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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bond develops (=a bond of friendship developed between them)
▪ Over six months of working together, a close bond developed.
a developed country (=rich and where most people have a comfortable life)
▪ Developed countries are responsible for most emissions of carbon dioxide.
a developed/advanced nation (=one that has many industries)
▪ In the developed nations, many students go on to university.
a developing economy (=one that is getting stronger and starting to include more modern industries)
▪ Many developing economies are investing in sources of renewable energy.
a developing/emerging nation (=one that is starting to have more industry)
▪ Food shortages are often a problem in developing nations.
a developing/Third World country (=poor and trying to increase its industry and trade)
▪ Many developing countries receive some foreign aid.
a friendship develops
▪ Friendship often develops on the basis of shared interests.
acquire/achieve/gain/develop competence
▪ First you have to acquire competence in methods of research.
build (up)/develop a business
▪ He spent years trying to build a business in Antigua.
build/develop a reputation
▪ Our business has built a reputation for reliable service.
come up with/develop a theory
▪ These birds helped Darwin develop his theory of natural selection.
develop a character (=make a character become more interesting)
▪ The movie didn’t develop his character as well as the book did.
develop a concept
▪ The Greeks developed the concept of a scientific theory.
develop a cure
▪ It will be at least ten years before a cure is developed.
develop a disease
▪ A few years ago, she developed a serious lung disease.
develop a disorder
▪ Women are 30% more likely to develop the disorder than men.
develop a partnership
▪ Developing international partnerships is vital to our continued success.
develop a skill
▪ We will give you the opportunity to develop your skills.
develop a strategy
▪ Groups can help members develop new coping strategies.
develop a system (=create a new one)
▪ The Environment Agency has developed a new national flood warning system.
develop an industry
▪ More investment is needed to develop new industries such as tourism.
develop economically (=grow and become more economically successful)
▪ China is continuing to develop economically and politically.
develop your potential (=succeed by using your skills or talents)
▪ A good school aims to enable pupils to develop their potential.
develop your talent
▪ Education allows people to develop their talents to the full.
develop/expand the economy
▪ The tax cut should help to expand the economy.
develop/form a habit
▪ I developed a habit of eating porridge for breakfast.
develop/form/build a relationship
▪ By that age, children start developing relationships outside the family.
devise/develop a technique
▪ Researchers hope to develop more accurate testing techniques.
economically developed/advanced (=modern, with many different types of industry)
▪ the economically developed countries of Western Europe
establish/build up/develop (a) rapport
▪ He built up a good rapport with the children.
establish/develop relations
▪ The company has tried to establish relations with several universities.
formulate/develop a policy
▪ We try to formulate policies that will meet the needs of the people.
gain/get/develop an understanding
▪ Scientists continued to gain a greater understanding of the effects of radiation.
get/develop a taste for sth (also acquire a taste for sthformal) (= to start to like something)
▪ At university she developed a taste for performing.
get/develop an illness
▪ She developed the illness when she was in her 50s.
get/develop an infection
▪ She got a nasty throat infection which meant she couldn’t sing.
maintain/develop ties
▪ The U.S. is committed to maintaining close ties with Europe.
plan/develop/design a curriculum
▪ Fifty academics have been involved in developing the new school curriculum.
the economy develops/expands/grows (=becomes more successful)
▪ The economy grew by 3% last year.
write/design/develop software
▪ He designs software for an Atlanta-based company.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
fully
▪ Flavours rapidly evaporate from hot wort while bitterness requires up to an hour to fully develop.
▪ It will be more advantageous for the aquarist to acquire pre-cultivated seedlings or fully developed plants from aquatic plant shops.
▪ This theory also implies that the internal body clock takes up to five years to develop fully.
▪ Reproductions is by the separation of daughter plants which arise on the leaf margins or fully developed specimens and take root readily.
▪ The skeletal width of the shoulders is hereditary but an illusion of breadth can be created by fully developing the shoulder muscles.
▪ Every one of these older persons is a fully developed personality.
▪ The first involve loss of leaf area, through leaves and buds not developing fully, and leaves falling early.
