I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a comprehensive programme
▪ Your holiday will include a comprehensive programme of sightseeing trips.
a conservation programme/project
▪ A conservation programme has been underway since 1980.
a construction project/programme
▪ There are always a lot of large construction projects in Dubai.
a cookery programme (=showing people how to cook on television)
▪ There are a huge number of cookery programmes on TV nowadays.
a development programme/plan/project
▪ the United Nations Development Programme
a festival programme (=a series of events at a festival)
▪ This year's festival programme includes musicians from all over the world.
a fitness programmeBritish English, a fitness program AmE:
▪ Get working on a fitness programme to suit you.
a package/programme of reforms
▪ A package of reforms was approved by the National Assembly on April 12.
a radio programme/show
▪ It's my favourite radio programme.
a reduction plan/programme/scheme
▪ The terms of the treaty call for a three-phase troop reduction programme.
a research project/programme
▪ The research project will be funded by the Medical Research Council.
a space programmeBritish English, a space program American English
▪ This technology was originally developed by the American space program.
a television show/programme
▪ Her favourite television programme was just starting.
a training course/programme
▪ All staff are invited to take any training course at company expense.
an aid programme/scheme/package
▪ The UN aid programme provided most of the finance.
an exercise programme/routine/regimeBritish English, an exercise program American English (= a plan that includes different types of exercise)
▪ The athletes follow an intensive exercise programme.
▪ I’m finding it quite hard to stick to my exercise routine.
an expansion programme
▪ Such an aggressive expansion programme could double the business in five years.
austerity programme/plan/package
▪ a tough new austerity programme
devise a programme
▪ Your trainer will devise an exercise programme for you to follow.
draw up a programme
▪ A small team has drawn up a programme of action.
induction course/programme/period etc
▪ a two-day induction course
instructional programmes/materials/techniques etc
▪ a free instructional video.
programmed learning
rolling programme
▪ We recommend a rolling programme of machine upgrading.
TV series/programme/show/station/channel etc
▪ a TV series based on the novel
watch a programme/film/show
▪ They were watching a film on TV.
welfare benefits/services/programmes etc
▪ the provision of education and welfare services
work experience placement/programme/scheme etc
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
▪ Thus the national economic programme departs from the political; national independence does not include economic independence.
▪ But behind the scenes the 86-year-old reformer is believed to be working to bring his economic programme back to life.
▪ The community development corporation is legally incorporated and financed from various sources and runs an economic development programme.
▪ Another key element of Bush's economic programme is the promotion of free trade and investment.
▪ The press release provided a positive appraisal of the government's economic reform programme.
▪ Yeltsin's economic programme was approved by the Congress on Nov. 1 by 876 votes to 16.
▪ Since its creation in 1982 the Commission had played an important role in the country's economic reform programme.
▪ Machungo told the meeting that, despite the high cost of living, there was no alternative to the economic recovery programme.
nuclear
▪ The nuclear programme were reducing but the non-nuclear activities were not yet sufficiently robust to replace them.
▪ For the same reason an ambitious nuclear power programme has been considerably slowed.
▪ It has spent scarce resources on its nuclear programme.
▪ The nuclear programme was embarked upon against a background of rising oil and energy prices.
▪ It is true that a country does not need a nuclear power programme to be able to build a nuclear weapon.
▪ The nuclear programme has also mobilised the technical, human, and industrial capacities of an important sector of the economy.
▪ He called upon the North to close its nuclear reprocessing and enrichment facilities and to submit its nuclear programme to international inspection.
■ NOUN
aid
▪ The quality of Britain's overseas aid programme is second to none.
▪ A systematic aid programme might have averted the near-famine and encouraged the North to open faster.
▪ A shrewd aid programme does us a favour.
▪ In the light of that, will she review the aid programme?
▪ Tackling poverty will be the top priority of our aid programme.
▪ A substantial aid programme aimed at promoting sustainable economic and social progress and good government in developing countries will be maintained.
▪ The latter designated special weeks for the production or collection of goods to be contributed to the aid programme.
▪ For those who do say that, it does not reflect the underlying growth in the aid programme.
austerity
▪ Falls in the price of oil had provoked the government four years previously to impose an austerity programme.
▪ Ever since September 1988, Mr Li's government has been pressing an austerity programme to cool the economy.
▪ The decision was reportedly taken in response to the government's current austerity programme.
care
▪ The social care programme at Thomas Danby College in Leeds was first set up in 1978.
