adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
all-inclusive/fully inclusive
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The fully inclusive fare for the trip is £22.
be fully booked (= all the seats, tickets etc are sold )
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I’m afraid that show is fully booked.
be wide/fully awake (= completely awake )
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I'm never wide awake until I've had a cup of coffee.
completely/fully/totally/entirely satisfied
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If you’re not completely satisfied, you can get your money back.
cooperate fully
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I advised my client to cooperate fully with the police.
firmly/totally/fully etc convinced
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Herschel was firmly convinced of the possibility of life on other planets.
fully automated
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The production process is now fully automated .
fully automatic
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My camera is fully automatic .
fully comprehend
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I did not fully comprehend what had happened.
fully comprehensive
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The report does not claim to be fully comprehensive.
fully developed
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Labour has a more fully developed programme for the unemployed.
fully dressed (= with all your clothes on )
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She was so tired that she went to bed fully dressed.
fully dressed
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She collapsed fully dressed on the bed.
fully expect (= completely )
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We fully expected to win.
fully functional
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By 2004, the Supertram is expected to be fully functional .
fully furnished
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a fully furnished flat
fully guaranteed
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All our products are fully guaranteed .
fully informed
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Please keep me fully informed of any developments.
fully intend (= definitely intend )
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I fully intend to return home next year.
fully justified
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In the Chief Constable’s view, the use of force was fully justified .
fully mature
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The human brain isn’t fully mature until about age 25.
fully occupied
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She’s fully occupied with work.
fully operational
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Our main offices are now fully operational .
fully qualified
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He was a fully qualified engineer.
fully understood
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How the drug works isn’t fully understood .
fully/completely
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It is a row that may never be fully resolved.
fully/heavily laden
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The lorry was fully laden.
fully/partially/scantily etc clothed
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The children lay on the bed, fully clothed and fast asleep.
fully/totally/wholly committed
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Both sides claim to be fully committed to the peace process.
participate fully
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They welcomed the opportunity to participate fully in the life of the village.
thoroughly/fully deserve sth
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He didn't work so he thoroughly deserved his poor marks.
totally/fully organic (= containing only food that is produced using organic methods )
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All the ingredients are totally organic.
well/fully/acutely aware
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They were well aware that the company was losing money.
well/fully/inadequately etc prepared
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Luckily, we were well prepared for the storm.
well/poorly/fully etc equipped
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a well equipped hospital
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
automatic
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It had a spring suspension axle for which a fully automatic tracking axle system is also available.
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After the war, semi-and fully automatic rifles were developed.
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The Slotopal On-Line Analyser from Schloetter is for fully automatic titrations of plating bath constituents and other processes.
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Honda also designed the four-wheel-drive system, which engages only when needed and is fully automatic .
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Our fully automatic video cameras are so easy to use - just point the camera and press the record button!
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If there was a drawback, it was the rate of fire on fully automatic .
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Such control is often fully automatic .
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This pump-house was fully automatic and the latest example of technological design.
aware
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So the possibility was that the leadership there, if any, would not be fully aware of what had just developed.
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Obviously, it was not always fully aware of this exceptional position, or fully able to exploit it.
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It is important that expatriates be fully aware of local customs and their effects on life style.
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I said to myself, fully aware that what I was saying made no sense.
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The play leaves you with the impression that he was fully aware at the time of what was going on.
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I am fully aware that I have nothing to offer you, no inducements, nothing to give you in exchange.
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The Banks are fully aware of and fully supportive of the measures which we have recently announced.
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This was, in fact, standard practice and Barratt was fully aware of it.
fledged
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He's a fully fledged pilot now.
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Even fully fledged homosexuals often return to the pursuit of women.
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The longer-term tendency may be for the joint boards to develop into fully fledged special purpose authorities.
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He wasn't hurt, but I was a fully fledged professor before I could afford another.
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Several goldsmiths developed into fully fledged banks and issued banknotes.
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We are now fully fledged instructors.
