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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an occupied country (= controlled by an army from another country )
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For many years, Egypt was an occupied country.
an occupying army (= one that is in a foreign country which they control by force )
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There was constant resistance to the occupying army.
keep sb busy/amused/occupied
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some toys to keep the kids amused
occupied territory (= land that is controlled by a foreign country or its army )
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America has always wanted Israel to give up some of the occupied territory.
occupy a position
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Those who occupy positions of power do not want democracy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
already
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No, her servant's quarters were already occupied .
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Clinton is the sixth president of the postwar era to win election to the White House while already occupying the Oval Office.
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The back of a hearse which is already occupied .
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Three of the four blocks of flats are already occupied and the remaining block will be completed shortly.
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Guards led us into a cell that was already occupied by a woman.
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The Diocese already occupies the premises as tenant, and no change of use is contemplated.
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But there seemed no one about who was not already occupied with his own legitimate business.
formerly
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Further down is the factory formerly occupied by Bassett Lowke, the world famous model-making firm.
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Much of the added land will consume an area formerly occupied by the 1, 000-foot-long Fleishhacker swimming pool.
fully
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Are not Earth's children fully occupied with human inventions?
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My mind was on my work, and I had never been more fully occupied .
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The four beds in the lying-in ward were usually fully occupied .
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He was always friendly enough, but seemed fully occupied with the bevy of young beach-boys who seemed to swarm around him.
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But I had many other interests which kept me fully occupied at the time.
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The reason that Leith did not immediately answer was that her brain was fully occupied .
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The department is extremely busy and all existing machine and labour capacity is fully occupied .
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Johnny was by now fully occupied with the fastenings on the controversial halter-necked garment.
now
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Once a casualty of war itself, now occupied by the peace keepers.
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So what did it mean, that the Communists now occupied the region?
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A biology student with a stutter now occupied the back room.
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The warehouse space has been renovated and is now occupied by a variety of new businesses.
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His position is now occupied by the ballerina and her partner or a soloist.
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The prison stood on the site now occupied by the Tate Gallery.
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The Efta states now occupy a position within a free-trade area, but outside Political union.
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Government troops have been defeated and the Khmer Rouge now occupy Pailin.
once
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These will include the building on the north side of the street that the Sixth Street Pub once occupied .
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Recently, the building once occupied by Pizza City was put up for rent.
still
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The building was still occupied , then.
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Through the late 1930s and 1940s, buildings were sold or left to deteriorate, though still occupied by stars.
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Present Hall built by Smiths of Warwick in 1690s and still occupied by the Cave family.
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They are still occupied by things like MIAs, prisoners of war, refugees, things of the past.
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Seven years after the Oslo accords several thousand settlers still occupy 40 % of the Gaza Strip.
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In fact, human workers still occupy the most critical jobs - those where judgment and evaluation are essential.
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The subject still occupied Charles's mind later that night.
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In agriculture, which still occupied 27 percent of the workforce, underemployment was estimated to be high.
■ NOUN
area
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Customs occupy a self-contained area within accommodation provided for freight companies requiring offices without warehousing.
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These tracts of greatest housing need and highest minority and low-income concentration occupy most of the area known as South Phoenix.
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Terri's personal space occupied an area roughly the size of Mull and therefore required vigorous defences.
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Regularly, where intensive cultivation succeeds, civilized people in the Far East occupy only small areas .
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Ingleborough's many tops, pavements and moors occupy a large complex area which takes many visits to really get to know.
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Though with its own entrance, the photographic Salon occupied an area tout a cote that reserved for painting and sculpture.
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It occupies an area of approximately 20 hectares and includes an administration block for the courts and associated administrative staff.
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The huge opencast Dixon's site currently occupies this area .
attention
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The consequence may well be the forms of bureaucracy that so occupy the attention of administrative reformers.
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Other questions occupy his active attention , but this is the constant.
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Project management is therefore a matter which should begin to occupy the attention of the various bodies involved in harmonization.
building
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May I ask who is going to occupy these buildings ?
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The bank already owns or occupies several building nearby, plus much of the adjacent site, which includes the NatWest tower.
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Hunt told Hall's Committee that it occupied seventeen different buildings of which seven were requisitioned during the war.
