verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
seasonally adjusted figures/rates/data etc (=ones that are changed according to what usually happens at a particular time of year)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
accordingly
▪ This unit auto-senses the mains voltage, and adjusts accordingly, so is most likely to benefit international travellers.
▪ If renal failure persists, the dosage must be adjusted accordingly.
▪ It's a fact that most strikers of his quality learn very early about their strengths and weaknesses, and adjust accordingly.
▪ If you set new tab stops, the table next will adjust accordingly.
▪ The current textual unit size is adjusted accordingly.
▪ The proportion of discounted seats was adjusted accordingly, down to each flight segment.
▪ Turnover, cost of materials sold, net revenues and administrative expenses have been adjusted accordingly.
▪ Such control requires that the oxygen concentration in the blood be accurately measured, and that breathing rate be adjusted accordingly.
seasonally
▪ A case has to be made, therefore, for seasonally adjusting the monthly figures and for excluding school-leavers.
▪ All month-on-month comparisons are seasonally adjusted.
▪ The gain in the seasonally adjusted measure was across all areas.
▪ The unemployment rate, not seasonally adjusted, dropped from 3.9 to 3.6 percent.
▪ The number is not seasonally adjusted.
▪ Some analysts speculated that this factor could add around 75, 000 jobs to the seasonally adjusted figure the department reports tomorrow.
to
▪ Research also suggests that individuals can adjust to, and offset, the changes affecting them in middle and later life.
▪ Will find increased rest difficult to adjust to.
▪ Their attributions go hand in hand with, and must be adjusted to, our attributions of meaning to utterances.
■ NOUN
body
▪ You will need time to adjust to your new body image.
▪ Clearly, a rhythm in food intake might be able to adjust the body clock via several mechanisms.
change
▪ The receiving cell can adjust itself to changes in the behaviour of the transmitting cell in two ways.
▪ Most of us adjust quickly to the changes that midlife brings.
▪ Unless there is some other underlying reason or hidden illness it will pass in time, as she adjusts to the change.
▪ We are dealing with a dynamic and changing universe and with an environment that adjusts to our changes.
▪ A second reason for isostatic anomalies is that the lithosphere is not capable of adjusting instantaneously to a change in load.
▪ He shaded his eyes and blinked for a few seconds until he had adjusted to the change.
▪ Many find it hard to adjust to the change.
▪ The previous half-year figures have been adjusted for this change in presentation.
clock
▪ Clearly, a rhythm in food intake might be able to adjust the body clock via several mechanisms.
▪ How do you get the light that your body needs to adjust its clock?
▪ That will give us time to adjust our physiological clocks.
difficulty
▪ I would see no difficulty in adjusting the contract before exchange in that way.
▪ Many children have difficulty adjusting to a full day away from home.
▪ But the economy has difficulty adjusting to that idea.
figures
▪ A case has to be made, therefore, for seasonally adjusting the monthly figures and for excluding school-leavers.
▪ The adjusted figures are shown in the second column of Table 6.
▪ However, a case can be made out for cyclically adjusting such figures so that the long-term trend of unemployment may be observed.
height
▪ Features include telescopic design to adjust height and ergonomic handle.
▪ Stafford strode to the podium, adjusted the height of the microphone and commenced his talk.
▪ Once they have established this position, they should adjust the height of their screen and chair to suit.
▪ Each subject was able to adjust both the height and the angle of a toilet seat by remote control.
income
▪ Fiscal Welfare: the tax system which adjusts the level of income on which tax is payable through reliefs and allowances.
▪ If adjusted gross income is high enough, large amounts of business expense deductions will be lost under this 2 percent formula.
▪ The full deduction would be available for couples filing jointly with adjusted gross incomes of up to $ 100, 000.
inflation
▪ So the interest rate should also be adjusted for inflation.
▪ Even serial killers get cost-of-living raises if they happen to have a pension adjusted for inflation.
▪ The 1992 equivalent, simply adjusting for inflation, would be £25.50 per child.
▪ Technically, Gingrich is correct that the numbers go up if not adjusted for inflation.
▪ Real disposable incomes of partners-adjusted for inflation and progressive income taxation-have stabilised.
