adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
completely/fully/totally/entirely satisfied
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If you’re not completely satisfied, you can get your money back.
completely/totally destroy sth
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The plane was completely destroyed when it hit a mountain.
completely/totally disappear
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My spectacles have completely disappeared again.
completely/totally ignore sb/sth
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He had completely ignored her remark, preferring his own theory.
completely/totally illegal
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The deal was completely illegal.
completely/totally/absolutely useless
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The treatment is completely useless.
completely/totally/quite wrong
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I may be completely wrong.
firmly/totally/fully etc convinced
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Herschel was firmly convinced of the possibility of life on other planets.
fully/totally/wholly committed
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Both sides claim to be fully committed to the peace process.
largely/totally/completely etc irrelevant
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His age is completely irrelevant if he can do the job.
purely/totally/completely objective
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the importance of a completely objective, independent press
totally deaf (= completely deaf )
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He was totally deaf, and unable to walk.
totally reject
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My client totally rejects the accusations.
totally ridiculous
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The idea is totally ridiculous.
totally unexpected
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Her death was totally unexpected .
totally unfair
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It’s totally unfair to blame one player when the team doesn’t play well.
totally unprepared
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I was totally unprepared for the challenge which faced me.
totally unsuited
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I now realize that Tom and I were totally unsuited .
totally/completely unaware
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Children were playing next to the railway line, totally unaware of the danger.
totally/completely/almost/partially blind
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She’s almost blind in her right eye.
totally/completely/entirely unnecessary
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The suffering of these animals is totally unnecessary.
totally/completely/utterly exhausted
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Looking after a baby on my own left me feeling totally exhausted.
totally/fully organic (= containing only food that is produced using organic methods )
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All the ingredients are totally organic.
totally/highly/completely etc irresponsible
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When it comes to money, Dan is completely irresponsible.
totally/wholly/woefully/hopelessly etc inadequate
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The building’s electrical system was completely inadequate.
wholly/totally/completely etc inappropriate
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His comments were wholly inappropriate on such a solemn occasion.
wholly/utterly/totally etc convincing
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Courtenay played the role in an utterly convincing way.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
blind
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So they spend their lives in darkness, and, having no use for eyes, are totally blind .
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The vast majority of people retain some useful sight, however, and very few become totally blind .
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She's ninety-three and totally blind .
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Where the column crosses an exposed area its flanks are guarded by soldiers, armed with huge jaws and totally blind .
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Previously pupils with very little useful vision were referred to and treated all too often as if they were totally blind .
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Without an eye you are totally blind .
dependent
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The quality of our products and services is totally dependent on the quality and commitment of our people.
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Its inhabitants, including 230,000 refugees from surrounding areas, remained totally dependent on outside food supplies.
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I didn't want to be totally dependent on any one source of income or any one group.
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Iris is totally dependent on Donald who retired early to care for his wife.
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With wild cats it ensures that the animals do not become totally dependent on one kind of prey.
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She is totally dependent on her daughter for help with bathing, washing, dressing and feeding.
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People saw themselves as being totally dependent on top management.
different
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They will have a totally different interpretation of family life and of the so-called moral nature of the matter.
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Mentally, physically, totally different .
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Well, it may be simulating the same sport, but it's a totally different sort of game.
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In one way it was very much as she had expected, yet it was also totally different .
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And it was able to set off on a totally different , and more professional, tack.
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They were a totally different set of people from the ones I knew before.
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This is happening for totally different reasons.
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Videos, based on a totally different set of values, are now shown regularly in the village.
false
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The impression you gave that I provided your reporter with new information following the meeting is totally false .
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A: No, they are totally false .
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Yet anyone who wishes to understand the latent determinants of human behaviour would be unwise to reject this excuse as totally false .
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But the end result still runs the risk of leaving the viewer with a totally false impression.
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The former might result in a totally false comparison with outside sources.
free
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Does an open school mean totally free access to teachers, class rooms and corridors at all times?
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Some time-outs are occasional: a break, a totally free and passive period, at the end of every big project.
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But the spoils are enough to cushion the realisation that she will never be totally free of this marriage.
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There should be no mistaking where the logic of a totally free , totally integrated world labor market leads.
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Public-service broadcasting is creating programmes totally free of any commercial consideration.
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This program is totally free to the kids who participate, and the eventual national champions win college scholarships.
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Under a totally free floating rate, total currency flow surpluses will be eliminated by an appreciation of the exchange rate.
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A problem with making recordings direct from electronic instruments is that they are totally free from any natural reverberation.
inadequate
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Is the Marxist explanation, therefore, totally inadequate ?
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Residential provision is extremely important and at present totally inadequate in terms of the extent of the need.
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About half the impoverished households have one member employed, but their wage is totally inadequate .
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The local people naturally defend their crops, usually with totally inadequate weapons such as ancient shotguns loaded with buckshot.
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Two bascule bridges and one swing bridge further upstream had become totally inadequate .
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Mr Milburn slammed the rise as totally inadequate .
