I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a computer screen/monitor
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Make sure your computer screen is at the right height.
closely controlled/guarded/monitored etc
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Political activity is closely controlled.
follow/monitor/chart sb’s progress (= keep checking it )
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Throughout the night, doctors charted his progress.
monitor a situation (= watch to see how it develops )
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The bank is monitoring the situation closely.
monitor pollution (= measure it )
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It is possible to monitor pollution from incinerator chimneys.
monitor sb’s performance
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The children's performance at school is continually monitored.
routine monitoring/screening/inspection
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the routine screening of milk for contamination
test/check/monitor the quality
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The equipment is used to monitor the city’s air quality.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
carefully
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The male now carefully monitors the temperature of the mound by prodding his beak into it.
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They chat about relationships and activities, while Levine carefully monitors Pieters for any sign of a viral offensive.
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Variations in joint commissioning practice between social services and health services will have to be piloted and monitored carefully .
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Patients' diets were carefully monitored also, to ensure that they had a low-calcium diet.
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Dosage and timing need to be carefully monitored .
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Regular reviews of progress will take place and students are asked to carefully monitor their own performance.
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All gauges are carefully monitored with regular readings taken to establish the performance of the engine at different settings and temperatures.
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Once a suitable agent has been found, progress should be carefully monitored .
closely
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Every batch produced is closely monitored by quality and process control departments.
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Researcher Gordon Wells monitored closely the talk 20 children from a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds engaged in at home and school.
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Conditionalities and controls must be effectively designed, applied to all involved, transparent in operation and closely monitored .
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Those patients who have the procedure are monitored closely in follow-up research.
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Livestock in the area had been closely monitored but little attention had been paid to wild fowl.
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Of particular concern to the industry is the company's agreement to more closely monitor gun distribution.
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Thyroid function in neuroblastoma patients treated with this compound should be closely monitored .
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People with Type 1 diabetes must closely monitor their blood sugar and take daily insulin injections.
constantly
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An on-board computer would constantly monitor approaching obstacles.
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Even during down times, players must constantly monitor their fuel supply or hunt for more.
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An electronic sensor constantly monitors the oil pressure in the arm and provides a break-back with auto-return.
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It will be constantly monitored and if conditions change too quickly it will automatically shut down.
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Staff are well trained and stores are constantly monitored by environmental health officers.
continuously
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But while those hotspots are continuously monitored by diplomats and the media, the Chechen misery prompts nothing but a deafening silence.
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The temperature of the animal was monitored continuously by a thermocouple thermometer in the mouth.
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We support the Select Committee's recommendation that air quality be continuously monitored around sites and the data made publicly available.
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Stack emissions, which are continuously monitored , meet the strictest standards in the world.
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Also, the equipment to monitor continuously and precisely pollutants at their source is in many instances not available.
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Finally, the air leaving site is continuously monitored to show that there are no significant chemical releases.
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Sites needed to be monitored continuously in order to pick up fluctuations.
■ NOUN
activity
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Once installed FAXgrabber can be configured to monitor fax activity automatically and to convert everything to text as soon as it arrives.
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These spy satellites were to be in place within a few years to monitor all Soviet military activities .
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Control systems which monitor the organization's activities and report on them, eg production output, sales revenue etc. 2.
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The participants are subjected to daily monitoring of activities by counselors, including frequent phone calls or visits.
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The agency monitors police activities and investigates allegations of cop misconduct.
agency
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An international agency could monitor compliance with international arms regulations, such as those banning the military use of chemicals and bacteria.
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The agency monitors police activities and investigates allegations of cop misconduct.
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For this reason, the report has recommended the setting up of new agencies to monitor government spending and environmental impact.
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In the meantime, the Medicines Control Agency is closely monitoring the situation.
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Even where society relies on private agencies to monitor regulations, society will probably want to set the standards itself.
authority
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Now authorities are having to monitor landfill sites, a process which is expensive and lengthy.
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But he said authorities will monitor mail addressed to offices in the National Press Building.
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The major problem with the new reforms and the disappearance of publically accountable health authorities is who monitors the managers?
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It's been told to improve the works by the National Rivers Authority which monitors pollution.
change
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For instance, they would be able to monitor day-to-day changes in the growth of crops or forests.
