verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be created equal
▪ They believe that everyone is created equal by God.
cause/create a disturbance
▪ Several people were arrested for creating a disturbance outside the embassy.
cause/create a furore
▪ The security leaks have caused a widespread furore.
cause/create a hazard
▪ There was concern that overhead power lines could cause a health hazard.
cause/create a problem
▪ The building’s lack of parking space could cause problems.
cause/create a storm
▪ The Prime Minister caused a storm by criticizing military commanders.
cause/create confusion
▪ English spelling often causes confusion for learners.
cause/create friction
▪ Having my mother living with us causes friction at home.
cause/create hardship
▪ The severe winter caused great hardship in remote villages.
cause/create havoc
▪ A strike will cause havoc for commuters.
cause/create resentment
▪ The special arrangements for overseas students caused resentment among the other students.
cause/create/bring chaos
▪ Snow has caused chaos on the roads this morning.
cause/create/lead to anxiety
▪ Their nuclear programme is causing mounting anxiety among other nations, especially Israel.
cause/create/provoke conflict
▪ Sometimes very small disagreements can cause conflict within a family.
cause/create/wreak mayhem
▪ For some children, the first fall of snow is an opportunity to create mayhem.
create a climate
▪ It's important to create a climate of trust between staff and management.
create a display
▪ She created an award-winning display at the national garden show.
create a file
▪ I created a file of useful contacts.
create a good/bad atmosphere
▪ Lighting is one of the most effective ways of creating a good atmosphere.
create a habitat
▪ The aim is to create a suitable breeding habitat for rare birds.
create a myth
▪ Stalin created a lot of myths about himself.
create a precedent
▪ If we allow this once, it will create a precedent.
create a situation (=cause it to happen)
▪ Tom’s arrival created an awkward situation.
create a vacuum
▪ His sudden departure created a vacuum at the head of the company.
create a website (=make one)
▪ The pupils created a website on Henry VIII.
create an image
▪ The company is trying to create an image of quality and reliability.
create an impression (also convey an impressionformal)
▪ Arriving late won’t create a very good impression.
create an incentive
▪ We need to create an incentive for people to recycle their rubbish.
create barriers
▪ Uniforms are one of the things that create barriers.
create employment (=make new jobs)
▪ The government is trying to stimulate the economy and create employment.
create expectations (=make people expect that something will happen)
▪ The events of the last few weeks have created expectations of an economic recession.
create harmony
▪ The idea is to create better harmony in the community.
create wealth
▪ The purpose of industry is to create wealth.
create/carve out a niche (=do something in a particular way that is different to and better than anyone else)
▪ She had carved out a niche for herself as a children's television presenter.
create/cause a shortage
▪ Poor harvests could cause food shortages in the winter.
create/cause a stir
▪ Plans for the motorway caused quite a stir among locals.
create/cause/provoke a crisis
▪ The people fled the country, creating a huge refugee crisis.
create/cause/result in inequality
▪ Certain economic systems inevitably result in inequality.
created a diversion
▪ Two prisoners created a diversion to give the men time to escape.
create/leave a vacancy
▪ the vacancy which was created by White’s resignation
create/produce a design
▪ Use your imagination to create an interesting design in the garden.
create/produce a sculpture
▪ Local artists were asked to create sculptures for the garden.
create/produce/establish a code
▪ They have established a code of practice for advertisers.
establish/create/provide an agenda (=begin to have an agenda)
▪ We need to establish an agenda for future research.
give/create an illusion
▪ The mirrors in the room gave an illusion of greater space.
pose/create a dilemma
▪ The difficult economic situation poses a dilemma for investors.
provide/offer/create a safe haven (for sb)
▪ The prime minister wanted to create a safe haven for the refugees.
set up/establish/create a commission
▪ They set up a commission to investigate the problem of youth crime.
set up/establish/create a zone
▪ The government intends to set up an enterprise zone in the region.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
atmosphere
▪ It created a wartime atmosphere which could be used to manage the economy and to generate social cohesion.
▪ Like Jim Burke, they create an atmosphere in which risk taking is encouraged.
▪ The public rooms are spacious and create a discreet atmosphere of good living.
▪ What director Michael Winterbottom excels at, instead, is creating an atmosphere of vague religious resonance.
▪ Independent switches for each light will make it easier to create the appropriate atmosphere.
▪ A grand jury was convened; the jury condemned the newspapers for creating the atmosphere which instigated the Saturday night riots.
▪ They wanted to create an atmosphere.
▪ Glass walls between the classrooms create an open atmosphere.
environment
▪ Therefore, both over-confidence and under-confidence may play a part in creating an environment in which accidents happen more readily.