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It occupied an entire building and was similar in capacity to the programmable pocket calculator that one now buys at the stationers.
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The present Government, like its predecessor, has urged organisations and institutions occupying non-domestic buildings to reduce their fuel consumption.
centre
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Control of the money supply should occupy centre stage in the conduct of macroeconomic policy.
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The prime mover of all generation is said to be the goddess Necessity, who occupies the centre of the universe.
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Art occupies the centre from which nature is now absent.
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They appear to occupy the centre of the stage, but in what guise?
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The most important other piece is an upper torso of Athena, who occupied the centre of the gable.
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It didn't occupy the centre of the room, however.
chair
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He would have asked her to sit down but as he was occupying the only chair in the room he couldn't.
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Celestine, still steaming, occupied the easy chair , while Stafford sat by the table wolfing down a plate of leftovers.
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The leader of the council will usually occupy the chair of this committee or its equivalent.
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An old man had occupied the lipstick-red lounge chair beside her.
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Rev. P. Stewart was to occupy the Chair .
family
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Present Hall built by Smiths of Warwick in 1690s and still occupied by the Cave family .
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Sheffield lives across the street on a block where five of the six houses are occupied by family members.
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In any case, occupying families may also be victims of war.
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This is land recently occupied by 16 families .
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And in some ways that was the position she had occupied in her family .
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Here the houses would be occupied by one family and not by a dozen or more assorted tenants.
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The next house had been occupied by the Dear Family for several generations.
floor
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Troops occupy the top floors of several high-rise buildings in both north and west Belfast.
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Our offices when I began occupied two small doughnut-shaped floors in a building owned by Morgan Guaranty in the City.
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The institution occupies three floors of a former textile factory which is lit by windows on both sides.
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A drug store occupies the bottom floor , Petkus said, with refrigeration machinery installed on the second floor.
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It occupied the top floor of the hotel and allowed spectacular views of the city.
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Exhibit is free, and occupies the main floor , third floor and Special Collections lobby.
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No one stays visible for long as snipers occupy the upper floors of those buildings left standing.
forces
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A third of it was occupied by the surrendering forces .
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The occupying forces generally stay within their heavily fortified garrisons for fear of attack.
ground
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Catholic graves, ancient and modern, occupied most of the ground .
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It was large, occupying most of the ground floor of the house.
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Their origins and histories are varied, but all occupy ground that was previously glaciated and many are ancient.
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Apples grown in the integrated orchard occupied the metaphorical middle ground .
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It occupied the moral high ground and refused to budge.
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Mr Aznar has successfully occupied the centre ground .
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The key Labour politician, Ramsay MacDonald, was equally eager to occupy the middle ground .
home
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Small households that don't use much water but occupy homes with high rateable values could be much better off.
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Sales of previously occupied homes fell for a second straight month by 6.6 percent, the National Association of Realtors reported yesterday.
house
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At one time a fifth of the town was occupied by religious houses or mission centres.
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At the age of eighty-six, she occupied the largest house in the village, with the most sweeping view.
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Vitor might not have been aware that she occupied the house , yet he had amassed some items of information about her.
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Women orbited about surfers on the beach; they clung to them in cars; they occupied their houses in loose liaisons.
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The main cause is family breakdown; with divorce and children leaving home, one family may occupy three houses .
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Mrs Bujok and her family occupied a house as council tenants.
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Donald lived on the premises and occupied the house at the end of the yard.
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As the plaintiff had ceased to occupy the house , it was likely that she was not covered by insurance.
land
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Much more interesting are the larger complexes which occupy the vacant land immediately behind the main frontages.
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The Army was the first service to occupy the land at present-day Miramar and called it Camp Kearny.
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Jacob's dying blessing focusses on the distant future, when the descendants of these twelve will occupy the promised land .
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Crofting townships occupy this land which is largely fenced and comprises improved grasslands.
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So we decided to occupy some unused land owned by Don Juan Lopez, the big landowner of our region.
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The protest came after police, supported by soldiers, had evicted squatters occupying unused private land .
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Some farm workers on occupied land have been burned out of their homes which have then been looted.
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One of the first tasks of the Habsburgs was to induce settlers to occupy the empty lands .
mind
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They had other problems now to occupy their minds , as well as Balliol's whereabouts.
