noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a patient receives treatment/a drug
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Twelve of these patients were receiving treatment with a new drug.
a patient responds to treatment (= starts recovering )
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Some patients respond quickly and satisfactorily to treatment.
a treatment outcome (= what happens whan a particular medical treatment is used )
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Funding is provided to collect and analyze data on treatment outcomes.
an effective treatment
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Antibiotics are still the most effective treatment for this disease.
degrading treatment
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the degrading treatment that the prisoners receive in jail
dental treatment/care
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Dental care was free in the 60s.
emergency treatment (= medical treatment given to someone when they have been injured or become ill suddenly )
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The driver is undergoing emergency treatment at Park Royal Hospital.
equal treatment
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Everyone should get equal treatment under the law.
harsh criticism/treatment/punishment etc
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His theory met with harsh criticism from colleagues.
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the harsh measures taken against the protesters
hospital treatment/care
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What do older people think of hospital care?
lifesaving surgery/treatment/drugs etc
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The boy needs a life-saving transplant operation.
medical attention/treatment/care
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The injury required urgent medical attention.
received...treatment
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He received hospital treatment for a cut over his eye.
residential treatment facility
shock treatment
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the government’s shock therapy economic programme
star treatment (= special treatment that a star gets )
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Winners get star treatment from the media.
surgical equipment/instruments/treatment
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scalpels and other surgical instruments
undergo treatment/surgery/an operation
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The cyclist underwent emergency surgery yesterday after a collision with a car.
VIP treatment
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We were given VIP treatment .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dental
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Products offered by service industries include hospital care, dental treatment , holiday arrangements and accountancy services, for example. 5.
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Teeth Dental treatment is free during pregnancy because teeth can be troublesome.
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In addition higher charges were made for all forms of dental treatment and new charges introduced for sight and dental checks.
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In midst of massive dental treatment - it feels like the rebuilding of Windsor Castle in my jaw.
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Nor was there any notice explaining how to get dental treatment on the National Health Service.
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The Community Dental Service is required to provide clinical dental care for those patients refused dental treatment by a general dental practitioner.
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Those who spend time as a hospital in-patient for dental or maxilla-facial treatment get £50 a day.
different
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Whenever possible buy the yarn by length rather than by weight as different fibres and treatments can vary the weight of yarns a great deal.
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Thus, depending on the type of problem presented, different treatment goals and methods should be considered.
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The point may be illustrated by the different treatments of violent death in art and entertainment.
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Depending on which label sticks, very different kinds of treatments will be suggested for him.
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Neither the classical variables nor the different treatments influenced survival in high grade lymphoma.
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In the high grade group, none of the variables or different modes of treatment influenced mortality.
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Measuring the quality of the hospital service is obviously difficult, especially given the diversity of different forms of treatment .
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Watercolour papers undergo different sizing treatments at various stages of the papermaking process - applied internally or externally.
effective
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In four of them, the elemental diet was as effective as steroid treatment in achieving short term remission.
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Without effective treatment , many patients, like this lawyer, wind up homeless or incarcerated.
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The most effective treatment before 1960 for severe and disabling depression was electro-convulsion therapy.
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Indomethacin is also very effective in the treatment of gout and may be associated with less prominent side effects.
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But the immature brain cells were the most effective treatment in the rats, says Sandberg.
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In economic terms, sclerotherapy was clearly the most cost effective treatment .
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A corneal transplant is usually the only effective form of treatment .
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But an effective treatment may be near at hand.
equal
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The courts and tribunals were made responsible for ensuring the smooth running of electoral campaigns and equal treatment of candidates.
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However, it was clear from the way she spread the toes of her other foot that it desired equal treatment .
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Questions about equal access to services and equal rights to treatment also raise important issues about the value of particular interventions.
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In any event, the needs of humans warrant full and equal treatment to those of owls and snail darters.
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It is particularly concerned to ensure fair and equal treatment for all shareholders.
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Maybe blacks will start getting equal treatment in the justice system.
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They would still not have equal treatment with Falklands war widows, who receive about £124 a week.
