I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a broad area/field (= including a lot of different things )
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Psychobiology is a broad area covering many different topics.
a cotton field/farmer/plantation etc
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Texas produced half of the US cotton crop.
a cricket field/ground/pitch (= area of ground where cricket is played )
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the school cricket field
a field experiment (= one that takes place in the real world, not in a laboratory )
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In field experiments, we used patients who did not know that it was a test situation.
a sports field/ground
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The village has its own sports field.
an area/field of research
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This is a very exciting area of research.
field a candidate (= have one of your party's members competing for election )
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The Green Party decided not to field a candidate in Darlington.
field corn
field day
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The newspapers had a field day when the trial finished.
field event
field glasses
field goal
field hockey
field hospital
field marshal
field officer
field questions (= answer a lot of questions )
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He fielded questions from reporters about the announcement.
field sports
field test
field trip
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a geography field trip
gravitational field
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the Moon’s gravitational field
lead the world/market/pack/field
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US companies lead the world in biotechnology.
left field
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People don’t know how to react when a question like that comes at them out of left field.
magnetic field
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the Earth’s magnetic field
pioneer in the field of
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He was a pioneer in the field of biotechnology.
plant a field/garden/area etc (with sth)
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a hillside planted with fir trees
playing field
ploughed field
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a ploughed field
sb’s area/field of expertise (= the subject or activity that someone is skilled in )
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a historian whose area of expertise is the Roman Empire
till the soil/land/fields etc
track and field
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
gravitational
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Both Mercury and Mars have gravitational fields too low to retain an atmosphere.
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Let us return to our sphere of particles dropping in a gravitational field .
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The gravitational field generated in its productive phase by the legislative cycle attracted items from several diverse sources.
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Both Earth and Moon have gravitational fields that allow bodies that would have missed them without their gravitational attraction to hit them.
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As the star shrank, the gravitational field at the surface would become stronger and the escape velocity would increase.
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Now there was new prey for the clashing gravitational fields .
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In practice instruments could not survive such a journey; they would be torn apart by the increasing gravitational field gradients.
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In the Jupiter fly-by, the ship had used the gravitational field of the planet to increase her velocity.
green
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All round the small station were green fields and rolling hills.
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There were green fields as far as the eye could see.
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Scattered farmhouses, sentry telephone poles, and budding green fields flanked them on each side.
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Telling my story, I looked at the green fields of wheat moving in the wind.
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As for the regionally-planned green field sites for development, they are usually placed near new urban centres deliberately to provide employment.
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Seen from the air this looked like a good green field to land in.
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It appeared to be an old two-dimensional film presentation; an old fashioned oil-driven military vehicle was speeding across a verdant green field .
left
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He ignores information on the left even though he has no left visual field loss.
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While he used more complex sentences consistently, some of them seemed to come out of left field .
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Hey, here's one from left field .
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Some of the griping comes out of left field .
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Walk down the narrow road and cross the ladder stile on the left into a field .
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Raul Mondesi stroked it crisply into left field for a single, ending the no-hitter.
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Fans in Atlanta still talk about the shot Linares hit off the facade in left field in a 1993 exhibition game.
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Leadoff hitter Brett Hardy, a lefty, hit a line drive to left field .
magnetic
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That's ... that's because chromosomes are affected by electric and magnetic fields .
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Iron might not have melted and sunk to form the liquid core, and the magnetic field would never have developed.
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They cooled the sample below its critical temperature so it became superconducting, then applied an increasingly strong magnetic field .
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The magnetic field that led to its discovery had vanished at the moment of that radio shriek.
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Weak magnetic fields have been detected in surface rocks.
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This was expected to be a clue to changes in stellar magnetic fields .
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It is linked to the magnetic field of the transmitted wave - not the turns of the coil.
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The flow of a magnetic field is taken from magnetic north pole to magnetic south pole.
open
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Good fishing in the Ancre - not that I ever caught anything. Open fields with some large woods and copses.
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The other four factors are virtually an open field .
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Before that it was simply a part of the open fields of Great Bowden, a village a mile or two away.
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Within minutes, police shot a dozen tear-gas canisters into the crowd, gathered on an open field .
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With air conditioned offices and a very pleasant aspect across open fields .
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They all crossed the road and hurried down an open field , and then he jumped another fence.
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The door is as still as the sky; is as open as fields .
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The Aug. 24-Sept. 3 trek covers Cape Province wineries, private gardens, open fields and a flower show.
playing
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On this playing field , actions speak louder than words.
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Other improvement measures include a playing field and recycled and painted border railings.
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It would not even create a truly level playing field .
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At the bottom end of the playing fields is a rocky outcrop.
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The Sport and Recreation Department offers some of the finest indoor sports facilities and outdoor playing fields in the province.
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I understand your contractors maintain the grass outside the neighbouring bungalows and trim the hedges round the playing field .
