I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
car/motor insurance
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He was fined for driving without motor insurance.
inboard motor/engine
motor car
motor home
motor neurone disease
motor pool
motor racing
motor scooter
motor vehicle
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This road is closed to motor vehicles.
motor/car/aircraft etc spares
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a shortage of aircraft spares
outboard motor
starter motor
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
electric
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I wonder: is there something wrong with the electric seat motors or should they sound like they have sand in them?
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While submerged, batteries power an electric motor that drives the propeller.
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Problems with the electric motor caused the mechanism to jam many times.
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The shell raising and lowering mechanism was overhauled and a new electric motor fitted with modern gearing and cable adjusting devices.
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The cells will drive electric motors and use on-board hydrogen gas as fuel.
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It is this force that translates electricity into rotation in an electric motor .
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Close at hand, an electric motor began to whirr, and Floyd felt himself moving.
migrating
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These repetitive simultaneous pressure waves usually occurred together with the lower oesophageal sphincter component of the migrating motor complex.
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Normal motility of the small intestine in the fasting state is characterised by the cyclical appearance of the migrating motor complex.
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Recently, a rectal motor complex that is not synchronous with or related to the migrating motor complex was reported.
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The migrating motor complex consists of a cyclical period of activity with a length of about 120 minutes in man.
outboard
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There were many anchored wooden boats with large outboard motors , but strangely, there were few fishing nets.
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He has asked us to buy him an outboard motor instead of giving cash.
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Foot steering of the outboard motor means that military users can keep both hands free to use weapons.
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All he needs is an outboard motor to go with it.
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It was cleaned, its seats and cockpit replaced, and a steering wheel, controls and outboard motor installed.
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The two of us, maybe some others, are going to hire a boat with an outboard motor and perch rods.
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The answer is an electric outboard motor .
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Went outside this morning and saw Noel pissing on the outboard motor .
sensory
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In the fields of mental energy, these exist as the sensory and motor indriyas, as we have discussed.
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During this stage, behavior is primarily sensory and motor .
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So the sensory and motor indriyas of all creatures are closely integrated within the mind structure of a creature.
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The sensory and motor indriyas are an integral part of the internal mind configuration of all living creatures.
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This involves a substantial intercalation of neurons to form an association area between the sensory and motor parts of the elementary brain.
small
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It also contains four small motors to separate the boosters from the shuttle about two minutes into the flight.
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Mabuchi Motor, a maker of small electric motors , serves 70 percent of its customers with only 20 different products.
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A new car may contain as many as 115 small electrical motors and have three miles of wiring.
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I pass the lock-up garages and the grease-blackened signs that indicate some small motor repair workshops.
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The arm juts out of a ball, and is connected to a couple of small motors .
stepping
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A stepping motor control program flowchart is shown in Fig. 6.11.
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Accurate load positioning: static torque characteristics 3.1 Introduction Most stepping motor applications involve accurate positioning of a mechanical load.
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The hybrid stepping motor has two phases which are excited by positive or negative currents.
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The motor is basically a closed-loop hydraulic control system which derives its input from a small conventional electrical stepping motor.
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These dips occur in many stepping motor systems and are caused by mechanical resonance in the motor/load combination.
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These secondary flux paths produce mutual coupling between the phase windings of the single-stack stepping motor .
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As an example Fig. 8.3 shows the flowchart for the control of a two-phase hybrid-type stepping motor by an eight-bit microprocessor.
■ NOUN
accident
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That was a case which arose out of injuries in a motor accident .
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He was called in at short notice due to the unfortunate motor accident involving Design Director, Bill Naysmith.
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They had two sons, the elder of whom died in a motor accident in 1960.
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That summer of 1959 Elizabeth's son, Renny, was appallingly injured in a motor accident .
activity
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In contrast, infusion of taurodeoxycholic acid at these concentrations inhibited ileal motor activity .
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This shows the presence of a humoral inhibitor of ileal motor activity .
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These findings suggested that bile and taurodeoxycholic acid directly inhibited ileal motor activity .
