verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
constitute a violationformal (= be a violation)
▪ The actions may constitute a violation of the treaty.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
only
▪ These, however, constitute only 2 percent of average earnings.
▪ Nonresidents thus constituted only 13 % of all hunters pursuing their sport in the State....
▪ However, still in 2001 those aged over 85 will still constitute only 17 in each thousand of total population.
▪ Even during the period of its greatest political autonomy, Mormonism constituted only a partial or semi-Asiatic society.
▪ I know that negotiations do not only constitute a bargaining process, but also serve as fertile ground for creativity.
▪ They constitute only some of the ingredients in the evaluation and diagnostic processes.
▪ Unfortunately this constitutes only the assessment of a candidate's suitability for entry to an interpreters' qualifying course.
▪ Legal forms not only constitute gender relations but represent ways of seeing roles and relations.
together
▪ The focus is upon clues which together constitute a text ready for reading and interpretation.
▪ Lethal and severe defects together constitute major congenital abnormalities.
▪ The waves and the pebbles together constitute a simple example of a system that automatically generates non-randomness.
▪ For Brooks, Wimsatt and Beardsley complexity and coherence together constitute the key considerations in the analysis of literary texts.
▪ The three provincial assemblies together constitute the Territorial Congress.
▪ What exactly the government did mean by freedom was hard to discern in the nineteen legislative Acts which together constituted the emancipation.
▪ One eye may contain 15,000 elements, providing images that together constitute an almost hemispherical field of view.
■ NOUN
action
▪ Now that Luke no longer wanted her, he wouldn't care about anything she did, so no action of hers constituted defiance.
basis
▪ These constitute the basis upon which the very possibility of a nation state rests.
▪ But it also constitutes an admirable basis for liberalism.
▪ What constitutes meaningful is the basis for a philosophical argument.
▪ Nevertheless they constitute the basis and conditions for further actions and history.
breach
▪ The very act of concluding a conflicting treaty would constitute breach and could be treated as such by its other parties.
▪ The Standing might constitute a breach of sacramental etiquette, but it was hardly a breach of the peace.
▪ First, there is direct inconsistency in the sense that compliance with one would necessarily constitute breach of the other.
▪ There is the difficult issue of whether use as opposed to disclosure constitutes breach.
▪ They claimed it was inaccurate, misleading and constituted a breach of journalistic ethics.
class
▪ Within modern capitalist societies the monopoly corporations constitute the dominant class fraction.
▪ The court's decision as to what constitutes a class conceals the policy issues in the decision.
▪ Or the society constituted by the class that traditionally was born to rule?
▪ The longest-lasting is the struggle for the working class to constitute itself as a class, to overcome its internal fragmentation.
definition
▪ It is in this context that we must read the definitions and practices that constituted Victorian sexuality.
▪ The good news is that in many countries the definition of what constitutes ideal family size is already evolving downward.
▪ Despite the recent advent of statute law in this area, there remains no statutory definition of what constitutes insider trading.
▪ There is no agreed definition as to what constitutes a knowledge worker.
▪ Their definition of what constitutes a husband, a wife, and a marital relationship will be negotiated.
▪ The answer lies in the provision of a structured Church and in the definition of what constituted heretical belief.
▪ The first set consists of institutional and professional definitions of what constitutes news.
▪ The definition of what constitutes an institution varies across time and between different countries.
fact
▪ Goodfellow confirmed that the facts can constitute both reckless and unlawful act manslaughter, but the rules differ.
▪ The Divisional Court concluded that nothing in that statement of facts constituted a threat, and the conviction was quashed.
form
▪ History is the realm of violence and war; it constitutes another form by which the other is appropriated into the same.
▪ Does this not constitute a radically different form of theism from that practised by the Near Eastern religions?
▪ As such, it has not hitherto constituted a particularly significant form of protest either numerically or politically.
▪ Are theories just another kind of story, or do they constitute a radically distinct form of discourse?
▪ By most criteria, this behaviour would constitute a form of complicity.
▪ Penalty fees or fines constitute another form of economic incentive for not violating emission standards and these are widely adopted.
▪ The imposition of the retirement condition constituted a novel form of institutionalized dependence.
idea
▪ Parish authorities generally were constantly reviewing their ideas about what constituted a minimum acceptable subsistence payment during this period.
▪ Its documentation is very idiosyncratic, and clearly reflects Crew's own ideas of what constitutes good text.
majority
▪ This is so also for children, so that together these two groups often constitute the majority of casualties on residential streets.
▪ Labour's historic constituencies on this question no longer constitute a majority.
▪ Usually only blackness is named, which constitutes the white majority as the norm.
offence
▪ Organising or participating in a march in breach of any such condition constitutes an offence.
▪ The official reason was that the painting was obscene and constituted an offence against religion.
▪ Publication to a single person is, impliedly, insufficient to constitute the offence.
▪ Development carried out in contravention of a stop notice constitutes an offence.
▪ Thus where the advertisement constitutes a criminal offence, it would seem pointless to complain to the Director General.
