noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
clear
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Finally, it should be clear from the outset what sort of information the survey is designed to elicit.
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The chant was deafeningly clear from the outset .
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It was always part of the process whose importance was made clear at the outset .
very
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Many of those anomalies were identified by my colleagues at the very outset of the poll tax escapade.
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Those talks failed from the very outset .
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You must be clear in your mind from the very outset why you are reading.
■ VERB
establish
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This establishes at the outset for both parties the criterion for evaluation of work done.
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It should be established at the outset that many large blue-chip companies do not actually use search at all.
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A structure to the assignment should be established from the outset .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But at the outset there is always great harm.
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Fourthly, from the outset it is important to be sure that there is agreement with the patient about what is planned.
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Hennepin and La Salle, whose subsequent westward expedition he was to join, struck sparks off one another from the outset .
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I was fairly ignorant of Third World literature at the outset and in many respects still am.
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Prosecutors suspected from the outset that Stoner had fled the country.
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Recognising sharp practice in their dealers from the outset , they would be less likely to blame them for huge losses.
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Stanford used some physical play inside and the playmaking of point guard Brevin Knight to take the lead from the outset .