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Figure 1 illustrates the effect of infusion of rabbit bile into the ileal lumen on carbachol stimulated motor activity .
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Non-deglutitive motor activity of the oesophagus is usually considered to be a sign of disordered motility.
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Figure 1 summarises motor activity at all stages of the experiments.
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It also inhibits motor activity induced by rectal distention and increases sensory thresholds for defaecation in patients with the irritable bowel syndrome.
bike
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I've been back loads of times and I keep seeing this man on a motor bike .
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But for some reason I can not remember, it was impossible to get permission to ship the motor bike .
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Unfortunately he was hit by a motor bike .
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The plaintiff was a pillion passenger on a motor bike driven by the defendant.
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Others roared over the sands in newly-designed Land Rovers, on revolutionary dune buggies and motor bikes .
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From a safe distance he saw him rev up a motor bike and ride away.
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It turned out that Dana had simply left his old motor bike on the quayside before embarking on the ship.
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Your second-hand motor bike was always breaking down.
boat
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The porpoises delight in riding on the bow waves of motor boats , which has frequently proved to be a fatal mistake.
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We clung helplessly to the upturned optimist until rescued by the instructor with a motor boat .
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The harbour is used by local fishermen, yachtsmen, motor boat and rowing enthusiasts.
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Northwich Northwich is an unpowered narrowboat which was towed by horse or a motor boat .
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What was the best method of disabling a motor boat , temporarily, at least?
car
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The latter now choose to use what they regard as the more salubrious transportation of the motor car or the aeroplane.
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There is now a very efficient motor car on the market with a wooden chassis.
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The development of the motor car is an excellent example of these shifting standards and expectations.
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And there, bumping and jolting its roaring way up the track towards the house was a motor car .
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It was he who had provided Eric with Mussolini's motor car and a chauffeur.
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Motability, the organisation formed for the purpose, now has a fleet of over 350,000 motor cars on the road.
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He has achieved little since November besides getting to know the gadgets in the presidential motor cars .
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Consider a person purchasing a new motor car .
cycle
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He opened the throttle, blasting the motor cycle broadside into the culvert.
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He dropped the gangplank over the stern and wheeled the motor cycle down.
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Many top speedway riders will be pitting their skills in the National motor cycle grass track meeting.
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He scrubbed out the map with his boot before remounting the motor cycle .
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We already have a car, motor cycle and bicycle lined up, but we need some one for the bus and train.
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Some of their multi-cylinder motor cycle engines have pistons little bigger than thimbles.
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When we came to Préfleur I asked Jean-Claude if he would teach me to drive the motor cycle .
function
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The effects of serotonin on gastrointestinal motor function are generally believed to be mediated through myenteric plexus neurons.
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Colonic motor function has also been investigated with electromyography, the electrodes being attached to the mucosa in the intact human.
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Thus research into colonic motor function remains a challenging and potentially rewarding area where progress has been facilitated by recent technological advances.
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Acid clearance time is a useful index of impaired oesophageal motor function .
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The genesis of abdominal pain or disordered bowel habit is generally ascribed to abnormal colonic motor function .
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Despite research contributions for many countries the normal and pathological motor function of the colon remains poorly understood.
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We conclude that autonomic neuropathy can affect motor functions throughout the gastrointestinal tract.
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The relations between dopamine and motor functions were analyzed.
industry
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In the aerospace and motor industry contexts, composites use different components but deploy them to similar ends.
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Parts Another of its larger contracts involves the movement of car parts to and from the motor industry in Coventry.
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The first is the wide variation in specification and finish that are standard practice in the motor industry .
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Today due to the decline in the motor industry , it's a shadow of its former self.
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Typical areas of investment by foreigners were the motor industry , cement and tobacco production, and, increasingly, gold-mining.
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But the new Accord comes at a crisis time for the motor industry .
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We are participating in a number of oil and motor industry programmes that are addressing key environmental issues in our markets.
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Furthermore, what support can he give to the motor industry ?
insurance
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If you want to suspend this policy you must send your certificate of motor insurance back to us.
