verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
immediately before/preceding sth
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I can’t remember what happened immediately before the crash.
the previous/preceding chapter
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The method is described in the previous chapter.
the previous/preceding generation
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He was the equal of any of the previous generation of great explorers.
the previous/preceding month (= the month before )
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Sales were lower than in the previous month.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
always
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The well-known symptoms of hypoglycemia almost always precede the loss of consciousness.
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The money season always precedes the quality season, as summer precedes fall.
immediately
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A representation of the superficial aspects of the immediately preceding text is also used in the interpretation of both kinds of anaphors.
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Yet in the days immediately preceding , there still is the feeling that the crowd has not yet arrived.
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Far more hoards have survived from both these relatively short periods than from the immediately preceding or succeeding periods.
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In other words once the first element has been selected every subsequent choice is determined by the element immediately preceding it.
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Adjustments are considered in the light of experience of the immediately preceding cycle.
usually
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There was none of the careful preparation and gradual introduction which usually precedes the adoption of a child beyond infancy.
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I could feel the pulsing of veins that usually precedes entry into a forbidden, private realm.
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Remember that antecedents are events that usually precede the problems and consequences usually follow them.
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Those clouds usually precede low-pressure systems..
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The act is usually preceded by feelings of anger, self-hatred, and sometimes depression.
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The unpleasantness is stressed because it is usually preceded by an enjoyable activity - eating a meal.
■ NOUN
chapter
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But the world of chapter 26 is not only familiar to us from the preceding chapters of Genesis.
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Could the kinds of experience we have described in the preceding chapters be systematically developed?
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Some of those goals have been discussed in the preceding chapter .
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The preceding chapters have outlined many of the likely areas of difficulty.
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Such entitlement should be included in the plan I have proposed in the preceding chapters .
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The orientations of the political culture identified in the preceding chapter remain.
days
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Our recommended insurance doesn't cover diving, and please don't dive in the three days preceding your return home.
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When I work too hard, my husband reminds me of a moment in the days preceding our marriage.
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Yet in the days immediately preceding , there still is the feeling that the crowd has not yet arrived.
death
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I wondered if it might be an admission of mortality, an agreement that as birth precedes so death must follow.
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He was preceded in death by his parents.
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He was preceded in death by sisters, Eunice Benke and Delores Foster.
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They were preceded in death by their grandmother, Mae Pilon.
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She was preceded in death by a brother, Alvin.
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She was preceded in death by sisters, Eleanor and Leona.
event
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Remember that antecedents are events that usually precede the problems and consequences usually follow them.
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Two events preceded and fed the protests.
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These include the events which precede it and the way in which the patient's feelings develop.
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I am writing this letter in order to humbly ask your forgiveness for the events preceding my internment here.
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The events that immediately precede a strike are more accurately defined as the factors which serve to precipitate the ensuing conflict.
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Walking down to the newsagent's in the village I ran through the events of the preceding evening again.
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Any single act is embedded in historical events which preceded the act, making such an act possible.
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Computed tomography indicates that vascular events can precede the symptoms of multiple sclerosis and that death of nerve fibres occurs considerably later.
meeting
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The summit was preceded by a meeting of Foreign Ministers, which had opened on Nov. 8.
month
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You had been lawyers on an important case that was tried the month preceding .
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In the six months preceding the survey, 40 percent of them had spent £18 or less on textbooks.
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Body weight was stable during the three months preceding the study.
period
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In Britain these anxieties, warnings and qualifications intensified in the period of debate that preceded the 1867 Reform Act.
war
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But in the years preceding the outbreak of war it had become by far the largest single retailer.
week
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Entries this year were slightly down, but you wouldn't have known it during the week preceding the start.
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It was the week immediately preceding May 21st which interested him.
word
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If the source marker precedes the quoted words , the reader is to some extent prepared.
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Within the diagram the root index of the word is indicated by preceding the word with £.
years
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But in the years preceding the outbreak of war it had become by far the largest single retailer.
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A lot of gargoyles have deteriorated more in the last 70-80 years than in the preceding 200 years because of the pollution.
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The result has been to destroy much of the progress in health care over the years preceding each dispute.
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That the respondent has deserted the petitioner for a continuous period of at least two years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition.
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That the parties have lived apart for at least five years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition.
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Annual wage increases for manufacturing workers ran at around 20% for the three years preceding 1990.
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Stocking knitting had been removing to the east Midlands from the last years of the preceding century.
■ VERB
follow
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To a Marxist-Leninist, control of resources is power; the monopoly of political power follows from this rather than precedes it.
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They can be difficult to find, and may follow , rather than precede , a relevant purchase. 4.
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Historically, successful monetary unions have followed , not preceded , political union.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A planning session at 11:30 will precede the noon lunch discussion.
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In English, the subject precedes the verb.
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On vehicle license plates in the UK, the numbers are preceded by a single letter.
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The bride and groom preceded the family out of the church.
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The fire was preceded by a loud explosion.
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The first chapter was preceded by a brief biography of the author.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even preceding events had proven how mistaken they were.
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In other words, music precedes the idea.
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Intention movements are activities that tend to precede some other activity, which is presumably why they often evolve into signals.
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Involvement of other mucosal sites preceded, coincided with, or followed the manifestations of the gastric lymphoma.
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It was miraculous that so tender and fragile a creature had emerged from the violence of the preceding day.
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Pay attention to the medical cautions that precede each tape.
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The preceding discussion suggests that the operation of Keynesian fiscal policy should pose few problems.
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There had been intensive campaigning by the proponents of each city over the preceding months.