adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a diverse range
▪ During his career he has run a diverse range of businesses.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ Even with existing technologies applications are emerging in areas as diverse as shopfloor guidance, document filing and building planning and management.
▪ The lodges are as diverse as the park: &038;.
▪ How does one possibly capture the flavor of race relations in a society as diverse as the United States?
▪ However, it is a remarkable piece of interdisciplinary thinking, linking fields as diverse as fluid dynamics and neurophysiology.
▪ Service is as diverse as the other two.
▪ Places as diverse as Petworth, Birmingham and Manchester remained manors.
▪ Warehousing &038; Trade A variety of cargoes, as diverse as Britain's industries, has been carried on the inland waterways.
culturally
▪ Contemporary Britain is a multi-ethnic, multi-racial, culturally diverse society.
▪ This is the most culturally diverse country on the planet, and all kinds of people interact.
▪ San Martin, with whom Guevara is compared by some, led his racially and culturally diverse army with much greater sensibility.
ethnically
▪ The parish was large, poor and ethnically diverse.
▪ Because the school is located just west of Downtown, it attracts an ethnically diverse student population.
▪ None the less, there is probably no major public university campus quite as racially and ethnically diverse as Cal.
highly
▪ For older people there have been a variety of different screening trials using an assortment of highly diverse methodologies.
▪ Similarly, postmodern culture is also seen as highly diverse and mass produced.
how
▪ What is apparent, even from this small slice, is just how diverse that sector is.
▪ The Universe is one organic whole, no matter how diverse and widely differing its manifold aspects may seem to be.
▪ Just how diverse they are is shown by the proportion of health care provided privately.
▪ They show how diverse and important are the matters with which the rules and principles of judicial review deal.
▪ Donna glanced at the other visitors, noticing how diverse an audience were drawn to such a building.
▪ The book is particularly good at showing how diverse medical opinion was.
increasingly
▪ More children growing up in a world so increasingly diverse that stock racial identities no longer hold up.
more
▪ Many could successfully survive in a harsh environment, and their bodies enabled them to evolve into larger and more diverse creatures.
▪ The alliance was created to help the transition from a defense-dominated economy to more diverse industries.
▪ The issues raised are more diverse and just as difficult.
▪ This older, more diverse workforce will pose difficult organizational problems.
▪ Press coverage from the Lord Chief Justice's conference was even more diverse.
▪ I'd wager that, if anything, people's tastes are getting more diverse these days than they used to be.
▪ Just 25 years later, Britain had become a much more diverse place.
▪ The East Bay economy is more diverse than its counterparts.
most
▪ The commercial sector is the most diverse and fragmented of the three sectors involved in the provision of sporting opportunities.
▪ The march turned out to be the largest and one of the most diverse the movement had ever had.
▪ Today Persia produces the most diverse and stylistically authentic range of rugs in the world.
▪ Mollusks are the second most diverse group of plants and animals in the world.
▪ The coral reefs of Walindi bay are probably the most diverse reef systems on our planet.
▪ The airline has also developed one of the most diverse ranges of cargo products in the airline industry.
so
▪ But how can we work together when our starting points are so diverse?
▪ You never know what brings a team together, because teams are so diverse nowadays.
▪ Why is it so diverse, so varied in its character?
▪ The early primaries should be also be moved because the United States has grown so diverse.
▪ There were few role models in the wider society which suggested that our creativity was so diverse and has such wonderful potential.
▪ Stock in just a half dozen or so diverse companies would cut your risk significantly.
▪ The educational systems and cultural climates in every country are so diverse that international planning would be unwise and ineffectual.
▪ Why, Fox is so diverse that he even has dual citizenship -- neither of them in the United States.
very
▪ Deputy heads undertook very diverse responsibilities.
▪ His life is an example of a very diverse society.
▪ The resulting anti-predator adaptations are very diverse.
▪ They are very diverse in composition, showing that they sample the belt population very widely.
▪ These examples serve to indicate that the voluntary sector in sport is very diverse.
▪ The new Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, has an influential research section, with a very diverse programme of projects.
▪ Thereby, he gives the field involving very diverse solvents a generality that is not often discerned in the writing of others.
▪ The crew of Maiden was very diverse.
■ NOUN
background
▪ The value of the book lies in the diverse backgrounds of contributors to these sections.
▪ In one event after another, audience members from diverse backgrounds asked questions that focused as much on writing as on reading.
▪ United by their love of comedy they come from diverse backgrounds in London and Surrey.
▪ The 10-week series of group workshops, bringing together people from diverse backgrounds, begins on Monday September 27.
culture
▪ One of these historic trends is the continually increasing communication among the world's diverse cultures.
▪ In diverse cultures men pursue and acquire, while women are protected and bartered.
▪ The world is full of diverse cultures that behave in their own ways.
