noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a direct result/consequence
▪ Many illnesses here are a direct consequence of bad diet.
a likely effect/consequence
▪ Consider the options open to you, and their likely consequences.
catastrophic consequences
▪ The failure of the talks could have catastrophic consequences.
devastating consequences/results
▪ a terrible disease with devastating results
dire consequences
▪ warnings of dire consequences that often don’t come true
disastrous effects/consequences/results
▪ Climate change could have disastrous effects on Earth.
inevitable consequence/result
▪ Disease was an inevitable consequence of poor living conditions.
probable outcome/consequence/result
▪ The probable result of global warming will be a rise in sea levels.
profound effect/influence/impact/consequence etc
▪ Tolstoy’s experiences of war had a profound effect on his work.
▪ The mother’s behaviour has a profound impact on the developing child.
serious consequences
▪ Neglecting to make a proper will can have serious consequences.
suffer the consequences
▪ If they cannot learn to adapt, they will suffer the consequences.
the consequences of failure
▪ The political consequences of failure would be defeat at the next election.
undesirable effects/consequences etc
▪ The drug may have other undesirable effects.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
adverse
▪ Failure to persuade medical staff of the adverse consequences on patient care should be reported to the next level of management.
▪ Hospital stays for these patients could be safely limited to 24 to 48 hours with no apparent adverse consequences.
▪ Some of these cost very little, if anything, but all have been shown to ameliorate the adverse consequences of change.
▪ Because of adverse tax consequences, consider owning these bonds in a tax-deferred account.
▪ Not only are there few adverse occupational consequences, but there is very little social scandal.
▪ The tenant will, however, need to ensure that too wide a use will not have adverse consequences on rent review.
▪ Press and television reports on the adverse consequences of the centre's decision may lead to the decision being reconsidered.
dire
▪ As a result, at least some of the Bill's dire consequences were mitigated.
▪ Both suggest, either by statement or implication, that Buchanan is an extremist and warn of dire consequences to his nomination.
▪ The conditions may sound wonderful, but they can have dire consequences.
▪ Most came to realize that leading such an imbalanced life led to dire consequences.
▪ John Gibson highlights the regressive aspects of recent local government financial reform, and predicts dire consequences for the urban poor.
▪ There are coaches who can use this disparity to full advantage, without dire recruiting consequences.
▪ He also warned of dire consequences such as hyper-inflation if the country failed to maintain a unified budget and a co-ordinated fiscal policy.
▪ The sweep into Putumayo promises equally dire consequences.
direct
▪ The report had been generally very favourable and his and his colleagues' morale had improved as a direct consequence.
▪ The first of these events was a direct consequence of the war.
▪ The change was thought to be a direct consequence of the protest action taken by conscripts in May.
▪ In the long run, however, some results are expected to be demonstrated which have direct economic consequences.
▪ This was often a direct consequence of bad diet: too much matooke and nothing else.
▪ The outcome of the election is, at least in simple majority systems, a direct arithmetic consequence of the individual votes cast.
▪ The bruise is a direct causal consequence of the bump.
▪ Each operator adds a single new fact which is a direct consequence of what is known already.
disastrous
▪ I remember November 5, 1953, when a tendency to clear up had rather a disastrous consequence.
▪ Each man lacks the stamina to confront the disastrous consequences of unbridled and law-breaking greed.
▪ This can have disastrous consequences for growing horses who need calcium for bone formation.
▪ It is untested, too risky and too vulnerable to disastrous financial consequences.
▪ Unfortunately for the United States, hewing to the status quo could have disastrous unintended consequences.
▪ It would, however, have disastrous consequences for the poor and in the long term for society as a whole.
▪ Declines in stocking levels can also have disastrous consequences if combined with tourist use.
▪ Environmentalists warn that deforestation of this critical watershed area could have disastrous consequences for downstream regions.
economic
▪ There are obvious economic consequences of this problem for firms.
▪ The ratings of the program dropped and the network, apparently fearing the economic consequences, reinstated Rooney.
▪ This time delay can have safety and/or economic consequences hence the need to accelerate the experts' diagnosis and decision processes.
▪ The growing burden of paperwork is persuasive evidence of bureaucratic indifference to the economic consequences of red. tape.
▪ They may therefore be able to force governments to examine the economic consequences of bowing too readily to environmental prejudices.
▪ Marriage has social and economic consequences that extend beyond two people.
▪ The social and economic consequences of mass exodus for the countries receiving those affected will be examined.