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Switch from comprehensive to third party motor insurance if your car's value has fallen far enough.
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It specialises in motor insurance and has doubled the number of policies it sells each year as well as moving into household insurance.
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By 1990 motor insurance had kept in line with average earnings and risen to £223.
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With motor insurance zooming in cost, this could give you a valuable saving.
manufacturer
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Their many satisfied customers include gas and electricity companies, motor manufacturers , circuit board makers and steam railway maintenance organisations.
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It says that it has been urging motor manufacturers to make cars more secure since 1961.
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The real villains of the piece are the motor manufacturers .
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Electric motor manufacturer Team Rewinds has taken on Mike Osman, 49, in the newly created post of works manager.
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A motor manufacturer needs to retain an airline for the short notice movement of components, bulky and/or high value.
neuron
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The nervous control of the gill withdrawal reflex is a simple unit of one sensory neuron and one motor neuron.
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When the sensory neuron is stimulated, it fires the motor neuron, and the siphon and gills are withdrawn.
neurone
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Patients' records with a diagnosis of motor neurone disease at any position on the record were identified.
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In addition, help is required for motor neurone disease patients with swallowing disorders.
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I have had motor neurone disease for practically all my adult life.
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It was a very great shock to me to discover that I had motor neurone disease.
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But he suffers from motor neurone disease and needs twenty-four hour care.
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The findings presented here can provide only indirect evidence about any possible adverse effect of cimetidine on motor neurone disease.
racing
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They're angry the motor racing team hasn't been able to improve on the reportedly £7million offer to tempt him back.
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But this beautifully illustrated book also provides a wonderful series of anecdotes from Edwards' life in motor racing .
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Sponsorship is important for such sporting activities as: golf, football, cricket and motor racing .
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Mansell has not embarked upon his twelfth full season in Grand Prix motor racing .
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In all respects, 1976 was an extraordinary year for Master James and for motor racing .
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It was one of the least gracious occasions I recall in my years in motor racing .
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A family link with Bira and Chula, the racing Siamese princes, pushed his interest towards motor racing.
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One of the greatest partnerships in motor racing was formed in 1964 when Stewart and Ken Tyrell teamed up.
rocket
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Without losing any time, she leaned forward ready to start up the rocket motors .
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Last summer, Thiokol reported singeing of O-ring seals located in the nozzles of rocket motors after consecutive launches.
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A particularly simple form of rocket motor uses solid propellant.
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The plant makes and tests rocket motors , but doesn't have enough new orders to keep going.
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After one second, controls in the nozzle of the rocket motor start steering the missile on to the proper trajectory.
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The sound of the rocket motors died away.
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A rocket motor failed and the spacecraft did not reach its intended orbit.
show
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The Birmingham motor show attracted 656,702 visitors.
sport
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Outdoor pursuits, photography, watching motor sport .
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There are two people Mario always said had the deepest influence on his life in motor sport .
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Get on the grid for live motor sport coverage!
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So how does it feel, Mosley was asked, to control world motor sport ?
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Was this man running for president of the top body in world motor sport ?
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I have known others like Jackie, not in motor sport but in other areas.
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He has also been able to indulge his interest in motor sport through his work for the Order.
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The Prodrive motor sport team in Banbury has taken on one of its most testing projects yet.
starter
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My Fiat Panda has a similar ignition fault which I have diagnosed to be a disengaged starter motor .
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The electric starter motor whined shrilly.
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The turning of the car's starter motor was an ugly and unwelcome sound in the stillness of the forest.
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Working with Cadillac engineers, Kettering created the starter motor , using the flywheel to turn over the engine.
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The starter motor worked perfectly and soon became a much sought-after Cadillac feature quickly adopted by all car makers.
trade
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He gave the impression of having little time for the Member, despite Grunte's many years spent in the motor trade .
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The motor trade is still in a very precarious state, with many dealers just treading water and others going bust.
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Any fiscal measures dampening demand for new cars will only increase unemployment in the motor trade .
