I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a single/sole exception (= one on its own )
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All the men were killed, with the sole exception of Captain Jones.
lemon sole
sb's only/sole concern
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Rick's only concern was having a good time at the weekend.
sole command (= not shared with anyone )
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He was in sole command of a small military unit.
sole custody (= only one parent has it )
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The mother got sole custody because of the father's violence.
sole provider (= the only one )
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A widow, she is the sole provider for her family.
sole responsibility (= not shared with others )
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The financial director has sole responsibility for financial matters.
sole survivor (= only survivor )
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She was the sole survivor of the massacre.
the sole criterion (= the only one )
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Examination results are still seen as the sole criterion of success in education.
the sole of your foot (= the base of your foot, that you walk on )
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The soles of her feet were aching from the long walk.
the sole purpose
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I used to bake cakes for the sole purpose of giving them away.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
aim
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On his arrest for burglary, he admitted to all his previous offences with the sole aim of obtaining a custodial sentence.
authority
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This emphasised that after military government was terminated the civil Governor would return to function as sole authority until December 1948.
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The Reformation accelerated this process, even though the Bible had become the primary if not the sole authority of the churches.
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Its sole authority is that of the United Nations Organisation itself.
candidate
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Rabbani was the sole candidate for the post.
cause
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While it was not the sole cause of this, the poll tax was undoubtably the most important single factor.
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But sometimes fear is the sole cause .
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In addition suboptimal dietary iron intake was found in many of the patients though this was seldom the sole cause for anaemia.
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This does not necessarily mean that the cholesterol is the cause , or certainly not the sole cause, of heart attacks.
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As a fair-minded man, you must accept that women are treated as if they are the sole cause of illegitimacy.
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The defect need not be the sole cause of the damage.
charge
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By keeping the Defence Ministry for himself, Barak has indicated that he intends to take sole charge of the peace process.
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But his trial continues on the sole charge alleging manslaughter.
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Perhaps Elena thought that if she was in sole charge she could make a proper tyrant out of him.
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Moreover, he was in sole charge of a relatively new branch office.
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He had more or less sole charge of the twenty-seven boys in the boarding section.
control
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By contrast, the writer is in sole control of the planning of the text.
criterion
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Assertions that intention is the sole criterion of validity are few, suspect, and found only in post-classical texts.
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But many borrowers choose an appealing discount deal as the sole criterion when they take out a loan.
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A criterion of instant and obvious utility can not be the sole criterion for the inclusion of items in the school curriculum.
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Thus age should not be the sole criterion for withholding aggressive treatment of community-acquired pneumonia in older patients.
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The sole criterion is the market price of the land.
exception
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Britain seems to be the sole exception to this democratic path.
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The sole exception , Eros, found in 1898, closely approaches Earth.
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Almost the sole exception was a young Deputy called Pierre Laval.
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The sole exception was Coventry, a much larger city that was no real comparison with Colchester.
judge
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Under the laws, the referee is the sole judge of fact and laws during a match.
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In other words, are the Houses the sole judges of the correctness of the judges' behaviour, or not?
member
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It follows therefore that if the sole member is also a director, he or she can not be the secretary.
owner
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Scripps became the sole owner of more than 6, 000 acres in 1907.
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The company issued each purchaser with a document confirming that the purchaser was the sole owner of the wine he had purchased.
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Fat Herman had been sole owner of the Hotsy until Jack Diamond decided to join him as a fifty-fifty partner.
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Dunlop refused and for the first time revealed that he considered himself to be the sole owner of the horse.
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James Archer, Managing Director, sole owner of company.
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Since becoming sole owner of the family tailoring business, William had built it up very successfully.
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Normally only appropriate where significant reliance has had to be placed on management who are not the sole owners of the business.
possession
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They arrived with a national ranking and sole possession of the number two slot in the Pac-10.
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It means Oregon is in sole possession of second place in the Pac-10.
power
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If the two-tier board structure were used, then the management board would have the sole power of day-to-day management.
practice
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The Institute believes that sole practice should continue to be permitted, but with extra safeguards.
practitioner
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The sole practitioners audited three companies with a full listing, and one company quoted on the Unlisted Securities Market.
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It is clear that two main concerns animated sole practitioners themselves on this subject.
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A recent hearing of the Disciplinary Tribunal highlighted the dangers, albeit in a case involving two sole practitioners .
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Comment 59% of respondents disagreed with this proposal, 82% of whom were sole practitioners .
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Thirdly, there was general confusion about how the suggestion might apply to sole practitioners .
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In contrast, medium-sized firms in particular thought the requirement should be aimed specifically at sole practitioners and firms in breach.
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A number argued that an outright ban should be introduced on the holding of client money by sole practitioners .
proprietor
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On the facts, however, the accused was not the sole proprietor .
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With his broken-down truck and borrowed electricity, Carvel was the prototypical sole proprietor .
proprietorship
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Explain the difference between a sole proprietorship and a partnership.
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A sole proprietorship is a separate organization with a single owner, such as small shops and professional businesses.
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As the name implies, the sole proprietorship is owned and operated by a single individual.
