verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
arouse/generate enthusiasm formal (= make people feel enthusiastic )
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The changes to the timetable failed to arouse enthusiasm amongst the staff.
arouse/generate/attract interest (= make people interested )
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This extraordinary story has aroused interest in many quarters.
cause/generate excitement
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The arrival of a stranger caused some excitement in the village.
generate an income (= provide one )
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He decided to invest the money to generate an income for the future.
generate cash
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The website generates cash from advertising, and by charging for downloads.
generate profit(s)
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We have the capacity to generate more profit.
generate publicity
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The publication of the book generated an enormous amount of publicity.
generate/produce electricity
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We need to find cleaner ways of generating electricity.
generate/produce energy
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a power plant that generates energy from household waste
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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amount
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This is because they generate excessive amounts of data and information that must be interpreted by specialists.
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Main Course went platinum and generated amazing amounts of black radio play.
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Simple sieving, on its own, is obviously nowhere near capable of generating the amount of order in a living thing.
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Even that source is far too small to generate any significant amount of electric power.
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Three months after they were launched, the new awards are already generating a tremendous amount of interest.
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The radioisotope thermoelectric generators steadily generate large amounts of power regardless of where they are in space.
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Markevitch generates a staggering amount of energy and draws brilliant playing from the Philharmonia.
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The domestic space and the urban environment generate a fair amount of music and sound in their own right.
business
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A package of accelerations, improved peak-hour services and upgrading of the Master Cutler to Pullman status has generated new business .
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Twelve months ago when Graeme joined us I had hoped that we could generate enough business to justify an extra man.
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Investment in an agency, branch or subsidiary will be expected to pay for itself by generating extra business .
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Important for a firm that focusses on generating repeat business from big blue-chip companies rather than one-off jobs from smaller organisations.
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The informal sector has on occasion generated small businesses and creative enterprises.
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It will help fight terminations and generate additional business .
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Clustered together, branches of the same bank help each other to generate and retain more business than they would do independently.
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The centres are all currently Executive Agencies which between them generate business worth more than £100m a year.
cash
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Tivoli isn't looking for any more investors and should soon start generating cash .
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Coupons generated electronically at the cash register are popular across the country, because they mirror consumer preferences.
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A star may or may not be able to generate its own cash to provide for its own investment.
demand
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By extrapolation it is concluded that today's rising income levels generate increased demand for services compared with manufactured goods.
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In other cases, generating a demand requires the emplacement of an infrastructure of maintenance for the successful adoption of innovations.
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Armies of unheard-of size, fighting on a scale never before known, generated an unprecedented demand for military information.
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And they generate consistent demand for services such as laundry, housekeeping and restaurants.
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Thus quite considerable amounts of labour could be generated by demand for private health and education provision.
electricity
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There is as yet no firm estimate as to the amount of electricity which could be generated by such a scheme.
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Fuel cells, which provide electricity generated by a chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen, constitute one part of that research.
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The total cost to the electricity generating industry, it said, would be £6 billion over the next 10 years.
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Between 1952 and 1981 electricity generating capacity grew by over 14% per year.
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One is to construct extra high-voltage transmission lines to transmit electricity generated at mine-mouth power plants to distant load centres.
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He will recharge it from his house mains-supplied by a specialist electricity company which generates its power from the wind.
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Small-scale hydropower projects and electricity generated from waste make up the majority of the schemes which have received approval.
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Several large gas-fired electricity generating stations will begin to operate and that will inevitably take away a proportion of the market.
energy
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There are grants for developing industrial crops to generate energy , make plastics and grow hemp for manufacturing.
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In order to be successful on the field, everyone needs to generate positive energy and emotion.
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Then there's even more pollution caused by burning the fuels needed to generate the energy to make new products.
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Our apartment was generating serious energy , shifting from its usual somnambulism to a flushed and slightly kinetic mode.
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Keeping a steady blaze is akin to the way in which women generate and maintain emotional energy .
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You have to generate the positive energy and just keep going.
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They then build the plants required to generate the energy .
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They tend to generate some energy as well as a clarity of purpose and a sense of definition.
enthusiasm
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Doyle talked with the fervour of a preacher and generated enough enthusiasm to fuel 10 teams.
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Some researchers feel it is important to let others generate enthusiasm for their ideas so that they remain aloof and objective.
