adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fixed budget
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Our clients usually have a fixed budget.
a fixed charge
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There’s a fixed charge for having a dental check.
a fixed term
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The contract was for a fixed term of five years.
a fixed/set period (= that will not be changed )
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A tourist visa allows you to stay for a fixed period.
a fixed/unwavering/unblinking stare (= with your eyes not moving at all )
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His unwavering stare was making me feel pretty uneasy.
a flat/fixed rate (= one that does not change )
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Profits were taxed at a flat rate of 45 percent.
a flat/fixed/set fee (= a fee that is the same in every case )
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You pay a flat fee for all the services that are provided.
a set/fixed menu (= when the cook decides which dishes will be served to you, rather than you choosing for yourself )
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Dinner is three courses from a set menu.
a set/fixed pattern (= one that does not change )
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These incidents followed a set pattern.
fixed assets
fixed capital
fixed costs
fixed income
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pensioners living on a fixed income
fixed
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The rent is fixed for three years.
keep your gaze (fixed) on sb/sth (= keep looking at someone or something )
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I kept my gaze fixed on the television and didn’t look at him as he left the room.
no fixed abode (= no permanent home )
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a homeless person with no fixed abode
of no fixed address (= having no permanent home – used especially in news reports )
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a 25-year-old man of no fixed address
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
abode
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I was of no fixed abode , but I'd finished my time so they still let me go.
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Consider too the vulnerability of the homeless person with no fixed abode .
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Therefore a rabbit has no fixed abode .
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Stephen Leach, 35, of no fixed abode , said nothing during the brief hearing before Liverpool magistrates.
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For life here is junkie, is hooker is single-parent, is no fixed abode .
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Both were said to be of no fixed abode , although they originate from the Old Swan district of Liverpool.
address
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Gang leader Calton, 39, of no fixed address , was jailed for 25 years.
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Casabona, of no fixed address , denies kidnapping, attempted murder and administering poison with intent on March 20 last year.
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The brothers, both of no fixed address , are accused of the murders of Gary Pettitt and Jean Larkin.
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He is originally from the Manchester area but has no current fixed address .
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Sentence on Paul Jowers, of no fixed address , was adjourned for a social inquiry report.
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The man, of no fixed address , was found collapsed in his cell in the early hours of yesterday.
amount
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This was later changed to requisitioning fixed amounts of grain, which often went beyond taking surpluses.
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The law applies to any fixed amount of gas.
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It is particularly useful for paying fixed amounts such as club subscriptions and insurance premiums.
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The left-hand graph shows that at low pressure the volume of a fixed amount of gas is high.
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Complete reimbursement is obviously more attractive than a contribution of a fixed amount .
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Normally you will have to pay this fixed amount , even if you get a full rent rebate.
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In only 11 percent of companies was a fixed amount paid.
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When you press this, the exposure is increased by a fixed amount which lightens both the foreground subject and the background.
asset
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The inflows would typically be revenues from sales of products, sales of fixed assets , issues of shares and loans.
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Their system interfaces with Britannia's fixed asset management system and with standard accounting packages.
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We have a very large fixed asset base of £5 billion, producing £3 billion of sales.
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It is not a fixed asset as there is no intention to use it in the business.
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Fixed assets Significant changes in fixed assets are set out on pages 43 and 45.
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It is used to acquire fixed assets such as buildings and plant and to provide working capital.
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Examples could include prepayments, fixed assets , accruals, etc. 6.
capital
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I producing fixed capital , there would be a precipitate decline in those sectors.
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The majority of investment expenditure is on fixed capital formation rather than inventories and it is to this that we now turn.
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Only his fixed capital - his own money.
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The reason for this is that the renewal of fixed capital is normally to maintain existing production levels.
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By the autumn of 1975 around 11 percent of fixed capital was gathering dust.
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I shall also argue that crises have a material basis, which relates to the periodic replacement and expansion of fixed capital .
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Thus the mere replacement of fixed capital can lead to an increase in the overall level of economic activity.
charge
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If the fixed charge has to be very high it may induce people to abandon consumption of the commodity altogether.
