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receive/have/undergo training
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A small group would receive intensive training, and then would train others.
undergo a change (= be affected by a change )
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The body undergoes a number of changes during this time.
undergo an examination (= have one )
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All new employees are required to undergo a medical examination.
undergo modification (= be changed )
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The policy has undergone considerable modification since it was first introduced.
undergo surgery formal (= have surgery )
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He underwent surgery to remove a bullet from his chest.
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There are risks if you choose to undergo surgery.
undergo treatment (= have it )
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A few years earlier she'd undergone fertility treatment.
undergone...transformation
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In recent years, the movie industry has undergone a dramatic transformation.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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already
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She's already undergone an operation to have shrapnel removed from her back.
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The canvas has already undergone a light cleaning to remove the accumulations of old varnish which have contributed to its yellowed appearance.
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He has already undergone one operation and faces further surgery.
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Jeanette Orton from Oxfordshire has already undergone surgery to correct a defect in her right eye.
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The system, called Trax, has already undergone 2000 hours of tests.
also
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He also underwent several periods of defacto house arrest and trial for treason between 1956 and 1961.
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He also underwent seven operations in Chicago by a surgeon who refused to charge the wounded veteran.
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The ships of these fleets had also undergone a radical change.
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Joe also underwent a rigorous exercise program to rebuild muscles that had atrophied from lack of use.
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Midwifery itself is also undergoing a crisis.
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Club range officers would also undergo additional training, and the club would put together a long-range plan.
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Solicitors also undergo two years of training at work known as articles.
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He also undergoes therapy three times a week.
currently
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The helmet is designed to limit the rotational forces affecting the head during an impact and is currently undergoing bench tests.
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It is currently undergoing late stage human testing.
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Currently undergoing a major expansion - watch this space for developments.
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It is a luxurious 87-room hotel overlooking the bay and is currently undergoing a complete overhaul at considerable cost.
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Completed in 1936, the brewery is currently undergoing a £53 million four-year modernisation programme to renew production facilities.
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This is currently undergoing clinical assessment in Britain, and if all goes well will be commercially available within a few years.
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Hydro has fitted the PatchSpray system to one of its Chafer sprayers, which is currently undergoing trials.
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Turnover was up 10 percent, to £1.5 billion, with 19,000 employees currently undergoing formal training - another record figure.
recently
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Difficulties may arise if your company has recently undergone a change in top management, perhaps following a take-over of the business.
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Yeltsin, 66, suffers from heart problems, recently underwent bypass surgery and was stricken with pneumonia last month.
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He recently underwent an operation but now he is incontinent.
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We have recently undergone a hygiene scrutiny by a member of our Health and Safety Department at head office.
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The hotel enjoys a good reputation and has recently undergone extensive refurbishing.
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bypass
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His son underwent a triple heart bypass operation earlier this year.
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People with kidney failure are increasingly undergoing bypass and vessel-opening procedures.
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Ashe, now 48, underwent a quadruple bypass operation after a heart attack at the age of 35.
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Yeltsin underwent quintuple heart bypass surgery on Nov. 5.
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He had just undergone a heart triple bypass .
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About 300, 000 patients undergo bypass surgery annually, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
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Yeltsin, 66, suffers from heart problems, recently underwent bypass surgery and was stricken with pneumonia last month.
change
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The banking sector has undergone radical changes in recent years with branches closing and staffing rationalised.
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But the fact is the course is always undergoing change , and always has, natural and by the hand of man.
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The exterior decorations on the synthetic white-stone face underwent repeated changes .
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The Smithsonian, like other private and public cultural agencies, is undergoing a fundamental change in the ways it raises money.
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It inquires whether the conception of community has undergone any change as a consequence of the crowd phenomenon.
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Under these conditions many solids undergo phase changes , and the nature of the accompanying changes in structure can be studied.
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Under Roosevelt and Ickes, the Bureau of Reclamation underwent some fundamental changes , the most obvious of which was in size.
conversion
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Regulators have undergone a similar conversion .
