adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
actively/deeply/heavily involved (= involved very much )
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Mrs. Cummings has been actively involved with the church for years.
bleed profusely/heavily (= bleed a lot )
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Mrs Burke was found unconscious and bleeding profusely.
borrowed heavily (= borrowed a lot of money )
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They borrowed heavily from the bank to start their new business.
breathe heavily/hard (= breathe loudly especially after exercise )
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He’d been running and he was breathing hard.
densely/heavily/highly/thickly populated (= with a lot of people )
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one of the most densely populated areas in the world
depends heavily
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The country depends heavily on its tourist trade.
drinking heavily
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He’s been drinking heavily since his wife died.
feature prominently/strongly/heavily etc
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Violence seems to feature heavily in all of his books.
fully/heavily laden
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The lorry was fully laden.
heavily accented
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He spoke heavily accented English.
heavily armed
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a heavily armed battleship
heavily biased
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news reporting that was heavily biased towards the government
heavily congested (= very congested )
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London’s roads are heavily congested .
heavily dependent
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Norway’s economy is heavily dependent on natural resources.
heavily encumbered
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He died in 1874, heavily encumbered by debt.
heavily indebted
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the 17 most heavily indebted nations
heavily made-up (= wearing a lot of make-up )
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She was heavily made-up .
heavily pregnant (= having almost reached the time when you will give birth )
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I saw at once that the woman was heavily pregnant.
heavily sedated
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He was still in shock, and heavily sedated .
heavily subsidized (= subsidized a lot )
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Farming is heavily subsidized by the government.
heavily taxed
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Cigarettes are heavily taxed in Britain.
heavily urbanized
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the most heavily urbanized regions
heavily/seriously/severely polluted
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The lake is seriously polluted.
heavily/severely/badly etc polluted
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The island has been seriously polluted by a copper mine.
invested heavily (= invested a lot of money )
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He had invested heavily in the bond market.
it rains heavily/hard (= a lot of water comes down )
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It was raining heavily when we arrived in New York.
landed heavily
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She fell and landed heavily on the floor.
perspiring heavily
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Willie was perspiring heavily .
relies heavily
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For its income, the company relies heavily on only a few contracts.
seriously/heavily overweight (= very overweight )
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Being seriously overweight doubles the risk of heart disease.
sigh heavily/deeply
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Frankie stared out of the window and sighed deeply.
strongly/severely/heavily criticize sb/sth
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Public transport has been severely criticized in the report.
sweat heavily/profusely (= sweat a lot )
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Within minutes she was sweating profusely.
thickly/heavily/densely etc forested
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heavily forested terrain
thickly/heavily/densely etc wooded
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a thickly wooded area
vastly/greatly/heavily outnumber
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Men in prison vastly outnumber women.
weigh heavily on
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The desire for peace will weigh heavily on the negotiators.
weigh heavily
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This unfortunate experience will weigh heavily against further investment in the area.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
armed
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These highly mobile skirmishers can be used to draw Goblin fanatics out of their units prior to a charge by more heavily armed troops.
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The heavily armed gunmen initially took 24 hostages, but later released 14.
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Above these were the heavily armed cavalry, who were free vassals of noble blood.
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A heavily armed convoy signals Compaor's passage around the capital, Ouagadougou.
dependent
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But the catering is also heavily dependent on vending machines, which operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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The university research covers fundamental and applied research in various disciplines and is heavily dependent on direct and indirect government funding.
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Personality based depression happens to people with poor self-image, or to some one who is heavily dependent on others for emotional support.
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A failing of systems such as Jelinek's is that they are heavily dependent on the size of lexicon used.
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Questions on data availability are likely to be particularly important where users are heavily dependent on secondary sources.
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The revenue side was heavily dependent on increased international credit and financing.
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Hypnosis and electroconvulsive therapy were tried but had no effect, and he became heavily dependent on tranquillizers.
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They remain heavily dependent on advertising online for most of their revenues.
indebted
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Thousands of Picasso pastiches, or works heavily indebted to him, were produced during this era.
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Tuft's hospitals are heavily indebted to National Century, which lends money secured by hospital equipment and accounts receivable.
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He died heavily indebted in 1751 and his two sons, Whistler and Godfrey, just managed to keep the estates solvent.
