noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a star vehicle (= a film or television programme that is intended to show the abilities of one particular star )
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He denied that the movie was just a star vehicle for Tom Hanks.
a truck/vehicle convoy
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The troops' truck convoy was travelling along the edge of the desert.
an emergency vehicle (= an ambulance or fire engine )
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Emergency vehicles rushed to the scene.
combat vehicles
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Armoured combat vehicles appeared on the streets of the city.
fill (a vehicle) up with petrol
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She stopped to fill up with petrol.
getaway car/vehicle/van (= a car etc used by criminals to escape after a crime )
heavy goods vehicle
motor vehicle
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This road is closed to motor vehicles.
off-road vehicle
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an off-road vehicle
recreational vehicle
sport-utility vehicle
vehicle emissions (= from cars, lorries etc )
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California has introduced tough new standards for vehicle emissions.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
armoured
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It was a speed equivalent to that of the fastest armoured land vehicle in use in the Empire.
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We have a few difficulties at the moment because the fungus does not impart resistance to wear, particularly from heavy armoured vehicles !
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Then to David Stirling's fury they saw a convoy of light armoured vehicles moving across their line of advance.
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Forces loyal to ex-President Zviad Gamsakhurdia entered the towns of Senaki and nearby Apasha in several tanks and armoured vehicles .
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Each side could also retain 18,000 armoured infantry combat vehicles weighing between 6 and 16.5 tonnes, and 12,000 lighter armoured vehicles.
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The police used armoured vehicles and tear gas to contain the protesters who were armed with rocks and petrol bombs.
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It was reported that the agreement covered missile systems, light armoured vehicles and sea surveillance aircraft.
commercial
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The event is open to preserved and current commercial vehicles and preserved emergency vehicles.
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Excluding pickup trucks and commercial vehicles , though, Mercedes grabbed 8. 0 percent of the market.
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They are expected to halve pollution caused by large commercial vehicles , bringing them into line with regulations governing car exhaust emissions.
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Taxes on commercial vehicles are also lower than on passenger cars, he said.
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Will commercial vehicle operators buy long-lasting, reliable but expensive quality tyres, or cheap, short-life imports and re-moulds?
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An increase in passenger car exports was offset by a 20 percent fall in commercial vehicle exports.
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The surge in commercial vehicle production was regarded as a particularly encouraging pointer to an improvement in the economy.
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Encouraging increases were also recorded in freight and cargo. Commercial vehicles rose from 322,572 in 1989 to 333,732 last year.
heavy
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Cars increased by 4 percent, but light vans fell by 2 percent, and heavy goods vehicles decreased by 3 percent.
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About 300 tanks, artillery pieces and other heavy vehicles will have crossed the pontoon bridge by Wednesday, military engineers say.
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Even after the factories have been built, the heavy vehicles will continue to serve the industrial activities there.
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We have a few difficulties at the moment because the fungus does not impart resistance to wear, particularly from heavy armoured vehicles !
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The dock company's estimate of heavy goods vehicle traffic has proved remarkably accurate.
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Sample section headings for the mailing list of a heavy goods vehicle manufacturer.
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They also say heavy vehicles are arriving from 5.30am, causing fumes, pollution and noise.
military
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The big military vehicle was quiet.
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He closeted himself in the cavernous, Renaissanceinspired presidential palace in downtown Lima, where armored military vehicles stood guard Friday.
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She could see no wrecked cars, planes, military vehicles .
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At Police Headquarters alarm bells rang in from government munition dumps, military vehicle compounds, hi-tech weapon factories and sweet shops.
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All military and voluntary vehicles will be given some of London's equipment, including special orthopaedic stretchers and chairs.
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It appeared to be an old two-dimensional film presentation; an old fashioned oil-driven military vehicle was speeding across a verdant green field.
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Kevin's commandeered military vehicle had some pretty awesome firepower.
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Titanium is used as a lightweight element in aircraft and other military vehicles .
motor
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Where motor vehicles are concerned, the problems are different.
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Later, I learned that not one of these men owned a motor vehicle .
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Will we see one day the government insisting that games have time limiters the way that some motor vehicles have speed limiters?
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More people are surviving, experts say, because of improvements in trauma care and motor vehicle safety.
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BHouseholds in the West also had the greatest risk of property Bcrime, which is theft, motor vehicle theft and burglary.
