I tend to think that seeing and characterising them as collocation is the most useful way, a pragmatic view perhaps encouraged by the lexical approach. From Wordnik.com. [P is for Phrasal Verb « An A-Z of ELT] Reference
Be sure to inquire about value added services such as collocation space and terrestrial connectivity. From Wordnik.com. [Figures Terrestrial | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference
Ethernet loops and collocation is still a buyers market. From Wordnik.com. [Orgoo – The Web Email/IM Replacement] Reference
Deem not this collocation simply a burlesque on Scientific categories. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
Hereâs the biggest problem, they donât understand collocation. From Wordnik.com. [p2pnet World Headlines – April 3, 2009] Reference
The very collocation "learning styles" I find risky, and this for two reasons. From Wordnik.com. [Learning styles don't exist] Reference
Then the comic is uploaded to their 10-server collocation facility in San Jose. From Wordnik.com. [The Dorks Behind Penny Arcade, Web Comic Turned Empire | Disinformation] Reference
“Theogony” is a merely artificial collocation of facts, and, at best, a pageant. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
And I still need to blog some more about the collocation papers I have been reading. From Wordnik.com. [Perl Collocates] Reference
The elements alone cannot produce them because their collocation cannot produce a continuum. From Wordnik.com. [On the Heavens] Reference
My Vox is not fat, not masterly, not even a piece, but a deliberate collocation of fragments. From Wordnik.com. [April « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
We let its "unstable collocation" pass for what it is worth, and stick to our grammatical analysis. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
The above considerations show how unwise we are in attempting to undo this natural collocation of materials. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
This even distribution of the food and the collocation of the guests often occupies the better part of an hour. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
Yet the ‘after’ in ‘take after’ is clearly a stronger collocation than the ‘after’ in ‘ran after’. From Wordnik.com. [P is for Phrasal Verb « An A-Z of ELT] Reference
The local system I used handled 440 very differently from 8xx, leading to the loss of collocation for series entries. From Wordnik.com. [Controlling series headings « Collocate and Disambiguate] Reference
He has accordingly elected to replace his first two names by the ingenious and harmonious collocation of Thomas Habakkuk. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 14, 1914] Reference
Hello everyone, the collocation seems a Spanish borrowing to me as we have a literal translation of that use of the verb connect. From Wordnik.com. [On contacting] Reference
The FBI just raided another Dallas collocation facility, same 5:AM raid, same special agent, and apparently a related “cause”. From Wordnik.com. [p2pnet World Headlines – April 3, 2009] Reference
In this collocation occur many dears, parental as well as conjugal; as -- "Hold up your head, and don't look quite so cross, dear.". From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
The FBI just raided another Dallas collocation facility, same 5: AM raid, same special agent, and apparently a related “cause”. From Wordnik.com. [p2pnet World Headlines – April 3, 2009] Reference
Now relative to a “parkeresque” methodology, Suppose one bifurcated sites into Waste Station collocation, and non waste stations. From Wordnik.com. [Aberdeen WA « Climate Audit] Reference
In collocation, however, and quite apart from rhythm and alliteration, this minute expressiveness may add up to a considerable amount. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
But a "mama grizzly" a new collocation are by definition all of those things; they cross gender lines, and it is natural that they do so. From Wordnik.com. [Robin Lakoff: Election 2010: Man Pants and the Girlie-Man] Reference
Should he be shunted aside because he sees in the world not the random collocation of ancient accidents, but the majesty of intended beauty?. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi David Wolpe: Sam Harris' Narrow View of Science is Wrong] Reference
A satellite hub with a collocation facility can be a powerful tool, and should be highly considered when contracting for satellite services. From Wordnik.com. [Figures Terrestrial | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference
For instance, I submit to the experienced that the degree of hostility it betrays is in much proportioned to its collocation in the sentence. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
These task forces presented a number of findings and recommendations, including areas for potential collocation and consolidation of functions. From Wordnik.com. [Npr Report On Department Of Interior Part A] Reference
The usual collocation “even number” and “odd number” do not have in view the set of non-negative integers, but counts of actual objects. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Yow!] Reference
Their current bandwidth bills are likely to be huge - and they'll be wanting to get a better deal from their fibre providers and collocation spaces. From Wordnik.com. [128 shades of brown] Reference
Membership in the commonwealth entails putting wealth at the disposal of the commons -- the precise aim of public revenue collocation through taxation. From Wordnik.com. [Benjamin R. Barber: No Representation Without Taxation!] Reference
I have attempted here to give what I conceive Catullus may have meant to convey by the remarkable collocation At roseo niueae residebant uertice uittae. From Wordnik.com. [Poems and Fragments] Reference
I marked their ‘translations’ as there were lots of mistakes of word order, grammar and collocation and got them into groups to compare their ‘versions’. From Wordnik.com. [T is for Translation « An A-Z of ELT] Reference
The dialogue, especially, is bookish, as though the personages knew their speech was to be printed, and were careful of the collocation and rhythm of their words. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference
Each of these statements has been previously proved from other facts; but the mere collocation of them gives the impression of establishing some fresh conclusion. From Wordnik.com. [Rhetoric] Reference
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