I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an evening suit (= a formal suit that men wear to social events in the evening )
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He put on a black evening suit.
bathing suit
body suit
boiler suit
business suit
cat suit
designer clothes/jeans/suits etc
jogging suit
lounge suit
match/suit sb's mood
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The terrible weather matched her mood.
morning suit
paternity suit
sailor suit
shell suit
suit of armour
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a knight wearing a suit of armour
suit sb’s requirements (= be suitable for someone in a particular situation )
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You could design and build your own house to suit your requirements.
suit the convenience of
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Services should be run to suit the convenience of the customer, not the staff.
suit the occasion
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The table was decorated to suit the occasion.
suit...fine (= be very acceptable to me )
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If I had a good job and my boyfriend stayed at home, that’d suit me fine .
suit/satisfy/appeal to sb’s tastes (= provide what someone likes )
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We have music to suit every taste.
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The magazine caters for all tastes.
suits...to a T
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That dress suits you to a T .
sweat suit
swimming suit
tailor sth to meet/suit sb’s needs/requirements
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The classes are tailored to suit learners’ needs.
three-piece suit
trouser suit
union suit
wet suit
zoot suit
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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He was wearing black track suit bottoms, black white and yellow T-shirt and three-quarter length yellow coat.
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Through the interface of the black carapace the suit plugged into his spine with nerve electrodes and into his motor nervous system.
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You've arrived wearing a black suit with padded shoulders and a whole garden pinned to your lapel.
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Every other man at the funeral was in a full black suit with a black tie.
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His black suit , now tinged with green, was shiny at the elbows and knees.
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But Tuesday night she appeared soft, relaxed and regal, even in a businesslike black pants suit .
blue
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He wore a blue suit of safari cut, a non-military colour but a safari-suit none the less.
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By now the cross-country vehicle had disgorged its complement of heavyweight occupants, also dressed in identical blue suits .
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Mrs Lewington of Wokingham also described a middle-aged man in a blue suit .
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Barbara is beside me in a fine blue suit .
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He was flurried, middle-aged, but smartly dressed in a blue suit .
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New husband Guy Ritchie looked on wearing a blue boiler suit and trainers.
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I tell you, the man had his blue suit on.
brown
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He had refused to buy any new clothes for the wedding but the brown suit had been brushed and pressed.
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Five men in brown suits sat beside each other on a bench in front of the largest structure.
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At this point, a large man in a brown three-piece suit ahead of me looked up from a sheaf of notes.
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Uncle Art bending over, having a coughing fit, spilling coffee on his good brown suit .
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His wattle throat sagged above his careful tie and clean brown suit .
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He was dressed in a crumpled brown suit with a brown shirt and tie.
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She was wearing a brown wool suit and hat, under which could be seen the ends of her curly bobbed hair.
civil
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Only 42 civil suits resulted, with no verdicts in favor of the plaintiff.
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Chester, Pennsylvania, paid $ 7 million in judgments in civil suits for police abuse in a period of eighteen months.
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Canseco is now 6-0 in civil suits .
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The guy could still walk, and we had filed a civil suit , for assault and battery.
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The civil suit , which had sought $ 10 million in damages, ended in an undisclosed settlement on Tuesday, however.
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Forsyth sued; but when the civil suit was finally argued, he lost.
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Similarly, some justices bristled at the idea of using the Constitution to grant presidential immunity from civil suits .
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Other defendants in the civil suit are Lend Lease Development Inc., which is coordinating the mall renovation.
dark
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He was wearing a dark suit .
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Gray, a prosperous-looking lawyer in his tasteful dark suits , asked for the presidential apology and brought the survivors to Washington.
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With a smothered exclamation, she rested her face against the smooth material of his dark suit jacket.
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A policeman, a thin man in a dark suit .
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Connon, rather pale but perfectly composed, wearing a dark suit and a black tie, stood in the open doorway.
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Although they were dressed formally in dark suits , both men were wearing heavy rubber boots in deference to winter.
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He was photographed by Man Ray in a sharp, dark suit with a striped shirt and white collar.
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Slender Wallace in the dark suit was very handsome.
good
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He sagged inside his best grey suit , and his black armband looked like a bandage.
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Uncle Art bending over, having a coughing fit, spilling coffee on his good brown suit .
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He wore his best suit , a clean silk shirt and shaved extra close.
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We dressed him in his best dark blue suit , light blue shirt and red tie.
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Mum wore a pretty blue dress and Dad was wearing his best suit .
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Alida Thorne wore her best suit , a straight-skirted mohair tweed in jewel green.
