I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a booking form
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You can complete the booking form online.
(a) concrete form
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A society's culture is expressed in a concrete form in the arts.
a form of entertainment (= a type of entertainment )
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video games and other modern forms of entertainment
a form of escapism
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Books were a form of escapism from the real world.
a form of expression
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Music and painting are two completely different forms of expression.
a form/method/system of communication (= something you use to exchange information )
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At university, lectures are the main form of communication.
a form/mode/method/means of travel
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I find the train a more comfortable mode of travel.
a means/mode/form of transport
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Horses and carts were the only means of transport.
a queue forms
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A queue had formed outside the shop.
a sixth form college British English (= where students in Britain can go at 16, instead of a school )
a source/form of energy
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Coal is more expensive than other sources of energy.
a type/form of exercise
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This type of exercise is excellent for losing weight.
a verb form
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You have to choose the appropriate verb form.
an application form
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Simply fill in the application form and return it to your bank.
appoint/set up/form a committee
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The council appointed a special committee to study the issue.
art form
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Music is quite unlike any other art form.
build up/form a picture (= gradually get an idea of what something is like )
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Detectives are still trying to build up a picture of what happened.
clouds gather/form
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The sky had darkened and clouds had gathered.
combining form
crust...formed
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A hard gray crust had formed on the bottom of the tea kettle.
develop/form a habit
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I developed a habit of eating porridge for breakfast.
develop/form/build a relationship
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By that age, children start developing relationships outside the family.
establish/form/set up a council
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A National Radio and Television Council was established to regulate the market.
Form 1040
Form 1099
form a band
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They formed their own band and released a single.
form a cabinet
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Ministers remain in office until a new cabinet is formed.
form a chain
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They formed a human chain passing buckets of water to the fire.
form a club (= start one )
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It’s always possible to form your own club.
form a coalition
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The Social Democrats rejected their offer to form a coalition.
form a compound
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Atoms combine in specific ways to form chemical compounds.
form a friendship
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The two girls soon formed a friendship.
form a government (= become the government )
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The party attained the majority of seats it needed to form a government.
form a judgment (= make a judgment )
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I prefer to form my own judgments, rather than relying on other people's opinions.
form a minority ( also constitute a minority formal )
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This type of cell forms a minority of the cells in the nervous system.
form a partnership
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They formed a partnership solely to enter the competition.
form a queue
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Other passengers for the train were forming a queue.
form an opinion (= gradually decide what your opinion is )
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Olson had not yet formed an opinion as to Mark’s reliability.
form letter
form teacher
form the basis of sth
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This research will form the basis of a book.
form the border
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The river forms the border between the two countries.
form the nucleus
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Marantz and Grohl form the nucleus of the Atlanta operation.
form/forge a bond (= make a bond )
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Frequently horses form a strong bond with their riders.
form/found a party
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The two politicians broke away from the PDF to form a new political party.
form/proof of identification
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Bring some form of identification, preferably a passport.
ice forms
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Ice was forming on the surface of the lake.
in liquid form
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Children take antibiotics in liquid form .
in powder form
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The paint is supplied in powder form .
in tablet form
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Although this drug is available in tablet form it is often prescribed as a powder.
life form
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life forms on other planets
make/form an alliance
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In 1902, Japan made an alliance with Britain.
mark/form a boundary
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The river Jordan marks the boundary between Israel and Jordan.
means/mode/form of transportation
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People need to get out of their cars and use other modes of transportation.
mild form
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a mild form of diabetes
possessive pronoun/form/case etc
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the possessive pronouns ‘ours’ and ‘mine’
prostrate body/figure/form
rock forms/is formed
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From the texture of the rock we can tell how it was formed.
rock forms/is formed
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From the texture of the rock we can tell how it was formed.
rudimentary form
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subsistence farming in its most rudimentary form
set up/start/form a company
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Two years later he started his own software company.
singular form
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the singular form of the noun
sixth form college
sixth form
some kind/type/form/sort of sth
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We can hopefully reach some kind of agreement.
subtle form
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a subtle form of racism
the attached form/cheque/leaflet etc
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Please fill in and return the attached reply slip.
virulent form
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a particularly virulent form of influenza
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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Here the external economies were of a different form and the location, of course, is today no longer in the inner city.
