I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bunch of keys
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A bunch of keys dangled from his belt.
a car door/engine/key etc
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She left the car engine running.
a door key
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She was looking in her bag for her door key.
a key aspect (= a very important aspect )
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There have been changes in five key aspects of education.
a key element (= very important and necessary )
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Trust is a key element in any relationship.
a key feature (= a very important or necessary feature )
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Private ownership is a key feature of capitalism.
a key objective (= a very important objective )
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Their economic strategy was based on a number of key objectives.
a key sector (= a very important one )
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They identified cars and electronics as key sectors in the economy.
a key witness (= a very important witness )
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Rupert is expected to be a key witness at the trial.
a key/central role
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The report recognized the key role of teachers.
a key/central/important concept
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The title tells you something about the central concept of the poem.
a key/crucial factor (= a very important factor )
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A key factor in a company’s success is knowing its customers.
a key/major/big issue (= very important )
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For me, the big issue is cost.
a major/dominant/key etc player
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a firm that is a dominant player on Wall Street
Allen key
control key
forget your keys/money/cigarettes etc
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Oh no, I’ve forgotten my wallet.
function key
hex key
hot key
key card
key chain
key personnel
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Many of the key personnel have left.
key ring
key signature
keyed up
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Travis was keyed up at the thought of seeing Rosie again.
key/major/important etc component
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Exercise is one of the key components of a healthy lifestyle.
master key
pound key
shift key
skeleton key
tab key
the basic/key facts
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The report outlines the basic facts concerning the case.
turn the handle/knob/key/tap etc
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She gently turned the handle of the bedroom door.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
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From the early 1960s the party had seen the issue of civil liberties as a key area of agitation.
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The other key area would appear to be the line-out laws.
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Recruitment has, to a large extent, centred on the key areas of sales and research staff.
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These are key areas for attention which are highlighted in the project management literature.
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Thus, in the key area of economic policy, despite an occasional victory, Carter achieved little.
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We have also tightened up our management in other key areas of milk production.
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We were delighted yesterday to obtain the agreement of the manufacturers to concentrate on these three key areas .
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That must include long-term investment in key areas of training, education, research and development, and transport.
aspect
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A key aspect of this part of the mix is the life-cycle of the product.
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The indifference to occupational type is a key aspect of this definition.
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This is a key aspect of the refugee question which has so far received inadequate attention.
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Another key aspect of the new courses has been the building in of planned linkages to degree provision.
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In this context, let us remind ourselves of the key aspects of their position.
component
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Instead, we concentrate upon some key components and examples, which serve to illustrate the issues and problems involved.
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The lineup appears to be strong from top to bottom, but all the players know Bagwell is the key component .
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Transport is usually considered as the key component of the provision of social overhead capital.
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The key component was Thompson Seedless, which also are consumed as table grapes, raisins and grape concentrate.
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Its key components include a graphical user interface builder, database access, reusable application framework and cross-platform portability, it says.
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Rockwell not only built the space shuttle but constructed key components for the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs of the 1960s.
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The key component of Karpov's strategy, challenging Black's only well placed piece.
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Instead they turned up on site with stone panels missing and without many of these key components .
decision
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This should involve making all key decisions and even moving into your office during your absence.
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That means, as usual, the key decisions will be made in the September primary election.
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It is there that key decisions are made.
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The Cabinet, chaired by the prime minister, is the key decision making body within the government.
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End of the road Quickly and sensibly, Joe found the key decision-makers and talked with them.
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Your chance to make up your own mind about what key decision makers are saying by listening to them in full.
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The allocation of the increment becomes the key decision . 2.
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Nevertheless, the key decisions about resources for the social policy sector will be regarded as economic policy decisions.
element
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Trade unionism became a key element in national solidarity and social education.
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The key element , however, is not the ardor of the reformers.
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So this week we highlight the key elements of a typical mortgage endowment policy statement.
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Francis noted that strong profit margins and a committed, rock-solid management team were the key elements for a successful start-up.
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But a key element remained the considerable filial loyalty the catholic nationalists showed towards their clergy, bishops, and Popes.
