adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a modern myth
▪ Is it a modern myth that we are living in a classless society?
all-time/modern/design etc classic
▪ The play has become an American classic.
an advanced/modern society
▪ The Greeks formed the first advanced societies in the West.
▪ This kind of hatred and violence have no place in a modern society like ours.
be too bright/modern etc for sb’s taste
▪ The building was too modern for my taste.
by modern standards/today’s standards
▪ The technology was crude by modern standards.
modern civilization
▪ Technology is one of the benefits of modern civilization.
modern conveniences
▪ a hotel with all the modern conveniences
modern culture
▪ Computers are a part of modern culture.
modern industry
▪ Modern industry needs to be in places where there are good transport links.
modern language
▪ a degree in modern languages
modern languages (=languages that are spoken now)
▪ The school has a good modern languages department.
modern medicine (=medicine based on science)
▪ Thanks to modern medicine, these babies will survive.
modern methods (=methods used now, but not in the past)
▪ Modern methods of solving crime depend a lot on forensic evidence.
modern pentathlon
modern techniques
▪ Archaeologists now use modern techniques such as aerial photography.
modern
▪ Many people were against such a modern design in the old city centre.
modern/classical/medieval etc architecture
modern/contemporary poetry
▪ She finds modern poetry difficult.
new/modern technology
▪ People have no faith in new technology.
new/modern/up-to-date
▪ The factory has some of the most up-to-date equipment available.
prehistoric/stone-age/modern man (=people who lived at a particular stage of human development)
recent/modern/contemporary history
▪ The country’s recent history is powerfully told in this film.
secondary modern
the modern age (=from the 20th century until the present)
▪ the technical and scientific achievements that ushered in the modern age
the modern obsession with sth
▪ the modern obsession with celebrities' lives
the modern/modern-day equivalent (of sth)
▪ Horror films are the modern-day equivalent of morality tales.
the modern/post-war/Victorian etc era
▪ a collection of romantic paintings from the Victorian era
traditional/modern style
▪ The rooms are furnished in a modern style.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ It is interested in MIG-31 high-altitude interceptors, more modern submarines and help in building aircraft carriers.
▪ A more modern one is the prohibition of lotteries.
▪ Ballantyne's style is old fashioned and Golding's is more modern and up to date.
▪ Much more modern than anything else in the street, they were well designed and built in glossy red brick.
▪ It will be given a sleeker, more modern look-again following the lead set by the latest R1150R.
▪ Certainly, more modern uses of the survey method have disregarded some of the rather naive methodological assumptions of the early surveys.
▪ The Kozloduy complex also includes two more modern 1,000-megawatt units.
most
▪ On Broadway they appreciated the benefits of the most modern theatres in the world.
▪ Those with the most modern gear can land in zero visibility.
▪ A modern ship with the most modern communications.
▪ According to the most modern idea, a real myth has nothing to do with religion.
▪ All metals are monitored during alloying and before despatch, using the most modern analytical equipment in their own laboratory.
▪ In fact, our fleet is known to be the youngest and most modern of any major airline in the world.
▪ This is within reach of most modern multimedia computers, but that power may not be available on older machines.
■ NOUN
age
▪ Like football managers, conductors are a phenomenon of the modern age.
▪ From this demotion, the modern age came to feel severed from cosmology as no other culture had ever felt before.
▪ I don't think he's equipped for the modern age, quite frankly.
▪ Over time, his story became emblematic of the spirit of the modern age.
▪ And beyond these individuals, it raises the possibility of a Republican Party, tolerant and moderate, for the modern age.
▪ From all this intellectual turbulence the modern age was born.
▪ A society is being reborn, but one which does not articulate itself in the media of the modern age.
▪ Was our modern age of triumph destined from the start to be tinged with despair?
architecture
▪ Between the wars the idea of modern architecture was a heroic adventure which could actually improve man's condition.
▪ Now, thanks to modern architecture and a porous defense, neither is a problem.
▪ The austerity and uniformity of much modern architecture made sculpture superfluous.
▪ Contrary to one of the fantasies of modern architecture, brick and masonry buildings are far more flexible than concrete, steel-framed ones.
▪ The current architectural debate has served to polarise popular opinion on modern architecture.
▪ Why then should anyone want to conserve examples of modern architecture?
▪ But here, similarly, Ancient architecture is humanist and modern architecture structuralist.