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Usually they are quite different in form , just as land-based caterpillars are quite different from adult butterflies.
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Since then the calculations have been repeated in a number of different forms by other people.
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But it is a different form of government.
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Third, we assume that visionary style can take on a variety of different forms .
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Businesses and governments practice very different forms of accounting.
human
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And now fly up above the forest, and take on a human form .
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She preferred the animal forms to human forms and found them easier to draw.
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Even in a formal business letter you should use a personal and human form of address.
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Tragicomedy gives the disjunction of the subjective and objective visions of the human situation dramatic form .
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Golfers had reported seeing what looked like a human form wrapped in a brown shroud falling through the sky.
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Instead, he says, the Goddess was portrayed in human form .
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Nun: primordial deity of the waters of chaos, depicted in human form .
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I went to a gory pile of dead human forms in every kind of stiff contortion.
new
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Improving processing facilities, not new organizational forms , was the way to end food shortages, he claimed.
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Slowly the new structure took form .
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Indeed it can still be found in our own time, in some individual cases but also in new forms of patronage.
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School-to-work systems are striving to create a new form of apprenticeship that combines formal learning in school and at work.
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What he described has returned in a horrible new form .
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Much has to be done to adequately develop and share these new resources and forms of knowledge.
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Restoring culture can just as easily lead to a new and virulent form of fundamentalism as to a revival of cultural diversity.
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The new bacterial forms were versatile and energetic, and could engulf other bacteria.
other
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The industry has had 26 years grace for other forms of advertising.
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His correspondence shows him reacting to Gandhi with the rather detached curiosity he showed for other exotic forms of political life.
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Be prepared for some children to be vegetarian, so make sure there are other forms of protein than meat.
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Treaties, like any other form of agreement, characteristically incorporate both rights and duties as part of an interlocking bargain.
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In contrast, other truncated forms of RAP74 containing a shorter C-terminal region were all inactive.
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Unfortunately the resulting diagram is not so easy to interpret as are some of the other forms of chart.
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It has to be converted into other forms .
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The control of water pollution, for example, like other forms of regulatory behaviour, is an unobtrusive activity.
particular
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This is the same as saying information delivered in a particular form is more useful in certain applications than in others.
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Woman-centred psychology is grounded in a particular woman-centred form of western feminism.
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I think the really critical issue is to understand the concepts behind the particular forms of financing which are used.
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One particular form of easel is actually known as a donkey.
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At the personal level, doctors and their patients become conditioned to particular forms of treatment.
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The creature is attracted because it has the pleasure of satisfied desire, in this case its own particular form of hunger.
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He would be unwise to underestimate the disruptive potential of its particular form of divine discontent.
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Poverty is a constitutive element of a particular form of economic growth as much as it is a product of economic recession.
present
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In its present form it is substantially an early eighteenth-century building, and now serves as a local nursing home.
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In its present form this story is of recent origin, although it is derived from an ancient tale.
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On his present form we really would have been better sticking with Chappie.
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The civic culture is present in the form of aspiration, and the democratic infrastructure is still far from being attained.
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As oil resources become more scarce by the end of the century, can agriculture continue in its present form ?
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The present forms of both of the anaphoras address the first gehanta to the Trinity.
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If we wish to preserve a landscape in its present form we must actively direct it towards that end.
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Thienpont bought the estate in 1979; until then it hardly existed in its present form .
simple
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The simplest form of electronic publishing is word processing with a typographic style of output; office publishing, if you will.
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Couples with no need to itemize deductions can use the 1040A, another relatively simple form .
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Very simple geometrical forms exist in nature out there but most of them are ordinarily invisible to the naked eye.
