polluting and destroying the environment.
hostile environment/climate/terrain etc
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a guide to surviving in even the most hostile terrain
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Sales increased last year despite the hostile economic environment.
the work environment
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It is important to have a pleasant work environment.
unfamiliar surroundings/place/environment etc
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She stood on deck to gaze at the unfamiliar surroundings.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
competitive
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Today's anglers are fishing in a much more competitive environment than the greats of the past.
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Forest trees live in a very competitive environment , unlike your garden.
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It is good for staff, who can give of their best in a more competitive environment .
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High slack systems are those organizations operating with an abundance of resources in reasonably stable and minimally competitive environments .
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In today's competitive financial environment , we're friends indeed - the friends you need.
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Maintaining order and routine within a minimally competitive business environment made for successful enterprises.
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And a competitive working environment drew out from directors and writers the best they could achieve.
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As noted earlier, public organizations in competitive environments often perform just as well as private organizations.
different
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Mesopotamian civilization developed in a very different environment .
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But now, we're faced with a completely different environment .
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Annual trips and holidays are organised for disabled children, providing them with an opportunity to experience different environments .
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He understands the two of them compete in radically different environments .
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The year includes the presentation of a methodical approach to programming and contact with different programming environments .
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This is a different environment , though.
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Such a different environment for antislavery work gave different meanings to bodies which claimed national antislavery status.
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Established in 1908, the 100-acre park keeps surprising you with its different environments .
economic
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It looks at the economic environment , end-use market and industries, and competition.
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And strategic thinking about our future is imperative, because we are in an ultra-competitive economic environment .
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But do not let today's difficult economic environment put you off saving for the future.
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All signs seem to point to a weak economic environment for a while.
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Employers were prepared to tolerate these rights and provisions in return for a profitable economic environment .
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Business risk is the risk imposed by the business and economic environment in which the firm operates.
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Those who pursue this approach tend to be relatively unconcerned with changes in the social and economic environment .
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The greatest hindrance to recovery of this resource is the marginally favorable economic environment .
external
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It simply indicates that the focus of attention is our thoughts rather than our external environment .
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There-fore, you often must convert or encode data from the external environment .
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Attention is focused on the external environment and markets, rather than customers.
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This activity will continue until the system breaks down internally or is subject to an intervention from the external environment .
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The intact skin acts as a barrier between the internal and the external environment which contains many potentially harmful agents.
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I feel that we can take control of our own destiny, no matter what the external environment says.
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Their survival depends on how they respond to changes in the external environment .
hostile
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Biomorphs should interact, in the computer, with a simulation of a hostile environment .
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Black faculty members also accused the university of institutional racism and creating a hostile work environment .
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These conditions embraced the realities of survival in an often hostile environment , and the mysteries of birth and death.
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They died for their quest for comfort in a hostile environment .
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They are used to dealing with harsh conditions in a hostile environment .
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Once again, you navigate dark passageways and hostile environments , killing everything that moves.
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I would say that Courtaulds is reasonably healthy in an extremely hostile environment .
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Objectionable pictures have been deemed to contribute to a hostile environment .
local
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Morphology was a laboratory-based subject that did not encourage detailed study of how animals adapted to their local environment .
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The local physical environment was not always well matched to these inputs.
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It may also prove necessary to confound the belief that the local community and environment can not provide a suitable learning medium.
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Interleukin-2 is normally present in minute quantities in the microscopic local environment of lymphocytes and acts only upon those few cells.
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Liberal Democrats aim to cut pollution and clean up the local environment .
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Ash and dust was deposited over an area of 170,000 hectares devastating the local environment and crops.
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Its value depends on the local environment .
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By destroying these wastes Rechem is significantly helping to prevent further pollution of the local and world environment .
natural
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Open Country Free Range Chicken in their natural environment .
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Most Chicagoans considered the dishonesty of the police as part of the natural environment .
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Eva was back in her natural environment .
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This fact underscores a point that is central to any discussion of how population growth impinges on the natural environment .
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But are they on a par with their natural environment ?
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And it will take other research sites to predict the effects on natural environments rather than well-tended farmland.
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We recognize this when we talk about the punitive contingencies in the natural environment .
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All life is interdependent on the natural environment , from the smallest bacteria to the largest animal or plant - even man.
new
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Progress is often alarmingly rapid as their enthusiasm and natural abilities adapt to the new environment .
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The new work environment includes unique learning requirements that classroom training alone can not meet.
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They housed children who could not find foster parents or who were too old to fit easily into a new family environment .
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To make it to safety, the new environment in which we suddenly find ourselves must be understood.
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There is now a need for alternative control mechanisms in this new computing environment , one of which is proper personnel controls.
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To create the new environments , the specialists were reassigned to cross-disciplinary teams.