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It is heavily indebted to western feminism.
pregnant
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But please note that you shouldn't move heavily pregnant livebearers, as it can cause them to miscarry.
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She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water.
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When I was heavily pregnant we lived in one room that was infested with red ants.
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Then I went to an aqua class with my neighbour who was heavily pregnant at the time.
reliant
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Britainis particularly vulnerable to a financial crisis since it is heavily reliant on the profits of speculation.
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This would mean that the patient is heavily reliant on assembled phonology.
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Observers have pointed to the potential contradictions of a self-help project which is heavily reliant for its continuation on external funding.
■ VERB
accent
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All the foreign students sat together in the Student Union, at the same table, exchanging heavily accented platitudes.
arm
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But if it came to a pitched battle, the phalanx of heavily armed , well-mounted knights was a very formidable weapon.
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They have refused to leave their heavily armed compound or to accept any federal jurisdiction over their lives.
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Outside the front door were three heavily armed plainclothes policemen demanding to know what was going on.
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But on Dec. 25, Milosevic banned street demonstrations and deployed cordons of heavily armed riot police to block the parades.
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They include: How heavily armed the siege maker is.
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Gangs of heavily armed men stormed ships in the Hong Kong port to steal thousands of vehicles for their clients.
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Fifteen demonstrators were injured in scuffles with heavily armed police.
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A dawn raid by about 200 heavily armed law officers bagged more than 30 members and associates of the white-supremacist prison gang.
become
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After its closure in 1910, the Inclined Plane became heavily overgrown.
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Once Highway 3 connects with Highway 1 at Ensenada, the area becomes heavily populated.
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In addition, the disposable spirometry mouthpiece filters used by each of these patients became heavily contaminated.
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Too much product of too little quality has meant that both manufacturers and retailers have become heavily overstocked.
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The young migrants first became heavily involved in the winter of 1968-9.
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William became heavily involved in the new railways even subscribing £400 to the campaign for Parliamentary permission.
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Hypnosis and electroconvulsive therapy were tried but had no effect, and he became heavily dependent on tranquillizers.
borrow
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Most worrying are smaller companies which borrowed heavily but do not have big banks behind them.
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Tuft denies Catania's contentions, although he concedes the company borrows heavily and is not highly profitable.
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Many countries would also need to borrow heavily to pay for oil imports.
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The center already has dipped into its reserves and anticipates borrowing heavily from the city.
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And it is what happened to the Republic of Ireland, where successive administrations borrowed heavily for job creation purposes.
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Many firms had borrowed heavily to cover their losses, driving government banks into insolvency.
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Samurai retainers, too, borrowed heavily .
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As far as styling goes Lakewood are obviously borrowing heavily from the Martin heritage, since in outline these are millimetre-perfect dreadnought copies.
breathe
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She shook her head and sat down at the table, breathing heavily .
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He could hear Peter Stillman breathing heavily in his spot across the room.
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She was breathing heavily , her hands on her hips.
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The dying man coughed and breathed heavily .
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She was going very slowly and breathing heavily in her resolve that not a drop of whisky should be spilled.
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The Chancellor had loosened his tie and was breathing heavily .
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Another growling seemed to be coming from outside, and the sound of something breathing heavily .
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Duvall was holding the gun now as he looked down at him, breathing heavily .
build
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He was certainly a heavily built man, but a lot of it was fat.
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Shorter than Carver - five foot seven - he was heavily built with wide shoulders and stocky legs.
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Constantine was tall, heavily built and had a commanding presence.
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He was no taller than me, but was very heavily built .
concentrate
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The detailed cases described in chapters 7-9 concentrate heavily on the events that took place during that period.
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Social deprivation Known opioid use in Wirral was found to be heavily concentrated in the larger, socially deprived communities.
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The major industrial developments were heavily concentrated in a few key areas of the Empire.
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Within the United Kingdom, the population is heavily concentrated in one country.
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All medical facilities have been heavily concentrated in the capital city.
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Ownership is heavily concentrated and the majority of newspapers are politically partisan.
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So there are two reasons why we will concentrate heavily on the human side in resolving doubt.
