I. adjective
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get back to normal
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Life was beginning to get back to normal .
in the normal/ordinary course of sth
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His bravery was far more than was required in the normal course of duty.
lead a normal/quiet/busy etc life
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If the operation succeeds, Carly will be able to lead a normal life.
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He has led a charmed life been very fortunate .
live a normal life
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He’s not well enough to live a normal life .
normal circumstances
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In normal circumstances, a child’s language will develop naturally.
normal
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He was born with normal hearing but became deaf at the age of 11.
normal
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I think my childhood was fairly normal.
normal
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A normal pulse is between 70 and 90 beats a minute.
normal
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Short-sighted children may be unaware of what people with normal vision can see.
normal/abnormal
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They thought their son’s behaviour was perfectly normal.
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Were there any signs of abnormal behaviour?
normal/abnormal
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The test enables doctors to detect abnormal cells.
normal/standard procedure
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It’s standard procedure to take photographs of the scene of the crime.
reverted to normal
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After a few weeks, everything reverted to normal .
sb’s normal/usual/regular routine
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Although he'd gone, I continued with my normal routine.
the normal/usual pattern
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As soon as she could, she resumed the normal pattern of her life.
your normal/usual self
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When she came home at Christmas she seemed very quiet and not her normal self.
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■ ADVERB
as
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If that happens as normal , then the puffins have a better chance of survival.
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Instead, the problems were soon treated as normal , and eventually, as routine.
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The region is prey to drug and crime syndicates, and a cynical political class that accepts corruption as normal .
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The worst thing is that you start accepting this as normal .
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If your roll to wound is successful the individual receives not one wound as normal , but D6 wounds.
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And all this was insouciantly described as normal .
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This is recorded as normal vision.
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The streets of Baghdad functioned as normal Saturday, but people expressed fear of more air strikes.
more
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Half a century earlier his behaviour would have seemed much more normal and aroused much less criticism.
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In more normal weather, 98 percent of the San Joaquin is diverted for irrigation.
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The thing that made me feel he was more normal was this little bit of dialogue.
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Like most of us who grieve in more normal situations, they have to be asking themselves: Why this particular person?
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Cassie smiled weakly and said in a much more normal tone, It's in the cupboard, Jen.
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At certain points it can reach 10 feet but a few feet is more normal .
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It did not take long for the three to put the electricity back on, and at once everything seemed more normal .
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That would have been normal , surely; more normal than this chill she felt.
perfectly
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This startling discovery has supported the idea that cancer develops when a cell contains too much of a perfectly normal cellular protein.
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I called back, panicked, but the nurse told me that was perfectly normal .
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A perfectly normal canine went barking mad with lust when Lizzy pressed the printer.
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Peter was just two at the time, a perfectly normal child.
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A case of perfectly normal metastasis.
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It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money.
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This is perfectly normal when the body goes through the physiological changes which are often brought about by the Technique.
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Antecedent permission seems therefore perfectly normal .
quite
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He sounded quite normal when he phoned, just annoyed about the holiday.
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This was quite normal , and their professor had said there was no cure, but no long-lasting effect either.
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The walls were mostly slate, apparently quite normal , grained rock produced by a perfectly standard physical process of alluvial deposition.
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However, this language is not quite normal .
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It's quite normal in a way, I suppose.
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She would think it was quite normal .
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Women pastors have long been regarded as something quite normal .
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Six o'clock is quite normal , and if you're in the right area, pre-theatre specials are always good value.
■ NOUN
circumstances
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Who, under normal circumstances , wouldn't have?
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Under normal circumstances barred owls do not frequent built-up areas.
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It was also, under normal circumstances , free of serious risk that the quarry would fight back.
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So under normal circumstances , it would have stopped before running one wheel up on the side of the rock.
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Under normal circumstances , such as those which have pertained there for at least 685 years, it would hardly have been worth investigating.
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Under normal circumstances this is as fair a valuation method to both parties as can be achieved.
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In normal circumstances , of course, I would not dream of doing this.
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Under normal circumstances you will be carrying an unnecessarily heavy and bulky camera.
course
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He just had to let things run their normal course .
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His command of a heavy cruiser followed the normal course for promotion to flag rank.
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What is the normal course of progression of addictive disease?
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With that in mind, the president may ultimately decide to let the appeals process take its normal course .
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In the normal course of events, the registration continues unless and until it is cancelled by the Society.
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To begin to answer these questions, we first explore the normal course of human language development.
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In the normal course of conversation I wouldn't talk about politics, I'd talk more about shagging.
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Marketable securities, accounts receivable, and inventories are continually being converted into cash in the normal course of business.
form
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This transitive dependency should not exist in third normal form .
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In its normal form the gene, called p53, appears to act as a sentinel against excessive cell growth.
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Fig. 3.24 First normal form First normal form: The first stage of normalisation includes the filling in of details.
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In these species, head-butting is the normal form of fighting.
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Fig. 3.27 Third normal form Relations are normalised because unnormalised relations prove difficult to use.
