I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bell sounds
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Somewhere across the valley a bell sounded.
a deep/sound/heavy sleep (= a sleep from which you cannot easily be woken )
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The noise woke him from a deep sleep.
a distant sound
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Sometimes you can hear the distant sound of traffic from the main road.
a sound/firm/secure footing
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They managed to get the business onto a more secure footing.
a sound/firm/solid basis
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Drama school may provide a sound basis for an acting career.
a sound/secure base
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A child needs a responsive mother in order to form a secure base for future development.
arrive safe and sound (= safely )
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It was a great relief when he arrived back safe and sound.
break the sound barrier (= travel faster than the speed of sound )
deliver/sound a warning (= give a public warning )
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The chairman sounded a warning that jobs could be lost.
fast/sound asleep (= sleeping deeply )
feel/look/sound offended
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Stella was beginning to feel a little offended.
look/sound apologetic
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Dan came in looking very apologetic.
look/sound depressed
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Is Jo all right? She sounded a bit depressed.
look/sound familiar
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The voice on the phone sounded familiar.
look/sound nervous
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He sounded nervous and uncertain.
look/sound/feel bored
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Some of the students were starting to look bored.
look/sound/feel/taste/seem like
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The garden looked like a jungle.
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At last he felt like a real soldier.
looks/seems/sounds fine
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In theory, the scheme sounds fine.
muffled the sound
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The falling snow muffled the sound of our footsteps.
plaintive cry/voice/sound etc
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the plaintive cry of the seagull
safe and sound/well (= unharmed, especially after being in danger )
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The missing children were found safe and sound.
seem/look/sound embarrassed
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The judge seemed embarrassed to be asking her such personal questions.
sound all right
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We’ll eat at eight. Does that sound all right to you?
sound barrier
sound bite
sound check
sound common sense (= sensible and reliable )
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These ideas contained much sound common sense.
sound effects
sound enthusiastic
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‘I’m sure we can do it,’ she said, trying to sound enthusiastic.
sound obvious
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This may sound obvious, but don’t forget to put your name on your paper.
sound quality
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I apologise for the poor sound quality of this recording.
sound shocked
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"Of course not!" he exclaimed, sounding shocked.
sound system
sound wave
sound (= sensible )
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I thought that this was sound advice.
sounding board
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John always used her as a sounding board for new ideas.
sound/look relieved
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Jen looked relieved to see me.
sounds crazy
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I know this idea sounds crazy , but it may be worth a try.
(sound/strike/toll) the death knell for/of sth
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The loss of Georgia would sound the death knell of Republican hopes.
sound/taste/smell/feel etc great
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I worked out this morning and I feel great.
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You look great in that dress.
sound/toot/honk/blow your horn (= make a noise with your horn )
sth sounds (like) fun (= seems to be enjoyable )
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The picnic sounded like fun.
strong/healthy/sound
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The new government inherited a strong economy.
structurally sound (= in good condition )
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Is the building structurally sound ?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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And every one gives a different sound .
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Have the students experiment to see how many different sounds they can make.
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There are more than 500 different sounds on the synthesizer, each of which has a complete scale on the keyboard.
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The AK47 and the M16 make very different sounds .
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I used a lot of different sounds for the album.
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But I worry that the different sounds for the same object will confuse her.
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He was driving away from me grounds of Hauser's estate when he heard a different engine sound .
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Winamp too lets you set it as the default player for all different types of sound files.
familiar
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They're a familiar sound - police, ambulance, fire engine; electronic donkeys braying.
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And as Gargy Patel reports, it's also provided one the city's most familiar sounds .
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I thought for an incredible moment that I caught something familiar in the sound - but it couldn't be.
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It was a familiar sound to her.
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As the mail train thundered past and disappeared into the distance he heard the familiar sound of footsteps.
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Houses have weird silhouettes in the soft rain, noises come through open windows, television voices, familiar sound tracks.
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The familiar sounds brought Jehan to a sense of the place and the time.
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It had become a familiar sound over the last couple of days.
only
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The only sound now was their feet rustling through the shore grass, coarse and hard from countless tides of salt water.
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Soon the only sound came from the carousing in the hall below.
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On the landing the only sound was Jos's deep snoring from the room next door.
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The only sound came from the ticking of a clock.
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The only other sound to be heard was the chirping of birds.
