I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a right of access (=the right to enter a place, use something, or see someone)
▪ You have rights of access to data held about you.
access a file (=open or read it)
▪ You won’t be able to access the file if another user has opened it.
access course
access point
access provider
access records (also have/gain access to records) (= be able to look at them)
▪ Every citizen has the right to access their medical records.
access road
▪ the access road to the farm
access the Internet/connect to the Internet
▪ You can access the Internet from your mobile phone.
access time
direct access
▪ Very few people have direct access to the President.
direct access
disabled parking/toilet/access etc (=for physically disabled people)
equal access (=the same right to do or receive something)
▪ The law states that disabled people must have equal access to employment.
exclusive access to sth
▪ Regulations prohibit anyone having exclusive access to the data.
free access
▪ Patients are now allowed free access to their medical records.
Internet access
▪ Not everyone has Internet access at home.
open access TV
public access channel
public access
▪ full public access to information
random access memory
remote access
unrestricted access
▪ unrestricted access to information
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
direct
▪ I've seen the homes they live in-mud-floored shacks with no sanitation or direct access to running water.
▪ CompuServe recently shut down direct access to certain newsgroups containing indecent photographs and material.
▪ The former will tend to require an indexed sequential file on a direct access device.
▪ AlterNet customers use dial-up or high-speed leased lines for direct access to the full range of services available over the Internet.
▪ They have also signed a deal with Freeserve, the internet service provider, offering direct access for students.
▪ Candidates who successfully complete this qualification can often gain direct access to a master's degree.
▪ Guests have the use of the spacious ground-floor living room with direct access to the large south-facing terrace.
▪ But there are also forms of direct access of interests to the state, notably through relationships with individual state agencies.
easy
▪ The northwest, before the days of air travel, was not as easy of access as it is today.
▪ Copies of this schedule should be constructed in such a fashion that easy access be afforded the data collection process.
▪ For the most part sited high above the sea, it is climbable at all times and offers easy access.
▪ The United States has traditionally offered the poor relatively easy access to the middle class if they can find steady work.
▪ Quick and easy access to mainframe data bases. 10.
▪ Without easy access to wealthy first world markets, economic development is difficult if not impossible in the second and third worlds.
▪ We had deliberately chosen a villa with easy access to the sea, but the children preferred their own pool.
▪ The project could include a pedestrian bridge over Valley Parkway that would allow easy access to the arts center and City Hall.
equal
▪ We will encourage all TECs to adopt plans to help women trainees have equal access to training opportunities.
▪ Finally, two apartments had to be remodeled to comply with federal laws assuring equal access for handicapped persons.
▪ Questions about equal access to services and equal rights to treatment also raise important issues about the value of particular interventions.
▪ There are instead just students, each and every one of them having equal access to the curriculum.
▪ Screening services are often fragmented, and the public may not have equal access to particular screening programmes.
▪ For hundreds of years, women and minorities have been denied equal access to a range of opportunities.
▪ The Lib-Dems' annual conference demanded equal access to abortion throughout the country.
▪ And, finally, and most important, making sure that women have equal access to opportunities.
free
▪ The huge black doors of the boat-house had been fastened back to allow free access.
▪ Southwestern Cable is providing free access to its high-speed Roadrunner Internet service in 14 public libraries within its service area.
▪ Does an open school mean totally free access to teachers, class rooms and corridors at all times?
▪ The first state to offer residents free access to the Internet was Maryland.
▪ In the past year, some companies have begun to offer free Internet access.
▪ When that happens, unlimited free access to their Web sites could be the first casualty.
▪ The document advocates free access to information, as well as free expression.
▪ That said, there are still places to get free Internet access.
full
▪ Although he had full access to legal counsel, he was not allowed to reveal details of his abduction to the judges.
▪ Club 18-30 guests at the Bohem have full access to all these facilities.
▪ It seems appropriate therefore that disruptive pupils have full access to the curriculum which requires that schools acknowledge this in their planning.
▪ The aim is to allow full public access to the site.