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He wore his best suit which had been redeemed from the pawnbrokers and was freshly cleaned and pressed.
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I remembered that sometimes men are decked out in their best suits with collars and ties.
gray
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Ivanov clad in a maroon and gray jogging suit , was staring at a television.
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Off they come, as does my gray suit , which is nothing special but seems strangely fraudulent here.
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Citizen Oswald came to town wearing his dark tie, cashmere sweater and gray flannel suit .
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Shirts in red, brilliant blue, bright yellow and orange were worn with navy and charcoal gray suits .
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He was wearing an old raincoat over his usual gray suit , button-down shirt, and necktie.
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Zhou had discarded his usual severe tunic for a gray Western business suit , and he meant business.
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The image of Hong Kong was all business, gray suits , glass-walled towers.
grey
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They were dressed in smart charcoal grey suits and had dark grey hair.
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I put on a dark grey suit with a fine stripe, a grey woollen tie and a soft white shirt.
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Then, at lunchtime, Mrs Thatcher met a group of the so-called men in grey suits .
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Dressed in a smart, grey suit and black tie, the former Beatle looked very happy.
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Urquhart had come straight from the office and was still wearing a grey suit with a red tie.
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Tea is brought by a small furtive man in a grey safari suit .
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Nor was she forced out by the men in grey suits - though intrigue played a major role.
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One definitely has a grey suit underneath, and the other is probably the same.
new
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Hire costs, or the price of a new , smart suit , should be built into your calculations.
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This season we are on a planet and we have a new suit this season.
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Walsh, bedecked with new suit and executive glasses, had pitched in with his usual aggressive style.
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He looks trim and well turned out in a new dark suit .
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I palmed the Olympus Trip into my overalls while pretending to tidy my sports bag and new suit .
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So he went one year at Easter time and got himself all outfitted in a new suit and hat and topcoat.
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Farrah was dressed in a new white romper suit with pink trimmings.
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A few months later Corinne and Joe sent him a new suit for his birthday.
smart
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They were dressed in smart charcoal grey suits and had dark grey hair.
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A smart suit with cheap uncomfortable shoes generally reveals a man posing above his station.
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Mrs or Mme Wyatt wore patent-leather shoes and a smart brownish suit with a gold brooch.
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Hire costs, or the price of a new, smart suit , should be built into your calculations.
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Dressed in a smart , grey suit and black tie, the former Beatle looked very happy.
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A more continuing change has been the wearing of smarter suits by most males and of brighter colours by many ladies.
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They go, in their smart suits and ties, back to the village.
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She seldom wore the pretty dresses or smart suits that Scarlet bought her, preferring her rags.
strong
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Perhaps the order of the destruction of Ixora's men was random; logic was not the doctor's strong suit .
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You can see Jack s strong suit was menace.
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Denial is not my strong suit .
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Appetizers are the strong suit of the menu.
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That, to me, is its strongest suit .
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Dynamic range has never quite been the Cowboy Junkies' strong suit .
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Education and health are alleged to be Labour's strongest suits .
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At that stage, math is simply following steps and watching out for details, her strong suit .
white
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She had taken off her waterproofs to reveal a white one-piece suit .
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Inside the car were three dark men and a tall man in a white suit and straw hat.
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The man was dressed in a white duck suit and a pale-blue silk shirt and a grey silk tie.
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People nudged one another and nodded at this tall stranger, conspicuous in his limp white suit and dark shirt.
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Yesterday he donned white suit and cowboy boots for the service while Lynn sported a white silk wedding gown.
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He recently strolled to the office on size-14 wing-tip shoes, which smartly complemented his white suit .
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Farrah was dressed in a new white romper suit with pink trimmings.
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Honda provides comfortable two-piece white work suits for every associate from top to bottom.
■ NOUN
boiler
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It may have been the way the exhaust pipe stained his boiler suit .
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Overalls: Full bodied boiler suit style overalls are sufficient protection for most activities.
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New husband Guy Ritchie looked on wearing a blue boiler suit and trainers.
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Special Branch ... Two men in boiler suits emerged from inside the rear van.
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One wears a blue boiler suit with a white logo.
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Beneath the boiler suit Morpurgo wore a shirt and tie.
business
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He wore a business suit which lacked the elegance of his chief, Howard.
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Some are dressed in business suits .
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He wore a charcoal-grey business suit , with a pristine white shirt and maroon silk tie.
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The business suit and bedroom suite are nearly obsolete.
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He hadn't even got a coat or overall to cover his business suit .
