adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
concerned
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It has been pointed out above that historically the law of rape was exclusively concerned with the protection of virginity.
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The stereotype is of stories exclusively concerned with drugs and unwanted pregnancies.
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Some are exclusively concerned with public image: placing advertisements, briefing journalists and lobbying opinion formers.
female
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For even in Britain today there is no serious challenge to the idea that care and domesticity are exclusively female responsibilities.
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Nor is such a mission an exclusively female one.
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A sense of female identity was of course present, often engendered around what were defined as exclusively female concerns.
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Nor need it be an exclusively female activity, as many people would have us believe.
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He was the only eligible male in an exclusively female establishment.
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The research also found that the perception of men as potential paedophiles is keeping the profession almost exclusively female .
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I was in an all-female establishment, and, even when I was out of it, lived in an almost exclusively female world.
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Spouses as carers are equally likely to be male or female , whereas children as carers are almost exclusively female.
male
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Perpetrators are almost exclusively male , though a few women are reported, particularly in retrospective studies.
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Painting the frontier, either as it was or as it is, hardly remains an exclusively male domain.
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The Brat Pack is not exclusively male .
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What can he do that is exclusively male ?
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It is noticeable that cockfighting is an exclusively male preoccupation, though this is not really analysed.
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Another group, exclusively male , was gathered around what Sendei guessed was a highly advanced piece of technology.
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Further proof of the almost exclusively male concerns of the penal system are provided by early twentieth-century developments.
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All green wrasse shorter than 28 centimetres are female, but above 38 centimetres they are exclusively male .
■ VERB
belong
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Sinhala people assert that Sri Lanka belongs exclusively to the Sinhala Buddhists.
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According to the law, their homes do not belong exclusively to their husbands.
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They can also emphasise features which belong exclusively to that one country.
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The action belonged exclusively to the second half with two goals packed into the first 100 seconds of the period.
concentrate
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The analysis of authority has concentrated exclusively on a one-to-one relation between an authority and a single person subject to it.
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But we have so far concentrated exclusively on the small minority of asteroids that have orbits bringing them close to Earth.
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Unlike both the previous accounts, Bottoms does not concentrate exclusively on prisons.
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Before the trial judge, attention was concentrated exclusively on the letter to Mr. Purkayastha.
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A lifelong friend of Bert Webster, Barefield later concentrated exclusively on tenor and, like another Webster associate.
deal
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There are both national and international companies who deal exclusively in sponsorship schemes and personalities.
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Nor can the counsellor set himself the task of dealing exclusively with one area.
design
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An exciting and varied programme of forty-two special-interest holidays both overseas and within Britain has been designed exclusively for the National Trust.
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The scarves have been designed exclusively for the National Trust and cost £45 each.
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College was never designed exclusively for younger students - though they generally constitute the largest single group.
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The accommodation has been exclusively designed and is a fine example of Jongert's famous joinery work.
devoted
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Against this background, the first book devoted exclusively to this exciting and topical subject should be a significant landmark.
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Collins has been in Sonoma five years; half of that time has been devoted exclusively to defending Richard Allen Davis.
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It was a notice board devoted exclusively to funeral announcements, and the lawyer's death was well represented.
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The preceding discussion has been devoted exclusively to disulfiram because controlled studies of calcium carbamide have not been done.
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A technique that works for some dads is to create a special time period devoted exclusively to worrying.
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He has not given a speech devoted exclusively to xenophobia.
focus
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It would be quite wrong in thinking about the economics of socialist countries to focus exclusively on inefficiency.
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Most deal with what government should do, and most focus exclusively on Washington.
focused
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Concern for air pollution focused exclusively upon visible emissions, especially smoke.
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For 20 years, it focused exclusively on white men.
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The certified question was addressed and answered after argument focused exclusively on it.
rely
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Don't rely exclusively on shade as a shield.
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Such a process must not rely exclusively on either personal experience or hermeneutical method but must become a wedding of the two.
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For example, by relying exclusively on mortality data the ineffectiveness of medical science is overstated.
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Consequently, these mutant cells rely exclusively on glycolysis for their energy requirements and require exogenous pyruvate and pyrimidines for growth.
reserve
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The expression of that loathing had been reserved exclusively for her.
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That law seems to be exclusively reserved for white assailants.
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Or should certain classes of work be reserved exclusively for law centres?
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He even refers to himself with the normal personal pronouns instead of the special ones customarily reserved exclusively for the emperor.
reveal
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I also exclusively revealed her pregnancy back in March.
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The answer can now be exclusively revealed .
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Holiday Mirror can exclusively reveal a Warner Holidays offer that slashes off £300.
use
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The services taken by four of the departments are used exclusively within the department.
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In addition it is decided that the owners car will be used exclusively for the business.
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Consider the colour Traditionally, white papers have been used exclusively with watercolours because they contribute to the brilliance of the colours.
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The power thus created will be used exclusively for the client's best interest.
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Wear wasn't apparent over a two-month test, during which the system was used exclusively .
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In the Arab context, it is likely to be used exclusively by women.
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The farm produce was now used exclusively to feed the troops.
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But it's unlikely that one method will be used exclusively throughout the country.
work
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The women work exclusively in the packing department, putting coffee into different size packets.
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Those who work exclusively at upper levels of the pedagogic world rarely look at the terrain of early childhood.
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She can find herself working exclusively with the obvious problem students.
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Many consultants work exclusively in the pensions field.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The office staff are almost exclusively female.
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This shop sells clothes made exclusively of Indian materials.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it need not be exclusively political.
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Hechooses not to work during the Super Bowl and does almost exclusively mail-order business.
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That law seems to be exclusively reserved for white assailants.
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Too one-sided a pitch, appealing exclusively to intellect or emotions, is unlikely to be effective.
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Two of the chapters concern cricket exclusively .