adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
incoming/outgoing calls (= coming into or going out of a place )
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You have to dial 9 first to make an outgoing call.
the incoming tide
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The box was carried upstream on the incoming tide.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
call
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It wasn't permitted to take incoming calls on the pay phone in the hallway of the hotel.
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Just how many incoming calls will be blocked?
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As some one who hates being pestered by incoming calls , I no longer see the point of a cellular phone.
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She took only incoming calls from Sheila.
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If you leave the fax software running, waiting to answer incoming calls , you can't use the data modem as well.
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Odyssey also comes with host mode which means you can set your computer to wait for incoming calls .
government
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So, how many policies were reversed by the incoming government , and which policies and areas of policy were left untouched?
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In 1979, he said, the incoming government had felt the unemployment figures were too high.
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The incoming government should give them their marching orders.
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Its credibility suffered: incoming governments often changed its Director-General - it had six in 10 years.
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And not until mid-1993 will any incoming government get a chance to tinker with the existing composition of the Board of Governors.
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And an incoming government must encourage industry to use reclaimed materials - and back its drive with financial incentives if necessary.
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Mail for guests in residence Any incoming mail for guests should be sorted and placed in the letter rack.
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Each neuron is a node where thousands of wires converge, where incoming mail is digested and sometimes turned into outgoing mail.
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Most programs can filter incoming mail into designated mailboxes, either as it arrives or afterwards.
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I would only trash incoming mail from obvious opponents and obvious loonies.
missile
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Their armour provides excellent protection from incoming missile fire.
president
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The incoming president begins to distance himself from a person he recently described as a moral and intellectual giant.
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Mr Bush is unlikely to restore it, unless Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the incoming president , embarks on reform.
student
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When the program began, Brown recalled, 700 incoming students had opted for a major in engineering.
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These figures would rise over the next eight years until all incoming students would be expected to have completed 16 academic credits.
tide
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The noise of the incoming tide had interrupted their games on the sand further out in the estuary.
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They write themselves, the way an incoming tide seeks its own level.
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But once she was alone with her knitting depression crept up on Leonora like an incoming tide .
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It was swamped by the incoming tide and sank at about 5am yesterday.
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She guessed they'd come about twenty yards inland; she could still hear the sigh and fall of the incoming tide .
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The striking of the half hour alerted me to the incoming tide of darkness.
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When the track splits at a sign warning of incoming tides , take the left fork towards the shore.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All incoming flights are being delayed by fog.
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The crash occurred when a freight train collided with an incoming passenger train.
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Women made up 40% of the incoming freshman class this year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Clearly, incoming coal supplies and outgoing cloth could be easily transported.
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Disknet gives the user no other choice than to stick to a routine of checking each incoming diskette for viruses.
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Each neuron is a node where thousands of wires converge, where incoming mail is digested and sometimes turned into outgoing mail.
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Rod Carew would insert a big chew to tighten his face and help him focus on an incoming pitch.
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Sophomore Marvin Powell will have a chance to get a head start at fullback over incoming freshman Ted Iacenda.
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The incoming Conservative government was determined to reduce this.
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The noise of the incoming tide had interrupted their games on the sand further out in the estuary.
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The year after I was graduated, they built a whole new high school to handle the incoming hordes.