adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a central bank (=the main financial authority in a country)
▪ The Bundesbank is the central bank of Germany.
a central feature (=an important feature)
▪ Cultural diversity is a central feature of modern British society.
a central metaphor (=one that a poem or book is based around)
▪ The poet as something carried by the ocean is a central metaphor in the book.
a key/central role
▪ The report recognized the key role of teachers.
a key/central/important concept
▪ The title tells you something about the central concept of the poem.
central bank
central casting
▪ Wearing black shoes and a pinstripe suit, he looked like central casting’s idea of the perfect civil servant.
central government
central heating
▪ the central heating boiler
central locking
central nervous system
central processing unit
central reservation
central/basic/fundamental etc tenet
▪ one of the basic tenets of democracy
central/fundamental importance
▪ The central importance of interest rates is widely recognized.
central/national government (=that deals with national rather than local things)
▪ Funding will continue to be available from central government for further education for adults.
coastal/border/central etc region
▪ Flooding is likely in some coastal regions of the Northeast during the early part of the week.
main/chief/central etc preoccupation
▪ Their main preoccupation was how to feed their families.
sb's central concern
▪ Our organization's central concern is to help people at all levels of society.
the central dilemma (=the main one)
▪ The Prime Minister's central dilemma was whether war was justified.
the central focus (=most important)
▪ The film’s central focus is the relationship between the two women.
the main/central/dominant theme
▪ The main theme of the book is the importance of honesty.
the main/central/leading character
▪ Alec is the central character in the play.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
▪ Residents in the central area would get a 90 % discount.
▪ This central area was the scene of three great changes, one after another.
▪ Urban growth is often reflected morphologically by the appearance of a distinctive central area.
▪ He went down the corridor that led off the central area.
▪ The central area is volcanic in origin.
▪ So far, northern and central areas, gripped by unusually cold weather since autumn, have been worst hit.
▪ The city has few modern buildings in the central area which do not conform to the height or style of their surroundings.
authority
▪ But the deeper imprint of the central authority, and the harsher side to its reformist zeal, left scars.
▪ The problem is made worse by the lack of a central authority for water management.
▪ It also inherited the Roman virtue of sound organization, based on a powerful central authority, and preserved by strict legalism.
▪ There is often a lack of real coordination between area or central authorities and individual service points.
▪ Only a strong central authority could guarantee internal peace and economic stability.
▪ The central authorities were instructed to send 100 million roubles to pay the railwaymen.
▪ There was little chance to look towards democracy or any political liberalisation, moreover, while the party remained the central authority.
bank
▪ The legislation transformed it into a new central bank and introduced a new tier of commercial banks and other lending institutions.
▪ The central bank yesterday said current interest rate settings are consistent with the pace of growth and prospects for inflation.
▪ Frequent sales from central banks over the past few years have barely eaten into stocks.
▪ The central bank shaved its benchmark repo rate by 0. 25 percentage point to 8. 75 percent.
▪ But it would signal a policy shift by the central bank that could crimp the economy severely later on.
banker
▪ The job of central bankers would be easier if governments trimmed their budget deficits as soon as recovery was under way.
▪ Secondly, central bankers, like other human beings, can take the wrong decisions.
▪ Yet, with all due respect, are there not too many central bankers stalking the globe?
▪ While some pundits denounce them, I believe they play a useful role, keeping politicians and central bankers honest.
▪ Seldom has a central banker looked more secure in his war against marauding politicians.
▪ Volcker may have had exalted credentials as a central banker, but he was not deemed politically safe enough by Ronald Reagan.
character
▪ The problem is the presence of Depardieu as the central character, Valjean.
▪ Donna Barbara had a woman as central character.
▪ The central character presents the case for Mackay's individualist anarchism.
▪ You are the storyteller, which makes you a central character in each story.
▪ Players see the games through the point of view of a central character, giving them a three-dimensional look.
