I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
achieve/obtain/gain statehood
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Utah obtained statehood in 1896.
acquire/achieve/gain/develop competence
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First you have to acquire competence in methods of research.
capital gains tax
capital gains
efficiency gains (= increases in efficiency )
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New technology introduced by the company has brought efficiency gains.
gain a seat ( also take a seat from sb ) (= win a seat from another party )
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At the next election the Republicans gained 12 seats in the Senate.
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Labour took over fifty seats from the Conservatives.
gain confidence ( also grow/gain in confidence ) (= become more confident )
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Paul did well in the job and gained a lot of confidence.
gain credence (= to become more widely accepted or believed )
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His ideas quickly gained credence among economists.
gain credibility
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It took many years for these ideas to gain credibility in the science community.
gain entry
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Burglars use various methods to gain entry to houses.
gain entry (= be allowed to take part )
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You need good exam results to gain entry to the best universities.
gain publicity
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Appearing on a chat show means you gain publicity.
gain strength
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After the operation, he spent several weeks relaxing and gaining strength.
gain/achieve mastery of sth
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He has definitely achieved mastery of this very difficult subject.
gain/achieve/win independence (= get independence )
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Our aim was to achieve full independence.
gain/draw strength from sb/sth
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He gained strength from being back with the people and things he loved.
gained admission
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Women gained admission to the club only recently.
gained ascendancy
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He slowly gained ascendancy in the group.
gained control of
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China gained control of the island in 1683.
gained...prestige
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This little-known British firm has now gained considerable prestige .
gained...toehold
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The company has gained a toehold in the competitive computer market.
gain/establish a foothold
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Extreme right-wing parties gained a foothold in the latest European elections.
gain/find acceptance
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This management style gained acceptance in the 1980s.
gain/gather/build up momentum (= become more and more successful )
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The show gathered momentum over the next few months and became a huge hit.
gain/gather/pick up speed (= go faster )
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The Mercedes was gradually picking up speed.
gain/get a purchase on sth
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The ice made it impossible to get a purchase on the road.
gain/get/develop an understanding
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Scientists continued to gain a greater understanding of the effects of radiation.
gain/grow/increase in popularity
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Extreme sports are growing in popularity.
Gaining admittance
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Gaining admittance to the club was no easy matter.
gain/lose height (= move higher or lower in the sky )
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The plane was rapidly losing height.
gain/win sb’s confidence
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As team captain, he soon won the confidence of the players.
gain/win/achieve notoriety (for sth)
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The local church has gained notoriety for being different.
get/gain a degree
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She worked hard and got a good degree.
get/gain an advantage
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Both teams tried to get an advantage.
get/gain an edge over sb/sth (= gain a small advantage over someone or something else )
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A well trained workforce is a key factor in gaining a competitive edge over our rivals.
get/gain experience
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He suggested that I should gain some experience in a related industry like travel.
get/gain power
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Women were trying to gain power in a male-dominated world.
get/gain/obtain a licence
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New private pilots must fly for at least fifty hours before getting their licences.
get/gain/receive a majority
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If no one gets an overall majority, the vote is repeated.
ill-gotten gains
stand to gain/lose/win/make
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What do firms think they stand to gain by merging?
weight gain
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The medication can cause rapid weight gain.
windfall gain/profit etc (= high profit that you did not expect to make )
win/earn/gain respect (= start to be respected )
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Morris eventually won the respect of his fellow workers.
win/gain fame
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He won fame when he appeared in the film ‘The Graduate’.
win/gain recognition
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The company has won recognition for its customer service.
win/gain/attract support
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Try to win the support of local shopkeepers.
win/obtain/gain/secure a concession
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In the end, the strikers returned to work having won few concessions.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
acceptance
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Even so, the idea gained complete acceptance only early this century.
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Unions, factory Inspection, the regulation of the hours of women and children had gained acceptance .
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It is the latter definition that is gaining the widest acceptance .
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What he said in 1 714, perhaps in jest, later gained acceptance as the perfect moniker for the marine timekeeper.
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In addition to this, every vision is surrounded by a kind of halo designed to gain its acceptance .
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He eventually gains acceptance , even though he never truly fits in.
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Its reputation in encouraging a variety of worthwhile activities will then gain increasing acceptance in the community.
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Birth control advocates began to think they could gain more public acceptance on their own.
access
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The firm may be market-seeking, in the sense that it wishes to gain access to more customers and consumers.
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Network programs that involve remote file transfer are especially susceptible to eavesdroppers gaining access to the contents of files.
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To destroy the cottage in order to gain access to the road was desirable.
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To gain access to Clinton, you have to give him hundreds of thousands of dollars and drink lousy Yuban.
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There is no evidence that the intruder gained access to the source code for Office or any Windows products.
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You gain access to those 4 million square miles, and you gain access to tremendous natural resources.
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It was under the old law if done in pursuance of the ulterior intent, not if done simply to gain access .
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Soviet leaders unsuccessfully attempted to gain greater access to Yugoslav facilities in 1976.
advantage
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Salary caps are imposed to prevent richer clubs gaining an unfair advantage over poorer rivals by offering players vastly inflated salaries.
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At first capital only gained advantage in relation to labor and may even have lost some ground to the state.
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Large numbers of people have gained the advantages of acquiring different forms of capital, be they houses or shares.
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Swift action is needed, not just to gain the advantage , but as a necessity.
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We may be fed up with the machinations of elected officials who are obsessed with gaining political advantage over one another.
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Those firms within the Community which employ labour illicitly will reduce their labour costs and gain a competitive advantage in production.
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Neither was ever able to gain any decided advantage .
approval
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Dartington had to change its course considerably in order to gain approval .