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We are firmly committed to equal treatment for men and women in pensions.
harsh
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Furthermore, the harsh treatment of slaves was fully supported by the legal system.
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In the civil case, the plaintiffs sought to shield him from such harsh treatment by limiting the scope of his testimony.
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Ending in harsh treatment and pain, and a lingering scar.
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Yet the trend towards harsher treatment for young offenders continues.
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Those persecuted for their religious beliefs were singled out for particularly harsh treatment .
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When let out to private contractors, corruption and harsh treatment of the paupers was too often added to failure.
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They prefer not to break the beast's spirit with harsh treatment .
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There a barren woman is a potential witch and punished with low status and harsh treatment .
ill
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It's at this stage that they receive some of the worst treatment .
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Perhaps the worst treatment Graham had to endure was an experiment with ultra-violet rays, carried out at the local hospital.
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It soon shows ill treatment , as well as responding to conditioning and care.
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She'd suffered worse treatment from punters in the past.
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Any acts of ill treatment , harm or abuse must be detected quickly and properly punished.
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Britain can not get the best performance from our employees by giving them the worst treatment .
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The Minister will be aware that, in 1989 and 1990, 726 complaints of ill treatment were made.
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Such guardianship was seen as a way of protecting vulnerable people from exploitation, ill treatment , or neglect.
medical
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Some medical treatments , such as partial gastrectomy, may also lead to osteoporosis.
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Many young people are struggling with a depressive illness that requires medical treatment .
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Unfortunately, none of the published randomised trials have shown that medical treatment improves fertility.
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Furthermore, there was no appreciable research under way that promised better medical treatment in the future.
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For medical treatment after the assault.
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But, analytically, a right to die is not dissimilar from a right to hasten death by terminating life-sustaining medical treatment .
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The special needs of a mentally disordered person are for specific medical and psychological treatments and procedures.
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Considerable degeneration of the endometriosis occurs after two months of medical treatment , and symptoms should therefore diminish.
new
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Their finding could lead to new treatments for muscle wasting in humans, or ways to conserve muscle tissue during space flight.
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She will try a new treatment , if they suggest it.
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There's a new treatment programme that could be the answer you are looking for.
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In addition, some promising new treatments are now available.
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You will let me know of course if you think it better to discontinue this when I start the new treatment .
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Any claim of a new treatment for dyslexia is certain to be controversial, in part because the stakes are so high.
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The research and clinical communities are scrambling to learn more, try new ideas, and explore new treatments .
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We are seeing more people survive with very, very profound injuries because of new emergency treatment .
preferential
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Carey Lohrenz received preferential treatment and inflated grades during flight training.
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It is not as though regular blood donors receive preferential treatment when they come to need a transfusion.
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In cases of race and gender bias, such decrees often have produced quotas and preferential treatment for the aggrieved party.
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Does he agree that that will lead to preferential treatment for private patients and creeping privatisation?
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Employees and contractors have been given preferential treatment and get the total amount applied for.
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Perhaps you are ignoring your existing pet, and giving preferential treatment to the newcomer?
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It was made clear that trade would be at international prices, with no subsidies or preferential treatment .
residential
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The introduction to the first five steps of the Anonymous Fellowships while in a residential treatment centre is only an introduction.
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Further residential treatment after hospitalization may be indicated.
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Do family members ever require residential treatment ?
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However, community care -- from outpatient medicine refills to short-term residential treatment -- was voluntary.
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I propose a limit of three months' free residential treatment .
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But the wait for residential treatment averages 60 days, Katz said.
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Cost-cutters were warning that foster care and residential treatment were becoming budget-busters.
special
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A neonatal intensive care unit is, on this view, a good example of special treatment .
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That would raise eyebrows, as well as suspicions of special treatment .
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It is hoped she will help and advise patients who need special treatment .
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But Forbes would lose special tax treatment for his farm in New Jersey.
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It can single out for special treatment the special aggravating features of a crime.
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But as San Francisco characters, the Mitchell brothers always got special treatment from the press.
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Five-foot sash cramps sort out the main frame; the brackets need special treatment .