▪ Prusiner, by the way, is the one central character in the prion saga whom Rhodes was unable to interview.
committee
▪ Other central committee members urged the party to speed up its own reform and to anticipate the changes happening in the country.
▪ The central committee of Tehiya voted to leave the coalition government.
▪ A joint central committee and joint congresses endeavoured to secure some co-ordination.
▪ He was apparently replaced by Ros Chhun, a party central committee member who was close to Chea Sim.
▪ Secret tapes of Stalin's conversations were played to the central committee.
▪ The central committee ideology department accused Kharchev of unnecessary interference in the internal affairs of churches and of financial indiscipline.
▪ For example, we see individual universities establishing their own central committee for overseeing academic standards across all disciplines.
▪ He held the post of special adviser to the Communist party central committee, and appeared at ceremonial occasions.
concern
▪ This will be a central concern of Chapter 5.
▪ The individual was his central concern.
▪ The central concerns of the kinship school hardly need restating.
▪ Modules could then be directed at issues which teachers themselves see as of central concern.
▪ The central concern for all these groups is with what they perceive to be declining moral standards.
▪ The relationship between syntactic and semantic processing has been a central concern of psycholinguistics for the last two decades.
▪ Readers will find a central concern about the factors that influence social welfare a characteristic of many writings on social policy.
▪ The subconscious having become a central concern of the age, a host of artists took the elemental self as their subject.
control
▪ The most remarkable extension of central control has been in the field of local government.
▪ For most of the industrial revolution, serious wealth was made by bringing processes under central control.
▪ The communications and information revolution has permitted progressively greater central control over their financial affairs.
▪ Apparent Disadvantages of Swarm Systems NonoptimalBecause they are redundant and have no central control, swarm systems are inefficient.
▪ First under the poll tax and now under the council tax, central control has replaced local democracy in determining spending.
▪ The first application to use the services is Tivoli/FSM, which manages Unix client-server file sharing mechanisms from a central control point.
▪ Find the central control and one might just find the Volvo.
▪ They evidently prefer strict discipline and central control to fair competition.
defender
▪ But key central defender Alan McDonald is out after being released from hospital with bruised kidneys.
▪ He is following in his father's footsteps as a central defender.
▪ The 24-year-old central defender will miss a promotion run-in and a breakthrough on the international scene.
▪ And as for selling Newsome/Wetherall ... tell me, who is going to be the next generation of central defenders?
▪ The 24-year-old central defender was carried off at Tranmere Rovers on Friday night when his knee locked.
▪ Having had a jinxed left back position it looks like we now have a jinxed central defender position!
▪ There is no other recognised central defender at Ayresome Park to partner Nicky Mohan.
feature
▪ Predominantly affecting young women, the central feature of this disorder is an abnormally low weight achieved by extreme caloric restriction.
▪ Hospital care remained a central feature of provision but its role was changed.
▪ The marketing mix is a central feature of an organization's tactical plan for a particular market.
▪ A central feature is the attempt to elicit the degree of identification of a community.
▪ One of the central features of the company is that it separates out the functions of ownership and management.
▪ Indeed, in large measures, that could be identified as a central feature of Mr Major's ministerial career.
▪ Other factors, such as access via doorways or accommodation of central features, also had to be taken into account.
▪ Some central features of narrative construction were studied, including the gradual embellishment of stories and their emotional content.
figure
▪ He was Man-of-the-match in the All Ireland club final, a central figure in Sarsfield's historic victory.
▪ A stele from Beaune museum shows him as the three-headed central figure of a triad of naked seated gods.
▪ First, you should get it clear in your mind just what the private-eye who is the central figure is.
▪ Ann Black, the central figure in State and Main, is, however, classic Mamet.
▪ He had married one of the daughters of Sir John Conyers, the central figure of the Middleham connection.
▪ For example, the two central figures are Paul, the brother, and Lise, the sister.
▪ The King was a central figure in the ritual of the church.