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The windows of the Methodist Church adjoining the playing field have been broken numerous times.
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There is a playing field with equipment for the younger members of the community, and a football and cricket pitch.
visual
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One kind is vivid, detailed, colorful, large, and in the center of the visual field .
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Frequent measurements of visual fields and acuity are obtained to detect optic nerve damage.
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You find that cells in adjacent parts of the visual cortex are activated by stimulation in adjacent parts of the visual field .
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You get a visual on the field with-out having to go over everything in detail.
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The two forged blocks set up a visual field where the entire space becomes a manifestation of sculpture.
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Figure 10.1 shows the percentage difference in correct identification of stimuli between visual fields for each condition.
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He ignores information on the left even though he has no left visual field loss.
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All the women had full visual fields .
■ NOUN
day
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In the years between Swann and Burnage the media had in any case had a field day .
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His nomination could be a field day for Democrats.
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The tabloid newspapers would have a field day .
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Conspiracy buffs are having a field day speculating about White House motives.
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Any bacteria that may be in the food will have a field day and grow.
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Well, the crackpots will have a field day with these revelations, Holmes!
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Secretive sects also had a field day .
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The slippery, deceptive Mr Clinton will have a field day .
football
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On October 15, 1994, Silje was playing with them on a local football field .
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At 14 stories high and three football fields in length, it is the biggest passenger ship afloat.
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We don't have any factories or co-ops here in Alcala, but we've got a marvellous football field .
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The area, which is the size of about 10 football fields , easily hosts thousands of visitors.
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The only time he wasn't was on the football field .
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He donated $ 20, 000 for construction of a fitness center at the high-school football field .
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It's a bit like scoring a goal on a football field when all the other players are men.
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Brad was a hero on the football field , and Annette cheered him on as a majorette.
gas
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Moreover there are indications that in this gas field a secondary fracture porosity may exist.
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On the liquids front condensate is being produced at the Kapuni on-shore gas field .
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No gas fields occur in the Bramsche and Vlotho Massifs, although in the past many boreholes have been drilled there.
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Privatization of oil and gas fields A decision to privatize oil and gas fields was announced on Oct. 1.
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The Atyrausk zone contained oil and gas fields .
goal
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I had never kicked a field goal like that in the snow.
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But the taping of the ankle allows him to kick field goals and extra points.
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The first three times they got inside the Saints' 20-yard line, Jeff Wilkins kicked field goals .
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Their chances of getting close enough for a winning field goal with more than seven minutes remaining seemed very high.
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Sure, Florida State had another late field goal sail wide right.
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Wilkins kicked a 35-yard field goal .
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He made 11 of 15 field goals .
officer
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Since the field officer is a loner, he controls his output to a substantial degree.
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My field officers and adjutant were all dead.
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Our detectives and field officers are to be debriefed Monday night by case supervisors.
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Each district is policed by a field officer responsible to an area supervisor.
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Henry Bergson, an experienced field officer , was assigned to be 3d Brigade night duty officer.
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The field officer , after all, has the power to make a discharger spend a substantial sum of money.
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These senior officers supervise the activities of the one or two assistant field officers also found in most areas.
oil
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A third appraisal of this potentially significant heavy oil field will be drilled in 1993.
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For many residents of the oil fields , Pemex executives seem little different from the foreign overlords they replaced.
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The resultant computer models are used in oil field development.
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A slim slice of those revenues has always been cut for the communities in the oil fields , local politicians say.
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Now the armed forces are working the oil fields .
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The downturn in the energy industry dragged on so long that workers drifted away and oil field equipment became outdated.
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He himself grew up in slums, in one-horse towns, in abandoned oil fields .
research
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Where quantitative analysis requires mathematical and computer skills, area studies require language training and extensive field research .
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Extensive field research can mean long periods living under adverse conditions to which the researcher is unaccustomed.
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Moreover, funding organizations may be less inclined to support projects that envision long periods of field research .
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Secondly, this list of headings conveys a quite false impression of how field research is conducted.
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His contribution lay firstly in his intensive field research , quite novel by the standards of his time.
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The approach to pro-active searches is well established and involves a combination of desk and field research .
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What is the role of field research within the market research process? 4.
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The achievement of these aims imposed certain restrictions on the methods used during this stage of the field research .
rice
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Isn't it true that the men steal from the rice fields ?
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You could die dawn there with my cousin Trung, in some bloody Delta rice field .
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The main area, still submerged, was contoured under water-all for rice fields that were no longer needed.
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Women gathered at streams to wash clothes and gossip, and they weeded rice fields by hand.
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Several species are regarded as troublesome weeds in rice fields and irrigation ditches.
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Most rice fields were owned in unequal shares, and the produce was distributed accordingly when the crop was harvested.
