I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a key element/feature/component (=a very important part)
▪ Advertising is a key element in the success of a product.
a vital ingredient/component
▪ Involving teachers in making decisions is a vital ingredient in raising morale.
an essential component
▪ Controlling inflation is an essential component of the government’s economic strategy.
the component/constituent parts of sth (=the separate parts that form it)
▪ The body is a complex thing with many constituent parts.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
basic
▪ It doesn't stop there though, it advances into the basic components of a computer.
▪ The basic components we will describe are fairly typical.
▪ At £1,045, the Greenfield has many of the same basic components as its rivals.
▪ The participating States reaffirm that freedom of expression is a human right and a basic component of a democratic society.
▪ We have introduced some basic components which would be required in a characterisation of the topic framework for any discourse fragment.
▪ Kits are available with four basic components - surrounds, inserts, hearth and the fire itself.
▪ Yet, without altering the basic components of the mix, it was possible to detect a shift in the nuances.
▪ There are four basic components necessary to successful meditation.
crucial
▪ From the 1920s sports reporting and photography was accepted as a crucial and specialized component of popular journalism.
▪ A 3-D card is the crucial component in making a virtual world and its inhabitants look and function as its makers intended.
▪ Secondly, language being the usual vehicle of expression, linguistic meaning is a crucial component of social life.
▪ The implications for morale, a crucial component in the grim chemistry of war, are obvious.
▪ Demographic and social indicators are crucial components of most of these estimates.
▪ Profits, people and teamwork Higher productivity is a crucial component of our drive to improve profitability.
different
▪ In the aerospace and motor industry contexts, composites use different components but deploy them to similar ends.
▪ All in all, the eatery is a breakfast bargain, with enough different components to keep boredom at bay.
▪ He continued: It is a complex regime, with maybe 20 different components....
▪ The different components refer to the different curvatures in different directions in the space-time.
▪ The final product may have as many as 40 to 50 different components.
▪ More often than not, to account for linguistic phenomena we require diverse kinds of information from different components of a grammar.
▪ Martin describes the principles of the viewdata sets and the different components of the viewdata service.
▪ It enables us to formulate hypotheses about relationships among the different components of culture and to test these hypotheses empirically.
electronic
▪ One of the few exceptions is a small factory, mainly employing women, which produces electronic components.
▪ The new Computer Desk looks like a big, traditional desk yet features concealing spaces for electronic components.
▪ Prices of electronic components have fallen dramatically - this again usually is only possible with large scale in sales.
▪ These unique circuits contain semiconductor devices as well as other discrete electronic components soldered on a thin alumina substrate.
▪ The argument applies just as forcibly to many manufacturing industries, such as those of automobiles, electronic components, computers and aircraft.
▪ Such systems usually integrate additional electronic components, such as a laserdisc player.
▪ At one extreme it is used to support power cables; at the other to encapsulate electronic components.
▪ Of this sector, electronic parts and components manufacturers made the smoothest transition to commercial markets.
essential
▪ It must be designed to constitute an essential component of those forces making for positive change in our country.
▪ Alternative Concepts of Accountability Public accountability is a essential component for the functioning of our political system.
▪ Mathematical and language skills unite in the understanding of logic and reasoning, an essential component of mature intelligence.
▪ A second essential component in all such programmes is winning over local people.
▪ The principle of exchange is urged as an essential component of the system.
▪ An essential component of any local management scheme is the staff training which precedes its introduction and continues throughout its operation.
fundamental
▪ Having established the phasor relationship between the fundamental components of phase voltage and current, the pull-out torque can be found directly.
▪ The analysis can be simplified by concentrating on the d.c. and fundamental components of voltage and current.
▪ They are a major and fundamental component of the system of the unconscious, as distinct from the conscious and preconscious systems.
▪ This switched supply introduces a non-linearity, which can be eliminated by considering only the fundamental components of voltage and current.
▪ With the half-stepping excitation scheme, for example, the pull-out torque is predicted precisely from the d.c. and fundamental current components.
genetic
▪ Genetic evidence A number of studies have now firmly established the existence of a genetic component in the transmission of schizophrenia.
▪ The same study finds a genetic component to the susceptibility to nicotine addiction, too.
▪ Evidence supporting a genetic component to predisposition comes mainly from a large study of 15924 male twin pairs.
▪ Sometimes there seems to be a genetic component.
▪ Finding a remedy may be easier because there is less of a genetic component.
▪ In the case of diseases, the effect of any genetic component is more clear cut.
▪ The unusual geographical distribution is equally compatible with a genetic component.
▪ Because the sample is so large, even the last of these shows evidence of a genetic component.
important
▪ Of this cocktail the oxygen is by far the most important component for us when we breathe.
▪ An important component is the opportunity to receive up-to-date information from a childbirth educator.
