noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a nursery school (= for children under 5 )
day nursery
nursery nurse
nursery rhyme
nursery school
nursery slope
nursery/pre-school education (= for children aged under 5 )
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The funding will provide nursery education for all four-year-olds.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
local
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If you have trouble in finding exactly the same varieties, you local nursery should be able to suggest some good alternatives.
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Most children attend only part-time - morning or afternoon. Local authority nurseries charge, nursery classes do not.
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After attending a local nursery school, some children had been able to write their own names.
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Of the 3.5 million under fives in this country, only 1% can be placed in local authority nurseries .
old
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The old nursery became the parents' bedroom, with a dressing room for Corinne, and the children resented it.
private
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Enquiries are being made with regard to the setting up of a private nursery . 2.
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Joanne was 4 years old and attended a private nursery in a private housing estate within a large city.
■ NOUN
class
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Local authority nurseries charge, nursery classes do not.
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There were teams for the tuberculosis clinics, the general dispensaries, the homes for abandoned children, nursery classes and creches.
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In the nursery class , a semi-structured interview schedule was used, with ample opportunity for expanding answers.
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For the nursery class , the researcher studied and commented on the data and then discussed what emerged with the staff.
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He then takes Keith to his morning nursery class .
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Almost half were in nursery classes in school.
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A meeting of the education committee decided that the nursery classes should be transferred to the School Annexe. 5.
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Only the children in the school nursery class and the Village Hall nursery group will be invited.
day
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One of a pair of walnut medicine cupboards in the lobby between the bathroom and day nursery .
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There is a day nursery for toddlers and the Pirates Club for children from four to eleven years.
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Some of our Clubs operate a day nursery for the 2-4 year olds.
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Abandoning art after 1914, she established a number of clinics and a day nursery in east London during the war.
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Feminist arguments in favour of day nurseries were also conspicuously absent.
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Thus state day nurseries became confined very largely to the children of poor and needy parents, often single parents.
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The girls shared the night nursery , and the day nursery adjoining.
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The fete is at Elim day nursery , in Alvanley Road.
education
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Is he further aware that a problem exists in finding suitable financial resources for nursery education ?
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Are these the partnership circumstances in which we want children to receive nursery education ?
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First, a nursery education for all three and four year olds whose parents wish by the year 2000.
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Must they wait until they are four, and then go into part-time nursery education ?
nurse
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These take children only from the age of 3, and are staffed not by nursery nurses but by trained teachers.
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How nursery nurses and other students choose to use this knowledge is another matter entirely.
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We share the annexe base with nursery nurse students and staff.
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There are three full-time workers -a counsellor, a teacher, and a nursery nurse .
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He said Darlington College of Technology already provided one of the best nursery nurse courses in the country.
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A Labour Government would help nursery nurses progress after qualifying.
place
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Recent reports have shown the North leads the country in provision of nursery places .
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Five other locations throughout County Durham are also to be considered for extra nursery places .
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Labour planned to ensure a nursery place was available for every three and four-year-old whose parents wanted it.
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Mr Fallon said the Tories were committed to encourage the creation of nursery places but not just through local authorities.
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The cost of a childminder averages £90 a week, with a nursery place around £110.
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We will continue to encourage the creation of nursery places .
provision
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A petition signed by 2,500 people calling for better nursery provision was presented to County Hall in Durham.
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Such families would therefore have no legitimate claim to nursery provisions and other facilities.
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They should show up Tory authorities for not providing nursery provision .
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LEAs were busily extending nursery provision and running courses and projects.
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Best workplace nursery provision is to be found in the public sector - local authorities, hospitals and colleges.
rhyme
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Nursery rhymes A good nursery rhyme idea is Humpty Dumpty.
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They listen to stories, memorize nursery rhymes , look at picture books and gain other experiences that prepare them to read.
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More than 40 children aged between three and five turned up as their favourite nursery rhyme or story book characters.
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Among the lessons: Know your colors, shapes and nursery rhymes .
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He was, incidentally, the only applicant who hadn't named the drink St Clements, from the nursery rhyme .
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Quaint nursery rhymes defiled by crashing noise nightmares?
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This is a good idea for a nursery rhyme party where the eggs can represent Humpty Dumpty.
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The first team chooses a nursery rhyme and they all sing it together.
school
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Eighty pupils from Kirkby Malham Primary School have planted ash seedlings which they reared themselves in the school nursery .
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Only the children in the school nursery class and the Village Hall nursery group will be invited.
slope
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The nursery slope can be terrifying to the person on skis for the first time, and yet boring to the expert.
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But Ilkley Moor, however exhilarating for us townies, forms only the nursery slopes of the Yorkshire Dales.
teacher
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He is always pleased to see his nursery teacher but is terrified that she will think he is a naughty boy.
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In one instance a nursery teacher felt that she should praise a little boy every time he spoke to her.
unit
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Keith Mitchell, director of education, has recommended consideration be given to the new nursery units at the meeting.
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A nursery unit was built in 1977 and has two teachers.
workplace
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In addition, we have relieved employees from paying income tax on the benefit of workplace nurseries .
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The first idea she came up with was managing workplace nurseries for companies.
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In fact workplace nurseries are not suitable for most employers unless they employ a large number of staff in one location.
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The Prime Minister was quick to claim the credit for abolishing the tax on workplace nurseries .
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Then, bizarrely, he announced that the perk of a workplace nursery would no longer be taxable.
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This Government in particular took away tax relief on workplace nurseries .
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Best workplace nursery provision is to be found in the public sector - local authorities, hospitals and colleges.
■ VERB
open
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He opened his own nursery on a spot surrounded by the infant Ouse.
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Some camps have recently opened nurseries for women who wish to keep their children with them.
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David has opened a nursery at Misarden, specialising in old fashioned herbaceous plants and shrubs.
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Since 1986, ten councils have opened nurseries for their staff.
provide
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To back this up we provide subsidised nurseries and a dependent care allowance to those whose hours change at short notice.
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Looking like a Legoland space station, Ikea also provides supervised nurseries , free parking, restaurants and endless loos.
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They should show up Tory authorities for not providing nursery provision.
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Female wasps of this species dig burrows in the sand, to provide a nursery for their offspring.
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On Wednesday the county schools subcommittee will be recommended to consider providing 52 nursery places in an extension at Springfield Primary School.
run
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I was ready to run down to the nursery .
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There he had an official residence, but he continued to run his Whitechapel nursery , with another in London Fields.
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Another thing, she didn't feel she was good any more at running the nursery school.
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An executive from an international chemical company has given up the rat race to run a plant nursery .
set
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What they needed, they decided, was to set up a nursery themselves to gain a corporate reputation.
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Two years later he returned home to help his father set up a nursery , but the venture was unsuccessful.
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They decided to set up a nursery in the house and objections by Renfrew District Council were overcome.
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The breakfast set in the nursery lobby left-hand cupboard was donated by Miss Henrietta Wedgwood.
start
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And we've helped people to start their own tree nurseries and grow their own trees for firewood.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In the nursery she could do what she wanted when she wanted.
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It was a room that might, in time, become-a nursery .
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Such families would therefore have no legitimate claim to nursery provisions and other facilities.
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There was the nursery , the school-room, and the drawing-room: there were three lots.
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They need constant attention, constant vigilance, like a nursery of children.
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This keeps him happy until it is time to go to the nursery by which time she has cleared up the mess.