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Crop Revenue Coverage is the first privately developed alternative crop insurance to gain approval from the Agriculture Department, the company said.
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In its earlier years it was extremely outspoken in its condemnation of anything that failed to gain its approval .
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He or she must gain approval from others, outside formal authority channels, to implement a staff project.
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A proposal by the opposition Labour Party for a more extensive package failed to gain parliamentary approval .
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It seemed speaking when you felt like it was a way to gain approval .
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Or how is he to submit to pain or exhaustion to gain their approval ?
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The procedure has not gained formal approval by the International Olympic Committee because it does not give conclusive proof of drug use.
attention
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Gradually he had started to reject food which had increased her level of anxiety and gained him more attention .
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The morass in Washington has gained even greater attention as bond investors have little economic news on which to focus.
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To gain attention and recognition we need to be able to attend to and recognise others.
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Since then it has gained more and more attention as astronomers worldwide watch its progress en route to the sun.
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His works were slow to gain wide attention in the United States.
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This gives an opportunity for your message to gain more attention from the reader and perhaps to make a deeper impression.
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Lucky had wanted to gain his attention in some way.
benefit
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On top of the recovery in demand, Forte stands to gain the full benefit of cost reductions of £40m made last year.
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Study these carefully to ensure you gain maximum benefit from every interview you attend.
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He became close friends with the Pipers and gained great benefits from their taste, experience and enthusiasm.
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How will you measure when it is time to start gaining financial benefit ?
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Staff would have new opportunities to gain additional skills and benefit from greater flexibility.
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So Swannson-on-Wheels will gain considerable benefit from the purchase of a relatively local garage facility on the outskirts of Tetbury.
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In this manner the fish gain the benefits of both food sources.
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Small farms in the public sector have been grouped together in cooperatives to gain all the benefits possible from size and concentration.
confidence
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Realizing this will gradually help you to gain confidence to go deeper and deeper into relaxation and experience full benefit from it.
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Remember that progress will speed up as he masters the first few steps of a particular challenge and gains some confidence .
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She touched this totem carefully, gaining confidence as it quivered and tautened.
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Abused women can gain new confidence when they realize they have political leverage against their abusive spouses.
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With remarkable speed this novel organization gained the confidence of the capital's work-force.
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People have gained confidence in sending substantial sums off to unseen institutions and working with them long-distance.
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She will gain confidence in communication and management skills, and her own knowledge will be tested.
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Even if he had not gained her confidence by constant restimulation of late-life areas he would have provoked her tears.
control
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It ran across my chest, and over my shoulder, and I leaned into it to gain control .
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I started to return well and I gained control of the match.
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But these tiny acts helped women gain some measure of control over our lives.
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Fortunately, the investment banks have managed to gain control of the dividends of only big and new companies.
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The attack recovered the lost guns and gained control of a good part of the plateau.
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Meanwhile both groups began infiltrating the city in an attempt to gain control of key locations.
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Soon he would gain control of himself and the role, Logan said.
currency
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It was in these conditions that Marxist ideas began to gain currency .
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But then, of course, I knew how that idea had gained currency .
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During the 1880s Marxism began to gain currency among the revolutionary intelligentsia.
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Two misconceptions about the Treaty of Maastricht have been allowed to gain currency .
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This belief gained wide currency among Sinhalese of all social strata in the twentieth century.
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It gained currency during the period of national reawakening in the nineteenth century.
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Oral tradition was written down and gained a wider currency than ever before.
degree
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These more favoured subcontractors, however, gain a greater degree of continuity at the expense of wider variations in profits.
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Wirral-born Mike joined the company in 1979 from Newcastle University where he gained a chemical engineering degree .
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If you wish, you can go on from there to gain an Honours degree .
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However for AEs the figures were virtually identical with those of standard entrants. 2% more SEs gained good degrees than NSEs.
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After leaving Richmond School, he gained a degree in sports studies at Newcastle Polytechnic.
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She gained a degree in both languages and subsequently enroled in our course.
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Only 25.4% gained a good degree compared with 32.1% of the SEs and 30.1% of the NSEs as a whole.
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Jones International, a for-profit university, recently caused controversy by gaining full degree accreditation.
experience
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In my opinion it is very doubtful whether all this disruption to so many people was justified by the experience I gained .
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When women start to examine and share their experiences , they gain knowledge of politics.
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An accurate record of her progress needs to be kept and a check made on the experience she has gained .
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At the present time, with the considerable experience gained and with additional personnel available, this initial effort should be axiomatic.
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But as experience is gained through constant repetition, each movement of the form begins to flow smoothly into the next.
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Guidance was first published in 1973, and it has been periodically revised in the light of experience gained .
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Obviously this utilises the experience I have gained to date and also allows me to develop further within my chosen field.
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As a by-product, with the experience gained they are now in a strong position to enter paid advice work.
foothold
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Spreadsheets have typically adopted these commands in order to gain some foothold in the market.
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These opportunistic diseases would not otherwise gain a foothold in the body.
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Already her knitwear had gained a small foothold on the Continent.
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Keeping hydrated improves the body's ability to trap and neutralize those microbes before they can gain a foothold .
ground
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Nationalism has gained ground to the extent that it has begun to claim mainstream status.
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Having gained the high moral ground , I was reluctant to quit it right away.
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It is by no means certain that the Tory tax offensive has gained much ground .
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Martin also gained ground on Gordon, finishing sixth and moving within 87 points.
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Although still carrying the hallmarks of a true fishing port, Padstow is fast gaining ground in the popularity stakes.
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These companies appear to have gained some ground on Packard Bell.