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Water is a key element in the ley system.
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The two key elements are space and timing.
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The remainder of the course involves a practical exercise which demonstrates the benefits of improving these key elements .
factor
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Confidence is a key factor in any football situation.
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And perhaps even more important, Steinberg and his colleagues sought the key factors in the lives of students who did achieve.
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The key factor in this decision will invariably be money.
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However, the key factor will be whether the president puts campaign finance reform high on his agenda for next year.
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It seems possible, therefore, that financial managers should be involved in the identification and analysis of those key factors .
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The key factor in making better decisions is a careful analysis of what an organization believes about itself and its environment.
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There are four key factors which illustrate the point.
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Bandwidth and attenuation are the key factors .
feature
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This latter award reminds me of a key feature of being the best and that is teamwork.
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Research Areas Learning constitutes one of the key features of a neural network.
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There are some registry subsystems that contain key features of expert systems.
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A key feature of the module is that the programme should reflect activities and contexts which the student values and has chosen.
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Indeed, one of the key features of the Nottinghamshire initiative was that it occurred in somewhat of a policy vacuum.
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The key feature of the methodology is the use of comparisons of related texts to reveal sociologically significant textual features.
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The following lists some key features of the new qualifications.
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Some key features of Durkheim's argument can be isolated.
figure
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Lucia Walker is one of the key figures in the development of contact improvisation in this country.
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The ruling brings together key figures in two other notorious Los Angeles criminal cases.
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The formal decision was taken in January 1947 by Attlee, Bevin and a handful of other key figures .
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For Wilson, as both she and Branson were acutely aware, was a key figure in Virgin's defence.
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He is alleged to have been a key figure in virtually all aspects of the Guinness affair.
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The key figure here is the number of seeks per access.
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Four key figures who will have varied feelings during Tuesday night's Essex Senior Cup final.
member
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On Dec. 10 Lubys announced the key members of his new government.
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Mark and Loi were the key members .
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A cordon of armour was parked around newspapers and broadcasting stations, and key members of the previous administration were arrested.
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He was always zealous in good works, always regular at worship and a key member of the church.
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Since then, Lake has said it was a mistake to not inform key members of Congress of the decision.
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Devon lost the services of Peter Roebuck just as he was becoming a key member of their side.
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And the team must always include the disabled person in question, besides key members of the family and friends.
part
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Reviewing Reviewing plays a key part in the process of learning from experience.
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Project work and its practical application forms a key part of the programme.
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The sales forecast is a key part of the company's plans.
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The long-awaited report has been a key part of the couple's bitter custody battle.
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The key part of her proposition, furthermore, is the Creole part.
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It is frequently seen in tumours and may play a key part in the kinetics of tumour growth.
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Public Relations is a key part of an infill project.
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Non-verbal behaviours also play a key part .
player
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Dale Baker and David Gibson are now key players in Bright's new look side, both made 70's.
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Principals are key players and are encouraged to take the lead to ensure that identification procedures are implemented.
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Northampton, too, were missing key players , going down by five tries to a consolation one.
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In the 1930s, they were key players in lettuce strikes in Salinas.
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We are also key players in a cosmic struggle.
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A half-dozen key players have been there.
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Resignations followed and several key players in the hip-hop wars became un-persons.
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The series dramatized the struggle by portraying the key players on both sides and probing their motives and strategies.
point
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What are the key points in the extract?
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But the 14-member committee, led by former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp, was vague on several key points .
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Are you a fast reader with the ability to retain the key points ?
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And she found herself at key points in her relationship yelling at her financially ambitious partner because they had such different aspirations.
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Policies emerge that are not merely compromises but also remain obscure on key points of implementation.
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Stones become important symbols for Karlin at key points throughout the book.
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The final key point about these analyses are their emphasis on broader social change.
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The key point is that the level of output depends directly upon total or aggregate expenditures.
position
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In most modern societies, parties have key positions on economic and social issues or on constitutional matters.
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In any graphics system the object to be animated is first drawn on paper in a number of key positions .
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Display maps at the key positions should remove this problem.