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Gandhi the rice field , Tagore the rose garden.
trial
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Government ministers rely on the conclusions from the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment prior to the field trials .
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The organisation planned its first fibre field trials in 1974, and began them in 1977.
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No proposed field trial has been rejected by the Committee.
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Mainsborne, as the system is called, is being installed for field trials in 1000 houses in London and Milton Keynes.
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The use of molecular markers will sharply reduce or even eliminate field trials .
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The results of field trials with a live test are currently being evaluated and the Ministry refuses to comment on them.
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Field trials to start Interruptible tariffs will soon be tested in two years of field trials costing about £1.5 million.
trip
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A few field trips are also arranged.
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Kerin and classmates were on a field trip from Horizon Middle School in Ferndale, about 150 miles north.
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The rest went on books, equipment, stationery and field trips .
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In middle school, your children would rather attend your execution than have you attend their field trip .
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He shows her a text message sent by Emily asking how the field trip is going.
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Those schools have taken field trips to their local missions.
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When the students return from the field trip , Emily is dismayed when Gina does not get off the minibus.
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Students can now see a field trip , the descriptions and the student reports.
■ VERB
lead
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In the home market, it led the field by a long way, with 4,337,487 units sold.
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McGee led the qualifying field with 71.
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They soon arrived at a gate that led into a field and Jack was forced to stop.
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He led the nation in field goal percentage for several weeks.
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The Doctor and his companion were led across a field to an archaeological dig.
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And so saying, he led me over the fields to his childhood home.
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Swanson and Percival continued to show excellent form, leading home their respective fields .
leave
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The end came when Edward's royal standard was seen to be leaving the field .
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The states still could, but the federal government had left the field: the forty-eight governors stood there alone.
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The spectators began to leave the field .
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Rain had fallen all morning, leaving the field better suited for mud wrestling than for football.
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He left the field wide open for whatever the other players in this charming charade might suggest.
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In addition, she is able to return and visually locate objects that have left her field of vision.
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Mina was the first to leave for the fields .
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Which left the field of supposed second-stringers that I had trouble naming the other day.
play
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I would often see her watching me as I played in the fields .
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The use of a network-based infrastructure reduces the cost and levels the playing field for both small and large businesses.
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The 25 acres of the Peffermill playing fields are within easy reach from the main areas of the University.
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We know that Darren Daulton is playing right field because his surgically repaired knees will no longer permit him to catch.
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Better chance to play the field .
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We usually played in the fields and around the barns and straw ricks together.
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When will we have a level playing field in Northern Ireland with fair competition between all ports?
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Most plans have called for reducing its size and putting the playing field closer to the fans.
plough
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It would have been easier to drive across a ploughed field .
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There was no more open country now; we camped always on dark, ploughed fields .
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These are the monuments to generations of individual farmers ploughing and draining their fields .
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The ploughed fields were purple and Ambadji, larger now but still riding the horizon, was blue on pale pink.
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In Suffolk it was customary until recent years to plough a field in stetches or lands of varying widths.
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He went back as directed, and found the man he had in mind, who was ploughing his family fields .
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Dumont does not scruple to show the naked corpse, left on the edge of a ploughed field .
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How can we have grain without oxen to plough the fields ?
work
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Sampling techniques were adopted from statisticians working in the fields of biology and botany.
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She is seen working in the field and laboratory with her daughter, Shawnette.
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The project will continue to serve as a centre for other scholars working in this field .
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They set her to work in a field where it was so hot she practically burned her feet.
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This can save a great deal of time when they are being worked in the field .
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I can place the farmer, working in the fields .
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In this way courses are enriched with case studies and presentations from experts working in relevant fields .
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Although they enjoyed working in their field of specialty, a career in management was appealing.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
If I should die, think only this of me:/That there's some corner of a foreign field/That is forever England
a level playing field
have a field day
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Politicians and the media have had a field day with the incident.
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Any bacteria that may be in the food will have a field day and grow.
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In such situations, information biases have a field day....
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The court was agog and the journalists continued to scribble away, knowing they were about to have a field day.
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The slippery, deceptive Mr Clinton will have a field day.
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The tabloid newspapers would have a field day.
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They'd have a field day.
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Well, the crackpots will have a field day with these revelations, Holmes!
level the playing field
out of/from left field
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Some of the griping comes out of left field.
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When something like this comes out of left field at you....
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While he used more complex sentences consistently, some of them seemed to come out of left field.
play the field
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Better chance to play the field.
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He gave up playing the field and married a year ago, to a sinewy woman called Cheryl Berkoff.
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Perhaps because he plays the field.
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So she had played the field, enjoying male company without getting in too deep or too seriously.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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fields full of cotton
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a field of wheat
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a football field
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Bartlett defeated a crowded field of candidates for the job of mayor.