▪ In newborns, especially premature infants, this liver enzyme system is not fully developed or functional.
further
▪ The authorities could not allow this to develop further.
▪ The Inns have further developed their advocacy training and are organising and funding the scheme for all the pupils in their Inn.
▪ During the year, Mortgage Asset Management Limited has been further developed and now has a portfolio totalling £74 million.
▪ Von Braun was asked to further develop the Redstone to carry out these tests.
▪ On reflection I felt the idea could be developed further.
▪ I am pleased to report that I believe the various committees are working in unison to further develop the understanding between them.
▪ At this time the agricultural techniques and crafts seen in the Early Minoan period were developed further.
highly
▪ For smaller companies, where financial controls are not highly developed, factoring may prove the answer.
▪ But perhaps the most vivid and compelling evidence of this highly developed colour sensibility is the artefacts themselves.
▪ Her strengths are impressive: her competence in the world, her highly developed social skills, her humor, her warmth.
▪ This leaves him with a personality that is highly developed in one direction at the expense of the rest.
▪ Ida Rebecca had small book learning but highly developed sensitivity, particularly when it came to judging outsiders.
▪ Waste incineration is one of the most technically highly developed waste management options at this time.
▪ General managers and top executives must have highly developed personal skills.
■ NOUN
approach
▪ Corporate Software Inc has developed an approach to the problem designed to minimise the cost.
▪ All teams were responsible for developing their own approach to self-management; there were no standard procedures.
▪ Veronica Williams, for example, has developed an interesting approach in connection with her work on art history.
▪ They began to see that they would have to develop different approaches and skills for handling relationships with different kinds of people.
▪ But Korn/Ferry have not developed the teamwork approach that has become a hallmark of Russell Reynolds.
▪ A better plan may be to start a discussion that develops a mutual reward approach.
▪ Questions that will help to develop a historical approach will include: Why did he say that?
▪ Similarly, software experts are suggesting and developing approaches that may be technologically elegant but financially infeasible from a business perspective.
business
▪ The village, he says, will produce an organic method for developing less risky business models and strategies.
▪ But Knight developed a unique business plan to achieve his mission.
▪ Longer-term relationships had generally only developed where particular business interests were more or less directly involved.
▪ Some are hired to move drugs north, while others develop their own drug businesses in Tijuana.
▪ For foreign exchange, the government hopes to develop the tourist business and its chief pride, biotechnology.
▪ Many principals take an active role in developing school / business partnerships and school-to-work transition programs for students.
▪ Emap is to invest £4.4 million in launching and developing the new web business.
▪ She's developed a steady business and a strong social life at her church.
company
▪ She lives nextdoor to the site which the company wants to develop.
▪ The company plans to develop the drug with Emeryville-based Chiron Corp.
▪ They have their own search company which they have developed as a service business.
▪ At first the company invests substantially in developing content.
▪ Identifying the Company Needs Before choosing an appropriate source of finance, the company should first develop an appropriate business plan.
▪ Neoprobe, a biotechnology company, has developed a technology that makes it easier for surgeons to target only cancer cells.
▪ Airships Industries, a firm backed by the Commercial Union insurance company, is developing a new range of airships.
▪ Most companies have developed information systems that help make employees more productive in the office.
economy
▪ Periodic emergence of such asset price bubbles is routine in even the most developed economies.
▪ The citizens of almost all other major developed economies pay higher taxes than we do.
▪ More supplies must be generated, they say, to feed the developing economy.
▪ But with the collapse of global markets and parallel slowdown in developed nations' economies, the dangers have risen significantly.
▪ He argues that classes develop in market economies in which individuals compete for economic gain.
▪ He was energetic, open-minded, and very keen to develop the economy of his little township by whatever means possible.
habit
▪ A person may develop bad habits that need correction.
▪ But there is no doubt that young people are developing habits unfavorable to traditional news suppliers.
▪ If you develop good habits they will stand you in good stead in your business and managerial career.
▪ It takes time, not coverage, to develop these habits.
▪ It is also important to develop the habit of checking words in your own writing.
▪ It developed the habit of rushing and pecking the other birds until the woman finally had to kill it.
