adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a good/effective leader
▪ What characteristics make a good leader?
a successful/effective strategy
▪ The most successful strategy is often the simplest one.
an effective cure
▪ A few decades ago there was no effective cure for the disease.
an effective partnership
▪ The agency tries to forge effective partnerships with communities and private businesses.
an effective solution
▪ The government has failed to come up with an effective solution.
an effective technique
▪ This is an effective technique for removing unwanted hair.
an effective/efficient means
▪ Speed bumps are an effective means of stopping cars from going too fast.
an effective/successful campaign
▪ The Conservatives failed to mount an effective campaign.
effective communication
▪ Effective communication plays a key role in the democratic process.
effective cooperation
▪ The inspectors criticized a lack of effective cooperation among the staff.
effective use
▪ We need to consider whether there could be a more effective use of our time.
effective
▪ The drug may prove to be an effective treatment for brain tumours.
effective/efficient
▪ It was a highly effective system of communication.
effective/efficient (=giving the result you want)
▪ Some methods are more effective than others.
good/close/effective etc working relationship
▪ We have a close working relationship with other voluntary groups.
highly successful/effective/efficient
▪ a highly successful politician
simple but effective
▪ Any child’s behaviour can be improved by this simple but effective technique.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ In local political organisation the technique is just as effective.
▪ Under those conditions, in other words, it is just as effective a weight-control agent as pink lemonade.
▪ Physical trapping is likely to be about as effective for neon, argon and krypton.
▪ The mourning can not be as effective when the damaged child survives.
▪ In three of them, this diet was as effective as an elemental diet in achieving remission.
▪ Clonidine is also used in some patients but is not as effective.
▪ Its therapies have stood the test of time and are as effective today as they were two hundred years ago.
▪ Table 5-1 describes briefly one of the many different ways each style might be perceived as effective or ineffective by others.
extremely
▪ It has proved extremely effective over the past few years.
▪ These steroids are extremely effective and keep you alive.
▪ In contrast simple probabilistic models have been extremely effective in some speech and language tasks.
▪ If men closed further, accuracy became less important, and powerful grenades became extremely effective.
▪ It would not cost the Government money, would have the support of fishermen and would be extremely effective in terms of conservation.
▪ They are fast acting and extremely effective as products and will rapidly remove grease and other organic films using spray-wipe techniques.
▪ This combination of wet heat and time is extremely effective for disinfection.
▪ Many word-games already used in classrooms are extremely effective on the computer.
highly
▪ It is well targeted and highly effective.
▪ Hepatitis remains a killer, and although a highly effective vaccine is now available, very few gay men have taken it.
▪ Both vaccines are highly effective and safe.
▪ The defense was highly effective in the first half, as Stanford shot 30. 4 percent.
▪ In appearance, the slab-sided yet undoubtedly highly effective new S-class disguises its massive bulk.
▪ As a political strategy it was highly effective, successfully confronting the medical discourse which lay behind regulation.
▪ Gold salts are highly effective in the management of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, most adverse reactions being mild and reversible.
how
▪ In his cycle for Unicorn-Kanchana, Peter Hill has shown how effective a softer palette can be in such pieces.
▪ Just how effective and successful they would be as managers in the long term, only time would tell.
▪ More importantly, we can supply patients with their results so that they can see how effective their personal management has been.
▪ But the real questions are: How do such workers really relate to each other? and How effective is their performance?
▪ In that way, people can see how effective the organisation is against other providers or against a regional or national average.
▪ There is also the matter of how effective Vlade Divac will be against Hakeem Olajuwon.
▪ Only the security chiefs can guess how effective it would be, but large question-marks remain.
▪ Are there distinctions to be drawn between legal problems and social problems? How effective are lawyers in solving legal problems?
less
▪ Only in Britain, with 2 percent, was the catch-up less effective.
▪ Against Seattle, he has been even less effective as the Rockets have fallen behind 2-0 in the best-of-seven series.
▪ But the shrinkage did not last, and further courses of treatment were less effective.
▪ Are we simply following some algorithm-no doubt favoured over other less effective possible algorithms by the powerful process of natural selection?
▪ There are other less effective muzzles available.
▪ Radiation can make it less effective.
▪ This was labour intensive, more expensive and less effective than employing the bumble bee.
▪ Such investments are astoundingly profitable, but each new generation of a weapon is less effective than its predecessor in generating employment.
more
▪ This voluntary approach to emissions reduction would likely be more effective than the voluntarism urged here.
▪ Second, decentralized institutions are more effective than centralized institutions.
▪ No writer has been more aware of this feature, or more effective in recording it, than Gerald Brodribb.
▪ Tricia describes how you can make simple exercises more effective and progressively more difficult.
▪ Ministers insist that voluntary agreements with the tobacco industry are more effective than outright bans.
▪ What about cumulative selection; how much more effective should this be?
▪ For the best distribution of water throughout the filter bed, a finely slitted filter plate is usually more effective.
▪ That Sir Robert Reid has been more effective is one of the headlines of the eighties.
most
▪ Cheap rubberized plastic masks appear to be the most effective measure yet in combating aggressive tigers.
