adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
far
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Mention of the Ryder Cup brings us to the highlight of Torrance's career thus far .
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The workers of the Red Cross are among the few heroes thus far , he said.
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Kirov mulled over what he knew of the man thus far .
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Only, thus far , what the act of leaving his own is.
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It is thus far from the case that the search for intelligibility comes to an end with history as such.
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The changed look at once dissipated the sinister aspect that the gentleman had generated thus far .
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There is, thus far , no global plan apparent which we would regard as logical and satisfying.
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If this book was simply an academic text it would conclude with Chapter 8, which is a summarizing review thus far .
■ VERB
allow
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More literary verse usually has fewer levels of metrical organisation, thus allowing the poet a more flexible use of language.
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The manometer readings provide the best guide to circulatory volume and thus allow fluid replacement therapy to be accurately calculated.
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The decision as to whether or not to proceed is always made by the originator, thus allowing for his or her growth.
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The response was rather disappointing but at least 40% of the forms were returned thus allowing the scheme to go forward.
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All manufacturing units have been consolidated into United Distillers Production Inc., thus allowing for significant rationalisation and productivity enhancement.
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It binds to haemoglobin much more readily than oxygen, thus allowing the blood to carry less oxygen.
avoid
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Governments are constantly striving to create equality thus avoiding conflict and hardship such as this Court ruling has done.
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In order to obtain better prices for their cotton, black businessmen sent it directly to Galveston, thus avoiding local middlemen.
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They can thus avoid the costs of variety and added risk in a volatile market.
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The system thus avoids the seemingly interminable delays that bedevil on-line services when they are used to transmit graphics.
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He will thus avoid buying material before it can be used by accepting a small and defined risk of delaying production.
become
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In distinctive feature analysis the features themselves thus become important components of the phonology.
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But as public school attendance became mandatory, and as graduation thus became commonplace, the number of college students increased astronomically.
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It has thus become a vicious circle of spoken mumbo jumbo.
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This collection of materials for the building of the temple thus becomes an acceptable free-will offering because it is acknowledged as gift.
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But although Gloucester was thus becoming politically visible for the first time, he was as yet of only limited importance.
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The photographic camera thus became the foremost means for producing or recording such images.
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It thus became unsafe for Richard Baxter to remain in Kidderminster.
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Obtaining food and drink thus became a tricky balancing act.
create
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Imperialism focused on one or two natural resources, thus creating a homogeneous agricultural proletariat, all doing the same labouring job.
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The court thus created the first exception in eighteen years to the Miranda rule.
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Information about the study is presented clearly and concisely, thus creating an ideal text for nurses new to evaluating research reports.
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The money thus created is put into use and then constitutes an interest-free loan from the populace.
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Moreover, overcapacity reduced margins during the 1980s when the real costs of construction rose, thus creating higher barriers to entry.
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This is done by adding an edge L to K, thus creating a cycle.
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The Conservatives say its imposition would raise business costs and thus create unemployment.
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Goods/services are supplied by the seller to the buyer, thus creating an obligation to pay a sum of money.
enable
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Glasses soften rather than melt, thus enabling their characteristic working into complex shapes.
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These were mainly used for pumping water out of mines, thus enabling deeper seams to be exploited.
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Before 1905 was out the spectre of social upheaval thus enabled the Tsar's government to regain the initiative.
ensure
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Myeloski had then insisted that they commandeer the seats on either side, thus ensuring them of privacy on the journey.
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Involving users directly in the needs assessment process, thus ensuring them a voice in assistance provided to them. 3.
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Bright 16-year-olds abandon all but two or three academic subjects, thus ensuring that scientists remain unread, and arts students maths-blind.
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The dynamics of capital accumulation thus ensure that property is distributed unequally, and that it remains so.
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The number of people seen is high - up to 100 patients a day - thus ensuring that unit costs are kept low.
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Consequently, it was decided that he should no longer be fed, thus ensuring that he would die.
give
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Wage incentives were needed to motivate officials, thus giving bureaucracy an institutional and material basis for power.
