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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a genetic/inherited defect (= one that is passed to you in your genes )
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The condition is caused by a genetic defect.
a hereditary/inherited disease (= that is passed from parent to child )
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Parents are offered screening for some hereditary diseases.
an inherited characteristic
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Intelligence is an inherited characteristic.
genetic/inherited traits
inherit a characteristic (= get a characterstic from your parent )
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We all inherit physical characteristics from our parents.
inherit a fortune (= gain a lot of money after someone dies )
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He inherited a fortune of a million pounds from his uncle.
inherit a gene (= get a gene from your parents )
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Children who inherit the defective gene seem normal at birth apart from a deformity of the toe.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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characteristic
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Is blood group an inherited characteristic ?
child
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Most important, children tend to inherit their parents' partisan preferences.
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Your children will inherit a world in which Basil's influence has made a great contribution.
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When he died aged 85, his young mistress and 10 illegitimate children inherited his money.
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She also had the powerful sense of humour which her children inherited , and could be very amusing in conversation.
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His 11 children inherited most of his estate.
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At that age the law considers them to be dead, so their children inherit their houses and money.
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In that case, would his children inherit it?
daughter
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Had your daughter inherited the stocks, her cost basis would move up to the value at the time of the inheritance.
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But, as well as his sons, his daughters would have inherited it from him.
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When Baldwin died in 1909, his daughters inherited and divided the property, now valued at $ 25 million.
disease
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The human genome project opens up the possibility of eliminating certain inherited , genetic diseases .
earth
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Anwar Sadat and Yitzhak Rabin inherited the earth that covers their graves.
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Thus a gene for chromosomal fratricide will spread as surely as a murderer will inherit the Earth .
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The green-pigmented organisms that could split water inherited the Earth .
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The meek have not inherited the earth , as promised.
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The most likely to inherit the earth .
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Indeed, the middle class actually came to believe it had inherited the leafy suburban earth .
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One hopes that only the first group will inherit the earth .
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We have inherited the present Earth .
estate
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Granville eventually inherited the estate and his connection with Stoke Poges may be of more than usual significance.
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When Presley turned 25, she inherited an estate currently worth more than $ 100 million.
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His father had died and he bought the property with money he'd inherited from the estate .
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First, they want to eliminate taxes entirely for people fortunate enough to inherit estates of $ 1 million.
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He accepted the arguments of an independent actuary that policyholders' realistic expectation they should benefit from inherited estates was limited.
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Two of the daughters, Mary and Annabella, eventually inherited the Scrope estates .
family
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Educated privately at her homes at Parkwern and Hendrefoilan she inherited a long family tradition of unorthodox and innovative ideas.
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A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune.
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I feel that the space inherited from this family is so vast that it seems physical.
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Nizan did not inherit a family tradition.
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By contrast, he did inherit a destructive family situation which weighed heavily on him for the rest of his life.
father
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A gentle, almost effeminate scholar, Minh Mang reinforced the Confucian administration he had inherited from his father .
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You know Cathy won't inherit anything from her father .
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By accepting whatever property he may inherit from his father .
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While she had inherited from her father , and the stallion's father before him, a stubborn and cussed temperament.
fortune
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My son Linton will inherit all the Linton fortune when Edgar dies.
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Jacinto is anxious to share his newly inherited fortune with Mariano.
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Six months later their two sons inherited their parents' fortune as sole beneficiaries.
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I inherited a large fortune , a strong healthy body and an excellent mind.
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She was expecting a baby, and we all hoped she would have a son, who would inherit the Linton fortune .
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In 1838 he inherited a fortune of a million pounds from his uncle, Robert Holford.
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But it seems this other relation has inherited his whole fortune .
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He knew that if he and Catherine had no sons, Isabella would inherit the considerable Linton fortune .
gene
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A person or animal inherits half its genes from each parent.
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Those who inherit one gene have an increased chance of acquiring cancers later in life.
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He has inherited the Nordern genes .
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The first is biological - what we inherit through our genes .
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First is the possibility of inheriting a major gene for liability, but not developing the disease.
house
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The Richards had an only daughter, Ann, who inherited the house .
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Mary Tene inherits his Sunset District house , his stock investments and half of his bank accounts.
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A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune.
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The money he had inherited with the house just wasn't enough.