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He wears excellently tailored business suits , buying six a year from the best shop on Michigan Avenue.
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We would therefore have felt out of place wearing business suits .
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George, tall, handsome, in a well-cut business suit , is staring adoringly into her eyes.
jacket
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His dark hair had been trimmed and lay tidily against the high collar of the grey, swallow-tailed suit jacket .
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With a smothered exclamation, she rested her face against the smooth material of his dark suit jacket .
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Manion unbuttoned his suit jacket and moved out from the podium area.
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Him: suit jacket , £680; striped shirt, £190.
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He was ready, right down to the Cal button in his suit jacket .
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Then his fingers fumbled to unfasten the small buttons of her suit jacket .
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The bishop never took off his suit jacket or removed the glittering cuff links engraved with his episcopal shield.
linen
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Was this really Guido standing before her, looking unbearably handsome in a pale linen suit ?
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He had arrived from Minneapolis in a linen suit and had a bad case of the trots.
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I was dressed in a cream linen suit with a light grey silk blouse.
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In a light cream linen suit , cream silk shirt and gold striped tie, he was alarmingly attractive.
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I used to wear just shorts and shirt in the bush and needed to get a linen suit run up for tonight.
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He was wearing a perfect linen suit and was the epitome of taste.
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Isobel was laughing at something Edouard had just said; she was wearing a white linen suit , her green eyes sparkled.
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Carmichael wears his beloved white linen suit , this time with a yellow sweatshirt.
pinstripe
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Alternatively you could pick up a pinstripe suit from tried and trusted Marks &038; Spencer.
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The effect is similar to dressing a tall man in a pinstripe suit - it simply accentuates the length!
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Opposite page Black and yellow silk pinstripe suit , £970; mustard wool sweater, £477; both by Gianni Versace.
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The commander sat in a pinstripe suit behind his desk, an island of teak in a sea of purple carpet.
safari
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Tea is brought by a small furtive man in a grey safari suit .
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The three cameramen, smiling at the camera for their picture, are wearing identical green safari suits .
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She wore a safari suit and khaki hat perched on her slipping load of hair.
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Amin was wearing an electric-blue safari suit with matching sombrero.
sailor
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He was in his sailor suit , dressed for church.
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He put on a sailor suit for real during a stint in the Navy.
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Not from his cradle of course, since his sailor suit days.
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Incredible deltoids, biceps, buttocks, and thighs outlined and simultaneously gripped by the tight cut of his sailor suit .
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Lily, I've on my new sailor suit .
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He still wears a sailor suit , the cowlick at his hairline gives his forelock a life of its own.
shell
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The youths, aged about 15, dressed in brightly shell suits were riding mountain bikes.
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The men are in shell suits and have moustaches.
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Even the humble sparkler can cause horrific injuries when combined with a highly flammable shell suit .
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Now we are considering our own Shell suit with a small logo on the front.
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He was wearing a blue and yellow shell suit top and light, almost bleached jeans.
trouser
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The see-through trouser suit she had designed herself had caused a sensation at Rachel Ansorge's party.
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Rose was wearing a tulip-red trouser suit , diamond earrings and a large aquamarine ring.
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The easy cut of this trouser suit makes it comfortable enough for office or weekend wear.
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He would like her, in her trouser suit , blue and new, frilled collar and cuffs with lace.
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The woman was in her mid-thirties, dressed in a black trouser suit and white sweater.
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Sister Casualty off duty invariably wore a trouser suit , white shirt, and silk cravat in assorted colours.
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By Jessica Mann I was wearing a trouser suit .
tweed
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A little later, neatly dressed in tweed suit and cashmere jersey she climbed the stairs to Phoebe's flat.
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He lay around all afternoon in his brown tweed suit , and even pulled a button off the jacket.
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Behind the table sat a large three-piece tweed suit .
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He was not in uniform, unusual for him, wore a tweed suit , white shirt and black tie.
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In the opposite corner was a portly man in a baggy tweed suit .
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But he stooped and appeared to shamble as he walked, chunky and untidy in his tweed suit .
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She was a large lady, dressed in a tweed suit , with a pleasingly direct manner.
wool
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Centre Pinstripe wool suit , £399, Daks at Simpsons.
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She does not succeed in persuasively outing the Don Juan / Superman with his diabolical red beard and Jaeger wool suits .
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As a result, the traditional party outfit of flamboyant cravat and tweed jacket has been replaced by the ninety-nine-pound wool suit .
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She was wearing a brown wool suit and hat, under which could be seen the ends of her curly bobbed hair.
