I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a common/widespread/frequent complaint
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A common complaint of children is that parents do not listen to them.
a regular/frequent guest
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The Johnsons were regular guests at Eric’s house in Notting Hill.
frequent absences (= happening often )
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She disliked Stephen's frequent absences on business.
frequent/constant/repeated references
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Medieval literature contains frequent references to insanity.
frequent/rare/common occurrence
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Laughter was a rare occurrence in his classroom.
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Flooding in the area is a common occurrence.
heavy/frequent use (= when something is used a lot )
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The heavy use of pesticides in the area led to severe health problems.
regular/frequent inspections
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Restaurants are subject to regular health and safety inspections.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
absence
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Laura's frequent absences in London meant that her baby, Emma, was often left behind with Gwenny Hughes.
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The national income, too, is hard to calculate exactly in the frequent absence of reliable national statistics.
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There is a frequent absence of straight lines between the two periods, however.
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The school sent Rachaela a letter saying that Ruth's frequent absences were causing her work to suffer.
cause
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One of the most frequent causes of fighting is the dispute over the possession of desired objects.
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Drug-induced renal magnesium wasting is one of the more frequent causes of clinical hypomagnesemia.
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Overreaching for an article on nearby furniture is a frequent cause of accidents.
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Muscle Tension Tight cervical muscles related to anxiety-depression is a frequent cause of neck pain in an outpatient population.
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In the 1950s, male homosexuality was a frequent cause of suicidal attempts or feelings, because of the pre-Woolfenden potential for blackmail.
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A frequent cause is marital infidelity.
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A less frequent cause is one in which part of the chromosome is attached to another.
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A closed loop that some one can catch their foot in and trip is one of the most frequent causes of industrial accidents.
change
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Efforts are best directed towards ensuring correct use rather than suffering the disruption caused by frequent change .
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This species requires frequent change of water.
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We know that in most regions there have been frequent changes of climate in the geologically immediate past.
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A padded, correctly adjusted saddle, rest breaks and frequent changes in position may help.
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Military service also brings about major and frequent changes of domicile.
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But the council also said that frequent changes in immigration and asylum policies had played a fundamental and negative role.
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More frequent change would have produced a counterproductive restlessness.
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The breakdown of departments into functional areas is unfortunately subject to frequent change , making computerisation of the return difficult.
complaint
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As already mentioned, an increasing number of research reports shows that a frequent complaint made by patients is lack of information.
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Parents are-generally aware that their frequent complaints are hurting their relationships.
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Another frequent complaint is that few managers seem to add real value to the work of their subordinates.
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This arrangement naturally resulted in frequent complaints by the forest inhabitants about illegal extortion by the foresters.
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Background noise Background noise preventing speech reception is a frequent complaint among people whose use a hearing-aid.
contact
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President Gorbachev, with whom Chancellor Helmut Kohl had been in frequent contact , clearly gave his approval.
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Friends and business associates of Maurice were in frequent contact .
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Firstly people will have more-frequent contact with many more of their neighbours.
flier
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The response: No one ever tried to seize frequent flier miles.
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He is a frequent flier and knows some of the pilots by name.
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But with electronic ticketing, you can still get advanced seat assignments, check in at curbside and accrue frequent flier mileage.
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A: They have the same value to other carriers as frequent flier tickets: None.
guest
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The cottage, which was regularly to shelter four or five inhabitants together with frequent guests , was a tiny building.
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I had experienced Mr Weinberg on a number of occasions-he was a frequent guest at the White House.
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St Kevin from Glendalough, and St Columcille-Columba from just about everywhere, were frequent guests .
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Dvorak and Toscanini were frequent guests .
interval
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Once established, the 20 minute process can be repeated at frequent intervals .
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Four soldiers with submachine guns patrolled the room, and an officer made his rounds at frequent intervals .
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In chronic cases the potency is usually administered every alternate day, or less frequent intervals if required.
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Sight-seeing tours with guides leave Waverley Bridge at frequent intervals each day.
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Downpipes should be clean and placed at frequent intervals soas to avoid long gutter runs and changes of direction.
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Check the call-sign reception at frequent intervals .
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Inevitably, the incontinent patient needs cleaning and drying at very frequent intervals , to prevent infections such as cystitis.
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Attempts were made at frequent intervals to contact Mr Clark without success.
occurrence
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Because of the frequent occurrence of kept, this causes difficulties in quantitative analysis.