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For several decades the number of deaths resulting from motor vehicle accidents per 100, 000 population has increased.
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The country's economy relies on high added-value sectors such as electronics, pharmaceuticals and motor vehicles .
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The bill also would restrict the release of Social Security numbers by state motor vehicle departments.
new
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Then the vans were manoeuvred on to the grass verge so that the new vehicle could come by.
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In 1986, a new tax vehicle expedited securitization of mortgage pools.
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The new vehicles built as replacements during the 1980s were generally of higher capacity, privately owned and fitted with air brakes.
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How does it happen that an auto writer winds up with a new vehicle with expired plates?
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There have been several other attempts with the Department of Defense that took a stab at a new vehicle .
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Ian Jack, my guide for the next part of the trip, was waiting for me with his new vehicle .
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In addition to the development of new vehicles and systems, other key components of commercial transactions need to be examined.
other
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Reports began to come in of successful strikes on other vehicles .
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The blackleg buses disappeared off the streets and other vehicles which had been beginning to return to the roads.
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It wasn't as if any other vehicle had been involved.
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Technically speaking as long as nobody was hurt, no injuries, no damage to the other vehicle , this is not an accident.
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When she swung into the leafy driveway at Cultra, she was relieved to find no other vehicle there.
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Radio, television and the radar-dependent navigational devices of planes and other vehicles are affected, as are computer networks and satellites.
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When he was running alongside, he eased off the gas and matched his speed to that of the other vehicle .
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At one stage the car raced along the hard shoulder to overtake other vehicles .
recreational
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Gritz and his team immediately drove in a recreational vehicle to the gate at Justus Township, Smith said.
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For us, the cost of recreational vehicle travel was offset by its convenience.
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There are 11 tent / recreational vehicle sites but no showers, flush toilets or boat ramp.
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That should prevent the adoption of a county sales tax or special assessments like the recently imposed recreational vehicle tax.
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Its name stands for recreational active vehicle with four-wheel drive and is priced for entry-level buyers.
■ NOUN
road
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Its body shape means it is one of the most stable road vehicles in crosswinds.
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This shop also produced road vehicles of all types for other railway companies.
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This was improved by the progressive system, applied both to carriages, and to wagons and road vehicles .
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Over a million gasifier units, usually powering road vehicles , were used during the Second World War.
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The pack bunched up behind the road vehicle for 10 laps.
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An undercarriage was fitted with two pairs of rail wheels, and two or more road vehicle bodies were fixed on top.
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The mean time between road vehicles is r seconds.
utility
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Ford is offering a $ 2, 000 rebate on its Bronco sport utility vehicle .
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Sport utility vehicles have supplanted minivans in recent years as the top-selling family vehicle, according to trade experts.
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Customers also may have a harder time finding full-size pick-up trucks and certain sport utility vehicles .
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Mr Roberts also confirmed that Ford is launching a full-size sport-#utility vehicle this fall called the Expedition.
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Buyers of the Ford Bronco utility vehicle will be entitled to a $ 2, 000 rebate.
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So they set out at the beginning of 1997 in four sport utility vehicles .
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They see even more dollar signs ahead: There are now about 30 models of sport utility vehicles .
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Plus the most significant restyling since the Cherokee debuted as a compact sport utility vehicle in 1984.
■ VERB
become
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According to McKibbin, the Labour Party became the vehicle of working-class aspirations by the early 1920s.
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It will either mask the conflict and thereby contribute to alienation and oppression, or it will become a vehicle of protest.
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It will thus follow the path of tradition - and this becomes the vehicle which protects us against deviation.
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Work, in other words, has become the vehicle through which we express our inherited suffering.
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Police conducted their own inspections after senior officers became concerned about vehicle standards.
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Mr Bush's indiscretion had become a vehicle for attacking the Democratic presidential nominee.
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Since moving to Sussex, landscape has become an important vehicle for his ideas.
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She added the planned cross town route would only be single carriageway and would rapidly become overcrowded with vehicles .
drive
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The unlawful taking and driving away of vehicles goes well beyond damage to property.
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For security, some systems also kill the engine if a person tries to drive the vehicle without the car key.
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A typical agreement lasts three years and a disabled person can have more than one person insured to drive the vehicle .