▪ And over the past few days it had developed an infuriating habit of wandering unerringly back to the subject of Adam Burns.
▪ They develop the important habit of going to school every day.
idea
▪ Put briefly, there developed an idea of the pervasive religious and moral responsibility of the ruler.
▪ Saga-type series, first developing the ideas and then contracting with writers to realize them.
▪ Katz and Kahn have developed ideas on how leadership can contribute to the functioning of a system.
▪ Bird flew high above the simple pop songs upon which they were based, developing new ideas and melodies on the spot.
▪ Thirdly, they should develop new ideas about how existing desires and preferences are affected by influences such as persuasion and coercion.
▪ In a world of brainpower industries, there have to be effective incentives to develop new ideas.
▪ He spent the rest of his life adding to his materia medica and developing his ideas about disease and its treatment.
▪ Michael Ghiselin developed this idea further in 1974 and made some telling analogies with economic trends.
knowledge
▪ The course aims to develop the technical knowledge and ability to make decisions about appropriate methods and strategies for livestock development.
▪ The managers had to develop both their knowledge and skill in both analysis and implementation.
▪ For cancer specialists, developing this knowledge is still a long way off, but would be vital.
▪ Not just for one night, but for several, and to develop an intimate knowledge of the local badger community.
▪ Solicitors develop a detailed knowledge of the working of the business which enables them to represent the firm's interests more effectively.
▪ This allows suppliers to specialise and to develop an intimate knowledge of customer needs and wants.
▪ What did you learn and how could your developed knowledge be applied more effectively in the future?
market
▪ As far back as the Middle Ages, price promotion was used as a way to develop market economics.
▪ Old economy companies in most developed markets, particularly manufacturers, have been struggling hard for more than a year.
▪ If the local market is saturated, it may be wise to move elsewhere to develop a new market.
▪ This condition is very similar to the condition for gains from trade developed for the contestable markets approach in chapter 4.
▪ Thus, as the technology is developed the market requirements may change, or the market may disappear altogether.
▪ When these machines first became available, there was scant interest by manufacturers in developing country markets and applications.
method
▪ The research aims to develop new methods of multivariate time series modelling.
▪ They have developed accounting methods that force politicians to maintain the programs and infrastructure they build.
▪ It has to incorporate a wide range of factors and develop methods of investigation other than laboratory experiments.
▪ Zenith did not refer to Acme's program further than this and Zenith developed its own methods of performing the purpose.
▪ Here fish live that have developed a method of finding their way about that no other creature so far has emulated.
▪ This chapter describes the research project that was carried out to develop the method.
▪ They've developed a method to help putt by pulling back the club every inch for every foot.
model
▪ The research is focused on developing a suitable model of an export marketing system for Northern Ireland's seed potatoes.
▪ Lacey, for instance, develops a model of socialisation based on a modification of Becker's concept of social strategy.
▪ Example 1 Stockport District Health Authority has developed a locality model of purchasing with extended outposts in localities.
▪ Just as an accountant might use a financial model, the analyst can develop an entity model.
▪ Case studies are analysed, and teams are then set to develop their own models of teamwork.
▪ In these circumstances he is considered to have developed a model which does not bridge the gap between reality and his aspirations.
▪ Therefore the aim is to develop a mainstream model which comprehensively addresses aggregate supply.
▪ This project aims to develop models which take these factors into account, and so to understand how they affect investment decisions.
plan
▪ It had developed contingency plans before the incident and put them into effect when water in the mine began to overflow.
▪ Gradually, Power and his colleagues developed a plan to turn the 70 programs into a coherent Human Investment System.
▪ A business advisor who will help you develop your own business plan.
▪ They also developed a plan to expose the statement through discussions with three or four groups of middle level managers at Mega.
▪ Identifying the Company Needs Before choosing an appropriate source of finance, the company should first develop an appropriate business plan.
▪ But Knight developed a unique business plan to achieve his mission.
▪ The systems planning team will ensure that the subsystems are developed according to the plan which allows for some form of integration later.
▪ Then develop a plan to acquire those skills.
policy
▪ We are conscious of the issue and we have developed policies which address it head-on.