▪ Yet these women, particularly Mary Magdalene, are central figures in all four Gospel accounts of the Resurrection.
focus
▪ This is the composite word on the triangle which is the central focus of every Royal Arch chapter.
▪ It will provide a comprehensive district-wide service for the first time, and act as a central focus for the community.
▪ The central focus is the development of leisure interests during adolescence and the theoretical framework draws upon recent work in social cognition.
▪ The central focus of the analysis is therefore on developments in, and changes in the interrelationships between, sport and medicine.
▪ Authority is the central focus of hierarchy, which is the chief coordinating mechanism of work organizations.
▪ Next Time A central focus of the next issues will be on communicating research.
▪ Rather, the central focus of the magic is the weather-vane on top of the Great Tower.
▪ The central focus of all this railway activity was, however, the railway station.
government
▪ At the same Lime local government is responsible for implementing central government policy and hence we may find mutual dependency between organisations.
▪ Social security, for example, is the responsibility of central government but housing benefit is handled through local authorities.
▪ The programme of education reforms currently being introduced by central government requires schools simultaneously to introduce several major innovations.
▪ A series of uniform regulations would be promulgated to allow the central government to exert overall budget control.
▪ Teachers, parents, central government.
▪ This total would be cut by half if they transferred their educational budgets to central government.
▪ I dare say that my hon. Friend's constituents complain about their district council, county council and central Government.
heating
▪ It includes master bedroom with ensuite shower room, three further bedrooms, second bathroom, gas central heating, double garage.
▪ In flats with central heating, rent includes the cost of heating and is about £2.50 per week higher.
▪ Let's leap from the television to the central heating.
▪ Archway House benefits from sealed unit double glazed windows and Gas fired central heating throughout.
▪ If installing new central heating, fit an energy-efficient gas-condensing boiler.
▪ A little house with two bedrooms and no form of central heating.
▪ They'd be on to central heating systems next.
▪ It comes complete with full gas central heating, double glazing, a fully fitted kitchen and integral garage.
idea
▪ Certainly there is a variety of ways in which the central idea of conspiracy is expressed.
▪ That is one of its central ideas and one of the reasons for its worldwide success.
▪ Yet it s a one-joke play that teases out its central idea to the point of nervous exhaustion.
▪ It should be sufficient to state the central idea verbally and to indicate the connection to dynamical systems theory.
▪ Pelling's central idea is that the value of this concept is variable and its use needs care.
▪ The reader will soon discover that I think very little of certain of the central ideas of economics.
▪ Look and listen for the central ideas.
▪ The central idea, on the other hand, was simple, beautiful, and profound.
importance
▪ The novel finding, of central importance here, comes from the behaviour shown by a third group of subjects.
▪ Of central importance are recent demographic shifts in the pool from which colleges must pick their first-year classes.
▪ But Shakespeare's central importance within Renaissance writing was not a contemporary phenomenon, rather the result of later critical judgements.
▪ The State, albeit in an anti-metaphysical sense, was thus viewed as being of central importance.
▪ The role of large aggregations of individuals for appreciable periods is probably of central importance here.
▪ The emphasis on the craft of writing is of central importance in the recommendations of my National Curriculum Working Group.
▪ It is already clear, however, that the notion of acquired distinctiveness is of central importance in discussions of perceptual learning.
▪ These developments in cost-accounting are likely to be of central importance in resource-allocation decisions for the foreseeable future.
issue
▪ It never seems to have been a central issue.
▪ In Wisconsin and Michigan the future of state education is a central issue.
▪ The central issue facing the Labour Party is how to regain power.
▪ As in my other books, I have used interviews with individuals to explore and illustrate the central issues.
▪ I can tackle the central issue, head on.
▪ The central issues were nowhere near ready for com promise.
▪ We here came to a central issue in all our discussions.
▪ Balancing the budget is important, but it is not the central issue.
office
▪ They believed that the real power base lay outside the centres in the social services central offices.