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I was quite happy to reap the benefits of being a fully fledged malai killer.
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These constraints put out of the question any prospect of training fully fledged navigators for the thousands of landing craft crews.
grown
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Two methods can be used, both requiring a healthy and fully grown leaf from your selected plant.
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Elsewhere fully grown trees were uprooted, and were found laid out in the direction of the blast.
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A fully grown woman, the muscles on her arms and legs as thick and obvious as a man's.
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The initial stages of training are not exactly kind but there is no other way of breaking a fully grown elephant.
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It is the largest living bird - a fully grown male weighing 140 kilograms and reaching 2.5 metres in height.
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I would like to put a fully grown male in with her.
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A kitten requires three times more nourishment, relative to body weight, than a fully grown cat.
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All the corpses he examined were those of adults - of fully grown men.
independent
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A social worker is usually involved because a person has ceased to be fully independent in some aspect of daily living.
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There is a fully independent , four-wheel-suspension system with McPherson struts and stabilizer bars, front and rear.
operational
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Once the country's largest dry ski-slope is fully operational it is hoped to offer up to 70 part-time jobs to experienced skiers.
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Implementation would take at least six months, culminating in fully operational work-unit teams.
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Once fully operational , they should process 3,000 tons of effluent a day.
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What had to be sacrificed was time, since it would be years before the shuttle would be fully operational .
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Once the system is fully operational , then one may consider moving to an in-house installation if the economies are worthwhile.
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It is to be fully operational by mid-2003.
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The muscles had been fully stimulated during the growth period and Ewan had supposed they'd be fully operational immediately.
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The new office in Campbell plans to have 45 real estate agents when fully operational .
■ VERB
accept
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Unless parents fully accept the child, the burden of pain and failure will be passed on.
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Yet he could not fully accept it.
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A lesson had been learned, but not fully accepted im-mediately, and it was enormously frustrating.
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Resolving this conflict was critical in fully accepting the responsibility in being a manager and developing credibility.
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Nowadays we fully accept short sight.
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But that big, awful secret from her past prevents Lisa from fully accepting his love.
appreciate
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And for once he knew he was fully appreciated by his Buttermere neighbours and even by his wife.
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Maybe we only come to fully appreciate many great athletes and artists just before they walk out the door.
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Although so far no one has succeeded in interpreting the Etruscan language we can fully appreciate their sculpture, painting and craftsmanship.
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He had not till now fully appreciated the pleasure of calling.
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In fact Mozart did not fully appreciate the gravity of the situation.
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However, many of its attributes are not fully appreciated and the following notes are intended to increase awareness of these.
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Work by other engineers was obviously germane to the investigation of geomorphological processes but was not fully appreciated until the 1960s.
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It is only comparatively recently that the scale and significance of the Sterkfontein deposits have begun to be fully appreciated .
become
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Only recently has the importance of the timing of insulin injections in relation to meals become fully realised.
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Marx argues that a social group only fully becomes a class when it becomes a class for itself.
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If your company has a five-year plan you become fully vested after five years.
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The jaw does not become fully grown until the horse is between five and eight years old.
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The decisional roles can not become fully operative until he has more information.
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It was only later that the significance of the surrendering of providing powers in 1930 became fully apparent to the District.
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It was then that I became fully aware of how your personality is really at stake.
book
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Oddly the cottage was fully booked when we tried to take it again at Easter.
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Coming back, we stood all the way from Naples to Paris on a fully booked train.
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Berths only become available to staff or relatives when the ship is not fully booked .
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The trip is now fully booked and money for tickets should be paid in as soon as possible.
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No one knows how many are coming; the fully booked hotels say perhaps 100,000.
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And we weren't fully booked .
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Two coaches are fully booked with dozens more Italia-bound by air, mini-bus and car.
clothe
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Ralph Lauren's Polo aftershave came galloping into the kitchen, followed shortly by a now fully clothed Lee.
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I took off my boots and lay down on the bed fully clothed .
