adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
open
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Warning: none of these are officially open to the public.
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Another review will be required before it can officially open .
sanctioned
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A few concerts were organised in connection with national holidays - for example on railworkers day or at officially sanctioned Youth parties.
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Tolerance exists only for officially sanctioned ideas.
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The trader gives his orders by open outcry and officially sanctioned hand signals.
■ VERB
accept
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Margaret had now officially accepted General Francis as her next case.
acknowledge
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This is patently not an area that has been officially acknowledged .
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The city has never officially acknowledged the losses of the displaced residents and their descendants.
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It had become aware of the blossoming void long before the situation at Princetown was officially acknowledged .
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Although evidence of its existence has been growing since the mid-90s, no government has officially acknowledged involvement.
announce
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It was from Camilla Parker-Bowles and had been written several days before the engagement was officially announced .
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At least after her pregnancy was officially announced on November 5, 1981 Diana could publicly discuss her condition.
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Clinton and Vice President Al Gore have yet to officially announce their candidacy.
approve
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BGovernment officials say it is unlikely that anything will stop the project from being officially approved as early as January.
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The controversial legislation has not yet been officially approved by Parliament.
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Surveys had shown that many consumers mistakenly believed that these had been officially approved .
become
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Edenderry, hitherto a small village in the parish of Seagoe, became officially part of Portadown in 1840.
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As the army and the navy became officially involved in the conquest of California, the major fighting shifted to the south.
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There are dangers in becoming officially accepted.
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After the conference, I decided not to do any more personal interviews until I officially became president that December.
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Last week, you officially became a candidate for the White House when you appeared on the primary ballot in California.
begin
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The All-Star break officially begins Friday, but the Clippers' extended weekend is coming just a few days too late.
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Campaigning for municipal, legislative and presidential elections due in October and November officially began on May 23.
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On June 24 the election campaign will officially begin , lasting four months until the voting in November for the Constituent Assembly.
call
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Apparently the movie has to be officially called off in some way and that takes time.
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The Pap smear is officially called the Papanicolaou Test, after the doctor who invented it.
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Load management, as this remote switching is called officially , is already practised by industrial consumers.
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Following the transfer of power the opposition parties officially called off their agitation programmes and urged a return to work.
close
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Four hours after the fair had officially closed , there were still six women waiting to have their palms read.
confirm
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The club has officially confirmed the appointment nineteen days after Liam Brady resigned the position.
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The newspaper's further claim that the police funded an Inkatha rally in January 1991 was later confirmed officially .
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After the musical interlude, Gijssen declared himself satisfied and the time out was officially confirmed .
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Last night pressure was mounting on Buckingham Palace to officially confirm or deny the claims.
declare
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Once a child has written a bit of text, we can officially declare him an author.
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Two days later, war was officially declared .
describe
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It commemorated two arrests in 1961, in Jefferson Parish, for what were officially described as crimes against nature.
end
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My own training had officially ended and I had, for the past 36 hours, been in pre-race mode.
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Parliamentary elections are scheduled for March 3 -- more than a year before the Socialists' term officially ends .
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The Jubilee 2000 campaign, which officially ended last week, has been an extraordinary achievement.
give
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Although the national turnout was officially given as 60 percent, the elections were marked by a high rate of regional abstention.
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The population of Hong Kong is officially given as 5.7 million, however it is probably around 6 million.
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His birthday is officially given as 19 May 1890.
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Its magnitude is officially given as below 9, so that it should be invisible with binoculars.
inform
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On 27 November the Cabinet was accordingly officially informed of the whole matter for the first time.
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Although shop stewards held a meeting yesterday, union organisers had not been informed officially of the authority's move.
know
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This means that they were officially known to be the only copies in any library in Britain and possibly in the world.
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Very little was officially known about any of them.
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It is not officially known whether this is attributable to the greenhouse effect or natural climate variability.
launch
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This week Rover is officially launching its new executive car which will be made at Cowley.
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But the speech officially launches a seven-week campaign that pits Riordan against state Sen.
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This tax relief will no longer be available to new buyers of waiver of premium once the stakeholder is officially launched .
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That announcement came as the Reform Party officially launched its own petition drive to win Texas ballot access in November.
recognised
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This has now been officially recognised and it is expected that extra student places will be provided to make up the deficiency.
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They suggest that the disease is likely to be far more widespread than is officially recognised .
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This emphasis on its international business was officially recognised by a change of name to John Stork International.
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Their relationship to the officially recognised Liberal, Labour and Tory parties has been close.
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Clearly, where the State decides to draw this line determines how many are officially recognised to be in poverty.
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Yet although the problem is officially recognised , workers may not know the risks, say researchers.
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The right for their tenants' association to be officially recognised .
recognize
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The role that Zaballeen waste recyclers of Cairo play in keeping the city clean is now at last officially recognized .
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After years of persecution by colonial rulers, Orisha worshipers only recently had their religion officially recognized by the government.
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The remoteness that tourists value has long been officially recognized in the mountains as an affliction.
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Slavery was officially recognized as an institution in colonial laws by the 1660s.
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The preservation was officially recognized by the Congregation of Rites in I 835.
record
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Rather criminal activity as officially recorded is by and large a masculine activity, but one in which women do participate.
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The toll was never officially recorded .
register
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And Simpson has moved aggressively to protect those trademarks, even before the government officially registers them.
release
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They should not be officially released until they are in their final form.
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The analysis was never officially released , because the data were incomplete, the agency says.
report
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Her last officially reported earnings were nearly $ 23m in 1997.
retire
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Couldn't they have waited just another couple of weeks until he had officially retired at the end of the month?
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Not that it ever officially retired , mind you.
sanction
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Blacks knew that every peaceful march and favorable court decision was being answered with acts of officially sanctioned violence.
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Beyond the category of leaks described above exists a second category: the officially sanctioned leak calculated to produce a specific effect.
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The live ammunition that I experienced was not officially sanctioned as being hazardous enough to be included.
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At best, this organization achieves a grudging, superficial conformity to officially sanctioned patterns of thought and action.
start
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The campaign has already been in full swing for several months, even though it has not officially started .
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All clubs received a letter warning them against organising practice or trial matches before the season officially starts on 1st September.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Officially , Carter resigned, but everyone knows he was fired.
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At that stage, Britain and Germany were still not officially at war.
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The changes to borders were officially announced in the European Parliament.
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The details of the reforms are to be released officially next month.
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thirty square miles of woodland that has been officially designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
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Three players were officially reprimanded for fighting on the field.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although he is now officially bankrupt, the underworld mastermind still has a multi-million-pound property empire.
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Experts are now being called out to check this tress vital statistics, and establish it officially as a record breaker.
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In effect, it officially condoned segregation.
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Now we had to get the document that would officially make us husband and wife.
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So far, although Pottz was now officially numero uno, he still hadn't actually won in Hawaii.
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That makes me officially not part of the exalted Baby Boom generation.
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The motorway will be officially opened at the end of the month.
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Wanuskewin Heritage Park officially came into being in 1989 via an act of the Saskatchewan Legislature.