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The structure we impose on preferences in turn induces a relatively simple form of demand functions faced by individual firms.
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This forced on builders a simple form of Gothic architecture.
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This is the simplest form of adsorption chromatography.
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It will favour strength, and fighting in its simplest form will favour increased size.
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As we all have the choice of spending or saving, some simple form of wealth tax could be considered, too.
standard
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Although produced by computer, the conditions are not always in a set standard form .
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This contract, which is reproduced here, is a typical example of a standard form contract found in the haulage industry.
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However, with standard form contracts directed at consumers, the legislature has interfered because of the imbalance in bargaining power.
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There are some organisations which have standard report forms and these are designed to save writers' and readers' time.
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Most employers will only ask you to repeat this information in a standard application form anyway.
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Again standard forms can be used and copies should be sent to all interested parties.
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The questionnaire is very much in a standard form and should always be amended to reflect the business being sold.
various
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There were controversies about various forms of Church Government and many sects flourished at this time of religious toleration.
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Through various forms of operating system treachery, programs like these increase system resources.
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Picketing in various forms has shown itself to be one of the most effective forms of industrial action.
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The wedding band appears throughout history in various forms .
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These showed no statistical difference in the concentrations of the various forms of gastrins between the different methods of sample preparation.
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Their primary client is the bourgeoisie, in its various forms of organisation.
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The convention of indicating three-dimensional objects in a two-dimensional medium by various forms of shading and hatching.
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It took various forms: university disorder; civil rights movements; anti-apartheid activities; race and immigration protests.
■ NOUN
application
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Standard application forms are used by many companies.
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Notes of questions arising out of the application form should be attached to it and used as a memory aid during the interview.
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Studentship application forms are available on request from the Secretary to the University.
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Contained in the application forms was the core of a first-class and committed newspaper staff.
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Simply fill in the application form and return it to your branch.
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The appropriate fee should either accompany the application form , or will be debited to your firm's credit account where appropriate.
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If you do not already hold a valid passport, application forms may be obtained from the Post Office.
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Simply complete the attached application form and post or take it to your local Midland branch.
art
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Of classical style this piece was certainly an import and it reveals the high quality of the Roman art form .
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Animation is one of the most labor-intensive art forms .
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It's the only remaining art form .
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Movies are the modern art form .
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Music is quite unlike any other art form .
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Ronald Reagan turned it into an art form .
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This little episode shows how Norman regarded the stress which accompanies any art form when it has been seriously undertaken.
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Carrying a grudge here is an art form .
entry
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The prizes will be awarded to the individual or company named on the winning entry form .
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Turn to page 29 of your wine list for the three simple questions and entry form .
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All entries must be on an official entry form and legible.
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Make sure that you indicate your preferred Trail location on your entry form .
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There's more about the team award on page 94, plus a priority entry form .
order
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The offer's open only while stocks last so hurry to post off the order form .
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Customers can call the phone-order number to receive a yachting order form .
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Simply fill in the order form at the end of this section and you could be using your discs the next day.
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Cheryl Carey said she was sometimes embarrassed to pass around order forms for merchandise.
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Yours sincerely Dear I am returning your invoice because I do not have an order form to set it against.
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See the order form for additional resources.
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There is a Banker's Order form attached to this leaflet which you can use.
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Quote code reference TRI-R on the order form .
■ VERB
complete
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Staff were asked at this time to complete a form indicating whether or not they wished to relocate.
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Write this one: Please complete and send the form with $ 200 for dues.
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The team member on duty who had completed the initial referral form was also responsible for completing the pre-coded questionnaire.
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Contestants enter by completing an online form and short quiz.
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Following participation in the scheme, participants are requested to complete an evaluation form .
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Deadline for receipt of completed forms is Friday, February 14.
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To take advantage of this offer please complete the attached forms .
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As a first step, complete the application form in the booklet and return it to us.
fill
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To apply, you need only fill in one simple form .
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During those terrible months after getting his pink slip, he filled out endless application forms .
