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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
achieve/fulfil your aim
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The Internet bank achieved its aim of attracting 50,000 customers last year.
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Once she had decided to go into publishing, she set out to fulfil her aim.
achieve/fulfil/reach/realize your potential (= succeed as much as you have the potential to succeed )
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A lot of athletes find it difficult to achieve their potential.
achieve/fulfil/realize a dream (= do or get what you want )
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He had finally achieved his dream of winning an Olympic gold medal.
achieve/fulfil/realize your ambition (= do what you wanted to do )
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It took her ten years to achieve her ambition.
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He was prepared to go to any lengths to fulfil his ambition.
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I want to thank all those who made it possible for me to realize a lifetime 's ambition.
fulfil your duty British English , fulfill your duty American English formal (= do what is needed )
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The school has failed to fulfil its legal duty towards students.
fulfil your/its promise ( also live up to your/its promise ) (= be as good as expected )
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This young player has begun to fulfil his promise.
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The rest of this movie never quite lives up to the promise of that opening moment.
fulfil/honour a contract (= do what you have agreed to do )
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If you have signed a contract, you have to fulfil it.
fulfil/honour a pledge (= more formal than keep )
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The time is coming when they will have to honour that pledge.
fulfil/satisfy sb's expectations formal (= be as good as someone hoped or expected )
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The band failed to fulfil the fans' expectations.
grant/fulfil sb's wish (= give someone what they want )
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His parents would now be able to grant his wish.
meet/fulfil/honour an obligation (= do something that you have a duty to do )
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The company has been unable to meet its financial obligations.
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All member states must fulfil their obligations according to the EC treaty.
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The government failed to honour its obligations under the terms of the agreement.
meet/satisfy/fulfil a condition (= do what has been agreed )
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In order to get a state pension, you must satisfy certain conditions.
meet/satisfy/fulfil the criteria
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Does your experience meet the criteria for the job?
perform/fulfil a function
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In your new job you will perform a variety of functions.
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The church fulfils a valuable social function.
prophecy...fulfilled
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The prophecy that David would become King was fulfilled .
satisfy/fulfil a desire
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Companies aim to satisfy people's desire for variety.
satisfy/fulfil a requirement formal (= meet them )
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Our aim is to satisfy our customers’ requirements.
serve/fulfil a purpose (= be used in a particular way )
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The building must have served a religious purpose.
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Many old school buildings are no longer suitable for fulfilling their original purpose.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
never
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His ambition to read law at Oxford, however, was never fulfilled .
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Draft history is full of players who never fulfilled their promise.
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Richard Baxter's ambition of going to university was never fulfilled .
■ NOUN
aim
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The governors must then decide on the policies and priorities that help the school to fulfil its aims .
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This would then fulfil the aim of revitalising the association, which consisted of 30 women four years ago.
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The programme may yet overcome its problems, fulfil its aims and even benefit the poor.
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In fulfilling these aims , specific use of the potential of different aspects of language and of literacy has been instrumental.
ambition
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Maria Aznar, fulfilled his long-standing ambition to win promotion to the status of a large medium-sized country.
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In part, this was because she had fulfilled her ministerial ambitions .
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He offered his services to the Edinburgh Missionary Society as an overseas candidate, thus fulfilling a youthful ambition .
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The male has fulfilled his ambition of bigamy at the expense of a female.
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To fulfil this ambition he was prepared to go to any lengths, nomatterhow underhand or devious they might be.
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While their four children were growing up, she put off fulfilling her ambition to run an antique shop of her own.
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This is an excellent time of year to fulfil your ambitions !
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Since then he has fulfilled many ambitions , learned new skills and tested his courage and physical fitness to the limit.
commitment
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This Bill fulfils the commitment given by my right hon. Friend.
condition
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The new arrangement would be conditional on fulfilling the following conditions .
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It did not, however, specify what would happen if no candidate fulfilled this condition .
contract
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In the course of fulfilling our social contracts we make moral judgements of work.
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All the gold fulfilled maturing forward contracts where the contract price exceeded the spot price.
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Most of the councils would like to fulfil their contracts .
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The colliery is struggling to fulfil its contracts and is burdened by £1.7 million in debts.
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He could fulfil the contract by supplying wheat from any source; the contract is therefore not void.
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Often they have to work 12 hours a day to fulfil contracts .
criteria
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Only one control tissue fulfilled our criteria for positivity.
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Second, that patients fulfilling our criteria will die in spite of sclerotherapy.
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Results One hundred and eighty patients fulfilled the criteria for entry into the surveillance programme.
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Results Of the 88 patients invited to participate, 62 fulfilled the inclusion criteria and agreed to the study.
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The studies that fulfil these two simple criteria are few.
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A learner is usually searching for some property which fulfils criteria which have nothing to do directly with the observed data.
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Only patients who fulfilled the criteria described by Isaacson etal were included.
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Admission is obtained by written application, proving that you fulfil the set criteria .
criterion
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How few human beings in the entire galaxy could fulfil that criterion !
