I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a comedy routine (= the jokes that form a comedy show )
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He always has a brilliant comedy routine.
a dance routine/sequence (= a set of movements that are part of a dance )
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She was practising a complicated dance routine.
a dull/routine existence
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I was overjoyed at the prospect of leaving my routine existence behind.
a routine check (= happening as a normal part of a process )
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I went to the doctor for a routine health check.
a routine examination
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I made an appointment at the dentist's for a routine examination.
a routine flight (= a normal flight )
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They were on a routine flight when their helicopter developed engine trouble
a routine inspection (= an ordinary inspection that happens regularly )
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A routine inspection revealed that several lorries were not roadworthy.
a routine operation (= an operation that is often performed )
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a routine operation to remove an appendix
an exercise programme/routine/regime British English , an exercise program American English (= a plan that includes different types of exercise )
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The athletes follow an intensive exercise programme.
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I’m finding it quite hard to stick to my exercise routine.
routine chores (= done regularly )
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Who does most of the routine chores in your house?
routine maintenance
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The theatres were closed on Saturday and Sunday for routine maintenance .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
daily
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It's become part of my normal daily routine .
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For corporate employees, getting up in the morning has been the beginning of daily routines basic to their individual lives.
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Cleanse your whole body Advocates believe that crystals can even play a big part in your daily beauty routine .
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Instead, they must work hard throughout the period of change until they have integrated new behaviors into daily routines .
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In the centre, we record part of my daily routine for self-help holistic medicine which includes pectoral muscle exercises.
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Ultimately the individuals must integrate new behaviors and skills into daily routines so that only one job remains.
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If not, there are simple relaxation routines which you can follow for yourself and fit into your daily routine.
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Flying out to Happy Valley became a daily routine .
familiar
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It's a familiar routine , as Bush continues to work the centre ground in his presidential contest with Al Gore.
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The familiar routine of anti-invasion preparations was soon well under way.
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But the surroundings grew familiar , a routine established itself.
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Caroline fell easily into the old, familiar routine .
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Seemingly familiar with the routine , she cradled my head in her arms in a practised manner and stood waiting.
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All too familiar routines Wherever I have described these results, I get instant recognition from executives.
normal
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It's become part of my normal daily routine .
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Otherwise, there was no change in the normal routine .
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It's his normal cut-off-his-nose-to-spite-his-face routine .
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I continue with my normal routine after I run.
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Poindexter acknowledged that he had deleted computer messages, but claimed that this was part of his normal routine .
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However, people living normal routines also can benefit from a knowledge of what their body clocks are telling them.
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Do not try to perfect your normal eating routine .
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I had plenty to do between normal routine work at Felixstowe and preparation connected with taking over Searcher.
old
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It always took some time after her departure to get back into the old routine again ... into the old pleasant routine.
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We're back to the old routine now.
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Caroline fell easily into the old , familiar routine .
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Life took up its old monotonous routine .
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Instead I closed him out, continued without him and became absorbed in my old routine .
regular
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It is expected that this in turn can be eliminated as part of regular daily routines .
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We want as few surprises as possible because we want to have our regular routine as much as possible.
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Therefore, a regular daily routine should be developed so that care of personal appearance and hygiene is automatic.
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Getting fit is about small amounts of physical exercise, starting slowly and gradually building up a regular routine .
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Once you build up a regular routine you will want to get outside whatever the weather is doing.
simple
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If not, there are simple relaxation routines which you can follow for yourself and fit into your daily routine.
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In the past simple morphological systems have used simple affix-stripping routines to determine the morphemes present in a word.
usual
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I'd like you, Sergeant, to get on with organising the usual routine .
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Late-night telephone calls, unexplained absences and other minor but significant changes in his usual routine .
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This will be quite different to their usual routine , of course, when they may sleep for quite long periods.
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In the autumn there was to be a break in his usual routine .
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Plan out some ordinary ways to increase exercise as part of your usual routine .
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They stopped my client, asked him what he was there for, his name and address, the usual routine .
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Many good exercise programmes stop when life and the usual routine starts to get chaotic or change for some reason.
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He did all the usual morning routine in silence.
■ NOUN
dance
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No experience is necessary and all dance routines will be taught by the club's choreographer.
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It's a very young role and she has to lead the gypsy dance routine .
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Suzi Hoflin came in with two of her pupils and put Ingrid through a reasonable enough gypsy dance routine .
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To the outsider the movements of a kata resemble a dance routine .
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She'd rehearsed a number at her house with our choreographer the evening before, a whole dance routine .
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Three o'clock in the morning, bopping through a weird limb-jerking dance routine , and she looks like a child at playschool.
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My costume fits O.K.; the tight velvet pants worked well in the dance routine work-through this morning.
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I've been practising this mega dance routine .
exercise
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Videos are often available of exercise routines so you can see exactly what you should be doing.
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The exercise routines are slow and easy to learn.
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Do encourage them to do this exercise routine too.
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He became interested in merging different exercise routines used in Western society and those used in Eastern society.