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The role of the semantic net is being explored in this new environment .
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They must also, perforce, choose as parents those animals best able to cope with their new environment .
physical
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The local physical environment was not always well matched to these inputs.
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The physical and chemical environment can be easily manipulated as well as observed in the living state.
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As the other books in the series have shown, social and physical environments are continually developed, abandoned and changed.
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For an analogy, consider our physical environment .
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Thus, many recreational activities do not impinge on the physical environment or landscape with which this section is concerned.
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A major difficulty arises when fossil species disappear for good as the physical environment , over millions of years, inevitably changes.
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This has influenced Cheltenham's physical environment and social patterns.
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In contrast the physical environment and equipment specifications have received considerable attention.
political
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Much depends on the political environment .
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And traditionally, in political environments , the top appointees have no management experience.
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The changing economic, political and technological environment presents management with a new set of issues, requiring fresh approaches.
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First, let us take two examples regarding the political environment: 1.
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It also looks as if the long-term political environment has changed.
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Even prevention is a hard sell in a political environment .
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What has also changed is the whole political and cultural environment in which we operate.
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More than voting, the same act can vary in meaning in different political and cultural environments .
safe
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There is hope for a safer environment , but it can not be achieved easily or soon.
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They try too hard to engineer a safe environment for their child and, in so doing, interfere substantially-with serious consequences.
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Obviously knowledge as well as self-discipline is necessary to prevent accidents and maintain a safe environment .
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After I came to the United States, I made myself a really safe environment .
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Clean-burning and abundant, natural gas provides us with hope for a safer environment .
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The acid tank farm now provides a safe environment for storing strong and fuming acids.
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Guidance on measures to ensure a safe environment , and issues related to health and safety at work.
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Sensory loss frequently occurs with motor loss; the patient is paralysed and it compounds the problem of maintaining a safe environment .
social
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The central purpose of social services remains the adjustment of individuals rather than any fundamental change in their social environment .
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That fact, and the recent changes in the social environment , have translated into few class distinctions on campus.
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A massive interview program convinced Mayo that informal working groups created a social environment that greatly influenced the productivity of the employees.
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You can be very intelligent but yet not really able to live in a social environment ...
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Chapter 4 in this volume recounts an ethnographic observation of Young Conservatives relaxing in their own social environment .
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For Vygotsky, acquisition of language from the social environment results in qualitatively improved thinking and reasoning, or intellectual development.
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The latter are perceived to provide a hostile physical and social environment .
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As the other books in the series have shown, social and physical environments are continually developed, abandoned and changed.
urban
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Air pollution and energy conservation aside, private vehicles also come under attack when we consider rural and urban environments .
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This blending of urban and wildlife environments could generate income, Galvin explains.
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It is composed of species adapted to the urban environment and is influenced strongly by the availability of seeds.
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Most talked about the need to make a bridge between nature and their school's urban environment .
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The Industrial Revolution transformed the face of the countryside and thrust workers together in the new urban environments , packed and smoky.
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The high quality of much of Glasgow's urban environment is increasingly important in attracting visitors and investors to the city.
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For one thing they were a rural party in an urban environment .
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First, about the impact of the private motor car on the urban environment .
working
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Physical match includes the design of the whole work place and working environment .
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Muriel's attitude to others in a working environment gives little credit to anyone else for practical intelligence or reliability.
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A better working environment than the diocesan office, Julia thought, as she surveyed it.
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With Ian, his inner sensitivity has a negative effect mainly in his working environment .
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The relationship between these two groups defines the working environment to which Paul is referring.
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The upgrading of the working environment of advisory staff must be treated as a priority.
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A multi-disc reader is also part of our working environment .
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And a competitive working environment drew out from directors and writers the best they could achieve.
■ NOUN
business
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In addition to the informal discussions, corporate planning departments require knowledge of the business environments for their formal roles in the planning process.
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They were, however, undergoing significant change in response to an increasingly competitive and volatile business environment .
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However, operating under cover of a domestic licence does seem rather restrictive in today's international business environment .
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Becoming a martyr in most business environments is a good way to damage your career progress permanently.
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The content of core programmes will continue to evolve to reflect the changing reality of the business environment .
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The city is planning to talk with local commercial brokers about what can be done to improve the business environment .
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In addition, all published information related to the business environment and support services in Stirling will be collated and analysed.
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Maintaining order and routine within a minimally competitive business environment made for successful enterprises.
development
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DataCom relational database and Telon, its own application development environment .
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The company's core product is its object-oriented LispWorks development environment .
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The other change is support for object-orientated technology within the application development environment .
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Qualiparc is built upon the Uniface software development environment and costs from £5,000 up.