▪ Probably the most effective direct influence by employment interests on the college curriculum comes from their membership of course committees.
▪ One of the most effective ways Satan has to cripple missionary work is to attack the body of the missionary.
▪ Corticosteroid drugs are the most effective and widely used treatment for acute relapse of ulcerative colitis.
▪ Gerry was probably Mr Head's most effective signing for Palace over our four years in the top flight 1969-73.
▪ Bullingdon's structure is based on a traditional Victorian tiered system which has proved most effective for observing inmates.
▪ The chapter on species interactions is the most effective.
particularly
▪ Spraying with water is particularly effective for discouraging red spider mite, which flourishes in dry conditions.
▪ This is particularly effective at cocktail parties.
▪ Accumulated research over many years has shown that these traditional methods are not particularly effective.
▪ Young, in his fourth year, has been particularly effective against the Rams.
▪ Even without them, some groups were particularly effective fighters.
▪ It is considered particularly effective in dealing with certain drug abusers.
▪ However, they conceded that this might prove expensive and not particularly effective in the battle against dishonesty.
▪ These filter systems are particularly effective in removing cigarette smoke.
so
▪ Vaginal Thrush Unfortunately, the antibiotics which can be so effective against Cystitis can make sufferers vulnerable to getting Thrush.
▪ I was very good with tumbling, and not so effective with the apparatus.
▪ If the leader is so effective, is the group really necessary?
▪ Yet he was also impressed: perhaps because the staging was so effective.
▪ Since tax avoidance is so effective, the answer is probably not much.
▪ But that, in fact, is one of the reasons commercials are so effective.
▪ Are the procedures for doing so effective in practice?
▪ I mean, Cleveland double-teamed me in the last game and it was so effective.
very
▪ Our tester found it very effective.
▪ There is no evidence that the ordeal was very effective.
▪ There's now very effective medication for ulcers.
▪ But when combined with relaxation exercises, it can be very effective.
▪ However, this has not been seen to be a very effective set of policies.
▪ This removal is very effective because methylene chloride and other caffeine solvents evaporate at temperatures between 100 and 120 degrees.
▪ He found a not very effective twig and scraped.
▪ It had been going on since 1963 and was continued despite the fact that dead trees proved to be very effective cover.
■ NOUN
action
▪ However, effective action would be limited while the cause of the smog remained unknown.
▪ Furthermore, this principle of doing through not forcing informs every discipline of the Far East having to do with effective action.
▪ A bark alerts their owner to a likely disturbance, enabling them to take effective action.
▪ It is one of the few on which we have the possibility to take effective action.
▪ Confidence was increasing that men, through foresight and effective action, could ameliorate their existence and even prolong their lives.
▪ Tons of thundering white water separated me from any effective action.
▪ In Addis Ababa Tafari did his best to unite the frightened and divided chiefs and to persuade them to take effective action.
▪ Meanwhile, liberals have deplored failure to take effective action while often proposing none themselves.
communication
▪ The conference on Using effective communications to build environmental credibility will take place in London on 24-25 March 1992.
▪ Writing done for other purposes generally does not make such generous use of subheadings and depends on literary style for effective communication.
▪ Of course communication is two-way, and the mood of the recipients is also important for effective communication.
▪ Or you might benefit from courses or seminars in topics such as strategic planning, writing, or effective communication.
▪ There are very few facilities for the encouragement of effective communication in either church-related or general community development work.
▪ Even courses in effective communication rarely include instruction on media use.
▪ This problem centres upon effective communication between hospital, community and local authority services.
▪ Without effective communication, the management process could not be accomplished.
control
▪ Nor did Peter regain effective control of his kingdom as Henry, although defeated at Nájera, staged a political comeback.
▪ We can get effective control on 10 acres a day.
▪ First, dispersal of shareholdings has led to effective control over the company being ceded to management.
▪ Whoever is in charge needs to have effective control over the demand side of education.
▪ By the end of the day Mutalibov had fled and the Front had established effective control throughout the capital.
▪ Investigate environmental sources of infection and formulate effective control measures.
▪ But the intervals between Forest Eyres were too long for effective control.
▪ The zones would be outside the effective control of national government.
management
▪ The scheme allows tight quality control and effective management of resources.
▪ The overall result will be more effective management of medical costs.
▪ A model for the effective management of health and safety at work has been produced.
▪ This flexibility in turn is essential to the effective management of ReD. 5.
▪ The following points were made: There was recognition of the need for effective management of campaigns.
▪ In addition to personnel resources, reference laboratory facilities and services are critical to the effective management of emerging infectious disease threats.
means
▪ Thin-section petrology is a more effective means of carrying out such quantitative work.
▪ Such networks may also provide a more effective means for monitoring occupationally acquired infections in hospital and laboratory personnel.
▪ It had become evident that a simple and effective means of communication was required, and the radio was the next step.
▪ It has proved a simple, cheap and-so far-effective means of maintaining good circulation in my legs.
