I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a computer/video game
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He was up all night playing computer games.
a department store/video store/food store etc chain
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Morgan was the owner of a computer store chain.
a video camera (= that records moving pictures )
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They hired a video camera to use at their wedding.
computer/video/stereo etc equipment
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Ageing computer equipment should be replaced, not upgraded.
home video
make/keep a video diary
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The group decided to make a video diary of the cycling trip.
pirate videos/CDs/software etc
video arcade
video blogging
video camera
video cassette recorder
video cassette
video conferencing
video diary
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The group decided to make a video diary of the cycling trip.
video game
video jockey
video nasty
video recorder
video shoot
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She’s out on a video shoot .
video snacking
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
digital
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Claimed applications include image processing, digital video and digital audio.
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Our digital video strategy meandered around in the desert for 40 years.
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Digital cameras and digital video cameras began to appear last year.
full
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In the case of full motion video , the need for very fast information retrieval is acute.
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Data volumes can also be cut by not using full screen video .
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Is full frame, full motion video really important?
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Using this process, full motion, full frame video can be delivered together with the full range of other media types.
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It can not deliver full frame, full motion video although this may be available in later models.
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The possibilities range from display panel technology with a Presentation Manager programme driven by menus, to full interactive video displays.
interactive
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In reality, what is being funded is not interactive video but a solution to an urgent educational problem.
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An interactive video explains the significance of the symbols and the logic of their arrangement along vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines.
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So far, for example, interactive video has hardly received enough evaluation to determine what its effect on education actually is.
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However effective interactive video is in training, it is this kind of tenfold cost saving that is its most influential argument.
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In addition, customers will be able to conduct electronic information searches, complete financial transactions or choose interactive video services.
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For example, consider an application involving an interactive video system.
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However, even if its impact has been modest, interactive video has at least helped to establish the effectiveness of multimedia.
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Although we can not properly analyse the fortunes of the interactive video industry here, we can at least summarise.
new
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Install two new video display boards.
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That might be an investigation of a new video opportunity or it might be a review of some other research.
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The problem is, the supermodel's new exercise video could give you more than a bruised ego.
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One hundred thousand people have bought Jethro's new video this month-more than Lock will play to in his lifetime.
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Have a look at the Bulletin Boards to find out about two new videos .
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The Kama Sutra, for 2,000 years the Lover's lexicon, is beautifully brought to life in the new video .
promotional
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It's part of a promotional video , that claims to give the facts about fox-hunting.
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Leaflets have been delivered and the school is even making a promotional video .
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The extra facilities allow the school to introduce media studies and make its own promotional videos .
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A promotional video can be prepared for showing at induction meetings for parents of new children.
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See before you buy - get a copy of the promotional video which is very convincing.
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Lucy has also worked on production of a promotional video illustrating aspects of Medau which can be enjoyed by all age groups.
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These shapes might look cool on stage and in promotional videos but tend to be uncomfortable to wear.
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Free copies of a promotional video were sent to local doctors and accountants.
■ NOUN
camera
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Local authorities using video cameras determine their own controls.
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Cubs fans follow him around with their video cameras .
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Ask to see the ones which are specially made for video cameras .
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The Collection Machine roamed all night long until its video camera spotted the shape of a soda can on a desk.
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Still video camera prices start from £500.
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In a few excavations, video cameras are also used.
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Dexter stood at the back of the conference suite behind the video cameras and serried ranks of reporters.
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It is a simple closed circuit television system, a video camera photographing a speech being rolled beneath it.
cassette
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They have the potential to produce 28 million video cassettes a year.
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Lybrand nine days after Forbes magazine reported that Hollywood depreciated the value of its video cassettes more slowly than competitors.
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As far as minimum requirements go, you will need to take at least one blank video cassette with you.
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Last year one Middlesex student became the first to submit a postgraduate thesis as a video cassette tape.
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Hartwig ran through the names in the notebook that corresponded with the numbers on the spines of the video cassettes .
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They keep a video cassette player nearby for just such an eventuality.
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The whole programme is divided into two 30-minute video cassettes .
equipment
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Thomson has managed to hold its own on some soil, but it has done lamentably in selling domestic video equipment .
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The effect results from technical limitations in the video equipment .
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When Control acknowledged his message, he was told not to leave until he had retrieved the video equipment from Beirut.
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You could rent office space and video equipment there.
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The new law was principally designed to deal with thefts of bicycles and video equipment , which quickly lose their value.
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The technique uses video equipment which produces a three dimensional impression.