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Pensioners and the disabled would be singled out for special treatment , whether they paid rates or not.
surgical
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The most extreme example of this was in the surgical treatment sometimes meted out to women.
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Controversy exists over the influence of medical or surgical treatment of gastro-oesophageal reflux on Barrett's oesophagus.
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Successful surgical and medical treatments are both followed by an appreciable rate of recurrence.
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Before the availability of endoscopic bile duct intervention surgical treatment was the usual approach to management.
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A change in management was recorded if manometry changed either medical or surgical treatment .
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Restorative proctocolectomy is the procedure of choice for most patients who require surgical treatment for ulcerative colitis.
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Urgent surgical treatment by direct suture ligation is the treatment of choice, but the prognosis for most patients is extremely poor.
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The authors draw attention to what seems to be a large regional variation between rates of surgical treatment for glue ear.
■ NOUN
drug
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But when drug treatment is given, the protein pumps the drugs back out, so they have little effect.
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Moreover, few patients, if any, have their cholesterol decreased to very low levels with drug treatment .
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Evaluation of the cost effectiveness of drug treatment is in its infancy, and health economics can inform the debate.
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A law to give counties funds to develop drug treatment on demand.
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The total duration of maintenance drug treatment was comparable in the two groups.
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At first, the doctors try drug treatment .
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By contrast, the report lists a range of drug treatments for allergies.
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The therapists and the interviewers who assessed treatment effect were blinded to the drug treatment the patients were receiving.
facility
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Water treatment facilities are non-existent in the area, with chemicals such as chlorine unobtainable to stop the outbreak.
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Llanos came to Washington, apparently to enter a psychiatric treatment facility for priests in Maryland.
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There might be, he concedes, a few problems with small firms with inadequate or non-existent treatment facilities on site.
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Likewise, growing population placed increasing demands on electric generation and water treatment facilities .
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We have heat treatment facilities here that nobody else can replicate.
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But unless the city met the requirement, it would have to build a $ 135 million treatment facility .
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The new treatment facilities should be commissioned in late 1993.
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The first priority is to provide sewage treatment facilities .
group
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There was no significant difference in the severity of the colonic inflammation between the treatment groups .
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Dutton has for years run treatment groups for abusers, most of whom arrive under court mandate.
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Visual analysis of the data showed that the growth rates of the treatment groups were parallel until day 19 and then diverged.
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All treatment groups did better than controls on drinking measures and legal problems.
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An essential ingredient of this is the ability to categorise each patient by disease type or treatment group .
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After residents had been without therapy for nearly a month, treatment groups were formed for processing the incident, records state.
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Differences between treatment groups were taken to be significant if the type I error was less than 0 05.
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There were no significant differences in the serum lactate, pyruvate, or alkaline phosphatase concentrations between the treatment groups .
hospital
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More than 20 officers needed hospital treatment .
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One victim was stabbed; others required hospital treatment as a result of the attacks.
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Their victim needed hospital treatment for cuts and bruises.
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That night, scores of people were beaten badly enough to require hospital treatment , including twenty newsmen.
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It was time for the Essex Ambulance Service to be called into action as a player from each side needed hospital treatment .
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The protester needed hospital treatment and months of physiotherapy after being run down.
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There were 56353 hospital treatment periods because of pancreatitis.
plant
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Substantial investment programmes in information technology and new effluent treatment plant to meet the latest regulatory requirements were also initiated.
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Since incorporating in 1988, the city has connected fewer than half its residents and other users to its wastewater treatment plant .
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But at the moment only a few treatment plants in Britain have the equipment to do this.
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Example: Diamond is supposed to provide the sewer lines and a treatment plant .
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The mechanical and water-treatment plant is contained in the basement.
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The cost of a new sewer treatment plant ?
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Nothing is maintained, sewer networks, water pipes, or treatment plants , so health hazards have flourished.
sewage
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Those beaches which benefit from improved sewage treatment systems, such as Hunstanton in Norfolk, are praised for their water quality.
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It consists of stripping these compounds out at sewage treatment works.
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Demonstrating the cleaning powers of modern sewage treatment plants is something of an obsession for those who work there.