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Right Pinstripe wool suit , £650, Burberry.
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He is wearing a wrinkled black wool suit and vest.
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Opposite page, right Wool suit £390, Jasper Conran.
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She selected a £225 grey-green wool suit , £23 shirt and £20 silk tie.
■ VERB
bring
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By the way, have you brought your bathing suit ?
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It was not the Human Rights Commission, but Adtranz, that brought suit .
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But it is not a very good one, since it is available only until the moment that Titius brings suit .
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The railroad brought suit in state court on interstate-commerce grounds and won.
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He was supposedly making arrangements to bring his suit and his hair back to Los Angeles for this big game.
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Mackenzie brought suit to try to prevent Toronto and London from taking power from Hydro.
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Gobitis brought suit against the board of education and won his case in the Pennsylvania courts.
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Cameron need a lawyer to bring a suit against the school board?
file
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Aikens, who is black, has filed suit alleging she was discriminated against because of her age and race.
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Microsoft Corp. has filed suit against a Houston computer manufacturer as part of a nationwide crackdown on software piracy.
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They have filed a federal discrimination suit .
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And so when a furor arose as the press began reporting on Teen Shuttle-like operations, advocates considered filing suit .
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Other phone companies were stung by the sophisticated ring, but they have not filed suit .
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The bank said it discovered the wrongdoing last May and later filed suit against him.
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We had filed suit to pass judgment on Harvester.
follow
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They had accepted it for what it was, and never bothered to probe deeper, and she had followed suit .
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He argued that Salomon Brothers should follow suit .
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The B &038; Q chain has already decided to do so, and Texas Homecare is likely to follow suit .
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Time and again his thoughts would begin to drift, and soon thereafter his steps would follow suit .
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If it then moves away it allows those behind to follow suit .
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The federal court system already offers no discretionary challenges to potential jurors, and state courts could follow suit .
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This pierces and derails the first two trailers, causing the following cars to follow suit .
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The upper house is expected to follow suit in a vote scheduled for later today.
settle
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Years later, they settled the suit , and Juan got his share -- a whole $ 1, 300.
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High-tech advocates say that would force them to settle frivolous suits out of court rather than risk their personal fortunes.
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The company was eventually forced to settle a costly shareholder suit .
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Texaco settled a suit for $ 176 million last November.
wear
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He was wearing a dark suit .
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We would therefore have felt out of place wearing business suits .
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Everyone wears a suit and tie to the table.
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Rose was wearing a tulip-red trouser suit , diamond earrings and a large aquamarine ring.
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She was wearing a brown wool suit and hat, under which could be seen the ends of her curly bobbed hair.
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Still wearing the suit and not having any idea what the hell is going on.
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I remember that she wore dark suits and talked slowly in a deep voice.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
empty suit
follow suit
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When Allied Stores reduced their prices, other companies were forced to follow suit.
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Almost all anthropologists have followed suit, speaking of primitive cultures as compared with the civilizations that more developed societies have evolved.
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Alvin followed suit, but he had a few falls anyway as he went into one of his famous knee slides.
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As Little Rock cashes in, other Arkansas towns are following suit.
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Clothiers in Baintree and Barking followed suit and demanded the return of thrums from their weavers.
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He had sold all his sheep and bought a truck, and was trying to convince others that they should follow suit.
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Orkney Presbytery followed suit, stating their very grave misgivings about the procedures followed by Orkney Islands Council.
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Other countries are preparing to follow suit.
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The federal court system already offers no discretionary challenges to potential jurors, and state courts could follow suit.
ideally suited/placed/situated etc
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It is ideally situated along a charming stretch of canal, near to the Waterlooplein.
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Missing too are some of the ski mountaineering classics which are ideally suited to Nordic touring gear.
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Researcher Robert Glover felt that Austin was ideally suited to launch a school-to-work effort.
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The clearing banks were ideally placed.
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The hawthorns are a greatly under-rated family and several are ideally suited for small gardens.
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These skills need much greater emphasis in schools, and work-based learning is ideally suited to acquiring them.
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This is another species ideally suited to the heated aquarium.
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We have large quantities of plutonium already separated and in forms ideally suited for nuclear weapons.
in your birthday suit
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Martin's threatened to turn up for the wedding in his birthday suit.
men in (grey) suits
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An underground company that isn't dominated by the grey men in suits.
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And so did the other half-dozen men in suits standing around, fingering the silky negligees.
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Armies of worried men in suits stormed off the Lexington Avenue subway line and marched down the crooked pavements.