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Today's local area network systems are totally inadequate for such gigantic flows of information.
inappropriate
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Ireland, with inflation above 6 %, has negative real interest rates, which is totally inappropriate .
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Nothing would destroy her - least of all these totally inappropriate emotions for a man who had brought her nothing but misery.
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Fine for a static Dalek, but totally inappropriate for a mobile machine.
irrelevant
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Think what a clutter there would be if your mind were filled with sights which were totally irrelevant to you!
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As l have just remarked, the particular physical embodiment of an algorithm is something totally irrelevant .
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Political and nationalistic considerations are totally irrelevant .
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The fact that Niall Grant was a very attractive man was totally irrelevant .
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It was pathetically inadequate for the poor and totally irrelevant for everyone else.
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Whether or not that helps to fill church pews is totally irrelevant .
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They have accorded it blind respect while considering it totally irrelevant to the real world.
new
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Parents are accorded a totally new status in the 1958 Bill.
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This procedure is not limited to totally new projects and is applied to significant modifications to existing plants.
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By the year 2000, millions of people will be working in totally new occupations that do not exist today.
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He was made responsible for marine operations, an area of the business totally new to him.
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The next chapter, dealing with the history of marriage, is, however, totally new .
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From the beginning, the Enfield facility was in-tended to be an experiment in a totally new technological and work-system design.
ridiculous
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Which is, of course, totally ridiculous , when you look at it rationally.
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And the action premise that completes this credo may seem totally ridiculous in these troubled times.
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What a totally ridiculous dream - and about Fen of all people, the last person imaginable, a man she disliked.
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Who turned the scene round, made it work so that the rest of the operetta is not totally ridiculous ?
unacceptable
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In doing so, he would inevitably have descended into the arena in a totally unacceptable way.
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On the other hand, if the parameter is representative of a developing trend, it may be totally unacceptable .
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It is amazing how dominant the educational establishment has been for so long, which is totally unacceptable .
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Business as usual must be totally unacceptable .
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Again, it is not surprising that most Christians find this theory totally unacceptable .
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This sort of behaviour is totally unacceptable .
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The rival proposals for Stratford are totally unacceptable .
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He told parliament there had been a totally unacceptable series of events.
unaware
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Clients are often totally unaware of how negatively they may be talking to themselves, anticipating failure and minimizing success.
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And the speaker may be totally unaware of laying a trap.
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If you are feeling tense, you can be totally unaware of how tense.
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The enemy should be totally unaware of their arrival.
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She brushed away the tear that she'd been totally unaware was slowly trickling down her face.
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She couldn't believe that the parents were totally unaware of their daughter's remarkable talents.
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He wasn't brave or courageous - just totally unaware of fear in times of crisis.
unexpected
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The very first season did produce a totally unexpected bonus, however.
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To be shut out at home in two of the last four games is very weird and totally unexpected .
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It's quite clear that the eruption was totally unexpected .
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By seizing an opportunity she opened up a new and totally unexpected position for the future.
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It was totally unexpected , and there was little if any warning for the local authorities involved.
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Yet the most impressive songs take a totally unexpected tack.
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But others are totally unexpected-another example of emergent properties.
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The answers the workers gave were totally unexpected .
unnecessary
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Their suffering is totally unnecessary when they could easily be slaughtered near the farm of production.
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It was totally unnecessary , to begin with.
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A locum consultant failed to spot the result of her earlier test and arranged for a totally unnecessary exploratory operation.
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The funny part of the story is that it was totally unnecessary .
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The tendency to categorize black sportsmen and women differently from the rest is faintly racist and, I believe, totally unnecessary .
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As is now clear, it was this totally unnecessary act of hubris that more than anything else frightened the voters away.
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Biological media is totally unnecessary and a waste of space.
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What is happening here is barbaric and totally unnecessary .
unprepared
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Britain was totally unprepared for the cataclysm of the Franco-Prussian War late in 1870 and still less for its outcome.
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Sadly, most people find themselves totally unprepared financially and the consequences of that can be disastrous.
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I was totally unprepared for Delhi, yet old enough to understand what I saw.
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She may have been totally unprepared but she still managed to win her first round match quite comfortably.
unsuitable
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Not only are they moving away, but often they are also moving to a place totally unsuitable for elderly people.
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Prisons, too, are forced to handle men with profound psychiatric problems in conditions which are totally unsuitable .
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The room which houses the material is totally unsuitable for use as an Archive Research Room.
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The properly of disabled owner-occupiers may be totally unsuitable for them.
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If your car seems totally unsuitable for transporting the patient, you may have to exchange it for a different model.
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They use it to eliminate those candidates they feel are totally unsuitable .
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The most obvious solution was simply to cancel the operation as the weather was totally unsuitable for parachuting.
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How many ponies end up in totally unsuitable homes or in so-called sanctuaries.
useless
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Luckily they were totally useless in front of goal.
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But now I see he was totally useless to learn from.