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And they presented him with video equipment they bought for a children's charity.
film
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It is with great pleasure that I now enclose a copy of the video film made of the first semi-final round.
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But video films of fires carried out on the test rig suggest that alarms will sound too late.
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Police had made video films of such people, but there were few arrests as most victims were scared to testify.
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You could even have video films , semi-darkness, no-smoking sections, paper bags.
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When using video film or broadcasts for history, pupils should be encouraged to make the distinction between primary and secondary sources.
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Police are asking for anyone who took photographs or video film during the day to contact them.
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The evidence of video films is that the police advanced at a trot and that at all times they were controlled.
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In 1984 the wholesale company, Nurdin &038; Peacock, commissioned a set of video films on the management of small shops.
game
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Those who don't indulge in the video games world may be losing out in many more ways.
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Naturally, rows of televisions and VCRsstocked with the latest video games and first-run films-could ring the lobby.
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Hornby, founded in 1908, has now moved on from trains and cars to sell dolls and video games .
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Unfortunately, too many kids think Mortal Kombat or other video games are more fun than playing in the yard.
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I was a video game addict.
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Male speaker It's great it's just like being in a video game except you're completely involved in it.
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Hand-held video games are big news this summer for the fashion-conscious.
games
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Those who don't indulge in the video games world may be losing out in many more ways.
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Naturally, rows of televisions and VCRsstocked with the latest video games and first-run films-could ring the lobby.
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Calculators, watches and pocket video games reveal another failing.
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Unfortunately, too many kids think Mortal Kombat or other video games are more fun than playing in the yard.
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Hornby, founded in 1908, has now moved on from trains and cars to sell dolls and video games .
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Unlike most video games that are over in a few minutes, this one can go on for days.
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Hand-held video games are big news this summer for the fashion-conscious.
home
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The latest is Sony's plan to introduce a hi-fi modification of its Beta home video system.
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Ruggles is now licensing electronics companies around the world to sell add-on quad decoders for home video .
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Television audiences, notably on the home video blooper shows, have to be from some other solar system.
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This home video was taken by a passer-by and shows how quickly the flames engulfed the building.
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This fall, it will be expanded to 10 hours for home video release.
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Notice the critical importance of home video to Hollywood revenues in Table 7. 3.
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In 1990 home video accounted for an estimated 10. 4 percent of movie industry revenues.
machine
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However this is beginning to apply to classroom video materials too as more and more people today have video machines at home.
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Consider a loan system if teachers have video machines at home.
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Back at the Barracks Maxim had to wait until after midnight before he had the officers' mess video machine to himself.
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After what we've said about visual support, it might seem perverse to use a video machine without the picture.
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Contemporary things have no regard for gravity, except video machines .
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All he's got is a mattress on the floor and this video machine .
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This is because video machines need to synchronise and not all are built to do this.
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It is also equipped with a pool table, darts, video machines and football machine.
material
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You could think of using video material occasionally as an input to these activities.
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The main aim of several sets of video materials is to present examples of language in use in an appropriate context.
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However this is beginning to apply to classroom video materials too as more and more people today have video machines at home.
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Alternatively a range of different video materials could be used in a period earmarked for video.
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This section surveys sources of non-ELT video material you might have access to.
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The Video Plans in this chapter are taken from Teacher's Guides and other print support produced for published video materials .
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A different approach to video materials is to look at how they communicate their message.
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Of course we can teach video materials in a very similar way to audio materials.
motion
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In the case of full motion video , the need for very fast information retrieval is acute.
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As far as motion video , in particular, is concerned, the constraints of available technology force multimedia into a seemingly impossible situation.
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Full motion video is not quite within the reach of us mortals, despite the protestations of the add men.
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Multimedia Presentation Manager/2 is included and adds enhanced audio, basic image and software motion video playback capabilities.
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Is full frame, full motion video really important?
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Now let us look at television information and gain some sense of the amount of data needed to represent motion video .
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They claim that the dial up approach cuts the cost of two-way motion video by up to 90 percent.
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It can not deliver full frame, full motion video although this may be available in later models.
music
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The launch programme in March 1995 mainly consisted of music videos .
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And it has proposed similar warnings for music videos .
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However, record company sales forces do supply music videos to the limited number of record shops which stock them.
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Watching Dash was as disconcerting as watching a music video .
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Football news programmes on Sky and some music video channels use the same techniques.
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Now they play music videos and comedy clips.
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The Power Station Latest chart-topping music videos , fashion and comedy.
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Temple has made some of the best music videos that exist.
player
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You will, of course, need a video source which can either be a video player or camera.