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Their cars can undergo a potentially expensive conversion to the R-134a coolant that is being used in new cars.
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At Seletar he had been flying Vildebeest torpedo bombers, and he now underwent a conversion course on to the more modern Beauforts.
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Was she undergoing some odd conversion ?
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He may have received psychotherapy, but has not yet undergone conversion surgery even if he is contemplating it.
country
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It is simply this: The vote of 1996 will determine whether the country has undergone a fundamental political realignment.
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These so-called country-style hams undergo dry curing, slow smoking, and long drying.
course
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Voice over Police motorcyclists have to undergo an intensive training course .
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At Seletar he had been flying Vildebeest torpedo bombers, and he now underwent a conversion course on to the more modern Beauforts.
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A qualified teacher will have undergone a three-year course consisting of twenty hours a week in college as well as home study.
development
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But once established, these lines underwent predictable developments towards increasing specialization - and eventually to overspecialization and extinction.
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The first lady said teachers should be expected to undergo mid-career training and development , as lawyers and other professionals do.
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In Aspdin's day cement manufacture was undergoing relatively rapid development and many experimenters were working in the field.
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At the same time, the makeup of the business is undergoing rapid development .
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The critical question was: Why has life undergone this progressive development in the course of time?
examination
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All patients underwent an abdominal ultrasound examination before endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.
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Chun began by saying, with a grin, that he felt like a schoolboy undergoing examination in being interviewed by me.
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Ballesteros underwent a severe examination two years ago.
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By the end of the afternoon, Burrell underwent an examination and was told there is no cause for concern.
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During the baseline examinations the subjects underwent a standardised dental examination.
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During that time, he has undergone several medical examinations at the request of his father.
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Before operation all patients underwent general physical examination and electrocardiographic and lung function studies to determine their general fitness for operation.
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It had undergone detailed and lengthy examination by a Select Committee of this House.
experience
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At each stage, half the fun comes from sharing the trials and triumphs with friends who are undergoing the same experiences .
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In the course of initiation they have undergone a passionate experience of discovery and conversion.
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The thought of undergoing such traumatic experiences was unthinkable.
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Such persons must undergo further growth experiences , which will enable them to succeed.
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He was sure that McAllister was undergoing the same experience .
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Here he underwent a fourfold experience , the memory of which teaches me more about his experience and the life of prayer.
heart
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His son underwent a triple heart bypass operation earlier this year.
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Yeltsin underwent quintuple heart bypass surgery on Nov. 5.
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In 1983 he underwent a quadruple heart by-pass operation and retired in 1987.
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He did the same thing six months ago when he underwent a heart operation at Washington Hospital Center.
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He had just undergone a heart triple bypass.
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Scientists found the new strain in an infant boy after he underwent heart surgery.
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He has chosen to take early retirement to protect his long-term health having undergone major heart surgery three years ago.
hospital
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She was airlifted to Childrens Hospital , where she underwent a battery of tests.
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He was taken to Hospital Espanol where he underwent surgery but died at about 3 a.m.
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If the Veterans Administration suddenly shifted to vouchers, its hospitals would have to undergo profound and wrenching changes.
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She was rushed to Northampton General Hospital where she underwent several hours of surgery, including a tracheotomy operation.
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He was later brought to the Mater Hospital and underwent emergency surgery.
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He still looked rather tired, having spent several weeks in hospital undergoing treatment for manic depression.
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He has remained in hospital since undergoing a 2?-hour operation to remove a blood clot from his brain.
kind
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Some people find that the trouble begins when they have the builders in and the house undergoes some kind of dramatic redesigning.
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Books and movies appear to be undergoing the same kind of metamorphosis worldwide that is transforming the music business.
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When a football player suffers a concussion, the electrical circuitry in his brain undergoes a kind of temporary brown-out.
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My poor brother, like many children who undergo this kind of emotional uprooting, wet the bed.
operation
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Before operation all patients underwent general physical examination and electrocardiographic and lung function studies to determine their general fitness for operation.