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For the rest, we saw only tyrants, technology and men in suits.
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Looking out, she saw men in suits getting into the medium-sized cars.
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Nor was she forced out by the men in grey suits - though intrigue played a major role.
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Then, at lunchtime, Mrs Thatcher met a group of the so-called men in grey suits.
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When he asked for Hugh Sixsmith at the desk, two men in suits climbed quickly from their chairs.
pinstripe suit
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Alternatively you could pick up a pinstripe suit from tried and trusted Marks & Spencer.
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Opposite page Black and yellow silk pinstripe suit, £970; mustard wool sweater, £477; both by Gianni Versace.
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The commander sat in a pinstripe suit behind his desk, an island of teak in a sea of purple carpet.
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The effect is similar to dressing a tall man in a pinstripe suit - it simply accentuates the length!
power suit
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Even today, most politicians rarely wear neckties, much less power suits.
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Shoppers find an abundance of red power suits.
safari suit/jacket
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Amin was wearing an electric-blue safari suit with matching sombrero.
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In his Roos-Atkins collapsible hat and safari jacket, he might have stepped from the pages of Field and Stream.
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She wore a safari suit and khaki hat perched on her slipping load of hair.
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Tea is brought by a small furtive man in a grey safari suit.
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The three cameramen, smiling at the camera for their picture, are wearing identical green safari suits.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Bob was wearing a business suit .
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She wore a black suit for the interview.
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The restaurant seemed to be filled with men in grey suits.
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Vince was dressed in a blue wool suit .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An author who does not register a copyright will not be able to maintain a suit against anyone who makes unauthorized copies.
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He lay around all afternoon in his brown tweed suit , and even pulled a button off the jacket.
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Sophiatown itself-erased by the brutal apparatchiks of apartheid in 1955-is as much the protagonist as the suit .
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The father's suit didn't fit.
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The Food Lion suit has been closely watched because hidden-camera reports have become a popular staple of network newsmagazine shows.
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There is a range of 12 sizes, meaning there's a suit to accurately fit almost everyone.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
best
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The mathematical singularity arises because the set of coordinates imposed everywhere is best suited to regions of small curvature.
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And although many people claim that dictation is best suited for Perry Mason reruns, dictation does have some benefits.
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What sort of person would be best suited ?
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They are not prescriptive and it is open to you to implement them in the way that best suits your firm.
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There is some evidence that managements select those choices that best suit their ends.
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However, this is purely a matter of experimentation and discovering what best suits your method of working.
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The matrix approach is best suited for complex projects which require the simultaneous efforts of experts from several disciplines.
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The power culture is therefore best suited to smaller organisations, where the leaders have direct communication with all employees. 2.
better
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On-line mediation did not find much support-the respondents said the psychology of mediation was better suited to face-to-face discussions.
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On any other label, this could be the recipe for lackluster recordings by players better suited for small groups.
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On the whole, feminists throughout the period agreed that women were better suited by nature to home-related tasks than were men.
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Two months later he received a promotion better suited to his talents.
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I decided the bird was far better suited to the conditions than me.
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Light and nimble, it was better suited to the terrain.
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The system is a heavy user of both men and machines and so is probably better suited to contractors and larger farmers.
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Nubby fabrics, for example, better suit a casual style, while smooth fabrics are more formal.
ideally
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It's also ideally suited to photographers' assistants who want to progress.
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Researcher Robert Glover felt that Austin was ideally suited to launch a school-to-work effort.
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With its great lakes and long coast line, the continent was, it seemed, ideally suited to the flying boat.
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We have large quantities of plutonium already separated and in forms ideally suited for nuclear weapons.
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He loves the ground and is ideally suited by a testing two miles.
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In short, he was ideally suited for long-distance sailing on an increasingly waterlogged bamboo raft.
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The Meltemi will be ideally suited for the Angelina.
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These skills need much greater emphasis in schools, and work-based learning is ideally suited to acquiring them.
more
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Moreover, the arable land is more suited to collective as opposed to subsistence farming.
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Few people are more suited to the task.
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The general science courses may have been more suited but have proved less attractive.
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The burly Contaldi looks more suited for flattening cornerbacks than roll casting with precision.
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Other studies have shown the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary to be more suited to the needs of a text recognition system.
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This tape is more suited to those with some yoga experience.
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No other theme was more suited to bring this about.
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I think it is definitely a prospect that you move here to Dallas with a new job, something more suited .
particularly
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This payment structure is particularly suited to projects which generate a large capital sum on completion.
