I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a distinct/separate category (= clearly different from others )
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Animals fall into distinct categories.
a separate incident
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Young men were killed in two separate incidents on the same day.
a separate occasion
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I had heard this story on at least four separate occasions.
separate compartments
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The bag is divided into separate compartments .
separate entity
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The mind exists as a separate entity .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
quite
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Three quite separate elements may be involved, all or any of which may be present at any one time.
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In order to make clear what this means, it may be helpful to take two, quite separate , examples.
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We never considered that they might be quite separate .
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The two places were quite separate .
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It is important to remember that a classic type of restraint of trade clause frequently mentions two quite separate time periods.
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That conference was also memorable, of course, for other quite separate reasons, as I would like now to explain.
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They even partitioned the archipelago into three quite separate military commands.
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Katherine Lundy ran two similar, but quite separate , operations.
■ NOUN
company
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In 1686 they declared war on him in order to establish a separate company state from which they could trade.
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Under the old structure, the business units operated almost like separate companies , each with their own marketing and engineering organization.
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The construction materials division, which employs more than 4,200 people, is to be floated as a separate company .
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Spry Inc has reorganised, dividing its system integration and software development operations into two separate companies .
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That group will most likely be a separate company , or they may be an autonomous subsidiary.
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Mr Reuter struggles on without his support to weld a group of large, still separate companies into a coherent whole.
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It is also willing to transfer another $ 450 million of expenditure to a separate company .
compartment
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This is difficult as we are not used to doing it, preferring to keep these approaches in separate compartments .
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The worst aspect of Hinduism is undoubtedly the caste system, which kept the population cooped up in so many separate compartments .
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The bivvy bag can be stored in a separate compartment at the base of the larger compression sack.
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Its study was isolated in a separate compartment until very recent times.
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It was getting impossible to keep their relationship in two separate compartments .
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Each species has evolved to deal with life in separate compartments .
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For Locke the separate compartments for faith and reason, or reason and revelation, did not exist.
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Business matters and personal relationships clearly occupied separate compartments in Guy's life.
development
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The government's difficulties were compounded by separate developments relating to its pledge to Islamicize the economy.
entity
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Although all separate entities , they do co-operate with each other as, naturally, they are all working towards the same ideal.
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This could not be happening if the brain and immune system were separate entities .
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National government and household administration were from the middle of the sixteenth century separate entities .
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With a few exceptions, each lesson is a separate entity and can be used by itself.
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These differences have led some investigators to consider cancer of the cardia as a separate entity .
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The singles chart needs to be treated as a separate entity , and not as a cheap promotions gimmick for greedy businessmen.
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As far as they are concerned, these discs are five separate entities .
group
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The network also brings together separate groups of people working on different aspects of the same software project.
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A separate group of specialists may speak of high school problems.
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Between 1956 and 1960 the association had to fight for the right to enter the Big Berlin Exhibition as a separate group .
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Alternatively, the business may be run as divisions of separate group companies.
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The ginkgos are often placed in a separate group .
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The day began with health and social services managers meeting in their two separate groups .
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There is a separate group for Spina Bifida children.
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When Ross reached that area, he charted the islands as a separate group , the Russell Islands.
identity
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Field independence also relates to one's sense of separate identity , or developed sense of one's own feelings and needs.
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The sense of a distinct, separate identity fades and is replaced by a metamorphic self-image.
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It has been stripped of its separate identity and made dependent on the market and government for its survival.
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We shall see how it is that different particles of the same type can not have separate identities from one another.
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Various devices were used to encourage the development of separate identities between the two groups.
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During this process gods worshipped in the same animal eventually fused together, while other retained a separate identity .
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Like Gaiety Girls they had been judged worthy of a separate identity .
incident
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In a separate incident , a driver escaped drowning when his fuel tanker plunged into a canal.
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They shot or bludgeoned to death numerous others in separate incidents .
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The warning, from doctors at Salisbury District Hospital, Wiltshire, follows the separate incidents , one involving a 20-month-old girl.
