verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
how
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Even so, few foresaw how far and how fast the autonomy system would develop.
■ NOUN
change
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Entrepreneurs are mistakenly assumed to have the ability to foresee change .
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Block funding comes from social services, and Mrs Allen does not foresee any change after April.
consequence
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The people who did that were probably well intentioned and did not foresee the consequences .
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Crazy Horse foresaw the consequence of his surrender.
difficulty
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That alone made him foresee difficulties .
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They will need to foresee some of the difficulties the culture will encounter.
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Mr Chin had foreseen this difficulty and made sure that no child had majority control of any of the family companies.
future
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But then we couldn't have foreseen your future , or mine.
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Some experts foresee a future in which nobody would buy a spreadsheet program or word processor.
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It also increasingly removes one from the contemporary marketplace, and makes it even more difficult to foresee the future .
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For her own part, she was filled with neither hope nor dread, rather a fatalistic inability to foresee the future .
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And general manager, Bob Hunt, foresees a great future , particularly through the development of higher added-value and high-technology products.
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However, the intention was also to try and foresee some of the future developments.
possibility
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We have just occupied Vienna; a far-sighted man could have foreseen the possibility some considerable time ago.
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Pericles, having perhaps foreseen the possibility , had warned his friend to make the plates easily detachable.
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There was no need to show that she foresaw the possibility of some harm.
problem
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It is often amazing how the most insignificant contributor to a project can foresee the subtlest problem and devise a solution.
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Even though he could foresee the problem then, we can see it equally well now.
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He insists that he can foresee problems arising in the new century.
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Like her gynaecologist, he could foresee no problems .
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It is possible to foresee other evidential problems .
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Incidentally, I foresee a major problem looming next season.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Businesses are alarmed at the costs they foresee in complying with the new rules.
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No one foresaw the Great Depression of the thirties.
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Scientists foresee humans living on Mars within the next 200 years.
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Ten years ago she could not have foreseen that her marriage would end in divorce.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the General had so clearly foreseen, there was no way out.
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Everything she had foreseen had come true.
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No wonder the men failed to foresee what a forceful leader she would be.
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None had foreseen the assumption of absolute power by one of their own number.
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The only serious potential obstacle to the plan foreseen at the time was litigation by employer and union groups.
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Yet it is hard to see what violence the police foresaw as direct and immediate.