I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a central feature
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Cultural diversity is a central feature of modern British society.
a design feature (= something interesting or attractive that is part of the design )
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The aircraft has some novel design features.
a feature article (= one about a particular subject )
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I wrote a few feature articles on sporting events.
a feature film (= a full-length film shown in the cinema )
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Shane Meadows’ first feature film was 'TwentyFourSeven'.
a film stars/features sb
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The film starred Brad Pitt.
a key element/feature/component (= a very important part )
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Advertising is a key element in the success of a product.
a movie stars/features sb
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a movie starring Will Smith
an essential feature
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A free press is an essential feature of a democracy.
chiselled features/chin/mouth/nose etc
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his chiselled good looks
delicate features
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her delicate features
distinguishing feature/mark/characteristic
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The main distinguishing feature of this species is the leaf shape.
double feature
feature creep
feature film
fine features (= nose, eyes, cheeks etc )
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Her dark hair accentuates her fine features .
notable feature/example
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A notable feature of the church is its unusual bell tower.
original features (= parts that were there when the house was first built )
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The kitchen still has many original features .
redeeming quality/feature etc (= the one good thing about an unpleasant person or thing )
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The hotel had a single redeeming feature – it was cheap.
regular features (= an evenly shaped face )
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He’s very handsome, with strong regular features .
stylistic feature/device
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stylistic features of the story
water feature
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
attractive
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An additional attractive feature for savers was the fact that societies did not normally levy transactions charges on accounts.
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Yet market buildings, even when they are quite plain, are usually attractive features of a town.
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It is a very attractive feature and has only been known to dry up once in the summer of 1826.
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It is the autonomous nature of sole trading which is an attractive feature of this form of business enterprise.
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Provided the room is big enough, room divider doors are a practical solution and can be an attractive feature .
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She was sixteen-years-old but with her slim, petite figure and attractive features she could have passed for twenty.
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The generality and flexibility of such a procedure are a very attractive feature of the technology.
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Which features may tourists find attractive ?
central
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Hospital care remained a central feature of provision but its role was changed.
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A central feature is the attempt to elicit the degree of identification of a community.
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One of the central features of the company is that it separates out the functions of ownership and management.
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Indeed, in large measures, that could be identified as a central feature of Mr Major's ministerial career.
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Other factors, such as access via doorways or accommodation of central features , also had to be taken into account.
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Some central features of narrative construction were studied, including the gradual embellishment of stories and their emotional content.
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The development of self-presentation, self-advocacy and of self-directed learning should all be central features of this phase of education.
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This is a central feature of the employers' view.
characteristic
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Component subskills in reading and spelling A characteristic feature of any skill is a hierarchical organisation of component subskills.
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These are the characteristic features of a Gender Identity Disorder of Childhood as seen in a male.
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Window design is also a characteristic feature of Gothic architecture.
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Though these problems are a characteristic feature of modern life, they have been with us for a very long time.
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The use of alternative names is a characteristic feature of Near Eastern writing.
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These small crystals are known as phenocrysts and are one of the most characteristic features of andesites.
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The characteristic feature of Brindley's canals was their winding routes, following contours as far as possible without involving major earthworks.
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Under the Bretton Woods arrangements government intervention at predetermined levels, or parities, was the characteristic feature of the system.
distinctive
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Yoshitaka introduced new elements to the art, until gradually the art lost some of its distinctive Okinawan features .
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The desk lamp with an emerald-green shade and small prints of Degas' dancers were the only distinctive features of the room.
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In distinctive feature analysis the features themselves thus become important components of the phonology.
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The consequent leverage is the most distinctive feature of our financial era.
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But the most distinctive feature is the fertilizer plant.
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This distinctive feature may have been retained to convince a money-conscious Council that they were rebuilds rather than new cars!
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Ideally, of course, each type of music should he noted down according to a method that reflects its distinctive features .
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Others have sought to generate criteria by which to assess the distinctive features of a political culture.
essential
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By analysing simple situations, with essential features in common, we can gain insight into the behaviour of these complicated beams.