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While obviously the fixed charge accords superior protection, there are sound reasons for taking a floating charge.
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Also not included are fixed charges on bank accounts and, more importantly, fixed charges on shares held in a subsidiary.
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Crystallisation Crystallisation is the term used to describe the process by which a floating charge is converted into a normal fixed charge.
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An example of the fixed charge is the mortgage and no more need be said about it here.
cost
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Corporation tax, by increasing the fixed costs , in effect raises the entry barriers to the industry.
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Variable and fixed costs are traditionally assumed to be linear.
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Therefore, fixed costs are unavoidable; that is they will be incurred whether or not the firm manufactures and sells both products.
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Deterioration of market conditions and higher fixed costs were blamed for the decline.
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If fixed costs are shared between products a method of allocating and apportioning these costs to individual products must be introduced.
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But Weitzman claims that scale economies can not arise purely through fixed costs; that these costs must be sunk.
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The argument that fixed costs are incompatible with scale economies is as follows.
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Their retail branches are a fixed cost , so the more business they put through them the better.
costs
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Corporation tax, by increasing the fixed costs , in effect raises the entry barriers to the industry.
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Variable and fixed costs are traditionally assumed to be linear.
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Therefore, fixed costs are unavoidable; that is they will be incurred whether or not the firm manufactures and sells both products.
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Defining as the elasticity of substitution in fixed costs , and as the shares in fixed costs.
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Deterioration of market conditions and higher fixed costs were blamed for the decline.
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If fixed costs are shared between products a method of allocating and apportioning these costs to individual products must be introduced.
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But Weitzman claims that scale economies can not arise purely through fixed costs; that these costs must be sunk.
date
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For example a lease provides for rent reviews at fixed dates in the years 1995, 2000, 2005 and 2010.
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The provisions are contained in Ord 9, r 2 which applies to both default and fixed date summonses.
exchange
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This aided the operation of the fixed exchange rate system and helped to maintain a low inflation rate in the international economy.
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Once the system of fixed exchange rates had been abandoned there was no alternative but for currencies to float.
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We abandoned that after the war for the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates.
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Under a fixed exchange rate a currency flow surplus is likely to persist for some time.
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Insulation from external inflation With fixed exchange rates, inflation abroad is transmitted directly into higher import prices.
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With a fixed exchange rate, has not this country badly lost competitiveness?
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So far we have briefly explained how a free-floating and a rigidly fixed exchange rate system are supposed to operate.
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But the system of fixed exchange rates established after the war and based on the dollar had already disintegrated by that time.
fee
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The fixed fee interview scheme has not been successful.
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Although many solicitors offer fixed fee interviews they are given little publicity beyond referral lists and notices in some solicitors' offices.
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More serious to the surveying practice is the job which has a fixed fee and runs over budgeted time.
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The fixed fee element above is not contingent on a deal being completed.
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The sub-licensees paid a fixed fee , unrelated to their profits, to the taxpayer in Hong Kong.
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Remortgage legal services available for a single fixed fee .
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Many workers in the private sector receive some payment as a fixed fee independent of the value of their marginal product.
idea
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But he had a fixed idea in his mind that to be a bishop was not his work.
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He's come here with a fixed idea , which he's been looking forward to for half his life.
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He was a man of fixed ideas and a firm believer.
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Try not to start out with too many fixed ideas of what is going to happen.
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Perhaps he's right not to attach too much importance to the Bible and to fixed ideas .
income
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It is an illiquid asset which generates a fixed income depending on the stock's interest rate.
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This has pushed up housing costs and forced retirees with some capital but often on fixed incomes to seek out cheaper places.
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It especially hits pensioners and those on fixed incomes who rely on the interest to meet their bills.
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It eats into savings and hurts those who live on fixed incomes .
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They do not receive a fixed income , but have board and lodgings free.
interest
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For gilts and other fixed interest securities the costs are up to £15,000, £15; and over £15,000, £30.