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Translated into reality, it means a self-contained sewage treatment garden plant and a haven for Britain's natural flora.
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Nearly half its people live without public services such as a sewage treatment system.
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The owner says the problem is caused by a Severn trent sewage treatment plant half a mile upstream.
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It cooed about sewage treatment , environmental improvements and coastal waters.
water
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This is particularly useful for small communities and in developing countries, where special water treatment is not available or prohibitively expensive.
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Activities i. Evaluate technologic aspects of food processing and water treatment that may promote infectious disease emergence.
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Water &038; Ventilation Keith Morgan has been promoted to sales manager north for the water treatment section of the division.
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Likewise, growing population placed increasing demands on electric generation and water treatment facilities.
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We have a monthly cooling tower water treatment with your company, the service consultant is John Norris.
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Grace has the same time line for selling its Dearborn water treatment business and its Agracetus biotechnology plant business.
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Landfarming is similar to composting systems for destroying organic or biological sludges from municipal and industrial waste water treatment systems.
■ VERB
give
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Horse behaviour is the latest subject to be given the Desmond Morris treatment .
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He was given the silent treatment during the wagon ride home.
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I come off, like, but they didn't give you no treatment or anything.
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They are hard to kill, given reasonable treatment .
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We give more detailed treatment to these developments in Chapter 7.
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Most give the matter glancing treatment , if that.
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Its contract is to guarantee that the doctors consulted by members of the public are properly qualified and will give competent treatment .
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Wing Commander Tim Woods says they will help transport casualties and give immediate treatment if needed to any injured troops.
need
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Jim Brydon, deputy unit manager, said the ophthalmology department was concentrating on reducing waiting times for patients needing inpatient treatment .
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Another jockey needs treatment for substance abuse.
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So it was back to adult medicine, and the odd casualty who needed treatment .
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Five years in a row for those needing medical treatment or social services.
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He has a bullet lodged behind his eye and needs treatment quickly or he will be blinded.
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Patients need information regarding the treatment plan, its timescale and any alternative options should the side-effects become too severe to continue.
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And the others? ... Well, yes - a few show some reluctance at the calling-back Need some - further treatment .
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It is hoped she will help and advise patients who need special treatment .
provide
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De Klerk insisted that such a system would not provide for preferential treatment for any group at the expense of any other.
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Not when our doctors may be subjected to an official stoning for providing that treatment .
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Built in the 1950s the Netheridge works provides basic treatment to sewage from homes and industry from a large part of Gloucester.
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The programs are: Breaking Cycles, a program that provides substance abuse treatment for juveniles who have been arrested.
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Supervised clinical training is provided in cytotoxic drug treatment and radiation therapy.
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In general, dementia can not yet be treated, though research may provide some form of treatment before long.
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The health service has genuinely noble ideals: it provides excellent treatment irrespective of income.
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The first priority is to provide sewage treatment facilities.
receive
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She was advised that she could not receive homoeopathic treatment because the fund-holding practice had no appropriate contract.
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Gingrich and the Democratic leaders who are now under the ethics microscope are unlikely to receive such kindly treatment .
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They later had to receive medical treatment at the hospital following the assaults.
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If these patients are also receiving diuretics as treatment for their underlying disease, the diluting sites may be poisoned.
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After a few weeks, he was transferred to a rehabilitation hospital, where he received physiotherapy treatment .
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For those receiving treatment and training, the requirement begins after 2 1 / 2 years of aid.
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Yates had a history of drug abuse for which she received treatment .
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Carey Lohrenz received preferential treatment and inflated grades during flight training.
require
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Gore was schizoid, suffering from a psychopathic disorder, requiring treatment for many years to come.
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Many young people are struggling with a depressive illness that requires medical treatment .
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Bacterial meningitis is quite a rare disease but it can be very serious and requires urgent treatment with antibiotics.
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Some severe cases require psychiatric treatment and / or referral to a pain center.
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Wounds inflicted by a leopard's normally retractile claws require instant treatment .
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Stanton, 69, suffered minor injuries to his face and head but did not require hospital treatment .