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But ah, how I need some more engaging puzzle to occupy my mind today.
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There are very many ways of course to occupy the mind and the techniques we describe are only a few suggestions for practice.
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It occupied his mind , too, shrinking his vision of the sea clock.
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So the season continued and the World Championships in Rome began more and more to occupy my mind .
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I feel it was important that the men had work to do that occupied their minds and bodies.
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She also had enough at Usher to occupy her mind without fretting about future possibilities.
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Temporary relief from worry and anxiety can be achieved by totally occupying the mind with something else.
owner
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That provision allows owners to evict tenants if the unit is to be occupied by the owner or an immediate relative.
part
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It's a completely different department from ours, but they occupy that part of the building for good reasons.
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Phoenix will occupy part of the offices of Automated Communications Inc., a long-distance switching company that it acquired last year.
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The viticultural zone occupies that part of Champagne known as the falaises or Champagne cliffs.
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Still, it is indisputable that numbers, facts, rules, and things occupied a large part of his mental universe.
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Her objective was to acquire Transylvania, and she now at once invaded that country and quickly occupied the greater part of it.
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The loss of activity Work will have usually occupied a considerable part of an individual's life prior to retirement.
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Midland Chandlers occupies a large part of the new shop.
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They are drastic pieces of legislation which should rightly occupy a large part of the time of the House.
percent
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It is said that private gardens occupy 3 percent of the land surface of Britain.
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Counselors in more than 60 percent of the schools surveyed estimated that these students occupied only 5 percent of their career-counseling time.
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Long- and cheap-haul facilities were vital in a poor country occupying 17 percent of the inhabited surface of the earth.
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When the slow waves occupy 50 percent or more of the record the subject is judged to be in Stage 4 sleep.
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In agriculture, which still occupied 27 percent of the workforce, underemployment was estimated to be high.
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Hummocky moraines Morainic drift with a typical hummocky landform occupies about 10 percent of the Outer Hebrides.
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They occupy about 50 percent of all hospital beds.
person
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Discomfort is easier to ignore if the person is occupied , and appears worse when attention is focused solely upon it.
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The preliminary enquiry of a seller as to what other persons occupy the property is one precaution.
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This was another case which homeless persons occupying temporary accommodation.
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The time had come for a deaf person to occupy it and Hudson's chairmanship therefore lasted only three years.
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But it was depressing, too, because he did not know a single person who occupied them.
place
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However, photography occupies a peculiar place among those activities, as pictures are themselves carriers of meanings and interpretations.
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We occupy a high place in this land.
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It came to occupy a unique place in constitutional law.
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Gandhi could have returned to the train and occupied a place in third class.
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In our wishful thinking about the 1960s, no figures occupy a more prominent place than the Kennedys.
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Two particulars simultaneously occupying two different places are in virtue of this very fact two different particulars.
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The usual group of shops occupies the market place today, with a new up-to-date health centre.
position
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There is a third position , one perhaps occupied by Rawls himself in his bleaker moments.
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Point-factor systems tend to emphasize paying people for the positions they occupy rather than the skills they possess or their performance.
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That is a curious position to occupy .
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His position is now occupied by the ballerina and her partner or a soloist.
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And in some ways that was the position she had occupied in her family.
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We have already alluded in Chapter 2 to the prominent position this occupied in earlier Chomskyan grammar.
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It is the position their family occupies in the hierarchy of their particular community in Britain.
premises
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The Diocese already occupies the premises as tenant, and no change of use is contemplated.
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At the London School of Economics the students had occupied the premises in February 1967 as their struggle intensified.
role
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Motor buses occupy a relatively minor role in the period covered by this volume.
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The regional managers occupy a crucial role in providing a strategic framework for management of the Teacher Placement Service.
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The organisation employs 13 employees, four of whom occupy management roles .
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Surprisingly, among the inside players the bureaucracy did not occupy a particularly important role .
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It is taken for granted that men do and should occupy the leadership roles and make the important decisions.
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Her long-term goal is the re-establishment of a society in which the Church once more occupies this central role .
room
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Although Joseph Hyde had occupied the room for nearly eight years, he had done nothing to personalize it.
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They occupied a room on the first floor for three hours before being evicted.