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The secular temper of the times, however, ensured that the more extreme theories connected with evolution continued to gain ground .
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The trend gained ground in the United States, where early symphony audiences ached to exude social refinement.
impression
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In particular, you may gain the impression that you are being victimised because of what you are, rather than because of who you are.
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Lest her neighbours gain the impression that no-one ever wrote to her, she wrote and mailed letters to herself.
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Walking amongst the ruins of an ancient city, for example, it is impossible to gain an overall impression of the layout.
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Even today it is easy to gain a lopsided impression .
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If you can satisfy these three requirements the reader should gain a good first impression of both the essay and the writer.
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So attempt to gain an impression of paper, and a feel for the movement, rather than painting details.
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Visitors to the studio could gain an impression of his work as a whole and grasp the cumulative effect.
independence
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Further education colleges will gain new independence from April 1993, and will be responsible for their own budgets.
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Prosecutors claim the brothers killed for their parents' $ 14 million fortune, and to gain their independence .
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By the 1930s Storni had gained sufficient independence to allow her poetic vision to encompass the world of objects around her.
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Gandhi had risen above his acts, he had gained considerable independence of their success or failure.
information
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Some of the more sensational reports claimed that Misrati had used his attractive young daughter to gain access to information .
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Do not forget the benefits you will gain from career information interviewing and job location interviewing.
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Additional aims included gaining further information about the timing and frequency of recurrence and learning how often this was associated with symptoms.
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Ability to gain access to information , and to desire information from a variety of points of view.
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I hope that from this feature, readers will want to gain more information about Killifish.
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Further evidence of the disadvantaged position of older women in relation to men can be gained from information on the distribution of income.
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As well as acting as a support for the patient she will be gaining additional information relevant to her understanding of patient care.
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A central zone leads to other areas where you can test yourself, gain information , do puzzles and so on.
insight
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Since then he had gained insight into himself, and into a woman's heart.
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She may talk with attorneys and other observers during the breaks to gain further insights .
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To visit them is to gain an insight into what many of our own wetlands must have been like.
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We also felt that they might gain some insight into why it is they are so often in trouble with us.
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The trust wants to gain an insight into the county's butterfly population.
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This guidance helped them gain insight into the characteristics that inhibited their own ability to persist and to complete schoolwork.
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Pupils use drama to gain insights into moral and social issues in works of literature.
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Perhaps they hope to heighten their appreciation of nature by gaining insight into its ways.
knowledge
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The book is based on his knowledge of Wychwood gained then, but for his story he went back even further in time.
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Reflective abstraction is the abstraction of new knowledge from editing knowledge gained by reflection or thought.
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Using inside knowledge gained from twenty years in the industry she shows how recent scandals could have been avoided.
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Mistakes unfortunately are inevitable while knowledge is gained .
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While they adhere to some uniform practices, these are not systematically informed and shaped by pertinent experience and knowledge gained elsewhere.
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When the knowledge gained by genomics comes on line, the power of genetic engineering will truly become evident.
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To a large extent, success in this area has reflected knowledge gained from nature.
momentum
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The Axiam judders and shakes like a very early classic bike then slowly gains momentum rather than actually accelerating.
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If he could emerge triumphant from those events, he believed he would gain the momentum to win the White House.
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The back of my car began to gain momentum .
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Biological and entomological studies gained momentum through the photographic record.
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If a punch is aimed at the face, the defender steps out to intercept it before it gains momentum .
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While critics of his decision gained momentum Thursday, the record shows they face an uphill battle.
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It's a subject that has gained momentum across the country in recent years.
opportunity
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She would treat this as an unexpected opportunity to gain experience in mass-production fashion.
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The initiation and implementation of economic development projects also provides government with opportunities to gain political support from a diverse constituency.
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Established in 1978, this group has grown rapidly, and there is considerable opportunity for you to gain management experience.
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They missed the opportunity , but they gained what some would later consider to be a legitimate claim to intervention.
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In particular, they should give pupils the opportunity to gain some experience of the works of Shakespeare.
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And within that, we must have a strong, equal and unfettered opportunity to compete and gain access.
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Staff would have new opportunities to gain additional skills and benefit from greater flexibility.
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Seizing the opportunity to gain better qualifications actually puts you in charge and gives you a self-confidence charge.
party
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One poll suggests that the party has gained 1 %, another says support has fallen by the same amount.
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The Green Party aims to gain concessions on environmental safeguards for nuclear power and on the ingredients of unleaded petrol.
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A bipartisan tax bill will have to bridge big differences between the parties on capital gains tax cuts.
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In elections in 1921 Mussolini won a seat in Milan, and his party gained 35 of 535 seats in the country.
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This effort has escalated sharply since the 1994 election when the Republican Party gained control of both houses of Congress.
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The Labour Party gains its most consistent successes in London and the other major cities.
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Muhamad Salikh, chair of the ErK democratic party , gained 12 percent.
percent
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Labour scored its biggest successes in London, where it gained a dozen seats on an above-average swing of 3.4 percent .
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Simsmetal had previously reported a 10. 1 percent gain to A $ 14. 6 million in first quarter profit.
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Economists had anticipated around a 1. 2 percent gain in June.
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Forecasters had expected roughly a 0. 6 percent gain in December retail sales.
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Invesco Strategic Gold ranked second with a 46. 2 percent gain .
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Amgen Inc. reported a 23 percent increase in comparable earnings and an 18 percent gain in revenues for fiscal year 1995.
popularity
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But it has gained amazingly in popularity .
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Another, newer type of yeast is gaining in popularity .
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So why is complementary medicine gaining popularity ?
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A strategy rapidly gaining popularity is to use three of them at once.