▪ I asked the subordinates how the new managers were to create such an environment.
▪ Gift of creating a pleasant environment with minimal resources.
▪ The reason we create artificial environments instead Of accepting natural ones is that we like our environments to be constant and predictable.
▪ In the second case money was the prime factor, both its getting and spending; it created an artificial environment.
▪ As one man sees another doing it, it creates an environment where it is okay.
▪ Do people create their own environment, or will they learn to live in any conditions?
▪ Most important though, create a safe environment.
file
▪ As well as creating ordinary compressed files, you can even create self extracting versions.
▪ Iprocessing files via Wordpad by dragging them on to its icon than by launching the program that created the file.
▪ Error 1046 Error creating new package file.
▪ To do this, we will create a file of addresses using the same variable list document.
▪ Please verify that there is sufficient disk quota and privilege to create a file in the supplied working directory.
▪ All that is required is to create a new file, although this can be time-consuming.
illusion
▪ Try tiaras and crowns and always wear hair below your jawline to create the illusion of length.
▪ These laws create an illusion of safety but do little to prevent such crimes.
▪ His remedy was to divide the garden with a wicker arch into two sections, to create an illusion of space.
▪ First, the leader has or creates the illusion of a track record of success.
▪ Such advise fills up too many books of quality management and creates the illusion that something is under control.
▪ The approach of many a trainee, therefore, was to create the illusion of desirability.
▪ Pool will use the outer planets to create the illusion of a nova.
▪ Farther west is the Hudson River, creating the illusion that ocean liners occasionally sail down the street.
image
▪ They created a fake cultural image, producing nice books, and incited a boom by pushing prices up.
▪ PaperPort software creates a graphic image of the scanned item and lets the user edit, annotate and sort the result.
▪ Over the last year he had worked hard to create an image for himself and it was paying off.
▪ The world was created and the dancer was created in the same image.
▪ Use them to create images for brightening up your newsletters, reports, simple diagrams and suchlike.
▪ On the other hand, supporters spend time and money to create an image that sells.
▪ Create a still image - in which they work out of role to create an image like a statue or three dimensional photograph.
▪ Many of the poems continue to create images of male-female tensions.
impression
▪ The call, the first by any network, created the false impression that Bush had won the general election.
▪ One of the things he tries to do in that interview is to create the impression there was a written agreement.
▪ Advertising also creates the impression that smoking is a socially acceptable norm.
▪ Deceptive behaviors are those actions intended to create a false impression of reality.
▪ All of you in our Service teams create the first impression after the contract has been signed.
▪ To have cancelled the conference would have created an equally bad impression.
▪ And if all that sounds a bit pious, I've created the wrong impression.
job
▪ If these measures had been designed to encourage investment, or to create jobs, they would at least have restored economic growth.
▪ There are many businesses out there that could be creating jobs-good jobs-but the government effectively discourages them from doing so.
▪ The government, through its regional policy, also provides assistance to companies creating jobs in depressed areas.
▪ As the population grew, business services increased, creating more job openings and luring more people.
▪ The scheme would create up to 5,000 jobs during the five years of construction, beginning in 1994.
▪ The arts create jobs and ideas that people can come to San Francisco and see.
▪ It will create a number of jobs for people living in the area.
▪ Instead, this money is being sent abroad to create jobs in nations that use low-cost labor.
market
▪ Agriculture has also been the beneficiary of rapid industrial growth and urban development, which have created expanding market opportunities.
▪ Lewie was not just a trader, though: He had the mentality and the will to create a market.
▪ The discount houses attempt to make profits by creating a market in short-term financial instruments.
▪ However, the Panel will not allow an offeror to rely on a pre-condition indefinitely as this creates uncertainty in the market.
▪ Our industry can create new markets and opportunities with a modest investment in language initiatives.
▪ These papers were not so much creating a new market as servicing an established public interest.
▪ It was a matter first of embarking on practical ways of increasing harmony and creating a single market.
▪ They were interpreted as an attempt to create a wider market in cultivated land.
opportunity
▪ Delicately Louisa had tried again and again to create the opportunity, but she had been allowed no room.
▪ And they created an Opportunity Line-an 800 number anyone could call to get information about training and education services.
▪ Cant about the free market creating opportunities for poor people is meaningless when wealth calls all the shots.
▪ Public organizations can create a spectrum of opportunities, which different communities can seize as they are ready.
▪ The provision of the equipment does not ensure the mathematical experience, but can create opportunity for it.