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Children, many suffering from malnutrition, keep warm by doing exercises fully clothed .
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Condrey said he was still holding Higgins' hand when they walked into the water, fully clothed .
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After all I was fully clothed .
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But we all make concessions to age and physical erosion, so Young remained fully clothed on his naked bootleg.
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But even if she'd been fully clothed the chance of escape was gone before it arrived.
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It was like watching a postgame inter-view with an athlete, except that Roz was fully clothed .
commit
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The Labour party is fully committed to health promotion and prevention care.
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She makes her evolution, from neutral to fully committed , a credible, touching experience.
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Yet most existing fundholders find they do not have the available money as their management fees are fully committed within their practices.
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Throughout life you need to be fully committed to each course of action.
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But he complains that I give him the impression that I am holding back and am not fully committed .
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But never fully committed to the program, the government soon abandoned it.
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We are fully committed to reinvigorating the economy of west Cornwall.
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Dan Holloway how-ever was fully committed to the effort he led.
comprehend
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To fully comprehend space we need stereoscopic touch, hearing and vision.
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I wonder if there -, %, as some moment when she fully comprehended and appreciated him?
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Rivalry between them is unnecessary and tends to disappear once each fully comprehends the other's role.
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Fully comprehending the imminent danger, Warren sent to General Meade for a division.
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If not, does it fully comprehend the awful consequences?
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And he comprehended fully how great is the benevolence of the boundlessly compassionate Kuan Yin.
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They learn not to take things on trust, but to make sure they fully comprehend in order to make their own assessments.
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A proper engineering drawing can not be thus fudged; like Wolf, the draughtsman must fully comprehend what he is drawing.
cooperate
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We're prepared to cooperate fully with any security council inquiry.
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She cooperated fully in the project in a most commendable spirit of scientific interest.
describe
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The entire restoration project is fully described in a forthcoming publication by Ello De Rosa.
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Poor communications Lack of understanding often arises through failure to communicate accurately and fully describe the state of the process.
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Describe fully what took place, in a way which will arouse the feelings and sympathy of your readers.
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The facilities available for creating users and allocating privileges are described fully in Section 11 of this manual.
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The changes in accounting policy are fully described in the financial review.
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Children also need to develop a specialised vocabulary so they are able to describe fully the features they find.
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It fully describes a variety of stimulating exploitation techniques that will involve students in active viewing.
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The horrible sufferings and uproar which resulted are fully described by two independent observers, Osbern and Eadmer.
deserve
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And the underdogs fully deserved their win over the Galway men.
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He had overcome the rivalry of his son and felt that he fully deserved the expensive lifestyle he enjoyed with Mary.
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Those responsible for bringing the Imperial War Museum to Hartlepool fully deserve the congratulations of the town.
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The combination of coal mining and iron making produced a world which fully deserved its name.
develop
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Flavours rapidly evaporate from hot wort while bitterness requires up to an hour to fully develop .
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It will be more advantageous for the aquarist to acquire pre-cultivated seedlings or fully developed plants from aquatic plant shops.
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The inherited traits can be suppressed because a puppy is born with a brain that is not fully developed .
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Reproductions is by the separation of daughter plants which arise on the leaf margins or fully developed specimens and take root readily.
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The skeletal width of the shoulders is hereditary but an illusion of breadth can be created by fully developing the shoulder muscles.
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Large dogs with fully developed human intelligences, although a tendency, when examining anything, to sniff it.
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Every one of these older persons is a fully developed personality.
discuss
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These duties are discussed fully in detail in the following chapters.
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Nutrition labelling is also fully discussed in Chapter 4 and is thus described but briefly here.
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What to do if the relationship is curved is discussed fully in the next chapter.
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Only the first two of these problems are discussed fully here.
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Second, having fully discussed what the customer wants, the salesperson knows which product benefits to stress.
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Both are of fundamental significance, and will be discussed fully in Chapter 6.