▪ The United States can learn from other Western democracies that have developed policies that effectively protect their children from poverty.
▪ If they can not, councillors develop policy only in so far as the bureaucracy permits.
▪ We have done much to develop regional policies over the past decade.
▪ Age Concern believes that the Department of Health should develop a policy and issue national guidelines on the provision of such care.
▪ Unless Labour develops its policies the next election will be a battle between two parties with virtually identical economic policies.
▪ Innovations depend upon finding opportunities for staff to work on developing new policies.
▪ Local authorities' ability to plan and develop a co-ordinated housing policy has been curtailed.
product
▪ Cypress has no plans to develop future Sparc products but it will continue to handle distribution during the transition.
▪ Farmington Hills, Michigan-based Compuware develops software products for mainframe computer users.
▪ Time spent communicating with managers is one of the major bottlenecks in developing new product prototypes and packaging.
▪ Management at Digital wanted employees to change jobs and develop skills as the products and the production process developed.
▪ If the economy improves, power may shIft to research and development for developing new products.
▪ On the other hand, Hewlett was an insider, locked away in laboratories developing products.
▪ Chiron Vision develops and manufactures products for treating progressive eye diseases and for improving cataract and refractive surgery.
program
▪ The researchers will first develop demonstration programs to show which routines are required and how they will interact.
▪ The same was true where schools developed a program and then approached companies with a fait accompli.
▪ During this time updating and regular reporting procedures were developed and the necessary programs written.
▪ The schedule for submission of the first applications gave communities only five months to establish the application process and develop a program.
▪ I meant - would you consider developing a program for my company?
▪ Further, he contends that Shimomura was developing sophisticated programs to help secure the Internet, not compromise it.
▪ That feature makes it possible to develop an object-oriented program that has learning capabilities.
relationship
▪ Once the bank is up and running, children learn how to deal with people and develop working relationships with each other.
▪ In reality the mathematics required to develop these relationships is actually quite elementary.
▪ Students were eager to develop relationships even in the restrictive university environment.
▪ These parents usually do not share their feelings with each other and seem to develop difficulty in their relationships.
▪ Gilli went with him, and during their stay on the island she developed a close relationship with its easy-going inhabitants.
▪ Furthermore, Brook has also developed a good working relationship with other voluntary groups and welfare organisations.
▪ Do some viruses develop a symbiotic relationship with their host?
▪ It seems however, that adequate professional preparation can only emerge as the result of developing the relationship between theory and practice.
sense
▪ I should know ... Friendships become easier for young women in later adolescence as they develop a clearer sense of self identity.
▪ Constancy is what it takes to get kids to help out and develop a sense of responsibility.
▪ Hence, the blind person may develop a superb sense of smell or highly sensitive hearing.
▪ Part of her newfound sense of fashion includes developing a clear sense of what flatters her most.
▪ But developing a sense of this is essential to wellbeing; assertiveness training and learning self-defence can both help.
▪ Some say that the effect may be positive in that children will develop a more realistic sense of what life is like.
▪ Also, with puberty, children, especially girls, begin to develop their own sense of identity.
▪ With this insight and acceptance, children begin to develop a sense of mastery of their feelings.
skill
▪ There is little doubt that their handwriting skills develop at a slower pace than their linguistic skills.
▪ While this mixture of physiological and mental skills is developing, they are matched by a similar growth in the social skills.
▪ Business and customer handling skills must be developed in the context of the travel industry.
▪ If all goes well, the skills develop interactively as they are supposed to, do complement and reinforce each other.
▪ Senge highlights the family as a learning organization and the importance of the skills developed in family life for the business enterprise.
▪ Learning skills are developed within both the physical and human pathways in the geography field.
▪ As your breadmaking skills develop, you may find a flour that you are convinced is unparalleled.
strategy
▪ Professor Budd's remarks echo a widespread belief in the City that the Government needs to develop a credible monetary strategy.
▪ Bailey said Palo Verde officials are continuing to inspect the assembly core and to develop a strategy for its removal.
▪ Group interactive sessions will focus on developing marketing strategies based on participant's own case studies.