▪ The Watergate investigation received an initial authorization of $ 1. 8 million, adjusted for inflation.
▪ These dividends have provided most of the return on shares, if capital values are adjusted for inflation.
▪ The costs, which were not adjusted for inflation, outstripped median household incomes over the same period by 152 percentage points.
level
▪ Some adjust levels of existing taxes; some involve technical or administrative questions; a few may suggest wholly new forms of taxation.
▪ In this case, parents can adjust the type and level of sensory information they provide.
▪ Fiscal Welfare: the tax system which adjusts the level of income on which tax is payable through reliefs and allowances.
▪ Individual mode allows for separate control of each effect, switching them on or off or adjusting their levels.
life
▪ As we'd adjust to life without him.
▪ In the movie, Reynolds plays a widow sublimely adjusted to retired life in San Francisco.
▪ But this isolates them and stops them adjusting to life in a stepfamily.
▪ Both children have required counseling to adjust to life in the United States, she said.
▪ There are also people of a naturally equable temperament who intuitively understand the need for preparatory mourning and adjust their lives accordingly.
▪ Now 35 and living in Leucadia, Morgan has adjusted to life after the accident.
▪ It was crewed by amateur sailors and one of them says adjusting to ordinary life has been difficult.
▪ The time off from competition enabled the players to regroup emotionally and adjust to life without Young.
policy
▪ The problems are most evident when tariffs have been cut without adjusting other macro-economic policies.
▪ The Party experienced considerable problems in adjusting its policy to one of delaying retirement.
▪ Each area of responsibility requires good preparation and hard work in sharing, adjusting and reaching agreed policies and practices.
position
▪ Carefully, Kirov adjusted his position, his eyes focused on that cracked sink-edge.
▪ As you adjust to your new position, you should also be listening to yourself.
▪ Therefore there are benefits to both liquid and illiquid banks in using the money market to adjust liquidity positions near to its ideal.
▪ Price from about £265 Left: The Verbania garden chair from Rovergarden can adjust to five different positions.
▪ Vologsky squirmed in his flight couch, adjusting his position.
▪ Mystified I adjusted my position so I could see, and dabbled an experimental finger or two in the tank.
price
▪ If they did not adjust prices immediately then market activity would bring about the changes.
▪ This liquidity, and the market maker's ability to adjust prices for news events, is essential for big investors.
▪ It would be surprising for importers to voluntarily adjust their prices upwards.
rate
▪ So the interest rate should also be adjusted for inflation.
▪ The unemployment rate, not seasonally adjusted, dropped from 3.9 to 3.6 percent.
▪ By far the greatest effect on the crude mortality rates was when mortality rates due to immaturity were adjusted for low birth rate.
▪ The aim is for the rates to be adjusted so that, overall, the employer's national insurance contribution does not rise.
▪ With this theory, exchange rates will adjust so that the same bundle of goods costs the same in all countries.
▪ Conclusion - Perinatal mortality rates should be adjusted for case mix and referral patterns to get a meaningful result.
▪ Both scan width and scan rate can be adjusted over the full frequency range.
▪ Such control requires that the oxygen concentration in the blood be accurately measured, and that breathing rate be adjusted accordingly.
temperature
▪ It can be adjusted to any temperature between 20°C and 99°C, and it can be used in conjunction with all operating modes.
▪ Employees will also be able to adjust the temperature of their offices with individual controls.
▪ The heater had been adjusted to give a temperature of 76°F, and the filter was bubbling away nicely.
▪ Check occasionally and adjust temperature so that the coating does not burn.
▪ The trick was to adjust the temperature in their cages from 27 degrees celsius to 20 degrees over three weeks.
▪ The away mode, as it adjusts the lights and temperature, also activates the security system.
▪ He turned on the shower and waited for the hot water to flow through so that he could adjust the temperature.
time
▪ You will need time to adjust to your new body image.
▪ Moreover, banks must be given time to adjust to changing reserve requirements.
▪ There's no time to adjust mind and muscles for a different pursuit.
▪ There was no time to adjust the seat, however.
▪ The pause gave Edmund Jason time to adjust to his presence.