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He commented patronisingly that almost the only sounds he heard from Baldwin during Cabinets were the rhythmic sucking of his pipe.
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The only sounds to be heard were the sheep's teeth tearing grass and their low, rumbling bleats.
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Here the only sound was the faint hum of the air-filters overhead.
■ VERB
hear
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I could hear the sound of a kettle being filled.
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All I want to hear is the sound of the wind rushing through this funky old tub.
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And, on cue, he heard the sound of hoofbeats ` on the wind.
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The first hears the most fragile sounds of the passing countryside, the other knows he is capable of the swiftest speed.
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He could hear the sound of a wireless so he knew some one must be in.
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Dyslexics may hear sounds but find it difficult to translate those sounds into words.
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No one came, I heard no sounds .
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I heard a low murmuring sound .
listen
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He opened the door and paused for a moment, listening for sounds of Mrs Blakey.
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We would lie in bed together, listening to the sounds of Paris outside.
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She guessed that he had been standing at the window or listening for the sound of her key in the lock.
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He listened to the muffled sound waver and fall in pitch, like a faraway siren.
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Here ... Valerie listened for suspicious sounds on the tape, and despised herself for so doing.
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Stark made another swing, and I closed my eyes and listened for the sounds of good golf.
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Claudia lying in her hut listening for the first sounds of life.
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But he was tired so he just lay there, listening to the street sounds , and waited for morning.
make
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Flak blotted the sky ahead, making remote grunting sounds .
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The others nodded, made agreeable sounds , and drifted off down the corridor.
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She remembered making the right sounds and moving like a puppet as the party began.
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This made it sound to them as though color were beneath me.
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Fenella, Lisabeth's younger, slimmer room-mate, had sneaked down the stairs from their flat without making a sound .
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His hands over his head, he was pulling the steel headrest, his breath making a low-pitched moaning sound .
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Ropes let down into it seem to go down for ever, coins dropped never make a sound , etc.
muffle
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The snow drifted down, muffling the sounds of the party, the fireworks spluttering, falling damply into the dark night.
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He listened to the muffled sound waver and fall in pitch, like a faraway siren.
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The volume of the music muffled the sounds of the attack, and no-one heard her screams for help.
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From the other side of the wall, she could hear the low muffled sounds of the television in the next room.
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This method serves a dual function - it will absorb irregularities in the existing floorboards, and also muffle sound .
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If Fen entered the galley for any reason, the curtain was not sufficient barrier to muffle the sound of sobbing.
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She laughed hysterically, jamming her fingers into her mouth to muffle the sound .
produce
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There are four pianos in the pit, two with sheets of paper laid across the strings to produce dull percussive sounds .
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Speaking a language involves producing sounds for others to hear, understand, and act upon.
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Richie, who always lay on his back, produced a sound similar to the underwater gurgling of an old motorboat.
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They produced a remarkably consistent sound for the revolving-door group.
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Mackenzie went on to produce fractal sounds from sampled real world waveforms.
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Leaving behind the familiar phrasings, Coltrane began to produce swirls of sound and visceral shrieks that puzzled and angered music critics.
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As if by magic, a stereo disc or tape heard through headphones produces a surround of sound .
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Like Jefferson, he pursued the dream of producing sound table wine from Eastern soil at affordable prices for the masses.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(hear the sound of) wedding bells
I don't want to sound/be ..., but ...
ambient music/sounds
sickening thud/crash/sound etc
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Her heart took up a sickening thud.
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One pitched out, hitting the ground with a sickening thud.
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Then she landed on the Market Square flagstones with a sickening crash to lie motionless.
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Then, with a sickening thud in her solar plexus, she understood.
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They heard screams, kicks, the sickening thud of a punch, and the ogre roaring Solper's name.
the ghost of a smile/sound etc
the sound barrier
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a vowel sound
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From the next room came the sound of laughter.
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Some of these planes can travel faster than the speed of sound .
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Something's wrong with the TV - you can see the pictures, but there's no sound .
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the fascinating sights and sounds of Marrakesh
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The only sound in the house was the ticking of the clock.
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There's no sound coming from the TV.
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What's that funny rattling sound coming from the back of the car?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But there were neither apologies nor regrets, and the air rang to the sound of hundreds of cheers.
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Colourful flashing lights synchronize the sound .
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From the kitchen came the sound of pots thrown to the floor.