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As the 80s came to an end, punishing exercise routines had become almost an alternative religion for many people.
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Like clockwork the three nurses and I followed along with the male radio voice and did a ten-minute exercise routine .
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These exercises can easily be incorporated into an exercise routine , with each exercise repeated a number of times.
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So he changed his swing, changed his exercise routine and started a stretching program.
■ VERB
change
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Most hair care worries can be sorted out by changing your basic routine or using products to suit your hair type.
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Experiment with a different hair style or food. Change your daily routine .
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Your first battle will be changing the routine , gently but firmly so that everyone knows that things will be different from now on.
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So he changed his swing, changed his exercise routine and started a stretching program.
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Do something with your hands, tapestry work or knitting, change your daily routine or try relaxation exercises.
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As later chapters will show, advice can be given to travellers and shift-workers who have recently changed their routines .
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If you always crave the same food at the same time, change your routine .
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Such requests could be met by providing new processes rather than by changing existing routines .
establish
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One engineer had established a part-time routine that she felt happy with.
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Not finding that possible in the established routine of a firm practice, he retreated to academe.
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Be positive and determined, and establish disciplined routines .
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Joe established a prison routine that sustained him through most of his time at Stanley.
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I had time to establish a routine .
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It is an established migrant routine .
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Take the time to sit back and listen and establish a routine for yourself.
follow
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Take this book into the library and follow the above routine for yourself.
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It is necessary to follow the routines exactly to obtain the best results.
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Those choking fits, for instance, and the way in which she followed her routine so unerringly.
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At Canjuers we followed the same routine as at Orange.
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I followed routines and simple homely menus.
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I could not follow my routine .
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He follows the camp routines well, but at times he becomes disinterested and a little slow in carrying them out.
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These advanced techniques involve partnering up with a fellow student and following a step-by-step routine of attack, defence and counter-attack.
perform
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Is it depressing to perform the same routines with the same people?
settle
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With Marguerite she settled into an amiable routine .
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We quickly settled into a routine .
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Joining them, Charlotte settles into a routine , roving by day and writing at night.
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Our lives settled into routines , some old, some new.
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The Sunday school had closed on its opening day, but everything else was settling into a routine .
start
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That was when he started writing routines .
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With children it is important to start this routine at an early age.
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Dixie has shown me the circuit, today I start the routine .
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In true body-building style, the effects are cumulative so start your routine now!
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Do not be tempted to start a harder routine at the beginning as this will almost certainly detract from the potential gains.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as a matter of course/routine
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Voters expected as a matter of course that candidates would not keep all their promises.
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Blood samples should be taken to measure the client's electrolyte and urea levels as a matter of routine.
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By May first, I was able to walk from ten to twelve yards as a matter of routine.
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Enemy redoubts were strewn with booby traps as a matter of course.
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If they meet as a matter of course throughout the year they can review and plan on a regular basis.
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Search at the police station should not be undertaken as a matter of routine but only where justified under Lindley v. Rutter.
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Their general health is better and they do not suffer repeated or unwanted pregnancies as a matter of course.
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They are very learned about cooking in San Francisco-people seem to expect as a matter of course things which we consider luxurious.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His routine consisted of work, dinner, then TV and bed.
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I was looking for a way out of the monotonous routine at the factory.
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Most babies soon develop a daily routine of eating and sleeping.
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She does not like having her work routine interrupted.
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The daily routine starts early, around 6:00 a.m.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By representing words in the definitions as integers, storage requirements decrease dramatically and efficient sorting routines become easily applicable.
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Now, with hearing loss, the routine needs to be reviewed, to plan when to talk and when not to.
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Still, others managed to maintain their daily routines.
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The starlings' daily routine in the Park begins at dawn.
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These routines are written in assembly language but called as procedures or functions from Pascal modules.
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This practice should be based on proven principles, acceptable to all, and not on routine and ritual.
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You should still play a full part in Arrange definite times and a workable routine .
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
activity
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The formal processes of the law, indeed, do not loom large in the field officer's routine activities .
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Thus, girls generally spent more of their time than boys on work and associated routine activities .
business
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Only junior representatives were sent to sessions of the Council in order for routine business to be carried out.
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She deals with all routine business other than reservations, keeps the general accounts and calculates wages.
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Even in the years of his greatest fame, he continued with the routine business of publishing.
check
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When the two men drove away, the Garda stopped them on a routine check .
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The reporters had learned of him while making some routine checks .
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But doctors did not spot the hairline fracture until a routine check on the plates after she left.
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Forty thousand pounds worth of the drug was found in a car that was stopped in a routine check .
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Earlier in the day, a police officer was shot and wounded during a routine check on a van.
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He was carrying a false passport when he arrived from London but was recognised during a routine check .
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Hakkinen was taken to the circuit for a routine check after suffering minor concussion when his car crashed into a barrier.
day
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Consideration of some of the routine day to day techniques of molecular biology allows this to be illustrated.
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We never had a routine day , it varied from day to day.
