noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
placed...advertisement
▪ He placed an advertisement in the local paper.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
▪ If you're the owner of a health club like I am, it's a good advertisement, as long as you finish.
▪ Now Fuchs is a particularly good advertisement for health economics, precisely because he is no genius.
▪ Unhappy clients are not a good advertisement for the firm.
▪ It was exciting - they were good advertisements, and we waited for the first children to come.
▪ This is also the best advertisement for encouraging kids to take up the game.
▪ He allowed her more freedom of choice than many of his clients who were perhaps a better advertisement for his dressmaking skills.
▪ The second says he thinks it's a good advertisement for healthy eating.
misleading
▪ Last month Marsh was found guilty of running misleading advertisements on medical products under the Medicines Act.
▪ He can bring proceedings for a High Court injunction to stop the publication of a misleading advertisement.
▪ The publishing of misleading advertisements was a contravention of section 47 of the Act.
recent
▪ In a recent advertisement for a house sale the same village of West Linton is now only 11 miles from Edinburgh.
■ NOUN
investment
▪ The document is almost certainly an investment advertisement and must be verified and approved as such.
▪ But the more general concern is that consumers could be misled by investment advertisements, or simply fail to understand them.
job
▪ It can even be encountered by younger people - as a glance at job advertisements will show.
▪ Insist on having a say in what goes into job advertisements for employees who will ultimately be your subordinates.
▪ You may apply for a job in the next grade if you meet the requirements stated in the job advertisement.
▪ They monitored 11,373 job advertisements across a range of periodicals.
▪ Each week, the free papers are stuffed full of job advertisements.
▪ It is as much as you can do to read the job advertisements in the Times Educational Supplement, let alone the leader.
magazine
▪ This chapter deals with the different linguistic choices that shapes women's magazine advertisements.
▪ Most of the Owners' Network listings are copied from newspaper and magazine advertisements collected by 30 free-lancers nationwide, Koch says.
▪ One of the problems with magazine advertisements, however, is their relatively long lead time before an advertisement appears.
▪ Illustrators or photographers are chosen for press or magazine advertisements or posters.
newspaper
▪ In the past two months there has been a rash of newspaper advertisements for unlicensed patches available by mail order.
▪ You will be choosing the organization and then selling yourself to them, rather than relying solely upon answering newspaper advertisements.
▪ Meanwhile, their opponents are busy taking out newspaper advertisements, buying air time and working the telephones.
▪ The previous day Bull took out a newspaper advertisement promising to do better in future.
▪ The Northern responded to three newspaper advertisements placed by people selling the sought-after vouchers and asked the selling price.
▪ Speed is of the essence when following up newspaper advertisements.
▪ The panellists were selected from a group of 111 people who had responded to newspaper advertisements.
▪ Two promoted silk stockings and Florence Stack appeared in newspaper advertisements praising Tokalon beauty products.
radio
▪ Desperate, his wife Irene chased up a radio advertisement for drop-in surgery performed with only a local anaesthetic.
▪ Proponents relied on radio advertisements to get their message across to voters.
▪ The campaign uses posters and newspaper and radio advertisements.
television
▪ This makes the usual noises about the careful research which goes into making television advertisements, not to mention the advice-seeking.
▪ They ran a series of television advertisements, which they placed in prime time they purchased early in the campaign.
▪ Today the government launched its latest weapons in a campaign against speeding including this hard hitting television advertisement.
▪ As Arkansas governor, he had built public support for key legislation with television advertisements largely financed by corporate donations.
▪ In July 1990 a television advertisement by the Cot Death Association advised against placing infants to sleep prone.
▪ Just before Easter, I received a letter about a series of television advertisements.
▪ To a large extent, the election has been fought on the airwaves, with both candidates delivering television advertisements attacking each other.
▪ By way of exception, the Regulations do not give the Director General powers in relation to commercial radio and television advertisements or to cable advertisements.
■ VERB
answer
▪ I answered an advertisement for knitters.
▪ You will be choosing the organization and then selling yourself to them, rather than relying solely upon answering newspaper advertisements.
▪ About this time crochet garments were in vogue, so I answered another advertisement.
▪ Looking for a change, she answered a newspaper advertisement.
appear
▪ Hershiser and Brown will be paid for appearing in the milk advertisements.
▪ For the last year, her face has appeared in CitriMax advertisements.
carry
▪ The Independent, which had declined to carry the advertisements, claimed on Feb. 7 that they were fraudulent.
▪ By this time it carried the advertisements of a well-known whisky, and had lost some of its charisma.
▪ Of these the Norfolk Democrat and Suffolk Punch, both printed and carrying advertisements, were particularly impressive.
▪ The Company magazine is also criticised for carrying another controversial Benetton advertisement showing a black soldier holding a human thigh bone.
▪ Agencies advertise locally in newspapers, and may carry regular advertisements in the national nursing press.
contain
▪ In practice this may not be onerous as very limited factual information is contained in the typical advertisement.
▪ Can administrators ban the distribution of underground newspapers that contain advertisements for drug paraphernalia?
issue
▪ We would generally issue these advertisements as agent for the vendor.
place
▪ In addition the church might consider placing paid advertisements from time to time, highlighting forthcoming events which could be made especially attractive to the outsider.
▪ It is essential that sections 0404 and 0405 of this manual on Investment Advertisements is read and understood before placing any advertisements.
▪ Neild placed advertisements in the newspapers appealing for donations.
▪ When you do, place an advertisement in the personal column of the International Herald Tribune to read as follows.
▪ Spooky ... Switching to a smaller scale, we placed advertisements in South London newsagents.
▪ How do place advertisements create meanings for different localities?
read
▪ Catherine took the paper and read the advertisement he indicated.
▪ She read the advertisement carefully: they helped you if you were pregnant!
▪ I spent a long time reading the advertisements.
▪ It is as much as you can do to read the job advertisements in the Times Educational Supplement, let alone the leader.
respond
▪ The Northern responded to three newspaper advertisements placed by people selling the sought-after vouchers and asked the selling price.
▪ Tests have shown that women are more likely to respond to unbiased employment advertisements.
▪ The panellists were selected from a group of 111 people who had responded to newspaper advertisements.
run
▪ Since then the importers have run more advertisements asking owners to contact them.
▪ Both men are running nasty television advertisements in California against illegal immigration.
see
▪ Then, going through the Wanted Ads in the newspaper, I actually saw three advertisements asking for dental mechanics' assistants.
▪ Recently I saw an advertisement featuring a bare-chested man in staggeringly good condition.
▪ Why don't we see positive advertisements about social work?
▪ But, so far, no one has been able to reliably monitor who is seeing online advertisements.
▪ In 1975 she saw an advertisement for executive officers in the civil service.
▪ On the second day in the city, he had wandered by the Tribune and seen the advertisement of Stark and Evans.
▪ I saw an advertisement in the local paper, answered it, and was accepted.
▪ She saw the advertisement for a technical translator in the newspaper.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At this time of year, the papers are full of advertisements for skiing holidays.
▪ Most car advertisements are aimed at men.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For the last year, her face has appeared in CitriMax advertisements.
▪ Hershiser and Brown will be paid for appearing in the milk advertisements.
▪ In response to the story-boards, it became clear that attitudes towards the advertisements were mixed.
▪ She loved the advertisements especially, so gorgeously puzzling.
▪ There were no advertisements for staff.