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Perez says Open Interface will evolve into what he calls a comprehensive universal development environment .
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Meanwhile, SunPro has made its ProWorks development environments available on the same early access kit.
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There will be a development environment and beta versions of the complete environment tailored for vertical markets running up to its release.
home
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The simulated home environments are based on the belief that children experience the highest quality of learning at home.
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The quality of relationships the Bible speaks of in terms of the home environment is learned and therefore needs to be practised.
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Within the home environment too, training is important to prevent damage to furniture and soiling of carpets, for example.
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Men therefore stood to lose not only in their personal home environment but also in their public life.
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What then are some of the hazards in the home environment which can cause accidents?
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Rottweilers need plenty of new stimuli: rides in the car and very short walks outside the home environment .
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Relatives will be helpful in providing information about the home environment , thus increasing understanding of the patient.
minister
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But the environment minister , Tom King, could not give any firm commitment to further government funds.
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The environment minister , Michael Meacher, conceded that the pyres could be a health risk.
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The summit's failure to address environmental issues may however be mitigated by meeting of G7 environment ministers later this year.
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The environment ministers were due to make their decision late last month.
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This afternoon that put them on environment minister Michael Howard's hit list.
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After Papandreou's electoral victory in 1981, Tritsis was appointed environment minister .
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Junior environment minister found careering at the wheel after midnight during the Tory party conference in Bournemouth.
work
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Rentokil Tropical Plants add prestige and enhance the work environment .
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It is within your power to concentrate on selected aspects of your work environment and ignore others.
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The connectedness of the individual worker to his work environment is such that it can easily be controlled by others.
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The new work environment includes unique learning requirements that classroom training alone can not meet.
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Some work environments enable people with the syndrome to flourish.
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These factors, interestingly, all have to do with the quality of the work environment .
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Work which is relevant to family life, where skills acquired may be utilised outside the immediate work environment .
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What economic, technological, demographic, or cultural changes in your own work environment fall into this category?
■ VERB
adapt
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Indoors, there are many ways in which you can adapt your environment to suit the needs of your pets.
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The stomach is a biological structure that animals use to adapt to their environment .
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In such occupations autonomy is cherished as a means of adapting to an uncertain environment .
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It favors species better adapted to their environments and kills off those less suitable.
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This particular formula is well adapted to an environment consisting of test-tubes provided with ready-made replicase.
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As we adapt biologically to our environment , we adapt intellectually.
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Progress is often alarmingly rapid as their enthusiasm and natural abilities adapt to the new environment .
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Intellectual and biological activity are both part of the overall process by which an organism adapts to the environment and organizes experience.
build
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It is essential therefore that easily remembered navigational devices are built into the environment .
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Now imagine, Weiser suggests, computation and connection embedded into the built environment to the same degree.
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Joe Guglielmi explained that Taligent is not building an operating system, rather it is building a total development environment for objects.
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But being simpler, the missions communicate a clearer essence of what the built environment in Southern California ought to look like.
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The most important powers available to planners are development controls, which operate predominantly at the level of the built environment .
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Rotating local authors include designer / writer Lynette Evans on how people respond to the built environment .
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Full appreciation of place will involve exploration of the inter-relationships among the physical environment , the built environment, and the people.
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However, put them in a novel built environment and they will walk for miles.
change
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Evidently freedom and dignity are threatened only when behavior is changed by physically changing the environment .
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They make it impossible to respond to rapidly changing environments .
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You can cure many genetic diseases by changing the environment .
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Living organisms have a similar tradeoff in deciding how much mutation and innovation is needed to keep up with a changing environment .
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In most cases you do not need to change your environment or what at present is your life or your job.
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Today a changing environment has forced many such organization either to become low slack systems or to go out of business.
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We need to change our environment .
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We all work in a changing environment .
create
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It is no doubt valuable to create an environment in which a person acquires effective behavior rapidly and continues to behave effectively.
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You create that environment , and you know what it means?
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Gift of creating a pleasant environment with minimal resources.
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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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Their prime objective was to learn, and it was easy to create a fun learning environment .
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It is not machines we are creating but a mechanical environment permeated with our sense of learning.
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Do people create their own environment , or will they learn to live in any conditions?
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The challenge for the negotiations ahead is not to create a changed environment .
improve
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This discourages people from taking pride in the area and attempting to improve their environment .
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The city is planning to talk with local commercial brokers about what can be done to improve the business environment .
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Activities included developing economic strategies and initiatives; providing business support services; improving the environment and removing barriers to economic development.
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Emerson had written that the proposed trade agreement could help improve the border environment .
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Car ownership and use grow continuously, severely undermining the government's fragile attempts to improve the environment .
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The subcommittee questioned industry representatives on the role companies could play in improving the environment .
