I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an upper/lower limit (= the highest/lowest amount allowed )
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There is no upper limit on the amount you can borrow.
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Ensure the temperature in the aquarium does not fall below the lower limit.
keep a stiff upper lip
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Men were taught to keep a stiff upper lip .
lower/upper etc deck
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I managed to find a seat on the upper deck.
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Eddie returned to the flight deck the part of an aircraft where the pilot sits .
lower/upper jaw
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an animal with two rows of teeth in its lower jaw
outer/upper garment
the lower/upper slopes of sth
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It was misty and only the lower slopes of Vesuvius could be seen.
the upper class
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Members of the upper class didn’t have to work.
the upper/lower body
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Slowly raise your upper body into a sitting position.
the upper/lower etc reaches of a river (= the upper, lower etc parts )
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We sailed down the lower reaches of the river.
the upper/lower half
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The upper half of the door contained a stained glass window.
the upper/middle/lower register
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the upper register of the cello
the upper/top surface
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The upper surface of the leaf is dull green.
upper age limit
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The upper age limit for entrants was set at 25.
upper case
upper class
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upper-class families
upper crust
Upper House
upper reaches of
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the upper reaches of the Nile
upper school
upper storey
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a staircase leads to the upper storey
upper/higher/lower echelons
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the upper echelons of government
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Their clients are drawn from the highest echelons of society.
upper/lower/top/bottom lip
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His bottom lip was swollen.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
age
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Even the upper age limit for recruitment and retirement has been made more flexible.
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The campaign wants legislation to stop the use of upper age limits in recruitment advertising.
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The upper age limit is your thirty-third birthday. entry is open to male and female applicants.
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The upper age limit for entrants was set at 25, the lower limit we didn't set.
arm
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Her blouse was scooped so low at the front that it left her shoulders and upper arms bare.
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The usual treatment involves application of two patches at bedtime to the upper arms , thighs, or abdomen.
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Lean on your elbow and use the upper arm to support you in front.
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Secure at the wrists and upper arms with the rubber bands.
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When she tossed her head her hair fell around her shoulders and upper arms in a lovely auburn cascade.
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Dennis Cormier said that when police arrived at the scene, they found Toch had been shot in the upper arm .
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It is characterised by unsightly lumps and bumps which collect in the thighs, buttocks, hips and upper arms .
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The muscles of their calves and upper arms were like cannonballs.
atmosphere
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However, emissions of NOx gases in the upper atmosphere have a greenhouse effect 100 times more powerful than C02.
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The other method is to dissipate the extra 3. 2 kilometers per second by passing through the upper atmosphere .
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During magnetic storms the intense electrical currents that f ow in the upper atmosphere heat the air, causing it to expand.
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But in the cold upper atmospheres of all four planets the heavy elements are almost perfectly condensed and precipitated out.
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This occurs in the upper atmosphere when neutrons produced by cosmic rays interact with nitrogen atoms.
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Temperatures ranged from 227 degrees below zero Fahrenheit in the upper atmosphere to 305 degrees shortly before the probe stopped relaying data.
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However, the net energy transfer between the magnetosphere and the upper atmosphere is downwards.
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With energy supplied by sunlight, some water vapor in the upper atmosphere may have broken down to hydrogen and oxygen.
body
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He moved like a ghost, his large upper body rigid, his short legs exact metronomes: evolutionary perfection.
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But the addition of resistance training does the job measurably better and adds benefits to the upper body , it said.
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However it is easily identified by the large black blotch that covers a large proportion of its upper body and dorsal fin.
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Her upper body shot toward the desk, hands gripping the edges to steady her.
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Each subject's upper body was tilted slightly to provide comfortable drinking.
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Roosevelt, at first paralyzed, eventually regained use of his arms and upper body .
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When discovered, her face and upper body were protected by a large woven winnowing basket.