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Only motor trade , legal expenses and professional indemnity covers are not available.
trader
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The latest survey was conducted between March 13 and April 8 and was completed by 520 retailers, wholesalers and motor traders .
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He and a motor trader got together to deceive the finance company.
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It would arise if the motor trader were the agent of the finance company in dealing with the customer.
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Career motor trader and garage owner.
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The holder of the licence must be a motor trader , vehicle tester or vehicle manufacturer.
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He and the motor trader filled in the usual forms.
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Retailers, wholesalers and motor traders all expect their businesses to become worse over the next three months.
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She went to a motor trader who told her this could be done.
vehicle
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Proof that the motor vehicle required a test certificate is often overlooked.
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They are largely removed from motor vehicles by catalytic converters.
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He sat back in the motor vehicle as the Doctor noticeably increased the speed of the journey.
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However, there are more substantial differences in the number of motor vehicles visible.
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The answer is, of course, to reduce the number of private motor vehicles .
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Has he had any discussions with motor vehicle insurers?
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I have included all accidents involving at least one motor vehicle , sometimes these will also have included pedestrians or cyclists.
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The study by the California Air Resources Board attributes the improvement to strict emission controls on motor vehicles and factories.
yacht
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Sheets in, he bore away from the motor yacht .
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This one concerned a motor yacht making a run with spirits from the Channel Isles.
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Sailing yachts 31-53 feet, motor yachts 37-46 feet, plus an extensive range of crewed sail and motor yachts 42-120 feet.
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By Cairnbaan only three motor yachts had puttered by.
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White-hulled, she was a sleek ninety-foot Baglietto motor yacht .
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Easing Golden Girl up under mainsail, Trent watched the motor yacht roll gently in the swell.
■ VERB
drive
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And driving a motor caravan is a real pleasure with more than enough power to keep on going.
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The cells will drive electric motors and use on-board hydrogen gas as fuel.
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The signals received by the loop and the sense unit also drive a motor which turns the loop.
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As a boy, he briefly jammed his finger into gears driven by that motor .
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Solar energy is converted by cells on the Solar Car's flanks to drive its electric motor and recharge its back-up batteries.
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No deduction is made in respect of the joint portion because, for example, one can not buy or drive half a motor car.
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When we came to Préfleur I asked Jean-Claude if he would teach me to drive the motor cycle.
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Tins can be an important consideration in applications where the power available to drive the motor is limited.
produce
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Engineering is not a glamorous pursuit, nor does Swindon produce the final glossy motor car which might lure potential workers.
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The phase current can not be maintained at its rated value and therefore the torque produced by the motor is reduced.
start
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Without losing any time, she leaned forward ready to start up the rocket motors .
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Slim Gordon started the motors and they were off, taxiing into position.
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Despite the bitter night he lowered his window before starting the motor .
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This could have had unfortunate consequences, so we started up the motor and went on towards the beach.
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Lord Beverley helped me up into the passenger seat and began the long business of starting the motor .
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Not worth starting up the motors .
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Sweetman, safe under Dream Baby's canopy, was starting his motors .
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Grant starts the motor and makes soup of the jellyfish.
use
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Expresspost is a fast messenger collection and delivery service available in London using radio controlled motor cycles and vans.
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The scanner accepts one sheet of paper at a time, which it pulls through the keyboard using a tiny motor .
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I used to do this with my more experienced pilots using the Falke motor glider on the runway at Lasham.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I got out of the car but left the motor running.
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Just then, the motor failed and the boat began drifting out of control.
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The ceiling fan is powered by an electric motor .
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The fan's motor made a funny popping sound.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Lord Beverley helped me up into the passenger seat and began the long business of starting the motor .
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The circuit only sends the motor an impulse when the sensor's output is different from the required setting.
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The heavier the motors, the bigger the batteries needed to power it.
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The supply also had to power some huge electric motors, and some of these were constantly switching in and out.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
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Motor cars are rarely called motor cars.
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A few years ago, it was motor cars and the computer age.