▪ What modifications are necessary to ensure fuller curriculum access?
▪ These are students who have organised themselves to undertake surveys of buildings requiring modification for full public access.
▪ The advantage is that executables have full access to the computer when loaded.
immediate
▪ With no words spoken the crowd parted before the old man, allowing him immediate access to the bar.
▪ Interactive telecommunications increasingly give ordinary citizens immediate access to the major political decisions that affect their lives and property.
▪ Those unable to gain immediate access to their offices were advised to go to Guildhall, where company representatives would be waiting.
▪ As a consequence, only laboratories with immediate access to particle accelerators can carry out this sort of work.
▪ Do you require immediate access to your money?
▪ Switching on the overdrive channel, however, gave immediate access to the right stuff.
▪ Memory-the part of the computer which stores information for immediate access.
▪ Financial media normally has immediate and easy access to any client.
instant
▪ You will not enjoy absolutely instant access, but the extra interest is worth the wait.
▪ You get instant access 24 hours, seven days a week.
▪ Both require a minimum investment of £1, give instant access and include gifts.
▪ All three pay 6.85 per cent, offer instant access, and welcome deposits from £1.
▪ Other accounts offer better rates, but give you instant access to your cash without penalising you.
▪ Money that you may need in an emergency should go into an instant access account.
▪ These had advantages in handling and in instant access to a desired image without any winding.
▪ There is instant access to funds at each maturity date.
internet
▪ Apart from your Internet access subscription, you pay only for the local phone call.
▪ Many other companies that provide Internet access can accommodate 10 percent of their subscribers at once, analysts say.
▪ As he moved through internet access, the minimum wage and family tax credits, the heckling began.
▪ If you want Internet access, go with an Internet provider.
▪ Farmplan is now offering farmers the complete package: computers with internet access already installed.
▪ Netcom On-Line Communications, the leading provider of Internet access to consumers, was hit especially hard.
▪ It provides every mod con for high-tech tenants: built-in computer networking and high-speed internet access.
▪ For example, in some cases the bill would make it illegal for Internet users to access information not protected by copyright.
open
▪ However, the therapist did not think that the situation had improved and therefore offered further open access.
▪ AT&T might even offer open access within that time.
▪ The therapist thought Mary appeared to benefit from these telephone contacts and had not abused the availability of open access.
▪ This sort of open access to school resources goes on throughout the day.
▪ Other freight and passenger operators will have open access rights to this network.
▪ A stainless steel clip holds the lid open when access is needed for compost or liquid removal.
▪ We will have franchisees and people who are not franchisees but just wish to run on open access.
▪ There is open access to undergraduate and postgraduate courses as well as reciprocal facilities in Science and Social Science departments.
public
▪ A Cornish Coastal Footpath has been opened to give the public access to walk along the cliffs.
▪ Clinton also issued a federal report showing 65 percent of public schools have access to the Internet.
▪ They suggested that a public access catalogue would be a suitably demanding trial application.
▪ The College of Law premises are not a place of unrestricted public access.
▪ Of course, first it has to be put online, and granted public access.
▪ In problematical cases the following test might help - Has the general public access?
▪ The main factor for a road is public access, but where to draw the line causes difficulty.
▪ The protest walks are aimed at regaining and protecting public rights of access to the countryside.
random
▪ Playing time is longer about one hour of straight playing time per side - but random access is less accurate.
▪ In fact, it had no random access memory at all.
▪ Myth-1: All disk drive requests are random access.
▪ It comes with eight megabytes of random access memory, a must since it also comes with Windows 95.
▪ In order to do this with the minimum access time, random access files are necessary.
▪ Fig. 5.7 Index sequential files - overflow block Random access offers another way of organising data on disk for quick access.
▪ The difficultly of achieving high-speed random access can be reduced by careful design of the data layout.
▪ Please specify Y if this media unit is a serial device or N if it is a random access device.
remote
▪ The new ScaNet/RemotePC is designed to give ScaNet users remote access from personal computers via a modem.