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We filled in the acceptance form and phoned the school about a visit.
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They want to know how I found their address, but once I explain, he promises to fill out the form .
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Members are able to fill in a form to notify the Club that a litter is due to be whelped.
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The inmate simply fills out a proxy form and mails it to the county clerk.
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Now fill in the application form on pages 3 and 4 and detach these Notes.
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The agency's Tax Tour 2000 is crisscrossing the state to help taxpayers in small communities fill out their forms .
take
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Diligence on the dependence takes two forms .
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But in 1980 they seemed to take on an alien form .
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Slowly the new structure took form .
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This approach took the form of an attempt to rationalize phenomena and explain them within the framework of general hypotheses.
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Why did it begin, and why did it take the form it did?
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This takes the form of an ironic critique ostensibly illustrating the superiority of Philips's pastorals to Pope's.
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It took the form of a hemisphere, with a face carved on the inner surface.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bad form
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It's bad form to say "I told you so" when a friend ignores your advice and makes a fool of himself.
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He asked Billy what he thought the worst form of execution was.
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Like the institutionalized human being, it faces the problem of leisure in its worst form: it has nothing to do.
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Self-interest was the worst sin and slaveholding was the worst form of self-interest.
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Tainting the courts with politics is very bad form, but apparently irresistible.
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The most terrible bad form. 5.
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They need an exorcist to figure out what in the devil possessed them to return to their worst form from last season.
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We all now agree with Churchill's adage: democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
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Wilful impediment of the sacred moves was not only ill-mannered, but the worst form of blasphemy.
form (a) part of sth
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Here it forms part of a longer account of man's history from his creation, as in Genesis.
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In such meetings the deep structures rise to the surface and form part of the main agenda.
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Objectives form part of the technology of the teaching process.
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Software can form part of an organisation's assets, but may need continual adaptation and enhancement in order to keep it effective.
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The remainder of the canal also forms part of the course of the Birmingham Century Marathon.
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They will merely form part of the background.
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This book forms part of a Thames & Hudson series, Masters of Art.
form/mode/style of address
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Besides that, he used the intimate form of address , tum.
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Both were perceived as amoral sources of power which responded more or less predictably to specific modes of address .
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Even in a formal business letter you should use a personal and human form of address .
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He stuttered nervously before managing to answer herand when he did, he used the masculine form of address .
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Seating arrangements at conferences, forms of address and other issues of this kind remained a continual source of potential difficulty.
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The effect of this intense focus on modes of address is that personal pronouns become unusually prominent.
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The patient should be told of the mode of address used in that particular hospital for professional staff.
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Without the royal family, titles would be just that - forms of address for the self-important to dignify themselves.
make/turn sth into an art form
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Ronald Reagan turned it into an art form.
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To avoid simultaneous borrowing and depositing you should monitor how accurate your forecasting is, without turning this into an art form.
new-made/new-formed/new-laid etc
newly elected/formed/arrived etc
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A number of firms may also have had problems in achieving the synergies expected of newly formed structures.
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As he waits for the computer to load up the programmes, he scans the rolls of newly arrived faxes.
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Balmy, near-equatorial currents from Panthalassa rushed between the sundered continents along the newly formed Tethyan Seaway.
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I knew that the press was doing a selling job when we supported a newly arrived unit from Hawaii.
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The newly formed opposition coalition insisted it was the majority and kept the original day and time.
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The amnesty was reportedly requested by the newly elected local councils of Rangamati, Bandarban and Khagrachbari.
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Then the elite persuaded the newly elected mayor to appoint a committee to lay the groundwork for redevelopment.
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Workshops and initiatives for the newly arrived civil engineers, tile-makers and labourers did not materialise.
not in any shape or form
not in any way, shape, or form
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I am not responsible for his actions in any way , shape, or form.
true to form/type
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And true to form Graham Sale lost no time in capitalising on an opportunity presenting Douglas Hurd with his own clock.
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At Peniel the blessing runs true to form.