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Whichever, both entries fulfil my third criterion .
demand
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She is threatening to pull out of the government and join Mr Sharif's agitation if Mr Ishaq does not fulfil her demands .
desire
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How do we set about getting the true beliefs that we need if our actions are to succeed in fulfilling our desires ?
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She fulfilled her desire and became pregnant from her desire.
destiny
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To be a street criminal is therefore to fulfil cultural destiny .
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The contemporary hero is one who stands out against the crowd to fulfil a personal destiny .
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Most animals fulfil their destiny with that curious strategy.
duty
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Eighteen months on, some head teachers are complaining that inspectors are fulfilling their duties with a zeal which smacks of prejudice.
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In this capacity he conscientiously fulfilled his duties for thirty-one years in a perfect apostolic spirit.
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Voice over Question: Do you feel you have fulfilled your duties towards him?
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It gives considerable scope to NGOs, community organisations and others to put pressure on the state to fulfil its duties .
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We know that both Charles and Diana are anxious to fulfil their duties to the Crown and do so conscientiously.
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By doing this, they could fulfil their special duty as intellectuals, making an important contribution to the nation.
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Greater Glasgow Health Board denied liability and said that the anaesthetist had fulfilled all his duties .
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Local authorities must fulfil this duty by providing a range and level of services appropriate to the need within the locality.
expectations
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It simply works to fulfil our expectations .
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And then the disease cooperated in fulfilling their expectations .
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On the evidence of his recital he is increasing in assurance and beginning to fulfil expectations .
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Whatever the case, rest assured that the 1992 Tattoo will amply fulfil your expectations of it.
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An exciting yacht that fulfils everyone's expectations , she is stylish, luxurious and very fast.
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However, she never forgave him for failing to fulfil her expectations later.
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If the Government did not fulfil these expectations , they could find difficulty in future in arranging any such competition.
function
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The issues discussed in this section relate to how reliably and validly these functions can be fulfilled .
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I am more interested in the varying symbolic functions they fulfil .
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But this is not the only practical function it aims to fulfil .
life
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There have been times since John died when I thought that I would never have a really fulfilling life again.
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For them, it's often difficult, sometimes impossible, to have a relaxed, fulfilling relationship later in life .
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Given a little additional help along the way, they will enjoy as happy and fulfilling a life as anyone else.
means
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It is the basis of human society and the means to fulfil our aspirations.
mission
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She wanted to go back home and he wanted to fulfil his mission and destroy the shapechangers.
need
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You are listening to your needs and fulfilling them.
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Consequently this section deals with identifying the needs that drinking fulfils and developing alternative ways of satisfying those needs.
objective
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Now we realise that we should help farmers to fulfil our conservation objectives as well.
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The move fulfils Barclays' objective of expanding in long-term savings.
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Its Report, delivered in November 1905, fulfilled this objective admirably.
obligation
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He had dishonestly and intentionally not fulfilled that obligation .
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It is Ego which drives us to be dutiful and fulfil false obligations .
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More importantly, will the employer adequately fulfil his obligation to complete the educational process by producing sound technicians and businessmen?
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It reported in mid-1861, but suggested only that the peasantry of the western provinces fulfil their obligations in cash rather than labour.
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Peasants under serfdom tended to be forced to fulfil their obligations .
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The question mark at the end requires a response, helping the offended party to fulfil their scriptural obligation to forgive.
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The evening Mass at Woodstock on Tuesday fulfils the obligation .
patient
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Second, that patients fulfilling our criteria will die in spite of sclerotherapy.
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Results One hundred and eighty patients fulfilled the criteria for entry into the surveillance programme.
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Only patients who fulfilled the criteria described by Isaacson etal were included.
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Mone of the patients fulfilled the clinical, endoscopic, and histopathological criteria for pouchitis.
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Thirty four patients fulfilled these criteria; of these, 25 gave informed written consent to participate in the study.
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The second is that his treatment of psychotic patients fulfils most of the criteria for an ideal milieu therapy.
pledge
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We shall fulfil the pledge given by the Prime Minister in 1987 and abrogated every year since then.
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His proposal fulfilled a 1992 campaign pledge to provide a middle-class tax cut.
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It is about time chairmen and administrators started to listen to the managers and worked on fulfilling the pledge .
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He said he had promised the nation an election then and would fulfil the pledge using all constitutional means.
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Downing Street announced that the Prime Minister intended to fulfil his longstanding pledge .
potential
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Many teachers express concern that even their more able pupils do not fulfil their potential in the subject.
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Being an entrepreneur is a way of fulfilling your creative potential .
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All girls and boys, from every background, must be able to discover their talents and fulfil their potential .
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It's only in the past 18 months, however, that he's started fulfilling his true potential .
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Tiriac became a father figure and Nastase was at least able to fulfil some of his potential .
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That is not to say, of course, that it won't take longer for her to fulfil her potential .
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Their failure was that, because of man's inhumanity to his fellow beings, they did not fulfil their potential .
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Thus, only here in Communist society can people fulfil their potential for creativity and goodness.
promise
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If the reality doesn't fulfil the promise of the ideals, do you junk the ideals?
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For 15 years, Lindbergh more than fulfilled its promise .