▪ Tourism is also becoming an important component of developing nations' economy because it is a source of foreign income.
▪ It does mean, however, that emotions are a very important component of attention.
▪ Training is an important component of the last two of these suggestions.
▪ Clearly, women are now an important component of the law profession.
▪ Housing may also be an important component as its relative cost increased in Britain from 1955 to 1975.
▪ Third, the choice of conservation techniques and/or other policy measures is another important component of a conservation policy.
individual
▪ Searching endless suppliers for individual components is time consuming and expensive.
▪ The period from 1927 to 1936 he describes as marking the gradual dispersion of the group into its individual components and styles.
▪ In chapters 15 to 17 we apply to the individual profile components the principles set out in chapter 14.
▪ Mean changes at 16 weeks in individual components of the Leicester score relative to placebo are shown in fig 2.
▪ Strategies that maximize the individual fitness component may be termed selfish.
▪ The operating characteristics of both the individual components and the circuit itself - voltages, currents and operating frequencies etc.
▪ Indeed, its individual components are already coming to market as separate portable products.
▪ You can also buy the individual components from a department store, d-i-y superstore or by mail order from Woodfit.
key
▪ Instead, we concentrate upon some key components and examples, which serve to illustrate the issues and problems involved.
▪ The lineup appears to be strong from top to bottom, but all the players know Bagwell is the key component.
▪ Transport is usually considered as the key component of the provision of social overhead capital.
▪ The key component was Thompson Seedless, which also are consumed as table grapes, raisins and grape concentrate.
▪ Its key components include a graphical user interface builder, database access, reusable application framework and cross-platform portability, it says.
▪ Rockwell not only built the space shuttle but constructed key components for the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs of the 1960s.
▪ The key component of Karpov's strategy, challenging Black's only well placed piece.
▪ Instead they turned up on site with stone panels missing and without many of these key components.
main
▪ Social selection has thus yielded two main strategic components in the behaviour responsible for societal organization.
▪ The project has three main components.
▪ In fact the main component of a country's money supply is not cash but deposits in banks and other financial institutions.
▪ The other main component I use is an ordinary household sponge, or synthetic sponge.
▪ The three surviving main components are no longer in their original frame.
▪ The main component is of type M, and is one of the largest stars known.
▪ It consists of two main components: a pixel processor and a display processor.
▪ The main components of the picture are masked off using liquid masking fluid diluted with water.
major
▪ There is no doubt that inheritance is a major component of the problem.
▪ Finch said the major components of the plane are working well.
▪ The two major components of these new managerial powers and responsibilities are financial delegation and staffing delegation.
▪ They are all fairly similar and usually use good vinegar and wine as major components.
▪ It is especially prized because carbon, its major component, is by far the most important of all plant nutrients.
▪ One of its major components is a comprehensive library media program designed to meet their needs.
▪ In each case the honours subject occupies the whole of the final year with a research project as a major component.
▪ The rivalry between Fabius and Rocard had been a major component of the party's internal problems.
necessary
▪ The other necessary component was the deceased's name, which through its power could preserve life and identity.
▪ We will teach you that they can be very necessary components in an emotionally healthy life.
▪ Oiling the wheels, smoothing the path - very necessary components which pay dividends.
▪ A finding of malice is a necessary component of murder.
▪ Managers were told what to make and were sent the necessary materials, components, people, and money for wages.
principal
▪ The principal component, as always, is lack of language proficiency.
▪ The programme plots speakers in terms of their scores on two principal components, represented as axes of the graph.
▪ The first principal component, carrying 50 percent of the original variance, was dominated by land-cover differences in the rural area.
▪ A second widely-used transform is that of principal components.
▪ The final attempt at classification involved a supervised classification of principal components, 2, 3 and 4.
▪ The decline in information content from principal component 1 to principal component 4 does not need any verbal description.
▪ The first principal component has most information and hence the greatest contrast and least noise.
various
▪ The various components of the mixture separate as they gradually move down the column.
▪ In this chapter, we will present such a framework, one that integrates the various components of the I-way.
▪ What is also new is that they are building on and developing research in the various components of information skills.
▪ Figure 4. 7 shows the architecture of a local Internet service provider with its various components.
▪ Kuhn insists that his account constitutes a theory of science because it includes an explanation of the function of its various components.
▪ This can be the first time they see how the wall will look with its various components life-size.
▪ The various components of the system are shown in Figure 1.
▪ This will involve examination of the relation of size to the various cost components.
vital
▪ They form a vital component of our defences against chemical attack from trace compounds found largely in our diet.
▪ This is a small but vital component of the communication system.
▪ That is a vital component of the nation's action on the environment, because only business can actually deliver environmental improvements.
▪ The partners' duties A vital component of a partnership is the mutual trust between partners.