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It is not really worth saving seeds from F1 hybrids or from most fruit varieties as these rarely reproduce true to type.
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Now to see if he is true to form.
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Only Joffre himself, true to form, seemed unaffected by it all.
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Such subtlety would be true to form for a scorpion, after all.
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Unlike other cereals, rye is cross-fertilized and does not remain true to type.
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With luck, this one would run true to form.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a college application form
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Britain has a constitutional form of government.
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Dark forms seemed to hide behind the trees.
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I'm in the third form .
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Johnson is far from his past form and may not make the Olympic team.
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Just fill in the form and take it along to your local bank.
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Make sure you sign and date the form before you return it.
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Melanoma is a form of skin cancer.
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Mrs Davies took the fifth form to the science museum.
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Pour the cement into the wooden form .
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She's by far the brightest pupil in the form .
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Sleeping forms lay in groups and rows on the earth floor.
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Some of the fifth- formers have started a rock band.
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Sugar in chocolate and other forms of confectionery is one of the major causes of tooth decay.
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The book discusses what the ideal female form has been for different centuries and cultures.
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The nurse asked her to sign the consent form .
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The painting consists of a series of interlocking forms.
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The visa requires an application form and two photos.
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Writers such as Henry James are concerned with form as well as content.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Animation is one of the most labor-intensive art forms.
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Antibacterial treatments can take the form of baths, external application to affected areas, injection and oral administration via the food.
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As early as 1844, Alfred Donne published a compendium of drawings made from daguerreotypes of microscopic forms.
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But like all Balkan political survivors, Milosevic has made an art form of knowing when to switch sides.
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How, then, do we account for these very different responses to the different forms of cheating?
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However, most of the research has relied upon a narrow and traditional form of grammar teaching.
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The bodies which are most obviously subject to various forms of public accountability are central government departments and local authorities.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
alliance
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She was too fragile to form an alliance with large, strong, fully made Deborah.
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They use cunning, and above all they form alliances .
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So the three political groups must now decide if they're to form alliances to push through some sort of compromise package.
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The company would be interested in forming alliances to allow television companies use its lines to transmit information.
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Firms form regional alliances either generally or for the provision of specific services whether for clients or for the firms themselves.
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The council is politically hung, which means that the parties had to form alliances to get a budget voted through.
association
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The sexes form different kinds of association for breeding in different species; some are monogamous, others polygynous, others polyandrous.
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Legal systems suppliers have recently formed a trade association that has been welcomed in the profession to encourage liaison and co-ordination.
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Or, they form their own associations without being prompted and rewarded.
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Many of these children come from families which do not readily form themselves into associations and pressure groups.
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They are not forming stimulus-response associations .
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The new law on association allowed citizens to form associations without prior approval of the Interior Ministry.
band
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He entered the elite Waseda University, where he formed a rock band with some friends, but he later dropped out.
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We're forming this new band , and guess what it's called - Galactic Outbursts!
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Meanwhile, Giap faced the task of forming guerrilla bands , which would ultimately become the core of an army.
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Divide the children up into groups for a game and then tell them that you are going to form a marching band .
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Make some noise, form a band , whatever.
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She returned to New York in 1983, forming a new big band by Tabackin.
basis
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This diet now forms the basis of the Gerson Cancer Therapy.
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Competition between processing elements could form the basis for learning, also.
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Attached in appendix A are the questions which formed the basis of the interview.
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The federal standards frequently form the basis for these laws.
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This process continued to form the basis for planning.
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As narrow and mundane as the questions may sound, they ultimately form the basis for modern society.
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Since spectrometry forms the basis of most analytical techniques to be described it must first be defined.
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It is individual characters that form the basis for dictionary entries.
chain
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Under these conditions, however, ethylene forms short chains or rings, rather than the long chains of the solid polymer.
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Rally organizers with colored arm-bands link hands, forming a human chain at the crosswalks.
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We can form a human chain of Berliners along the Wall which no one dare break, nomatterhow many soldiers they send.