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Philip Yorke, who had inherited the house unexpectedly from his reclusive brother, was a most lovable man.
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The researchers looked at a sample of 302 people who had inherited a house .
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At that age the law considers them to be dead, so their children inherit their houses and money.
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She perhaps wanted me to inherit the dark old house and to marry Estella.
kingdom
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He joked to her that he would like to solve the mystery, marry a princess, and inherit the kingdom .
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Tristan expected to inherit the kingdom of his uncle, King Mark, in Cornwall.
legacy
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However, we have inherited such a legacy and we need, too, to work with existing services.
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In this way, he inherits a legacy which the Tate and others can interpret.
money
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But when he inherited some money he decided to use that to pay off the mortgage and no longer needed the endowment.
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When he died aged 85, his young mistress and 10 illegitimate children inherited his money .
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Kate decides that he must court her, so that he may inherit her money .
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At that age the law considers them to be dead, so their children inherit their houses and money .
parent
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What is more she doesn't want to leave her home, a nice little house that she inherited from her parents .
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Generalisation and abstraction, which reflect real-world relationships where objects can inherit properties from their parents , are supported.
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The same gene inherited from a different parent may have a different effect in the offspring.
problem
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The Wilson government inherited serious economic problems in October 1964, but made matters worse by its own decisions.
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Once again, Herrera inherited this problem from Santa Anna.
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He once said that the Royal Family had inherited the problem of hunting and shooting; it was in the blood.
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The Conservatives had inherited numerous economic problems .
property
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In 1686 he inherited his father's properties and continued his successful business as a producer of linseed and rape oil.
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And these same people typically have accumulated or inherited no property resources.
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His cousin Richard inherited thy Glynde property but made his fortune elsewhere, in the church.
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They lost their right to inherit property .
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Generalisation and abstraction, which reflect real-world relationships where objects can inherit properties from their parents, are supported.
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When Baldwin died in 1909, his daughters inherited and divided the property , now valued at $ 25 million.
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Two-thirds of those who inherited a property promptly sold it.
son
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My son Linton will inherit all the Linton fortune when Edgar dies.
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His son Brendan then inherited the seat and kept it until his retirement in 1982.
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To put it simply, the family metaphor is: there are fathers and sons and one day the sons will inherit .
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He is old and when he dies he selfish son inherits the land.
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Six months later their two sons inherited their parents' fortune as sole beneficiaries.
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Families were therefore nuclear and patriarchal and only one son inherited the patrimony.
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She was expecting a baby, and we all hoped she would have a son , who would inherit the Linton fortune.
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She had other gifts which her son Michael inherited .
title
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He did not in fact inherit the title until 1705, but a love of hunting he certainly did.
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The choice fell on Lord Gorell, the son of an eminent judge who had inherited his title from his elder brother.
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He inherited the honorary title from his maternal grandfather, William Harold Pearson.
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He inherited his title when his father died in 1968.
tradition
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Jackson inherits that tradition of civil-rights leadership.
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Educated privately at her homes at Parkwern and Hendrefoilan she inherited a long family tradition of unorthodox and innovative ideas.
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Nizan did not inherit a family tradition .
trait
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In reality, a well-endowed man is likely to have inherited the trait .
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The structural changes that are seen in hemoglobin 5 and C disorders are inherited as autosomal recessive traits . 216.
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There is a suggestion that offspring do not have an even chance of inheriting a trait from either parent.
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At the same time, though, inherited psychological and physiological traits had their dangerous downsides.
wealth
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Hamilton was one of those unfortunate men who have inherited immense wealth but not a lot more.
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The ability to inherit wealth or status from a parent is not unique to man.
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He inherited wealth and could have lived a leisured life but preferred to pursue his earlier interest in natural philosophy.
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In rich families that have substantial inherited wealth , assets may be primarily in the form of claims on tangible assets.
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Her other relations were not interested in her happiness but only in inheriting her wealth , so they said nothing.
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This legitimized inherited wealth , for it blessed only the biologically superior.
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Like a lot of people who inherit or marry wealth , Straus viewed money abstractly.
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Otis despised inherited wealth and class, but he despised a town that was disdainful of growth even more.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She inherited the money from her mother.
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The ten richest women in the UK all inherited their wealth.
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Who will inherit the house when he dies?