▪ In the long run, however, some results are expected to be demonstrated which have direct economic consequences.
environmental
▪ Some of the environmental consequences have been deeply negative.
▪ While addressing this economic question, how can we use natural gas to mitigate the environmental consequences of increased coal burning?
▪ It commented, too, on the environmental and ecological consequences.
▪ We have difficulty making even the most obvious connections between human activities and their environmental consequences.
▪ In addition, the social, employment and environmental consequences of open cast mining are the subjects of quite varied interpretations.
▪ Yet the environmental consequences of unchecked population growth will be devastating.
▪ However, nothing is known about the long-term environmental consequences - or even effectiveness - of using the ocean beds as dumps.
▪ This has had damaging environmental consequences, such as creating new pressures for house building and increasing reliance on car-based transport.
financial
▪ It can have far-reaching financial consequences affecting not just you, but your home and family too.
▪ These considerations imply that their extra compensation pays only for their value of survival and part of its financial consequences.
▪ It is important to bear in mind that these financial consequences have, until very recently, remained largely hidden.
▪ It is untested, too risky and too vulnerable to disastrous financial consequences.
▪ Because neither life insurance nor private health plans normally cover you against the financial consequences of a seriously disabling accident.
▪ If the figures or the financial consequences are in dispute then that must be stated.
▪ Faced with the financial consequences of its commitment to a hard law and order policy the Government has attempted a conjuring trick.
important
▪ Clearly, individual gains, in terms of meeting individual needs, have important collective consequences in a trade union.
▪ Intentions become more important than the consequences of actions.
▪ A further important consequence was the more rapid implementation of planned petrochemical projects in response to sharp rises in oil production and oil prices.
▪ One of the most important consequences of the war was the hardening of ideological and political lines between North and South.
▪ A further important consequence was an increase in the importance of the national governments relative to the authority of the Commission.
▪ Yet it is clear that transport costs can have important consequences in the presence of economies of scale.
▪ As the links between painting and teaching are close, the mixture of the two elements has important consequences.
▪ The predominantly middle-class character of the suburbs and the commuting population was to have important social consequences.
inevitable
▪ Felt was an almost inevitable consequence of keeping woolly sheep.
▪ Such loyalty is by no means automatic or the inevitable consequence of propinquity.
▪ There were exaggerated expectations for one thing, a more or less inevitable consequence of those golden years.
▪ This knowledge brings solace, because the organization is familiar with the inevitable consequences and believes it can effectively deal with them.
▪ This is partly the inevitable consequence of gender being socially constructed.
▪ Judgemade economic policy seems an almost inevitable consequence of a balanced-budget amendment in our litigious society.
▪ Such a proliferation of bureaucracy is an inevitable consequence of the expansion of the activities of the state.
▪ Finally, restricting has the inevitable consequence of spreading unhealthy fear throughout an organization.
likely
▪ It is most important that the patient considers the likely consequences of different ways of trying to achieve goals.
▪ An evaluation can also indicate with some authority what are likely outcomes or consequences of recommended revisions.
▪ They are like charts which allow predictions to be made about the likely consequences of taking different courses of action.
▪ The process leading up to this and its likely consequences for teaching are discussed in detail in the article by Walsh.
▪ Soviet television crews were taken to the site, telegenic Soviet doctors were produced to discuss the likely consequences.
▪ In the absence of systematic research on these questions one can only speculate on the likely consequences of changes in employment practices.
▪ Next, you have to consider the options open to you and their likely consequences.
▪ After an election, this policy has to be reversed to avoid the likely inflationary consequences.
natural
▪ These relationships were a natural consequence of evolution working to produce mutual interactions from which all the species involved would benefit.
▪ Fire follows bugs as a natural consequence.
▪ In particular, the counsellor can counter the belief that pain and illness are the natural and unavoidable consequences of growing old.
▪ Instead, it is a natural consequence of convection in a sphere.
▪ De-hospitalization can be seen as a natural consequence of the decline in numbers of old long-stay patients.
▪ Instead we should see it as the natural consequence of trying to change schools from the top down.
▪ There is a morality of natural consequences.
▪ The blossoming of mathematics and astronomy was a natural consequence of this awareness.
necessary
▪ Neither is upward mobility, rising income or independence a necessary consequence of their diligence.
▪ These are, however, necessary consequences of the division of labour and the consequent role of trust in social relationships.