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David Douglas wanted to generate the same enthusiasm and rigor in its other career clusters.
excitement
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These strange and beautiful candlesticks balance motionlessly on their needle-sharp points, generating excitement by the very fragility of their inertia.
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The construction, which took a few months, generated increasing excitement .
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Instead, it generated excitement and renewed vigour.
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It generates a lot of excitement , and is brimming with ideas.
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Often a race against time, such programs can generate much excitement .
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BThat Pratt continues to generate excitement is understandable.
growth
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A lightly-taxed economy generates more economic growth , and more revenue.
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The reason money fund fees are waived is to generate asset growth .
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Another conference at Llangollen on Wednesday examines how indigenous cultural resources can generate economic growth .
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As a result, he said, Unix software and services will increasingly generate higher profits and growth .
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Gertz and Baptista argue that three strategies are good at generating growth .
heat
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So if all the deuterium fused it could generate substantial heat in the Earth.
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Molten rock generated by the heat and pressure associated with the zone wells up through the Earth, erupting at the surface.
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Frankenstein's lights generated a lot of heat .
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It is important to use small bags, since a large number of acorns together will generate heat .
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Computers, faxes and photocopiers generate heat waves of their own.
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But those proposed amendments are merely the ones that generate the most political heat .
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That makes sense, but they can't be accurate because compost heaps generate heat which might accelerate decomposition.
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After the fire investigators tested a similar oxygen canister to determine whether it could generate enough heat to cause the fire.
idea
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Tactical information Marketing mix item Type of research Product policy decision Qualitative research to generate ideas for new products.
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The problem-solving sessions began to generate ideas for fixing problems such as water leaks and glass breakage.
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Plant: innovates, generates new ideas and approaches, problem solver; dominant, intelligent and introvert.
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Some researchers feel it is important to let others generate enthusiasm for their ideas so that they remain aloof and objective.
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Resource Investigator: the team's contact with its environment, generates ideas and resources; intelligent, stable and introvert.
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Today, few restaurant companies generate ideas in-house, relying instead on acquisitions or joint ventures with entrepreneurs.
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As was suggested earlier, competition may generate new ideas , stimulate and channel energies, set standards for others to follow.
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Designing a piece of furniture from limited stock can be an effective way of generating new ideas .
income
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By extrapolation it is concluded that today's rising income levels generate increased demand for services compared with manufactured goods.
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Ironically the release includes fees for attorneys, water and environmental professionals as income generated for the city.
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Despite this, many dealers earned staggering incomes by generating incredible turnovers.
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Supplementary income generating activities include clinical work and consultancies for donor agencies.
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Even the possibility of using income generated by the sale of council houses has been sharply restricted.
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It shows that a third of average incomes is generated by migrant labour and only a fifth by selling crops.
interest
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Will such businesses be sufficiently profitable to generate the interest of the private sector?
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Online services like Napster helped generate interest in a slew of new computer products in recent months.
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In order to generate interest in his players and their careers, he has become a press and publicity machine.
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Here at home, recent hearings and growing media reports have begun to generate more interest in the issue.
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It generates interest in Apple and it sells hardware.
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Predictably, the case has generated huge interest on the computer network that connects millions of people around the world.
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There was, however, no Wolverhampton presence in the category which generated the greatest interest this weekend - the light-heavyweight.
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The Hersey-Blanchard model has generated interest because it recommends a leadership type that is dynamic and flexible, rather than static.
job
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The bad news is that a given rise in output therefore generates fewer new jobs .
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We put into place a comprehensive and tough economic package to create growth and generate jobs .
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In addition, computer-aided guidance packages will be available, which will generate career and job suggestions, matching your computer profile.
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Maritime business generates better-paying jobs than tourism, which has been the bread and butter of the port.
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Steady and sustained economic growth will generate jobs that last.
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Additionally, Harman is investing $ 10 million to build a computer speaker manufacturing line that will generate 200 jobs .
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To expand the pool of that wealth, the society simply needed to keep generating new jobs .
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Small, streamlined companies generate more new jobs than the big, old traditional industries.
level
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From this base, a set of performance indicators were generated as the top level of the information set.
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The model is meant to describe what operations the speaker performs upon each level of representation to generate the next level.
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The final level in Garrett's model - the articulatory-level representation - is generated from the phonetic level.
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This may give an unbalanced impression of the competition as a whole and of the enthusiasm generated throughout at local level .
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A straight fight between John Smith and Bryan Gould will never be able to generate that level of fall-out.