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Although still carrying the hallmarks of a true fishing port, Padstow is fast gaining ground in the popularity stakes.
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His fortunes slip as competing styles gain popularity .
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The desire to cut taxes Governments gain popularity by cutting taxes, not by increasing them.
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Talk radio and talk television hosts, mostly but by no means all conservative, are proliferating and gaining influence and popularity .
power
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This helped them to gain height and get power when heading the ball.
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Tobaccocontrol advocates agree, saying their lack of vigilance in decades past had allowed the Tobacco Institute to gain power and influence.
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The only trouble with gaining power over our lives is that it is people like us who have the power.
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Although the balance of power is shifting against the commission, in absolute terms it will gain power.
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For decades, politicians have been trying to gain power in Washington by separating themselves from Washington.
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Nor was it through magic alone that the impulse arose to gain power over nature.
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Quite suddenly, they had gained the power to confer respectability.
qualification
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She began her career as a child care officer in Dorset after gaining her social work qualification at Liverpool University.
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In 1989-90, 16,000 people entered the Programme, and 10,700 gained a qualification .
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Women are much more likely to gain arts qualifications , while men are more likely to gain scientific ones.
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People are given the chance to gain a vocational qualification in areas as diverse as catering, working with horses and machinery.
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Students can count on company help to gain qualifications Tidy the desk, flick off the lights, and leave the building.
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Ponyboy hopes he will finish school and go on to university, so that he can gain qualifications and lead a better life.
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Students will have to produce a portfolio of work and successfully complete a written exam to gain a unit qualification .
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Seizing the opportunity to gain better qualifications actually puts you in charge and gives you a self-confidence charge.
recognition
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He has given the nurses every support in their efforts to gain recognition , and will speak at their conference.
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The brothers' work continued to stir interest and gain recognition .
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The importance of this enabling approach is, happily, gaining greater recognition .
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M that he began to gain recognition as an offensive coordinator with an effective wide-open attack and the ability to groom quarterbacks.
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To gain attention and recognition we need to be able to attend to and recognise others.
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Some remained essentially local, some gained a widespread popular recognition , and certain deities rose to national significance.
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To gain recognition unions had to accept the logic and rules of the capitalist system.
reputation
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It was now that she gained her reputation for eccentricity.
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Loeb, the newspaper publisher, gained a national reputation as a spiteful manipulator of politics.
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He gained a reputation as a practical joker, yet at the same time could be quite morose.
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Both were gaining reputations as the key entrepreneurs of their time.
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Vindicated by events, she gained a reputation for courage and devotion to principle.
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What they needed, they decided, was to set up a nursery themselves to gain a corporate reputation .
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Joe quickly gained a reputation as a Washington host of verve and style.
respect
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But more than 80 % of people thought it was harder for women to gain respect in some foreign cultures.
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He also knew that this was Lennie's chance to gain some respect from the other men, especially Curley.
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He gained their respect and they his.
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Both had been ridiculed, struggled for sponsors and money and both had gained respect for their efforts.
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It is difficult to gain their respect as an adult.
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Get yourself somewhere to live and gain her respect again.
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Adam quickly gained the respect of the soldiers and popularity with those officers whose currency was not to deal in rumour.
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To gain respect in this infuriating but somehow compelling man's eyes?
seat
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Labour had gained over 130 seats , and for the first time in history it was the strongest party in the state.
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Since Sanders generally votes Democratic, the Democrats need to gain an additional 20 seats to win control of the House.
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Labour scored its biggest successes in London, where it gained a dozen seats on an above-average swing of 3.4 percent.
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The winner would gain a seat on the City Council and would automatically be named mayor.
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Labour gained one seat but lost two in the by-election following appointment of aldermen.
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Republicans gained two seats in the Senate and now enjoy a 55-45 majority in the Senate.
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In elections in 1921 Mussolini won a seat in Milan, and his party gained 35 of 535 seats in the country.
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It gained an additional eight seats in the North West, but the swing there was only 2.0 percent.
share
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Each has been trying to outbid the rest in an attempt to gain market share and so exploit economies of scale.
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Mr Petty is hoping to gain market share by lowering prices on popular menu combinations under a new three-tiered pricing program.
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Telephones, photocopiers, word processors and computers are all there at our fingertips, allowing us to gain and share information.
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Some groups, such as the farmers and the labor unions, now gained a greater share in power and its benefits.
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Premiumpriced wines have also gained share , while the generic table wines have grown much more slowly.
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Only one in four cable channels managed to gain market share in prime time last year.
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Human Genome Sciences gain boosted shares of other biotechnology companies, many of which are based in southern Maryland.
support
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A man better placed to gain the support of the Visigoths was Avitus, praetorian prefect of Gaul from 439.
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But gaining that support was not a foregone conclusion.
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This group must put across its views and gain popular support and understanding for its campaign.
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We have swallowed our anger, presented a respectable front, in our bid to gain public support .
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It would not be surprising if, to gain popular support for emancipationist petitions, reformers had to work very hard.
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To do this it had to gain the support , both of the judiciary and the public, for its new measures.
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Twenty years ago when both these causes were beginning to gain wide support , many people saw them as clashing.
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After giving testimony in 1997 and 1998, Levar had tried several times to gain financial support and asylum in another country.
understanding
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To gain an understanding of the persistence and excellence of black sportsmen, the analysis has to begin in the eighteenth century.
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The principal aim of this exploratory research is to gain a better understanding of franchising and the franchising decision.
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To gain a thorough understanding of the concepts presented, the reader is referred to the bibliography.
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To gain a richer understanding of the problem of holism we must therefore distinguish it from the problem of determinism.