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Normally rising interest rates will depress the price of gilts by making their fixed interest payments less attractive to investors.
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The fixed interest rate means you know exactly your commitment each month, which saves problems with forecasting your cashflow.
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The assets are actively managed and represent a wide spread of fixed interest stocks, U.K. and overseas equity shares and property.
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Next is a desire to maximise fixed interest rate financing thereby providing some degree of certainty as to the project's financial cost.
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However, Norwich Union has publicly stated that it intends to devote a greater part of its investments to fixed interest securities.
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It covers trading in all listed and unlisted securities, gilts, and other fixed interest securities on the London Stock Exchange.
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This applies to most matured fixed interest Savings Certificates issues.
investment
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Here we review the factors which allegedly affect this type of fixed investment .
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There are important issues arising about the complementarities between fixed investment and training.
length
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It should not be a fixed length sentence.
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The carrying system is fixed length , with the padded shoulder harnesses sewn in.
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String Variables and Garbage 2.4.3 Strings 2.4.3.1 Unlike numeric variables, string variables do not have a fixed length .
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This might be a fixed length pipeline, or even a single sequential processor.
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This effectively reduces the file packing, and may also cause fixed lengths to become variable in length.
number
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But a brain with a fixed number of cells almost certainly works better than one whose cells are constantly dividing.
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Each contestant took a fixed number of dross leads from a box.
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Often, there is no fixed number of children per node.
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F Format Numbers are printed with a fixed number of decimal places.
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Perhaps it might make more sense to restrict people to a fixed number of pets.
penalty
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When Model returned with his wife and children, Constable Bedford asked them if they wished to pay the fixed penalty immediately.
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Councils will be given the power to operate fixed penalty schemes like that operated by Westminster city council.
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Male speaker I can deal with the incident by means of a fixed penalty ticket.
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Maximum penalties , and occasionally fixed penalties, are set out in statutes and periodically revised.
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The extension of the fixed penalty system that is now projected will reduce the number of small cases in magistrates' courts.
percentage
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These contributions will be charged over the average expected remaining service lives of employees as a fixed percentage of expected future pay.
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Annual management charges are relatively simple, being a fixed percentage levied on the total value of the trust.
period
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Other advances for fixed periods are only repaid at the end of that period.
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Under the existing procedures, their sentences had been reviewed by the Home Office after a fixed period .
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Finally, the contract is often a fixed period one.
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Here, the fixed period contract is very useful, if proper evaluation procedures are devised.
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The three major categories at retail level are overdrafts, personal loans for fixed periods , and mortgages.
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Apart from the fact that the fixed periods are unreasonably long, they are unreasonably arbitrary and rigid.
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The figures for black youngsters excluded indefinitely and for a fixed period were also above average.
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Astronomers, on the other hand, sought to introduce a regular intercalation by means of a cycle of fixed period .
point
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It offers the qualities of religion without rejecting any of the fixed points of modernity - science, progress, agnosticism.
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For a one-dimensional flow, the only possible attractor is a stable fixed point or sink.
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The bifurcations of fixed points are illustrated in Figs 3.1-3.
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If you can't lock ladders away inside, chain and padlock them horizontally to a fixed point .
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In his world these fixed points must be observed, if only because the servants expect them.
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Entrants will guide themselves to various fixed points on a simple route which sticks to tracks and existing paths.
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Individual junctions were defined by two fixed points which could be readily identified from the video record.
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These engagements and meal times should be considered the fixed points in each day.
points
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It offers the qualities of religion without rejecting any of the fixed points of modernity - science, progress, agnosticism.
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The bifurcations of fixed points are illustrated in Figs 3.1-3.
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In his world these fixed points must be observed, if only because the servants expect them.
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Entrants will guide themselves to various fixed points on a simple route which sticks to tracks and existing paths.
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Individual junctions were defined by two fixed points which could be readily identified from the video record.
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These engagements and meal times should be considered the fixed points in each day.
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Putting this more precisely, the proper time taken by light to pass to and fro between two fixed points in spaces oscillates.
