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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
angrily
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Bergsson reacted angrily , pushing his head against Pearce's and then grabbing the controversial full-back by the throat.
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The Usenet community reacted angrily , saying that sort of thing was banned by Usenet custom.
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Farmers reacted angrily to the proposals for mass slaughter of sheep.
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Does a father react angrily when his tired, overwhelmed twelve-month-old flails out and hits him on the nose?
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But the Prison Officer's Association has reacted angrily .
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But Powergen bosses have reacted angrily to the new council demands.
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If you react angrily or aggressively, your child may do the same.
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When Citrine revealed the proposal to the Area Board chairmen, however, they reacted angrily .
badly
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But it reacted badly when he started on examples of government action to extend opportunity.
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Some mares react badly and their reproductive cycles cease or are disrupted.
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Chances were she would react badly .
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Do you react badly to criticism at work?
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They don't like it too hot in summer and they react badly to over-watering.
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Bird lovers reacted badly to earlier attempts to control the birds by poisoning them and removing nests.
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Others began to react badly to various chemicals at about the time they developed candidiasis.
differently
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Even the same person reacts differently on different occasions, depending on how fit they are and on other circumstances at that time.
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The letters upset them both, only they reacted differently .
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Had they been given a more accurate picture of what was actually taking place, would they have reacted differently ?
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Private-sector representatives reacted differently but were hardly less bitter.
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Most of our congregations contain a multiplicity of people who react differently to different kinds of musical expression.
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Individuals who lost their faith reacted differently .
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It takes time to react differently .
immediately
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Next time the phone rings or there is a knock on the door, just pause for a moment instead of reacting immediately .
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When they are broken, react immediately but calmly.
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A piston engine reacts immediately to power, just like a car.
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Nelson Mandela, who was not in court, reacted immediately , insisting that his wife was innocent of any crime.
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You react immediately and hit the pad with a perfectly timed technique.
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These scouts need to be aware of new fashions as they happen so we can react immediately .
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Nizan did not react immediately , however.
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In addition, they often reacted immediately , while gastrointestinal symptoms were commonly manifested later.
negatively
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Not all employees are going to react negatively to a relocation abroad.
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Are you starting to react negatively to a person or situation?
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The bond market also reacted negatively to the budget impasse.
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Their pollsters have warned that the public understandably reacts negatively when told health benefits may be slashed.
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But the stock market did not react negatively to the news, taking its cue from the bond market.
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When this happens, your fellow employees often avoid you or react negatively to your behaviour.
positively
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Forth River Purification Board reacted positively yesterday to the reconsideration of the regional role.
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Wall Street reacted positively to the earnings report.
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Even my highly regrettable tendency to react positively whenever the fridge door is opened was proof against that.
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Always both groups reacted positively to any change in the test group conditions in whatever direction.
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Civil rights groups also reacted positively to the changes, but Sinn Fein seemed unimpressed.
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Parents may need help and training in reacting positively when their child is eating.
quickly
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Get used to being grabbed and reacting quickly .
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You need to be alert and react quickly .
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Sometime genuinely strong potential acquirers will not enter into such a process because they can not react quickly .
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But Powergen bosses have reacted quickly to the new council demands.
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He also reacted quickly to save after both McLoughlin and Clarke had seen efforts cleared off the line by Houghton.
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But private investors reacted quickly by buying equities in the small hours of yesterday morning.
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Sunderland reacted quickly to the set-back, with club record singing Don Goodman calmly picking his spot to equalise a minute later.
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The flow of adrenalin can help the mind to react quickly in a given situation.
sharply
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Critics of the reforms reacted sharply last night.
strongly
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He grabbed toys from other kids and reacted strongly to any sign of aggression from them.
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There is no doubt that part of the Catholic community in Britain reacted strongly to the destruction and damage of Catholic churches.
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Those with a particular political or religious upbringing may react strongly against that.
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Shares in privatised companies reacted strongly to the possibility of a Tory-dominated hung Parliament.