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My legs were well in advance of my upper body .
case
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Should I scrap upper case and dash ahead with lower-case panache to show myself a proper mistress of the form?
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BWright had created 19 letters, all upper case , to use in the project drawings.
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In some systems the input script is restricted to upper case unconnected letters, or lower case unconnected characters.
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Since variables named in lower case will never be confused with keywords, many programmers use upper case only for keywords.
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Memory jogger Caps Lock will only type letters in upper case .
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Keywords are not included in square brackets and must be upper case .
chamber
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Putin proposed stripping the regional leaders of their seats in the upper chamber of parliament.
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Readers will recognize the Ktesibios floating valve as the predecessor to the floating ball in the upper chamber of the porcelain throne.
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In the upper chamber were two individuals who, the excavator argues, certainly did not appear to have gone gently.
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Her one concern was to reach the upper chamber without being seen.
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Tabitha had died and her body laid out in an upper chamber .
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Where else, she asked herself, than in the upper chamber which houses the princes!
class
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They could both accept that the upper class should be defined, first and foremost, by its possession of productive capital.
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San Isidro slipped from upper class to upper-middle class.
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Although development is taking place it is mainly benefitting the middle and upper class communities.
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The upper classes are more likely to leave bequests.
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Ramsey was abnormally shy about meeting the upper class and Eden's voice was the caricature of an upper class voice.
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The syllabuses are heavily overloaded particularly in upper classes .
crust
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In Harehills I belonged to the upper crust of the lower middle classes who were getting out as fast as they could.
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Only society's upper crust would have traveled in the car, known as the limousine of its day.
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Precision dating of mineral deposits Many mineral deposits are the result of large-scale circulation of hydrothermal fluid in the upper crust .
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Those disgraceful students were males from the upper crust .
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In fact there were complaints from upper crust visitors about the din, so the cells fell into disuse.
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The homes, table settings and spreads, flowers and food are definitely upper crust .
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Been different if he was one of your upper crust .
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The upper crust does not ride public transportation.
deck
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The upper decks were wide with two and two seating, except for a single seat by the trolley which was slightly offset.
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Or at least into the upper deck .
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It had a plain glazed back to illuminate the upper deck at night and the lamps were removed from the hoops.
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The ships are always packed to capacity, with passengers clinging to the upper decks .
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A few of the gentlemen passengers stood on the upper deck and watched them impassively.
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The drawback is that the high-rise upper deck means very little can be stored there during travel.
echelon
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At the age of 35, he left the upper echelon of the advertising world to enter the political world.
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The nobility of Savoy was also closely linked to the upper echelons of the clergy.
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Not until ten o'clock for the upper echelons .
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The days of the upper echelon are over.
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There were also wide-ranging personnel changes in the upper echelons of the armed forces and the police.
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Not the upper upper echelons , but Digby level echelons.
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This insoluble predicament was the source of the decay, corruption and mounting tension evident within the upper echelons of the regime.
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But the greater the prestige and reputation of an institution, the more it will recruit from the upper echelons of society.
end
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Gods on the upper end of the divine hierarchy mostly granted favours, and punished humans only with good cause.
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Median income growth among educated women, especially those contributing to a two-income household, raised incomes along the upper end .
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As many were at the Very Severe upper end of difficulty, he developed quite a reputation for fearlessness.
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What happens when the ants reach the upper end of the skyhook?
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In Nucella, this has only been observed at the upper end of the scale.
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Even at the upper end of the market the newly rich tended to choose the conventional settings for expensive stones.
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Trim thick roots into sections, cutting the upper end horizontally and the lower end at an angle for identification.
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At the upper end they are closer to those of the elderly, at the lower end to those of young people.
floor
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The upper floor of the Monitor Building, with its distinctive windows looking towards Central Park, will be reserved for sculpture.
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Heat will build up in the upper floors .
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They could hear the wild rush of the wind and the pattering of rain against floorboards from the deserted upper floor .