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birds such as skylarks whose habitat is open fields and farmland
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Cole is the most noted expert in the field .
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Keith has a degree in engineering, but couldn't find a job in his field .
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Laycock is one of the most brilliant psychiatrists in the field .
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Several school playing fields have been sold off to raise money.
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Some open spaces north of the city will be made into sports fields for leisure activities.
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The field for the user's name is 25 characters long.
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The crowd cheered as the players ran onto the field .
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The fans cheered as he walked off the field .
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The football field was too muddy to play on, so the game was cancelled
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There are good employment opportunities in the field of healthcare, particularly nursing.
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These fields boast among the highest professional wages in the nation.
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We passed cows grazing in the fields.
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We went out onto the school playing fields to watch a game of football.
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Webster is a great success in his chosen field .
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What exactly is your field of study?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A few were experts in the field .
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Follow the path to the field corner.
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Meanwhile thy various subcommittees reported on public expenditure in their fields.
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Men may work periodically as day laborers on others' fields, as carpenters, or masons.
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Our family had harvested the cabbage and turnips from our field and were preparing to wash and salt them.
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The fields flood in winter and in summer dry and starve because every plant grows to the same depth.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
call
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A smartly dressed female presenter has to field calls from a small audience and international callers.
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Many of the new workers are in training and should start fielding calls by late next week, she said.
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So when the station came clean, they had to field several angry calls accusing them of pro-Nottingham Forest bias.
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Around-the-clock, certified poison specialists field calls on 1970s-era phone consoles with rows of blinking white and red plastic buttons.
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He fielded the phone calls and promised answers - answers which never came.
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Later, they fielded the phone calls from recruiters, sat for home visits and helped their daughters sort out offers.
candidate
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The Green Party fielded 256 candidates , and averaged 1.3 percent of the vote.
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Even before the crisis there had been talk of fielding a Popular Front candidate in Oxford.
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They would have to field candidates for a variety of offices at regular intervals or risk being closed.
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Labour are fielding a strong candidate in Alan Milburn.
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Although it fielded no candidates in the prefectural contests, it won four seats in the national constituency.
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It fielded four candidates who averaged just under 10 percent where they stood.
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The Greens fielded 260 candidates in 2000 and won 81 races, mostly local.
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At two state elections this month, Mrs Hanson stunned everyone by reappearing, fielding candidates and causing havoc with the results.
player
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Coaches often are left to feel abandoned as well, unable to field enough players , even in the smaller leagues.
question
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President Bob Palmer is expected to be among those fielding questions which should get pretty pointed.
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A few other players checked their watches, eager to stop fielding questions that only the Games can really answer now.
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He also caused consternation at the film's press conference by fielding almost all the questions himself.
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And that presents a big problem for Gilbert town officials who field constant questions about voting, emergency services and insurance.
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Since then, Carlton has coolly fielded questions for congressional inquisitors with wit and folksy aplomb.
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Wednesday, Molinari fielded question after question about her presumed lack of bias in the anchor role.
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The Rabari women made up lies on the spot to field the endless questions about me.
side
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Derry fielded their published side , at least nine of whom are expected to feature in next Sunday's Pairc An Iuir blockbuster.
team
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At the last two tournaments that Nomad played they fielded an illegal team and have subsequently been disqualified from these two tournaments.
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Enough talent exists to field a team that can at least compete with anyone in the league.
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A 15,000 crowd created a soccer-style atmosphere despite the fact that the tourists fielded essentially their second team .
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It can now be said that you can field a team from scratch and beat the Clippers.
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Not to be outdone, the staff are also fielding a strong team .
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He joined a Swift factory that was fielding a five-strong team , and immediately found himself struggling to get on the pace.
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Leeds fielded a team of youngsters.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
If I should die, think only this of me:/That there's some corner of a foreign field/That is forever England
a level playing field
have a field day
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Politicians and the media have had a field day with the incident.
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Any bacteria that may be in the food will have a field day and grow.
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In such situations, information biases have a field day....
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The court was agog and the journalists continued to scribble away, knowing they were about to have a field day.
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The slippery, deceptive Mr Clinton will have a field day.
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The tabloid newspapers would have a field day.
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They'd have a field day.
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Well, the crackpots will have a field day with these revelations, Holmes!
out of/from left field
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Some of the griping comes out of left field.
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When something like this comes out of left field at you....
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While he used more complex sentences consistently, some of them seemed to come out of left field.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Carlton fielded all five grounders hit his way.
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He fielded a soccer team with Argentinean and Brazilian talent.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Babyface, despite having fielded a record-tying 12 nominations, netted only a few of the tiny gramophones.
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He unlatched his web again and swam about the cockpit, fielding flotsam.
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His instinct was aggressive in all respects, especially in the fielding.
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Ulster fielded four new caps, but were not overawed by a Saltire side which included six internationalists.