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Under the relevant sections it states that the patient's informed consent is required before certain designated treatments can be carried out.
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When it does occur, it may be a sign of a lung disease that requires treatment .
respond
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Some ragged wild Angels responded well to herbal treatment .
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Sea World veterinarian Jim McBain said the calf is gaining strength and responding to treatment .
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He contracted a lung infection which did not respond to treatment .
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Cerebellar tremors do not respond well to drug treatment .
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But they weren't aware of a dressing-room drama as John Muldoon failed to respond to treatment for a hamstring injury.
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Fish which respond to herbal treatment are not doing so because they think they should get better.
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Paul Bodin is responding well to treatment and should be fit.
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Those patients who did not respond to dilatation treatment were advised to have surgery.
seek
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Significantly, almost 66 % of the patients reported previously seeking treatment from other physicians for their erectile dysfunction.
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In the past, women with these symptoms rarely sought treatment , and women with severe cases were hospitalized.
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By appealing, Lloyd's is seeking to achieve equitable treatment for all Names with personal stop-loss recoveries.
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Not until she moved to San Diego in 1988 did she seek equal treatment for herself.
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In contrast, Type 11 systems, by allowing patients to seek treatment anywhere, in theory avoid this form of inequality.
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Absenteeism soared, with employees taking their full allotment of sick days and seeking treatment for stress-related ailments.
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Finally, illness behaviour will determine whether or not the individual regards himself as ill and seeks professional treatment .
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A few years earlier, the man had sought treatment at the drug rehabilitation center where Ruiz volunteers.
undergo
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Some time ago I received a frantic telephone call from Carol, who had undergone successful hypnotic treatment about two years earlier.
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Not all cancer patients prefer to continue working while undergoing treatment .
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The couple are still undergoing intensive treatment for injuries caused by the attempt on their lives.
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Pain-Free Progesterone: Women undergoing infertility treatment are sometimes required to undergo daily injections to deliver the hormone progesterone.
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Rather than increasing the sentence, three appeal court judges substituted a three-year probation order requiring him to undergo treatment or counselling.
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Mobutu, undergoing treatment for prostate cancer, has been operating largely from his villa in nearby RoquebruneCap-Martin.
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Simon has now cut right down on the amount of time he spend playing and has also undergone treatment from his doctor.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
holistic medicine/treatment/healing etc
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Finding a therapist to help you Many complementary therapies exist which are concerned with holistic healing.
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Herbalism: a holistic treatment involving the use of herbal remedies specifically chosen and blended for different conditions.
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In the centre, we record part of my daily routine for self-help holistic medicine which includes pectoral muscle exercises.
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It is usually called holistic medicine or holistic health.
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Paracelsus's influence on homoeopathy and holistic medicine is genuine, but the paracelsian legacy is much wider.
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She sent him books on holistic medicine and nutrition.
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The concepts of self-defense and self-repair are central contributions of holistic medicine.
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The second axiom of holistic medicine is that each person is unique and each program must be individualized.
roll out the red carpet/give sb the red carpet treatment
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a course of treatment which should lead to an improvement in the patient's condition
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Although I was the boss's daughter, I didn't get preferential treatment .
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Doctors are trying out a new treatment for depression.
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Harper described the treatment he had received in prison.
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He's receiving treatment for cancer.
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Many historians were stunned by the book's inaccurate treatment of the battle.
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Natural poisons such as snake venom are now being used in the treatment of human nervous disorders.
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the treatment of polluted rivers
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They received medical treatment at the hospital after the assault.
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We're shocked by the government's treatment of young homeless people.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In treatment centers, the individual nature of the disease became clear.
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In some countries it is sold for the treatment of insomnia or anxiety, but it is illegal in the United States.
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Previously, Famvir was approved only for the treatment of outbreaks.
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Radiation is released during the handling and treatment of radioactive materials and as they are transported to and from nuclear sites.
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The specific treatment of hypertonicity depends upon the inciting cause.
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There is where the contemporary social treatment of legitimate power rests.
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With the exception of patients withdrawn due to deterioration, there were no apparent differences in response to treatment .