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The distant Tower showed no mark of the flames that had consumed its upper floors .
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The upper floors will be for two 50 bed adult acute wards and accommodation.
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She says it was an old building and some one could have been stuck on an upper floor .
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The upper floors were private flats.
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The upper floor , reached by a vertical ladder, was piled with hay.
half
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At 590p or more, lead sponsor Merrill Lynch will have achieved a price in the upper half of that range.
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Across its upper half , two lines Of human figures snake toward an abstract river.
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His lower body is lime green with a rich shading of deep red across the upper half .
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At the brink of the chasm the upper half of his body rose for an instant with the arms uplifted.
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Six to eight diagonal transverse bands lie on the upper half of the body.
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A small television screen covered its upper half .
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I looked at several texts directed at the upper half of secondary schools and roughly the same categories emerged as for social studies.
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Both of these features should be apparent in the upper half of Figure 7.5, which shows a smooth plain.
hand
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Now White gains the upper hand .
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The joy of having the upper hand swept over me.
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Tenacious tackling and a great display from Peter Canavan at full forward, ensured the Ranch always held the upper hand .
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Daniele might be running the team for 1976, but Niki and Clay Regazzoni had very much the upper hand .
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By 1980 the continent was pretty much divided ideologically, with the United States gaining an upper hand over the Soviet adventurists.
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The world can only pray that they do not gain the upper hand .
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Both sides had a lot invested in making the deal work, but Cravath had the upper hand .
house
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Elections to the National Council, the upper house , were held in June 1991.
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They successfully tied up the upper house in endless debate.
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Although the upper house may reject it again, the Government can now invoke the Parliament Act to force the measure through.
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Pinochet and who hold the swing vote in the upper house .
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In the semi-free election last June, all but one of 100 seats in the upper house went to Solidarity-backed candidates.
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An upper house representing regional leaders was to be created two years after independence.
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And throughout they dominated the State Council, the upper house endowed with effective veto powers over Duma proposals.
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It was expected that the budget would be passed by the upper house .
jaw
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Their upper jaws become hooked and their teeth grow into long fangs.
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His four front teeth are through and two more in the upper jaw are pressing.
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There are up to twenty-nine teeth in the upper jaw and twenty-five or twenty-six in the lower.
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As for the upper jaws , percentage incisor loss appears to be a more sensitive indicator of breakage than molar loss.
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You place your index finger against your chin and rest the upper jaw on the top of it.
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You can see this tooth and its position in the upper jaw of the horse in photo six.
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Most of his upper jaw was removed and a prosthesis was fitted.
layer
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The upper layer of a plate is composed of either oceanic or continental crust or both.
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Among them are the upper layers of cerebral cortex that manage all that interoffice stuff.
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Olivine and plagioclase continue to crystallize in the upper layer until critical concentrations are again reached and another pulse of sedimentation occurs.
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Dead cells are shed constantly from the upper layer and replaced by cells from the lower layers.
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When one is a child the rest of the family form a kind of sheltering tree, an upper layer .
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Total recovery of the aqueous phase is difficult to achieve, since some interphase proteins may be collected with the upper layer .
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The perceptron's upper layer contains just one node, with an input from each node in the lower layer.
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Another important result was that the lower portion of the upper layer was not producing.
level
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Developing your film To get your film developed you need to go to the extreme left of the upper level .
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Willis said the district had proposed salary increases for teachers at the midand upper level of the wage scale.
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Rebuilding of the upper levels is also a possibility.
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On the upper levels of the church lichen deposits have reached unacceptable levels.
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Those who work exclusively at upper levels of the pedagogic world rarely look at the terrain of early childhood.
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Let me illustrate with another example that involves the entire organisational culture at the upper levels .
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They feed location and usage information directly to the upper levels .
limit
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There is no upper limit to the size of a unit.
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As cognitive development reaches an upper limit with full attainment of formal operations, so too does affective development.