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This is because owners of four-wheel-#drive vehicles seem to suffer some sort of brain malfunction whenever roads conditions are bad.
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Only foremen will drive company vehicles from now on.
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Gritz and his team immediately drove in a recreational vehicle to the gate at Justus Township, Smith said.
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In the future, building dirt lots near the ranch house and allowing users to drive their vehicles in.
involve
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If institutional investors are involved , the buy-out vehicle could be a limited partnership, to afford the institutions limited liability.
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Earlier reports that the accident involved many vehicles were incorrect.
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Crash probe: Bishop Auckland police are investigating a crash on Seymour Street involving a stolen vehicle .
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The risky technique involves vehicles dipping into the Martian atmosphere to slow down, rather than firing braking rockets.
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More than half of all recorded crimes are car crimes, involving the theft of vehicles or the theft of property from vehicles.
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Legal requirements may prevent a significant proportion of men returning to their original job, particularly if it involves driving motor vehicles .
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Pile-ups involving 60 vehicles on A1 and A1M near Doncaster left one dead and 26 injured.
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I have included all accidents involving at least one motor vehicle , sometimes these will also have included pedestrians or cyclists.
provide
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The use of these various processes may have provided the vehicles for the transmission of decorative motifs, by copying.
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The twentieth century provides a vehicle for more meaningful exploration of the influence such cosmic events would have had upon the world.
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Game theory provides the appropriate vehicle of study.
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The crows in the television commercials provide another vehicle for conveying messages about Docklands.
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The game environment can prove to be useful in providing the vehicle for this purpose.
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For those with emotional difficulties, drama provides an invaluable vehicle which allows the effect of behaviour to be explored.
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In 1991, Motability provided more than 43,000 vehicles .
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But if the Nestorian Church provided one vehicle whereby Nazarean thought survived into a later epoch, there were also others.
sell
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Car retailers sell vehicles with various kinds of warranties concerning replacement of faulty parts at the suppliers expense.
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Ford sold 22, 308 vehicles last year, up 51. 1 percent.
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If they are new or have anything unusual about them, ask the person selling the vehicle for an explanation.
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As a teenager he was involved in a stolen car ring, selling parts stripped from vehicles stolen by his friends.
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Chrysler sold 15, 710 vehicles , up 11. 4 percent.
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The decree allowed enterprises and institutions to sell their vehicles to private citizens through state retail outlets.
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The company, which sells its vehicles through Yanase&038;.
stop
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But Molassi had stopped the vehicle himself.
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They then allegedly robbed a man in North Beach before they were stopped when their vehicle collided with another car.
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Read in studio A new device to stop high vehicles hitting bridges is undergoing tests.
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They set up random checkpoints on roads between Ballymena and Portstewart stopping vehicles and looking for drugs.
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They noticed the car run wide as the defendant made a left turn and the officers decided to stop the vehicle .
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Pickets broke through the police lines and flung themselves into the road in an attempt to stop the vehicles .
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They stopped their vehicles , talked very little, and chewed gum.
use
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The estimated extra cost of the Worthing scheme is £2.80 per household per year, against £17 for schemes using two vehicles .
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We used that as the vehicle and it went back and forth.
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This was limited and, in order to use a longer vehicle , radial axle-boxes were introduced.
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Would it be wiser to use a more conventional vehicle for a down payment?
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Many criteria are used to determine motor vehicle insurance premiums.
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The problem is that plainly this depreciation charge can not reflect the periodic benefits expected to accrue from using the vehicle .
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For example, service teams that use a fleet of vehicles may monitor vehicle utilization.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
amphibious vehicle
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On Saturday morning, dozens of amphibious vehicles and air-cushion landing craft ferried men and tanks on to military-designated Red Beach.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a motor vehicle
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The secret ballot was an important vehicle for freer elections.
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the use of TV soap operas as a vehicle for spreading public information
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Every road is blocked, every emergency vehicle trapped or wrecked, every hospital destroyed.
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Members have been asked to hand in their guns, grenade throwers, anti-aircraft guns and armoured vehicles.
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Only 373,804 vehicles were sold despite a massive £50million ad blitz by the industry.
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Smoking is allowed only inside vehicles, and the smokes must be extinguished inside those vehicles.
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The crew had been busy running cargo and vehicles on a waterborne Main Supply Route until just after midnight.