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Our residents occupying rooms are not as well integrated in the community as those who share.
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A biology student with a stutter now occupied the back room .
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Lucas had not occupied his room for six or seven years.
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Trippy occupied the front ground-floor room and a local Islington councillor lived in the basement.
seat
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Chalky footprints in the back of the car suggest two men joined Mr Abberley, occupying the rear seats .
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It came to occupy the seat of highest honour in their gospel.
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When they spotted my camera, polling officers hurriedly occupied their seats , but there were no voters to be found.
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But that is what has happened in Kent, where Conservative Keith Ferrin now occupies two seats on the council.
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I accepted the invitation to occupy the right-hand seat and play the role of captain.
site
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Solid carbon dioxide has a similar structure with the C02 molecules occupying the lattice sites .
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It occupies the site of a former school that was razed by fire.
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As they often occupy cramped sites , London Board schools are usually multi-storey buildings.
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The looms were used in local cottages, and warehouses occupied much of this site .
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A block of flats now occupies the site .
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Caldaire occupies the Grange Road site which has been earmarked.
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Some travellers occupy the site legally after a festival last weekend.
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Individuals then occupy particular feeding sites in the trees and there is competition for the best ones.
space
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Women are not only the embodiment of heavenly qualities but can also aspire t find and occupy a heavenly space .
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Formerly, it occupied a smaller space a few blocks south on Spring Street.
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Although it occupies much space , it is very tiny.
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He also will begin work on the unit he plans to occupy and on ground-floor spaces .
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Inside there were some long wooden huts which occupied almost all the space .
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As we used to say, and sometimes still do, she occupied her space .
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Four semi-roundels occupy the spaces between the arms of the saltire.
territory
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The cheaper RISC-based machines are likely to impinge directly on the territory occupied by the company's newly announced Pentium machines.
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For the Soviet Union, the return to any nation of territory occupied during the war would create a dangerous precedent.
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The resolution reaffirmed the dejure applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention to all territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem.
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Within the territory occupied by the Slavs were many non-Slavs.
thought
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Syd's health was the subject which chiefly occupied the thoughts of the majority.
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Marge, occupied with her thoughts , got in quietly beside her.
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It was a fancy which occupied their thoughts by day and their dreams by night.
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There remained the problem of how to occupy his thoughts as he followed the old man.
time
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Nurturing this side of the business - with dramatic success - has occupied most of his time for the past 10 years.
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To his left were the small eerie rooms inside boxes with which Susan was beginning to occupy her time .
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Of course, Alladice can occupy his time in custody by lodging any number of formal complaints.
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Key concerns are likely to be the question of money and how you will occupy your time .
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Their maintenance should occupy the time of the aquarist as little as possible.
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The castle was occupied until fairly recent times .
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Quite how Rex and Loi occupied their time in the forward cabin was a mystery.
■ VERB
continue
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Alongside the new-fangled blast furnace the traditional bloom process must have continued to occupy many people for short periods every year.
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Early into the strike, the university backed down, but a small core of radical students continued to occupy the campus.
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Yet, incredibly, young rabbits can continue to occupy another section of the same burrow system and thrive near the earth.
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Your clocks are equally valid only if you each continue to occupy an inertial reference frame.
keep
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She hoped they kept him occupied all day.
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Just enough flexing light to keep the room occupied .
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Inertia has kept the sites occupied , but functionally many of them are not related to their countryside surroundings.
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I try to be a cheerful person. Keep myself occupied .
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Ever since I was a child I've liked to be alone, to play alone, to keep myself occupied alone.
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Garry Shandling has a couple of film commitments that will keep him too occupied to work on the show.
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Meanwhile some men were kept occupied on poor veins in the Keswick area.
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It kept me occupied in otherwise hopeless situations.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Fishing occupies most of my spare time.
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Movie stars occupy the large suites on the third floor.
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The cafe occupies a single dimly lit room.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Agonists are substances which are so similar to a specific neurotransmitter they can occupy that neurotransmitter's receptor perfectly.
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Debates within the social sciences have occupied an intellectual space which has drawn upon both scientific models and the humanities.
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He, Kramer, occupied some uncertain position in the middle.
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The loss of activity Work will have usually occupied a considerable part of an individual's life prior to retirement.