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It is an essential feature of the whole process of inner development, as already intimated.
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At the heart of the difficulty of delineating clearly the essential features of the Constitution is its ever-changing nature.
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S summarizes the essential features of the time dependences incorporated into the study.
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Basically, though, the essential features of the political system were those established in the preceding century.
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He becomes one of the essential features of a good detective story-a victim whose death readers do not mourn.
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Their essential feature is that they misdirect the enemy's attack, so that it fails to damage any vital organs.
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First, the essential feature of the Prague School definition of structure is its totality.
important
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Rather, some of its important features relevant to our analysis of science will be illustrated by means of trivial examples.
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Almost everyone who has done this finds the same important feature .
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An important feature of McGregor's approach is that it shows how management assumptions are important in determining motivation and morale.
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This kind of superposition of states is a general-and important-feature of quantum mechanics, referred to as quantum linear superposition.
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But perhaps the most important feature which makes communication possible across different sign languages is the shared culture of deaf people.
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But another important feature of his theory is its reliance on a particular set of metaphors for understanding the natural world.
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Introduction CROSS-BORDER portfolio investment has become an increasingly important feature of global capital markets.
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An important feature of this research is that it is carried out in a politically charged atmosphere.
interesting
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A particularly interesting feature of the trestle piers was the method used for founding them on irregular river beds.
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Their conversation had one interesting phonetic feature .
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The least one expects to find is a well-appointed house with interesting decorative features .
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The work unearthed several interesting features .
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These included some engineering schemes such as bridges and tunnels, but the most interesting feature was undoubtedly the hierarchy of networks.
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An interesting feature of the rural economy is the way in which these sectoral employment changes are interlinked.
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An interesting feature of the transition process is vortex pairing, seen in Fig. 18.10.
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An interesting feature of the church is the array of gilded heads high up on the walls of the nave.
key
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This latter award reminds me of a key feature of being the best and that is teamwork.
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The key feature of many of the newly discovered caves is their relative inaccessibility.
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Chapter 35 outlined the key features of marketing research.
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Research Areas Learning constitutes one of the key features of a neural network.
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There are some registry subsystems that contain key features of expert systems.
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A key feature of his appeal was a strong indication that the Deutschmark and Ostmark could be changed at 1: 1.
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Indeed, one of the key features of the Nottinghamshire initiative was that it occurred in somewhat of a policy vacuum.
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The key feature of the methodology is the use of comparisons of related texts to reveal sociologically significant textual features.
main
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The system of management by a Trustee was the main feature of the bill.
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Look along the sections of the tables and match the main features of the case with the features of the remedies.
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Since this type of parser is well documented, I will simply outline its main features .
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The first main feature we had ever seen.
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Explain the main features of project finance.
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The main unknown feature is the nature of the investor base.
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The main maser features may have originated from the slowly rotating disk or from the outflow gas near the galactic nucleus.
major
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Most agronomists consider take-all to be the chief suspect, but on this site it wasn't a major feature .
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The cavalier dismissal of a major design feature of the building can not have been easy to accept.
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Privatization of public corporations has become a major feature of Conservative policy.
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The major features of each of the schemes are summarised in Figure 7.6.
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The major features only are described here: 1.
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Those beautiful mission buildings are still a major feature of Texas architectural history.
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Some of the major new features include TrueType, which can create type of varying sizes without any jagged edges.
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In Britain, rock art was a major feature , consisting frequently of cup-and-ring marks.
new
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Other new features in this version are automatic envelope printing, and an easier route to mail merge, called Smart Merge.
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Indeed, the new Navigator comes with many new features .
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A new feature provides system administration from all Co-operation domains, whether local or remote, to facilitate large installation.
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Although Netscape is a ahead of Microsoft in adding new features to the browser, Microsoft is pushing to catch up.
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Industry regulators proposed giving this information greater prominence and adding new features .