▪ The district developed a coherent strategy to compete with its neighboring suburbs, focused on the use of technology in the classroom.
▪ We look forward to seeing how Council develops its strategy in light of the consultation.
▪ It may be a guidance counselor who is interested in getting the school to develop strategies to help work-inhibited students.
▪ How can socialists develop their arguments and strategies to gain the maximum purchase over the reality of contemporary capitalist property relations?
▪ E Encourage international Branches and Centres to develop strategies for enhancing the profile of the Institute, and promoting membership growth.
system
▪ Both Kemira and Hydro have been developing systems that turn the data into variable rate fertiliser application recommendations.
▪ The Minnesota Experience District 4 developed its choice system incrementally.
▪ This faculty is widespread among the population and there has developed a system for increasing creativity called synectics.
▪ How many years will it take to develop the fuller system George W.. Bush envisions?
▪ Why was Britain so slow to develop a national system of education before 1914?
▪ Louis County Police developed a system that allows officers to call in their reports, rather than write them up.
▪ The Treasury will develop a system of control that temporarily contains the pressures: the spending departments will adapt.
taste
▪ Competitive Bowling: Having developed a taste for bowling you may wish to consider bowling in a league.
▪ In the Old Country people developed a special taste for TSHUHlnt, since it was different from ordinary cooked meals.
▪ They developed a remarkable taste for camel meat.
▪ I was in the jungle now and developing a taste for guerrilla warfare.
▪ Countries that have developed a taste for gas-guzzling machinery are certain to find it difficult to turn back to animal power.
▪ He developed a taste for alcohol and discovered its value as social lubricant.
▪ They run in an out of the kitchen, and at seven, they've already developed sensitive taste buds.
▪ Do not refrigerate potatoes; if stored below 40 degrees, they develop a sweet taste and tend to darken when cooked.
technique
▪ They will also have developed a new technique for controlling reactions within a fusion reactor.
▪ Distillers scrambled to develop processing techniques that would allow them to carve out their own niches.
▪ He developed statistical techniques to study the variability of wild populations and to measure changes in the range of variability over time.
▪ He recognized his limitations, but he made little attempt to develop another technique.
▪ In the course of their work the professional-managerial class develop techniques to control the working class.
▪ John Clark meanwhile developed the necessary molecular techniques and the first transgenic lamb was born at Roslin in June 1985.
▪ I have actually developed techniques to overcome this, the major one being to make the parents join in.
technology
▪ Lower prices forced the industry to cut costs and develop more efficient technology.
▪ The developing audio technology to position a sound in three-dimensional space will become very useful.
▪ The Information Superhighway and yet-to-be developed technologies will be key elements in this business transformation.
▪ We are discussing strategic new developments-someone has to be the first to develop the product or technology.
▪ Creation of incentives to industrialized nations to develop and export fuel-efficient technologies to the developing world.
▪ Again, one prime reason for developing cloning technology is to address these issues.
▪ So many nations are developing cruise missile technology that a traditional air dominance fighter such as the F-22 could become obsolete.
theory
▪ We have even developed theories to justify these distortions by teaching that the high elbow allows greater application of force.
▪ Kubler-Ross began regular lectures on death and developed her now-famous theory on the five stages of dying.
▪ Sociologists and political scientists have devoted much time to developing a variety of theories on the determination of public sector expenditure.
▪ Scholes originally developed the theory working with Fischer Black, who died in 1995.
▪ These ideas can be developed into a theory of the boundaries of the firm.
▪ This raises interesting issues: Which assumptions of e-commerce may force you to develop a new theory of business?
▪ The idea was to develop a theory in which the weak force is carried by a type of particle.
▪ Medical researchers have developed two theories to explain how and where the virus began.
■ VERB
allow
▪ For a new artist to progress, the most important management role is allowing the act to develop its songwriting potential.
▪ Here students are allowed to develop one placement throughout both years if they see fit.
▪ The product now allows users to develop applications on target machines and then graphically display them on Unix workstations or X-Terminals.
▪ No campfires are allowed even in developed campgrounds.
▪ Another approach being considered is to allow pupils to develop this information skill as they go through inquiry work.