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Bedrooms have video player and safety deposit box, bathrooms with hair dryer.
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There is also a video player , 2 pool tables and a good sound system.
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I carry the video player around on motorcycle!
programme
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In other words you the teacher can do the teaching, using the video programme in whatever way you choose.
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Do they also feature in cartoons in print which you might use along with the video programme ?
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A group of students undertakes as a project to produce a video programme .
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This means that the same video programme can be driven in different directions by different computer programs.
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A video programme about the same topic could be a welcome addition to that unit.
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With the latter it becomes possible to add your own subtitles to a video programme .
recorder
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House raid: Detectives are investigating the theft of a video recorder from a house in Millpool Close, Hartlepool.
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Modern video recorders with their freeze-frame facility offer further possibilities.
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It is the deregulated, free-market media world of satellite television and video recorders where the real violence is played out.
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The purchase process for a new house, car, cooker or video recorder may have been a quite lengthy process.
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There were about 50 burglaries in the last week, with televisions and video recorders being the most popular.
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Bob has taken the plunge &038; acquired a video recorder - masquerading as my birthday present to him.
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Typical examples might include: a duvet, gardening equipment, a video recorder , a home computer, hobby materials and so on.
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This contains a software interface for personal computers and can also link to devices such as synthesisers or video recorders .
recording
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Suppose now that you wish to dub music to a video recording with only a simple linear mono sound track.
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However from the students' point of view, the making of a video recording was the purpose of the exercise.
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A video recording of a meeting could give practice in taking notes of main points.
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This is a two-machine set-up by which original video recordings can be transferred on to copy tapes.
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Will the Government now reconsider their decision not to introduce video recording of interrogation procedures?
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The making of a video recording provides a goal for learners to work towards and this is a motivating factor.
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The Home Office is to produce a Code of Practice on the use of video recordings for this purpose.
screen
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Opening it, she found herself in a large room in which row upon row of men sat behind video screens .
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In the front, on another video screen , three well-built specimens cavorted on the tailgate of a pickup truck.
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Giant video screens were erected, for example, to greet passengers arriving at the main London rail termini.
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Huge video screens profile each new batter and replay how he fares at the plate.
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None of the surface panels is visible in either this or the photograph taken from the video screen .
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The stage will be built facing the main stand and will be flanked by giant video screens .
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The backs of the heads of the first and second officer and engineer flashed on the video screens .
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Through cobwebby windows I saw a relief model of the surrounding mountains and a large vacant video screen hanging from the ceiling.
shop
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How could we have guessed 10 years ago that there would be a video shop on every street corner?
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It is the stuff in the video shop , to which people have consciously turned in preference to what is broadcast.
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The video shop wasn't open yet.
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She owns a video shop with her husband, in Mile End.
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The video shop didn't open up until a few minutes after ten.
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People are switching off, or going to the video shop , in droves.
store
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You can buy them in your video store now.
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As currently envisioned, video on demand is merely a cheaper or more convenient replacement for the corner video store .
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All priced at £9.99 and available from high street outlets and leading video stores , the six titles are: Silent Hunter.
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In my neighborhood video store yesterday, I spotted a typical soft-core offering.
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Ernie just got paid from his video store job so he bought several rounds of rum and cokes.
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After skating Jim suggested that the family go to the lo-cal video store and rent a movie.
tape
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Intermagnetics-Agra now has 11 video tape plants around the world, either operational or under construction.
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Coding the Descriptions Each subject's descriptions were subsequently compared to the video tape of the drive.
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His biggest break comes in May when Sony starts to sell Beta hi-fi video tape recorders.
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Play a video tape of a soccer match during tea.
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It could be video from any other analogue source such as video tape or videodisc.
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But they're taking a video tape - rather like a film, you know.
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Yards of video tape spilled on to the deck, along with pieces of broken plastic.
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The topics were supported by video tapes .
■ VERB
play
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Store detectives undergo extensive training routines which include role playing and watching videos of mock incidents.
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But there are helpers that play video and audio in real time.
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Users will be able to play video in a 320 by 240 window at 30 frames per second.
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If Jackson fails to show, the organisers will play the video instead.
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Now they play music videos and comedy clips.
produce
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Several publishers have produced video recordings of meetings, for instance.
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Some experimental discs are being produced , using conventional video .
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They have the potential to produce 28 million video cassettes a year.
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We are currently negotiating with various companies who are eager to produce a video for us.
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David Tinnion and Phil Weaver have produced a video called Breakthrough 2000 outlining their scheme.