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It is difficult to see how avoiding teaching about what is distinctive of religion can help people gain an understanding of it!
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We are gaining greater knowledge, understanding , sensitivity, and appreciation.
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They can give the same information as the text, giving the reader two opportunities of gaining clear understanding .
weight
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They gained weight , and may have stayed at that weight for some time.
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Although a few are thin, most have been gaining weight .
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Although he ate nothing afterwards he continued to gain weight thanks to the presence of the Troll flesh.
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Several studies have shown that the physical stresses of repeatedly gaining and losing weight are linked with earl, deaths.
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Until then, the poor rule may even gain weight .
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Of the eight whose measurements did change, three had fatter thighs, partly because they gained weight .
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Those women who need to gain weight are treated like a rare breed.
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In the 1870s, after all, when plumpness was in vogue, physicians had encouraged people to gain weight .
yards
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Greer gained 74 yards on 18 carries, including 43 yards on 12 attempts after Streets went down.
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Minnesota gained 74 yards rushing in its three previous games combined.
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Denson also gained 92 yards rushing.
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He goes on to become the first rookie since 1986 to gain 1, 000 yards receiving.
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Williams and Kaufman each gained 54 yards ....
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He was backed up by true freshman Marcus Fields, who gained 90 yards on 19 carries.
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They chewed up the clock, gained some yards on the ground, even handled the safety blitz.
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Kaufman gained just 13 yards on 11 carries.
■ VERB
lose
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So ask your building society what you could lose or gain from a remortgage.
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As the underdog here, they have nothing to lose and everything to gain .
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At Oxford he lost his faith but gained a first at Balliol, in Law.
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San Diego, of course, lost everything that Tucson gained , and jobs were simply moved from one pocket to another.
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He has lost everything and gained a faith, and he knows that in the chapel a flame burns for him.
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The attack recovered the lost guns and gained control of a good part of the plateau.
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Nevertheless, modern nomenclature loses more than it gains .
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Some one else invested your profit-sharing for you, and made sure that you never lost and almost always gained .
stand
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On top of the recovery in demand, Forte stands to gain the full benefit of cost reductions of £40m made last year.
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If the government acted upon this report the Raika stood to gain certain privileges.
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What do you stand to gain in a wrongful dismissal case?
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Kitty probably stands to gain a couple mill.
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And finally, who stood to gain ?
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Consumers, often preyed on during times of grief, stand to gain .
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Was it possible that Short was part of the conspiracy, that he stood to gain from his own horse being beaten?
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A gene in a splurge-weed cell stands to gain by promoting the reproduction of its cell.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gain ground
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Dole feels that Forbes is gaining ground .
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For once, the index gained ground despite a decline in shares of Vodafone, the market's biggest stock.
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He was gaining ground on all of them, he had the beating of them yet.
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Martin also gained ground on Gordon, finishing sixth and moving within 87 points.
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Nationalism has gained ground to the extent that it has begun to claim mainstream status.
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The fierce campaign by several anti-Maastricht movements has been gaining ground .
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The trend gained ground in the United States, where early symphony audiences ached to exude social refinement.
gain/get access (to sth)
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The police managed to gain access through an upstairs window.
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Dietary calcium gains access to the organism mostly by transport in the small intestine.
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Environmentalists fear that many citizens will simply forge documents in order to gain access to the city centre.
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Joe quickly gained access to the upper reaches of both Washingtons.
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Once you realise that some blocks need to be matched early, in order to gain access to others, things get tougher.
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Security is maintained by terminal operators using unique identification and password codes to gain access to the system.
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There is no evidence that the intruder gained access to the source code for Office or any Windows products.
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What Renaissance culture was and how we gain access to it increasingly became seen as problematic.
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You gain access to your data by typing in a user name and password.
have/gain the upper hand
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Police have gained the upper hand over the drug dealers in the area.
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But slowly and surely the followers of Chaos gained the upper hand.
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If the two had been introduced simultaneously, the larger one would invariably have the upper hand.
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Now White gains the upper hand.
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Officials said they might reopen the freeway at 5 p. m. today, perhaps sooner if firefighters gain the upper hand overnight.
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The world can only pray that they do not gain the upper hand.
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Under the proposed law, she would have the upper hand.
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We must destroy them now, while we yet have the upper hand.
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When you have a gun you have the upper hand, it makes you feel big, bad.
no pain, no gain
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A new-born baby will gain weight at around one ounce per day.
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Detroit gained a spot in the finals with a 4-0 victory over Toronto.
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Hawaii gained statehood in 1959.
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His ideas are gaining a lot of support.
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It took her a long time to gain enough confidence to speak in public.
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She stayed in the job for give years, gaining valuable experience.
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The four men told the inquiry they did not know why the plane failed to gain height after it took off.
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The train rolled forward, gaining speed rapidly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But she never uses her personality to gain a career advantage.
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In the trite words of many a wedding speech, they have gained a son or daughter.
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Labour gained one seat but lost two in the by-election following appointment of aldermen.
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Perhaps it would be best to defeat the Foundation and gain the power Wienis spoke of.
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Royal Insurance Holdings continued to ignore the drip of the John Spalvin share sales, gaining at one time 20p.
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Seeing this, finally suspecting, the auditor was able to gain her confidence and locate the despair charges.
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The Bloomberg Minnesota Index gained 1. 04 to 131. 11.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
average
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The pros remain comfortably ahead in this series of overlapping six-month contests, measured both in overall score and average investment gain .
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During the 5 1 / 2-year period, the professionals have posted an average six-month investment gain of 10. 5 %.