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When it finally is released, the new Windows will sport some cool new features .
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Some of the new features are really rather special.
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Netscape is betting that the impressive new features of Navigator Version 2 will preserve their position as a leading Internet software company.
notable
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Its most notable feature is the sturdy triangular gatehouse.
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In the harsh light, its most notable feature is a small metal grate over a drain in the very center.
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One notable feature of the gold standard was that it allowed automatic adjustment to take place via changes in expenditure and output.
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One of the most notable features of this mosaic is its. variable quality of draughtsmanship and execution.
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One of the notable features is that executive search consultants are a good deal younger than previously.
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The only other notable feature is the pronounced crest which gives the bird its name.
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There were two notable features of the museum community's response to this ongoing crisis, at least as manifested at the convention.
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A notable feature of the temple was the unobtrusiveness of its entrances.
original
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That also has been restored, with modern climatic control, lighting and rewiring, but with its original decorative features .
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Built in 1806 with lots of original features set in pleasant surroundings, guest lounge with open coal fire.
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All of these factors may be detrimental to original interior features .
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Inside, several original features remain, including the stained glass windows, oak and rosewood panelling, and parquet flooring.
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This is a massive departure for the Kings Of Simulation, and has many original features .
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Of the cathedral's original features , the splendid choir is the most striking.
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Today, it is a warm and friendly hotel where original features add character and style.
particular
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A dominant characteristic of the location-factor school is its focus on the particular features of areas in order to explain their relative fortunes.
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Especially in large urban areas, a particular linguistic feature of a regional dialect might well be influenced by social factors.
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No, there wasn't any particular feature to account for it, she decided irritably.
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The expansion of white-collar unionism was a particular feature of the most recent phase.
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Two particular features of the system of office-holding may have eroded royal control.
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If you have query about information mentioned in a particular feature ask the person who wrote.
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It may well be that the better education of orphan girls was a particular feature of the experiment.
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Again highlighting drawings, as in the Petersen field guides draws attention to particular features which should be present.
prominent
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The same is true where harmonic colour is to be a prominent feature of the music.
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This gap is one of the most prominent features on the political landscape at the dawn of 1996.
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Rhythmic pulse can be a very prominent and essential feature of the music.
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Renal magnesium wasting is a prominent feature .
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Transnational migration, by no means a novel phenomenon, is also a prominent feature of many communities.
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Moreover, a prominent feature in the gel retardation experiments is the presence of a smear between the two well-defined bands.
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Revision and recycling is a prominent feature of the course, pulling together all strands of students' learning to date.
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At around 40 pence per portion, they are a prominent feature on any chip shop menu.
regular
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The coffee morning is to be a regular feature and will be held at Harewood House every second Saturday in the month.
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This is the first time we've had a regular monthly feature in the magazine just for Silver electronics.
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These fine, regular features do not come from me.
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More attention has been paid to lesbians and gay men in regular feature slots.
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Storytime is a regular feature in the school timetable, and stories about the past can slot naturally into this framework.
significant
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Similarly on the syntactic level, individual features are likely to have a less significant effect than features in combination.
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The contrast may itself be a significant feature of the overall pattern.
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In itself this is not a particularly distinctive or particularly significant feature .
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A falling savings ratio and rapidly rising consumer expenditure were certainly significant features of the second half of the 1980s.
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It may well have significant features of more than one language.
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Two distinct mechanisms are responsible for their development into significant morphological features .
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Internally, the only significant architectural feature was the two-storey entrance hall, and this is to be retained.
special
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They have a special hook feature for hanging in the shower.
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And a hook to entice reporters to produce special features about the author would be helpful.
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A special feature is a cantilevered bay window which is designed to create more space and to give plenty of natural light.
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The special feature of chirp radar is that it does not have a fixed carrier frequency during each shriek.
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Salt ways present no special features that distinguish them from other roads and lanes on the map or on the ground.
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The diagram shows the special features of the Algae Buster.
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Future prospects. 17. Special features , if any.