▪ Every spring, the oldest canes should be removed to allow new shoots to develop.
▪ These can be trimmed to allow main plants to develop well.
▪ Help and allow individuals to develop. 5.
begin
▪ When the larva first began to develop from the egg, its cells were segregated into two groups.
▪ During preoperational development, moral concepts begin to develop.
▪ However, from that point their relationship began to develop.
▪ With this insight and acceptance, children begin to develop a sense of mastery of their feelings.
▪ In 1939 the government began to study and develop new levadas.
▪ Within ten to thirty days between twenty to fifty new plants begin to develop from the dormant buds on the rhizome.
▪ From the late 1730s he began to develop a more ambitious career in cartography.
▪ At this point, the manager began to develop additional bases of power.
continue
▪ The region has continued to develop projects to assist professionals working in religious broadcasting.
▪ While some areas fell to invaders others continued to develop and flourish.
▪ This legacy has been added to down the years, and continues to develop.
▪ Autonomy of reasoning and affect continues to develop in social relations that encourage mutual respect.
▪ Many resorts but by no means all, are continuing to develop, sometimes rapidly and intensively.
▪ As people continue to have new experiences, they continue to develop new schemata and concepts.
▪ Our different understandings add richness to the Church, and our need to continue developing our faith is something we share in common.
▪ So it is my hope that industry skill standards continue to be developed nationally, by industry associations.
help
▪ They can help the reader to develop the appreciation and enjoyment of pictorial material by offering a range of rich visual experiences.
▪ These parents want to do all they can to help, so they develop schemes to ensure that homework is completed.
▪ The overall aim of the book is to help with developing activities which meet the needs and wishes of individual older people.
▪ But we have to understand the mechanisms they are using in order to help them develop new and more flexible behaviors.
▪ This will help pupils to develop a personal love of reading which will continue after compulsory schooling.
▪ Counselors and psychotherapists can help teachers and parents develop the skills necessary to assist work-inhibited students.
▪ A business advisor who will help you develop your own business plan.
▪ Employee Development Programs help employees develop their talents and capacities through training sessions, workshops, and the like.
need
▪ We also need to develop bridges between academic research and its application.
▪ Similarly, management will increasingly need internal auditors to develop new ways to discover and eliminate waste and fraud.
▪ Earlier publication will make timetabling easier, and reduce the pressure on staff who need to review and develop teaching materials.
▪ When they had injuries on the offensive line, they needed constant drills to develop cohesion.
▪ She needs to develop strategies to cope with apparently limitless and competing responsibilities.
▪ I felt that the Brothers needed to develop their own leadership and in their own style.
▪ Management information systems would need to be developed.
▪ This is where you need to develop the thick skin.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After her family brought her home from hospital, she developed pneumonia.
▪ Bradley develops these ideas further in his book.
▪ Clouds are developing over the mountains.
▪ In less that 12 weeks the chicks will develop into adult birds.
▪ In some patients, the disease develops very slowly.
▪ It is possible to develop diabetes in adulthood.
▪ Knowledge in the field of genetics has been developing very quickly.
▪ One in nine women will develop breast cancer.
▪ She developed from a shy child into an international star.
▪ The baby develops very quickly during the first few weeks of pregnancy.
▪ The department is developing a strategy to fight unemployment.
▪ The interesting part of the movie is how the two women's relationship develops.
▪ The Internet has developed at a remarkable rate.
▪ The organization has developed a successful program to increase parents' involvement in schools.
▪ We need to help young people develop a sense of responsibility while they're still at school.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And marriage developed everywhere to encourage men to stick around their children.
▪ Did some not develop as a flourishing centre of the renaissance, and were the Popes not initiators of the movement?
▪ Further Developments To obtain maximum benefit, any such system has to be reviewed and developed.
▪ However, it is now known that some corals can survive settling sediment and that even reefs may develop in muddy surroundings.
▪ In doing so, he developed a blister on his foot that turned into a diabetic ulcer.
▪ They construct it in the sense of developing a conception of the real as being the refractory limit of their own actions.
▪ They have developed drug addiction in the communities.