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However in 1971 the role and operation of the Fund underwent significant reform.
patient
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This is particularly the case for patients undergoing operations.
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Case 1-8 A patient who underwent a laparotomy 3 days ago has been oliguric and receiving nasogastric suction since surgery.
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A proportion of propulsive waves was noted in patients who had undergone surgery 10 or more years previously.
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About 300, 000 patients undergo bypass surgery annually, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
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Such individuals, as in patients who have undergone splenectomy are predisposed to infections and overwhelming sepsis.
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Overall, the patients who underwent the pallidotomy had fewer involuntary movements than those who received medicine alone.
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While the regime for patients undergoing sclerotherapy is more inconvenient, it is undoubtedly less traumatic.
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Perhaps this mess will prompt a more thorough check of the suitability of patients before they undergo such long and expensive treatment.
period
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He also underwent several periods of defacto house arrest and trial for treason between 1956 and 1961.
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Britain has undergone three periods of revolutionary change.
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Organised at state level, the Guard is composed of part-timers who undergo a statutory period of training with the regular Army.
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A student undergoes a prolonged period of performing stamina exercises aimed at raising the heart rate and improving overall fitness.
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Boys undergo no period of constraint, in contrast to their lot among the Shavante.
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The universe would have then undergone a period of rapid expansion, as in the inflationary models.
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Indeed, in order to develop properly, brine shrimp eggs have to undergo a period of desiccation.
procedure
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Comparison of 50 patients undergoing this procedure with those having a circumcision during the same period has highlighted its advantages.
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The Atlantis boosters underwent the same repair procedure as those that launched Columbia.
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For patients who undergo major procedures , rehabilitation is a longer process.
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Gerald Furr underwent the procedure Nov. 11 with great hopes.
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Claire is one of three patients so far to undergo the procedure under the supervision of consultant orthopaedic surgeon Richard Montgomery.
process
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Men with potential were sent to torture school and underwent a process of desensitisation.
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If you let it happen, you undergo an automatic recovery process in the course of facing and dealing with new realities.
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Allusions to other texts frequently undergo this same process of depreciation.
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Unlike Big Ideas that beget standardized commodities, these products undergo a continuous process of incremental change and adaptation.
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The turboprop has also undergone a maturing process that now makes it an easy engine to work on and spectacularly reliable.
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In a little under a year this insecure High School drop-out had undergone a process of deification by press and public.
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The glass used in those roofs undergoes a special toughening process involving heat treatment followed by rapid cooling.
revolution
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By that time, western New York was undergoing a revolution in transportation.
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Pharmaceutical companies are undergoing a revolution as bioengineered yeast cells replace toxic, solvent-intense chemicals to create medicinal drugs.
series
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The control subjects did not receive either placebo or loperamide oxide tablets but underwent an identical series of measurements on one occasion.
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Unfortunately, the very live bat bit back, and Osbourne underwent a painful series of precautionary rabies injections.
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From the autumn of 1916 the politics of the war underwent a series of rapid transformations.
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Since then, Kleine has undergone a series of tests, including cardiovascular and neurological exams.
surgery
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With the help of cosmetic surgery she undergoes a dramatic transformation to re-emerge as Silver.
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He's still shocked after his injuries and the major surgery he underwent .
test
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She was airlifted to Childrens Hospital, where she underwent a battery of tests .
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Reluctantly, Rob persuades Suzanne to undergo tests .
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The helmet is designed to limit the rotational forces affecting the head during an impact and is currently undergoing bench tests .
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Since then, Kleine has undergone a series of tests , including cardiovascular and neurological exams.
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The patients also are examined, and undergo laboratory tests , based on their complaints.
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His partner in crime, Myra Hindley, also underwent tests after collapsing in her cell at Highpoint prison.
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He and I exchanged sharp words when he informed me that the hamster would have to undergo the rabies test .
training
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Store detectives undergo extensive training routines which include role playing and watching videos of mock incidents.
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All members of this sub-committee have undergone training in selection and interviewing skills.