▪ Charles's attacks on modern architecture made him a hero of the silent majority.
art
▪ Tamayo's insistence on using new materials to construct his prints is very much part of a long tradition in modern art.
▪ Movies are the modern art form.
▪ The primacy of the female nude as a motif of modern art, from Courbet to Kruger, is examined.
▪ I asked why the history of modern art was structured in one way, along one mute, and not others?
▪ What do you consider to have been Matisse's most important contribution to modern art?
▪ My blood dripped on the ring floor and turned instantly black, merging with the modern art collage of other stains.
▪ And when they pick apart the history of modern art, they attack modern art's most powerful institution.
▪ It is these that modern art, and science, is seeking.
culture
▪ Distinction does not provide a theory of either consumption or material culture as the form of modern culture.
▪ For the civic culture is not a modern culture, but one that combines modernity with tradition.
▪ Steiner and Sontag are in a sense correct about the centrality of homosexuality to modern culture.
▪ Up to the present day, modern culture has been almost totally Alexandrian.
▪ But modern culture is now proving to be vulnerable on two counts, one social, one intellectual.
▪ Such inroads as modern culture made into the village tended to fortify this conviction.
▪ In addition, use will be made of a series of articles concerning the nature of modern culture.
▪ However, it is foolish to live with the denial of death, as modern culture tends to do.
dance
▪ From a child she had taken ballet and modern dance lessons and was naturally drawn to Medau after seeing a lecture demonstration.
▪ At one point Ronald was chasing me and I was pulling out all my modern dance technique.
▪ Among their routines as they trip the light fantastic at the Dolphin Centre in Darlington are the old time and modern dances.
▪ The fact that all the acts are the same couple of blokes is just the way it is in modern dance.
▪ Now Alvin set about creating in earnest his groundbreaking modern dance repertory company.
▪ He was more comfortable with the straight forward physicality of another kind of modern dance that Crumb showed him.
day
▪ I have already mentioned the influence of Barth in the modern day.
▪ A modern day Gothic of such purity that it is almost a parody.
▪ The 68K4 ... a modern day black beauty.
▪ He shows the impact of history on his modern day characters.
▪ They wanted to present a collage of what they had discovered in the format of a modern day local radio programme.
▪ A modern day off-shoot of it.
▪ The recipes though are the result of modern day trial and very lucky errors.
▪ In a modern day Sleeping Beauty, set in New York, he wakes a medieval princess with a kiss.
era
▪ Here, then, at the opening of the modern era, we have a quite well developed doctrine of popular sovereignty.
▪ I prefer a rendezvous without any reminders of the modern era at all, but there can be some leeway.
▪ And, in this modern era, the squad sessions are not restricted to instruction on technique.
▪ In a sense, the modern era of fusion research dates from that measurement in 1969.
▪ Carl Lewis of the modern era has won eight.
▪ In the modern era, players of their calibre would surely have followed the professional trail.
▪ In the modern era, most families must send both parents into the workforce to make ends meet.
history
▪ He was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford, where he obtained a second class in modern history in 1911.
▪ Equally ironic was the fact that four years earlier Johnson had won the biggest percentage of the popular vote in modern history.
▪ The modern history of the Catholic Church has been immensely affected by that chain of events.
▪ And in 1951 Great Britain, for the first time in modern history, made leprosy a reportable disease.
▪ Early modern history: Political, economic and social history and the history of science.
▪ The United States is the most peaceful, least warlike nation in modern history.
▪ The rest is miserable modern history.
▪ This may have been the first time in modern history that a painting incited people to such public agitation.
language
▪ Our modern language and our modern writing have grown out of the language and literature of the past.
▪ This word, which was originally borrowed from a Celtic language, has been lost in the modern language.
▪ The now voluminous literature on modernism and postmodernism has been dominated by philosophers and modern language theorists and historians of architecture.
▪ The last group was used in secondary schools and in the modern language institute in Tunis.
▪ Parents and teachers are largely in agreement in terms of supporting the most recent developments in modern languages in schools.
▪ And the importance of modern language teaching will be very much greater.
▪ The Nuffield modern languages survey has not yet reported and the only available account is an interim report from 1985.
life
▪ The hustle and bustle of modern life occurs in the shadow of history.
▪ Freund is likewise recognized for his fascinating revelations on modern life using juxtapositions of subliminally connected images.
▪ Though these problems are a characteristic feature of modern life, they have been with us for a very long time.
▪ Singles may be peripheral in a sense; but their experience is central to the enigmas of modern life.