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In the 1960s planners even proposed to fill in the Grand Canal to allow motor cars to drive down it.
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The early post-war years saw a rapid rise in prosperity and with it a desire to own motor cars .
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There are fifty times as many Singer sewing machines as motor cars in Koraloona.
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The Wall Street crash of 1929 did not mean the end of radio or prevent the spread of the motor car .
home
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McLaren started the trend a few years ago by bringing along a motor home which, when parked, then expanded skywards.
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The Black Hills: winding roads, motor homes , smell of gift-shop candles.
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As the motor home culture exploded, the Oxfordshire company moved easily into this luxury market.
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Two years ago he sold it to Harley-Davidson for an undisclosed amount of money and a 30-foot motor home .
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Coming out of the motor home , she is staggering.
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The thing is, a lot of people find a motor home vacation more enjoyable.
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Among them will be a pair of motor homes , one for the team and one for the engine manufacturer.
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He is not, however, selling his old motor home .
oil
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In Ugaraspitiya, residents said armed men poured motor oil into ballot boxes.
pool
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We stayed with our chargers, in the motor pool .
scooter
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He drove the motor scooter through the school playground and then to the Presbyterian parking lot.
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Bob Darnell lives and breathes motor scooters .
skill
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A child with good perceptual motor skills will effortlessly copy the sentence on the blackboard on to the paper at her desk.
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But a child with poor perceptual motor skills has to separate out each step in her mind.
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Memory for motor skills is often called procedural memory.
strip
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And a stroke that suddenly killed perhaps 30 percent of the neurons in the motor strip would also cause paralysis.
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It showed a tumor in the frontal lobe in a very awkward place: close to the motor strip and language areas.
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Humans have a lot of prefrontal cortex, compared to dolphins, whose motor strip is far forward in the brain.
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Neurons discharging in the cortical motor strip cause focal movements of the contralateral extremities.
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Alongside the motor strip , but just to its rear, is the sensory strip.
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The texts show typical maps of the sensory strip and the motor strip, but patients exhibit a lot of variability.
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George must have stimulated the motor strip .
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And the motor strip is part of the frontal lobe, forming its rear border with the parietal lobe.
system
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To do this, infants use their motor systems to produce a variety of purposeful actions and behaviors.
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So much of schoolwork in the early grades involves the motor system that it is easy to overlook other areas of competence.
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To help him learn to regulate his motor system , games that combine slow and fast movements work well.
vehicle
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Where motor vehicles are concerned, the problems are different.
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Later, I learned that not one of these men owned a motor vehicle .
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Will we see one day the government insisting that games have time limiters the way that some motor vehicles have speed limiters?
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More people are surviving, experts say, because of improvements in trauma care and motor vehicle safety.
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BHouseholds in the West also had the greatest risk of property Bcrime, which is theft, motor vehicle theft and burglary.
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For several decades the number of deaths resulting from motor vehicle accidents per 100, 000 population has increased.
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The country's economy relies on high added-value sectors such as electronics, pharmaceuticals and motor vehicles .
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The bill also would restrict the release of Social Security numbers by state motor vehicle departments.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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motor oil
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a motor vehicle
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The disease results in impaired motor function.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A sound like a brief, deep blast from a motor horn was the only response.
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But isn't it time insurance companies started to treat home insurers the same way as motor insurers?
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Coming out of the motor home, she is staggering.
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For several decades the number of deaths resulting from motor vehicle accidents per 100, 000 population has increased.
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Later, I learned that not one of these men owned a motor vehicle.
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McLaren started the trend a few years ago by bringing along a motor home which, when parked, then expanded skywards.
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Some economists feel deep disquiet at the use of food grains to produce motor spirit.
III. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
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Ships embrace their own scenario, the sea; and so do motor cars and teapots.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I motored out to deeper water.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Then the breakers were all astern and Terrie was coming round to starboard to motor up the back of the reef.
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True, motoring has a few drawbacks.
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We then motored rather quickly across to the bay and got the rods into action.
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With epic nonchalance I motored north.