COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
easily understood/identified etc
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It’s easily recognised by its bright blue tail feathers.
little known/understood etc (= not known about by many people )
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a little known corner of the world
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be understood (that)
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From childhood, it was understood your parents would choose your husband.
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As such they have to be understood with nuances of influence and control often benign but sometimes narrow in focus.
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Briefly, as we shall devote a section to each below, these categories are understood in the following way.
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He is understood to be on police bail after his arrest on Tuesday.
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It is understood that a number of applications for advance clearance under s 707 for such arrangements have been refused.
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The first meaning should be understood as the inspiration which has urged the choreographer to create.
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The gifts will rather be understood from the point of view of the sinful self that seeks only self-gratification and status.
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The less that was known about the political officer's activities, the less was understood about his responsibility for events.
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The notion of transparent reporting which can be understood by the untutored layman is a chimera.
make yourself heard/understood/known etc
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As we will soon see, the inability to make oneself understood properly was at the root of the crisis in Vicos.
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But only one side was making itself heard.
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Hardly a practicable solution when she didn't even know if she could make herself understood.
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He makes himself known with a tiny, metallic clink-clink-clink from within the bushes.
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I yelled to make myself heard above the deafening roar of the wind and the sea.
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To leave was to admit defeat in this peculiar ritual of making myself known.
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Yet lay people had almost no way of making themselves heard in Rome.