▪ There is also no character-based interface for remote access making it clumsy as a server.
▪ Applications include mobile facsimile, data sharing and transfer and remote computer access.
▪ This ability to share the desktop has many useful features, like allowing remote access to your office computer.
▪ Auto-dialling and remote access is possible from touch-tone telephones and electronic mail and voice-mail functions may be incorporated at a later date.
unlimited
▪ Rules were relaxed to allow the first privately owned locomotives unlimited access to the national rail network.
▪ The bottom line here is that if you pay for unlimited access, you should receive unlimited access.
▪ Parliament would have unlimited access to the funds, but would have to pass specific resolutions to appropriate money.
▪ They had unlimited access to company cheques and used £109,561 to set up their own property firm.
▪ Prices are expected to be in the $ 27 to $ 30 per month range for unlimited Internet access.
▪ Play Matters is the national toy library association and membership costs £17.50 a year for unlimited access to toys!
▪ When that happens, unlimited free access to their Web sites could be the first casualty.
unrestricted
▪ A report by development services director Stephen Tapper says bus lanes produce considerable time savings by allowing public transport unrestricted access.
▪ The College of Law premises are not a place of unrestricted public access.
▪ Open drives provide unrestricted access to the rear of a property.
▪ Some enclosed hotel parking. Unrestricted access to rooms.
▪ We should be allowed unrestricted access to outside money sources.
▪ Bright, comfortable rooms all with showers. Unrestricted access and ample street parking.
▪ At the other extreme is the park to which the public has unrestricted access during daylight hours.
▪ And individuals who want unrestricted access to the internet can simply obtain a service provider in a neighbouring country.
■ NOUN
code
▪ The computer itself could only be activated by an access code known solely to Bailey.
▪ The five-digit access code is required until at least March 1997, when the state market is more fully deregulated.
▪ After feeding in the access code he sat back and stifled a yawn.
▪ This provides you with a voice message telephone number and access code.
provider
▪ The growth of some local access providers has been astounding.
▪ Already, Internet access providers and universities have moved to limit certain material.
▪ Verio was recognized for its progression from an Internet-access provider to an e-commerce and Web hosting leader.
▪ Internet access providers generally charge $ 20 a month but offer an unlimited number of hours per month.
▪ These backbone access providers link users and ecommerce application providers.
▪ A special Internet Setup Assistant helps users find an Internet access provider.
▪ To answer these challenges, any budding access provider will need to develop strong marketing strategies and programs to support future growth.
road
▪ Car drivers will now have to negotiate the dangers of an access road hidden by a bend on a hill.
▪ Only by driving down the restricted and guarded government access road leading to the site can one see the valley of antennas.
▪ Take the track which is a continuation of the access road to the Arnside Knott car park.
▪ And both Yosemite and SequoiaKing National Parks became inaccessible as rising water washed out their main access roads but created new waterfalls.
▪ The nature of the access road to the site and adjoining development can be influential with regard to market potential.
▪ Local or access roads, or on-ramps, simplify linkages between businesses, schools, and homes to the communications backbone.
▪ Would follow a route east of the existing road, bypassing local communities and leaving A701 as a quiet access road.
▪ Never drive unaccompanied on quarry access roads, used by marble-transporting trucks.
■ VERB
allow
▪ The demolition was about two-thirds complete, allowing both access and cover.
▪ One of its programs, appropriately called Stock Mania, allows users to access stock prices free of charge.
▪ The special link allows Jane access to all of Frank's modules, but not viceversa.
▪ After Major League Baseball agreed to cooperate, the Giants allowed film crews access to the stadium.
▪ It will produce the hard data needed to analyse resource utilisation and will trigger an alarm mechanism allowing managers to control access.
▪ She also allowed me access to virtually everything the team did.
▪ This is a slightly warmer channel and allows access to the cloaking device if required.
▪ We should be allowed unrestricted access to outside money sources.
deny
▪ However, they soon comprised, for the most part, Roma children who were denied access to mainstream education.