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The average weight gain after lunch was about 2.5 pounds, which is appropriate in normal cases.
big
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His remarks, in a television interview, followed big electoral gains by the anti-immigrant far-right National Front. -Reuter.
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Sizzling sectors like the Internet brought big gains to buyers of Netscape.
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But privatisation offers the best hope of producing even bigger gains in the years ahead.
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The biggest monthly job gain during the year for Virginia was 29, 000 in April.
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On 26 May the left made big gains in local elections in Dijon.
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Shares of small Contractors, especially, have posted big gains since the announcement.
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Donnie Anderson had several big gains .
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The biggest gains and the most bitter disputes arise over trades between north and south.
capital
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Such an argument relies on the capital gains being unanticipated.
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The capital gains on the transactions are deferred until they complete the transaction at a future date by replacing the borrowed shares.
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The assumption made is that the capital gain or loss occurs evenly over the remaining life of the bond.
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President Clinton has said he may be willing to accept some kind of capital gains cut.
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Whatever some fiscal economists may say, capital gains are not the same as income.
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By eliminating this technique to raise cash without realizing a capital gain , the Treasury proposes to force investors to pay up.
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And, as gilt prices rise when interest rates fall, you should also be sure of a capital gain .
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A flat tax, he wrote in December 1994, would eliminate taxes on capital gains , dividends, interest and estates.
early
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Sun Life Assurance lost much of an early gain but managed to close 10p higher at 1,123p.
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The early gains from the stock market rally begot a feeling of invincibility.
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Stocks lost early gains after the Nationalist change in tactics.
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But stocks and bonds lost all their early gains by the end of the day.
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The market lost its earlier gains on perceptions the coldest temperatures came in areas where previous frost damage forced an early harvest.
economic
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Never was economic gain , as well as the consideration of military security which we mentioned earlier, more clearly in evidence.
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Moreover, many of the economic gains were created by government intervention and monitoring.
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Rising unemployment in the countryside has cancelled out the economic gains of the early-1980s reforms.
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The increase in the incomes of elite workers is only relative; it does not result from their own stellar economic gains .
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Although inequality has increased, the economic gains have not generally been by the rich at the expense of the poor.
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Many officials in Hanoi had hoped the lifting of the trade embargo in February 1994 would lead to quicker economic gain .
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The economic gain from foreign contracts is not worth the risk to national property.
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Formerly enthusiastic, Saigon businessmen now called for caution, preferring to consolidate their economic gains in Cochinchina.
financial
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Moreover, many nonconformists achieved considerable professional reputations and financial gain through private patronage from the native intelligentsia and the foreign community.
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These people were entrepreneurs who undertook challenge not for financial gain , but for human service.
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The point about a woman using her uterus for financial gain poses two problems.
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They may exchange short term financial gain for longterm strategic disadvantage.
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They are using it - milking it for their own financial gain .
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It would not be considered a serious loss by the company and the financial gain to the robbers was not necessarily substantial.
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There is little support for the idea that Shipman killed for financial gain .
great
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If the loss if greater than the gain then the job holder should leave.
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The greatest gains in in-come and wealth have come to the top one-half of one percent of the population.
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That is a great gain from the reforms.
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As these examples indicate, there have been great environmental gains in traffic restraint areas, quite apart from the traffic improvements.
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Lancaster was also responsible for his marriage, which took place about 1308 and led to still greater gains .
huge
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Whenever I come across it now, I think of the huge commercial gain awaiting the person who can provide it.
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They are funds known for churning out huge gains one year, only to slide off the cliff the next.
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The Republicans also made huge gains in Congress.
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The midterm elections brought huge Republican gains .
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Any minor problems that exist are much more noticeable when the guitar is used with huge amounts of gain .
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Historically, the emergence of parliament as the source of legal authority was a huge gain for humanity.
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Attainment of such huge signal power gain is of the greatest electronic significance.
large
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In 1995 the Dow Jones industrial average rose 33 percent, the largest gain since 1975 and the fourth biggest ever.
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The Nikkei index rose 1,252.51 points, to close at 17,850.66, recording the fifth largest single-day gain on record.
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The largest gains were made during the past 20 years of affirmative action policies, Herrera and others say.
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In fact, quite large amounts of gain reduction can be applied before the signal starts to show signs of being squashed.
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That followed much larger gains in November and December when the legislated increase in the federal minimum wage was a factor.
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The broader market posted a larger gain , with the Standard&038;.
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The last larger gain occurred in 1988.
modest
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The prospect of good wages and modest gains provided ample inducement to serve; but there were no doubt other motives as well.
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But even such modest gains were expensive.
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Still, the fact that closing Napster may bring only modest gains makes the case a closer call.
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Growing concerns about profit margins sent technology stocks sharply lower, overshadowing modest gains for blue-chip stocks.
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The sterling-denominated funds have recorded relatively modest gains across a narrow spread of returns.
net
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A closed system is a system in which there is no net gain or loss of matter in the system.
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Between 1989 and 1991, large companies with 500 or more employees contributed a net gain of only 122, 000 jobs.
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Society would make a net gain by producing more films.
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Florida had a net gain of 127, 180, followed by California with about 61, 000.
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So the net welfare gains of allowing free movement of capital are equal to area 8 plus half the shaded area.
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Total inflows minus total outflows results in the predicted net cash gain or loss during the month.
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In the 1990s, the South had a net gain of 326,000 adult blacks from the rest of the country.
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But the Democratic Party needs a net gain of only 20 seats.
personal
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One was said to have sold dozens of military engines for personal gain .
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Forsyth set out to monopolize the best view of the Falls for his personal gain .
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Equally important was the existence of a ruling class willing to put commercial considerations before personal gain .
