verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
devise/formulate/draw up a plan (=make a detailed plan, especially after considering something carefully)
▪ He devised a daring plan to steal two million dollars.
▪ The company has already drawn up plans to develop the site.
formulate/develop a policy
▪ We try to formulate policies that will meet the needs of the people.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
specially
▪ Which is why our Multivitamin Liquid is specially formulated for children whose vitamin requirements differ from those of adults.
▪ Upscale retail chains are doing the same with specially formulated baby creams and lotions.
▪ And Farley's Junior Milk is specially formulated for baby humans.
▪ But there again, it is specially formulated to complement a diet of grass.
▪ It was far better to buy a fresh varnish stain which has been specially formulated.
▪ More often than not even the most famous of brand names are specially formulated to appeal to individual national palates.
▪ Radiator enamels are specially formulated to prevent the yellowing which usually occurs when normal white paint is used on a radiator.
■ NOUN
concept
▪ Many psychologists credit Ed Fleishman with formulating the original concepts.
▪ And his gifts were not merely mechanical: he understood intuitively how to formulate concepts.
▪ Hayek formulated this concept essentially as a result of his inquiries into the nature of order in society.
idea
▪ He did not attempt to formulate his ideas in finished form; he thought aloud so one could hear the brain tick.
▪ This deals with possible objections listeners may be formulating about the idea before they have a chance to raise them.
▪ In practice every opportunity should be taken to encourage students to formulate ideas for themselves.
law
▪ Chief executives are officials who run governmental bodies that formulate and enforce laws.
▪ Based on this notion that like cures like, Hahnemann formulated the Law of Similars.
objective
▪ An attempt has therefore been made to formulate goals and objectives for online user education from this point of view.
▪ They must communicate these needs to their subordinates and address them in formulating their units' objectives.
plan
▪ The results will be used to formulate development plans.
▪ All over Langley and Miami they were still formulating plans to hit Fidel.
▪ In November 1808 ten of her friends met in London to formulate a rescue plan.
▪ They formulate detailed plans for managing both the quantitative and the qualitative costs they are bound to incur.
▪ Accept that and formulate an organised plan of action and you're nearly there!
▪ When the tin price collapsed, the miners formulated a plan to keep the mines open under their control with reduced costs.
▪ Subsequent treatment After the initial period of assessment and support it should be possible to formulate a treatment plan.
▪ In bed, in the dark, she formulated her plans.
policy
▪ Another factor that needs to be considered when policy is formulated is that lethal malformation will not always be diagnosed before delivery.
▪ Resource allocation is also relevant, particularly where charging policies are formulated on a means-tested basis.
▪ The argue that if the environment is to be properly safeguarded policies must be formulated which will encourage favourable ongoing management.
▪ A more detailed growing policy is then formulated.
principle
▪ In this chapter, some general information is organized and summarized to formulate some general principles for meal managers.
problem
▪ If policy can have effects, modelling the government sector requires us to formulate their optimisation problem also.
programme
▪ They formulated a programme of demands, but these fell on deaf ears in Petrograd.
▪ It formulated a programme for the rational layout of towns, preceded by analytic study.
proposal
▪ UDCs must take account of such plans in formulating their own development proposals but are not bound by them.
▪ The neighborhood service centers assisted commissioners in assessing conditions and priorities in their respective subareas and in formulating appropriate proposals.
▪ It says it hopes to formulate a proposal for the holders in due course.
▪ In recent years Western socialists have formulated wide-ranging proposals for socialist economic organization in which markets play a key role.
▪ Civil justice re-defined To understand the Woolf rules, solicitors must remember why Lord Woolf formulated his proposals.
▪ Indeed Wigner has formulated a proposal along exactly these lines.
question
▪ One way of improving this situation is to encourage them to formulate specific questions to which they wish to find answers.
▪ A problem is a formulated question.
▪ After twenty minutes the groups would be asked to formulate a question to put to the panel.
▪ It might seem that it is sufficient merely to formulate such questions in order to know the answers.
▪ She may not formulate these questions consciously, but her planning and teaching will reflect the influence of these considerations.
response
▪ Its aim was to examine scientific evidence on climate change, assess environmental and socio-economic impacts and formulate realistic response strategies.
▪ Now Bishop David wants the fullest participation in formulating the Leeds diocesan response.
▪ It helped to formulate the Institute's response to the Review.
rule
▪ Panini formulated his rules of language in the Ashtadhyayi.
▪ Trading was halted that day while regulators formulated new rules, and yesterday was the first trading under the new system.
▪ These duties can be formulated as three distinct rules.
▪ The new government's policy document promised a new constitution to replace the one formulated under military rule in 1982.
▪ It is a matter of accurately formulating the fundamental rule of the legal order.
statement
▪ We are reluctant to accept that rules can be formulated as probabilistic statements.
▪ The Council, it was claimed, might thus better formulate precise statements.
strategy
▪ The researcher is there to help the agency formulate the right strategy and the right advertising solution.
▪ They therefore had decided to wait and see how the operations progressed before attempting to formulate subsequent war strategy.
▪ Its aim was to examine scientific evidence on climate change, assess environmental and socio-economic impacts and formulate realistic response strategies.
▪ The exercise itself actively helps you to formulate your aims and strategy for bargaining.
theory
▪ One is that it should incorporate Feynman's proposal to formulate quantum theory in terms of a sum over histories.
▪ By the middle of the decade, they had formulated their auteur theory, which gave a new gloss to film studies.
▪ To answer these questions, we have to formulate a theory of the determinants of growth.
▪ A consistent theory of how gravity affects light did not come until 1915, when Einstein formulated the general theory of relativity.
▪ Yet Marx and Engels' determination to formulate general theories eventually made Marxism one of the most successful transnational ideologies.
▪ However, all this was changed when Einstein formulated the general theory of relativity in 1915.
▪ They think, observe, formulate theories, make predictions, and do experiments.
view
▪ He then helps the follower into formulating these views into agreed objectives, which are recorded as shown in Table 10.6.
▪ These ideologists were dedicated to formulating correct views of world problems, as a prelude to changing the world.
▪ In formulating a view, it is helpful to examine this in two ways.
■ VERB
begin
▪ Clinton could challenge his allies to face that difficult reality and begin formulating alternative means for expanding opportunity.
▪ That was when the plan of running away had begun to formulate itself in her mind.
help
▪ He then helps the follower into formulating these views into agreed objectives, which are recorded as shown in Table 10.6.
▪ The researcher is there to help the agency formulate the right strategy and the right advertising solution.
▪ Such auxiliary data might, for instance, confirm a suggested explanation or help to formulate a more appropriate rate for some event.
▪ All human occupations must help to formulate a new and acceptable religion.
▪ It helped to formulate the Institute's response to the Review.
▪ The exercise itself actively helps you to formulate your aims and strategy for bargaining.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Changes to the education system should be formulated by teachers not politicians.
▪ Jackie paused to formulate her reply.
▪ The city is currently formulating policies on new road expansions.
▪ The gasoline is formulated to burn more cleanly, producing less pollution.
▪ The government has set up a working party to formulate proposals for reducing environmental pollution.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He did not attempt to formulate his ideas in finished form; he thought aloud so one could hear the brain tick.
▪ Many institutions are formulating guidelines to insure the protection of the rights of persons housed by that institution.
▪ The leadership role entails taking the initiative in formulating, articulating, and implementing goals for the political system.
▪ The songs are clean and streamlined, consistently formulated and ready for radio play.
▪ Which is why our Multivitamin Liquid is specially formulated for children whose vitamin requirements differ from those of adults.
▪ Within the confines of lunch, I did my best to formulate what I thought.