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This mixture, heated by recession and high unemployment, inevitably generates a high level of crime.
lot
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They generated a lot of hostility as well as admiration.
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Parents who successfully draw their child out are the ones who generate a lot of emotional energy.
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Frankenstein's lights generated a lot of heat.
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The high-profile venture has generated Siemens lots of community goodwill.
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But their offer of free financial health checks proved just the tonic and generated a lot of new business.
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All parties suffered, yet it was difficult to generate a whole lot of pity for any of them.
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That can generate a lot of waste.
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Reich has generated a lot of good publicity for the Clinton administration.
million
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It is on course to generate revenues of £150 million this year.
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Experts say there is an additional demand for 130, 000 lines, which could generate $ 150 million more a year.
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It estimated that these activities generated £160 million in gross expenditure and over 6,000 full-time equivalent jobs in the Highlands and Islands.
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Over the same time period the United States generated thirty-eight million net new jobs even though it has one third fewer people.
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They already generate $ 477 million in retail sales every year in Florida.
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Wasserstein and Perella, in 1987, generated $ 3 85 million in fees for their employer, First Boston.
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Federal officials estimate that the timber salvaged from Southeastern forests damaged by Opal will generate about $ 10 million .
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Royal Bank currently generates C $ 335 million in annual premiums from the sale of creditor life and disability insurance.
number
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In order to generate sales successfully a number of secondary functions are also carried out by most salespeople.
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He said the show has generated a number of telephone calls from other parents across the nation similarly accused.
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The point is that human beings have relatively few needs, but can generate an enormous number of wants.
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Exhibitions in Connecticut this year have generated a number of worthy catalogs that will remain valuable long after their respective shows close.
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Pachomius's monastery quickly generated a number of offshoots.
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That is, a new key is generated as a random number for each message.
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New techniques of mass-rearing should generate large numbers .
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When the sender generates a message, the system generates a random 128-bit number as a session key for that message only.
percent
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CompUSA, purchased last year, now generates some 73 percent of company sales.
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Sunnyvale generates 37 percent of its operating budget from fees, another 3 percent from franchises and concessions.
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Coal mined underground generates an 8 percent gross royalty.
power
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The power he generated with his simple swing was devastating.
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This insight taught me something about the enormous power that is generated by desiring something very much.
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This will result in the loss of about one-third of power generated .
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The power generated on the Moon is then transmitted by microwave beam back to Earth.
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The resulting market power will generate static welfare losses.
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The smokestacks from a power generating station rise over the horizon.
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The higher thermal efficiency resulting from the topping cycle reduces the amount of carbon dioxide produced per unit of power generated .
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There was always a power of inevitability generated by a self-confidence that made things fit together well.
process
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It may even have a permanent effect due to the dynamic process generating economies of scale.
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The election process generates very little information about the population's demands for specific public services.
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This process generates short chain fatty acids which are absorbed, and hydrogen and carbon dioxide.
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The abolished process is that which generates the functional predicate/argument structure for a sentence.
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All these processes generate and use documentation.
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It is not clear what processes are generating these changes.
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Stochastic theories look to the statistics of the situation and ask what type of statistical processes will generate the observed result.
profit
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We know that strategy 2 generates zero profit , and strategy 1 should generate the same zero profit.
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In many cases, a business may not be generating enough profit to take full advantage of these tax benefits.
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Banks are generating record profits and using excess cash to buy out competitors and repurchase their own shares.
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East Midlands Electricity added 1p to 408p after generating a 23% profits rise to £30.3m.
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Stock markets in both countries value the corporate assets that generate these profits relatively cheaply, he says.
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As a result, he said, Unix software and services will increasingly generate higher profits and growth.
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Many universities see their law schools as businesses generating pure profit .
revenue
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Is the revenue generated by such contracts truly derived from the employer's position as patentee of the invention?
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No exact figure on how much revenue this generates could be obtained from state tax officials.
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It creates enterprises and revenue generating operations.
revenues
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If this continues, electronic information in the United States will be generating greater revenues than books by 1996.
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Time Warner will continue to operate and generate revenues .
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First, it sells software packages, which generate 20% of revenues .
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While UniChem has fewer retail outlets than Lloyds, it has a larger wholesale division and generates higher revenues .
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These sites currently have over 600,000 unique users driving over 14 million monthly page impressions and generating annualised revenues of £1.6million.
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The tabloids ridiculed the house when it landed one of the first big handouts generated by National Lottery revenues .