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She denies any suggestion that she used her official position for personal gain .
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He suggested that people's interests are best served by pursuing personal gains .
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Several of the leading journals published articles directed against ambitious politicians who thought more of personal gain than of national welfare.
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He led a rather monastic, reclusive lifestyle and displayed a complete disregard for personal gain .
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High slack systems, then, are often hotbed of deceptive activities that cover up the exercise of power for personal gain .
political
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Gore could not afford to run the risk of seeing his hard-won political gains evaporate in a populist revolt over fuel costs.
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Where's the political gain for such pain?
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Some say the governor is simply pandering to the populace for political gain .
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In other words the incident is exploited for personal, political , etc. gain .
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But its political gains have been slow in coming.
potential
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The potential gain from rail privatization would be a more commercial railway and a better service for the public.
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At no time can I remember ever being stopped from pursuing an objective which was of ultimate potential gain to the company.
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Similarly, a fall in the rate of interest means a potential capital gain for investors.
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An opportunity should never be judged by the size of the potential gains but by the likelihood of those gains.
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Do not be tempted to start a harder routine at the beginning as this will almost certainly detract from the potential gains .
private
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He castigated those who had become wealthy by exploiting their political standing for private gain .
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In this view, men starved amid abundance because goods were produced for private gain and not for public good.
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These private gains are also social gains, since society can use less resources to achieve the same output.
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It is not clear whether Fanglin's children were being mobilised to pay school bills or were exploited for private gain .
real
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However in commercial bargaining or in interchanges between departments or divisions both sides may emerge with a real gain .
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Yet the real energy gain in fuels does not come from burning the carbon component of hydrocarbons, but the hydrogen portion.
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You will need to do the sums carefully to see whether there is any real gain .
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Nevertheless, some real gains came out of it.
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With inflation expected to run at about 5 percent, these boosts represent real gains .
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So does frustration over the absence of any real change or any real performance gains .
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That real gain matched that of December and was above the 0.1 percent increases in both October and November.
significant
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The Greens Vihret made significant gains , increasing their seats from four to 10.
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Nicholson inherits a party that has made significant gains across the country the past four years.
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This produced a significant efficiency gain with negligible, if any, loss of accuracy.
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ProSieben showed the most significant gain of the three, rising 5.4 per cent to Euros 33.10.
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Tests will be derived by checking whether generalisations of a model under scrutiny lead to significant gains .
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The men of Second Army, pushing either side of the Menin Road, made significant gains .
small
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Such small gains were incentive enough for many.
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This was the smallest gain in seven months.
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That was no small gain to set in the balance against the more obvious Erastianism of the new system.
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As small as these gains seem, they infuriated the Klan.
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For example, when sodium chloride dissolves in water, there is a small net gain in energy.
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Such were the small gains to be made from a playing career at the very top.
strong
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With the economy behaving in almost perfect fashion, stock prices enjoyed some of their strongest gains in years.
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Last spring he began selling short some of the same technology stocks that had earlier generated strong gains for Crabbe Huson Special.
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High technology stocks fared unexpectedly well, however, with most of them suffering only moderate losses while some made strong gains .
substantial
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But despite those substantial gains , bold statements about fighting every seat in the next general election were no longer heard.
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There seemed to be so few substantial gains in his own country.
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Both Central and Carlton shares have made substantial gains following today's announcement.
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Certainly this is desirable if the Target shares have accrued a substantial gain .
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As most of the privatisation issues are sold at a discount, there is usually a substantial capital gain to be made.
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Only where the multinationals' power has been harnessed have substantial gains in income-elastic goods been achieved.
territorial
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After the war Stalin did not wish to give up these territorial gains .
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Other territorial gains had been short-lived.
total
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If each stage has a gain of a hundred, that's a total gain of a million.
■ NOUN
control
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Recurrent networks can perform functions such as automatic gain control or energy normalization and selecting a maximum in complex systems.
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Also note that the gyro gain control is similarly limited by the mechanical linkage and this too can only reduce the response.
productivity
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The only productivity gain that he can show for it is in the courts.
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Meanwhile, the problems of stagnant wages, low savings and sluggish productivity gains will remain unsolved.
tax
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Instead, you can use your annual capital gains tax exemption-currently £7,200-to shelter the returns from the taxman.
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The present capital-gains tax maximum is 28 percent for individuals and 35 percent for corporations.
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Capital gains tax has been slashed.
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Such a transaction, instead of a sale, would avoid about $ 1 billion in capital-gains taxes .
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Any prizes are free of income tax and capital gains tax.
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The debate is over and the verdict is in on capital gains taxes .
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The capital gains tax controversy coincides with another heated national debate affecting white people.
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To conservatives, it means abolishing the capital gains tax , lowering the top rate on millionaires.
weight
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The effect of overeating is weight gain , which in itself is an added stress.
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In a vicious cycle, weight gain increases insulin resistance increases weight gain.
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Body weight gain was checked every week.
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And other studies show exercise plays a major role in both prevention of weight gain and maintenance of weight loss.
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Parents may also need some advice and discussion about the types of high-calorie food that are important for weight gain and growth.
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The average weight gain after lunch was about 2.5 pounds, which is appropriate in normal cases.
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Measurements of dry weight gain showed a marked decline in relative growth rate below 5°C.
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And eating more than you expend ends up in weight gain .
■ VERB
achieve
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Again, without this design for integration it will be very difficult to achieve the expected gains of databases and information systems.
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Hence it would be possible to achieve a Pareto gain , making some people better off without making anyone else worse off.
expect
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The stockholders' expected rate of return has two components-an expected dividend yield and an expected capital gain .