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The properly drafted agreement will contain only those provisions which the partners have discussed fully and agreed upon.
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Prototyping is discussed fully in Section 6.5.
dress
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He was lying face downwards in the shadow of the short diving-board, fully dressed in a blazer and white linen trousers.
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He was still fully dressed , except for the jacket and he, literally, hugged his side of the bed.
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She took one step forward and toppled Mitch fully dressed in to the swimming-pool without a moment's hesitation.
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She was fully dressed , wearing a hat and coat.
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When the bell is deployed, the divers descend fully dressed .
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After a while I went back to my room and lay down, fully dressed , waiting.
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As I suspected, Richard was fully dressed .
equip
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Attractively converted town house close to Portobello market, with spacious, fully equipped rooms.
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They come fully equipped with beds, furniture, bathtubs and cooking utensils.
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The accommodation here is all self catering, and the apartments are fully equipped with cooker and fridge.
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The conference was held in a fully equipped auditorium.
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All the studios sleep 2-3, have private facilities and terraces and are fully equipped for the self catering gourmet.
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A fully equipped tipi had almost as many ropes, lines, pegs, and parts as an old-time sailing vessel.
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Doubles are smart but small; fully equipped suites are spectacular, as they should be for over 300.
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Fully equipped Mustang convertible, $ 28, 210.
expect
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Goldstein fully expects an Architecture-Neutral Distribution Format product programme to be initiated during 1994.
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Any day now, we fully expect to hear some guy playing Sousa marches in his armpit.
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Irene had fully expected that Douglas's move to a new branch would lead to promotion, but it hadn't happened.
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I fully expect that Tony will end his career with the San Diego Padres.
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She had fully expected to be dismissed the next morning, but nothing was said and she didn't ask.
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She fully expected to be back in Boston July 1 for the opening of the vacation activities.
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He was waiting to see you and fully expecting you would be there.
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She fully expected to see her suitcases standing somewhere.
explain
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For reasons not fully explained , the military pilot had decided to close in on the civilian airliner.
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The therapist should explain fully why certain areas of questioning are being broached so that parents feel part of the assessment procedure.
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In an odd decision that White did not fully explain , veteran defensive lineman Nolan Harrison did not suit up Sunday night.
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Their relationship is never fully explained , but it is serious enough for Meadowlark to become obsessive and out of control.
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For some reason, which probably will never be fully explained , a loner with a passion for guns snapped.
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But this can not fully explain the slowdown.
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How each of these causes maintenance insomnia is fully explained later in this book.
exploit
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Compiled annually, it is a voluminous source which can now be fully exploited for the first time using computer techniques.
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By fully exploiting their market position currently, monopolistic firms might elicit adverse public opinion and governmental censure.
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Currently, the recogniser does not fully exploit information about the physical properties of the input.
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The photographic record alone, indeed, has still to be exploited fully by historians.
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However this is not sufficient to ensure that the research potential of the data is fully exploited .
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Both sides shall give real substance to the agreement on the creation and work of cultural centres and fully exploit them.
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Doubtless there will be many highly strategic opportunities where this humiliation will be fully exploited .
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Whether managers fully exploit the pocket of discretion thus created depends on the intensity of their own commitment to profit maximisation.
grow
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By this time Dawn was fully grown .
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This fish feeds readily on larval Artemia, but fully grown adults are too large.
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The jaw does not become fully grown until the horse is between five and eight years old.
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The most mistaken idea is that you can Xerox people and somehow clone a fully grown adult.
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Make a note of their position and come back a few weeks later to collect them when they are fully grown .
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The tastiest lamb comes from animals that have been grazing, but are not yet fully grown - about 10 months old.
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When the caterpillar is fully grown it usually hangs upside down from a leaf or plant stem, and begins to pupate.
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Lions breed well in captivity. b. When fully grown , a lion is bigger than a lioness.
implement
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However, it is expected to encompass all civil originating processes by the time the system is fully implemented in 2002.