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Gingival hyperplasia is a frequent occurrence , especially in children and young adults.
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Playground fights at my London comprehensive, an austere archetypal 1960s building near Marble Arch, were frequent occurrences .
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Before the established use of surnames a recourse to nicknames was almost necessary and certainly of very frequent occurrence .
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However, complex eigenvalues and vectors are of frequent occurrence , and require special consideration.
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Worse, a spokesman for the Treasury implies this is a frequent occurrence .
reference
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In doing so I will be making frequent reference to the empirical research findings of criminologists working mostly in the positivist tradition.
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There are frequent references in her notes to such visits.
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There are frequent references in his diary to air-raids, sometimes two or three in the same day.
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Video showing rapid and intensive change, for example, will need frequent reference frames to maintain an intelligible motion sequence.
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Despite frequent references in the press to the number of Party functionaries in leading posts at the Front, such criticisms persisted.
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One area of television where frequent reference has been made to homosexuality is in the arts programmes.
trip
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On his frequent trips to the United States, the Shah was given royal receptions.
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Few can afford either the calories or the cost of frequent trips to these gourmet candy stores.
use
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The information will be largely internally supplied and will have frequent use .
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On further questioning, the young woman admitted to frequent use of laxatives.
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Both require frequent use of the gearbox if they are to live up to expectations.
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We shall make frequent use of this distinction in the course of the present work.
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Leave blank lines between paragraphs and make frequent use of headings to hold the reader's interest.
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He and Dunn made frequent use of their binoculars.
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Allen cast around and within a few yards further came upon a man-made path, narrow and winding, but in frequent use .
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The decline in the demand for wooden poles has been accelerated by the frequent use of metal poles.
visit
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These cases require frequent visits and continuing follow-up by the Honorary Welfare Officers.
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McNicholas makes frequent visits to Britain to raise funds to keep these projects going.
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John Barratt was to oversee the Coniston adventure from Grassington but making frequent visits .
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Francis of Assisi, who tamed a very bad wolf there during one of his frequent visits .
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Dolly was paying frequent visits to the house.
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Now that her brothers had come home, Margarett made frequent visits to Boston.
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There would be frequent visits , more songs to be sung, perhaps a few arguments on the way, but nothing vital.
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In 1917 Pétain threw a share of the blame for the mutinies upon the frequent visits of Deputies to the front.
visitor
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Florence was a frequent visitor ... and had many of her ideas adopted in Parliament through the devotion of her brother-in-law.
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Those of them who live in Calcutta are frequent visitors to Motherhouse, especially on festivals and feast days.
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Malachi was a more frequent visitor .
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And the child, Fritha, or Frith, was a frequent visitor .
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Dolly was a frequent visitor to the house and there would be long conferences.
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We have been frequent visitors at Government House and have been staying also at their cottage, New Norfolk.
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Landladies were among the more frequent visitors to Bloomsbury House as the records indicate: Often, lodging and employment went together.
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After the election, I became a frequent visitor to Downing Street.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As a frequent business traveler, I have spent many nights in bland hotel rooms.
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As the treatment began to take effect, her headaches became less frequent .
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Gunshots are so frequent in the neighborhood that she rarely calls the police anymore.
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His job involved making frequent trips to Saudi Arabia.
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My duties brought me into frequent contact with Captain Nagumo.
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Simmons is a frequent guest on daytime TV talk shows.
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The doctor recommended frequent salt baths to help the wound heal.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bradycardia is a frequent side effect.
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Despite frequent double-teaming, Shaw was still the Bears' most viable receiving option.
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Fighting may be restrained because the advantage of dangerous tactics will decrease as the habit becomes more frequent in the population.
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Its use is most frequent in the field of consumer products.
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That had to ne injected daily, but her husband recalls the injections being much less frequent .
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The vertiginous episodes tend to grow less frequent and less severe as hearing loss progresses.
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There are frequent references in her notes to such visits.
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There were frequent attempts to check it.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Again, he was in an hotel, although not the kind he would normally care to frequent .
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Although he frequented the great houses of the city, his own quarters were modest.
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He tells the friend that he rarely frequents such spots because nature is not his teacher.
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Mallard duck, grey wagtail and occasionally kingfishers frequent the waterside. 6.
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Nor are the skies above frequented by commercial airlines, which eliminates interfering radar signals.