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She liked the sizzling sound of the water as it hit the stones when some one threw it from the bucket.
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The ground mist clung closely to the hedgerows, discouraging the birds and damping down all sound .
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What you hear will incorporate high-fidelity sound , speech synthesis, and speech recognition.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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It sounds almost like an adumbration of gravitation.
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As he tells it, it does sound almost like a stage farce.
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When her assailant spoke he sounded almost offended, which struck Rachel as strange since she appeared to be the injured party.
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It sounds almost like a storybook story.
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It's the same sort of sound but much lower in volume and pitch - it almost sounds like a stomach rumbling.
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So far, this probably sounds almost too simple.
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So a belief that there were Communists in the Army could be made to sound almost plausible.
as
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BShields used to undermine her fiction by sounding as if she were inhaling the microphone.
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The ads never distracted listeners from the music but could sound as wild and greasy and cool as the platters played alongside.
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Never mind nature taking its course, it sounds as though you're plotting to seduce him.
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Their voices sounded as if they should be coming from the mouths of cute, fuzzy characters on some Saturday morning cartoon.
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I called, got through and spoke to a man who sounded as ordinary and as sane as I thought I was.
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Kantner and Palmer participated in a media conference call Wednesday and sounded as if they had undergone proper corporate indoctrination.
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His voice was nasal, to the extent that it sounded as if there was a clothes peg clipped on to his nose.
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Amazingly, he sounded as if that was exactly what he meant.
like
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But he has, making it sound like a golden lacework surrounding the crystalline vocals of Carol Kidd.
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That was what she sounded like to me, like a woman squealing.
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Pretty Samantha Mumba sounded like she has a distinctive voice.
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Unfortunately, it sounds like yours is in the latter category.
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He sounded like he had never felt better in his life.
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His eloquent description makes it sound like a building that any community would be proud to have in its midst.
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A beautiful dish, it is more or less what it sounds like , sticky rice wrapped in green striated lotus leaves.
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Domestic violence, I said, was what it sounded like to me.
more
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Even the people sounded more Southern than Western.
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No, it sounded more as if she was being forced to protect some one, maybe Keith.
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Elizabeth Hanford Dole often acts and sounds more like a candidate than the candidate.
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Already they've scaled up their fluid star-burst psychedelia into something that sounds more suited to outdoor festivals than stuffed solid mini-venues.
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He sounded more Tolstoyan than all the rest of us.
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Now his incantations of the old slogans of national independence and identity sounded more and more hollow.
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Another class that sounded more adventurous was located in Cambridge.
quite
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Although it sounds quite funny picking up children and carrying them can be tricky when you can hardly walk.
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Some of these questions may sound quite sophisticated and too advanced for many people.
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He sounded quite normal when he phoned, just annoyed about the holiday.
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Put like that it didn't sound quite so convincing.
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It doesn't sound quite as good as education, education, education.
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Given identical soundboards, lutes made of cherry and rosewood will sound quite different.
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He made it sound quite an ordinary request and I didn't like to ask why.
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Some were like herself, some were from the suburbs and some sounded quite posh.
rather
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It sounds rather pompous, I dare say, but I think it was the beginning of understanding without knowing.
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I was forced to admit that put that way, it did sound rather absurd.
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It is also suggested as a weapon against parasites, but this does sound rather hazardous!
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He suddenly sounded rather standoffish and said he would not need to be picked up.
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Sitting watching it Digby was forced to confess that it did sound rather radical.
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It sounded rather apologetic and explicitly underlined that it was nothing to do with Bagshaw.
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As we look around the world, that might sound rather hollow.
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Lebed, indeed, can sound rather restrained.
right
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It's one of those Jabberwocky-type words that just sounds right .
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Just then a foghorn sounded right clear.
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He sounds right , politically and otherwise.
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If it sounds right , it is right!
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Q.. How do you know when a song sounds right ?
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Forster reached for his mask, just as the hissing gas noise sounded right on top of him, ending with a little shriek.
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And vice versa all those prepared speeches that look good on paper-they never sound right when read from a podium.
so
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And anyway don't sound so surprised.
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It sounds so much like the record.
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Soloff has never sounded so good-his tone fat and full, his range phenomenal.
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She had sounded so nice on the phone, not knowledgeable but pleasantly enthusiastic.
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I feared that it sounded so small.
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Ludens had sounded so moved, so stirred by some emotion.