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The potential application of this technology to monitoring environmental changes that could affect the emergence of infectious diseases will be assessed.
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Regular print outs to monitor the situation change in format and name in late August from P11s to P13s.
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Provision is made for a follow- up survey to monitor changes during the period of the project.
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You can use the rating scale to monitor changes over time in your youngster's ability to cope with provocations.
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Its purpose then was to monitor changes in the environment worldwide, and engender popular environmental practices.
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Instead emphasis has been placed on monitoring temporal and spatial changes in tree health.
committee
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The final communiqué reported the decision to establish an observation committee to monitor the cease-fire as well as the forthcoming elections.
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An industry-wide committee will monitor the ratings from time to time to determine whether the guidelines are being followed.
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The committee monitored referral practice during the study but there was no reinforcement of the guidelines to assure compliance.
computer
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An on-board computer would constantly monitor approaching obstacles.
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It also serves as an on-board computer to monitor a variety of automotive functions.
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The contents of every breath the patient takes are logged in the computer monitoring his progress.
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At every warehouse, computers monitor stock levels and re-order from the factory when they fall below a minimum.
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But that was all, for the hibernation systems were useless with no computer to monitor them.
development
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It monitors new developments in brewing and serving beer.
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It monitors new developments in brewing and reports on such matters as ingredients and methods of storing beer.
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We will monitor the further developments and pronouncements of the several bodies presently addressing the subjects of corporate governance and accounting standards.
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We do hope that these documents will help you in your work of monitoring local developments - we would welcome your comments.
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Both the Government and the medical profession are monitoring developments closely.
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Arsenal are sure to monitor developments , but can obviously not match Seville's financial clout.
group
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The measures were introduced following consultation with the public and disabled groups and will be monitored during an 18 month pilot scheme.
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Another appointed group monitoring our water problems.
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But he revealed that details of a users and carers group to monitor implementation of community care would be forthcoming next month.
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Finally, many work groups will monitor productivity or efficiency measures.
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School groups monitor the performance of the shares throughout the academic year and write a report explaining their choices and decisions.
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The new understanding build on the 1993 agreement by establishing a five-nation group that will monitor alleged violations.
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In all the nine studies of monitoring , the number of cesarean deliveries was doubled in the group that was monitored.
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Such workers must be able to communicate orally and in writing, work in groups , and monitor their own performance.
health
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Clearly this is an attempt to impose a national screening and surveillance programme to monitor the health of older people.
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For such disorders, researchers can monitor the health of couples in whom one member is infected and the other is not.
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Public health , and monitoring the health status of populations, are part of the medical culture.
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You refer to a map and monitor your health and energy by viewing two bars on the lower portion of the screen.
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Sensor technology will allow clothes to monitor health .
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Staff are well trained and stores are constantly monitored by environmental health officers.
level
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We actively monitor sickness absence levels and record the amount of time that people are unable to come to work.
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The ethical standards of Wall Street have to be monitored at all levels .
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Overtime should be monitored to prevent excessive levels .
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At every warehouse, computers monitor stock levels and re-order from the factory when they fall below a minimum.
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Read in studio Scientists monitoring the level of solar radiation have warned people not to sunbathe without protection for more than forty minutes.
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Clause 70 of the previous Bill required the undertakers to install monitoring apparatus to monitor water level and quality for infectious diseases.
manager
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Industrial production managers also monitor product standards.
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Parents were supplied with an electronic time manager that monitored each household member's viewing time.
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Facilities managers also may monitor the work of maintenance, grounds, and custodial staffs, and travel between different facilities.
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These would be established by managers and engineers and monitored and enforced by inspectors.
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Technical control arises from work processes which allow the manager to monitor and intervene in the labour process itself.
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And even where an outlet could be found, the companies could seldom afford any kind of manager to monitor sales.
network
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The Garden will shortly be installing network monitoring software.
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Although it is already technically possible for network administrators to monitor Internet traffic, such tracking has been difficult to do.
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Of course it can also be used in a network environment to monitor disc usage of each user.
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If the compromised system is on a backbone network , intruders can monitor any transit traffic traversing between nodes on that network.
