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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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attempt
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In the early 1980s the military began destroying entire villages in an attempt to eradicate civilian support for Leftist guerillas.
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Throughout this period, an increasing emphasis was placed on tight monetary policy in an attempt to eradicate inflation.
disease
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This aid would also have to be continued in the longer term in order to totally eradicate certain diseases .
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The editorial also took the position that isolation would not eradicate the disease .
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The aim is to eradicate the disease for good.
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Malcolm Dean on the all-out bid to kill off elephantiasis History in the breaking How do you eradicate a disease ?
pylori
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Demanding oral triple therapy eradicates H pylori in up to 96% of patients treated but does have considerable side effects.
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Bismuth has also become popular in recent years as a treatment in peptic ulcer to eradicate Helicobacter pylori .
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Omeprazole monotherapy merely suppressed bacterial colonisation, especially in the antral region, and eradicated H pylori in individual cases only.
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It therefore seems justified to recommend amoxicillin/omeprazole as the treatment of choice to eradicate H pylori in H pylori related gastroduodenal diseases.
■ VERB
try
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Do you genuinely and sincerely investigate customer complaints and try to eradicate the causes?
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Under Anne, High Churchmen became preoccupied with trying to eradicate the practice of occasional conformity.
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It is what management and business schools try to eradicate through education and training.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He spoke about what is necessary to eradicate AIDS.
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The disease has been eradicated from the Western world through the use of vaccines.
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Their aim is to eradicate child poverty in the country within 10 years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All over the world, the spread of the globalized monoculture is forcefully eradicating ecosocial forms of culture that evolved in place.
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But this study is designed to determine if, under the right conditions, the virus can be eradicated.
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Do you genuinely and sincerely investigate customer complaints and try to eradicate the causes?
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In the early 1980s the military began destroying entire villages in an attempt to eradicate civilian support for Leftist guerillas.
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Only when this point is reached will the unemployment in the economy have been eradicated.
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The advice often given is to dip heavily-populated rocks in boiling water to eradicate the pest.
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The effectiveness of a procedure can, however, also be defined as its ability to eradicate tumour locally.
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This does not eradicate the distinctiveness of each religion's approach.