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By improving the working environment of teachers, governors could indirectly improve relationships between staff and pupils.
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Considerable global assets have been spent to prevent non-communicable diseases - for example, with major investments to improve the environment .
learn
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A textbook should represent a structured learning environment in which the reader is led through the subjects in a progressive manner.
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They have perfected strategies for learning from their community environment .
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In the school library, Prestel can be seen as part of the total information and learning environment .
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Guests can experience the outdoors on alpine skis, snowboards, cross-country skis or snowshoes while learning the high-elevation environment .
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There have been a number of comparisons of learning environments for deaf children.
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One is called simulated learning environments .
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Their prime objective was to learn , and it was easy to create a fun learning environment .
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That sounds lofty and unrealistic, but this writer continues to strive for that kind of learning environment .
live
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My eldest brother, Joe, used to take correspondence courses, so one lived in an environment of self-improvement.
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Remember all those experiments with rats living in enriched environments ?
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Many terrestrial forms simply did not live in environments in which preservation was possible.
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Burgess hopes the flux of the desert can teach us how to live with a variable environment without simplifying it.
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In modern societies living in a healthy environment , the difference is slight.
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I live in a black environment .
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This agreement is unique within the United Kingdom and demonstrates that trade, industry and commerce can live together with the natural environment .
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I think learning to live within a structured environment is important no matter what the emotional impairment is.
maintain
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For individuals, the costs of maintaining a safe environment are, however, by no means all in the category of indirect taxation.
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Structures of management and finance devised to maintain environments and institutions may not be the same as are needed to oversee renewal.
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This is true largely because the problems associated with maintaining a safe environment are different in different parts of the world.
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He argues that by maintaining the job environment at an acceptable level then feelings of dissatisfaction can be avoided.
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Sensory loss frequently occurs with motor loss; the patient is paralysed and it compounds the problem of maintaining a safe environment .
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For many of them, their inability to maintain a safe environment is only temporary, but for others it may be permanent.
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When deprived of these sensations they can not be used as checks when maintaining a safe environment .
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However, there are other non-physical factors which are just as important in maintaining a safe environment .
protect
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So how can protecting the environment be left to individual conscience?
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One way to nudge nature along is to provide a protected environment for trees.
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This frequently ends up with the state attempting to protect the environment from the majority of the people who use it.
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What we are being asked to do now is to sacrifice the development of these areas in order to protect the environment .
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Most tropical forest aid has gone to industrial forestry and has done little to aid the poor or protect the environment .
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Pampers are already helping to protect the environment .
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The guidelines introduce into local planning the concept of protecting the environment through sustainable development.
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We are constantly hard at work protecting our environment .
provide
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Working-class families, by contrast, are less likely to provide an environment that encourages scholastic skills.
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Software simulations have not only moved this fledgling technology along, they continue to provide an environment that nurtures testing and experimentation.
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That is the best way of providing a good environment in which businesses can flourish.
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One way to nudge nature along is to provide a protected environment for trees.
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It has regularly attracted research studentships of various kinds, and provides a stimulating research environment .
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Furthermore, the competitive market system would seem to provide an environment conducive to the rapid diffusion of a technological advance.
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It's like an adventure playground but everything in it is padded with foam to provide a safe learning environment .
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Bread &038; Roses provides a non-commercial environment in which performing artists may donate their talent.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hothouse atmosphere/environment etc
smoke-free environment/zone etc
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New laws to create a smoke-free environment at work and in public places.
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The freedom of the individual is important; everyone is entitled to a smoke-free environment.
working conditions/environment etc
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Complete the following exercise on working conditions.
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For many people real wages fell and working conditions worsened.
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Her interest in socialism or Bryant & May working conditions was perfunctory.
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Protected by their enormous allowances and comfortable working conditions, they feel free to carry on behaving how they wish.
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The working environment is conducive to the achievement of excellence and the work is intellectually challenging.
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This made working conditions most unpleasant, the nets becoming wet and heavy to handle.
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Unhappy with the working environment, she decided to quit the job to pursue her interest in alternative therapy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Do girls learn better in an all-female environment ?
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I didn't feel that the neighborhood was a very safe environment for kids.
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It's not a very safe environment for children there.
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Our company tries to maintain a pleasant work environment .
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We have tried to create a working environment in which everyone can develop their skills.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Adaptation to a changing environment may be necessary as before to achieve traditional goals.
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Almost every newborn encounters an environment that acts toward it in a social way.
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As a social science, Geography focuses on how people create and use their socio-economic, built and cultural environments.
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It is important to emphasize any explanation of the foot soldiers is highly contingent upon the environment in which they are operating.
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Remember all those experiments with rats living in enriched environments?
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They wanted control over their environment , including financial, material, and other resources.