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This is a key position to learn to cure thinned shots.
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How are they going to fill key positions to perpetuate growth?
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Would you give them a key position of accountability in your team?
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Hongkong Bank is moving fast to consolidate its acquisition and is appointing senior executives to many of the key positions .
question
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Fluoride can be harmful; the key question is, at what concentrations does it become toxic in the body?
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The key question is, of course, how much inequality can government prevent before the too-much limit is reached.
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A key question is whether firms should be able to decide which regulatory body to join.
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The key question has become how information is organized, who has access to it, and why.
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But this begs the key questions .
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These are the key questions to be asked about reciprocity within families, both historical and contemporary.
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Indeed, the key question is whether the organization serves or squashes the human spirit.
ring
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The tokens are swapped for Guinness T shirts, key rings , vouchers and customised prizes.
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She rummaged in her handbag for the key on its wooden key ring and tried to fit it into the lock.
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He had to fumble in it for some seconds before his fingers found the key ring .
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Interestingly, the use of key rings is confined solely to the Roman period.
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Sebastian Nocon got a huge key ring with the letter S on it from Fergie.
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Other good features include a spare bulb in the tail cap and a useful key ring facility.
role
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The project high-lighted the key role of the expert advisors which are used by farm managers in undertaking their roles.
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Those visiting the current exhibit will learn that black churches and their leaders played key roles in local history.
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A score was assigned for a given profile, and computer facilities played a key role in the development of this area.
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But analysts said politics and public sentiment almost certainly played key roles .
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Poulantzas' explanation gives a key role to the relation between the capitalist state and capitalist ideology.
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And then midway through the second-half he played a key role in Brian Strain's vital winner.
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Luck has always played a key role in doing the pools, but half the fun was thinking that skill mattered.
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This highlights the key role played by the perfect capital market assumption.
witness
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And Graham Gooch's first lieutenant Stewart, the Surrey skipper, will be a key witness at a committee of inquiry.
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Most of the key witnesses have long since skipped the country.
worker
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Find a secretary and some key workers , depending on your needs.
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As a key worker or a care assistant, you may go to see the person in their own home.
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She'd like to see a key worker allocated to each patient and families made more fully informed about treatment.
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I attend different groups, and I've got a key worker who I see once a week.
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Plans for a garden village with houses for key workers were also implemented.
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Integrating services - Another set of advantages was the identification of key workers and clarification of their roles.
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In some Homes, you may be a key worker , working with perhaps three or four other care assistants.
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What is involved in being a key worker ?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
under lock and key
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Oswald's FBI file has been kept under lock and key.
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If they had kept me under lock and key from my fifteenth birthday until my twentieth, I might have escaped.
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Since then, that length of self-healing cable has been kept under lock and key at the railway inspectorate building at Reading.
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Smith's copies have spent the last six days under lock and key at its Dunstable depot.
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The older children were no longer kept under lock and key.
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Wherever they are kept, they should be out of reach of children and, where appropriate, under lock and key.
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With Petersen under lock and key, life for the gumshoes of the Office of Security returned to normal.
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Your master should really have kept the book under lock and key.
with/at the touch of a button/key
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A customer uses her remote control to shop different channels with the touch of a button.
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An oil dispensing massage head dispenses oil at the touch of a button to give a smooth, drag free massage.
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At the touch of a button a huge gate opens and I am confined in a small area between fences.
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At the touch of a button they can still be made to disappear.
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Jet start operates for 30 seconds at the touch of a button.
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Letters, words or whole lines can be deleted and new texts inserted at the touch of a button.
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Up to ten needles can be operated separately by computer programme producing endless designs and colourways at the touch of a button.
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You can add categories and recipes at the touch of a button.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Communication is key for the newspaper team.
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Education is likely to be a key issue in the forthcoming election.
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He held a key position in the Bush administration.
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Laws are key to maintaining an orderly society.
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The key person in this project will be the design manager.
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the area's key businesses
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Transport and communications are key areas of the economy.
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We don't have much time, so let's concentrate on the key issues.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A key card numbering the various positions was mounted on the top of the tachistoscope.