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More importantly, he had a metabolism which reacted strongly to crisis.
swiftly
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The authorities reacted swiftly with a smear counterattack.
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An investigation launched by Knowsley Borough Council found that staff had reacted swiftly and that procedures complied with current legislation.
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Cool foresight and a quick mind enabled him to react swiftly in an emergency.
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The police reacted swiftly and a man who broke through their cordon was brought down by a rugby tackle and arrested.
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The Embassy reacted swiftly to the disclosure, which they regarded as an improper use of Mr Lader's name.
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Pricing is a very flexible element in the marketing mix and enables firms to react swiftly to competitive behaviour. 20.
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Instead. these people only refer to farmers when there is news like a food scare to react to.
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A number of these patients are very seriously ill and appear to react to almost every imaginable food and chemical.
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It isn't the actual words you react to , but the different rhythm.
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Quicker to say, quicker to react to.
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This is an account of how I reacted to that very tall order.
violently
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Small children are encouraged to be small tyrants, to react violently if thwarted.
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For example, water is known to react violently with metallic sodium, another reducing medium utilized commercially.
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But hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinone don't react violently together unless a catalyst is added.
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The drama erupted after a resident in the Middlesbrough hostel mixed two household substances, which reacted violently with each other.
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Jason Tyler tossed pierced canisters of sodium, which reacts violently with water, into the bowls in two cubicles.
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The regime reacted violently and furiously.
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The shrimp growers are reacting violently .
■ NOUN
change
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From the sound of it, your crush is reacting to these changes by getting involved with a more sexually experienced girl.
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The way the document reacts to these changes depends on two self-explanatory word-processor modes - Insert and Overwrite.
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Always both groups reacted positively to any change in the test group conditions in whatever direction.
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Civil rights groups also reacted positively to the changes , but Sinn Fein seemed unimpressed.
child
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Uncertain how the children might react , I thought it would perhaps come in handy if I needed to defend myself.
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We need to look at how a child reacts to and processes different sensations and motor patterns.
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Because their bodies are still growing, children react more quickly to many of the things they eat.
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Your goal is to help your child do more than react to her sensitivities with avoidance, anger, or controlling behavior.
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How will your child react when you have another baby?
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Reactivity Problems Attention also lags because of the way the child reacts to sensations.
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How do young children react to that situation?
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Through each sense, children not only react to the world, they also comprehend their world.
event
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So selection is the important basis for action: in making decisions, in choosing people, in reacting to events .
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We react only to events , as indicated in a previous chapter.
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They reacted to events , never initiating them, and this trait became an increasing liability as time passed.
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Most doctors are starting to understand that different people react to events in their lives differently.
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They concluded that people as a whole react to events and to social and economic changes in reasonable and predictable ways.
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That is why we all react to events differently, although it is all reacting.
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The conception about reacting mechanically to events is not a purely materialistic one, as it may seem at first sight.
market
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It is surprising that markets did not react sooner to this.
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The bond market also reacted negatively to the budget impasse.
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As they have often done, financial markets over-reacted to something that was going on in the real world.
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But the stock market did not react negatively to the news, taking its cue from the bond market.
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Few can have been surprised that the markets reacted by marking sterling down.
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Last year, the shares traded in the 14p to 4p range as the market reacted to takeover rumours and profit warnings.
news
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The staff have reacted stoically to the news .
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But the stock market did not react negatively to the news , taking its cue from the bond market.
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In partisan terms, people reacted against television news , alleging antagonistic bias; but they reacted Very differently towards the press.
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How do Jimmy and the guys react to this bad news ?
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Those who remained uninterested in politics reacted by avoiding the news during the campaign.
people
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Many people react adversely to gluten, present in wheat flour.
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I love how people react when he walks into a restaurant.
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So how did people react to these findings?
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Arline: How people in Los Angeles react to every jury-trial verdict?
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No two old people will react the same way, so no standard procedure can be recommended.
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Most doctors are starting to understand that different people react to events in their lives differently.
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There are enough angry and bitter people to react to any call to insurrection.