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And fire crews were stoned in three separate incidents as they tried to deal with fires.
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Three people were reported to have died in separate incidents of pre-election violence.
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In a separate incident , a pensioner was knifed in the head as he sat on a street bench.
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In a separate incident , a prisoner who was being moved, broke free and vandalised furniture.
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In a separate incident , a journalist, Turan Dursun, was shot and killed on Sept. 4.
issue
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A separate issue related to quality of care is the range of services provided.
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The extent to which their development involves various kinds of experience raises an entirely separate issue .
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Of course, their writing is sensationalistic and their checkbook tactics are shaky, but those are separate issues .
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Two separate issues arise from the search for better value.
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Although they are discussed here as separate issues , tourism, recreation and sport are not mutually exclusive.
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Nevertheless, whether corporate planning has become a reality is a separate issue .
life
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For instance marital problems can often lead to not talking, spending less time together, planning separate lives .
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Our two separate lives threatened our plans and undermined our relationship.
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Again, separate life cover is required to pay off your loan in any eventuality.
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They looked at their few years left and, instead of continuing to fight, chose a separate life .
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He lived his separate life and she waited for him to falter and slip back into alcohol.
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For the first time Benny realised properly that they were going to live separate lives though in the same city.
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And although he and John lead separate lives , being the Prime Minister's brother does have advantages.
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The couple begin to lead separate lives and for the first time there is public concern over the marriage.
occasion
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The blips appeared on three separate occasions , and each time the lowest instrument showed the biggest jump.
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On two separate occasions I've heard her voice beyond the door.
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If the burial service follows a church service on a separate occasion , a fee will be charged.
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There are reasonable approximations of bicarbonate and alkali secretion for each subject on separate occasions .
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And that applied whether the words were spoken on separate occasions or all together.
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Patient isolates and control strains were coded and tested blind on at least two separate occasions .
section
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A separate section describing famous Orc and Goblin warlords has been included after the army list.
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A separate section in this chapter is devoted to the topic of measurement itself.
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Please see separate section for full listings.
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You can have three choirs singing their heads off in the separate sections without any of them disturbing the other.
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They tend to work at entirely separate sections of the music, ignoring each other, but talking all the while.
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Collate to gather separate sections or leaves of a book together in the correct order for binding.
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The engine and crew compartment can be assembled as two separate sections and stuck together when dry.
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He repeated the procedure twice more and laid the separate sections on the stone floor.
state
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The Ciskei thus appeared on the point of disappearing as a separate state , amid speculation that other homelands might follow suit.
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One year later it renounced its armed struggle and claim to a separate state at an extraordinary general congress.
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Yet taxation was a far more efficient method of collecting premiums and distributing payments than a separate state insurance scheme.
unit
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This might be in the form of a branch or sub-section of the BAeA or as a separate unit entirely.
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The carbonates occur in four separate units and all are known to contain potential reservoir rocks.
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The full course last from January to November 1993, but it is made up of six separate units .
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Over short time spans then genes are not the separate units of selection Dawkins supposes.
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However, it was emphasized that apart from that situation, each quarry would be regarded as a separate unit .
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At least seven genetically separate units are hidden within the supposed entity and each now has its own Linnaean name.
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The four separate units which make up the Loutrouvia apartments are set back from the main road in pleasant surroundings.
ways
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Or would they go their separate ways , each ruling an independent principality?
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Before you start going separate ways , take some time to reconnect.
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He says that they more or less go their separate ways , Felicity and this green fellow she's married to.
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They were too readily allowed to go their separate ways .
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Only then, in the shock of the open air at last, did we break ranks and go our separate ways .
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After this they go their separate ways .
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In the case of bacteria, the enormous numbers of cells produced by successive doublings go their separate ways .
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But now the venerable types are going their own separate ways .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
separate the sheep from the goats
separate the wheat from the chaff
under plain cover/under separate cover
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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separate bedrooms
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A separate study found that 77% of students are spending less time on homework.