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McGregor thought Amelia was particularly suited by temperament for scientific work because she had such a lively interest.
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They are particularly suited to the assessment of Outcomes concerned with analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
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It seems that limited settings or subjects are particularly suited to the crime short story.
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A family-run hotel, the Sporting features many amenities which will particularly suit families on holiday.
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It is particularly suited to fantasy cakes as it is easy to use and provides a soft, smooth surface.
perfectly
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They are thus perfectly suited to the analysis of our beliefs about causal chains or sequences.
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I used the bike extensively around London and it was perfectly suited to dealing the city's often poor roads.
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Declan McGonagle has a background perfectly suited to his new post as director of the museum.
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The heavy boughs and dark leaves of the copper beech that spread over the drive perfectly suited her mood of despair.
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The role of Logan is perfectly suited to Kingsley's gifts for control and stillness.
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She had the confidence to go for something outside her immediate experience, but which she was perfectly suited to.
well
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Their gold band design on ivory, white, and black backgrounds is very well suited to living room areas.
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Marty social services are simply not well suited to companies whose basic motive is profit.
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Materials whose grain size distributions fall within the limits specified for zone 3 fine aggregates are well suited for certain tasks.
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It is well suited to speech and pattern recognition applications, and makes neural networks an add-on technology to existing processing.
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For this they were peculiarly well suited by reason of their durability, portability, uniformity and ease of recognition.
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Messaging is well suited for both client-server and peer-to-peer computing models.
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Its rectangular frame is well suited to beef production.
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Nor did he seem well suited to the law.
■ NOUN
circumstances
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Then you have to modify the base to suit particular circumstances .
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While never forgetting that ultimate goal, he constantly shifted tactics to suit changing circumstances .
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Many people take a part-time or lower-paid job because it suits their circumstances and is a good choice for them.
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Therefore it was not possible for my Working Group to prescribe a single policy which would suit all circumstances .
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You should decide exactly what is in them, to suit the circumstances of your own campaign.
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For example: Obviously the times should be chosen to suit the circumstances .
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It looked something like this: Want to be earning 30,000 a year, working flexible hours to suit your circumstances ?
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To the human eye horses use five distinctly different facial expressions to suit different circumstances .
convenience
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Services should be run to suit the convenience of customers, not of staff.
job
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It can be useful to ask yourself whether the profile that emerges is one that suits the job you are applying for.
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I explained why I was suited to this job . 11.
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As Mr Gorbachev's popularity wanes, the question of whether Mr Yeltsin is suited for such a job becomes more urgent.
mood
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But it had suited her mood , too.
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Sculptors after this give statues of women a new dress which better suits the changed mood .
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She reread Howard's End, twice, it was so beautifully fatalistic, she said, it suited her present mood .
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It suited Charles' melancholy mood well.
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It doesn't suit the mood .
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The physical privation of lying for hours on cold wood suited her mood .
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With the paths so well marked it's easy to make up walks to suit your mood and fitness.
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Willis Meals to suit every mood from self-service snacks to cafe society fare served in elegant luxury.
need
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Your local Crime Prevention Officer can advise you on the best type to buy to suit your specific needs .
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Most near-Earth asteroids follow trajectories that are much better suited to the needs of belt-bound Earthlings.
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We are able to offer you a comprehensive letting and management service which was created to suit all needs .
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If I were a free agent, those are the places I would go, a place best suited for my needs .
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A concept, rather than a uniquely defined product, it will be implemented to suit customer's individual needs .
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At Pollock Halls, the full-board menu includes some vegetarian dishes, though these might not suit the needs of all vegetarians.
occasion
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The Pep Squad prudently supplies its members with canned responses to suit almost any occasion .
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Each evening the menu reflects the theme with waiters wearing uniforms to suit the occasion and make each dinner a special experience.
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Appendix A contains precedents which can be adapted to suit the occasion .
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The series was moved to Cork from its usual four-year cycle to suit the occasion .
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Hotels: Details of Croydon hotel rates to suit all pockets are available from the office.
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The solutions encompass a wide range of options to suit all tastes and pockets .
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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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And tailor-made ... throw-away fashion that suits the pocket of the thrifty.
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There are many choices of decking systems available, to suit all pockets , so shop around.
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And the vast range in prices according to cabin, ensures that there is something to suit every pocket .
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Eight local hotels, with a price range to suit all pockets , offer very attractive theatre packages.
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As with most saints, his virtues are emulated and his homilies obeyed by his devotees only when it suits their pockets .
purpose
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It must suit the purpose for which it is used.