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The following year, Bark Psychosis signed to Virgin and finally began to fulfil the promise of their live shows.
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Draft history is full of players who never fulfilled their promise .
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In September 1976 he joined Spurs for £200,000, but his career there never fully fulfilled its earlier promise .
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Instead, people earn both through a reinforcing cycle of making and fulfilling promises .
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Lewis has begun to fulfil his promise .
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We're going to make them fulfil the promises they made three years ago.
prophecy
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The power that had selected him to fulfil the prophecy .
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However, among their ranks it is universally believed that their leader - Rabbi Menachem Schneerson - will fulfil the Messianic prophecy .
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I finally encountered the bomb baby, thus fulfilling the ironic prophecy of my dreams.
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It was intended, quite flamboyantly, to fulfil Old Testament prophecy .
purpose
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It is very understandable for the person not to want to be aware that it probably will not fulfil its purpose .
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The ritual done, we settle at last into fulfilling the purpose of this expedition.
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It fulfils a dual educational purpose .
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And fulfilling such purpose is a source of self-esteem.
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From the start, therefore, the Pact did fulfil a limited military purpose .
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He had followed his script, fulfilled his stereotyped purpose , but never really acted of his own accord.
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A referral may be made, for example, where the s8 order is not working well or fulfilling its original purpose .
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The remaining elements complete the information and fulfil the communicative purpose of the utterance.
requirement
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What was needed was some one outside and above the territorial nexus, requirements fulfilled only by the young king.
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Our aim is to transport goods from site to site so that requirements are fulfilled from the stocks available at other sites.
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Does it mean that once the information becomes known by market professionals the requirement is fulfilled ?
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However, except for specially made tiny instruments, this requirement is fulfilled at all measurable speeds.
responsibility
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The institutions themselves, being closer to the work in question, were much better placed to fulfil that responsibility .
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The lives of our young people depend on our fulfilling our responsibility .
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They were allowed to raise and spend rates, within set limits, to fulfil these responsibilities .
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And I believe we are fulfilling that responsibility .
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Richard Stevenson Managing for a better environment Companies are increasingly turning to environmental auditing to help them fulfil their responsibilities .
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We audit our production processes to ensure that we fulfil our environmental responsibilities .
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Both often lack the capacity or willingness to fulfil their legal responsibilities .
role
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Or the top executive leader can be a role fulfilled by two or more individuals.
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What role should education fulfil for a profession, and how should it serve it best?
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The enforcement agent in a compliance system has a wide variety of roles to fulfil .
task
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To enable them to fulfil these tasks UDCs have been granted extensive financial, planning and land acquisition powers.
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Don't undermine the patient's confidence by accusing him of not trying when he can not fulfil a task .
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This sort of thing happens very often when a new data.processing system is to be installed to fulfil a particular task .
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Law and custom thus defend the family as the prime agent of socialisation only in so far as it fulfils the task currently prescribed.
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Secondary institutions were also expected to assist primary ones in fulfilling their essential tasks .
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Second, we are concerned with how the representatives perceive their role and how they organise themselves to fulfil their tasks .
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The intention is to determine whether pupils are being offered appropriate experiences and the school is adequately fulfilling its task .
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Yet I was fulfilling my task - the filling of young minds with facts.
wish
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Those who did not fulfil their clients' wishes lost income.
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Today her school payed tribute to her courage and fulfilled her final wish , the planting of 2 trees in her memory.
■ VERB
continue
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It is my earnest wish that rugby continues to fulfil this role.
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Many organists nevertheless continue to fulfil the additional and varied roles of performing or conducting, and of private teaching.
enable
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To enable them to fulfil these tasks UDCs have been granted extensive financial, planning and land acquisition powers.
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The artificial strip will enable the club to fulfil a packed playing programme this summer, including 30 junior games.
fail
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However, she never forgave him for failing to fulfil her expectations later.
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Above that limit the bassoons begin to sound rather thin and thus fail to fulfil the desired object.
help
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In addition, clothes must help a woman to fulfil her special roles.
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Now we realise that we should help farmers to fulfil our conservation objectives as well.
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The governors must then decide on the policies and priorities that help the school to fulfil its aims.
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Richard Stevenson Managing for a better environment Companies are increasingly turning to environmental auditing to help them fulfil their responsibilities.
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And think what good you're doing by helping me fulfil all Uncle's requirements for getting hold of my inheritance.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Eisenhower finally fulfilled his campaign pledge to end the war in Korea.
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In the ROTC program, students fulfill a service commitment after college, in return for a scholarship from the Army or Navy.
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Schools should fulfill the needs of poorer children, giving them a chance in society.
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The general did not have confidence that the Fourth Fleet would be able to fulfil its mission.
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You must give more detailed answers if you are to fulfil the examiner's expectations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And fulfilling such purpose is a source of self-esteem.
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But what conditions must be fulfilled for such references to be significant?
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Fairclough has fulfilled this role quite admirably.
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I expect that he will do his part to fulfil the agreement between us and him.
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Now, however, he realized that those dreams were just fantasies and could never be fulfilled.
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Those who did not fulfil their clients' wishes lost income.