adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a promising career (= likely to be successful )
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She gave up a promising career in advertising in order to look after her children.
a promising start (= a good start that makes success seem likely )
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Her teacher says she's made a promising start in learning Spanish.
bright/promising (= showing signs of being successful )
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Her future as a tennis player looks promising.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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Water-living animals, such as fish, molluscs, sea urchins and corals, are much more promising candidates for preservation.
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He'd seen something rather more promising than digital watches under Mr Schofield's work bench, something in a small bag.
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Pragmatism tells a more promising story.
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But there is another, perhaps more promising category of deterrent effect: general deterrence.
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Incidentally, after 18 ... f4 the retraction 19 a3 could be more promising than Timman's retreat.
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His father seemed a more promising candidate for that role and he had died a natural death.
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The other more promising line of investigation is to explore directly the nature of conversational interaction.
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The second looked more promising , if only because it was locked.
most
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The most promising candidates for such a role were the print workers.
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His own choice, Mikhail Vologsky, had proved to be the most promising candidate of the three.
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For quick accurate identifications the most promising keys are totally pictorial.
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There are always children on the waiting list and each year Cizek chooses the most promising pupils for his class.
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Biofuels and wind power are regarded as the most promising technologies, along with small scale hydro and tidal power.
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The latter part of the year looks the most promising , so remain calm earlier.
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Query expansion and user feedback during the search process appear to be the most promising routes to follow.
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About 3 million tonnes of good-quality reserves were defined at Loma Camstro, the most promising of the deposits.
very
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But arrivals follow departures and the new appears very promising - even if you have to wait a little time for it.
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The intermediate level of reconstruction, option two, reduced speeds and gave very promising results in accident reduction.
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It is a raw side but very promising , commented his brother, prop Massimo Cuttitta.
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The beta copy of ClarisWorks is very promising but it's too early to award it a best buy rosette.
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At first sight this was a very promising substance indeed.
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The centre has had a very promising first year with good uptake and usage rates.
■ NOUN
career
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Often a son or daughter will have been on the brink of a promising career when they developed their first symptoms.
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Tragically his promising career was cut short when he died in a plane crash during a freak snowstorm.
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Christopher Knox, defending, said yesterday Herron had lost a promising career .
result
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Although recognition of handwriting has received much less attention the task is simpler and promising results have been obtained.
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Vitamin A Palmitate shows promising results in after-sun products.
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The intermediate level of reconstruction, option two, reduced speeds and gave very promising results in accident reduction.
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The earliest studies designed to test this idea gave promising results .
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Recent work has shown promising results for tablets containing melatonin.
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A recent pilot study with combined laser treatment and radiotherapy in oesophageal cancer produced promising results .
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A very heavy indicator was tried with promising results .
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If the promising results of animal experiments are borne out, this technology could be used to cure diabetes.
start
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Louis Blom-Cooper and his team made a reasonably promising start yesterday.
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After a promising start , the campaign fizzled out in the summer when the full Co-operative Congress refused to back it.
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The astute Mr Quiles has made a promising start .
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Carrickfergus band Woodburne had a promising start to the season and took third.
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I went to the match on Tuesday and was a bit disappointed with it after the promising start at Man.
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It was merely interesting, somewhat pedestrian; not a promising start .
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Not a promising start , then.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Jonathan is one of our most promising employees.
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Matthew is a promising young dancer with lots of stage personality.
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My grandfather gave up a promising career in law to fight for his country.
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Peter gave up a promising career in chemical engineering to become a priest.
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The future looks promising for British companies abroad.
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The weather outlook for the weekend isn't very promising .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After working out with the region's most promising 12- to 14-year-olds, it was time for the main event.
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By ensuring that only the most promising designs enter the wind tunnel, it has made physical evaluation more cost effective.
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Louis Blom-Cooper and his team made a reasonably promising start yesterday.
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On stage, Euripides's plainness is both promising and exposing.
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Small farms were assigned to sons of noblemen and promising warriors, on condition they reported annually for military service.
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The intermediate level of reconstruction, option two, reduced speeds and gave very promising results in accident reduction.
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Toleafoa had been a promising junior when she joined the circuit full time, just over a year ago.
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With the soaring costs of producing meat and feedstuffs for cattle, the animal-plant hybrids may well have a promising future.