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Verio provides around-the-clock network monitoring and technical support with all promotional packages.
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Teams that have substantial capital tied up in computers or telecommunications networks may monitor computer usage or net-work usage.
patient
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Compliance was monitored by questioning patients and counting remaining capsules at each outpatient visit.
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At present the best way of monitoring these patients is by endoscopy.
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It is therefore not practical to monitor patients for long periods with this technique.
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Doctors would thus be able to monitor patients carefully without keeping them in hospital.
performance
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An independent regulatory body should monitor the performance of all operators.
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No longer, he said, will we monitor performance using the work standards.
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Non-government organisations monitor treaty performance and encourage participation in treaties to which they themselves can not adhere.
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Unless managers see the control process through to its conclusion, they are merely monitoring performance rather than exercising control.
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Building into such systems the ability to monitor their own performance and adapt appropriately.
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Such workers must be able to communicate orally and in writing, work in groups, and monitor their own performance .
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Regular reviews of progress will take place and students are asked to carefully monitor their own performance .
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And they lacked the information technology we have today to monitor the performance of contractors.
process
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Every batch produced is closely monitored by quality and process control departments.
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Shewhart was among the first to establish a scientific foundation for quality control and techniques for monitoring production process efficiency.
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She says there is an urgent need to monitor the process which leads to the decision to videotape.
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The computer controlled system, which will also monitor emissions, will process 4.25m tonnes of molten iron a year.
progress
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Clinical assessment for learners is a useful aid here in monitoring the progress achieved.
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Managers direct and monitor the progress of field or site construction activities, at times through other construction supervisors.
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You will however monitor , progress chase, instruct and communicate through paper.
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You make progress on the goals, and your supervisor stays involved to monitor and reward your progress.
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Again all good schools already monitored their pupils' progress , so how could one object?
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Sensors and gauges and meters silently monitor the progress of the dive.
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Mr. Rost Under the Electricity Act 1989, the regulator is directed to monitor the progress of combined heat and power.
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This meets informally each month to monitor progress and drive the agenda forward.
quality
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Every batch produced is closely monitored by quality and process control departments.
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But Roberto persevered, experimenting with foods, monitoring water quality , measuring growth, and observing the fish's habits.
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It's important to monitor your water quality using test kits on a regular basis.
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Each Compact will make its own arrangements for monitoring the quality of jobs offered.
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Project approval Once a project has been approved controls should be established to monitor its progress, quality and costs.
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Performance indicators are becoming more sophisticated as managers wrestle with the problems of choosing and monitoring appropriate measures of quality and effectiveness.
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Our new Health Quality Commission will monitor the quality of care and raise standards.
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Their primary job is to measure local health needs and monitor the quality of the service.
situation
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Perceptual skills by contrast are developments to do with the greater selectivity of information needed to monitor situations and guide actions.
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That state sent an environmental official to Narragansett to monitor the situation .
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Regular print outs to monitor the situation change in format and name in late August from P11s to P13s.
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U.S. troops could be seen monitoring the situation through binoculars and counting the rebels.
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Lord James promised to monitor the situation and to bring legislation forward if it were proved it was needed.
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Thus she monitored many clients whose situation was felt to be unstable, and she negotiated widely for other services.
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In the meantime, the Medicines Control Agency is closely monitoring the situation .
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The regulators monitored the situation but never became involved.
staff
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For registry staff to monitor effectively the accuracy and completeness of this operation requires detailed record-keeping and effortless access to data.
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The bare-bones staff assigned to monitoring these contracts allows for a mere annual visit to each company.
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The devices will allow national park staff to monitor rhino movements 24 hours a day.
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The use of overtime and the staff involved should be monitored to ensure compliance with the policy.
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It also calls for more funding and civilian staff to aid in monitoring and investigating abuses.
system
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Changes in the service system in Nottinghamshire were monitored using a wide variety of sources.
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Current systems that monitor infectious diseases domestically and internationally are inadequate to confront the present and future challenges of emerging infections.
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This would implant an electronic smart card in cars' engine-management systems , to monitor the quantity of polluting emissions.
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This automatic system monitors the position, closure rate and altitude of nearby aircraft, identifying potentially threatening intruders.