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Some may require the full power of a normal form , while some can be derived directly.
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The third section identifies a number of situations where such equivalences can arise, and develops a normal form for finite programs.
level
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At normal level but cold and clear.
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In the fourth quarter, premiums went back to their normal levels .
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The real measure should be whether selection is significant against normal levels of background variation.
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Experts say it would take years of equally historic rainfall to get water supplies back to normal levels .
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Therefore, the lighting that had been installed to provide a normal level of additional illumination could not be described as plant.
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Eastern winds have brought what had been fair sport back to a normal level for the time of year.
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Gloucester, the amount of ammonia was more than fifteen times the normal level .
life
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She had enough nerve for anything in her normal life but this contact with crime was different.
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In the ocean they live to be 40, double their normal life expectancy in captivity.
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But you can't stop that child from living a normal life .
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A few of the very best analysts, months into their new jobs, lost their will to live normal lives .
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Harry will probably get over his affection for Lucy once we return to a normal life again.
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In the case of a normal life interest trust the trustee expenses will reduce the taxpayer's total income.
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Though leading outwardly normal lives , many from the Kindertransporte were still subject to emotional repercussions long into adult life.
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You may feel that you have suddenly been excluded from normal life .
people
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The two men have never had any disagreements that normal people couldn't sort out.
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The characters are not exaggerations, but normal people with a Texas flavor.
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To get away from the fog, to be with normal people again.
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This situation can cause them to store away more fat than normal people , and can eventually lead to diabetes.
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But big-beast politicians aren't wholly normal people .
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There may be no reason for normal people to go to such extremes.
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The Piaroa leaders, the ruwatu, take more skills of wizardry within themselves than normal people .
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In doses far below those used for anesthetic purposes, ketamine makes normal people become acutely psychotic.
practice
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The management of Disinfection Disinfection in normal practice presents a challenge to management.
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But the new law failed to change normal practice , and such cases remained rare.
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This is a normal practice where, for instance, the night porter books in a guest after reception has closed.
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The normal practice is to appoint two or more directors, one of whom is the company secretary.
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I gather this is normal practice but I find it a little unreasonable.
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It is normal practice for the heads to specify that each party will be responsible for the costs of its own advisers.
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For others the wearing of nightclothes may be contrary to their normal practice .
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It is normal practice for the definitive sale and purchase agreement to be drafted by the acquirer's solicitors.
procedure
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They say it's normal procedure at other Universities to wash contaminated materials like rubber gloves and glass containers.
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This is normal procedure inmost research institutions.
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Under normal procedures the Supreme Court would rule on the motion before the 1992 presidential elections took place.
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It appears that he was spared the normal procedure of having his fingerprints and photograph taken.
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This is normal procedure and need cause you no concern.
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An army spokesman said that the security vetting of personnel was a normal procedure in all defence forces.
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It is the normal procedure in the vast majority of cases.
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On appeal he was found not guilty because he was carrying out a normal procedure approved by the medical profession.
range
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How can I keep within the normal range when this sort of thing happens?
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They have since returned to their normal range .
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The indices examined all improved significantly to within the normal range after one year on diet.
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Uricosuric agents generally do not lower uric acid levels below the normal range .
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An average figure is about seven heads high, but anything between six and eight heads is well within the normal range .
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Men in their 60s and 70s often have testosterone levels in the low end of the normal range for young men.
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Serum creatinine, amylase, serum asparate transaminase, and serum alanine transaminase were within the normal range .
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The transparency measures, also within the normal range , were similarly unremarkable.
self
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I was not my normal self ... I felt very deeply for him.
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With men other than Hank he was his normal self , or better.
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She looked defeated, quite unlike her normal self .
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But when nobody was there she changed to her normal self again.
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Just not like my normal self at all.
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Perhaps it was the contrast between this creature and my normal self .
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For some reason he is angered out of his normal self and clearly Ana is miserable.
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Jekyll is his normal self again - at least, he was until last week.
subject
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The normal subject displayed only short bursts of reflux with a maximum duration of four minutes.
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About 80 percent of normal subjects make this error.
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Data were compared with those obtained in 18 normal subjects .
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Panel A shows the basal state before any administration of fluid to a normal subject .
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In this study, we found platelet activating factor in four of 13 normal subjects .
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This meal was designed to include many reflux provoking foods to maximise postprandial reflux in normal subjects .
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Recent studies with ambulatory pressure monitoring systems indicate that an appreciable number of non-peristaltic contractions are commonly found in apparently normal subjects .
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In normal subjects in the fasted state segmenting pressure activity is low and little transit of marker is seen.
way
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We seek to make such discussions as different as possible from the normal way in which we work.
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Now that's the normal way we think about things, and it makes a lot of sense.
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Once you have worked out which models have been struck by the mortar work out damage in the normal way .
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The points cost of these special characters comes out of your Character points allowance in the normal way .
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We call upon everybody... to continue their work in the normal way .