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In the fall, many analysts and retailers had expected sales gains in the mid-to high-single digits.
lose
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How does a donor lose and a recipient gain ?
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If the winners actually compensated the losers, the winners could lose most of their gains .
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The years pass; he loses his hair, gains weight.
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Stocks lost early gains after the Nationalist change in tactics.
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Do men lose as well as gain from dominant discourses of gender?
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But stocks and bonds lost all their early gains by the end of the day.
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Subcontracting part of the project is likely to lose time rather than gain it.
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The market lost its earlier gains on perceptions the coldest temperatures came in areas where previous frost damage forced an early harvest.
make
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You do not invest in the equity market to make capital gains !
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Netscape held the early lead in the category, but Microsoft has made considerable gains more recently.
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The lowest quartile made gains 30 percent greater than their counterparts.
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Capital gains tax Here a tax is imposed when individuals part with an asset and make a capital gain on it.
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Meanwhile, Digital made gains in the market for Intel-based personal computers.
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The Holbrooke deal has made some important gains .
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How, then, can the company calculate whether or not his group has made a gain ?
offset
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What is less certain is whether they have been, or will be, offset by corresponding gains .
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Earnings fell short of analysts' expectations, however, as increased problem loans partly offset revenue gains .
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Loss of Exchequer revenue has been considerable and has not been offset by any gain in total expenditure on health care.
post
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Stores posted healthy gains after reporting lively post-Christmas sales.
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Osborn said it would post a fourth-quarter pretax gain of $ 8. 1 million as a result of the sale.
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Shares of small Contractors, especially, have posted big gains since the announcement.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted its best gain in two weeks.
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The broader market posted a larger gain , with the Standard&038;.
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Brady bonds may have already posted most of the gains they will achieve in 1996, Blessing said.
produce
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But privatisation offers the best hope of producing even bigger gains in the years ahead.
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In this view, men starved amid abundance because goods were produced for private gain and not for public good.
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Surely it is time that the pain produced some gain .
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The quarter just ended was the second in a row in which a tiny, aggressive fund produced the biggest gain .
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This exercise produces quite startling gains in a short time.
report
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Now, the company needs to report that gain or loss in its next earnings statement.
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Under the proposed rule, the company would only report the gain or loss when it is applied to the final sale.
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The company also reported sizable gains at the Jacksonville airport.
result
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The rate of tax on chargeable gains is that which results from adding the gain to the individual's total income.
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The exchange should result in a capital gain for Axa.
show
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Last weekend's small sample manual count, which showed marked Gore gains , shows that.
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The insurance sector was also showing healthy gains following its sharp return to profit.
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ProSieben showed the most significant gain of the three, rising 5.4 per cent to Euros 33.10.
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It would be surprising if the remaining model areas did not also show gains for the soft modes.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gain ground
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Dole feels that Forbes is gaining ground .
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For once, the index gained ground despite a decline in shares of Vodafone, the market's biggest stock.
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He was gaining ground on all of them, he had the beating of them yet.
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Martin also gained ground on Gordon, finishing sixth and moving within 87 points.
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Nationalism has gained ground to the extent that it has begun to claim mainstream status.
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The fierce campaign by several anti-Maastricht movements has been gaining ground .
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The trend gained ground in the United States, where early symphony audiences ached to exude social refinement.
gain/get access (to sth)
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The police managed to gain access through an upstairs window.
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Dietary calcium gains access to the organism mostly by transport in the small intestine.
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Environmentalists fear that many citizens will simply forge documents in order to gain access to the city centre.
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Joe quickly gained access to the upper reaches of both Washingtons.
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Once you realise that some blocks need to be matched early, in order to gain access to others, things get tougher.
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Security is maintained by terminal operators using unique identification and password codes to gain access to the system.
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There is no evidence that the intruder gained access to the source code for Office or any Windows products.
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What Renaissance culture was and how we gain access to it increasingly became seen as problematic.
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You gain access to your data by typing in a user name and password.
have/gain the upper hand
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Police have gained the upper hand over the drug dealers in the area.
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But slowly and surely the followers of Chaos gained the upper hand.
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If the two had been introduced simultaneously, the larger one would invariably have the upper hand.
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Now White gains the upper hand.
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Officials said they might reopen the freeway at 5 p. m. today, perhaps sooner if firefighters gain the upper hand overnight.
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The world can only pray that they do not gain the upper hand.
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Under the proposed law, she would have the upper hand.
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We must destroy them now, while we yet have the upper hand.
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When you have a gun you have the upper hand, it makes you feel big, bad.
no pain, no gain
nothing ventured, nothing gained
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Companies just don't invest enough -- short-term gain is all they think about.
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He hopes the economic reforms will bring the country gain .
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If private hospitals are operating purely for gain , how can we be sure they have the patient's best interests at heart?
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Many stocks showed gains in heavy trading.
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Older children should be on a low-fat diet to prevent weight gain .
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Since World War II, there have been significant gains in medical technology.
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The morning's gains in US stocks fell sharply.
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The Nikkei average experienced a gain of 140.19 points on Friday.
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The share price ended the year with a 60% gain .
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Unfortunately, many companies are only concerned about short-term gains.
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Women have made economic, legal, and social gains.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bass shift is already in, so all we need to look at are the gains and tones etc.
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He suggested that people's interests are best served by pursuing personal gains.
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Signal voltage gain is always accompanied by greater signal current attenuation and viceversa with a transformer.
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The strategic and other planning considerations relate to the volume and timing of development and also more recent matters such as planning gain .
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Those gains were made by the bottom 90 percent of households.
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White emphasizes the gains to be made from interaction be-tween each approach.