▪ Using a vehicle in contravention of the relevant statutory provisions constitutes a criminal offence.
▪ We might also note that what constitutes an offence in legal terms also changes over time.
part
▪ History constituted a vital part of the class struggle.
▪ Fuel cells, which provide electricity generated by a chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen, constitute one part of that research.
▪ The second sentence constitutes part of the setting along with the time elements established in the first sentence.
▪ Unlike on Earth, most of the visible features on the Moon are circles or great arcs constituting parts of circles.
▪ These are the subtle mind currents which emanate from all living creatures and constitute a part of their aura.
▪ It is not constituted by many distinct parts, linked together by chance.
▪ Please refer to the Policy commentary for details of what items should not constitute part of the breakdown account.
▪ Investigations into law enforcement officers' behavior were reduced, though they still constituted a large part of the case load.
percent
▪ Also in 1983, young women constituted 38 percent of the number of students in advanced-level courses in polytechnics.
▪ Women constitute almost 58 percent of the total work-force, up from 45 percent in the seventies.
▪ In enamel these crystals are very closely and beautifully packed together soas to constitute 99 percent by volume of the material.
▪ Currently, a court-ordered desegregation plan mandates that no single ethnicity can constitute more than 40 percent of a school.
▪ This constituted 22 percent of the total prison population.
▪ The roots, which remain in place, constitute about 20 percent of the biomass, and will oxidize eventually.
▪ In 1950 the 660,000 tribespeople constituted 91 percent of the total population of the Hill Tracts.
▪ Since according to the most recent census, women constitute 51 percent of the population, that sounded good to me.
problem
▪ These accurate determinations constituted important problems at the time.
▪ Failure to specify this third variable and its effects on x and y constitutes the problem of spuriousness.
▪ Attitude research was the property of no school in this respect and constituted a set of problems to which all might contribute.
▪ It was female sexuality that constituted the social problem, because through it the race was perpetuated.
▪ It would not constitute an insurmountable problem.
▪ But the law itself constitutes a further problem for the criminal justice system.
▪ Did the women of the locality - and/or the imagination - constitute a perennial problem?
▪ The sexiness of some pre-pubertal children can constitute something of a problem.
question
▪ Social distance can be expressed as a series of questions constituting a rating scale.
▪ There have been a number of court cases involving the question of whether videotaping constitutes fair use.
▪ Some definitions of mental illness beg the question of what constitutes normal behaviour.
▪ But the question is how this constitutes a subjective difference.
▪ The question is, what constitutes wild salmon at its best?
▪ This raises the question of what constitutes the community.
source
▪ This constituted an important source of financial support.
▪ Indeed they often constituted the source of their communities when new villages were laid out by the railway companies beside them.
▪ The annual population estimates constitute the principal source of official statistics on sub-national populations.
threat
▪ Finally they do not generally consider that its use constitutes any threat to them.
▪ Perhaps the argument that constituted the most serious threat to Copernicus was the so-called tower argument.
▪ The inflationary spiral constituted a grave threat which, if not halted, could jeopardise the entire economy.
▪ The foreigners in Ottawa constitute an ominous threat to the integrity and autonomy of our province.
▪ The Divisional Court concluded that nothing in that statement of facts constituted a threat, and the conviction was quashed.
▪ The process constitutes a national threat because it will break up the United Kingdom.
▪ Obviously that constitutes a threat for the future.
view
▪ Similarly, there have been different views on what constitutes economic development.
▪ Depending on your point of view, this can constitute either an opportunity for excellence or a disaster in the making.
▪ Do men and women hold different views about what constitutes health?
▪ In his statement that the point of view constitutes its object.
▪ Ideals also vary, and the view of what constitutes perfect bodily proportions changes from one generation to the next.
▪ Although such a view constitutes the theory, the reality is vastly different.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ According to Marx, "money constitutes true power."
▪ Alaska is the largest of the fifty states that constitute the USA.
▪ Because journalists don't think the congressman constitutes much of a threat, they don't write or broadcast stories about him.
▪ Children constitute four out of every ten poor people in the United States.
▪ It is sometimes difficult to believe that the different groups living within our borders constitute a single society.
▪ Nitrogen constitutes 78% of the earth's atmosphere.
▪ The company's action constituted fraud.
▪ The local authority decided that the present housing conditions constituted a risk for the mother and baby.
▪ The spread of international crime and corruption constitutes a major threat to the global economy.
▪ The thin layers that constitute the laser head are only 400 atoms thick.
▪ We may need to redefine what constitutes a family.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And their gardening shows are designed for audiences who live somewhere other than the sizzling hell that constitutes summer in Tucson.
▪ No one doubts that they remain guesses; but what would constitute an intelligent as opposed to an unintelligent guess?
▪ Taken together, they constitute a quite dramatic increase in inequality.
▪ The focus is upon clues which together constitute a text ready for reading and interpretation.
▪ The long ball constitutes more than half her shooting.
▪ The very act of concluding a conflicting treaty would constitute breach and could be treated as such by its other parties.