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A special feature of the boat is the extensive galley which rivals most domestic kitchens.
striking
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And indeed, it is the potential complementarity of the views that is their most striking feature .
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Its only striking feature was a large, predatory mouth, like the front-end grille on a cheap flash motor.
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The multi-level hipped and gabled roof forms one of the project's most striking features .
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Its height is the striking feature and this is emphasised by the spire.
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The most striking feature about the Treaty of Rome, however, was the speed with which it had been reached.
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Often the only striking feature of such a representation is the very erratic behaviour of the observations in relation to time.
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The most striking feature of the Labour candidate list is the rise of the professional politicians.
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The most striking feature of the diagram is its complexity; and yet Figure 1.2 is vastly oversimplified.
strong
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She liked a man to have strong features .
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Here religion is the strongest feature of civilizations, at the heart of both their present and their past.
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As with most pre-retirement education, individual financial counselling is a strong feature of the retirement holiday weeks.
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I think Janir resembles her more, with his dark skin, curly hair and strong features .
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For what seemed an age, she studied his features , strong lean features which she had come to know so well.
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Eyes closed, his strong features were peaceful in repose.
unique
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An unique feature of our Parish life is perpetual exposition of the Blessed Sacrament.
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One useful, if imperfect, measure of luxury in a car is the number of unique features it has.
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The unique feature of ergonomics is its emphasis on the characteristics of human operators and their relevance to the design of work.
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Our voice-mail program has a unique feature that we recommend.
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A unique feature of the Video Guide is that it offers alternative lesson plans.
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Another unique feature of this story is the duplication of stepmothers.
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The unique features for elemental analysis are the direct monitoring of surface hydrogen and the extreme sensitivity to the outermost atomic layers.
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This ability was sharpened by these players' meetings, which were a unique feature of football at this time.
■ NOUN
design
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The book also looks at costings, materials, design features plus the legal and financial angles of building your own home.
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And this particular design feature led to a major problem that no one had really anticipated.
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To be sure, designers on one side may pirate good ideas, may imitate design features , from the other side.
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The cavalier dismissal of a major design feature of the building can not have been easy to accept.
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Are we looking for sincerity, value for money, and good design features ?
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The facility incorporates many interesting design features .
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One design feature I did like was incorporating the heater in the filter compartment.
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To do this they work together with the other design features of a funboard.
film
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Shorts are the firmly established way in which the feature film-makers of the future are spotted and developed.
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We want to make the first feature film with a laugh track.
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Fiona Fullerton, then only fifteen and in her third feature film , played Alice.
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A high-profile Hollywood feature film now runs about $ 50 million to produce.
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Recollect the feature films of the living desert, the vanishing prairie, the rams butting heads and salmon swimming upstream?
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The early feature films took up society as the situation required.
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The first star of a Steven Spielberg feature film may not be a name you recognize.
■ VERB
distinguish
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Developing management Management development should be an obsession Most outstanding companies can be distinguished by one particular feature .
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This causes a complete north-south ambiguity of the map: there is no way to distinguish northern from southern features .
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Wealth during industrialisation was no longer adequate as a distinguishing feature of social class.
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You know, to put on my passport where it says any scars or distinguishing features .
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In other words, they take part in the endless circulation of images that is a distinguishing feature of postmodernism.
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It is a distinguished feature in an undistinguished landscape; a building or place of outstanding historic, aesthetic or cultural importance.
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It is important to distinguish such erosional features from true tectonic scarps since only the latter indicate recent or current fault activity.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
animated cartoon/film/feature etc
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All the energy and excitement in this live-action remake of the much-loved Disney animated film went into merchandizing and marketing.
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Application Discuss animated cartoons with your students.
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Beauty and the Beast was the first animated film ever nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
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Give them the following information: Every time you see an animated cartoon you are seeing a series of pictures.
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The two animated films are the No. 1 and No. 2 top-selling movie videos of all time.
