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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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But its major effect was to make life slightly more tolerable for those at the sharp end of the beat system.
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She will make my misery more tolerable , my slavery only half-slavery, my exile less a banishment.
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There are also a lot more things we can do to make this treatment more tolerable .
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Fortunately, this soon declined to a more tolerable rate.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An active social life may make the boredom of work more tolerable .
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It was a tolerable existence, but only just.
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Most traffic jams are tolerable , lasting only 5 minutes or so.
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The new measures can only hope to keep fraud at tolerable levels.
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The taste of the medicine is bitter but tolerable .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All in all, it was better to have a tolerable tenement than the ideal which no one could afford.
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If you can make a bad orchestra tolerable , that is valuable.
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No manner of violence toward another human being is tolerable to me.
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She will make my misery more tolerable , my slavery only half-slavery, my exile less a banishment.
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The tolerable was always becoming suspect, and the suspect often tolerated.
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The survey has produced the first national estimate of below tolerable standard houses derived from consistently applied methods.
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There must have been a time when each of these practices ceased to be tolerable and reasonable behaviour.