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There must be at least one entry, but there is no upper limit to the number of entries.
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Successful schools, on the other hand, were allowed to grow until they hit an upper limit of about 300.
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Clause 74 places an upper limit on the amount of tax that any person can be liable to pay.
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The upper limit of the floating exchange rate trading band for today was 1, 024. 79.
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There is no upper limit on the number of cattle attracting HLCAs but sheep are limited to 6 per hectare.
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The reason for the low upper limit on the internal magnetic dipole moment is not properly understood.
lip
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With hands in sleeves, the old man looked extremely Oriental, long moustaches curving down from the upper lip .
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She had a ferocious hedge of hair on her upper lip , practically a mustache.
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Sweat filmed his forehead and beaded his upper lip .
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He pressed a large white mustache on to his upper lip .
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The stiff upper lip is a barrier against the trembling which could lead to tears.
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This time the thumb was in the mouth while the index finger was placed between the gums and the upper lip .
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He took a long swig, put the glass down and wiped his mis-shaven upper lip contentedly.
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Election losers, for instance, are traditionally expected to keep a stiff upper lip and not let their disappointment show.
part
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Sweat about the upper part of the body or head; offensive.
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The upper part of the village of Whittington lies on the south-east slope of a steep hillside.
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Upper: the upper part of the boot which encases the foot and which is sewn or glued to the sole unit.
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In the nave, the upper part above the ground arcade is a little later and has a decorative triforium and arcaded clerestory.
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The upper part of his tomb had been made part of the perimeter by a grill of fine arches behind.
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Round the bare upper part of her right arm was a black band.
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Particularly where the horizontal flow of parts must be good, upper parts can be written first, using serialism.
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Damp in the upper parts of these rooms will almost certainly be from roof defects and/or gutters.
reach
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Grayling in upper reaches , some pike around Darlington.
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Clearly therefore the clouds do not consist of water, at least not in their upper reaches .
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For a sixty-year-old man in the upper reaches of the legal profession, that was pathetic.
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And even the long dried out upper reaches of the Pang are flowing ... just ... but more is required.
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Joe quickly gained access to the upper reaches of both Washingtons.
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He started with the upper reaches of government and the bureaucracy.
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Certainly, he had abundant connections to the upper reaches of the company hierarchy.
register
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There is a trumpet-like incisiveness in the middle and upper registers and a positively ringing sound at the top.
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The oboe tends to lose power and body in its upper register , but with the clarinet the opposite is the case.
school
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Pupils will be taught in the upper school , across the valley, until governors get the council's full report.
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The upper school were remaining but it would be at least another week before he'd have to return.
slope
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In some families species have been included from the upper slope in the event of overlapping bathymetric ranges.
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Subsoil Principally Belemnite chalk on the upper slopes , with Micraster chalk on the lower slopes.
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Thorn scrub is widespread on the lower slopes , although the upper slopes still support secondary pine-oak woodlands.
storey
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There is a complex layout of these basement halls which were built to support the upper storey state apartments.
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The removal of Franca from the upper storey was perhaps the sign that her arrival was imminent.
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The pathologist: Injuries consistent with a fall from an upper storey .
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The upper storey is in the form of a gallery for women which extends into the church.
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The stair-well in this wing indicates an upper storey which presumably would have been much on the same plan.
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The nave is barrel vaulted and on its north side a staircase leads to the upper storey which has a round gallery.
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The long window of the upper storey was designed to throw the maximum light on the loom.
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The upper storey of 180 feet provided accommodation for the library, committee room and living quarters for the gardener.
storeys
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Most of them are in a ruinous state with their upper storeys missing shattered by earthquake, war, neglect.
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A three-storeyed neo-classical frontage of immense length, the ground level is in grey stone, the upper storeys in pale ochre.
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Each house had two rooms and scullery on the ground floor and two bedrooms on each of the upper storeys .