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Also, news bulletins concentrated heavily on the speeches and activities of leading politicians, particularly the president.
criticised
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It hopes to make a fresh attempt to limit excessive overtime, heavily criticised in the report.
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Planners were heavily criticised for designing the route through a valley notorious for fog.
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In recent years, the use of public funds for individual libel actions has been heavily criticised .
criticize
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It is important to note that for a variety of reasons clauses of this kind have been heavily criticized .
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Bozeman was heavily criticized for replacing Campanelli.
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The larger estates were heavily criticized for absent or late provision of social and community facilities.
depend
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Secondly, the measurement of performance depends heavily on the relevance, adequacy and timeliness of information.
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The engine depends heavily upon turbocharging and on five valves per cylinder for its 150 horsepower.
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The starting point is those aims which depend heavily on the particular contribution of DHAs.
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The poetry of the first four volumes depends heavily on the simile to set the mood of the poem.
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Rural development in the Western Isles periphery depends heavily on finance from the mainland centre.
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The Lancastrian monarchy had depended heavily upon the customs duties for its normal revenue.
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Since most depend heavily on broadcasting, they are desperate to keep their franchises.
draw
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This approach draws heavily from the insights of Gramsci, Lukacs and Adorno.
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Yet they fought allowing women to compete for opportunity in the select academies from which the leadership is so heavily drawn .
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This chapter draws heavily on the best known and most detailed model of cohesion available.
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His books draw heavily on his experiences as a therapist.
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The National and the Boat Race draw heavily on tradition.
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There was a deep financial connection between the two: Both drew heavily on the willingness of investors to speculate in bonds.
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His work on social capital and civic engagement has been heavily drawn upon by Francis Fukuyama and others.
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The Wyvern production has drawn heavily on local talent.
drink
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I felt them, if I was in the same position, I would probably drink heavily as well.
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They drank heavily and talked loudly.
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Although I used to enjoy a drink , I started really drinking heavily after he died.
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They report he appears to be drinking heavily , and occasionally shows up plastered at the office.
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Our sole companion had been drinking heavily , with inevitable consequences.
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What was becoming evident was that he was drinking heavily .
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He drinks heavily the night before his death and retires to his bed chamber.
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He grew up in a home dominated by a step-father who drank heavily and abused his mother.
fall
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Gina Coulstock, 18, stumbled, fell heavily and was knocked out when she hit the road.
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The bull falls heavily on his side.
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She fell heavily , landing in a sitting position, bruising the base of her spine.
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My hair in its long greasy braid fell heavily over my left shoulder.
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It was followed by the sound of something falling heavily .
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The snow fell heavily , in a long pile like a sinking mountain range.
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The impact fell heavily on a small number of ports.
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The snow had been falling heavily all day and the roller had not yet pressed down the surface of the road.
guard
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Sagramoso City itself was heavily guarded by skyward laser batteries, and these could not easily be neutralised.
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In a heavily guarded courtroom, the former president implicated his successor, Rafsanjani, and Khamenei.
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I had to be escorted because the curfew was on and the village was heavily guarded .
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Thus, for example, Baldwin's responses to questions in the House over Britain's preparedness for war were heavily guarded .
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Ordinary burglars would never have dared enter the heavily guarded confines of State House.
influence
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As with other institutions in the Third World education has been heavily influenced by colonialism.
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These expectations will usually be heavily influenced by past profits, but they are not the only consideration.
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Detailed statistics are not available for the inner city itself, but overall black totals are heavily influenced by ghetto conditions.
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The cases should provide evidence on the conservative course of a court heavily influenced by appointments made during the Reagan years.
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The number of errors is heavily influenced by motivation of the staff.
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An individual's scope for modifying it will inevitably be heavily influenced by site and corporate culture.
invest
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Resources Telford College has invested heavily in new technology related to visual communication.
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Clinton had invested heavily in Peres' election prospects.
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These trading houses have invested heavily in global networks of information-gathering affiliates and extensive communications systems.
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This trend went hand-in-hand with another, that of investing heavily in the making of high-technology weaponry for the Pentagon.
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They had invested heavily in their branded products and in the machinery to make them.
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Similarly, other professionals working in the field of catastrophic illness should have other interests that they are heavily invested in emotionally.
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Both companies have also invested heavily in the renewables industry in the last few years.