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What are the differences between a sole proprietorship and a limited liability company?
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Additional disadvantages of the sole proprietorship include certain tax disadvantages.
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A partnership shares most of the advantages and disadvantages of the sole proprietorship .
purpose
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Their sole purpose was to kill, by any means, provided the end result was the death of the chosen victim.
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The sole purpose of marriage, then, is to bear and raise kids?
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From then on, many changed banks, with the sole purpose of giving their previous firm a run for its money.
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She believes he bought this property from Durance with the sole purpose of turning out the others.
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These are corporations deliberately set up, taken over, or controlled for the explicit and sole purpose of executing criminal activity.
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Its sole purpose was the development of the Sturmabteilungen.
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The whole school seemed to have been designed with the sole purpose of freezing all the pupils to death.
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However, this is not a study of symphonic forms, and our sole purpose is to indicate the situation.
reason
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The sole reason for the breach was the plaintiff's omission to use the equipment.
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They are there for the sole reason that they bring farmers huge subsidies.
representative
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Shropshire has been chosen as the sole representative for Britain.
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In the 200 metres Britain's sole representative , teenager Ade Mafe, finished eighth.
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Tom was the sole representative of his side of the family, but what about all the other cousins?
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Fulham became London's sole representatives in the second round when they beat Bath 2-1 at Craven Cottage.
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There have even been attempts to pressurise Desmond Haynes, the island's sole representative , into joining the boycott.
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I was the sole representative of the general practitioners.
responsibility
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From the moment you take the big glass off my hands you will have the sole responsibility for it.
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The federal government has sole responsibility to enforce immigration laws, including the prevention of illegal entries into the United States.
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What I mean is, women are vulnerable when they are housewives because they also have sole responsibility for childcare at home.
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Education is not considered the sole responsibility of the schools.
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The Church is still beset by those who believe that its ministry is the sole responsibility of the clergy.
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She's matched with a somewhat feckless husband and has the sole responsibility for a large family.
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But the important decisions ... well, it stands to reason that these would be the sole responsibility of the man.
right
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And for de Gaulle each state should have the sole right to decide what its vital interests might be.
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Other health care professions are subordinate to the organised autonomy of doctors who claim sole rights of diagnosis and treatment.
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The Commission's sole right to propose legislation remained untouched.
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No wonder male chauvinists want to reclaim the sole right to do so.
source
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For a moment longer, raw gaze and taste and smell were his sole sources of wisdom.
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The sump was the sole source of water for drinking and washing.
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The quantum mechanical formalism itself is left as the sole source of insight.
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I wanted to be the sole source of their happiness.
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These students would then, no doubt, be accused of depriving immigrants of their sole source of livelihood.
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In the small coal communities, the pit was as often as not the sole source of wage-earning incomes.
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When the MoD was the sole source of information, the press could only speculate as to the veracity of its statements.
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Here archaeology is usually the sole source of information.
survivor
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The cast's sole survivor from the great Minstrel days says that's a shame.
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General Electric is the sole survivor from the original index.&038;.
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The sole survivor , Barry O'Shaughnessy, 19, was seriously ill in hospital last night.
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Stewart walked off with the look of one who was the sole survivor of a particularly nasty plane crash.
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Bumboy not only won: it was more or less the sole survivor .
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It is in this latter style that the sole survivor , 167 - has been restored for the Centenary celebrations.
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I am the sole survivor of my family.
use
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We can also book twin or double rooms in nearby houses for your sole use for a £55 supplement.
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Supplements per person per night: Double room for sole use £15.95.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Arthur will retain sole ownership of the company.
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Everyone ignored my sole contribution to the conversation.
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I think he came here with the sole intention of causing trouble.
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NASA's sole concern was the safety of the astronauts.
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The sole purpose of his trip was to attend a concert at Carnegie Hall.
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the sole survivor of the crash
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also, although productive efficiency is the central, it is not the sole issue where these matters are concerned.
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Ciba-Geigy Plastics has appointed Plastic Technology Service as sole distributor for small lot quantities of its range of engineering plastics.
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Other health care professions are subordinate to the organised autonomy of doctors who claim sole rights of diagnosis and treatment.
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The sole unit, quiet, with a separate outside entrance, sleeps four to five and has a kitchen.
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The quantum mechanical formalism itself is left as the sole source of insight.
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The validity of product measures as the sole form of evaluation can be considered at a number of levels.
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The Virbram sole unit could do with a little more rigidity for scrambling, but provides good adhesion for walking on all surfaces.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
rubber
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Moving soundlessly on his thick rubber soles , he ghosted swiftly down to the lowest platform.
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Rubber heels squelch and rubber soles squish Rain water from buildings descends without.
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Henry walked across the glossy tiled floor, his rubber soles squeaking.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Besides menu costs, economists also discuss shoe-leather costs, because inflation makes people run around more, wearing down their soles.
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Moving soundlessly on his thick rubber soles, he ghosted swiftly down to the lowest platform.
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The soles of her feet were feathery soft.
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The floorboards struck ice up through the unprotected soles of her feet.
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The rain, still fresh on the grass, began to seep through the soles of his boots.