▪ In neither ease was the omission a necessary consequence of the intellectual stance of the two schools.
▪ That stratification would occur as a necessary consequence of the alienation of labour.
negative
▪ As will be seen, however, this high commitment of the training staff had both positive and negative consequences.
▪ And will the label have negative consequences for the person to whom it is applied?
▪ What Simmel accomplishes is a realization of the inseparability of the positive and negative consequences of these social transformations.
▪ This report deals with the positive and negative consequences of activities and behaviors from a health and medical point of view.
▪ The negative consequences of inappropriate behaviour should be predictable to the child: he/she should know what to expect.
▪ Lack of this awareness can have serious negative consequences.
▪ And I have indicated some of the negative consequences of pragmatic failure.
▪ If such labeling had some positive effects, it might be worth risking the negative consequences for those who are labeled abnormal.
political
▪ The political consequences of marriage were frequently cancelled out by other counter-alliances.
▪ We try to focus completely on the policy, but we are not unaware of the political consequences.
▪ Attempts to change the land-based activities that cause coastal pollution would have far-reaching economic, political and social consequences.
▪ But how could such an act not be fraught with political implications and consequences?
▪ From Raymond Williams I learnt the political and moral consequences and obligations of being educated away from the life you were born into.
▪ There can be no political morality without prudence; that is, without consideration of the political consequences of seemingly moral action.
▪ Ethics in the abstract judges action by its conformity with the moral law; political ethics judges action by its political consequences.
possible
▪ There is another possible consequence of this change, which may or may not have been intended.
▪ I would come up with any possible imaginable consequence.
▪ These raised marine deposits point to possible consequences of a global rise in sea level resulting from climatic change.
▪ These actual and possible consequences make it clear that the course adopted by the judge was wrong.
▪ Both the reasons for the war and the possible consequences have been mired in confusion from the beginning.
▪ Maybe young people carry knives for effect, without considering possible consequences.
▪ The child must be fully aware of what he is consenting to and what the possible consequences may be.
practical
▪ Unless the slope of the baseline drift is very steep the decline has few practical consequences except to sharpen competitive pressures.
▪ When families fall short, society has to cope with the practical consequences.
▪ The practical consequences of time limits which are not of the essence of the contract are such that they are virtually meaningless.
▪ By this time, Leibniz was moving outward toward an application of his system with practical consequences.
▪ The regime is abstract in concept, political in intent and largely insensitive to practical consequences in a highly practical industry.
▪ The practical consequence has previously been that prolonged autoradiographic techniques were required.
▪ For some Ajdabiyans the cases of Carnation Milk provided an amusing commentary on official inconsistency without having any practical consequences.
▪ This is a nicety, perhaps with no practical consequences.
profound
▪ And this had profound consequences for the functioning of each system.
▪ As a result, what we see is consistently open to interpretation, often with profound and tragic consequences.
▪ The electric light was an invention with profound existential consequences.
▪ December is a month when what is said and who you meet could have profound consequences.
▪ It was a defeat which was to have profound and far-reaching consequences for state medical regulation of sexuality.
▪ They are worried that genetic differences imported into the native flora will have profound ecological consequences.
▪ As these change, so do capacities for different forms of political action, with profound consequences for the Labour Party.
serious
▪ Some believe accident might have had even more serious consequences.
▪ Lack of this awareness can have serious negative consequences.
▪ Very serious consequences can and do follow from people or organisations being indifferent to the results of their actions.
▪ It is estimated that 10 to 30 percent of adults snore and have no serious medical consequences as a result.
▪ This is having serious consequences for local employment, as it has done elsewhere.
▪ They try too hard to engineer a safe environment for their child and, in so doing, interfere substantially-with serious consequences.
▪ They may catch other infections such as measles or chicken-pox, with serious consequences due to their deficient immune system.
▪ If unfavorable patterns emerged, we could address them quickly before they had serious consequences.
social
▪ One person's disobedience can have awful social consequences for many other innocent people.
▪ Therefore she must be prepared to remain single, and accept the social consequences of her decision.
▪ This form of destitution in the midst of plenty is not only morally obscene; it has social consequences which affect everyone.
▪ Marriage has social and economic consequences that extend beyond two people.
▪ In addition, the research is expected to shed light on the social consequences of cities' changing economic roles.
▪ Feedback also had positive social consequences.
▪ Attempts to change the land-based activities that cause coastal pollution would have far-reaching economic, political and social consequences.