▪ On what grounds can they deny access?
▪ For ten more months, doctors in Britain can continue, legally, to deny people access to their own medical records.
▪ It is important for administrators to protect against denial-of-service threats without denying access to legitimate users.
▪ Unemployment is at 38 %, and thousands are being denied access to humanitarian aid, food supplies and work.
▪ Forty years ago, female reporters were denied access to the congressional press galleries with the same excuse.
▪ This increase occurred after the 1996 Asylum and Immigration Act, which denied refugees access to social housing, began to bite.
▪ Indeed, advocates for the elderly say some seniors have complained about being denied access to home health benefits.
gain
▪ Some of the more sensational reports claimed that Misrati had used his attractive young daughter to gain access to information.
▪ And within that, we must have a strong, equal and unfettered opportunity to compete and gain access.
▪ The firm may be market-seeking, in the sense that it wishes to gain access to more customers and consumers.
▪ So, since they could not gain access to the public arena, they worked mainly through family networks.
▪ To gain access again to the Lumsdens' house?
▪ You gain access to those 4 million square miles, and you gain access to tremendous natural resources.
▪ I need to gain access to the space under the floor.
▪ Money users can pay bills, gain access to their accounts and download bank information.
give
▪ He's launched a scheme which gives these farmers access to modern farm machinery and he teaches them how to use it.
▪ Interactive telecommunications increasingly give ordinary citizens immediate access to the major political decisions that affect their lives and property.
▪ It is designed to give physicians faster access to results on new and re-examined medical treatments.
▪ The Internet gives people access to a world of information.
▪ The new ScaNet/RemotePC is designed to give ScaNet users remote access from personal computers via a modem.
▪ The companion ladder, engine box and associated panels are very easy to remove, giving excellent access to the auxiliary.
▪ Paths give access here while espalier fruit can be both productive and a real space saver in a small garden.
grant
▪ We should have provision for granting supervised access to the same resources as staff.
▪ Finally, he grants Bennett access to his old papers, but Bennett can make little headway with them.
▪ Eventually, in January 1989, she was awarded custody of their daughters and the earl was granted access.
▪ Mike Leavitt has signed into law a bill banning public schools from granting recognition or access to gay or lesbian student groups.
▪ Of course, Jody could not grant me access to the players themselves.
▪ In return, Blackpool trams were granted access to the Company tracks as far as Lytham, but rarely exercised the privilege.
improve
▪ This would at once limit access to the city by private vehicles and improve access for buses and coaches.
▪ The problem resulted from work the company is undertaking as it tries to improve access for its customers.
▪ We also believe there is scope to improve public access to the countryside beyond the Rights of Way network.
▪ We will tighten controls against exploitation, we will create more National Parks and we will improve access to the countryside.
▪ We will improve access to legal aid and, when resources allow, extend it to tribunal hearings.
▪ A large proportion of the new money has been spent to improve access for scientists.
▪ Such practices can improve accessibility and access.
▪ It is not possible to improve on equal access synonym handling in two cases.
limit
▪ This would at once limit access to the city by private vehicles and improve access for buses and coaches.
▪ It offered low-cost housing and was free of the deed restrictions that limited black access to other areas of Los Angeles.
▪ The password which will be used to limit access to the packages created.
▪ However, the portions of the bill limiting access to the courts were approved with almost no discussion.
▪ The Cinema has limited wheelchair access, and people with disabilities should contact the House Manager in advance.
▪ His openness is counter-cultural in these times of limited access, control-freak staffers, and ubiquitous security details.
▪ The actors will have only limited access.
▪ Texas inmates currently have only limited access to telephones.
need
▪ Those are the people who need access to education most of all.
▪ They need to audit all access to the network.
▪ But if teachers are to take such decisions they need to have access to these ideas.
▪ For markets to work well, consumers need access to adequate and accurate information.
▪ It needs to make access top information simple, right down to desktop level.
▪ Teachers, parents, and students all need access to better information about colleges and careers than is commonly available.
▪ I need to gain access to the space under the floor.
