I.
noun
VERB + NORMAL
▪ be back to , go back to , return to
▪
After a week of festivities, life returned to ~.
PREPOSITION
▪ above ~
▪
The rainfall has been above ~ for this time of year.
▪ below ~
▪
Sales to December are well below ~.
▪ near ~
▪
His pulse rate had slowed to somewhere near ~.
II.
adj.
VERBS
▪ be
▪ become
▪ feel
▪ appear , look , seem
▪ consider sth , regard sth as , view sth as
▪
It is now regarded as ~ for women to work outside the home.
ADVERB
▪ very
▪ completely , entirely ( esp. BrE ), perfectly , quite , totally
▪
It started out as a perfectly ~ day.
▪ fairly , pretty
▪
I'd say it was pretty ~ to be upset if your house burned down.
▪ relatively
▪ apparently , seemingly
PREPOSITION
▪ for
▪
The temperature is ~ for spring.
PHRASES
▪ as ~
▪
First work out the answers as ~.
▪ in the ~ way
▪
Go for your check-ups in the ~ way until you are six months pregnant.
▪ in ~ circumstances , under ~ circumstances
▪
Under ~ circumstances Martin would probably have gone to college.
▪ sb's ~ self
▪
Mandy doesn't seem her ~ self today.
Normal is used with these nouns: ↑ baby , ↑ bedtime , ↑ behaviour , ↑ birth , ↑ bloke , ↑ blood pressure , ↑ cell , ↑ channel , ↑ childhood , ↑ circumstance , ↑ clothes , ↑ complement , ↑ condition , ↑ context , ↑ convention , ↑ conversation , ↑ course , ↑ curve , ↑ day , ↑ development , ↑ distribution , ↑ expectation , ↑ fare , ↑ fashion , ↑ fee , ↑ folk , ↑ growth , ↑ guy , ↑ habit , ↑ hearing , ↑ individual , ↑ infant , ↑ intake , ↑ intelligence , ↑ kid , ↑ kind , ↑ level , ↑ life , ↑ limit , ↑ liver , ↑ manner , ↑ mode , ↑ occurrence , ↑ operation , ↑ pattern , ↑ people , ↑ person , ↑ practice , ↑ precaution , ↑ pregnancy , ↑ procedure , ↑ process , ↑ rainfall , ↑ range , ↑ reaction , ↑ reading , ↑ residence , ↑ response , ↑ rhythm , ↑ routine , ↑ schedule , ↑ self , ↑ shape , ↑ size , ↑ speech , ↑ speed , ↑ subject , ↑ teenager , ↑ temperature , ↑ tissue , ↑ tone , ↑ usage , ↑ use , ↑ vision , ↑ way