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A law on salaries which was passed on Dec. 26, 1989, was deemed to be of key importance.
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From the early 1960s the party had seen the issue of civil liberties as a key area of agitation.
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He would dispose of it and a key item of evidence would be gone for good.
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Many of the key terms and debates that take place throughout the book are introduced.
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The system comprises three key modules, which are centred on the Network Control System Console.
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What are the key leadership skills?
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
low
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Nightlife is fairly low key , and centres mainly around restaurants and bars, although there is one disco.
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We will try to keep it low key .
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Any attempt to introduce the sponsor's range of products must be low key .
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He prefers khakis and is about as low key and unassuming as they come.
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The style of advertisement was both low key , and up-market.
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The approach to the tournament should be as low key as possible with changes being made only where absolutely necessary.
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According to agent Bill Hamilton, the decision to keep the campaign low key was taken locally.
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He was almost sure he had heard another whistle, in a low key , somewhere ahead of him.
■ NOUN
car
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Even the car keys or a belt buckle may upset things if placed too close.
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This is a man, after all, who leaves his car keys in the front seat with the doors unlocked.
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Even as the thought had come Paige had been gathering up her purse and the car keys .
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For security, some systems also kill the engine if a person tries to drive the vehicle without the car key .
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He asked whether she would mind calling him a cab and she dangled car keys and said she would drive him herself.
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A visitor was attempting to lure a squirrel close for a picture by dangling and rattling his car keys .
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He reached into his pocket for his car keys .
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That night, when I went to bed, I found the registration and car keys on my bed table.
house
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I used my house key , the same as I did yesterday.
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Similarly, a domestic iris-scan unit could end the trauma of losing a set of house keys .
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As my car and house keys were in the bag we had to change all the locks.
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On leaving the field, Mickey found a purse containing four pounds, a pension book and a set of house keys .
issue
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A key issue for the food of the future is what we choose to call it.
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House and Senate dissension will deepen this year, making it more difficult for consensus to be achieved on key issues .
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There are two key issues we can draw from Stein's analysis.
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We also came up with a laundry list of key issues that had always been there but never put on the table.
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The bill is a key issue , but the congressional situation is tricky.
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Another key issue is the use of outside people or companies to perform skilled trades.
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A key issue will be whether commanders consulted the prefect, Arnaldo La Barbera, before the raid.
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Officials on both sides, however, said they expect few breakthroughs on key issues this week.
question
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Good mediators facilitate the necessary exchange of information and help both parties pinpoint key questions to take to their legal advisers.
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A key question lingering is where the investors' money went.
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Two key questions still need to be addressed: Do consumers want new services and will they pay for them?
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The next key question is, How do we know what to specialize in?
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A key question for the court is whether Jackson held his views about Microsoft before he began hearing the case.
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The relationship between complexity and organization becomes a key question in trying to simulate the processing of sensory inputs.
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A key question in interpretation of the provision: How soon must that use be implemented?
return
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When input is complete you should press the RETURN key .
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To print these mail messages, you should press the RETURN key .
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There are now two courses of action open to you: Press the RETURN key , or Enter an option number.
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After both fields have been completed correctly, the RETURN key should be pressed.
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The Return key which denotes the start of the new paragraph can also trigger off other paragraph attributes.
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In this case, to exit the option, press the RETURN key again.
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If you have inspected all marked messages, you should press the RETURN key .
shift
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For single quotes or apostrophes leave out the Shift key .
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Then, hold down the Shift key and move the cursor to the end of the block you want selected.
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It really is exactly like using the Shift key .
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Zoom Control Move mouse over the molecule, hold Shift key , click and hold mouse button and drag.
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For punctuation and symbols, use the Shift key .
tab
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If this is the value required, the user can move to the next field by pressing the TAB key .
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They were entered using the regular Tab key at the tab stops at positions 20 and 40.
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If you wish to view the next page, you need only press the TAB key .
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If you have marked further messages to inspect, you should now press the TAB key .
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When you are ready to start inspecting the mail messages, you should press the TAB key .