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The czars introduced constitutional guarantees, only to ignore them whenever it suited their purpose .
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Hedges are an example of the readiness of ordinary people to bend the language to suit their purposes .
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It is up to the practitioner to decide which stance is best suited to a particular purpose .
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I prefer reverse-flow undergravel filtration and an Eheim 2215 would suit your purposes quite well.
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On the high ground, the soldiers were shrouded in a heavy mist, suiting their purpose perfectly.
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Now that he is gearing up for November, part of his strategy involves blurring the Contract to suit his purposes .
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Herbaceous perennials suit my purposes admirably.
requirement
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Investors can build a portfolio of zeros with staggered maturity dates to suit their requirements .
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These days there are a range of sizes, specifications and prices to suit nearly every requirement .
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Even to the extent of formulating new or repackaging existing products to suit specific requirements .
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To meet these needs we have a wide range of plans which can be adapted to suit individual means and requirements .
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Each Savoy bed is constructed from natural materials and can be specially made to suit individual requirements .
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Drawing on our knowledge of the city we can tailor make all the arrangements to suit your particular requirements .
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Accommodation is available on lease conditions to suit tenants' requirements and short-term lettings may be considered.
taste
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Finishes range from a white polyester-coat stove-enamelled finish to chrome, brass and gold plate - to suit all tastes and purses.
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The following version can be adapted to suit your tastes .
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The solutions encompass a wide range of options to suit all tastes and pockets.
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I have no ego problems with people using my ideas to suit their tastes .
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Hotels and how we grade them Enterprise has a huge range of hotels with something to suit all tastes and budgets.
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The magazine carries a series of articles to suit all tastes and is excellent value at just £1.
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Given the vast range of options HyperDisk supports, it should suit everyone's tastes .
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This inexperience appears to be their only real drawback, but obviously the style of architecture did not suit Hope's taste .
type
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Most hair care worries can be sorted out by changing your basic routine or using products to suit your hair type .
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Different types of behaviour are suited to different types of measurement.
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In that practice you will discover different ways of obtaining the information to suit the different types of cases.
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Designed to suit all skin types , for use with or without the sun, during sun exposure, and after sun.
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No less than five pages are about different services to suit all types of hearing loss.
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There are distinctive styles and finishes to suit all types of houses and all budgets - prices range from £5,000-£50,000.
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Choosing shampoo Look for a formula to suit your hair type .
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Together with the multi-grain loaves, there are breads to suit every type of meal.
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adapt
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Indoors, there are many ways in which you can adapt your environment to suit the needs of your pets.
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The following version can be adapted to suit your tastes.
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To meet these needs we have a wide range of plans which can be adapted to suit individual means and requirements.
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You must adapt to suit the environment - the environment can't change just for you!
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Developed in response to customer demands, the process is currently being adapted to suit individual industrial needs.
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Unconsciously, we adapted our routine to suit the new conditions.
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The details of the cakes can of course be adapted to suit your own inclinations, ability and time available.
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Appendix A contains precedents which can be adapted to suit the occasion.
change
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Scientists and politicians are not going to change their language to suit the alleged capacities of pupils in schools.
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An organism adapts to another when it changes itself to suit the latter.
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Beginning at the point of need does not imply changing the gospel to suit the situation.
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Their meanings change continually to suit the circumstances in which they are used.
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Each slide can have a sound event associated with it, so you can change the sounds to suit the mood.
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He was little affected by the Civil War, changing sides when it suited him.
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Show Results - Shows results for a particular week or team - again, can be changed to suit yourself.
choose
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For example: Obviously the times should be chosen to suit the circumstances.
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We have seen that a consumer chooses the variety that suits him best, given prices of available varieties.
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Was it chosen to suit your weight and with comfort in mind, or did you just like the look of it?
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There are several top manufacturers' heat generators to choose from, to suit different sized homes.
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Different lengths of pipe can be chosen to suit varying lengths of cane.
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He seemed to choose hymns that suited the weather.
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Women should be free to choose what suits them - and their families - best.
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I choose my assignments to suit myself.
find
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It is best just to find a racket that suits your game.
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Now he has found a life that suits him.
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Briggs found this approach suited his work perfectly.
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There is enough choice nowadays for those who prefer a different taste to find one that does suit them.
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If necessary, try out one or more methods until you find the one that suits you and your partner best.
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There is so much to see and do; everyone will find something that suits them.
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Try them all to find the one that suits your palate best.