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Chords which would sound thick and dull on the piano do not sound so on the harp.
too
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Without sounding too clichéd about it, there should be more to it than that.
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Sure enough, they noticed an ad for a business opportunity that sounded too good to be true.
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Sorry if I didn't sound too keen at first.
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If it sounds too good to be true I assure you it's not.
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But you might be surprised that it doesn't sound too bad either.
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He was right in a way, it wouldn't sound too good in court.
very
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Unless they were very good actors, they sounded very convincing to me when they said they were innocent.
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It was starting to sound very familiar.
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But it didn't sound very convincing; and I was afraid he wouldn't buy any of his pictures anywhere.
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I know that sounds very childish and naive, but think about it.
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It sounds very small in relation to the costs of war, but so do most budgets.
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In such letters he sounded very much himself-direct, sincere, kind, and eager to dispel any possible misunderstanding.
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That doesn't sound very nice.
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In his recent appearances, Yeltsin has looked vigorous and sounded very much in charge.
■ NOUN
alarm
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But video films of fires carried out on the test rig suggest that alarms will sound too late.
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This alarm sounds like a gigantic pencil-sharpener grinding up something awful.
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The alarm was sounded in time.
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If temperatures rise too high or machine speeds fall too low, an alarm sounds a warning before the system breaks down.
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A 12-hour alarm sounds off at your command.
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The alarm bells had been sounded , the news was being fast disseminated.
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She tensed; as if some buried defence had been touched by this ultimate surrender, some distant alarm bell sounded .
bell
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The passing bell is sounding for the mass extinction of species.
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Miss Bradley, first bell has sounded .
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Even so, alarm bells are beginning to sound at Westminster.
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A bell sounded in the church at Gushibov, either calling Gentiles to Mass or because they were carrying out a corpse.
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A bell sounded somewhere in the house but there was no response.
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We kissed, and every time the bell tower sounded , we listened attentively.
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Swallows fought under the eaves outside the window, a lonely bell sounded , and Corbett heard faint shouts from the courtyard.
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A fog bell sounds in the distance.
horn
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The driver sounded his horn furiously as the taxi sped on.
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To help the doggies along, Mercer sounds a horn that emits an ear-piercing wail from his plane.
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Oscar sounded his deafening horn three times and the gates to the yard swung open.
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In his failure to sound the horn in time there is tragedy, but it is not of a very complicated kind.
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Santerre sounded the horn and led the excited hunters down the hill.
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It is not permitted to sound a car horn after a certain hour.
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Down in the drive some one was sounding a car horn .
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The driver sounded his horn frantically.
note
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Some retailers sounded a note of caution.
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We may have to sound a warning note of challenge as well as minister a word of comfort.
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Calvary's pipe organs are poised to sound somber notes of mourning for Earnhardt.
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For example, a modulating theme may sound nonsensical without other notes which guide the harmonic flow.
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When the plane crashed, it sounded a note that harmonized with the disaster of my early life.
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Our third theme will, however, sound several notes of caution.
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From somewhere in the valley, a trumpet sounded four wavering notes .
voice
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I remember my tongue shedding its skin like a snake, my voice in the classroom sounding just like the rest.
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He said that it hurt badly and that his voice sounded funny.
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Robert Dexter obviously expected that shocked reaction because his voice sounded infinitely soothing, even formal.
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Their voices sounded as if they should be coming from the mouths of cute, fuzzy characters on some Saturday morning cartoon.
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As if it had been swallowed up.That was how that voice had sounded to him all those years ago.
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His voice sounded a little hurt.
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Her own voice sounded totally unlike her own, her mouth dry, her throat thick and choked with emotion.
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Connors's voice sounded above the crackle of his own machine-gun fire.
warning
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It is worth sounding a warning to those who are part of a tightly-knit family unit.
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But its 1993 report sounded some warnings and suggested that governments consider advisory votes for controversial projects.
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We may have to sound a warning note of challenge as well as minister a word of comfort.
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If temperatures rise too high or machine speeds fall too low, an alarm sounds a warning before the system breaks down.
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Reigning champions Denbighshire soared to a 118runs win over Merionethshire at Gwersyllt to sound an early warning to their challengers.
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In the echoing stillness of the hall at Colcutt Manor it sounded like the four-minute warning .
■ VERB
begin
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What was the trouble today? she wondered, as impatient horn blasts began to sound .