▪ We appear to be a long way from finding effective means of primary prevention of attempted suicide.
▪ But first we need to ask: is church planting an effective means to the growth of the church?
▪ Letter-writing has often been an effective means of direction and Paul made the most of it.
method
▪ This is an expensive but effective method of construction for synthetic bags.
▪ Until recently, long-term, cost-effective methods to control rabies in free-ranging animals were not available.
▪ The rewrite rule is an effective method of representing the rules of a generative grammar.
▪ Thus computed tomography remains the most effective method for diagnosing small pulmonary metastases.
▪ Collecting in Person Despite the time and inconvenience involved, this is the most effective method of collection.
▪ It is possibly the least effective method of change because it depends on two steps both of which are unnatural.
▪ In the early 1950s an effective method of resuscitating newborn babies who did not breathe was not known.
▪ This is a highly effective method of generating prospects and, yet, tends to be under-used by many.
treatment
▪ The most effective treatment before 1960 for severe and disabling depression was electro-convulsion therapy.
▪ Without effective treatment, many patients, like this lawyer, wind up homeless or incarcerated.
▪ In economic terms, sclerotherapy was clearly the most cost effective treatment.
▪ The observers of gonorrhoea in the days before effective treatment was available vividly described the symptoms of acute gonococcal urethritis.
▪ This also highlights the need to find an effective treatment, particularly as diagnosis is not relatively straight forward.
▪ If successful, gene therapy could eventually offer effective treatment for as many as 4,000 hereditary illnesses, including cystic fibrosis.
▪ However, the new research opens up the prospect of a far more effective treatment that simply sends the cancers to sleep.
▪ An effective treatment for reversing the effects of that symptom has also been described.
use
▪ Transport Development has been located in areas that name the most effective use of bus and rail networks.
▪ The effective use of new power strategies, albeit awkward at first, encourages their use in the future.
▪ Hers is a performance of indisputable class making little but tremendously effective use of her famous fluttering gestures.
▪ He talked about the effective use of time, mnemonic tricks, and various kinds of tests.
▪ Bibliographies should be encouraged in pupils' work to be able to monitor the impact and effective use of the library.
▪ Under Malcolm Fraser the party began to make effective use of its support in Fleet Street.
▪ This means telling workers that they may well lose their jobs if the company can no longer make effective use of them.
▪ A very effective use is to show the proportion of costs in the manufacture of a product.
way
▪ Assertiveness training can be fun as well as being an effective way of changing behaviour.
▪ Furthermore, it had no effective way to discipline itself on expenditures.
▪ This is an effective way of marketing our education and training system abroad.
▪ For Beyster, employee ownership is an effective way to maintain control.
▪ It may also constitute the most effective way of utilizing scarce resources for many such libraries.
▪ To get it laid out in the most effective way.
▪ Polarisation is the most effective way of reducing or eliminating reflected glare.
▪ Symbolism is a primitive but effective way of communicating ideas.
ways
▪ Laziness is one of the more effective ways of changing behaviour.
▪ All our staff receive training on effective ways to polish every surface and clean every corner.
▪ With him they had space to express their response, which he nurtured and developed in simple yet effective ways.
▪ There are more effective ways to leak a document.
▪ This is one of the most effective ways of using video in the classroom.
▪ And I think there are more effective ways to win cases, anyway-through mediation rather than ramrod litigation.
▪ One of the most effective ways Satan has to cripple missionary work is to attack the body of the missionary.
▪ Direct Mail One of the most effective ways to recruit and encourage members and supporters is by direct mail.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
at your best/worst/most effective etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ An effective teacher will always produce better exam results.
▪ Antibiotics are only effective if you finish the whole course of treatment.
▪ Doctors soon realized that this drug was also effective in relieving the symptoms of arthritis.
▪ His resignation is effective April 8.
▪ Malarone is a new drug that has already proved highly effective.
▪ Our training programme covers a range of effective management techniques.
▪ Penicillin can be taken in various forms and is effective against a wide range of infections.
▪ Rapid advancements in technology have reduced the effective lifespans of computers.
▪ The effective use of color can make a small room look much bigger.
▪ The advertisement was simple but remarkably effective.
▪ The less expensive drugs were just as effective in treating arthritis.
▪ The new system has proved to be a highly effective way of extending trading hours.
▪ There are many effective ways of using videos in language teaching.
▪ What we need is a tough and effective leader with a sense of direction.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As existing dominant males age so doubtless can the collaborative attacks of younger animals prove increasingly effective.
▪ Capital prosecutions are hideously expensive; life imprisonment is cheaper and just as effective.
▪ High-performance work design enabled them to achieve those objectives by increasing flexibility, output quality and effective use of assets.
▪ How effective are lawyers in solving legal problems?
▪ In my opinion neither of these arguments is effective in destroying its opponent.
▪ Pimozide is now also being used; it appears to be approximately as effective as haloperidol and may have fewer side effects.
▪ Provided that post-storage image processing is not a major priority, analogue technology is effective.
▪ The idea that there could be such authority without effective power hardly occurred to anyone.