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Primary structure refers to the joining of the amino acids through peptide bonds to form polypeptide chains .
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The policy process is dynamic, with inputs, conversion, outputs and feedback forming a continuous chain .
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The edge of the overriding plate is crumpled and uplifted to form a mountain chain parallel to the trench.
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These may be simple or complex, forming saddles when intermediate chains are shortened.
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In some minerals two single chains are combined to form double chains, in which the chains are linked by cations.
coalition
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Big business joined together to form a climate change coalition to lobby successfully against the protocol.
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They form a coalition of historic losers.
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Shevardnadze was expected to set about forming a coalition among some of the 36 parties which had contested parliamentary seats.
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The newly formed opposition coalition insisted it was the majority and kept the original day and time.
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The Churches have formed a coalition to speak on behalf of the thousands of homeless people in this country.
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Leaders of several parties might form a coalition in order to secure majority support for certain policies.
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Thus grooming partners may form a coalition during agonistic encounters.
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Their convictions have led the Feminists for Life to form coalitions with all sorts of odd bedfellows.
committee
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In June 1788 Clarkson proposed that the London committee promote widespread agitation through forming local committees.
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Killian said he will form an oversight committee to watch the effect of the legislation and change it if problems arise.
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They've formed an action committee to try to recover the funds.
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The company said it formed a committee to begin searching for a replacement for Edwards.
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Quackenbush, 43, has not announced a reelection bid but has formed a campaign committee .
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Any two Directors can form the Routine Business Committee .
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Simultaneously, they chose block committees , established communal kitchens, organized working parties, and formed a camp welfare committee.
company
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It recently merged with a Wigan-based firm to form a new company called Longwall International.
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In 1993, Rusakova formed her own company .
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Grant, 35, and his longtime girlfriend, actress-model Elizabeth Hurley, have formed their own production company , Simian Films.
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Enough, he hoped, to form several companies and carry on the fight, using guerrilla tactics.
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Together, they form a hugely powerful company , as Jean-Pierre Garnier, the chief executive, was keen to explain.
government
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Rulers come and go; governments end and forms of government change; but sovereignty survives.
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But if MacDonald did form a government , the Liberals would sit on the Opposition benches.
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Mr Erbakan has 45 days to form a government .
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A new lobbying group has been formed to press the Government for tougher action on climate change.
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In the event, Wellington failed to form a government .
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If there is a party with an absolute majority in the lower house it will form the government .
group
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If there are many males and females in the group , the males form a separate hierarchy above that of the females.
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Somehow, they knew that it was much more than a hunch that this group must somehow form a family.
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At staff functions at Burleigh, little groups tended to form .
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The working group was formed in 1986 and during its working period several reports appeared on the same topic.
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After signalling each group of letters forming one word, you must return to this position.
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On the side streets up to Sixty-third, other groups are forming .
nucleus
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Hickson hopes this will form the nucleus of a self-help group.
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Gangs, particularly of white youths, formed definite nuclei for crowd and mob formations.
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Meadow Mill now forms the nucleus of a small trading estate.
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In the beginning of the chapter he calls the 12 disciples who will form the nucleus of the Church.
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This, under the control of the inference engine, forms the system nucleus .
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These titles have formed the nucleus basis of an educational website.
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The alignment of polymer chains at specific distances from one another to form crystalline nuclei will be assisted when intermolecular forces are strong.
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There they coalesce to form a single nucleus .
opinion
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It is the auditor's responsibility to form an opinion on the truth and fairness of the accounts.
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They respect that you have a mind and you can form your own opinions .
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Nor that we should not form opinions or make evaluations.
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He conceded to Franceschelli that actually being present during the autopsy might have given him better information to form an opinion .
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He might well have formed his own opinion but he knew that would not bear cross-examination at some later date.
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So gather information about your child, rather than forming opinions and judgments.
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I formed the opinion that there was absolutely nothing undesirable in the case.
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I formed my own opinion , and was pleased with this Constitution....
part
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They form part of a distinctive culture.
