adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
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The project was highly imaginative , building on a commercial ranching project which already existed.
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Rather, the guitar and drum set seem like obbligato instruments, threading their way through the varied and highly imaginative texture.
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On the right is the highly imaginative Challenger rod bag.
more
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He also urges computer users to think up more imaginative passwords.
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The wife of the farmer: Poor, hardworking, and a little more imaginative than her husband.
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It wasn't that he wanted to be more imaginative than them.
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But with those credentials, Safire could surely have been more imaginative .
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It means more imaginative deployment of staff.
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According to the committee, the government should be more imaginative in supporting research.
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Later more imaginative tactics were adopted to try to achieve maximum disruption for a small loss of earnings.
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There are more imaginative regulatory ideas that harness the price mechanism and market forces.
most
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Some of the most imaginative and interesting places to work and visit are converted historic buildings.
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So are her romantic schoolgirls, and Betsy in this book is the most imaginative of all the race.
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Scales was the most imaginative of his inspectors; he had started in fingerprints and now specialised in fraud cases.
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This idealized version is most imaginative as a teenager when any fantasy is possible.
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Her books deal in changing perceptions rather than unalterable truths, and she herself was perhaps her most imaginative achievement ....
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One of the most imaginative that I have seen uses a series of bowls and a conventional fountain spray.
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A mismatch between the most imaginative practice and the best teacher education can never be good for the latter.
very
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It's very imaginative and beautifully shot.
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Mr. Moynihan My hon. Friend makes a very imaginative proposal.
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Not very imaginative , it amounted to a genuflection to Papini and his authoritative views.
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Female speaker He's very imaginative with lots of ideas.
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Sabraxis was a stern mistress, but she was very imaginative and continually updated the traditional pieces.
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George is a quiet, fairly shy person, who is not very imaginative and needs some one to share a life with.
■ NOUN
approach
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But the avant-garde has found support for its imaginative approach from such sciences as biology.
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This can be successful especially where an imaginative approach to development is adopted.
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If he needs a more imaginative approach to biblical meditation, show him the Ignatian method.
idea
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But ultimately, good ads are imaginative ideas .
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They offered the chance for specifiers to turn their imaginative ideas into reality.
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Thus, it is not just imaginative ideas which are required but an increase in investment of management time.
leap
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Doing history does require an imaginative leap , and contact with real evidence from the past can often assist in this process.
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You have nothing to lose by trying out possible futures for size-it just requires an imaginative leap .
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Very often it helps pupils to make the imaginative leap that is required of a historian.
play
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The family Dolls Families of dolls or puppets provide children with the opportunity for much free imaginative play .
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In his imaginative play , the child inpart creates a world of his own and the creatures or objects in it.
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Climbing frames should be shaped to encourage imaginative play - airplanes, wagons or spaceships are popular.
solution
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Indeed it would, but there may be more imaginative solutions to be commended.
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A more imaginative solution is shown in figure 4.19.
use
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For example, the imaginative use of stop changes can greatly enrich the singing of the Psalms.
ways
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The private sector probably has even more flexibility to find imaginative ways of addressing those issues than the statutory services.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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imaginative storytelling
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an imaginative Halloween costume
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an imaginative novelist
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Nearly every piece here is deft, intelligent and imaginative .
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Surprisingly, to imaginative educators, both the verbal and the mechanical boys have less trouble in all-male institutions.
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The titles are the most understated thing about these imaginative creations.
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They say imaginative management and co-operation with tenants will make for a model estate.
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This Government's many imaginative and effective initiatives are far more helpful to the regions than any hare-brained scheme from Labour.
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Using local produce, the food is imaginative , wholesome and substantial.