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Ann Kite produces an excellent video , very clear and with enough repetition for understanding, not boredom.
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A group of students undertakes as a project to produce a video programme.
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Audio tapes are much easier and cheaper to produce and use than video .
release
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In contrast Farc released a video showing its freed guerrillas saluting stiffly as they were greeted by an honour guard of rebels.
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And the adventures are released on video in 10 volumes, out now from Polygram at £8.99 each.
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It's released a video aimed at encouraging people to take a holiday - in Swindon.
rent
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Video those magic moving moments ... Capture those moving moments - for ever, when you rent a video camera from Radio Rentals.
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Customers would go in and give their five-digit card number to rent videos .
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You could rent office space and video equipment there.
shoot
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Suppose, for instance, you have shot some video on a harbour-front.
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Similarly, there is now available a fundamental choice between shooting on film or video .
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Our stuff was incredibly ugly, shot on video and very cheap.
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The video was shot by renowned photographer Herb Ritts who has a history of shooting sexy videos.
show
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Children are being shown a new video , which shows just how serious the consequences can be.
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Nobody goes to see him unless he's showing a video .
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He had a premarital dust-up with the woman who is now his wife, and the networks showed the video .
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They were shown a video about the department and introduced to members of the team who are setting up the service.
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I showed her videos of a couple little girls.
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One enterprising airway promotes this idea by showing an in-flight video that leads passengers through such a work-out.
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Then they don't show the video in its entirety.
watch
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I watch videos and read manga, and that's about as far as I want to go.
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Voters expecting to meet him were asked instead to watch a video and listen to a telephone conference call.
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The director sits watching a video of a film made, usually, several years previously.
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I left, defeated, and through the window watched him replace the videos on the shelf ready for the next customer.
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I've done nothing but read thrillers since the exams, apart from watching videos and playing patience to kill time.
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Pupils boast of having watched up to eight videos in a day.
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Sent you out for some fresh air, did they - stop you watching endless videos ?
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Murray also arranged for the players to watch a video of the game on the coach on the way to Stockport.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a CD/record/video etc player
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But nomes hear sounds slowed down and stretched out and deeper, like a record player in a power cut.
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But we didn't have a record player , so every night we'd get it out and look at it.
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Hatton said something about buying him a record player for a wedding present.
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Inside she found a record player and some old 78s.
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There is also a video player , 2 pool tables and a good sound system.
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There was a thumping noise coming from above that was a record player .
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You will, of course, need a video source which can either be a video player or camera.
cassette recorder/tape recorder/video recorder etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Communication has changed greatly in the age of video .
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Let's rent a video tonight.
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the video store
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A secretly-filmed video details what are claimed to be breaches of regulations meant to protect animals.
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A standard disc could contain only 25 seconds of video .
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And I have got to say, I have watched that video of her on the stage over and over again.
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I did a very poignant malaria detection kit video .
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I mean, who wants a video of Nottingham Forest or Derby County?
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Then they're made to watch graphic videos of the potential results of their crimes.
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What makes it special is it is a personalized video where you are part of the action.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For the band's first shows, Towa was onstage, videoing, taking photographs, appearing to operate this and that.
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Volunteers at the centre have been videoing this pair of kingfishers and so far it looks as though the experiment is a success.
III. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
camera
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One of their captors filmed the shootings with a video camera .
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The judge already has decided to ban from the courtroom not only video cameras but print photographers working for newspapers and magazines.
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Mitra installed a video camera on a tree nearby to watch over the kiosk and observe what the children did.
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A simple monochrome digital video camera is fitted to the hoe and trained on the crop just in front of the machine.
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Nixon recommends practicing before a video camera .
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Recently, video cameras and editing desks have been developed that could enable everyone to become a film-maker.
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The video camera links the color spots of the wands to a nest of computers set up by graphics wizard Loren Carpenter.
clip
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Technological advances will soon allow users to send colour pictures, music and even video clips instead of just plain text.
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The sound and video clips included, though, are first rate, both in quality and variety.
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None of the 50-plus song or video clips lasts more than a minute.
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Because of the limited storage space, sound and video clips are sacrificed.
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Also disappointing are the video clips , mainly from the more recent chapters in Ranger history.
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The program also features a neat video clip of Norman introducing the game and wishing players good luck.
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The new system allows users with the right equipment to receive graphics, sound and even short video clips over their computers.
footage
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The visual evidence accumulates in the courtroom without argument: maps, video footage , satellite imagery and photographs.
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Our spies tells us the news director pressed the suspended Epstein for video footage , which he adamantly refused to provide.