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It formed a small part of a high-domed head from which the big ears stuck out almost at right angles.
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Nursing practice forms an integral part of learning to nurse and is a crucial element in nursing studies.
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This work forms part of the remit of John Hart, Assistant Director.
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For the moment, she forms part of a privileged minority who have a home in the real Prado.
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That forms the final part of our Strategic Intent.
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The study of other photographers' work will form an important part of the course.
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It forms a part of a man's life, more deeply ingrained as he matures.
partnership
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They formed a partnership solely to enter the competition, and did no other work together.
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In February 1994, the hospitals agreed to form a partnership , with a single chief executive and a joint bottom line.
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It certainly is a trial - a trial in living together and forming a partnership .
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Publishers are agonizing and divided over whether to form partnerships with the new ventures or take them on as competitors.
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We have since formed a partnership and employ a young labourer to do all the preparation work.
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Pension funds also can help California firms to break into more global markets by forming partnerships .
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He formed no partnership with Wakelin: that the childless Wickes reserved for his protégé, Samuel Netherton, in 1750.
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Some think he will form a partnership with Hyundai or Daewoo.
party
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After he became vice president, Rutskoi decided to form a new political party on the basis of his parliamentary fraction.
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Mazzocchi formed Labor Party Advocates with that in mind.
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The National Assembly on Dec. 6 enacted a law affirming the right to form political parties and simplifying registration procedures.
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They have already tried apolitical approach, forming a party in 1985.
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Orton Chirwa formed an opposition party in exile.
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Ironically, Perot could have avoided the petition process in Maine had he decided to form his party sooner.
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She married, converted to a form of Buddhism and entered politics, forming a new party for the lower castes.
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Lamm praised Perot for forming the party .
relationship
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Jenny had formed relationships with several boyfriends, but these usually ended because she became over-dependent.
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Scott also began to form a few close relationships with other kids at school.
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The others lack the faculties to stay in sport and so lose the option to form a stable relationship with the coach.
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Even Berry Brazelton needed that in order to form strong relationships with his own children.
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Several in both groups were lesbian, some because they had formed such relationships in approved school or Borstal.
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Although widely traveled in the company, he seemed to have formed few relationships with either his subordinates or superiors.
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He seemed incapable of forming any relationships .
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The student had formed a relationship with the rabbits she could reach and accompanied their feeding with petting and talking to them.
society
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The newly formed society of Jesuits were fanatical witch-hunters but even the great reformers were not far behind.
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Outvoted, they left the congregation in 1825 and formed the Reformed Society of Israelites.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A crowd was beginning to form at the scene of the accident.
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Aspirin stops heart attacks by preventing blood clots from forming.
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Coal is formed naturally from decomposed organic matter.
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Events in early childhood help to form our personalities in later life.
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Hydrogen and oxygen combine to form water.
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IBM formed an alliance with Lotus, a software maker.
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In English the past tense is usually formed by adding "ed."
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Long lines formed outside the ticket offices.
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Newton's theories form the basis of modern mathematics.
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Oils produced by the skin form a protective barrier against infection and disease.
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Our house and the barn form a big "L."
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Rice forms the most important part of their diet.
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She cut away the corners to form a circle.
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The ions combine with proteins to form a reddish-colored complex.
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The Rio Grande forms the boundary between Texas and Mexico.
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The rocks were formed more than 4 billion years ago.
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The United Nations was formed in 1945.
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With a few clever twists, he had formed the balloon into the shape of a dog.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Acquisitions have formed an important part of the strategy and will continue to do so.
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And, of course, mania usually alternates with depression, to form a bipolar disorder.
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Governors must decide whether this subject is to form part of the curriculum for their school.
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Imagine how, when and where this formed, and its temporal and spatial journey.
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Out of one of my women's courses I attended, a consciousness-raising group was formed.
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The exchange is owned by its shareholders, who form a separate membership.
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These foods should only be eaten occasionally; they should not form the basis of your diet. 11.