▪ Many were calling the central office to complain.
▪ Members of the society were sending 100,000 enquiries a year to its central office about credit worthiness.
▪ Administrators in school district central offices manage public schools under their jurisdiction.
▪ I read - I do not know whether it came from the Department of Energy or from Conservative central office.
▪ Some principals and central office administrators have a doctorate or specialized degree in education administration.
▪ Multiples Multiples are organisations with ten or more shops controlled from a central office.
▪ In December, the Kohl government said it was setting up a central office to coordinate federal and state efforts against Scientology.
part
▪ Most also embrace economic development and education for work as a central part of their missions.
▪ A central part of our view of individual agents is our conviction that there is an explanatory link between belief and action.
▪ At any rate, the Horton demonization haunted Atwater enough to become a central part of his deathbed apologies.
▪ The buses and taxis I determined to avoid became a central part of nearly every painting.
▪ Yet today, school-to-work is rarely thought of as a central part of the school-reform movement.
▪ Of course he had some other assets, but the collapse of the central part of his fortune did not make for buoyancy.
▪ They are carrying out one of the central parts of their educational experience at CPESSthe community / school service requirement.
plank
▪ Another central plank in this revisionist argument was that there was no such thing as the popular will.
▪ The central plank of the new policy was rural development.
▪ Wilson had made National Self-Determination the central plank of his 1916 election campaign for a second term in office.
▪ The plan was the central plank of the Government's strategy to save 18,500 post offices around Britain.
point
▪ The imaginary central point in the sail through which the power of the sail acts.
▪ The central point in this context is, however, the role of subjective risk in the two theories.
▪ The central point is the village square and harbour, and there is also a very pleasant lakeside promenade.
▪ It could make that the central point of its election manifesto if it is so profoundly excited by it.
▪ The electricity industry has an extra desire: to switch consumers' equipment on and off from a central point.
▪ Windows that pivot from a central point are frequently fitted in modern flats for ease of cleaning.
▪ This was their central point and they found evidence to support it which has stood the test of time.
position
▪ All this reinforces custody in a central position.
▪ The Anatom has a removable orthopaedic footbed which locates the foot firmly in a central position.
▪ You take your map in your hand and try to find the most central position - the town hall or post office.
▪ From its central position perched high on the cliffs, it offers a breathtaking view across the Bay of Naples.
▪ With adjustment, the essential feature was the fixed but adjustable exchange rate structure in which the dollar held a central position.
▪ Often the squares are placed in a central position and enclose a figured medallion.
problem
▪ Clarke had a passionate interest in calculating the figure of the Earth, another central problem for an accurate topographical survey.
▪ Yet, although attitudes changed, the central problem remained.
▪ The central problem was that the chronically unemployed could not be covered by insurance.
▪ These two central problems associated with nuclear power can be ignored only at our peril.
▪ The central problem for the government was the central element in its case - the Thomas Leavy birth certificate.
▪ The three central problems are energy, mineral resources, and food.
▪ We can see that Bukharin had put his finger upon a central problem.
▪ One of the central problems confronting any discussion of a text for the play is which version should be used.
question
▪ These are still the central questions, more than ten years after the Great Debate.
▪ The central question in the case was whether Burroughs could assert a patent claim before it knew whether the drug worked.
▪ The central question asked is why certain land-uses take place.
▪ That was the central question of a conference last weekend in Monterey.
▪ The central question, however, is: what does it feel like to be a humanities student?
▪ In any psychotherapy program, a central question, or set of questions, is being asked.
region
▪ It is around 7700 light-years away, with a central region about 25 light-years in diameter.
▪ Indeed, there are no taste buds in this central region.
▪ The image of the insect may pass over the edge of my retina rather than the more acute central region.
▪ The family comes from the central region of Annam, I believe.
▪ In many cases the headquarters were retained in the central region and only the production processes were decentralized.