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Could the slave-plantation economy bear the double cost of investing heavily in both mechanisation and slave workers?
involve
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In the purchaser/provider situation, they may be heavily involved in audit and standard setting.
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He got them much more heavily involved at all levels.
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Nevertheless, the clearinghouse personnel are heavily involved in running conferences under the sponsorship or organization of other bodies.
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He was heavily involved in charities before; now the load is greater.
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Work has not started yet because our tree feller has been heavily involved in clearance work after the recent storms.
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General Electric, like Boeing, is heavily involved in international markets.
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What also needs to be emphasized is that civil servants are also heavily involved in making policy.
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In fact, the group was heavily involved in designing the course and raising funds for it.
land
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The stone swung up and landed heavily on the floor.
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He landed heavily on gravel by the track.
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Consequently, you fall over or jack-knife forwards the first time you land heavily .
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Pain flared in his thigh wound as he landed heavily on his injured leg.
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Tony jumped from high up, landed heavily and pulled a face.
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He fell, landing heavily on his butt, then flattening out on to his back.
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Being a large woman, she'd landed heavily , badly hurting her left hip, her right knee and ankle.
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He crashed into a table, somersaulted over it and landed heavily on the carpet.
lean
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He seemed to fall asleep, leaning heavily on to Cameron.
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In movies like this, there is a great temptation to lean heavily on the melodrama.
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Fran leant heavily on the rail, feeling cold tentacles of shock closing around her heart.
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The economy of the Soviet Union leans heavily toward a centrally planned economy.
lose
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Already in the 1950s the core was losing heavily , and this worsened in the next decade.
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The entire scheme folded, and the investors, including Clark and Street, lost heavily .
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This earns them a big commission, but you stand to lose heavily ,.
outnumber
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The Cavaliers occupied Burghley House, but they were heavily outnumbered , and Cromwell forced them to surrender after a bitter siege.
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At first sight this might seem very improbable, because such smooth regions would be heavily outnumbered by chaotic and irregular regions.
pollute
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The river is already heavily polluted by chemical and metallurgical industries.
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There was little information on the health of people living in that area, which had been known to be heavily polluted .
populate
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This year, runners will head down heavily populated Sunset Boulevard into downtown.
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They operated in rugged enemy-fortified zones and in heavily populated rural areas.
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Once Highway 3 connects with Highway 1 at Ensenada, the area becomes heavily populated .
rain
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The, to add insult to injury, it started raining heavily .
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It had been raining heavily - and it was to go on raining heavily for another nine days.
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The incident occured when it was dark and raining heavily .
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It was a cold, windy night, and it was raining heavily .
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It began to rain heavily , and after a while Oliver opened his eyes.
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It began to rain heavily , a big storm coming down fast from the north.
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On my second outing with the boots I was trying to assess how watertight they were as it was raining heavily .
relied
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The state consequently relied heavily upon instruments of repression and pragmatic administrative management.
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In each chapter, I have relied heavily on the testimony of the men and women who were there.
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I relied heavily upon Hedley Byrne as illustrative.
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Yet most manufacturing still relied heavily on human labor.
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In the later case of Diamond v. Oreamuno, Brophy was heavily relied upon.
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The managers also relied heavily upon experiences that had provided opportunities to develop human and conceptual skills.
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The Justice Model's philosophy consequently relied heavily on retribution as at least a partial justification for punishment.
relies
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Fontana's treatment relies heavily on the use of Fourier transforms, is very theoretical and mentions few applications.
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In writing his sweeping historical overview of the region, Shoumatoff relies heavily on other published histories.
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Of these, the involvement of governors in the curriculum relies heavily on the guidance and initiative of the head.
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The Guild receives financial aid from the Council, and relies heavily on the enthusiasm and dedication of its members.
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This second approach relies heavily on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
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It relies heavily on the mathematical implications of quantum theory.
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In doing so, he relies heavily on the work of ethno-botanist and psychedelic frontiersman Terence McKenna.
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The bike also relies heavily on race-proven aerodynamics.
rely
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Consequently it is necessary to rely heavily on sources of information from across the Channel.
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In contrast, expert systems rely heavily on heuristics, or rules of thumb, which are much less formal.