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The following will all come in useful but with experience you may find alternatives that suit you better.
seem
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Kirov sorted through the photographs, choosing two or three which seemed to most suit his purpose.
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These forlorn survivors seem badly suited to a world which has gone on without them.
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With its great lakes and long coast line, the continent was, it seemed , ideally suited to the flying boat.
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In that respect, she and Tiffany seemed suited for each other.
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The geography of Boiotia might to a shallow observer seem to suit her for naval hegemony.
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All the things that were expected seemed to suit me for a while.
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She didn't seem to suit the fat tummy and at the end, she just looked awful.
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Plus the Warriors' new fast-paced offense hardly seems suited for the plodding Marshall.
tailor
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They now had the means to tailor curricula to suit what they perceived to be the abilities and interests of individual children.
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His commands are absolute; no man may tailor them to suit his fancy.
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Obtaining information about divorce should always be voluntary and should be tailored to suit the individual's own requirements'.
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It enables us to tailor our solutions to suit the needs of different places.
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It was inflexible, refusing to allow its members to tailor policies to suit their individual needs.
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Not lies, the truth - albeit cut and tailored to suit my own purposes.
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These options can be tailored to suit if you find they aren't easily remembered or clash with some other option.
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Popular nursing mythologies are demystified and explained and advice given on tailoring re-entry preparation to suit individual learning needs.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
empty suit
ideally suited/placed/situated etc
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It is ideally situated along a charming stretch of canal, near to the Waterlooplein.
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Missing too are some of the ski mountaineering classics which are ideally suited to Nordic touring gear.
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Researcher Robert Glover felt that Austin was ideally suited to launch a school-to-work effort.
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The clearing banks were ideally placed.
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The hawthorns are a greatly under-rated family and several are ideally suited for small gardens.
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These skills need much greater emphasis in schools, and work-based learning is ideally suited to acquiring them.
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This is another species ideally suited to the heated aquarium.
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We have large quantities of plutonium already separated and in forms ideally suited for nuclear weapons.
in your birthday suit
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Martin's threatened to turn up for the wedding in his birthday suit.
men in (grey) suits
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An underground company that isn't dominated by the grey men in suits.
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And so did the other half-dozen men in suits standing around, fingering the silky negligees.
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Armies of worried men in suits stormed off the Lexington Avenue subway line and marched down the crooked pavements.
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For the rest, we saw only tyrants, technology and men in suits.
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Looking out, she saw men in suits getting into the medium-sized cars.
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Nor was she forced out by the men in grey suits - though intrigue played a major role.
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Then, at lunchtime, Mrs Thatcher met a group of the so-called men in grey suits.
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When he asked for Hugh Sixsmith at the desk, two men in suits climbed quickly from their chairs.
pinstripe suit
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Alternatively you could pick up a pinstripe suit from tried and trusted Marks & Spencer.
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Opposite page Black and yellow silk pinstripe suit, £970; mustard wool sweater, £477; both by Gianni Versace.
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The commander sat in a pinstripe suit behind his desk, an island of teak in a sea of purple carpet.
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The effect is similar to dressing a tall man in a pinstripe suit - it simply accentuates the length!
power suit
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Even today, most politicians rarely wear neckties, much less power suits.
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Shoppers find an abundance of red power suits.
safari suit/jacket
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Amin was wearing an electric-blue safari suit with matching sombrero.
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In his Roos-Atkins collapsible hat and safari jacket, he might have stepped from the pages of Field and Stream.
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She wore a safari suit and khaki hat perched on her slipping load of hair.
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Tea is brought by a small furtive man in a grey safari suit.
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The three cameramen, smiling at the camera for their picture, are wearing identical green safari suits.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Do you think this colour suits me?
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Finding a time that suits everyone is going to be difficult.
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It takes time to find a college that will suit your child's needs.
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Make sure you choose a computer that suits your needs.
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Steve was wearing a red silk shirt that didn't suit him at all.
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That dress would really suit Annie.
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The weather here suits me fine.
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They found us a house close to the campus, which suited us very well.
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This is a job that would suit someone with a lot of experience abroad.
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Which day would suit you best?
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Your hair suits you like that.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Domestically, we were not badly suited.
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Drawing on our knowledge of the city we can tailor make all the arrangements to suit your particular requirements.
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I have no ego problems with people using my ideas to suit their tastes.
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It seems that limited settings or subjects are particularly suited to the crime short story.
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Labour is clearly unwilling to address that issue, and tailors its words to suit its audience.
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She had developed a voice, a linguistic style that suited her own experience.
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That will give you total reliability and manners suited to the road.