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But most have stayed and worn well, reassuring and fixed points in an otherwise changing landscape.
position
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Galileo's view contradicted Church doctrine of the time that the earth was in a fixed position .
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The operating units have no fixed position but can move about the network from one location to another.
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By impacting with neighbouring particles they vibrate about a locus, and only appear to remain in a fixed position .
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Wait until a ferret fitted with a transmitter has taken up a fixed position down a burrow.
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As a result, these particles are held in fixed positions in a crystal lattice.
price
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The decree exempted a list of raw and construction materials and production and technical goods, which would remain at fixed prices .
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Your hotel offers a relatively inexpensive fixed price menu if you wish to take advantage of this.
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All currencies came to be expressed in terms of the dollar, and the dollar was officially convertible into gold at a fixed price .
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Non-stop entertainment, meal and wine included in fixed price .
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All have been tried before to varying degrees - we now favour the fixed price tender again.
rate
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You borrow at a fixed rate of interest and repay the loan over a number of years.
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Borrowers are also informed about special customer offers such as fixed rate mortgages.
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At the beginning of the first year, the fixed rate was 13.25% at a time when the variable rate was 15.25%.
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In 1992, the fixed rate was 9.25%.
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If you're looking for a fixed rate and a fixed term this is the account for you.
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The basic form of eurobond is the straight fixed rate bond, having bullet repayment.
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Insurance companies that issue these fixed rate bonds were expecting a Labour victory and were planning to increase rates today.
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The Cheltenham &038; Gloucester has produced a £50m fixed rate loan priced at 13.25 until the end of 1991.
sum
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The policy guarantees a fixed sum to your pet if you die.
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Recall that a bond is an asset that earns a fixed sum of money for its owner each year.
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If the authority receives a fixed sum 31, then it is able to purchase more of the publicly provided good.
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Usually this is a fixed sum which, at the time of writing seems to average around £90.
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From each performance they were given either a fixed sum or collected money from the crowd for charity.
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This petty cash is kept on the imprest system, whereby the petty cashier is entrusted with a fixed sum of money.
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The petty cashier must always account for a certain fixed sum of money. 2.
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He would then have drawings and quantities prepared and would invite tenders for a fixed sum .
term
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Others include relating pay to performance ... and the introduction of fixed term contracts.
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He also said senior ranks would be employed on fixed term contracts, and their pay would be performance related.
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The position now depends on whether the period of exclusion which has been ordered is permanent, indefinite or fixed term .
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Members of the arbitration court organized for the stock exchange are appointed by the general meeting for a fixed term .
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This is a continuing appointment, not fixed term .
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Independence offers critical illness cover on a fixed term basis; and Priorities is a pure life cover plan.
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A business tenant is entitled to a new contractual tenancy for a fixed term up to 14 years.
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The contract was for a fixed term of five years.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
all eyes are on/watching/fixed on etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"I'm retired and on a fixed income." Marson said. "I can't handle this myself, financially."
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Fixed costs should be separated from variable costs when working out the annual accounts.
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fixed interest rates
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a fixed -rate mortgage
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A fixed number of tickets will be on sale the day of the show.
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In Communist Russia prices of all common commodities used to be fixed .
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Our health insurance pays a fixed amount for each type of treatment, regardless of what it actually costs.
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The lessons began and ended at fixed times.
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The policeman told me there was a fixed penalty of $20 for driving without a rear light.
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The symbols must be used in a fixed order.
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Workers are paid a fixed rate per hour.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Each contestant took a fixed number of dross leads from a box.
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He also said senior ranks would be employed on fixed term contracts, and their pay would be performance related.
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If you're looking for a fixed rate and a fixed term this is the account for you.
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New closed prisons were built for convicted offenders serving long fixed sentences or life imprisonment for the most serious crimes.
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Other advances for fixed periods are only repaid at the end of that period.
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The fixed interest rate means you know exactly your commitment each month, which saves problems with forecasting your cashflow.
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The module header has a fixed format and must be added as a complete block.