▪ But many caddies offer a great deal more and look upon themselves as vital components in the professional golfer's armoury.
▪ The use of the imagination is one of the vital components of successful hypnotherapy, whether regression is involved or not.
▪ These are the vital components of your engine's breathing system.
▪ Cholesterol, an excess of which can block blood vessels, is actually a vital component of every living cell.
■ VERB
contain
▪ Any partial parse that is rejected will be removed - thereby removing any parse that would have contained this component.
▪ The commission has insisted that the memorial contain a significant educational component, but the contents are still under discussion.
▪ It contains an optional listening component for the course.
▪ He said it contained engine components.
▪ When and, the approaching waves contain an impulsive component.
▪ The project also contains a cross-national component.
▪ They contain impulsive wave components, and therefore do not satisfy the conditions of Tipler's theorem.
▪ Consequently, age data contain a considerable error component that differs among surveys.
identify
▪ Woolf correctly identifies some of the components of an adequate theory of the penal crisis.
▪ It identifies each component by its part number and displays the assembly sequence in a series of levels.
▪ It attempted to identify the components of learning with a clarity not found elsewhere.
▪ Now, however, it is possible to identify specific gene components that contain the relevant hereditary information.
▪ The first is to take visual systems apart, identify their components and characterize the way these components work.
▪ It identified the components of the bomb - not who made it or how it was put aboard Flight 103.
include
▪ Part 2 introduces a new grammar, and includes a functional component.
▪ Their fabric typically included the following three components.
▪ These include components valuable to birds, such as temporary grassland, spring sowing and winter stubble.
▪ We therefore arrive at more recent definitions of myth which include a contributory component of surface-meaning.
▪ There is no doubt that our conceptions of various kinds of conscious episodes do indeed include relational components.
▪ For example, I had done a custom install of Word for Windows 95 and not included all the components.
▪ They include an impulsive component and a step component.
use
▪ In the aerospace and motor industry contexts, composites use different components but deploy them to similar ends.
▪ Data are collected prospectively, using standardized surveillance components and nosocomial infection definitions.
▪ The mapper will use components from existing spacecraft to cut costs.
▪ Independent characters when used as partial components in compound characters sometimes occur in different positions in these more complex graphs.
▪ They are used mainly as components with other detergents to form commercial blends.
▪ The good news is that you can dial in most of your suspension needs using the standard Kawasaki components.
▪ A similar scoring system is used for the anxiety component.
▪ They complained that the Law of Similars often obliged them to use overpriced components, handicapping their products in world markets.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bolt-on part/component/extra
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All the components should be tested before they are assembled.
▪ Gaining confidence is a major component of developing leadership skills.
▪ Researchers have identified the substance's chemical components.
▪ stereo components
▪ The factory makes aircraft engine components.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All in all, the eatery is a breakfast bargain, with enough different components to keep boredom at bay.
▪ All the components of the Pythagorean model interlock, each absolutely necessary to the proper operation of the whole.
▪ If no physiological monitoring equipment is to be used, you will begin presenting both drinking and sensitization scene components.
▪ In order to construct an integrated theory of linguistic competence, it is essential to discover the logical ordering of components or levels.
▪ It is especially prized because carbon, its major component, is by far the most important of all plant nutrients.
▪ The last component of the rainbow coalition that I want to refer to is feminism.
▪ These repetitive simultaneous pressure waves usually occurred together with the lower oesophageal sphincter component of the migrating motor complex.
II.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
analysis
▪ The observed inter-element correlations are reflected by the four major factors identified in a principle component analysis.
▪ Variance component analysis showed that at least two biopsy specimens should be evaluated per subject to allow a precise individual characterisation.
part
▪ First, the fairly simple trick of separating two component parts of a clue by a number of pages.
▪ The nation, on those subjects on which it can act, must necessarily bind its component parts.
▪ Check the Boss's Book for all the component parts.
▪ Finally, the state is fragmented, both in terms of political authority and the organizational form and logic of its component parts.
▪ Once the component parts have been established, their order in terms of time-scale can be decided.
▪ Some will be restored to running the exhibition condition, the remaining vehicles being used for component parts.
▪ Table 7.2 is a breakdown of the costs of each of the component parts.
▪ Gilt strips Here gilts are divided or stripped into their component parts that is, the interest and redemption payments.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ AlterNet operates its own network and maintains direct connections to most other component networks of the Internet.
▪ Methods for synchronizing such embryos and their component cells are dealt with in Sections 3.1 and 3.2.
▪ The component ratios are shown in Fig 3.
▪ The component systems of a complex system were loosely coupled, the component parts relatively autonomous.
▪ This branch of thermodynamics applies the laws of statistics to component microscopic particles.
▪ This is particularly true within areas such as avionic systems and component diagnostics.
▪ Whole armies disintegrated into their component individuals and sub-groupings.