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Police are currently studying video footage to identify protesters involved.
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On the video footage , which was shot by investigators the spring after the nightmare, birds twitter.
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In February the team started transcribing 100 hours of video footage .
game
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And the Pok mon series was among the industry's top-selling video games .
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Ellison said he is talking with video game makers and sees partnerships with them rather than competition.
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His show was accompanied by artificial sounds of gunfire and explosions, as if it were a huge video game .
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Nor would I make playing video games the reward for having read.
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Congressional interest in video game violence has decreased.
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The manufacturers of records and video games have come more easily into tow, and now have rating systems of their own.
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You can also use his interest in computer or video games to motivate him to join in other activities.
games
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Women are ignored by manufacturers of video games , which are mostly war games of one sort or another.
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And the Pok mon series was among the industry's top-selling video games .
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Andrew Walsh's designs skilfully use video games and shape-shifting computerised images to question Shaw's futuristic vision.
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He saw her playing with the video games , checking out the board games, giving the stuffed animals trial hugs.
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The Internet is just one more damn thing we have to monitor, like television, movies, video games and caffeine.
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The self-absorbed child who is bright and verbal may be-come quite expert in computer, chess, and video games .
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Nor would I make playing video games the reward for having read.
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The manufacturers of records and video games have come more easily into tow, and now have rating systems of their own.
monitor
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Like nearly everyone else in the courtroom, he watches the images on a video monitor before him.
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Newscasts of the chaotic minutes after the attack flash across nine video monitors .
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Another set of ads may be running on the video monitor strategically perched above the pump.
production
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Over the next few years, the company got into video production and has since started designing a curriculum for interpreters.
recorder
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More than 1, 000 pirate videos and 63 video recorders were also seized.
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Even with the kids, wanting to show them things on the video recorder .
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Automobiles, video recorders , washing machines, personal computers, and most furniture are good examples of consumer durables.
screen
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Fans watched highlights of the season on a large video screen as they waited for the players and marching bands.
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Their pages are often displayed on video screens .
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Mr O'Sullivan filled an enormous cavity completely painlessly, while a video screen showed a blow-up of the tooth being worked on.
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A video screen flashes scans of the brain.
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It flips open to reveal a small video screen and a computer-style keyboard.
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He also throws open the rear door, revealing a video screen .
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Redness lights the interior of the submersible; the glow from dials and video screens reflects softly off the burnished titanium hull.
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Play with the facades of the present buildings to create video screens and light shows, yes.
service
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Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to accelerate the transition of telephone and video services from regulated to competitive markets.
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The principal shortcoming of the existing communications infrastructure lies in its inability to provide integrated voice, data, and video services .
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The earlier strategy was not clear due to regulatory constraints that forbid RBOCs from offering video services in their region.
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The goal is to offer its customers hundreds of new cable channels and video services .
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The bill also repeals prohibitions on local phone companies to provide video services .
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Chief Executive Ernesto Pascale has said in the past that Stet is not interested in providing video services .
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They look haziest in the newest and strangest businesses: Internet access and, especially, video service .
store
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By the way, who is managing the video store now Barry has jacked it in?
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Choosing a video store is a very personal decision.
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That doesn't stop Hedley from dreaming of owning a video store , even though it seems near impossible.
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When bad weather turns up, one of the first places people turn to is the video store .
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Clearly, then, extenuating factors such as the attraction of video stores and the ability to browse are sometimes overlooked.
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The other day, I was going to the video store when this guy backs up his car and almost hits me.
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Schuster publishers and the Blockbuster video store chain.
tape
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They promised to release a video tape of the interrogation, but the film has not been issued.
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A 1-year-old who has yet to be captured on video tape .
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Other tasks investigated whether the animal recognised itself in a video tape image, a photograph, or even its own shadow.
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The video tape library at the Metro East Center helps teachers to see and to do.
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Endorsed by famed consultant Zig Ziglar, Drury instructs over 50,000 each year at live presentations and through video tapes .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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video equipment
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the real thrill for some riders is the chance to perform for the video camera.
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Choosing a video store is a very personal decision.
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Covert video cameras and hand-held laser devices will be among the equipment used at weekends, they warn.
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Mitra installed a video camera on a tree nearby to watch over the kiosk and observe what the children did.
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On the video footage, which was shot by investigators the spring after the nightmare, birds twitter.
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The video ref gave it and Lansdowne Road erupted, especially after O'Gara added the conversion from wide on the touchline.
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The video version was shot at Stonehenge.
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Your full-motion video advisers will be William Shatner as Capt.