▪ But all it did was create passing opportunities inside for Wilson, Jones and Crouse to take advantage of.
▪ For those who play the stock market actively, volatility creates opportunities-but also concern.
▪ There are already early signs that this media flexible approach to our markets is creating opportunities to grow new revenue streams:?
problem
▪ This success would, however, have created a problem for Kinnock in office.
▪ For instance, it can create a problem if the team moves.
▪ This will help traffic problems but will create more parking problems.
▪ That created another set of problems, of course.
▪ A grandparent who tries to counteract parents' own methods by being over-indulgent or strict will only create further problems.
▪ A junior who is tired of sitting on the bench is creating morale problems.
▪ Though it created problems in times of political crisis, it was the price one had to pay for pursuing high ideals.
▪ They also created potential problems for Ickes by detailing his own intimate involvement in the fund-raising effort.
system
▪ We were in danger of creating a system which would involve testing over far too long a period of time.
▪ It tends to create similar value systems.
▪ It created a factory system which has spread to other industries.
▪ They created a system of elected building captains and court captains to enforce them.
▪ Gorbachev had stressed the urgency of creating the new presidential system in order to safeguard democratization and perestroika.
▪ Within the Microsoft division that creates operating systems, revenues increased by 72 percent.
▪ The challenge of creating a living system of any size is daunting.
wealth
▪ The Conservative Government always said that we had to create wealth first, and then improve our public services.
▪ You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces.
▪ At stake is whether the scheme will create more wealth than it destroys.
▪ It is this shift in perspective that is creating a wealth of new possibilities.
▪ Finally, arrangements are to be created to redistribute wealth in the region.
▪ Still, a public offering would create instant wealth for the small group of full partners in Goldman Sachs.
▪ This positive mandate to create wealth however is in the context of our fiduciary responsibilities.
▪ They invest it in creating more wealth.
world
▪ As parts of that created world, he has not finished with us either.
▪ On the big boring mills of the Midvale shop, Taylor was creating a new world of work.
▪ Through him he created the worlds.
▪ In a landscape of such transience and amnesia, the burden of creating a world shifts to the watcher.
▪ Kane, in creating the world, did not, like Yahweh, make light: he made himself into light.
▪ What about my creating the whole damn world?
▪ Reading is about creating worlds with words.
■ VERB
help
▪ Departments can also help to create a sense of identity and community, and often have discussion groups available.
▪ Foreign money capitalized the long expansion that lower taxes helped to create.
▪ The finding may help scientists create drugs to treat obese humans.
▪ The Pro-Style collection has been carefully designed to help create and control all styles on all hair types.
▪ As a matter of fact it may even help create one.
▪ After all, it was the wilderness that had helped to create him.
▪ Becky Trayser at Fratney helps her students create a web of possibilities for each topic they are covering.
try
▪ Think about where and with whom you feel most positive and try to create more of that in your life.
▪ After that, Simon had often tried to create the saddest sentence in the world.
▪ This is because we are trying to create a better world now, I hastily reassure myself.
▪ But one of the problems, experts say, was trying to create artificial intelligence in our own image.
▪ Instead of controlling my children, I tried to create an intimacy with them.
▪ I've always wanted to be involved in things that tried to somehow create a women's network.
▪ It would shatter the illusion he was trying to create of having a unique grasp of this new warrant business.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A bullet exceeding the speed of sound creates two shock waves.
▪ Agatha Christie created the character Hercule Poirot.
▪ Land movement created the Alps.
▪ Margot's outburst created an unpleasant atmosphere and most of the guests left early.
▪ Mary Quant created a whole new look for women's clothes in the 1960s.
▪ Picasso created a completely new style of painting.
▪ Several children created a disturbance.
▪ She wanted to create a garden to complement her beautiful home.
▪ Some believe the universe was created by a big explosion.
▪ The end of the cold war helped create a situation in which more countries than ever have access to nuclear weapons.
▪ The pen pal program was created by teacher Cindy Lee.
▪ The software makes it easy to create colorful charts and graphs.
▪ The white walls and mirrors helped to create an illusion of space.
▪ This dish was created by master chef Marco Pierre White.
▪ We found that this chemical process created hydrogen chloride as a by-product.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A few such designs may be created before a final decision is made by the artist and client.
▪ But what it does is create a space for renewal and reflection on the universe and its injustices.
▪ If these measures had been designed to encourage investment, or to create jobs, they would at least have restored economic growth.
▪ Man has been created to have dominion in this world.
▪ My father employed three people to create them.
▪ On the other hand, millions of new jobs have also been created.
▪ This has created considerably greater demand for both rentals and purchases.