▪ Is it that the colours resonate off each other or are there more profound similarities between the exponents of two such diverse cultures?
form
▪ What is crucial is to recognize that the diverse forms perform the same function in representing sound.
▪ Does it foster diverse forms of knowledge?
group
▪ Second, it would be a route for access to many diverse groups of potential learners around the world.
▪ They can help bring diverse groups or communities together.
▪ They were an active and diverse group that adapted themselves to whatever they were faced with.
▪ I never thought I would be with such a diverse group of people when things had been so polarized.
▪ And basic literacy levels are higher for a more diverse group of young people.
▪ Finding nonviolent ways of settling differences between diverse groups of interests is the essence of democracy.
▪ Out of this diverse group of people and activities emerged a definition of deception.
▪ Dole has a record of working with diverse groups to get things done.
need
▪ One of the difficulties facing archives is the need to take account of the diverse needs of different users.
▪ Varied career paths will allow for diverse needs and work patterns.
▪ Policy and practice have to allow for the variety of possibilities as no blanket approach can respond to diverse needs and preferences.
▪ First, screening rules are difficult to specify, given the vastly diverse needs of users.
population
▪ It is argued that geographically constituted groups such as community organisations are not necessarily representative of socially diverse populations.
▪ The fort became a trading post that attracted a religiously diverse population.
▪ Ministers lost status and irritated each other as diverse populations tore apart the unity of originally close-knit old towns.
range
▪ That is particularly relevant when one is considering a diverse range of hazardous wastes.
▪ This helped her develop a number of extremely useful and transferable skills in dealing effectively with a diverse range of people.
▪ Amazon's store offers 120,000 music titles from a diverse range of styles.
▪ Quite the opposite: they are willingly accepted by a diverse range of microbes, from Proteus and Azotobacter to E. coli.
▪ Process Machinery specialises in design and build projects across a diverse range of industries including aerospace and packaging.
▪ In a similar manner, various other studies have indicated that a wide and diverse range of crime occurs at the workplace.
▪ The pottery designs are distinctive and a diverse range of colours used.
▪ However, local government does present the opportunity to gain experience in a particularly diverse range of work.
selection
▪ Our six-man team consisted of group leaders, Sergio and Fernando, and a diverse selection of travelers.
▪ In the United States, Verio offers a diverse selection of Web-hosting services for small and mid-sized businesses.
society
▪ Contemporary Britain is a multi-ethnic, multi-racial, culturally diverse society.
▪ His life is an example of a very diverse society.
▪ That is why I urge a renaissance of local government in the context of a more pluralistic and diverse society.
▪ The other wants a much more open, diverse society, less judgmental of people.
▪ Dole believes in making government function by cooperating, compromising and working out the inevitable disagreements of a diverse society.
source
▪ The gravitational field generated in its productive phase by the legislative cycle attracted items from several diverse sources.
▪ It is vital that people get information on local issues from diverse sources.
▪ Sir Colin has defended the institution's right to obtain diverse sources of funding.
ways
▪ Economic changes have been generally recognized as being very important, but their influence has been conceived in diverse ways.
▪ Baboons are highly intelligent animals and learn to satisfy their biological needs in many often diverse ways.
▪ Types of Political System Classifications of political systems have been undertaken in diverse ways and for a variety of purposes.
▪ That privilege needs to be understood in diverse ways.
▪ Different groups in society see the environment and the way we live in it in diverse ways.
▪ The term has been used in diverse ways.
▪ It he is right, then stage transgressions seemed to have spoken to immediate temptations in diverse ways.
▪ But secondly, and more assertively, they examine the extremely diverse ways in which ontological insecurity is both generated and overcome.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ diverse political views
▪ I never realized that the terrain in Africa is so diverse.
▪ Indian cinema shows several diverse influences.
▪ It is difficult to design a program that will meet the diverse needs of all our users.
▪ New York is one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world.
▪ People enter the organisation from a diverse range of social, economic, and educational backgrounds.
▪ The category of "mammals" contains creatures as diverse as whales, elephants, and human beings.
▪ The music college aims to encourage talents as diverse as members of symphony orchestras and pop groups.
▪ The project studied a diverse group of 20,000 teenagers from nine high schools.
▪ The region's economy is more diverse now than it was 10 years ago.
▪ We believe the committee should reflect the diverse make-up of our community.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And basic literacy levels are higher for a more diverse group of young people.
▪ Baboons are highly intelligent animals and learn to satisfy their biological needs in many often diverse ways.
▪ Like-minded people have noticed this, with the results that they've always drawn diverse audiences.
▪ The commercial sector is the most diverse and fragmented of the three sectors involved in the provision of sporting opportunities.
▪ The fort became a trading post that attracted a religiously diverse population.
▪ The lodges are as diverse as the park: &.