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A memorable strike from Paul Scholes and a deserved goal for the influential David Beckham completed a routine day for the champions.
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I tried to forget about it and to go about my routine day as usual.
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Ray Shepherd looked up at them as coolly as if he had just driven in to work on a routine day .
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It was a routine day at the cricket, according to the Sri Lankan Board's media relations officer.
job
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It is dangerous therefore to allow people to think they have routine jobs .
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Capable accountants and auditors should advance rapidly; those having inadequate academic preparation may be assigned routine jobs and find promotion difficult.
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What's more, routine jobs bore people.
maintenance
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His tip was for handrails to be provided around the Laundry Building, to prevent people falling during routine maintenance access.
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Mr Stanley had been carrying out routine maintenance work.
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Checklists Checklists are used in the pre-start mode, for routine maintenance and for fault-finding.
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They were noticed during routine maintenance checks.
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In the routine maintenance revenue account the resurfacing of Beech Hill and the construction of a footpath were being treated as priorities.
matter
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However, it is not at present a routine matter to extend such measurements over an appreciable portion even of one vibration-rotation band.
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It was a routine matter concerning a query on an invoice, something to do with prices.
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Neither are lorries subjected to delays by Customs as a routine matter .
operation
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They claim that he removed healthy wombs and bungled routine operations , leaving them with bladder, kidney and liver damage.
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For one, with so little time in the field, there was insufficient information about routine operations .
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It would be very different unloading the skip across the beach to the routine operation in Marchwood Military Port.
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An Ayrshire man is considering legal action against Crosshouse Hospital after his wife died following a routine operation .
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The simulations involved real-time, interactive, routine operations , such as the actions of hanger and flight deck operators.
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For a routine operation in which everybody knows what they are doing high involvement and high intensity are less critical.
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In other words, the routine operation of reason is not just a matter of routine.
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It is now a relatively routine operation available in the national health service.
part
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Parading captives on the screen is now a routine part of war.
policing
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All these sorts of considerations are also aspects of routine policing .
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What in Northern Ireland does routine policing consist of?
procedure
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After that, it was a matter of routine procedure .
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Application Forms Using application forms Application forms are not just a routine procedure .
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Administrator: carrying out routine procedures . 5.
screening
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To deny older women access to routine screening is both contra-indicated and explicitly discriminatory.
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But routine screening of milk for contaminants should have disclosed higher lead levels by mid-October.
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The germ, a strain of klebsiella which is resistant to most antibiotics, was found during routine screening .
task
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Automatic equipment meant that many of the relatively routine tasks could be done more quickly and more accurately.
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When the first tourists of the morning arrive, he joins other workers below for the routine tasks of the day.
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I have little patience with routine tasks such as washing up, filling in forms, etc. 2.
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He had to devote all his attention to the routine task of driving, finally pulling over to recover.
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A good forward planner, he delegates detailed and routine tasks .
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Driving instructors say most of the time they spend in cars with students is occupied by routine tasks .
test
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She was undergoing what were described as routine tests .
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Most insurers cover routine tests for older women, however.
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In Britain there's no routine test for toxoplasmosis in pregnancy, in spite of evidence that two in 1,000 women here are affected.
use
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Despite the routine use of cyclosporin only two patients had a plasma creatinine concentration above 175 µmol/l.
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If this is done, then two of the three products of ilmenite reduction will be in routine use .
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Possibly, selected or routine use of intraoperative cholangiography could have prevented or diagnosed some of the injuries.
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The performance is then monitored and maintained in routine use by means of control charts.
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Much of the improvement in survival has resulted from the now routine use of cyclosporin as an immunosuppressive agent.
work
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Much of the routine work was done by girl students eager to earn a little extra towards their fees.
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There were no other petitioners waiting, and they had routine work to do.
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At present, crews typically rotate between 999 and routine work making it difficult to designate crews for higher pay.
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Luckily the weather was so awful that nothing was flying, so there was only routine work to attend to.
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Here he gained valuable experience and, though occupied with much routine work , commenced innovative research.
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But in her routine work there is ample opportunity for teaching.
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It is exhilarating, stimulating personnel in a way that routine work can not do.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A major electrical fault was found during a routine safety inspection.
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Do you mind if I ask you a few questions? It's just routine .
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It was on a Saturday 15 years ago that during a routine visit to the doctor, I learned I had cancer.
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My job at the newspaper had become routine .
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Police found the heroin during a routine inspection of a ship.
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Systems need to be updated on a routine basis.
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The fault was discovered during a routine check of the plane.
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The hospital carried out some routine tests.
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The infection was detected during a routine blood test.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But United, lacking six regular players, dismantled Leicester's presumptuousness with the routine efficiency of a surgeon removing an appendix.
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Cabinet scandals in every administration, regardless of party, are practically routine .
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His frustration with not carrying the ball at this time of year is as routine as the end of daylight savings time.
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I stay through two more routine calls, and we've run out of subjects by five-thirty.
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Stick rigidly to saying things that are routine and standard.
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There were no other petitioners waiting, and they had routine work to do.