verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
noblesse oblige
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
legally
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Because of this, the tobacco industry has been legally obliged for some years now to print health warnings on packets.
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Local authorities are legally obliged to record unmet needs and disclose details of these.
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Building societies are legally obliged to sell repossessed properties at the best possible price.
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But that is far from saying that the testator's son is to be legally obliged to carry it out.
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But county councils aren't legally obliged to provide facilities for travellers, and they can't use camps for gipsy families.
much
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Madam Deputy Speaker: I am much obliged to the hon. Gentleman.
■ NOUN
authority
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Compulsory competitive tendering will oblige local authorities to bring in managers who demonstrate their ability to deliver the best services to tenants.
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The newly introduced Environmental Protection Act obliges collection authorities to submit recycling plans for their localities.
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It has obliged local authorities to sell off council houses and has reduced the importance given to municipal housing.
law
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Companies are also obliged by law to stop sending mail to you if you ask them.
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After the judgment the Government was obliged to alter the law on the right to beat one's children.
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The travellers said that as gypsies the council was obliged by law to give them a camp site.
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Doctors are obliged by law to keep them alive while there is a chance of recovery.
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Gloucestershire County Council was obliged by law to draw up the register.
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In 1995, the Great Hural, or parliament, obliged by passing a law reinstituting last names.
noblesse
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Yet other friends point out that Rawls comes from an old southern family and has a patrician sense of noblesse oblige .
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But our noblesse oblige may be doing youths an extreme disservice.
■ VERB
feel
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Many grown-up people feel obliged by such considerations to continue to acknowledge the authority of their parents over them.
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The vendors, which depend on the tobacco firm for their livelihood, feel obliged to buy a table.
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Oh, and don't ever feel obliged to hide or apologise for your feelings.
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Once in the barn, Stewart felt obliged to follow through on the expedition by dramatically expressing undying love for Susan Mary.
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One day, perhaps, he would feel thoroughly obliged to drink it.
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To get elected, even incumbents feel obliged to run against the government and in favor of cutting their own authority.
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Jobs demand nearly all our waking time, and we feel obliged to give it.
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Some one who did not feel obliged to follow the letter of the law, or the instructions of the judge.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Compulsory competitive tendering will oblige local authorities to bring in managers who demonstrate their ability to deliver the best services to tenants.
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Copyholders were obliged to attend meetings of the manor court, and any changes in tenancy were recorded in the court rolls.
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For he was obliged now to concentrate on what he was doing, even if it was next to nothing.
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I shall nevertheless oblige him to dance for his own good.
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It was obliged to exploit its own resources, spiritual as well as material.
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Many grown-up people feel obliged by such considerations to continue to acknowledge the authority of their parents over them.
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Mobutu, of course, obliged, squeezing debt repayments from an impoverished people in his periodic bouts of structural adjustment.
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Under the 1982 Supply of Goods and Services Act, the shop is obliged to clean with reasonable skill and care.