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Building into such systems the ability to monitor their own performance and adapt appropriately.
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However, existing systems to monitor these trends domestically and internationally are inadequate.
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Male speaker We've got to have a good system of monitoring with a liason committee.
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Additionally, the system automatically monitors the calls made by each room and provides a summary report on each guest.
use
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However there are no plans at present to set up an independent council to monitor the Government's use of statistics.
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The idea is that the insurer can reduce costs by monitoring and managing use of medical services.
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The crossing will be manned for two weeks after commissioning to monitor the safe use by drivers.
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Under managed care, the insurer paying the bills also monitors and limits the use of medical services.
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It is specifically designed to monitor employee use of the Internet.
■ VERB
allow
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This actually allows the lift maintenance monitoring organisations to know that the lift is out of action before you do.
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The facility would be allowed to monitor itself, subject to spot checks by the county.
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Topical steroid requirement - To allow monitoring , topical steroids were prescribed by the investigator.
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A third recommendation would allow pilots to monitor fueltank temperatures during flights by putting probes in the center tank.
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Technical control arises from work processes which allow the manager to monitor and intervene in the labour process itself.
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National plans in the developing world would allow monitoring of governments' priorities or failure.
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Sensor technology will allow clothes to monitor health.
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In many cases structures have been established which allow monitoring to straddle the subject related fault lines which exist at field level.
continue
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All radio broadcasts and church publications continue to be closely monitored by the government.
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He will continue to be monitored for the rest of his life.
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It will be important to continue to monitor these effects.
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Terminate use of tracer calls and continue to monitor the circuits for desired information. 10.
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Many of them have done so; many continue to monitor and amend them as situations change.
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The delay will not affect the outcome of the vote, as the ballot-counting process continues to be monitored by international observers.
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Mr. MacGregor I assure the hon. Gentleman that Customs continues to monitor international flights into the airport.
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Game and Fish will continue to monitor Lees Ferry closely.
enable
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Such recordings would enable them to monitor the effectiveness of certain maintenance and operational procedures by means of automatic read-out and computerised analysis.
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Professional discipline is aided by measures that enable professionals to monitor and correct their own work.
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According to founder and president Jim Ready, Xpert enables users to monitor the behaviour of code as its being written.
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Measurements of bismuth in serum samples during the trial enabled us to monitor whether significant accumulation occurred.
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There would be mechanisms to enable the Board to monitor the quality of service provided.
need
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Physical activities need to be monitored as sudden body contact or jarring of the head can bring about further dislocation.
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Hoppy says Russell would need some one to monitor him.
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What aid is given would need to be carefully monitored .
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Once a screening programme has been introduced, continued research is needed to monitor and improve screening performance.
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It should now be clear that you need to monitor the patient in order to know what to do.
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Of course, you do need to monitor people once they have been given their tasks.
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The golden rule is that if you have a chat room or discussion forum, you need to monitor it closely.
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We need to be monitoring for more data.
require
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Infusion of 50 to 100 mEq per 12 hours requires very close monitoring , usually in an intensive care setting.
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It requires fertility monitoring with ultrasound, and blood or urine tests.
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This will require you to monitor and record the point at which your client initiates a conditioned response within each scene.
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All these require monitoring to see the effects on our client group.
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If you do not so trust them, then correspondingly elaborate testing procedures are required to monitor their impact and effectiveness.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Army intelligence has been monitoring the enemy's radio broadcasts.
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Doctors monitored her progress during the night.
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Nurses constantly monitor the patients' condition.
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Satellite technology means that enemy airwaves can be monitored more closely than ever before
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U.N. peacekeepers will be sent to monitor the ceasefire.
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We will of course monitor the campaign to assess its effectiveness.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Assisting the anaesthetist to monitor the patient during anaesthetic and recovery to prevent complications to breathing and circulation.
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The ethical standards of Wall Street have to be monitored at all levels.
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The performance is then monitored and maintained in routine use by means of control charts.
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There would be mechanisms to enable the Board to monitor the quality of service provided.
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This now provides several new windows to monitor details of program execution.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
video
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Like nearly everyone else in the courtroom, he watches the images on a video monitor before him.