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As school desegregation is more fully implemented , only the most isolated suburbs will remain exempt.
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The main weakness of these republican reforms was that they threatened fundamental change but didn't fully implement it.
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These requirements were never fully implemented .
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At St Mary's, we decided to set up a 10-week pilot study before fully implementing the new role.
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Preparations had started almost a year earlier, but it was not until winter 1916/17 that they were fully implemented .
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Funding is now needed to ensure that the experiments of the project are fully implemented .
inform
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In order to fully inform such study there is a need for more research in this field.
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And he kept them fully informed .
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One primary intervention therefore was for me to liaise regularly with the ward so that Mrs Allen was fully informed about the situation.
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Four facts about car alarms: Fact 1: Buyers are not fully informed .
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To ensure a mutually beneficial outcome it is necessary that both parties be fully informed of all relevant information.
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Such behavior would scarcely be acceptable to a fully informed public.
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Their 1S09002 project management structure meant we were fully informed throughout.
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He studies his council material in close detail and refuses to cast a vote until he is confident he is fully informed .
integrate
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Moreover, such a theory must more fully integrate diverse moments of social reproduction, both semiotic and political economic.
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He will also be responsible for Johnson Brothers' customer service when it is fully integrated later in the year.
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So the cosmic mind is one, though it contains infinite aspects of being within its fully integrated and indestructible unity.
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They must also show their HIV/AIDS services are fully integrated into their community care plans.
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The specialists were moved from their functional silos into those teams and integrated fully with all other maintenance technicians.
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Unlike the Maze, Maghaberry is a fully integrated prison where loyalists and republicans live cheek-by-jowl.
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It had been fully integrated into the Telecom system five years previously.
intend
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Branson had fully intended to keep his word on not seeing or communicating with Joan for three months.
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Smolan maintains he fully intended to go forward with a book from the time he and Negroponte began discussing it.
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The Grange has always been a happy house and still has a faint atmosphere of piety, fully intended by Mr Teulon.
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The pair fully intends to be on stage this weekend, returned to all their companions in the salad bowl.
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There are massive opportunities for a group like Emap in the digital environment and we fully intend to take them.
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After all, the 27-year-old farm worker fully intended to return to work when his 30-minute lunch break was over.
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Last night had completely undermined her resolve, though - as he had fully intended it should.
justify
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I think the number of cyclists in this area of the city fully justifies the implementation of these additional measures.
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Until evidence of such ore bodies can be produced, skepticism regarding their existence is fully justified .
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Berger's irrationalist pessimism about the fate of ideas in history is neither fully justified by history nor required by logic.
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The long-term repercussions fully justify the significance attached to Emancipation.
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An employment tribunal has ruled that food retailers are fully justified in refusing to employ men who wear them.
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We not merely retained it but expanded it, and it has fully justified our confidence.
occupy
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Are not Earth's children fully occupied with human inventions?
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My mind was on my work, and I had never been more fully occupied .
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The four beds in the lying-in ward were usually fully occupied .
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He was always friendly enough, but seemed fully occupied with the bevy of young beach-boys who seemed to swarm around him.
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But I had many other interests which kept me fully occupied at the time.
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The reason that Leith did not immediately answer was that her brain was fully occupied .
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The department is extremely busy and all existing machine and labour capacity is fully occupied .
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Johnny was by now fully occupied with the fastenings on the controversial halter-necked garment.
participate
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Living art forms will finally use technology to bring art to the point where the brain can fully participate in it.
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We also invite our children to participate fully in conversation.
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It was obvious that they participate fully , even in churches where the pastor is a man.
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Legislation will not necessarily change the role of interest groups so that citizens can participate fully in democracy.
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Some fully participate in the overparenting.
pay
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Hewlett-Packard Moscow head of representation Nick Rossiter says the contract is fully paid for and took 18 months to negotiate.
prepare
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Most men sported an absurd amount of lethal weaponry, which they were fully prepared to use.