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There is a large selection of animated cartoons produced for children.
compose your face/features/thoughts
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He held out his hand to his junior master and composed his face into a solemn expression of trust.
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I compose my face into a smile.
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I tried to compose my features into a combination of nonchalance and justification.
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They had composed their faces, but their eyes sparkled and their mouths yearned to smile.
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When asked a question do not rush at your answer but give yourself a second or two to compose your thoughts.
mobile mouth/face/features
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He finds a woman in black lace, with piercing eyes and a mobile face.
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I finally found Martin Clunes, the most mobile mouth in show business, lurking behind a large moustache.
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They did not show emotions as plainly as more mobile faces did.
strong nose/chin/features
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Beneath the strong nose was a dark moustache, thin and slicked down, which gave him a Latin look.
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Eyes closed, his strong features were peaceful in repose.
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He had a large square head, strong features, the worried look of a rustic crossing streets in the capital.
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I think Janir resembles her more, with his dark skin, curly hair and strong features.
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It actually detracts from one of email's strongest features-simplicity.
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She gets my goat sometimes with her long, strong nose and her self-assertion.
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She liked a man to have strong features.
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Sunlight reflected from the snow outside flashed off his rimless pince-nez perched on the bridge of his strong nose.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Are there any special features about the way Ireland trains its teachers?
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Federalism remains a very important feature of American politics.
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He had a small face with delicate features.
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Her eyes are her best feature .
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Information on employment is a central feature of this training course.
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One of the features of auto-immune diseases is that they are often genetically similar.
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Patriotism was a prominent feature in Bush's election campaign.
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The hotel's most attractive feature is its magnificent view of Mount Hood.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Despite their apparent diversity, most of these practices have certain features in common.
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In 1946 he sent her to Paris as a feature writer for his many publications.
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Learning about landscape design, you know - using natural features, hills or rivers or whatever - and improving on it.
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On the contrary, features and limbs are perceived in isolation without relation, as fragments rather than as part of a totality.
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Other features include reviews, gardening news and links to assorted gardening magazines.
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That would justify the presence of horses on the frieze, since cavalry competitions were a feature of funerals for heroes.
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We shall also look at certain features of the learning environment of the departments which are of particular interest.
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Window design is also a characteristic feature of Gothic architecture.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
prominently
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The Haringey Lesbian and Gay Unit was established weeks before the 1986 council elections, and it featured prominently in the campaign.
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But men do not feature prominently as family members acting in their familial role.
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The show was dominated by painting with issued-based and figurative work featuring prominently .
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The resort, best left unnamed, was featured prominently in a recent national travel magazine.
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This always included milk and green bananas, though the latter do not feature prominently on a wild orang's menu.
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Its name will feature prominently on the 1993-95 Lotus cars' back wing as well as the drivers' racing suits.
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Teachers featured prominently in the list, along with school cooks and caretakers.
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The content and format of the checklist will usually feature prominently in the proceedings.
strongly
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Indeed they should feature strongly in any retirement counselling programme.
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Buy-outs from receivership featured strongly during the year, while buy-ins from receivership fell.
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Posters and photographs featured strongly in the catalogue and the general mixture was much the same as that in the other sales.
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Pet hates and favourite amusements will feature strongly .
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Housing, public health and education featured strongly .
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The module will be undertaken on a group basis and self and peer assessment will feature strongly .
■ NOUN
artist
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March 2-April 1: Uncommercial Art by Commercial Artists , a group exhibit featuring seven major contemporary artists.
character
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It features the character , Gregory, and you in a talent show.
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Of 139 television series examined, only 18 featured a continuing Hispanic character , the study found.
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This is the Old South that featured everyone's favorite character , the fugitive from a chain gang.
concert
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The press, in particular, printed sensational reports of the happenings at cinemas and concerts featuring rock and roll films and music.
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Its summer concerts , featuring such stars as Harry Belafonte and Boz Scaggs, draw crowds.
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What the future entails is some very contemporary music slipped into concerts featuring lovable old favorites.