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Soft defences would have been totally useless .
wrong
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Mark, however, didn't bother to fake his results: If they're totally wrong I don't generally bother.
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Lesley was forced to have the baby in my eyes, and to me that's totally wrong .
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He thinks it is totally wrong and immoral to do things like that.
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It would, however, be totally wrong to assume that all apparitions are angels on assignment.
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My speculation over police motive could certainly be totally wrong .
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Are the printed facts in the book I have totally wrong ?
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Assumptions based on the analogy of the Zinoviev letter could be totally wrong .
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This, in my view, is totally wrong and contrary to my notions of natural justice.
■ VERB
become
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With wild cats it ensures that the animals do not become totally dependent on one kind of prey.
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Also, if you become totally and permanently disabled, you can tap your retirement savings at any age without penalty.
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He was desperate to understand his sexuality, and afraid of becoming totally homosexual.
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The vast majority of people retain some useful sight, however, and very few become totally blind.
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Cheesemaking only becomes totally economic if all the products from the process can be used.
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It is possible to become totally caught up in the drama of real life, just as it is with fiction.
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In fact it was an extraordinary event and all the people who were there became totally engaged.
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Firstly, members of the lower strata may become totally demoralized.
commit
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It requires holding your nerve, being totally committed and believing absolutely that's what you have got to do.
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My doctor is totally committed to this community.
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That shows that the Government are totally committed to encouraging academia and industry to work together in that excellent and successful programme.
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He was a good friend of John's, and I knew he would be totally committed .
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I was a port in the storm of a marriage to which, fundamentally, he was totally committed .
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The Secretariat is totally committed to providing an efficient and professional service for the Bar and others that we come in contact with.
convince
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Despite Yvonne's cheering words, I wasn't totally convinced that everybody liked dogs!
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We do not seek for all to be totally convinced .
destroy
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If dated by conventional radiocarbon, it would have been totally destroyed during measurement.
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The tunnels were never totally destroyed , nor were they ever emptied.
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Chokoria Sunderban, an 18,000-hectare mangrove forest in Cox's Bazar, has been totally destroyed .
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Most of the houses in the village itself were totally destroyed , and 3,000 people were killed.
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The Deaf Institute in Bath was totally destroyed , and all records were lost.
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It's a bit of a mess but it's not totally destroyed .
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This building was totally destroyed , and the deaf of Weymouth were without a club for some months.
feel
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You will feel totally alone because you have relied on some one to do things with you and for you for some time.
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She felt totally unnerved by the encounter, and wasn't ashamed to admit it.
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Would you like to feel totally happy with yourself and able to cope with any situation without feeling inadequate?
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She suddenly felt totally drained; relief at getting home again had brought about a release of all her emotions.
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The person feels totally unable to take any more of these feelings and imagines that the feelings themselves will get much worse.
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At the moment she felt totally disinclined to do any such thing.
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They feel totally secure within a fostering relationship.
ignore
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The document has almost totally ignored motorcycling.
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A better approach is to continue to be friendly and businesslike, while totally ignoring their petty comments.
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The youngsters learn that there is nothing to fear and, after a time, they also totally ignore the traffic noise.
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We were practically shocked our results were totally ignored .
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Otherwise we just elect a few representatives who can totally ignore our wishes for several years after we have counted the votes.
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They would rave for twenty minutes about the mouse, and totally ignore the significance of bit-mapping.
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She was, in short, too bloody much, and not only that, she was totally ignoring me.
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The neuron may totally ignore regions of visual space lacking boundaries.
lose
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Mr T has totally lost his hearing.
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I almost totally lost it today.
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Any payments will be deducted from any claim under section 8 if the goods are totally lost . 10.
oppose
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It is totally opposed to the qualities of gentleness, patience and self-restraint.
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We have also totally opposed some practices such as the use of live bait.
satisfy
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In the regions the greatest level of disquiet was in the south-west, where 25 % of members were not totally satisfied .
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I could be totally satisfied just hanging out at my home.
seem
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Not only that, but it seemed totally unrealistic to me.
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And the action premise that completes this credo may seem totally ridiculous in these troubled times.
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If your car seems totally unsuitable for transporting the patient, you may have to exchange it for a different model.
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The whole place seemed totally deserted.
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And yet you don't seem totally disappointed at the reaction you got!
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He seemed totally relaxed, and I felt the prickle of my fear.
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Last season the whole defence seemed totally up the creek.
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Usually he didn't, and Richie seemed totally confident as he stood there holding the posts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All of the ice had totally melted.
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He totally ignored my advice.
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I agree totally .
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Los Angeles is totally different from New York.
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Myers said that a two year prison sentence for rape was totally unacceptable and inadequate.
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What you're saying is totally ridiculous.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Clearly, the only totally adequate indication of the content of a document is the text of the document in its entirety.
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It was totally out of the blue.
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It was a strange action by some one totally convinced he was in the right.
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Little wonder that, once, she'd been totally taken in.
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The tunnels were never totally destroyed, nor were they ever emptied.
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They are a totally different ball of wax.