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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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completely
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It is also because nuclear weapons have not completely transformed the military and moral environment in which we live.
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If things continued this way for any other biotic population, that population would be erased or completely transformed fairly quickly.
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His discovery completely transformed the way we think about space and time.
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These new therapies have completely transformed home health care as well.
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Besides, when some one spoke to me, I was completely transformed .
■ NOUN
cell
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Invitro ras and p53 mutants cooperate to transform primary rat cells into cells capable of lethal tumourigenesis.
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Invitro, oncogenes cooperate to transform cells and render them tumorigenic.
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Invitro certain combinations of oncogenes cooperate to transform primary rat cells .
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Then, with luck, some of the reintroduced, transformed cells will differentiate to form germ cells in that embryo.
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As well as transformation of established 3T3 cells , p53 will also cooperate with mutant ras genes to transform primary rat cells.
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But they were able to add transformed cells to existing embryos.
city
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Government will commission the best designers, artists and architects, for instance, to help communities transform run-down city centres.
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And it transformed the city into a thriving inland port.
country
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Cars transformed the country , be-coming in the process the most important product in the whole economy.
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It's a historical commonplace that this extraordinary cohort of Hitler's unwanted transformed their adopted country .
economy
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In ten years, the Thatcher governments transformed the political economy and the public culture.
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Within a span of decades, technological advances, organizational innovations, and new ways of thinking transform economies .
face
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He had an engaging smile, quite boyish, which transformed his otherwise serious face .
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One variable will be the pace of technological change, which has already transformed the face of agriculture.
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As he spoke I was very conscious of the smile which transformed his usually impassive face .
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The Industrial Revolution transformed the face of the countryside and thrust workers together in the new urban environments, packed and smoky.
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But these changes are slowly, resolutely transforming the face of our world.
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The analysis spans a period when technology and communication techniques transformed the outward face of policing.
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She turned to face me and gave me that vivid smile that transformed her already delightful face.
image
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It would transform the image of State education, and do the tattered Royal image no harm either.
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Pete Wilson successfully transformed the image of the industrious immigrant into a military threat.
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Computer programs can transform these images to plan views but the resolution can not match that achieved by conventional photographic films.
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Fine snow fell and transformed the image of the wood.
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VidiPC form Rombo Productions is a video frame grabbing package which transforms a video image into a digitised format.
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The co-operative hopes to transform the area's image .
life
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For Information Technology is going to transform all our lives - we have hardly seen anything yet.
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By a second child you have already transformed your life .
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That first call had been the start of a campaign of intimidation that had transformed Polly's life into a living hell.
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There, they would later say, he learned how to cope with his learning difference, and effectively transformed his life .
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A whole range of material and cultural innovations in the late nineteenth century had begun to transform urban life .
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Their desire for knowledge, however, was so strong that it transformed their lives .
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By investing in public transport, we start to transform commuters' lives and create a cleaner environment.
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They also have deeply transforming life proposals.
power
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At night, the glare of the power station lights transform the complex into something like a beached transatlantic liner.
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Those guys only wish that spending millions of dollars on a series of unrelated thrills had the power to transform them.
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In essence, the power structure at Mega transforms itself.
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The outcome is a power which transforms the nature of the relationship between the police and the public.
situation
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Gregory insists he did not get carried away with all the hype and is still confident he can transform the situation .
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Further, as the present case shows, the introduction of a possible Community law defence may transform the situation .
society
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The repeal of Section 28 won't transform society .
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What should happen is that development should be seen as a way of transforming society rather than asset portfolios.
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Marx believed that the class struggle which would transform capitalist society would involve none of these processes.
world
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His conquests transformed the ancient world and ushered in the Hellenistic age of great monarchies.
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Part one focuses on the hippie culture that spread out from the Haight to transform the world .
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And there, beyond the books on the windowsill, her floods, transforming the world like the eye in love.
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They take action in order to discover, or to serve, and in the process transform or improve the world .
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By exploring and changing our inner world , we begin to transform our outer world.
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He wants to surpass and astound them by transforming the world .
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We do not want to transform the world once again into a place for religious fighting.
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The war had transformed the world , and the nation had changed with it.
■ VERB
help
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Government will commission the best designers, artists and architects, for instance, to help communities transform run-down city centres.
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From the work, a few of the helpers and a few of those being helped emerge transformed .
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It is understood the company will look for design and advertising agencies to help transform the brand into a fashionable label.
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As he passed through the congregation, Jim picked out the faces of people who had helped Tom transform Holy Trinity.
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We believe that the analysis of these four cornerstones can help women transform themselves into subjects of their own reality.
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In those eight years they have helped transform Republican presidential politics by wrenching it to the conservative side.
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This attitude has helped to transform science into a wonderland of the imagination.
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We will work to help the churches transform their view of what communication is and should be. 2.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In the last 20 years, Korea has been transformed into a major industrial nation.
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Well, you've certainly transformed this place - it looks great!
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When she smiled, her face was completely transformed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf, but it transforms itself at the last moment.
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Francois Michelin describes this secret process as the equivalent of float-glass making, which transformed the manufacture of sheet glass.
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In a more limited sense, Piaget, like Hegel, is attempting to transform Kantian ontology into a dialectical movement.
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Of course it can be well worthwhile simply to transform cultured tissue in this way.
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The new system transformed the way managers thought about their money.
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These bodies can not be considered truly incorrupt since the tissues are transformed into another substance.
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Under the program, the government sold shares to citizens for a nominal fee to quickly transform state enterprises into private companies.