▪ You will need access to a lathe, bandsaw and planer thicknesser for this particular chair, though the latter is optional.
offer
▪ All three pay 6.85 per cent, offer instant access, and welcome deposits from £1.
▪ The service also offers access to the products and services of important Journal advertisers.
▪ On the back of the body, a plastic cover offers easy access to the control cavity.
▪ Other companies are turning to television, which offers access to a much broader but less affluent market.
▪ In the past year, some companies have begun to offer free Internet access.
▪ Largely made obsolete by V. 32bis technology, V. 32 modems can still offer inexpensive access to on-line services.
▪ It must also offer access to competing third-party freight operators' on fair commercial terms'.
▪ Mitsubishi and other companies to offer Internet access from cellular phones.
provide
▪ The Control Center provides a relatively easy access point to dBase.
▪ More importantly, they provide access to community members who otherwise would not be on the Net at all.
▪ These provide advice on access to and progression from each of the new awards, and on designing and running cross-module assessment.
▪ PSINet has said it wants to pare back to its core business of providing Internet access to business.
▪ It was a means of providing controlled access to the unspoilt beauty of the Park and keep it that way.
▪ PacketWorks has provided Internet access and related services to business customers in Central Florida since its founding in 1994.
▪ Affiliation to the National Confederation will provide your group with access to a network of services and expertise.
▪ The company also plans to provide Internet access for its customers.
restrict
▪ Instead they should restrict access to plants, control contracts and set up local industries to capitalise on biodiversity.
▪ Only by driving down the restricted and guarded government access road leading to the site can one see the valley of antennas.
▪ The Parkins' house stood in a drive marked at the entrance with a notice restricting access to residents only.
▪ The CyberArcade uses monitoring software to restrict computer access to inappropriate, adult-oriented Web sites.
▪ Internet Explorer and Netscape, for example, can restrict access according to a rating system.
▪ But some states have restricted access to medications.
▪ This may be difficult if both gatekeepers and policy in the buying company aim to restrict such access.
▪ If we attempt to restrict development without ensuring access for local people, the result will be to force them out.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gain access/entry/admittance etc (to sth)
▪ A bird had gained entry through one of the broken windows and flown helplessly around until it collided with her.
▪ Besides, neither of us has enough money to gain entry to that story.
▪ Finding herself unable to gain entry the plaintiff obtained an exparte injunction to readmit her to the premises.
▪ How will the public be able to gain access to the information that by law they have a right to see?
▪ It is even questionable that the electronic press has to await permission from a state legislature in order to gain entry.
▪ She used her pit-pass to gain entry, then made her way towards the motor home Ace used.
▪ So, since they could not gain access to the public arena, they worked mainly through family networks.
▪ Unfortunately, you can not gain access to your inner clock as easily as the clock on your kitchen wall.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ City officials are considering building a path to give the public access to the ruins.
▪ The entrance has been widened to give improved access for disabled people.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His reputation, along with luck and chutzpah, helped him get unique access to Ames.
▪ More than 60 companies have bid for access.
▪ The disk is not allowed access until it has been validated with the Disknet check program.
▪ The service also offers access to the products and services of important Journal advertisers.
▪ The therapist thought Mary appeared to benefit from these telephone contacts and had not abused the availability of open access.
▪ Without access to specific facts a criminal prosecution may be totally frustrated.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
data
▪ The first major problem is to access the arc data.
information
▪ Before accessing the information for a word, it is necessary to first know what word to obtain information for.
▪ In short, the Web provides a totally different and unique method of accessing information.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The balcony is accessed by a spiral staircase from the bar.
▪ The library's database can be accessed via workstations in the reference room.
▪ We don't want minors accessing pornography on the Internet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Many kinds of locks are available to prevent people from accessing your computer hard drive.
▪ Many queries can be answered by simply accessing the index.
▪ Note that you may only access the oldest 16 mail messages.
▪ The low wing design makes refuelling, fuel drains, and control linkages easy to access during the pre-flight inspection.