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Then her phone calls became increasingly infrequent and she began to sound increasing remote.
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Old Fakrid's hardly been gone two time units and already our clever First Pilot has begun to sound exactly like him.
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Then the other two began to sound ragged.
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We didn't make Abisko, chickening out as the weather worsened and the forecasts began to sound even more dire.
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After a while it began to sound like Bill was just growing accustomed to getting a rise out of people.
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The Big Three began sounding the alarm in a big way when January sales figures were reported.
hear
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He heard what sounded like a stifled cry of pain from a shriller voice; then the commotion beside him resumed once more.
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When I straightened up I heard a slight sound behind me.
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I would like to hear it as it sounded while it was passing.
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They heard what sounded like a blow.
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I hear his play-flight sounds in the distance.
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Then, through the rain, she heard a scratching sound , followed by a sharp, impatient bark.
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Downriver, they heard what sounded like an avalanche.
make
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Terribly difficult not to make it sound like a silly joke.
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Kirilenko made it sound like a scholarly aside.
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You make it sound as if we're about eighty.
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They made him sound like a homicidal monster.
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Dryden makes him sound a monument of dullness; in reality he is brisk, lively and journalistic.
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She slid it along the counter toward him, making skidding sounds when it reached his arm.
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I've not heard that for quite a while and its unfamiliarity makes it sound strange.
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His eloquent description makes it sound like a building that any community would be proud to have in its midst.
try
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When he tries to sound fiercer he sometimes sounds peevish or wheedling.
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I asked, trying to sound chipper.
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A crooner in a John Collier suit was trying to sound like Vince Hill.
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I tried to sound assured, but her expression unnerved me.
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Mr Annan tried to sound upbeat in the rest of his report.
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Ralph tried to sound hearty and enthusiastic, but his voice struggled from him like a half-drowned river rat.
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So I try to sound interested.
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Mrs Boatwright tried to sound casual.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(hear the sound of) wedding bells
ambient music/sounds
raise/sound the alarm
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Fred Goodyear was so shocked that it was more than eight hours before he raised the alarm .
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He sounded the alarm and the train stopped at St-Pierre-des-Corps, near Tours.
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He was one of the earliest to sound the alarm about the fate of churches and their contents.
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Stewart dispatched a column sounding the alarm .
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The Big Three began sounding the alarm in a big way when January sales figures were reported.
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They have lost no time in sounding the alarm about an impending famine, which they say threatens 1.9m people.
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Volcanologist Pierce Brosnan and small-town mayor Linda Hamilton sound the alarm .
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When the First Lady looked in on him and discovered he was missing, she panicked and sounded the alarm .
sickening thud/crash/sound etc
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Her heart took up a sickening thud.
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One pitched out, hitting the ground with a sickening thud.
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Then she landed on the Market Square flagstones with a sickening crash to lie motionless.
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Then, with a sickening thud in her solar plexus, she understood.
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They heard screams, kicks, the sickening thud of a punch, and the ogre roaring Solper's name.
the ghost of a smile/sound etc
the sound barrier
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"We're all going clubbing tomorrow night." "That sounds like fun."
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$50 sounds about right.
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He sounds a pretty strange person.
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I called my dad and told him what has happened. He sounded really angry.
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If gas levels get too high, a warning bell will sound .
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Istanbul sounds really exciting.
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Jen sounded kind of tired on the phone.
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Several earlier studies had sounded similar warnings.
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That sounds pretty good to me.
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The trip sounds really exciting.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another process boils off the alcohol, which sounds painful.
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I know that sounds very childish and naive, but think about it.
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It sounds like the conceit of a Disney movie.
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It sounds like the Sugarhill Gang must still be in Tokyo.
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She had sounded so nice on the phone, not knowledgeable but pleasantly enthusiastic.
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Your system sounds fine and will certainly support either a Coral Beauty or a Bicolor Angel.
III. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
ecologically
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It's smart, effective, ecologically sound and it does pop in such a thirst-rousing way.
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Governing bodies in Oakland, San Francisco and Berkeley approved resolutions urging the company to adopt ecologically sound procurement policies.
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Working with nature is clearly practical, as well as ecologically sound .
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They consider that unless the farming methods are tackled, no clothing industry can claim that its product is ecologically sound .