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They concluded that people as a whole react to events and to social and economic changes in reasonable and predictable ways.
pressure
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He said they were reacting to public pressure , and that the majority of people did not support Sunday opening.
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The president, like every other leader, reacts to pressure .
situation
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Border has a history of reacting to situations before considering all the consequences.
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Temperament can be described as the general consistency with which an individual reacts to certain situations .
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Would you so react to the particular situation which confronts us now, if you were not applying the standard mechanically?
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How would he react to a nonsensical situation such as this, and one which was completely outside his own control?
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Corals and anemones are sensitive creatures and react to any stressful situation by closing down to avoid the cause of their stress.
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How do young children react to that situation ?
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How would he react to his situation ?
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You may not choose to react to situations which damage your self-esteem in the same way as Jane.
system
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Foam began to spread through the air as the fire-fighting systems reacted automatically to the emergency.
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Thus the eye exists in a body with a central nervous system , capable of reacting to information the eye provides.
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We also worked out in the end a system whereby Brian would react to my jump rather than I react to his throw.
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Managers of existing systems reacted to these proposals with truculent hostility.
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His system reacted to contact with her in ways he had never experienced with Maud, or with any other woman.
way
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Whichever way you react to Rottweilers, you will lose.
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Then he could think of a way to react that would help him get what he wanted without getting him into trouble.
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We each have our own highly individual ways of reacting to the stresses of life and of maintaining our inner harmony.
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What seemed to have been most important was the way the workers reacted to the changes-their attitude.
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This responsiveness to body language also affects the way horses react to humans.
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This now appears to be one way the brain reacts to caffeine.
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I know, because of the way he reacts to seeing Salvo and me happy with our new families.
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He remembered the way Fontaine had reacted to him and the commitments they had made at the diner.
ways
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People react in various ways to the news that they have cancer.
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Temperament and Activity People react in temperamentally different ways to the challenges posed by change.
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Different people reacted in different ways .
■ VERB
expect
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How had he expected her to react to his betrayal - with laughter, perhaps, or nonchalance?
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If we choose to perceive some one in a negative light, we expect and react to their negative behaviors.
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It was how he would have expected Frankie to react .
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But, briefly, therapists must expect themselves to react .
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Maybe we can now expect the Government to react with some form of moratorium, at least until after April 9.
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However, the skin does tend to become more sensitive when you're expecting and may react adversely to certain products.
see
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She looked to see how Midnight was reacting .
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It is fascinating to see how kids react and develop.
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Give a confidence or two and see how positively they react .
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He wanted to see how we would react when everything else was going wrong.
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As if he'd said something he knew he shouldn't have, to see how I would react .
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You might just slip in a reference to pipes or to attics in your next conversation. See how he reacts .
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He watches the man closely to see how he reacts when he has to talk about this appalling figure.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A shot was fired, and the police reacted by firing into the crowd.
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Emma is not behaving very reasonably nowadays. I think she's reacting against her teachers' strictness.
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How did Dad react when he found out Vicky was pregnant?
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How did she react when you told her the news?
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How did your parents react when you told them you were going to marry Jim?
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It's hard not to react badly when your kids are playing up.
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Many gays reacted with outrage at the tactic of "outing" senior public figures.
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Ned reacted angrily to Bill's comments.
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People reacted to the speech in different ways.
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The chairman reacted angrily to the report and said it would make it much harder to reach a deal.
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When children perform poorly at school, parents often react with anger.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Cool foresight and a quick mind enabled him to react swiftly in an emergency.
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Foam began to spread through the air as the fire-fighting systems reacted automatically to the emergency.
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How will your best friend react ?
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Investors reacted unfavorably to the announcement and pushed shares down as much as 3. 9 percent.
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Nobody reacts much when older men become fathers.
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Only two persons in the audience reacted to this sentence, but to them it was like being doused with ice-cold water.
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Suddenly, before the competition could react , Snapple was in stores all across the country.
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The authorities reacted swiftly with a smear counterattack.