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Jackson came over at once, armed with a fully prepared draft of a bill, which he read to the assembly.
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You've lost a close friend and however much you anticipated this, you can never be fully prepared for a bereavement.
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Intel is currently preparing fully functional samples of the chips for shipment to manufacturers in the second half.
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There are so many options prices vary, but Tony suggests a fully prepared Trakmeister car would start at around £14,000.
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Haig wisely refused to do this until he was fully prepared .
qualify
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The guides are fully qualified to take groups anywhere on these mountains; safety is always paramount.
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They typically earn about one half to two thirds the pay of a fully qualified worker.
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He undertook an in-service youth work qualification while working and became a fully qualified youth worker two years later.
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Even for those who are most fully qualified , full-time jobs with full-time benefits are scarce.
realize
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I was too numbed still to take in the situation and to realize fully the drastic change in my life.
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The second reason for disregarding potential short-term bene-fits is that they are seldom fully realized .
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Ultimately, it has to be worked at so that its possibilities are realized fully by those who possess it.
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I fully realized the futility of this enterprise, an unrequited obsession, a one-sided infatuation.
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The function of the state was to plan the social environment so that individuals could more fully realize themselves.
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The ramifications of the wrong use of imagination have to be fully realized before we can hope to control it.
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The government could pull in two opposite directions without fully realizing that it was doing so.
recover
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But for a nagging worry she was fully recovered .
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Maybe it has taken the girls this long to fully recover from the demoralizing Arizona road trip.
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It is hoped to released the bird back into the wild when it is fully recovered .
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By spring practice, tailback Skip Hicks is expected to be fully recovered from knee injuries.
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During the wars themselves there had been considerable disruption, but by 1785 trade had fully recovered .
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A victim never fully recovers from the feeling of insecurity.
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Edmund will fully recover , we hope.
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After a skin graft on his leg, the patient is now fully recovered , he said.
satisfy
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There was nothing particularly creditable in giving up an immoral life when you had fully satisfied that nagging curiosity.
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It can not fully satisfy both.
support
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The idea is to eliminate or severely limit private financing and fully support both presidential and congressional campaigns with public financing.
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Furthermore, the harsh treatment of slaves was fully supported by the legal system.
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Enlightened stuff - and fully supported by Morrissey.
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Our Job Review and Management Review schemes are fully supported by directors and management.
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This has been discussed at the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council and they fully support your proposals.
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This theoretical uncertainty was fully supported by the experience of ancient and medieval technology.
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It is important that all limbs are fully supported in a neutral position while the patient is anaesthetized.
understand
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It is the broker's job to make sure the haulier fully understands the small print of the exemption and other clauses.
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With all the complexities in human nature, behavior can never be fully understood and predicted.
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I can fully understand him being pissed off.
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I fully understand what I am doing but I can not stop.
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Diana was sympathetic, but did not fully understand his unrest, nor his frantic soul-searching.
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The function of the stripes is not fully understood and the pattern is in fact different on each zebra.
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Check that the subordinate fully understands what has been discussed and can explain back to you roughly what is the next stage.
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We shall look briefly at the issues involved to fully understand these points.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fully paid-up member of sth
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Are you now a fully paid-up member of the new economy?
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At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency.
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Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul, acting like she's a fully paid-up member of the team.
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Thus, Milwaukee-based guitarist Daryl Stuermer became a fully paid-up member of the Genesis live auxiliaries.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Fully 75 percent of cultural articles were devoted to sports.
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a fully equipped kitchen
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I can fully understand your concern.
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Patients must fully understand the risks involved in this type of surgery.
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Please keep me fully informed of any developments.
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The house is fully furnished, including washer and dryer.
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The President is fully aware of the problem.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And for once he knew he was fully appreciated by his Buttermere neighbours and even by his wife.
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I don't know if they ever fully understood it.
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If your company has a five-year plan you become fully vested after five years.
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In contrast, public monopolies that are thrust fully into competition have little choice but to please their customers.
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The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully .