I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a chess grand master (= the highest title a chess player can get )
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Bobby Fischer was an American chess grandmaster.
a grand climax
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Everyone was hoping that the peace talks would come to a grand climax.
a grand gesture (= something you do to make people notice you )
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Love is not about grand gestures and expensive gifts.
a grand jury American English (= one that decides whether someone must be judged in a court )
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Their business practices are now being investigated by a grand jury.
a grand plan (= a plan that involves doing a lot of things in order to achieve something big )
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Marrying the countess was all part of his grand plan.
a grand scheme (= trying to achieve a lot )
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In the end, the government’s grand scheme came to nothing.
a grand/elaborate ceremony
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The inhabitants of the town organized a grand ceremony to mark the occasion.
grand finale (= very impressive end to a show )
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The fireworks were the grand finale of the ceremonies.
grand finale
grand jury
grand larceny
grand mal
grand marshal
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Heston has been named grand marshal of the parade.
grand master
grand opera
grand piano
Grand Prix
grand slam
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Wales won the Grand Slam.
grand tour
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They took us on a grand tour of their new house.
in great/grand/fine etc style
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Nadal won the match in fine style, not losing a single game.
on a grand scale (= very large and impressive )
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The Romans built on a grand scale.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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The scenery was full and free, though not as grand as the west coast.
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The knobby jagged clay cliff became as grand and exotic as the Grand Canyon to them.
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Robinson's rusticated gate piers are as grand as anything in York, from where he obviously employed his stonemason.
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The principals are shown not as grand legends but as fallible, unpredictable human beings.
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The room was not as grand as the corridor had led them to expect, but it was of reasonable size.
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He snatches the issue from politicians and makes it as grand and simple as a silver screen story.
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Their accomplishments were almost as grand as their ambitions.
rather
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It's home, and the film centre and restaurant are his rather grand way of putting down some roots.
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The meals were also rather grand .
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A rather grand certificate marking the successful completion of all the tasks also adds to the attraction.
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Veronica's father was Lord Somebody-or-other, she reminded herself, and didn't the aristocracy go in for rather grand affairs?
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But that sounds rather grand , and the reality is rather different.
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It would be rather grand to rid the world of a dictator.
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I think it is rather grand .
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But his palace, which had been built in the 1820s, was rather grand .
so
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No one is so grand or important that concern for cleaning standards is beneath him.
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To Lyell, the twin cataracts were even more beautiful than he had expected, though not so grand .
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Yet these will hardly bear the weight of a theory so grand as the fusion of legacy and trust.
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But do all visions have to be so grand ?
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The building in front of him was so gracious, so unbelievably big, so grand , so beautiful whether by night or day.
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Hardly anything so grand as horology I expect you're thinking.
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He was more like a cardinal or a bishop, he was so grand .
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It's Raymond's annual regimental luncheon - so grand , my dear!
too
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First-class is far too grand for us.
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Are my plans too grand ? l wonder that as well.
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There was no sound at all and the luxury seemed too grand for him.
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No, that's too grand , too considered a process.
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Grand but not too grand , and wearing all its medals and trophies to the fore.
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She's beginning to think herself far too grand for us.
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I am a romantic turned social-realist, she thought. Too grand .
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I told you she'd sent me some cast-offs and they're much too grand for me to wear.
very
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The house was very grand , in fact it was two houses.
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Mark had always had very grand , expensive tastes.
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Externally it is very grand , its grandness enhanced by the off-setting of its constituent blocks.
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The room was very grand and Mark longed for modesty.
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They were thirteen or at the most fourteen years old, but to me they were very grand grown-ups.
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This gives the impression that it is very grand .
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I went to the congress banquet last night - very grand .
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What it was not, however, was either very large or very grand .
■ NOUN
coalition
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Type 1 here represents a democratic system in which party competition is minimal, and grand coalition government is the norm.
cru
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Puisieulx Puisieulx is the smallest of the grand cru villages and certainly does not merit its exalted status.
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Louvois Strictly speaking, Louvois should not be considered a grand cru village.
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This allows a premier cru to stand out and get appropriate recognition even if it should be considered a grand cru.
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Although it holds grand cru status Beaumont-sur-Vesle can in no way be described as a great growth.
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The event was an unprecedented one: Champagne's grand cru villages remained at twelve for almost forty years.
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Interestingly, only part of Chouilly and Tours-sur-Marne can claim the grand cru classification.
design
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We had this debate all the time amongst us - who was the actual person behind the grand design ?
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Such grand designs are usually ignored.
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But grand designs did not necessarily produce great architecture.
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Indeed some of the grandest designs were based on the weakest economic need.
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The pace and enthusiasm flagged considerably when attention had to switch from abstract or grand designs to the nitty-gritty of practical details.
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For the direct benefit of pupils it will be individual partners who will matter more than a grand design of co-operation.
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At best, they put in a decent effort in executing the entrepreneurial hero's grand design .
finale
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Dry ice was also pumped into the room as a grand finale .
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And mine came as a grand finale at the firm.
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Among the entertainments on offer are amusements, a band parade, stalls, sports and a grand finale fireworks display.
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Maybe Carolyn says that this was merely the grand finale .
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Squibbing displays provide a grand finale .
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It is usually reserved for the grand finale , after the singing and preaching have induced a receptive mood.
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She wouldn't be required until the grand finale in the late afternoon, and for that she gave thanks.
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The grand finale is a celebration.
gesture
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Many felt that a grand gesture of statesmanship was required in relation to Northern Ireland.
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What a grand gesture for a small cause, I thought.
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But if Jacquet de la Guerre was a mistress of the grand gesture , Campra's forte was delicate understatement.
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Make the big move, make the grand gesture , do something outrageous.
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Grand aims, he wrote, but no grand gestures .
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The parties, at the moment, are too intransigent for the grand gesture .
hotel
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Fernando pointed out the sheltered Formentor beach and the flowered terraces of the grand Hotel Formentor.
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Though Manhattan sports any number of bars capable of making a great drink, the grand hotel bar is a rare breed.
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It had the proportions of a very large grand hotel such as the Plaza-very bulky and very low.
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Martinis and grand hotels go hand in hand.
house
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It was a big, grand house , called New Place, right in the middle of Stratford.
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In the grand house , Charles is talking through the background, development and design of the Aero 8.
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She liked the title; she felt grand in a grand house .
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The next thing I do remember is waking up in a very grand house a few streets away from where the robbery took place.
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Niches, such as you see in grander houses , are available in fibrous plaster, ready moulded in one piece.
juror
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Hatfield also declined to release the identities of the grand jurors .
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Holmes wants Lenhart to reveal the names of grand jurors who contacted her about a controversial Bellaire police slaying.
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The effort to identify the grand juror is continuing, Durfee said.
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Holmes had subpoenaed Lenhart after she quoted two grand jurors in a Sept. 29 story about a controversial police slaying.
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Eleven of the 12 grand jurors signed affidavits denying contact with Lenhart.
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A state district judge held Lenhart in contempt, when she refused to identify the grand jurors who spoke to her.
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That, and 18 grand jurors agreeing.
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The grand jurors are the only ones that know the abuses occurred.
jury
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Last week, a Pima County grand jury indicted Prion, charging he killed Vicari.
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You folks, I dunno what you folks' ve heard about grand juries .
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A subsequent grand jury said there was insufficient evidence of misconduct.
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Being called before a grand jury does not mean a witness has done anything wrong.
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Appearing before a grand jury under subpoena as Bowles did does not imply guilt.
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Would be under indictment by every grand jury south of the Potomac.
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They have said they expect to bring additional charges after a federal grand jury meets next Wednesday to review the evidence.
manner
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It's a Victorian mansion in the grand manner .
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Laura switches into her grand manner .
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He says they had the space so they decorated in the grand manner .
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Lagerfeld is a designer in the grand manner .
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They were also fond of aping the grand manners of servants to aristocratic households and rich farmers.
marshal
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The 1997 grand marshals are Rev.
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The Stanley Cup parade was going to last for weeks, and he would be the grand marshal .
master
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But even with 50 years' worth of advances in movie technology, the young upstart can't beat the grand master .
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It was the grand master of Fuckspeak, the Human Piranha.
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Perhaps the grand master of dysfunction was the late Francis Bacon, who made a considerable fortune out of it.
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Scargill dominated the hearings with his presence like some grand master of ceremonies.
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The senior functionary on boards was Amir Aslan Afshar, the grand master of ceremonies.
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He was now the grand master of ceremonies.
opera
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Elizabeth is an extraordinary mixture of epic film, grand opera and grand guignol.
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It is a setting worthy of grand opera .
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A portion of the festival was devoted to grand opera .
piano
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I remember the first gig I went to in Cleveland, the grand piano was two feet too short.
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Say they will move your grand piano any day and do it on a bicycle.
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We rated the Sovetskaya, the hotel with the grand pianos , which was encouraging.
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The essential design of a grand piano , apart from incremental technical advances, has not changed for more than a century.
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What business had coal-miners with grand pianos and champagne?
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Her house had a bathroom, and a rose garden, and a grand piano in the front room.
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We were entertained first by a pair of talented young men playing two grand pianos .
plan
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And yet Uralmash's workers seem far from convinced by these grand plans .
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But the grand plan was gradually diluted by the desires of the tenants.
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She needed all her wits and what was left of her strength in order to follow the grand plan .
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Encouraged by this growing demand, the Quality Shop strategists put together the rest of their grand plan .
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But the grand plans of the 1970s have been abandoned.
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My grand plan was simple enough, and was one of the traditional ways into the professional game.
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I had grander plans for my future than that.
prize
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Cake and white elephant stalls plus a grand prize draw.
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Oh, well, Democrats won the grandest prize but the Republicans raised the most cash.
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Not only do I never win the grand prize in these raffles.
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The New West up at Ina and I-10 offers a $ 3, 000 grand prize at their bash!
scale
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Almost from the start therefore the railways manipulated the landscape on a grand scale .
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The plan reflects bold conceptual thinking on a grand scale .
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This is woodworking on a grand scale .
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Not everything is on such a grand scale .
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So that was it-an extended press conference on the grand scale !
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But if beauty on a grand scale chooses to live fully, rather than obsess about weight, whose problem is it?
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For Reg, bookmaking was a mere step along the road to riches and power on the grand scale .
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It declined by slow attrition, rather than On the grand scale of its swarming marshland relatives.
scheme
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The Economist offers a grander scheme .
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They eschewed grand schemes of schematic explanation, preferring empirical explorations of the particular, with close attention to analyzing function.
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The aim of this grander scheme was to enable policy-makers to combine stability in real exchange rates with steady, non-inflationary growth.
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In the grand scheme of life, the critical question is how do we negotiate this so that nobody is damaged.
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The force accepts that, in the grand scheme of things, cannabis possession is a low priority.
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That reality serves as a useful check whenever journalists go into a funk over our role in the grand scheme of things.
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He was bursting with grand schemes .
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There were two problems with this grand scheme .
slam
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Martina Navratilova won four consecutive grand slam events, but not in the same year.
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Andrews, the first leg of his grand slam .
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Things went better for Serena Williams and grand slam-chasing Jennifer Capriati, who both breezed into the second round.
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June 26 Gwynn hits first inside-the- park grand slam in Padre history.
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Capriati played aggressively from the start of her first grand slam final.
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But Venus must tighten up her game quickly if she is to maintain her winning run in the grand slams .
strategy
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If Son has a grand strategy for extracting more value out of his ragbag of assets, it is hard to spot.