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Great areas of grass and woodland thus give way to mesquite desert, at an awesome economic loss to man.
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Each area is scored out of 10 and the company is thus given an overall rating out of 200.
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Collectivism is thus given a very positive image when linked to constitutional guarantees of individual rights.
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Every four years each of the fields would be fallow at least once, thus giving the soil a rest.
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I improvised by putting colour into an ice cube tray - thus giving me deep wells and plenty of colour.
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And her victim had run away, and thus given herself away.
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Beds representing marine invasions may contain marine shells or brackish water shells, thus giving an indication of local conditions.
increase
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The over-confident driver or motorcyclist may overtake without due caution, thus increasing the risk of causing a road traffic accident.
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By compounding emphasis, the favorite sites get more visitors, thus increasing further visitors.
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The tax has the effect of reducing the overhead component of retailing and thus increasing total output.
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Both are more efficient ways for subscribers to download and upload more and larger files, thus increasing network usage.
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The money supply will thus increase .
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This results in prolonging the action potential and thus increases calcium influx into the cell.
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Not surprisingly these devices are distributed with little or no instruction on correct use - thus increasing women's health problems.
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In addition, some subsidy programs help to raise interest rates and thus increase borrowing costs for traditional public activities.
leave
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The sick spider at the heart of the web? Thus leaving the descendants of the cabal in charge of the Imperium?
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They were thus left to fend for themselves, aided only by the diplomatic intercession of the Protestant Cantons.
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Indeed, to change this evaluation and thus leave Plato behind is the most important change we have to bring about.
make
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Kasparov prefers to keep the board crowded, thus making White's defensive task as difficult as possible.
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It can also cause a reduced milk yield, thus making the pups cry, creating yet more stress.
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It thus makes Britain a technological backwater.
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Animal Adoption Visitors may adopt an animal and thus make a contribution towards the cost of that animal's upkeep.
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It would have a repulsive gravitational effect, and thus make those regions expand in an inflationary manner.
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Note that financial assets and liabilities cancel one another out, thus making net worth equal to the value of physical assets.
provide
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The wall thus provides a template for the pattern of the migrating cells.
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History-events may occur in addition to the experimental treatment and thus provide alternate explanations of effects.
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Clearly this definition can be generalized in order to compare a number of different systems and thus provide a useful comparative measure.
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The ward thus provides an ideal setting for learning.
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These are both very liquid and interest-earning assets and thus provide a valuable second line of reserves.
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The network thus provides a relatively systematic means of comparing intuitions about texts.
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Such questions will often generate discussion among the students generally and thus provide a useful means of stimulating their interest.
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It thus provides a gross measure of the extent of euro-currency intermediation.
reduce
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The main effect of these changes was to create a number of new authorities and thus reduce their average size.
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A man of practical rather than financial intelligence, Garth failed as a builder and thus reduced his family to frugality.
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The Stock Exchange thus reduces the cost of capital to companies.
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They could be purchased cheaply, thus reducing models' fees.
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To optimise the allocation of available resources and thus reduce the usage of scarce resources such as energy.
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This would reduce aggregate demand directly and thus reduce the transactions demand for money.
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The idea is to retreat to the oasis whenever you can, thus reducing your overall exposure.
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This creates grounds for closure of the less popular school and thus reduces educational provision in the more deprived area.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Doucet sums it up thusly: "To me, Cajun music really is the heart of our culture."
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The houses were used for soldiers. Thus , the structures survived the Civil War.
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The product was delivered on time, and we have thus fulfilled our promise.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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External reality and psychic reality are thus inextricably intertwined.
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Obtaining food and drink thus became a tricky balancing act.
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The recent and the more or less distant past thus combine in the amalgam of the present.
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The tax has the effect of reducing the overhead component of retailing and thus increasing total output.
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There are thus a considerable number who appear in the autobiographies as simple vignettes.
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This allowed for fairly good availability of well selected donor organs thus more easily facilitating an urgent transplant programme.