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Improved public funding for ecologically sound land management was also discussed, as were criteria for reaching high environmental standards.
environmentally
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Subsidies for production will gradually be replaced with green premium payments to promote environmentally sound management of the countryside.
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One such factor is economic: Poor nations are simply unable to afford environmentally sound consumption and production practices.
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The Guild consists of around 140 writers and winning projects have to be environmentally sound as well as contributing something to the local economy.
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Developing countries need environmentally sound technologies to honour their sustainability commitments under the Convention.
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Unlike the downhill sport, this is cheap and environmentally sound .
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By keeping the tidal mudflats, the conservationists argue, the development will be both more imaginative and environmentally sound .
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The decision on the channel tunnel rail link was environmentally sound .
financially
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To qualify for membership, a company must prove that: it is established and financially sound .
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It maintains that the amount has already been accounted for and that it remains financially sound .
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Emphasis will be placed on identifying well-managed, financially sound growth companies in niche areas.
ideologically
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They're ideologically sound , although sometimes they don't look it, know what I mean?
perfectly
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There predicament is complicated by the far larger number of owners who can not sell perfectly sound concrete houses.
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Still, given our fondness for gunning each other down, fearing the sight of blood seems perfectly sound .
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Her ears, she claimed, were perfectly sound .
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They're shallow and rather rough, but there's no smell of death or disease and they're perfectly sound .
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His judgement was, after all, perfectly sound .
structurally
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According to the board, Ocean Ranger was structurally sound and should have been able to weather the storm.
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But a state judge ruled the buildings were structurally sound and allowed squatters to remain.
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The authority insists that the two storey buildings are structurally sound and safe.
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What you want to know is: Is the building structurally sound and weatherproof?
theoretically
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The first criticism is that, although key settlement policies are theoretically sound , they have been poorly implemented in practice.
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Such analysis provides is with a relatively precise, and theoretically sound methodology for dealing with perceivable changes in character.
very
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The Prime Minister My hon. Friend makes a very sound point.
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The reasoning was very sensible, the logic very sound , and it was fatefully wrong.
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It could prove a very sound investment if he ever decides to sell it again.
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A very sound investment compared to plasterboards of the same thickness.
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Surely leasing or selling to Fulham would be very sound , Instead of being owners of a derelict ground.
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Some people are very sound but can formulate opinions only after prolonged consideration.
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However, despite some very sound features, the scheme foundered due to lack of organizational backing for its revision.
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Bullen's reasons for doing this were actually very sound .
■ NOUN
advice
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However, the market is highly specialised and it is important to operate only on the basis of sound advice .
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Even when commenting on the poor service in the hotel he genuinely attempts to offer sound advice .
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They have both made very substantial contributions to the progress of the Group and we will miss their sound advice .
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Laura Lee's article was well balanced and gave sound advice on a variety of ways forward.
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Any reader wanting the right detector to suit his pocket and plenty of sound advice is welcome to give me a ring.
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Their quality of work is excellent and they offer good, sound advice .
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The days when bank managers ranked with doctors in local communities because of sound advice and fair treatment of customers have long gone.
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In his own inimitable style, Oz provides sound advice on best buys and stockists.
basis
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We are satisfied that the Group's recommendations represent a sound basis for legislation and we propose no changes.
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Yet, relations with Washington are on an extremely sound basis and there is a glimmer of improvement with Seoul.
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Fear and anxiety, then, may have a sound basis .
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Training in local government offers you a sound basis for career flexibility.
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That is a sound basis for setting out to communicate, persuade, sell or argue.
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There is a sound basis behind her success.
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Here, the fact that a conflict of interest is abused is not in itself a sound basis for regulation.
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This will be a sound basis for the School Development Plan described in the previous chapter.
business
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Making a business succeed is not simple - even the best ideas and skills need detailed planning and sound business sense.
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The owner must have either an established business desiring to expand or a sound business plan.
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Educational assistance not only benefits the individual - it also makes sound business sense.
investment
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Bricks and mortar used to much more than a sound investment - it was the best way to make serious money.
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It could prove a very sound investment if he ever decides to sell it again.
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A very sound investment compared to plasterboards of the same thickness.
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Time spent on this aspect is a very sound investment in the ferrets' future performance.
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It was a sound investment by Watford, because Wilkinson topped the club's scoring charts for three successive seasons.
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It was really a sound investment , a first class mortgage, with very good security.