▪ We have joined a health care programme.
▪ First we address the question of how the care programme approach seemed to be put into practice.
▪ Another classic bit of government fantasy-think is the Community Care programme.
▪ Hold a conference with voluntary organisations on implementing the 1993 community care programme.
▪ Mrs Thatcher wanted to explore every other possible alternative to local authority leadership of the community care programme.
▪ By formalizing objectives and reviewing their attainment, the care programme approach should improve effectiveness of care.
▪ Staff interviewed about their experience of the care programme approach were asked to describe its advantages and disadvantages.
development
▪ This development programme included the acquisition of the former Texaco fuel terminal in Aberdeen.
▪ It is the first time there has been integrated graduate recruitment and induction events leading into a cross-ROC, cross-functional development programme.
▪ The community development corporation is legally incorporated and financed from various sources and runs an economic development programme.
▪ The development programme is also a sensitive issue.
▪ A starter pack of course material and a three-year development programme are part of the package.
▪ Thorough staff development programme. 8.
▪ A development programme was undertaken by chemists at the Roche laboratories in New Jersey during the 1950s.
▪ Opening the seminar, outlined the rationale of the development programme and the approach being adopted.
education
▪ The specific provision at Southwark includes a basic education programme located on one particular housing estate.
▪ Alp Action is to launch a number of conservation projects, including reforestation, together with a public education programme.
▪ A media education programme therefore presupposes that a group of people will continue to work together for several years.
▪ The education programme is an essential part of the five-stage progression through the prison system.
▪ These reforms had envisaged reorienting the ten-year basic education programme away from its highly academic content, towards more practical and vocational aspects.
▪ Does the library education programme result in an increase in, or more efficient use of, the library?
▪ My plans for 1992-93 provide for an overall increase in my education programme of some 15 percent. over that for 1991-92.
investment
▪ The enormous investment programme is precisely what makes the industry exciting to City investors, since it underpins rising revenues.
▪ The studies would be followed by an investment programme, estimated at some dollars 500,000,000.
▪ Will he now start an emergency investment programme?
▪ Alongside a programme of raising skill levels is the need to dovetail an investment programme.
▪ A properly planned and monitored investment programme is needed, but ill informed and pejorative assertions are unhelpful.
▪ Mr McVeigh said the investment programme would enable the company to benefit from economic recovery in its most important markets.
▪ We now have the largest investment programme of capital investment in the national health service that we have ever had.
▪ Will the Treasury guarantee the long term investment programme and not require an eight percent return from Railtrack on such investment?
radio
▪ But he was no more comfortable on the radio programme than he would have been on the real desert island.
▪ All of this favours the growth of radio programme suppliers.
▪ They wanted to present a collage of what they had discovered in the format of a modern day local radio programme.
reform
▪ In 1983, a major reform programme was launched: the National Education System.
▪ The press release provided a positive appraisal of the government's economic reform programme.
▪ But how far would the reform programme be extended beyond the economic sphere?
▪ The immediate casualty would be Mr Gorbachev's reform programme.
▪ How thorough a reform programme should it put forward?
▪ But if the reform programme fails, what is the alternative?
▪ In order to achieve these goals, an agrarian reform programme should have three main elements.
▪ These sources of differences affected their overall view of the reform programme since some were set to gain more than others.
research
▪ Its research programme comprises a range of projects which focus on the role and function of law in society.
▪ The Department of Employment research programme has produced a rosier picture than local studies or the experience of local homeworking campaigns.
▪ The terrible twos seem to involve a systematic exploration of that idea, like an experimental research programme.
▪ One consequence of this is that no systematic research programme has resulted from this approach.
▪ Meanwhile, the Science and Engineering Council is conducting its own robot research programme.
▪ The Bureau's comparative research programme comprises a continuing analysis of model properties and forecast performance.
▪ The research programme is outlined below.
▪ If only slugs turned up frequently in wine bottles, we could apply for a grant and start a serious research programme.
space
▪ Fortunately President Johnson was possibly an even more passionate supporter of the space programme.
▪ A space programme was relevant to delivering bombs, as well as to hoisting Intelligence satellites.
▪ Many of the crew slated for Apollo missions were experienced astronauts from the Gemini space programme.
▪ The Mercury space programme was born.
▪ Some speculative future applications of explosive materials in the space programme conclude the scientific presentations.
television
▪ Although around 12 eggs in a season is normal, one female observed during filming of a television programme laid 25.