▪ These arguments provide the foundation for Simmel's account of the contradictory nature of modern life.
▪ Visitors know we made concessions to modern life.
▪ We think of the desert of modern life with the concentration on material possessions and its resultant poverty.
▪ All concerns about modern life were supposedly resolved by National Socialism.
man
▪ But it feels that the modern men have expanded comics, made them somehow more artistic.
▪ The only sign of modern man from horizon to horizon is the road we followed in.
▪ In these and other ways the implicatures of the title are developed, suggesting connections between modern man and the Neanderthalers.
▪ One can write about the past, but from the point of view of a modern man.
▪ A high regard for ivory has been part of the human heritage since the first appearance of modern man.
▪ Who could blame modern woman if she yearns for something more civilized than modern man?
▪ I still don't enjoy going to the dentist but I have to admit that the modern men are wonderful.
▪ Now suddenly I understood the tragedy of modern man.
medicine
▪ The concerns of older people about their future health care probably reflect beliefs about modern medicine and priorities within the medical profession.
▪ Underscoring this notion is the fact that other diseases continue to go unnoticed under the very nose of modern medicine.
▪ In a way, though, that limited him and made him out of touch with modern medicine.
▪ However, it was found in nearly all those cancer patients whom modern medicine could not help.
▪ The clinical application of devices or materials which contact blood is of major importance in modern medicine.
▪ Similarly, the rise of modern medicine developed at the expense of midwives and village healers, most of whom were women.
▪ Are these rules unsuited to modern medicine?
▪ Of enormous importance, Holmes: all the hopes of modern medicine depend upon it.
period
▪ It becomes a term whose reference is linguistic and whose meaning is not determined by the phenomenon of the early modern period.
▪ The gradual assimilation of oppositional art into institutional orthodoxy represents one of the failed utopias of the modern period.
▪ This construction of the artist as hero is a primary marker of the modern period.
▪ It rapidly became a staple, and has remained the major crop throughout the modern period.
▪ The modern period has left its mark too, literally.
▪ In the modern period some cycles or groups have also found their way into museums.
▪ But in the modern period, prestigious spaces had been found in which to celebrate machines.
▪ Governmental pluralism was not of course peculiar to the early modern period.
science
▪ On the other hand, modern science was used to list a new vocabulary of transgression.
▪ His proposal can not succeed without undermining the whole of modern science.
▪ For this reason he had encouraged Claudia to enter these new, modern sciences.
▪ Fanatical, uncultured leaders, little versed in modern science, can not give us a solution.
▪ Indeed, it has been an outstandingly successful theory and underlies nearly all of modern science and technology.
▪ Viewed through this ideological lens, all of nature appeared to yield to the triumphant structure of knowledge that was modern science.
▪ Those who accept the general orientation of modern science may well find considerable difficulty in coming to grips with this main point.
▪ The way of the glaciers allowed him to fuse traditional creationism with the insights of modern science.
society
▪ The source for the basic difference in taste is traced by Bourdieu to the different experiences of these classes in modern society.
▪ The Romantics had raised the alarm about the disintegration in modern society of much that is essential to the full human experience.
▪ Undoubtedly many of the apprehensions about mental handicap stem from the nature of modern society with its emphasis on achieving and competition.
▪ He observes, Those of us socialized in modern societies generally maintain an irrationally uncritical attitude toward new technologies.
▪ In modern societies, by contrast, direct symbolic violence between subjects declines.
▪ The varied strata of modern society present numerous challenges to surveillance.
▪ The dominant groups in modern societies, whose definition of reality is accepted, are not necessarily non-neurotic in Freud's sense.
▪ He has suggested that the socially held beliefs of modern society are qualitatively different from those of previous societies.
standard
▪ Outside school - and maritime mishaps - community life was restricted when compared to modern standards.
▪ Such systems were usually, by modern standards, inequitable, exploitive, rigid, and inefficient.
▪ Boxers fought an enormous number of contests by modern standards to satisfy a working-class public who wanted to see regular bouts.
▪ Will these peoples continue to live in poverty and disease, or will they be brought up to modern standards of living?
▪ Many early child-rearing practices were barbarous by modern standards.
▪ While slow by modern standards, it was considered fast in 1985.
▪ Although of limited accuracy by modern standards, the Scuds were reasonably successful at hitting large targets such as urban settlements.
state
▪ The solid financial foundations required by a modern state had not been laid by 1603.