▪ Do not completely cover the tank bottom with mops, just place a few in the central region of the tank.
▪ In the process, population and economic pressures could be relieved from the heavily developed central region.
▪ The study specifically examined the chemical and energy industries in the central region around Leipzig, Halle and Bitterfeld.
reservation
▪ Central reservation systems Large groups of hotels which are linked by computer usually operate their own central reservation system.
▪ The 800 number led directly to central reservations -- normally a toll call.
▪ Bands appear in the streets, and folklore groups are dancing and singing in the central reservations and gardens of Funchal.
▪ In the case of a crossing split into two crossings by a central reservation each crossing should be classed as separate crossings.
▪ Mr Clarke said he assumed it had done a U-turn across the central reservation.
▪ She hid in bushes while the fiend ran to the central reservation before losing sight of her and driving off.
▪ Until recently the central reservation had deteriorated into use as a car-park.
▪ How does the central reservations system operate? 10.
role
▪ Banks play a central role as consultants, advisers and agents in acquisition situations.
▪ Magic plays a central role in Magic City.
▪ Because of their involvement and understanding, engineers have a central role in the control of risk.
▪ One was Alan Hayling, who was later to play a central role in the story of News on Sunday.
▪ The state according to Castells's perspective, had the central role of ensuring a healthy capitalist economy.
system
▪ However, his own plans rely on strengthening the central system.
▪ It has no officer corps and has never developed a uniform central system of recruitment and management.
▪ Thus: surprise can not tell us about the development of the central systems.
▪ The updated file can then be copied back to the central system, by modem and telephone if necessary.
▪ What I have been referring to vaguely as the knowledge system, Fodor calls the central systems.
▪ Data is stored in the central system, where specialist software looks after billing.
▪ It is our intention to provide a high level service for planning work using the central system.
▪ Those responsible for contributory benefits are concerned with the paying out of amounts determined by a largely computerized central system.
tenet
▪ Equally, revisionist conclusions conflict with many of the central tenets of Soviet orthodoxy.
▪ Thus the vast age of the Earth became the central tenet of geology.
▪ In this respect Hirschi shared the long-standing positivist rejection of the central tenet of classicism: deterrence.
▪ This was a central tenet of the bureaucratic model.
▪ This particular view has become one of the central tenets of the present Conservative government's economic policy.
▪ Some of the central tenets of these belief systems are as follows: 1.
theme
▪ If Alexander has a central theme, it is devolution.
▪ Many scholars agree that a concern for salvation is a central theme in Orphism.
▪ Firstly, a workshop must have a central theme.
▪ Their story echoes the central themes in Part 1 of this book:-Principles.
▪ It is a central theme throughout the book, and she criticises frequently the Catholic beliefs and customs.
▪ Fforde acknowledges that all this appears to invalidate the central theme of his book.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ central London
▪ a house with central heating
▪ Crime is going to be the central issue of the mayoral campaign.
▪ Political rights have always been the central concern of feminism.
▪ The central part of the building tends to be warmer in the winter.
▪ The central theme of this novel is the desire for money.
▪ The computers are linked to a central database.
▪ the farming areas of central California
▪ The houses face onto a central courtyard.
▪ The right to vote is central to our democratic system of government.
▪ the tropical rainforest in central Africa
▪ The use of weapons became the central issue dividing the tribes.
▪ Wingo is the troubled central character of Conroy's novel.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But this lofty and detached comment misses the central issues of comparison and equality in penal treatment.
▪ Centrophenoxine had the strongest biological activity, producing a mild stimulation of the central nervous system.
▪ Obviously, if a party changes its central principles, it becomes another party.
▪ On the contrary, it involves a recognition of its central mediating role in the use and learning of language.
▪ The central dogma is of course a theory, but there is no evidence to suggest that it is wrong.
▪ This review examines the evidence that abnormal oxidative metabolism is of central importance to active inflammatory bowel disease.