▪ It all came to light when I travelled from Bradford to London to take part in a television programme about multiculturalism.
▪ Those familiar with the television programme Yes Prime Minister! will recognise this characterisation.
▪ Now a new television programme re-tells the murder hunt.
▪ He analysed more than 100 responses to a television programme Help asking for experiences of residential care.
▪ The television programme, all four hours of it, was only half over.
▪ I let myself be persuaded to take part in a television programme about books.
▪ Schools can now apply for licences to record any television programme, not just educational broadcasts.
training
▪ In 1989 the government launched a £10 million training programme in child protection.
▪ Those boards which took the establishment of a training programme seriously have been able to contribute constructively to school decision-making.
▪ All applicants for a franchise must successfully complete this training programme.
▪ There was no real enthusiasm and we launched in the training programme in a rather unstructured way.
▪ A pilot scheme should give unemployed people aged over 55 £500 for an educational or training programme of their choice.
▪ It has been designed to complement the in-house training programme already provided by Greene King.
▪ All its managers undergo an extensive training programme, and their career development is greatly encouraged.
work
▪ It is better to re-analyse the following work programme in the light of past performance and make predictions against this background.
▪ I will announce shortly the work programme for the coming year.
▪ The work programme has not yet been finalised but St Martins wants the development open by 2004.
▪ This has resulted in a work programme which will occupy the Committee through into mid-1993, at least.
▪ This usually covers a short period to assist the applicant in defining a work programme.
▪ The government claims that it is tackling this issue through its Making Belfast Work programme.
■ VERB
implement
▪ If they are not motivated to implement the programme it will not run effectively.
▪ At Level One students are given a high degree of support and supervision when devising and implementing a programme of activities.
▪ To research, prepare and implement an initial publishing programme through exploiting and developing publishing rights held by the Group.
▪ A resolution called on the President, the government and the Supreme Soviet to formulate detailed legislation to implement the programme.
▪ Literature on Guillain-Barré syndrome places a high value on planning and implementing a programme to promote intellectual stimulation.
▪ Nor does it contemplate the knock-on consequences for Labour ministers of attempting to implement their programme while rebuilding the governmental machine.
▪ It does not lie with the team which is striving to implement the programme.
▪ The Fund also implements a programme of information and education about apartheid.
launch
▪ The government has announced that it is planning to launch a training programme for all food handlers.
▪ There was no real enthusiasm and we launched in the training programme in a rather unstructured way.
▪ In the coming year we are launching a comprehensive sponsorship programme to attract corporate donations and specific sponsorship.
▪ Lloyd George had launched his programme at a lecture delivered at Bangor on 17 January 1935.
▪ Yesterday Mr Stevens launched a programme to canvas local opinion about the transfer of management.
▪ It hopes to be able to launch its programme by mid-November.
▪ Mr Kemp has been trying for several years to prod the White House into launching a serious anti-poverty programme.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
feel-good film/programme/music etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a daily news programme aimed at teenagers
▪ Because of bad weather, our programme of events has had to be changed slightly.
▪ Did you see that programme about cricket on TV last night?
▪ First on the programme is a speech by the organizer, Mrs Jenkins.
▪ The government has launched a programme to help unemployed young people find work.
▪ The irrigation project is part of a programme of aid to West Africa.
▪ Who is organizing the conference programme?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A similar programme for sculpture should soon be available.
▪ And a phone-in programme on a local radio station produced a deluge of anti-Clough callers.
▪ It gave liberalism its programme and its technique of revolution.
▪ Leading bankers voiced enthusiasm for the programme.
▪ Obviously, the prison building programme is based on the fear that violent crime particularly, is out of control.
▪ The implementation of this programme requires many concrete steps.
▪ This was slightly less than earlier forecasts to which the Government had responded by announcing a major prison-building programme.
▪ You inform by making sure that the programme is not just froth and bubble, that it has genuine body.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
computer
▪ Instead, she turned her aptitude in math to computer programming.
▪ I progressed happily through differential equations and linear algebra to upper-level engineering courses on time-series analysis and computer programming.
▪ Some high technology products require a tremendous amount of computer programming during the design phase.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After wiring up the Xmas tree lights and programming the computer, even managed the washing up!
▪ In terms of programming, sports immediately comes to mind.
▪ It would also run on the Java programming language.
▪ Maternal nutrition may have an important influence on programming.
▪ The first programming to utilize race music was aimed at attracting black listeners to a particular product.