▪ But, at the same time, the apparatus of the modern State imposed a new order which strictly limited such freedom.
▪ Ever since the emergence of the modern state Tilly et al. 1975.
▪ But it would be highly destabilising for any modern state.
▪ The analytical techniques available to the bureaucracies of modern states are increasingly sophisticated.
▪ It is the provision of welfare, however, which distinguishes the modern state from previous states.
style
▪ Daniel Hersheson then set to work on Pamela's hair, cutting it into a more tailored and modern style.
▪ Magnet's wide choice of kitchen units includes traditional and modern styles, and prices to fit any budget.
▪ A.R. What do you feel about working in the more modern style of play after your classical work with Stratford?
▪ Classic and modern styles, glowing with lights, colour, and gilding.
▪ Modern style After studying the above ballets it may well be asked what is modern style?
▪ Each is furnished in a modern style with private facilities and at least one balcony.
▪ He led Coffin to a bright back kitchen, furnished in the most modern style, with new canary-yellow paint.
technology
▪ It's the age old battle of traditional skills versus modern technology.
▪ By using and learning about the hardware and software, developing country professionals will become familiar with a variety of modern technologies.
▪ They are quicker-thinking and have a grasp of modern technology.
▪ The arts, too, have been transformed by modern technology, though to a lesser extent than industry.
▪ The younger generation is used to Computer Assisted Learning and other modern technology which is an adjunct to learning.
▪ Its industries could not have failed to be impressive, since they have benefited from the latest advances of modern technology.
▪ It is modern technology all wrapped up without the cable to trip over, and the restriction of power point locations.
▪ Given modern technology, firms can be flexible vis-a-vis the market and vis-a-vis government plans.
times
▪ This decision goes a long way towards demonstrating the untenability of the marital-rape exemption in modern times.
▪ On the street, amid the detritus of modern times, he was unknown.
▪ If we think those ancient people were silly, we should look to ourselves in modern times.
▪ It had never happened before, not in modern times.
▪ Again, in modern times office-staff attend to all calls and enquiries; who would, or could, breach these defences?
▪ But computerised turnstile operations have made it almost impossible to fiddle the attendance figures in modern times.
▪ It has been restored but not altered a great deal in modern times.
▪ In modern times, the demands we make have changed in some ways.
version
▪ This effect is well established empirically and is dealt with by all modern versions of the standard associative model.
▪ Today, modern versions of windmills, called wind turbines, are used to create electricity.
▪ And out of this fascination with man two modern versions of him are born.
▪ Sun saloon 10, a modern version of the old cross-bench car, upon delivery in 1939.
▪ The modern versions of Taylorism are expressed in terms of job design and work study.
▪ They are, ironically, the modern version of the church of the Middle Ages.
world
▪ As a criticism of the modern world, Fantasia of the Unconscious is a book to keep at hand and re-read.
▪ The development of printing was one of the most important events in the making of our modern world.
▪ Mathematics is becoming increasingly important in its applications and uses in the modern world.
▪ We shall lead up to it by starting where the modern world began, with the scientific revolution.
▪ This latest act of outrage reminds us of one of the great burdens of the modern world.
▪ Who is kidding whom that a middle-size country such as the United Kingdom is sovereign in the modern world?
▪ These groups have apparently been isolated from other humans for long periods of time and have no knowledge of the modern world.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a modern computer network
▪ Doherty is a professor of modern European history.
▪ Drugs have become the plague of the modern world.
▪ He'll receive the most modern medical treatment.
▪ I don't like modern architecture at all.
▪ I like both modern dance and classical ballet.
▪ Many criticisms have been made of modern farming methods.
▪ Seattle has a very modern public transportation system.
▪ The company occupies a bright, modern office building in the heart of the city.
▪ the horrors of modern warfare
▪ The most compelling work in the modern British theater is being created in the smaller and non-profit theaters.
▪ The prince is known for his critical views of modern architecture.
▪ The pyramids are a remarkable piece of engineering, even judged by modern standards.
▪ They're a very modern couple -- he stays at home with the kids and she goes out to work.
▪ We want to create a modern and uncluttered look in the new kitchen.
▪ Your work was my first route into an understanding of modern art.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In the mills additional factors have been rationalisation and the use of more modern machinery.
▪ The 1908 Act is an obsolete restriction that is not appropriate for modern mining methods.
▪ The root of the modern use of the term ideology lies with Marx.
▪ They will go anywhere in the world to research issues of concern to modern Christians.