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It is on course to generate revenues of £150 million this year.
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Despite the barriers, the online industry is beginning to generate substantial revenues .
sale
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On this basis, by about 1996, sales of electronic information products will be generating more revenue than sales of books.
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Calculated in the currencies where Sandoz generates its revenue, sales showed a 14 percent rise.
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In order to generate sales successfully a number of secondary functions are also carried out by most salespeople.
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The most-used protease inhibitor, Crixivan, generated sales of $ 141 million in the most recent quarter.
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Even the possibility of using income generated by the sale of council houses has been sharply restricted.
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Now, he believes Starbucks generated same-store sales increases of only 5 % in December.
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The adverts were designed to generate some sales leads as well as the main aim of raising awareness and these will be handled by.
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Instead, it generated 4 % sales increases when post-Thanksgiving sales turned out light.
support
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By contrast, some Marxists are more inclined to emphasize capitalism's economic success in generating proletarian support .
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As a result, crusade volunteers worked overtime to generate support .
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This issue has generated cross-party support and those remarks were a bit off, given what we are trying to achieve.
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They also responded to the king's skilful use of propaganda to generate support for the war.
system
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In question-answering systems the computer generates answers to the user's query based on stored information.
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Like a biochemical carrot and stick, these systems generate pleasurable or painful feelings that powerfully guide behavior.
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The waves and the pebbles together constitute a simple example of a system that automatically generates non-randomness.
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Will such an auction system generate only poor volunteers?
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On the other hand, the new system has generated matches involving eliminated, unmotivated teams.
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The political order depends upon the economic system to generate goods and services for the survival and prosperity of its citizens.
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We are introducing a new system that will generate 6,000 straight forward reports a year.
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When the sender generates a message, the system generates a random 128-bit number as a session key for that message only.
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expect
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By increasing the Group's focus on the digital environment, Emap expects to generate significant new revenue streams.
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San Francisco-based McKesson said the contract is expected to generate revenue of $ 250 million in the first year.
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Sales of the higher margin 6000 Series are expected generate an increasingly higher proportion of the company's revenues in fact.
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Boston Chicken, another company expected to generate strong earnings, rose 1 1 / 4 to 31 3 / 8.
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We may expect to generate a better estimate by using pseudo-costs.
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Current landfill sites are more than sufficient to handle all of the trash expected to be generated for the next several years.
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This is expected to generate renewed pressure on the California Legislature to reconsider a controversial helmet mandate it approved in 1990.
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Consumer devices attached to the Internet will be expected to generate an unambiguous origin identification.
help
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The exuberance that Minton helped generate at Camberwell was related to a deeper excitement animating the whole school.
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A solar panel on the roof even helped generate 12-volt power.
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It will help fight terminations and generate additional business.
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Online services like Napster helped generate interest in a slew of new computer products in recent months.
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The authority took the action in order to help generate a convention.
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Brain-storming comes with practice and simply helps to generate ideas.
use
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Similarly, Branchplan can be used to generate a plot of customer distribution around a particular store location.
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Of these, uranium and thorium can be used to generate power in nuclear reactors.
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Initially the three are to develop an Assertion Definition Language, which will eventually be used to generate test suites.
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For example, 500, 000 was used in generating the cost per kilowatt of coal-natural gas units.
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Any of the above techniques may be used to generate new solutions of Ernst's equation.
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We will use that information to generate a material requirement plan which we will give to our suppliers.
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Some artists use a computer to generate altered versions of an original.
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The possibility of using wood to generate electricity should also be explored.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Completing the project on time and under budget generated a feeling of pride and accomplishment among the team.
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France generates a large part of its electricity from nuclear power.
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Realistic programmes about crime only serve to generate fear among the public.
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The 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine generates 138 horsepower.
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The computer industry has generated hundreds of new jobs in the area.
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The friction between the satellite and the atmosphere generates great heat.
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The murder trial has generated enormous public interest.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Fourth, decentralized institutions generate higher morale, more commitment, and greater productivity.
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Initially the three are to develop an Assertion Definition Language, which will eventually be used to generate test suites.
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Stress can easily be generated in a class by a teaching program, through the use of competitive situations, for example.
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The second is generated by people fighting to claim credit when money is made.
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What the Liquor Board was most interested in is what was happening with the funds generated from these special events liquor licenses.
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Yet, significant as many of these developments were, the majority seem chiefly remarkable for the wealth they did not generate .