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And the hair that looked as though it had been dramatically carved out of something shiny rather than been grown in the normal way .
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Drift has been allowed for on the outbound leg in the normal way and 1 minute has been flow outbound.
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On completion the repair is primed and painted in the normal way .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as per usual/normal
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Besides which, you've missed the point as per usual: to speak is to admit existence.
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Same old jolly camp-fire life went on as per usual.
be common/standard/normal practice
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It is normal practice for the definitive sale and purchase agreement to be drafted by the acquirer's solicitors.
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It is normal practice for the heads to specify that each party will be responsible for the costs of its own advisers.
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It is normal practice for the purchaser to order a survey for two reasons.
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It is normal practice for the vendor to disclose various documents to the purchaser as part of the disclosure exercise.
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Motorcycles would be kept out by barriers at each end - this is normal practice for cycle/pedestrian paths.
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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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This is standard practice , but such an event is unlikely.
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Whatever the circumstances, it is standard practice in embryo transfer to introduce several embryos at a time.
in the normal course of events
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Your copies of the books will follow in the normal course of events and should be with you soon.
the usual/normal/general run of sth
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Anything of quality was exciting in those days, for the usual run of food was of a dullness today hardly comprehensible.
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Credit taken by the general run of consumers - those not in an extremity of financial need - was not specially regulated.
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In the normal run of things I would have had no business there, no access.
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It has been designed to be different from the usual run of the mill international tax conference.
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It ought to be said that this particular extract poses more difficulties than the normal run of parish registers.
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This, however, was not the normal run of things.
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What should we do when confronted with claims which are conspicuously at odds with the general run of experience?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a normal healthy baby
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Any normal boy of his age would be interested in football.
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Don't worry if Mike seemed rude - that's normal for him.
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Her breathing was normal , but she had a very high temperature.
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It's normal for young children to misbehave sometimes.
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It is quite normal for children to be afraid of the dark.
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It may have seemed unusually cold recently but experts say it's normal for this time of year.
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It used to be normal practice to live at home with your parents until you got married.
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It was a perfectly normal flight until the plane suddenly started to shake.
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January 2nd is a public holiday in Scotland, but in England it is a normal working day.
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Once the pain has gone away, you can resume your normal activities.
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She went to bed at her normal time of eleven o'clock.
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The new Ford looks like any normal car, but it has a special advanced engine.
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They seemed like a perfectly normal family.
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Tides will be six feet above normal this afternoon.
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Under normal conditions, a number of plants grow well in aquariums.
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When you start a new job, it's normal to feel somewhat overwhelmed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And with her body positioned at a slight incline, her spine benefits from the normal force of gravity.
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But when electrical storms roll in, nothing is normal .
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Donna, this is normal on a night when we have to work.
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Everyone else is completely normal at Leeds.
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Initially the child uses one-word sentences, but his or her language facility expands quickly given normal social interaction.
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It is envisaged that much of the assessment will be done by teachers as an integral part of their normal classroom work.
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The normal adult size is about seven inches.
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This represents a £20 saving on the normal brochure price.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
above
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Medium Range Outlook Mostly sunny skies and temperatures slightly above normal is the expected weather over the next week.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as per usual/normal
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Besides which, you've missed the point as per usual: to speak is to admit existence.
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Same old jolly camp-fire life went on as per usual.
be common/standard/normal practice
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It is normal practice for the definitive sale and purchase agreement to be drafted by the acquirer's solicitors.
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It is normal practice for the heads to specify that each party will be responsible for the costs of its own advisers.
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It is normal practice for the purchaser to order a survey for two reasons.
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It is normal practice for the vendor to disclose various documents to the purchaser as part of the disclosure exercise.
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Motorcycles would be kept out by barriers at each end - this is normal practice for cycle/pedestrian paths.
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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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This is standard practice , but such an event is unlikely.
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Whatever the circumstances, it is standard practice in embryo transfer to introduce several embryos at a time.
halfway decent/normal/successful etc
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And you need to be halfway decent and honest and real.
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Discs viable, a second halfway decent act was required.
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Reading about that stuff, downing really halfway decent coffee.
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Sefelt has pulled back halfway normal, swelling up and down with big wet, rattling breaths.
in the normal course of events
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Your copies of the books will follow in the normal course of events and should be with you soon.
the usual/normal/general run of sth
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Anything of quality was exciting in those days, for the usual run of food was of a dullness today hardly comprehensible.
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Credit taken by the general run of consumers - those not in an extremity of financial need - was not specially regulated.
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In the normal run of things I would have had no business there, no access.
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It has been designed to be different from the usual run of the mill international tax conference.
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It ought to be said that this particular extract poses more difficulties than the normal run of parish registers.
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This, however, was not the normal run of things.
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What should we do when confronted with claims which are conspicuously at odds with the general run of experience?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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These patients will always be slightly shorter than normal .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In Texas, and all across the Southwest, rainfall this year is as much as 70-85 percent below normal .