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As a former building contractor, he had an eye for a sound investment in bricks and mortar.
judgement
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He was also beginning to rely very heavily on her sound judgement on a number of things.
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The important thing is to harness growth to self-knowledge, a ready acceptance of change, swift-moving business practice and sound judgement .
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An elegant study, combining sound judgement of Trollope's characterisation with an excellent discursive style.
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This is sound judgement but nothing beyond the reach of average mortals.
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It was an entirely sound judgement .
policy
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It would be a far sounder policy to run down western reprocessing.
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Fifth, sound policy must address the provision of adequate, secure cycle parking.
principle
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It is therefore necessary for nurses to base their practice on sound principles grounded in research.
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It is exactly that willful abuse of discipline that will undermine an otherwise sound principle .
reason
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There are sound reasons for using consultants.
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There is a sound reason for rewording that clause, because that is too frequent an occurrence in day-to-day life in prison.
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While obviously the fixed charge accords superior protection, there are sound reasons for taking a floating charge.
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There were sound reasons for this view.
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As long as a strong argument or sound reasons are given for your opinions they will stand on their own.
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Unless there are sound reasons for so doing, it does not make sense to go outside the established channel.
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There is a very sound reason for this provision.
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As mentioned in the previous section, there are sound reasons for the slowdown in big-city population decline.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(hear the sound of) wedding bells
I don't want to sound/be ..., but ...
raise/sound the alarm
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Fred Goodyear was so shocked that it was more than eight hours before he raised the alarm .
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He sounded the alarm and the train stopped at St-Pierre-des-Corps, near Tours.
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He was one of the earliest to sound the alarm about the fate of churches and their contents.
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Stewart dispatched a column sounding the alarm .
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The Big Three began sounding the alarm in a big way when January sales figures were reported.
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They have lost no time in sounding the alarm about an impending famine, which they say threatens 1.9m people.
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Volcanologist Pierce Brosnan and small-town mayor Linda Hamilton sound the alarm .
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When the First Lady looked in on him and discovered he was missing, she panicked and sounded the alarm .
the ghost of a smile/sound etc
the sound barrier
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A tense atmosphere is easy to create on stage with some sinister music and creepy sound effects.
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Is recycling glass a sound idea?
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The company offers sound financial advice to individuals and businesses.
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The ear picks up sound waves and converts them into signals that it sends to the brain.
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There is no sound reason for the closure of this factory.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At one minute before the start a sound signal is made.
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Because he's sound , thought Mayta.
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I believe that this trend will spread and that it is based on very sound educational grounds.
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Pragmatism as a conception of law does not stipulate which of these various visions of good community are sound or attractive.
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The importance of sound recruitment and selection can not therefore be overstressed.
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There may on occasions be sound educational reasons for adopting a style of interaction in which unfocused questions predominate.
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Throughout the eighties some officials displayed a tendency to overdo the latest idea, often itself not particularly sound .
IV. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
asleep
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And in minutes the old man was sound asleep .
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And when he got back to his own hotel, Sabina had been sound asleep .
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Then I fell sound asleep again.
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He and your dad fell sound asleep in the same bed while I read aloud to them.
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The minute she got into bed, she was sound asleep .
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Most others are still sound asleep .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(hear the sound of) wedding bells
I don't want to sound/be ..., but ...
ambient music/sounds
raise/sound the alarm
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Fred Goodyear was so shocked that it was more than eight hours before he raised the alarm .
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He sounded the alarm and the train stopped at St-Pierre-des-Corps, near Tours.
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He was one of the earliest to sound the alarm about the fate of churches and their contents.
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Stewart dispatched a column sounding the alarm .
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The Big Three began sounding the alarm in a big way when January sales figures were reported.
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They have lost no time in sounding the alarm about an impending famine, which they say threatens 1.9m people.
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Volcanologist Pierce Brosnan and small-town mayor Linda Hamilton sound the alarm .
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When the First Lady looked in on him and discovered he was missing, she panicked and sounded the alarm .
sickening thud/crash/sound etc
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Her heart took up a sickening thud.
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One pitched out, hitting the ground with a sickening thud.
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Then she landed on the Market Square flagstones with a sickening crash to lie motionless.
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Then, with a sickening thud in her solar plexus, she understood.
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They heard screams, kicks, the sickening thud of a punch, and the ogre roaring Solper's name.
the ghost of a smile/sound etc
the sound barrier