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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
easily
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Boss Mangan, the symbol of industrial and political might, is a love-stricken wreck easily manipulated by the go-getting Ellie Dunn.
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The physical and chemical environment can be easily manipulated as well as observed in the living state.
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It's easily manipulated and it dries hard.
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Under the guise of complimenting Elizabeth's mercy, Spenser is implying she is easily manipulated by others.
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Intrigued by their free and easy life style, the Parker's find their long held values being easily manipulated .
■ NOUN
ability
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Virginia Radcliffe gave an alive, vampish performance as Elena, suggesting powerfully the will to survive and ability to manipulate .
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And individuals with the ability to manipulate what is written about a public person have enormous power.
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This was separated from the other digits, giving their owners the ability to grasp and manipulate objects.
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With the infusion of resources into cancer research came an explosion in our ability to understand and manipulate the cancer cell.
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Such a program provided Personnel Management with the ability to manipulate data already stored in the payroll system.
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The ability to manipulate information, he implied, could be our very salvation.
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Thus the ability to manipulate the different elements at will has in effect altered the task.
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Apparently some special attributes of this microbial group have led to acquisition of the ability to manipulate mitosis in eukaryotic hosts.
attempt
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As a cynical attempt to manipulate the electorate and the media, it was unsurpassed.
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Edward's attempts to manipulate seemed both touching and, eventually, fruitless.
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She saw no attempt at deception, no trace of an attempt to manipulate .
data
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Enterprises have considerable incentives to manipulate data .
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Nor does it yield to the temptation to manipulate performance and financial data in a way that obscures hard truths.
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Such a program provided Personnel Management with the ability to manipulate data already stored in the payroll system.
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In this chapter, you will learn how to use its sorting feature to manipulate the data in tables and lists.
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Database technology depends on the development of an appropriate data model for structuring and manipulating the data.
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The factory worker no longer manipulates the sheet of steel; he manipulates the data about the steel.
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In other words, it is a comprehensive and powerful facility for collecting, manipulating and analysing data of any type.
environment
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It manipulates the environment , and it is able to enforce moral duties on those who are inclined to disregard them.
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Millions of years of evolution have equipped us to delicately manipulate our environment through our sense of touch.
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This all-encompassing quality reveals a strong desire amongst students to understand and manipulate their environment .
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Second, the government can and does manipulate the environment , physical, economic and social, in which people live.
government
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The response of most governments has been to manipulate the economy in order to secure some trade-off between the conflicting economic objectives.
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The constitution creates an independent Election Commission to keep the government bureaucracy from manipulating voting.
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Other government regulations could be manipulated by thieves for their own advantage.
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This extreme version of the distrust of government has often been manipulated by the corporate sector to block passage of government regulation.
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They accused the government of trying to manipulate the composition of the conference.
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Second, the government can and does manipulate the environment, physical, economic and social, in which people live.
image
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The diet doctors at this seminar are learning how to carefully manipulate their image .
information
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So far, the computer has proved very efficient at storing, manipulating and processing information .
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All political regimes attempt to manipulate information as a means of social control.
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The ability to manipulate information , he implied, could be our very salvation.
level
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It enables users to create and maintain dynamic data models that are defined and manipulated at the highest level , by category.
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To manipulate the level of production also meant that the role of government must be enlarged.
market
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Critics claim that this concentration allows packers to manipulate the market , and in particular to force down the price of cattle.
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It is good to manipulate a strained back but bad to manipulate the market .
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But the marketing men at the mortgage lenders have shown their power to manipulate the market.
situation
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He would not be able to manipulate the situation at all.
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Being a photographer I understand how photographers can manipulate a situation .
system
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He emphatically denied that he had acted improperly or had manipulated the system to his advantage.
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Occasionally the inmate may manipulate the system , and the choice allows that.
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Pressurizing the refrigerant is what manipulates the system to collect heat from the appropriate area, depending on the season.
world
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Natural selection favours those genes that manipulate the world to ensure their own propagation.
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Given its vast capacity, it could manipulate the world price by adjusting output.
■ VERB
allow
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Like our own hands, those of most primates allow them to manipulate objects with a high degree of precision.
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Journalists allow the Saatchis to manipulate them again and again.
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Managerial control over information allows the railways to manipulate the public presentation of results to political effect.
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Critics claim that this concentration allows packers to manipulate the market, and in particular to force down the price of cattle.
learn
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She will learn to manipulate numbers through practice and repetition.
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This enhances the testing of ideas and the learning of how to manipulate the variable parts.
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They must learn how to manipulate what is not a predictable machine into something which resembles one.
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The diet doctors at this seminar are learning how to carefully manipulate their image.
try
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All my life I have tried to manipulate people - bend them to my will.
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There are ways of trying to manipulate even the sortes Biblicae, but he had meticulously and demonstratively avoided them.
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They accused the government of trying to manipulate the composition of the conference.
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She tries to manipulate people and succeeds with Mitch but can not manipulate the others.
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Dukakis seemed to be reciting words merely to try to manipulate voters.
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It was like when children try and manipulate you and their efforts are so transparent it makes you hate them.
use
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Most women are resigned to this and some use their martyrdom to manipulate their men.
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He was indifferent to the attention he received, calmly going about his business, never using his influence to manipulate others.
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They can, of course, also be used to manipulate boolean variables.
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Grounds and supports are used to manipulate the colour, texture and absorbency the artist wishes to use.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Babies investigate their world by manipulating objects.
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Developing a budget involves manipulating numbers and requires strong analytical skills.
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He's so crazy about her he doesn't realize he's being manipulated.
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He's such a nice man, I could imagine him getting manipulated into a situation like that.
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He accused the environmentalists of trying to manipulate public opinion in their favour.
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He managed to manipulate her into lending his company £500,000.
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Local people were unwilling to believe that police had manipulated evidence.
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Players manipulate characters on the screen using a joystick.
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Students were outraged that someone could use their newspaper to manipulate them.
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The images can be manipulated and stored on disk.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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How this rock widow and ageing wild child cons, manipulates and exploits the sharks makes for a delightful tale of revenge.
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Millions of years of evolution have equipped us to delicately manipulate our environment through our sense of touch.
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Printed exhortations can convey the same dehumanizing views; but print is limited in its manipulating power by the factor of delay.
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Sir C: I believe you speak of the practice whereby the political inclination of a parish is physically manipulated.
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The association defines a robot as a programmable device used either to manipulate or transport objects in a manufacturing process.
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The report does not allege that evidence had been manipulated to benefit prosecutors, the official said.
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This we might call the experimental activity, with the teacher acting as observer manipulating the techniques concerned.