▪ The predominantly middle-class character of the suburbs and the commuting population was to have important social consequences.
unintended
▪ Mrs Layton described the unintended consequences of a small incident in her Bethnal Green childhood.
▪ Even scientific innovations with benign intentions had unintended consequences.
▪ As the next section shows, the skilful use of mixed messages leads to a range of unintended and counter-productive consequences.
▪ Not all arguments against core group intervention are based on the fear of unintended consequences.
▪ Two problems, however, arose with this formulation, which were to produce unintended political consequences.
▪ This will be a major undertaking and one fraught with the possibility of unintended consequences.
▪ Could it not have been a minor act of spite on some one's part which had had unintended fatal consequences?
▪ But like air bags, the new rules are having unintended consequences, and Olson describes them fully.
■ VERB
consider
▪ Border has a history of reacting to situations before considering all the consequences.
▪ A performance focus forces everyone to consider the consequences and benefits of changing or not changing.
▪ The child is warned in advance about those behaviours that are considered inappropriate and the consequences that will follow from them.
▪ But those who dismiss monogamy as a strategy fail to consider the long-term consequences of maintaining a culture of promiscuity.
▪ It is most important that the patient considers the likely consequences of different ways of trying to achieve goals.
▪ They sat motionless, considering the consequences.
▪ You need to consider what consequences, what additional motivating events or rewards you can use to keep you going.
▪ I write reams of dry prose with appropriately technical language and what my colleagues consider scientific consequence.
face
▪ But he claimed they were well aware they were breaking the law and were prepared to face the consequences.
▪ They are facing the consequences of having allowed, and encouraged, the entry of a new class of member.
▪ Otherwise Congress would have to face the consequences of automatic across-the-board cuts under the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget deficit reduction law.
▪ This was her final act of spite, to take the piece and leave Paige to face the consequences.
▪ He would have to face the consequences of his actions.
▪ Could Eddie have run out of that corner deliberately because he couldn't face the consequences of his gambling?
▪ As far as sin is concerned, we must bin it or face the consequences.
suffer
▪ Yet most people never suffer the consequences of aluminium poisoning.
▪ Some are not, and when we have found them, they have suffered the consequences.
▪ Many victims also suffer the long-term consequences of smoking and alcohol.
▪ Apple, however, kept a tight grip on its technology and suffered the consequences.
▪ Children's development opportunities suffer in consequence.
▪ Nor does the witness alone suffer the consequences.
▪ Probably, the majority of people infected with the virus of type B hepatitis will suffer no important consequences.
▪ If they can not learn to adapt, they will suffer the consequences.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
damn the consequences/expense/calories etc
▪ At the outset of our friendship it was always Brian who exploded and damn the consequences.
▪ Spurrier says whatever is on his always-racing mind, even in victory and figures damn the consequences.
necessary connection/consequence etc
▪ In neither ease was the omission a necessary consequence of the intellectual stance of the two schools.
▪ It is further easy to see that there is no necessary connection between subsidy-free prices and Ramsey-optional prices.
▪ Men. come and go in their lives, but there is no necessary connection between motherhood and marriage.
▪ Neither is upward mobility, rising income or independence a necessary consequence of their diligence.
▪ Normative positivism asserts what legal positivists deny, namely that there is a necessary connection between law and positive morality.
▪ That stratification would occur as a necessary consequence of the alienation of labour.
▪ The difficulty is finding any necessary connection between two cases.
▪ These are, however, necessary consequences of the division of labour and the consequent role of trust in social relationships.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ If river levels continue to rise, it will have very serious consequences for many people's homes.
▪ Ignoring safety procedures can have potentially tragic consequences.
▪ Pain and illness are sometimes thought to be the unavoidable consequences of growing old.
▪ People who run up big debts eventually have to face the consequences.
▪ Safety procedures had been ignored, with disastrous consequences.
▪ We are very much aware of the consequences our actions will have.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After the closing of its distribution centers led to organizational disaster, the firm did its best to minimize these consequences.
▪ Except the consequences are completely predictable.
▪ It is important to bear in mind that these financial consequences have, until very recently, remained largely hidden.
▪ One consequence was to usher in a period of marked discretion in personal expenditure.
▪ The outcome of the election is, at least in simple majority systems, a direct arithmetic consequence of the individual votes cast.
▪ This form of destitution in the midst of plenty is not only morally obscene; it has social consequences which affect everyone.
▪ This was her final act of spite, to take the piece and leave Paige to face the consequences.