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The traditional ways of supporting the Three Pillars of Britain's grand strategy would need radical revision.
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Being beholden to anybody was not part of Dominic's grand strategy .
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But, first, a distinction should be drawn between national grand strategy , Defence policy and current military strategy.
style
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We had started off in grand style , rattling right round the station plaza with a great tooting of horns.
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Opening the evening in grand style is Norm Marini, doing his reality-twisting routines tableside.
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The grand style is echoed in the hotel's 108 bedrooms which are traditional but have large modern bathrooms.
total
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Each of the 96 subjects did the experiment twice, giving a grand total of 192 repetitions of the experiment.
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It would be boring work, and they would earn a grand total of I credit for all their pains.
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We are delighted and thrilled with the enthusiasm and ingenuity you have displayed while producing a grand total of over £2,500.
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They worked like hurricane-lamps and had cost the grand total of three dollars in Hanoi market.
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In 10 years with Llanelli his grand total of games was a miserly 260.
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He was earning $ 4. 70 an hour and taking home a grand total of $ 50 a week.
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A great day for the new committee, resulting in a grand total of £475.
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This gives a grand total of 16, 219 interconnections.
tour
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Come on, Miss, the grand tour .
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Make a kind of grand tour on my own, take the waters and cure what ails me.
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The world with Palin is armchair travel on the scale of the grand tour , in the company of an agreeable guide.
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The market place can be confusing but Trader Horn picks his way through the mire Going for the grand tour .
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The rich also visited Madeira in their private yachts as part of a grand tour .
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Edouard, at Isobel's suggestion, took her on a grand tour .
vision
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The cap, then, falls within an overall grand vision of chanciness and risk.
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The pride, excitement, and extraordinary accomplishments Byrd refers to came in response to what was obviously a grand vision .
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Rank was a businessman who pursued a grander vision than Isidore Ostrer or John Maxwell had ever done.
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The grand vision of the position of Canterbury was reinforced by anxieties such as these.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
grand total
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A grand total of six people showed up for the lecture.
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The grand total for both meals was $6.73.
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A great day for the new committee, resulting in a grand total of £475.
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Each of the 96 subjects did the experiment twice, giving a grand total of 192 repetitions of the experiment.
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He was earning $ 4. 70 an hour and taking home a grand total of $ 50 a week.
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In 10 years with Llanelli his grand total of games was a miserly 260.
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It would be boring work, and they would earn a grand total of I credit for all their pains.
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That brings the grand total to $ 212,645.
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They worked like hurricane-lamps and had cost the grand total of three dollars in Hanoi market.
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We are delighted and thrilled with the enthusiasm and ingenuity you have displayed while producing a grand total of over £2,500.
the grand tour
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She was a grand lady loved by everyone.
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The grand finale is the Handel's "Hallelujah" chorus.
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the grand ideas of Gandhi
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the grand prize
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The conferences always take place in grand hotels, away from the realities of life.
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They always make grand promises to the biggest group of voters.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A rather grand certificate marking the successful completion of all the tasks also adds to the attraction.
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Being called before a grand jury does not mean a witness has done anything wrong.
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But even the grand floor-to-ceiling gold brocade drapes can not set this head-of-U.
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But the grand opening in August 1990 would have been ruined had the diplomats known everything about their elegant chancery.
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They amounted to the grand sum of twelve pounds and ten shillings - a fortune!
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This is a portrayal of malevolence on a grand scale.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
jury
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A grand jury was convened which indicted only two men, not for lynching, but for breaking into the jail.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She made 60 grand last year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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On receipt of my father's letter, I got drunk and sent him a cheque for twenty grand .
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That you can give twenty grand to the Methodists and make all those tight-arsed matrons green?
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The director let me tune and regulate the piano, a beautiful old Steinway grand , in their small concert hall.
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Twenty-six grand was as nothing to her.
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You been right this far, and you need the five grand , so you're gon na be trying real hard.