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The concert featured two new ear-opening works.
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The orchestra's fifth classic concert features the works of Rossini, Rorem and Brahms.
exhibition
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The day will include a fashion show and the exhibition will feature everything for the machine knitter.
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Performance will be followed by a tango exhibition featuring Mara Luna y El Brujo, with dancing in the courtyard afterwards.
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Harrogate 89 was the largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever, featuring more than 260 exhibitors from 14 countries.
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The Craftworks gallery in Belfast's Linenhall Street is currently staging an exhibition featuring products geared towards children.
menu
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Imaginative menu featuring an international range of dishes.
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Best of all, Happy Hour includes an almost unbelievable bar menu featuring specials for $ 1.95 and $ 4.95 per item.
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This national chain's menu features a variety of deli sandwiches and salads at very affordable prices.
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The menu featured home-baked bread and sole.
program
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Fitness programs feature water aerobics, self-defense techniques and strength training.
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That program features not only various process improvement techniques but also a fundamental change in the way Boeing is organized.
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But the programs featured a variety of themes and methods and were not consistent in advocating abstinence as the central message.
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The program also features a neat video clip of Norman introducing the game and wishing players good luck.
series
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The series also features a performance by an expanded string ensemble of Brahms' Sextet in B flat.
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Jance's series features a sheriff named Joanna Brady, who works in southeastern Arizona.
site
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The rest of the 230 acre site will continue to feature a wide variety of displays.
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The new site will have features like games to win coupons, an interactive cookbook and more than 400 recipes.
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The site features several large retailers, including Gottschalks Inc., a California based department store chain.
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They can track how often you visit their site and what features you like best.
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The memorial at the bomb site featured mournful bagpipes played Amazing Grace after Marine Capt.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
animated cartoon/film/feature etc
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All the energy and excitement in this live-action remake of the much-loved Disney animated film went into merchandizing and marketing.
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Application Discuss animated cartoons with your students.
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Beauty and the Beast was the first animated film ever nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
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Give them the following information: Every time you see an animated cartoon you are seeing a series of pictures.
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The two animated films are the No. 1 and No. 2 top-selling movie videos of all time.
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There is a large selection of animated cartoons produced for children.
mobile mouth/face/features
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He finds a woman in black lace, with piercing eyes and a mobile face.
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I finally found Martin Clunes, the most mobile mouth in show business, lurking behind a large moustache.
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They did not show emotions as plainly as more mobile faces did.
strong nose/chin/features
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Beneath the strong nose was a dark moustache, thin and slicked down, which gave him a Latin look.
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Eyes closed, his strong features were peaceful in repose.
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He had a large square head, strong features, the worried look of a rustic crossing streets in the capital.
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I think Janir resembles her more, with his dark skin, curly hair and strong features.
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It actually detracts from one of email's strongest features-simplicity.
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She gets my goat sometimes with her long, strong nose and her self-assertion.
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She liked a man to have strong features.
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Sunlight reflected from the snow outside flashed off his rimless pince-nez perched on the bridge of his strong nose.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Opera San Jose will feature operas by Puccini and Verdi this spring.
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Sales have gone up for items featured on money-off coupons.
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The cordless telephone featured 900-megahertz circuitry.
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The original 'Star Trek' series, featuring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock, lasted three years.
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The play features two young actresses.
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Wilson's first solo album features her version of "Love Child."
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For a woman to be in Playboy is the same as a guy being featured in Success magazine.
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Imaginative menu featuring an international range of dishes.
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Other facilities include two swimming pools and nightly entertainment featuring steel bands, limbo dancing and calypso music.
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The afternoon will feature three stakes and a closely watched maiden race.
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The books feature various babies getting up to all sorts of tricks in different situations.
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The pub has been featured in an episode of Central Television's beer-loving detective Inspector Morse.
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To catch up, Smith designed drill bits featuring synthetic diamonds with curved surfaces, rather than more conventional flat versions.