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Wooden balconies jutted out from the upper storeys , giving the plaza not only a feeling of space but of intimacy.
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The upper storeys had not yet been floored and through the concrete joists and beams above the sky was visible.
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Concentrations also differ between lower and upper storeys of a house.
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There are four projecting bays on the exterior with arcades in the ground storey and staircases in the upper storeys .
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Four separate domestic establishments for the housekeepers and office-keepers were housed in the basements and upper storeys .
surface
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The upper surface of the blades is brown-green or olive, sometimes with horizontal or vertical red-brown stripes.
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When the sheet is examined in the electron microscope filaments are seen to be localized at the upper surface .
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Each upper surface is further highlighted in a dusting of grimy soot.
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Eventually the weight of the salt crystals peels them off the upper surface and they settle into the bottom of the liquid.
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As the plate descends frictional heat is generated between its upper surface and the surrounding mantle.
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The lower surface of the leaf is usually ovate and the upper surface is awl-shaped.
tier
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Look especially for the frieze of statues on the upper tier .
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Tastes for variety are assumed to be of the S-D-S form, and the upper tier utility function is Cobb-Douglas.
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The solution is to drape the upper tiers of stadiums with colorful banners and herd spectators close to the pitch.
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Let the upper tier utility function be Cobb-Douglas.
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In the 1983 to 1987 Parliament, we removed the metropolitan upper tier .
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What happens when upper tier preferences can not be represented by a Cobb-Douglas utility function?
window
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Further theatre has been introduced by a bugler playing from an upper window of the castle on every hour.
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The upper windows in the McAlister and Beauchamp houses were full.
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Then flames burst from an upper window of the abandoned tenement a mile away across the river, reddening the low clouds.
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An upper window of the house had been opened and a haversack was dropped to the ground.
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She could see the lights of it from the upper windows but never got any nearer.
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Alexei was leaning out of one of the upper windows .
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If any walls appear to lean, check by going back to the nearest upper window and drop a plumb line down.
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Pails were emptied from upper windows , making their way hazardous.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the upper class
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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upper -income consumers
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An investment firm occupies the upper floors of the building.
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Gunmen were firing machine guns from the upper floor of the hospital.
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He already had a light growth of hair on his upper lip.
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His upper arms were like tree trunks.
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Most meteorites do not make it through Earth's upper atmosphere.
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People had climbed into the upper branches of the tree to escape the rising waters.
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Several of her upper teeth were missing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A child was wailing on one of the upper stories.
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Competition is keen and candidates must offer a minimum of an upper second class honours degree together with evidence of satisfactory financial arrangements.
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He pulled out his upper right-hand desk drawer and felt for the packet of bills.
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I am wearing my bear claws and flying into the upper regions with the thunderbirds.
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Only two small colonic polyps were found in patients who had an upper gastrointestinal lesion.
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Strings of paraffin lamps gleam along the upper decks and dance in the inky water.
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The upper classes were synonymous to him with the greatness of his country.
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They had the wedding in the big upper room that occupied the whole of the second floor of their Auntie's pub.
II. noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
stiff upper lip
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All he could produce was a stiff upper lip, while young Lady C cast meaningful looks at sturdy gamekeeper Mellors.
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Election losers, for instance, are traditionally expected to keep a stiff upper lip and not let their disappointment show.
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Paul didn't keep a stiff upper lip because that was the way that he thought that Christians should behave.
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So please, leave the stiff upper lip to one side, at home at least.
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The stiff upper lip is a barrier against the trembling which could lead to tears.
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The Ulster Unionist security spokesman maintained a stiff upper lip as he had his moustache shaved off - for charity.
the upper class
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Board lasting glues the uppers to an insole board before being attached to the midsole, again designed for stability.
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Padded ankle collar and rand to protect base of uppers.
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Slip lasting has uppers sewn together under the insole.
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Three uppers for $ 225, $ 75 bucks apiece.