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a university with three separate campuses
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All the children have separate bedrooms.
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He asked her out on two separate occasions.
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He likes to keep his work and his family life separate .
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In a separate saucepan, heat the milk and the cream.
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Keep your bank card and your PIN number separate .
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The cities of Long Beach and Los Angeles are completely separate .
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The nursery was separate from the main school.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Before Casey spoke, three prominent Democrats had taken issue with his charges in separate appearances on Sunday.
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The fitter brought the separate components into the correct position by the trunk.
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Then, write a separate list for each chapter and, possibly, for each section of a chapter.
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This led the Committee to propose two separate new statutes.
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Unlike Smith, he estimated a separate wage premium for the risk of nonfatal injury.
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Upholstery became a separate trade, and seating began to put on weight in consequence.
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We all seemed to split up and go our separate ways afterwards.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
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We are separating out one aspect for analysis, but doing this is slightly artificial.
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But a child with poor perceptual motor skills has to separate out each step in her mind.
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But in this area, as in no other, it's possible to separate out the politics from the science.
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None the less, it can be assumed that these two functions will benefit by being separated out as having competencies of their own.
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I never, on the other hand, determined that I would separate out a whole slot for a women's magazine.
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The criteria of sameness and difference offer few ways of separating out peoples once we rise above the level of locality.
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I had separated out a whole slot for an over-60s magazine, Years Ahead.
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For plastics to be recycled into worthwhile items, they must be separated out into the different types.
■ NOUN
child
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Parents are divided over the decision to separate the children .
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Some parents immediately separate the children and punish both when they do not know what has happened.
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What separates one group of children from the next?
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Third, the justices were strongly of the opinion that to separate the children would be harmful to them.
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It separates men from their children .
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For example, what messages are we conveying when we separate some children from others?
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Up to the time they have to cross this water, the children have never separated .
family
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Many students are orphans or have been separated from their families .
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When Gregory grew into manhood, he separated from his family , then was ordained.
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The presence of a bodyguard was a constant reminder of the invisible veil which separated her from her family and friends.
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But the old monarchist argument that the monarchy can be separated from the royal family no longer holds.
group
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Increasingly, local government used its legal powers to separate out specific groups as targets for police intervention.
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In the most typical design, the experimenter separates a group of subjects into two or more groups.
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After the rut the males separate from the groups of females and begin their more or less solitary existence once again.
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The blocks are separated into groups by color, then each group is halved.
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These classifications are able to separate groups of nodal lymphomas with a clear correlation between morphological features and clinical behaviour.
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Nevertheless, in two cases in the separated group , the baby was given up for adoption because neither parent wanted custody.
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They found that the mammals had been separated into three groups .
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What separates one group of children from the next?
husband
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Pat Rutter, 37, fell into arrears totalling £5,000 after she separated from her husband two years ago.
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Then with the oldest, insecure Alice, after she separates from her husband .
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In September 1962 Sylvia Plath separated from her husband and moved with the two small children to a flat in London.
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Recently separated from her husband , she is raising their 5-year-old girl and a baby boy.
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Judith, a nurse, was living with her father after being separated from her husband .
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There was no reason why she should know that Veronica was separated from her husband .
line
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The dotted line in each diagram separates the superior courts from the inferior courts.
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In dOing 80, he had crossed an invisible line that separated the white and black beaches.
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At the networks, a rigid line separated news from entertainment; news was considered serious and important business.
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There wasn't the usual narrow line that separates the photographer from the people he photographs.
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The new car firm will keep the Renault and Volvo product lines and names separate , it said.
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The tunnel, a short one, was a single bore as the up and down lines were separated there.
parent
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Children with emotional problems may, for instance, be excessively afraid of strangers or of separating from their parents .
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Those at risk-overly sensitive, poorly assertive children-have not achieved the emotional mastery necessary to be successfully separate from parents .
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Unlike zoanthids, where large colonies can form by a similar process, the young mushroom polyps separate from the parent completely.
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A smothering style of parenting often produces boys who do not learn to become comfortably separate from their parents .