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Newscasts of the chaotic minutes after the attack flash across nine video monitors .
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Another set of ads may be running on the video monitor strategically perched above the pump.
■ NOUN
colour
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Obviously, the best visualisation will be achieved with a colour monitor but one is not essential.
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For a colour monitor , more than one bit is needed to describe each pixel, and there are two approaches to this.
computer
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Screensafe comes with two earth conductors one to be attached to the computer monitor , the other to the keyboard.
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But you can attach a keyboard or computer monitor to it, along with an optional floppy disk.
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The computer monitor verifies and records the healing process to its completion.
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The gauges and sonar screen are spread across the bottom third of the computer monitor .
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These tasks involve the use of different kinds of devices to control a display on the computer monitor .
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Ultimate Challenge Golf is easy to install, but requires a computer monitor capable of rendering 64, 000 colors.
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A good candidate for rescue is the computer monitor , if the owner is happy with it.
processing
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In Brossa's opinion, the transaction processing monitor market has matured considerably over the last eight years.
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Other DCE-compliant technologies shown at the exhibition included: Transarc Corp's Encina transaction processing monitor .
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SuperNova 3.1 includes new database interfaces and Unix System Labs' Tuxedo transaction processing monitor .
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Some technologies, Wendler believes, are irrelevant because of their relative immaturity, such as repositories and on-line transaction processing monitors .
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Its product line, including the Tuxedo transaction processing monitor , will be separate from Novell's.
screen
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Everywhere, cursors blinked and winked from monitor screens .
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On the small monitor screen his great external weapon was white-hot, seething, dripping molten metal on to the carapace below.
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He found her quietly working in her office, surveying the extent of her financial empire on a monitor screen .
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The colour seen on a monitor screen is named in the right-most column.
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Most of the readings taken were with exposures corresponding to a reasonably representative image as displayed on the monitor screen .
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At the centre, dispatchers keep track of taxis on monitor screens , which can display up to five cabs per pole.
television
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Their ordeal ended when a bank security guard spotted something suspicious on a television monitor and raised the alarm.
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He watched the daily proceedings on a television monitor installed in his hospital room.
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All of which meant that Sanchez watched the subsequent drama unfold from a television monitor .
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As the videotape played on two large television monitors , Davis stared straight ahead and never looked at the screens.
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A glance at the television monitor showed that the Chancellor was on his feet, replying to the brief debate.
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The three memory banks represent the red, green and blue components of the image seen on the television monitor .
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Following an invisible beam a miniature submarine hones in on the device, until it comes up on Simmo's television monitor .
vga
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A port is provided on the back of the machine to drive an external VGA monitor .
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The images can be viewed by a monitoring station with a standard personal computer and a VGA monitor.
■ VERB
help
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These specialist firms of financial advisers will also undertake to help monitor the fortunes of your Isa.
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TSMChange, which helps monitor and implement structural changes should be available by Christmas.
set
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A programme of action research was set up to establish and monitor EPAs.
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A new economic commission was set up to monitor the success of the austerity measures.
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A racial equality steering committee has now been set up to monitor discrimination in Darlington and the county as a whole.
use
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On a practical point I noticed that the colours weren't as bright on the low radiation monitors that I used .
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Hackers can eavesdrop using software that monitors packets sent over the network.
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Advanced remote viewers sometimes work alone, but they usually use a monitor .
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We never used the meter monitors as the eyes and ears of the police force.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a monitor that shows the baby's heartbeat
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a color monitor
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A security man was watching a row of monitors.
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milk monitors
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the same time, a canopy of strings induce sympathetic vibrations in resonant aluminum panels suspended between the monitors.
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I have a monitor which requires separate inputs for vertical hold, horizontal hold and signal.
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Ice monitors have been out drilling and measuring, and already the flat sea ice is strong enough to walk on.
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The monitor has four lamps which indicate levels of energy leakage, and an alarm sounds if hazardous levels are found.
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The gauges and sonar screen are spread across the bottom third of the computer monitor .
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The other is $ 2, 799 without a monitor .
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They put monitors on me, and injections in my arms.
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You spend hours staring at a monitor , so it should be a good one.