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Between 1983 and 1987 just over 2,000 underwent specialist training with 82 percent completing the courses successfully.
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Once ordained, clergy usually undergo some continuing training for a year or two.
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For more than ten years, general practice has required that doctors must now undergo further training .
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From next week, all bouncers will undergo a compulsory two-week training course and examination run by Northumbria police.
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Solicitors also undergo two years of training at work known as articles.
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All its managers undergo an extensive training programme, and their career development is greatly encouraged.
transformation
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Indeed food manufacture as a whole underwent a transformation .
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It is rare for a person to undergo a dramatic transformation in his political thinking, but it does happen.
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They grow by a series of moults but never pass through a pupal stage or undergo transformation .
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The man has undergone a mind-bending political transformation .
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Since those heady days the bar and its clientele have undergone a transformation .
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And, in Coconut Grove, I always underwent a dramatic transformation from nail-polishing stewardess to a freer, more questioning self.
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Around it, the society of a recovering Sussex was undergoing considerable transformation .
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Since Bill Clinton took office, Hillary has undergone as many role transformations as her husband has ideological reincarnations.
transplant
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Six patients who underwent eight transplants died.
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When he was 18 months old he underwent a kidney transplant .
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Five of these patients who underwent seven transplants died.
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The long term prospects of the 48 year old man who underwent liver transplant are good.
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Two of three patients referred died without transplantation: one underwent transplant and survived.
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He did not therefore undergo transplant .
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Laura underwent a liver-bowel transplant at Pittsburgh Children's Hospital five months ago.
treatment
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But top psychiatrist Professor Stuart Fischoff says if Diana underwent treatment it could mean the end of her marriage.
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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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Simon has now cut right down on the amount of time he spend playing and has also undergone treatment from his doctor.
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The taxi was driven by Michael Allenby, 32, from Darlington, who underwent treatment for whiplash injuries.
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Since September, du Pont has been undergoing treatment at a state psychiatric hospital after being diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic.
trial
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Hydro has fitted the PatchSpray system to one of its Chafer sprayers, which is currently undergoing trials .
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The actor, director and playwright Steven Berkoff is to undergo a civil trial for rape.
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Developed by International over 18 months, Seacontrol has undergone extensive trials on ships around the world.
woman
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More women are now undergoing cosmetic surgery more and more often.
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These practical worries add to the emotional turmoil a woman will already be undergoing .
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The researchers studied levels of cotinine - a product of nicotine - in women undergoing assisted conception.
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By contrast, the image of woman does undergo a transformation within the aesthetic of the New Sculpture.
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The women must undergo monthly medical check-ups.
■ VERB
require
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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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Pain-Free Progesterone: Women undergoing infertility treatment are sometimes required to undergo daily injections to deliver the hormone progesterone.
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Medical Examination All prospective employees are required to undergo a medical examination at a medical establishment nominated by the Company.
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The Air Force was right to suspend training and require pilots to undergo several hours of review on joint air space regulations.
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Twice a year, flight attendants were required to undergo a review of emergency and first-aid procedures.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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At that time she was undergoing tremendous emotional problems following the breakup of her marriage.
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He underwent major heart surgery last year.
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He has undergone tremendous emotional problems following the breakdown of his marriage.
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In March he underwent surgery for the cancer.
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In the last few years the museum has undergone extensive renovation.
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Part of Mrs Galley's right arm was shattered and she underwent a five-hour emergency operation.
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The computer industry has undergone some major changes over the past 15 years.
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The hostages were eventually released after undergoing a terrifying ordeal.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was taken to Hospital Espanol where he underwent surgery but died at about 3 a.m.
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She has undergone three hip replacement surgeries in the last three years.
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Store detectives undergo extensive training routines which include role playing and watching videos of mock incidents.
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The body politic may have undergone radical surgery and it may have aged considerably, but it has continued to endure.
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They not only reprimanded her, but made her undergo counseling sessions -- in other words, mandatory brain-washing.
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Under these conditions many solids undergo phase changes, and the nature of the accompanying changes in structure can be studied.