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Such widely varied writers as Webern, Dallapiccola, and Stravinsky rely heavily on the textures and idioms of early choral music.
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Instead, the Bulldogs attacked from the outside, relying heavily on three-point shooting.
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Warren accepts that they do rely heavily on advanced industrial societies for economic growth, especially for advanced technology.
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Most did not recognize that they were relying heavily upon intimidation as a strategy for influence.
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Her analysis is a rich one and I shall rely heavily on it even though I only take two aspects of her findings.
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Exercising power and influence, especially without relying heavily on formal authority, is a challenge for even the most seasoned managers.
sigh
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I sighed heavily and he took no notice.
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Theresa sighed heavily as she unbuttoned her coat.
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Lindsey sighed heavily , wishing she had never met Niall Grant, and knew that even that wasn't true.
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She sighed heavily , and then realised that her sigh was audible.
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At last she sighed heavily , closed her magazine and sat back in her chair with her hands clasped in her lap.
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Jane flopped forward on her chair and sighed heavily .
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Ranulf sighed heavily , a long way from this dour monastery and his secretive master.
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He sighed heavily , and forced himself to relax.
spend
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The jeweller was overjoyed; he began spending heavily .
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In a fight with other video chains for market share, Blockbuster spent heavily on advertising and promotion.
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All new businesses have to spend heavily to establish themselves.
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Both sides have spent heavily on newspaper and television ads.
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Shoplifting and robberies forced the company to spend heavily on expensive security measures.
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The fear of pending competition has forced network operators to spend heavily on upgrades.
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They will spend heavily on an acer, and the impulse proves an investment.
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The company got those customers by spending heavily on marketing, and by building a service that was more consumer-friendly than most.
subsidize
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Heavily subsidized government services and centralized labor markets run counter to our history and politics.
tax
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Piedmont, the most economically advanced part of the state, was also the most heavily taxed .
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The Passport Office has been heavily taxed with a backlog of requests from the recent government closings.
use
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And these moors are used heavily by walkers and bikers alike.
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The ramp is still heavily used despite it's small transitions and general condition.
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The Course is heavily used by part-time Associate students, mainly home students drawn from the local catchment area.
weigh
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The shame, the guilt, the remorse were weighing heavily upon the parents.
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The family matter weighs heavily on him, and he is probably sensing high levels of stress and embarrassment.
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External debt continues to weigh heavily upon these countries.
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Dear Parents: The responsibility for the boys is weighing heavily on us these days.
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Time was weighing heavily upon him.
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But there were other factors that weighed heavily in the decision to retire the Rotterdam.
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Mozart was no doubt a good Catholic, but his religion did not weigh heavily upon him.
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Racing shoes are designed specifically for élite runners, for whom marginal differences weigh heavily .
weight
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The city's economy is heavily weighted towards large manufacturing enterprises, most of which were established to supply the Soviet military.
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A definition of family property that is restricted to claims on tangible property is weighted heavily toward the concerns of rich families.
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Predictably, as Table 3.4 confirms, their liabilities are overwhelmingly in foreign currency and are heavily weighted towards time deposits.
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An audience heavily weighted with Negro people was seated out in front.
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As usual, the show was heavily weighted with modern and contemporary dealers, with only five Old Master dealers participating.
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Most of the pain has been felt on the Nasdaq Composite Index, which is heavily weighted with technology issues.
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Containing the headmistress's books in large numbers, it was weighted heavily with books from the inter-war years.
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The current emphasis in the psy sector is heavily weighted toward presumption of neurological or genetic deficit.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Fifty houses were heavily damaged in the hurricane.
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It's been raining heavily all day.
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Joe slept heavily for eight hours.
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The air is heavily polluted.
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The southern region is heavily dependent on tourism.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In too many instances in the past the interests of beauty have been heavily outweighed by commercial considerations.
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It is important to know whether this will impinge heavily on the poor.
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Our software is heavily date-dependent.
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The need to understand design is often heavily stressed during conversations or articles about desktop publishing.
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The people in that car had all been drinking heavily , and one of the passengers in the car had passed out.
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The success of such programmes depends heavily on how much part their recipients have in their design and execution.
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Upper classes are often heavily loaded with current world affairs and the complicated workings of the United Nations and its agencies.