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The TAB key must be pressed after typing the user name to move to the password field.
■ VERB
hold
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Then, hold down the Shift key and move the cursor to the end of the block you want selected.
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To delete several characters to the right of the cursor, hold the Del key down.
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Zoom Control Move mouse over the molecule, hold Shift key , click and hold mouse button and drag.
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Hidden layers hold the key to more complex computations.
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That second paradox, I believe, holds the key to the mysteries that still envelop the new regime.
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Teachers frequently believe it is the parents who hold the key and that they should do more to help.
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Practitioners, to a very large degree, hold the keys to reform.
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Privatization could hold the key to upgrading the infrastructure.
press
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Once installed and running, Windows screenshots can be captured to user-defined files merely by pressing the PrintScreen key .
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The effects of these keys are cancelled when you press the Enter key.
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If you then take the cursor up one line and press the delete key you will have deleted the tab.
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You press the Enter key to begin a new paragraph or to insert blank lines in the text.
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You can prove this by going back to the start of the paragraph and pressing the Backspace key .
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When you press a key on your home system, it is just as if you are pressing the key at work.
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But he had provided a double failsafe mechanism for himself in case he accidently pressed the wrong key while accessing the code.
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When you know a program you tend to press the correct keys to give commands cleanly and neatly.
turn
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Could you reach through a cat-flap to withdraw the door bolts and turn a key left in the lock?
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The Woman shut the door and turned the key in the lock.
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Marge led Janey to the car and turned the key .
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You stand at the iron door to calm yourself then turn the iron key and face the next door.
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The debate turns on six key words that constitute its two poles.
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Cornelius turned his key in the lock and quietly entered the ancestral home.
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He turned the key in the lock, and went in the side door of the old parish hall.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
spare key/battery/clothes etc
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Carrying spare batteries could be a cheaper option to fast charging and all chargers rely on a power point anyway.
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Eventually, the spare key was found and they were released from the clutches of the car.
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I'd got no money, no night things, no spare clothes, no bank card.
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It may include parts of larger support weapons such as mortars, radio equipment and spare batteries.
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Make sure you have a supply of spare batteries too.
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Remember that I had always intended to leave spare key with the Twills next door but never got round to it.
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Some people take a fully charged spare battery along with them just in case!
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Soon she took my visits for granted and I was given the spare key to let myself in the door.
under lock and key
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Oswald's FBI file has been kept under lock and key.
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If they had kept me under lock and key from my fifteenth birthday until my twentieth, I might have escaped.
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Since then, that length of self-healing cable has been kept under lock and key at the railway inspectorate building at Reading.
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Smith's copies have spent the last six days under lock and key at its Dunstable depot.
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The older children were no longer kept under lock and key.
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Wherever they are kept, they should be out of reach of children and, where appropriate, under lock and key.
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With Petersen under lock and key, life for the gumshoes of the Office of Security returned to normal.
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Your master should really have kept the book under lock and key.
with/at the touch of a button/key
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A customer uses her remote control to shop different channels with the touch of a button.
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An oil dispensing massage head dispenses oil at the touch of a button to give a smooth, drag free massage.
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At the touch of a button a huge gate opens and I am confined in a small area between fences.
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At the touch of a button they can still be made to disappear.
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Jet start operates for 30 seconds at the touch of a button.
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Letters, words or whole lines can be deleted and new texts inserted at the touch of a button.
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Up to ten needles can be operated separately by computer programme producing endless designs and colourways at the touch of a button.
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You can add categories and recipes at the touch of a button.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a minor key
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Type in your PIN code, then press the ENTER key .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Any set of search keys for a document can be described as a document profile.
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My plastic key wouldn't open my hotel room.
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Secondly, the computer keyboard has many additional keys which are used to alter the function of the alpha-numeric keys.
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Then she saw a little glass table with three legs, and on the top of it was a very small gold key .
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These socialist writings showed me the key to my environment.
III. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Rollins keyed a 98-89 victory for the Hawks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Breaking it, if it can be found, produces the effect of keying out the engram.
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But it is also possible that they were keying into an actual human possibility.