▪ That will give us time to adjust our physiological clocks.
▪ It's taken me a long time to adjust to that country.
▪ As a result, you have not had enough time to adjust to it.
value
▪ I adjust the value upward to reflect third-party effects through indirect business taxes. 5.
▪ I adjust the value upward from 1967 dollars to 1978 dollars. 6.
weight
▪ The mixture is coagulated and titanium dioxide is added to adjust the weight.
▪ The trick comes in adjusting the weights on hidden layers.
▪ A total of 29 loads has produced an adjusted weight of 600t.
▪ The neuron will be trained by adjusting only the two weights W1 and W2.
▪ Total energy content should be adjusted to obtain weight loss in obese subjects.
▪ The objective is to adjust weights so that the error in the output layer is reduced.
▪ Back propagation algorithms first adjust weights connected to the output layer.
▪ Only the winner is permitted an output, and only the winner plus its neighbors are permitted to adjust their weights.
■ VERB
allow
▪ It does this through a special adaptation that allows it to adjust the concentration of its blood.
▪ Exercise will raise your body temperature, allowing you to adjust to your new circadian rhythm.
▪ This is what allows you to adjust the colours and mix and match them for your new palette.
▪ It allows speakers to adjust their messages to their receivers' response.
▪ Delgard paused at the top of the stairs, allowing his eyes to adjust to the poor light.
▪ You need an active revision system which allows you to adjust your knowledge to different questions.
▪ It allows you to adjust the carburettor heat to prevent induction icing.
▪ This allows a court to adjust its decision according to the other party involved.
help
▪ Pray that the Lord would help Robert adjust to his new school.
▪ Fathers have few supports to help them adjust to a more active role with their wives and babies.
▪ Setting intermediate goals and providing an assessment of them is another way that feedback can help the student adjust her learning.
▪ Manufactured by Austin House, these little gizmos are designed to help adjust on-board air pressure to the eardrums.
▪ These can help many people to adjust more happily to the changes retirement brings about in their lives.
▪ Four Winds had not helped Margarett to adjust to a life without work or a household without children.
▪ It would help them adjust to the culture and tell them when they're being abused and how to answer back.
need
▪ You will need time to adjust to your new body image.
▪ How do you get the light that your body needs to adjust its clock?
▪ These attribute values will need to be adjusted following the event.
▪ The tops of the curtains needed adjusting.
▪ In this respect, Figure 2 lists the variety of management practices that may need adjusting.
▪ Several practice laps are necessary to determine what needs adjusting and what parts must be replaced.
▪ The tension disc at the top of the yarn mast will need adjusting for the thread.
▪ Longer class periods and block schedules provide the flexibility needed to adjust teaching styles and organize field trips.
try
▪ She would then try to adjust her flight path to the fist by altering direction into the wind.
▪ She plays Beth, a transplanted Los Angeles teen trying to adjust to her new life in a tiny Washington state hamlet.
▪ Jack allowed the feeling of rest to come up on him slowly, trying to adjust himself to the lack of fear.
▪ I tried smoothing and adjusting my clothes.
▪ Meantime Wentworth members try to adjust to new faces and new ideas.
▪ I was trying hard to adjust to this fact but finding it difficult.
▪ Civvies is a fictionalised account of ex-paratroopers trying to adjust to civilian life.
▪ I tried to adjust my view of Topaz's death to what he'd just told me.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ ""You don't have to come,'' Lewis said, as he adjusted his tie in a mirror.
▪ Adjust the heat so that the soup doesn't boil.
▪ I don't think the color control on this TV is properly adjusted.
▪ It's amazing how quickly kids adjust.
▪ Seat belts adjust to fit short or tall drivers.
▪ The amount of any of these ingredients can be adjusted according to your taste.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All month-on-month comparisons are seasonally adjusted.
▪ Clearly, a rhythm in food intake might be able to adjust the body clock via several mechanisms.
▪ The ambulance man adjusts the flow of oxygen into the mask.
▪ The method used for the adjusting process is called the learning rule.
▪ The Watergate investigation received an initial authorization of $ 1. 8 million, adjusted for inflation.