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He and his step-brother Philip Giles got separated from their parents on a ski-lift they were taking up the mountain side.
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However, in some instances the crisis of the birth separates parents .
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Children separate parents and define their roles along traditional gender lines.
rest
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But golf is a game of courage and that separates Faldo from the rest .
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My head was treated as if it was separated from the rest of my body.
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Correspondence and records are best kept in a small office separate from the rest of the farmhouse.
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And the feeling persists that Guinness ads. are undoubtedly different, separate from the rest of the herd.
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Even people with more liberal leanings believe that California is somehow separate from the rest of the country.
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On the way home Caledor's ship was separated from the rest of the High Elf fleet by a freak storm.
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Day 19 Six under-developed fry were observed in a group, separate from the rest of the shoal.
wall
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Her head lay next to the thin wall that separated her from the two of them.
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Today, the fire wall that separates politics from entertainment has all but disappeared.
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Miss Fogerty leant over the low dry-stone wall which separated the playground from the school-house garden.
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The two share adjoining rooms without walls or doors to separate them.
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He led Cleo through the kitchen gardens to the wall that separated the two estates.
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I clambered over the wall separating his garden from the orchard and followed him into the cottage.
wife
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He is separated from his wife but he has tried to abduct his daughter.
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Flinn says this guy lied to her, saying he was legally separated from his wife and had filed for divorce.
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Ralston has admitted that 13 years ago, while separated from his wife , he had a relationship with another woman.
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As for Longhouser, he was separated from his wife and expressing normal desires.
■ VERB
try
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Tucker tried to separate the relationships between bidirectional reflectance ratios and firstly, the biomass, secondly, the productivity.
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Just try to separate them as punishment!
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Police, drawn from several county forces, were trying to separate two opposed rioting mobs.
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I try to keep politics separate .
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It is dangerous if you try to separate them ... On television I watched a nature short about two-headed snakes.
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B4., try to separate the personality difficulties from the ones directly relating to job performance.
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The interim government had tried unsuccessfully to separate the factions, by using loyal militia and neutral mujaheddin groups.
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Jess tries to separate her personal feelings for Red from her feelings about Red as a player and teammate.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Separating prisoners from each other is sometimes the only way of preventing riots.
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A tall fence separates the two houses.
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After years of abuse, Ginny finally separated from her husband.
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Anne and I separated for three months, but we are now together again.
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As the milk turns sour, it separates into thick curds and watery liquid.
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At this point, the satellite separates from its launcher.
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Break an egg into a bowl and separate the white from the yolk.
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Farmers separate calves from their mothers when they are only a few days old.
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Hair conditioner helps your curls to separate .
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He sat at a desk, separating a pile of mail into "urgent' and "non-urgent'.
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If you two don't stop talking during class, I'll have to separate you.
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Items in the list should be separated by commas.
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Kids are put under a tremendous emotional strain when their parents separate .
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Linda and George have only been married for a year and they're already thinking of separating.
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She looked over the picket fence that separates her lawn from the neighbor's.
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Some of the pages had got stuck together and I couldn't separate them.
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Steaks and meat patties should be separated by wax paper before freezing.
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Teachers thought it best to separate Paul and Fred and put them in different classes.
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The diaphragm is the strong muscular wall that separates the chest from the stomach.
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The milk had soured and separated.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For there was a scramble for individual honours with just two ounces separating the leading four.
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In order to separate a lunar effect the team looked at the lunar day, the position of the Moon.
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Mam Tor is the first objective on the walk along the ridge which separates the Hope and Edale valleys.
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She was distressed and anxious at being separated from her friends, and rapidly developed colic.
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The mobile phase flows continuously over the stationary phase and as it does so separates the components on the stationary phase.
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The reactive tannins precipitate with the protein, and the improved wine can then be separated from the sediment.
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The two were not separated until Dan was kept back at Groton so Harry could enter Harvard first.
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To obtain serum, we permit the blood to clot and then separate the clot from the residual serum.