noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unlikely scenario/occurrence
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They should build a new road, but that’s an unlikely scenario.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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daily
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The visits to the beach became an almost daily occurrence , as Roberts searched for aurochs, oystercatchers, or crane.
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Grenade attacks have become an almost daily occurrence .
everyday
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Using such cash will eventually become an everyday occurrence for us all.
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These next applications deal with everyday occurrences , and neural networks are playing a part in each of them.
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What he wishes to do is to establish through everyday occurrences the realization within you of his existence.
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Demos to outsiders, if not an everyday occurrence , were not unusual.
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It was so long ago that it happened - it's an everyday occurrence now, people battering and killing children.
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Sailors needed an everyday heavenly occurrence .
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It was an everyday occurrence for the gentry to bed maidservants.
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They took near-disaster as an everyday occurrence , which it probably is.
frequent
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Because of the frequent occurrence of kept, this causes difficulties in quantitative analysis.
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Gingival hyperplasia is a frequent occurrence , especially in children and young adults.
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Playground fights at my London comprehensive, an austere archetypal 1960s building near Marble Arch, were frequent occurrences .
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Before the established use of surnames a recourse to nicknames was almost necessary and certainly of very frequent occurrence .
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However, complex eigenvalues and vectors are of frequent occurrence , and require special consideration.
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Worse, a spokesman for the Treasury implies this is a frequent occurrence .
rare
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This is probably a comparatively rare occurrence for small mammals, but it certainly does occur.
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A knock on this door, up here on the fifth floor, especially at night, is a rare occurrence .
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In practice parents' associations are incredibly supportive and these problems are a rare occurrence .
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The Millers said bears in the camp are a rare occurrence .
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Clearly, crime is not a rare occurrence , but it is hidden methodically, and this raises problems for research.
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This was, of course, an extremely rare occurrence .
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Policy analysis needs to be concerned with a flow of interrelated policies, with abrupt changes of direction a comparatively rare occurrence .
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You depict rare occurrences - like Westerners paying for foster children to visit their affluent country - as a major problem.
regular
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The skilful dealer represents such rare gains as a regular occurrence .
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Stoudamire erupted for 31 points in the kind of performance that has become a regular occurrence against the Rockets.
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Children do not appear on memorial brasses until the 1420s, though by the 1450s they were a regular occurrence .
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In our postindustrial economy, spontaneous cooperation is a regular occurrence .
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Parents and children are acutely vulnerable under circumstances of compulsion and emergency which are regular occurrences in residential admissions.
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Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers are of regular occurrence amongst these trees.
unusual
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She, with her brother and sister, slept that night with the Grimsdale family, a not unusual occurrence .
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It is the same attitude he now carries with him on the sidelines, which can lead to some unusual occurrences .
■ VERB
become
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Using such cash will eventually become an everyday occurrence for us all.
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Stoudamire erupted for 31 points in the kind of performance that has become a regular occurrence against the Rockets.
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The visits to the beach became an almost daily occurrence , as Roberts searched for aurochs, oystercatchers, or crane.
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Grenade attacks have become an almost daily occurrence .
explain
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It is, therefore, highly unlikely that imitation of adult models can explain their occurrence .
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It is not a theory invented to explain particular occurrences in the world.
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Such a model would be able to explain the not uncommon occurrence of people with six rather than five fingers.
prevent
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With less severe colonic damage, terra fullonica was able to prevent the occurrence of systemic endotoxaemia.
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Workers need to understand how quickly human tissue freezes, and the necessary precautions to prevent its occurrence .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Earthquakes are an unusual occurrence in England but are not totally unknown.
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Vicious fights and arguments were a daily occurrence in the shipyards.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Different patterns of clinical involvement with genetic transmission or sporadic occurrence are recognised.
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Gingival hyperplasia is a frequent occurrence , especially in children and young adults.
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Indeed, such predictions might be described in terms of the probability with which their occurrence may be estimated.
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It might not be the first occurrence , she realised.
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Nor were such executions isolated occurrences.
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The helium would seep up through fissures, and hence its natural occurrence near the hot springs.
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The key type and format should be assessed, to decide on the occurrence and frequency of runs of keys.