adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
absolutely/perfectly/entirely correct (=completely correct)
▪ What he said was perfectly correct.
completely/entirely random
▪ The atomic particles seem to move in a completely random direction.
completely/fully/totally/entirely satisfied
▪ If you’re not completely satisfied, you can get your money back.
consist entirely/solely of sb/sth
▪ The area does not consist entirely of rich people, despite popular belief.
entirely distinct
▪ two entirely distinct languages
highly/entirely/wholly appropriate
▪ I thought his remark was highly appropriate, given the circumstances.
not entirely clear
▪ Sam’s reasons for leaving were not entirely clear.
not entirely unexpected
▪ Hague’s announcement was not entirely unexpected.
not entirely/wholly/completely
▪ Frege’s theory is not entirely satisfactory.
not quite/entirely sure
▪ ‘What are they?’ ‘I’m not entirely sure.’
not strictly/entirely/completely accurate
▪ The evidence she gave to the court was not strictly accurate not exactly accurate.
not...entirely blameless (=are guilty of doing something bad)
▪ The police are not always entirely blameless in these matters.
partly/largely/entirely etc to blame
▪ Television is partly to blame.
perfectly/entirely reasonable (also eminently reasonableformal) (= completely reasonable)
▪ The proposal sounds perfectly reasonable.
purely/completely/entirely coincidental
▪ Any similarity between this film and real events is purely coincidental.
totally/completely/entirely unnecessary
▪ The suffering of these animals is totally unnecessary.
wholly/entirely useless
▪ From his point of view qualifications are wholly useless.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
accurate
▪ The picture of a dovish president pulled in opposite directions by thugs on both right and left is not entirely accurate.
▪ But it is not entirely accurate.
▪ This has a certain ring to it, but apparently it is not entirely accurate.
▪ She found that the membership list with which Hilary Roberts had supplied her was a not entirely accurate document.
▪ The popular image of him as a laconic, amiable figure is not entirely accurate.
appropriate
▪ Administration officials said it was entirely appropriate for the Clintons to host overnight guests.
▪ The freakishness of their own appearance seemed entirely appropriate.
▪ That the world should be so enchanting after the enchantment of Vitor's lovemaking was entirely appropriate.
▪ Young Fowler thinks it entirely appropriate.
▪ Her reaction, he wrote, was entirely appropriate.
▪ It is therefore entirely appropriate that today Pompeii still represents the cutting edge of archaeological research and development.
▪ Theological answers are necessary and entirely appropriate to this doubt.
clear
▪ It is not entirely clear what factors the court must take into account when creating the hypothetical similar child.
▪ The exact relation between net water uptake and osmolality is not entirely clear from our findings.
▪ These rules are longstanding and entirely clear.
▪ The relevance of SSAPs to the public sector has never been entirely clear.
▪ Typically, public agencies are not entirely clear about their goals, or are in fact aiming at the wrong goals.
▪ This gives the buyer the opportunity to query anything that is not entirely clear.
▪ Reasons for this increase are not entirely clear.
dependent
▪ You're not entirely dependent on your husband.
▪ Although they worked through institutions, they had no regular sources of income and were entirely dependent on providence.
▪ The National Blood Transfusion Service is entirely dependent on voluntary blood donors.
▪ She could move little more than her eyes, and she remained entirely dependent on her iron tomb for breath.
▪ Beyond that, the matter is entirely dependent upon agreement.
▪ Travel and tourism is now the world's biggest industry, and many countries are almost entirely dependent on tourism.
▪ Through incubation and fledging, it is entirely dependent on the care of its adopted parents.
different
▪ It was soon clear that this was an entirely different kettle of fish.
▪ How the exterior would function was an entirely different concern.
▪ Before his fight with Fitzmaurice took place, Burke achieved fame in entirely different circumstances.
▪ What finally evolves as standard jargon may be entirely different than anything suggested so far.
▪ Human beings are entirely different from swallows.
▪ This shows how a name can be derived from one entirely different from its original.
▪ They came to Stanford at the same time, but from entirely different directions.
free
▪ Family meals, a compulsory ritual, were not entirely free of hazard.
▪ Treatment, inclusive of medicines, surgery, hospitalisation and even food, was entirely free.
▪ Soloist Annette Servadei played beautifully with an involvement entirely free from any kind of ostentation.
▪ From the time she had bought the tickets out of her savings she had not been entirely free of fear.
▪ Where there is no joint action, each member state is entirely free to act on its own.
▪ In this connection we must consider the animal phobias of which no child is entirely free.
▪ Nevertheless, the wording is not entirely free from ambiguity, and no doubt some officials decided to play it safe.
▪ It split up the back, and, at the shoulders, the sleeves came entirely free.
happy
▪ But he is not entirely happy with the service.
▪ Although I was not entirely happy with the quality of our game, I was pleased with the outcome.
▪ However, I was not entirely happy with the situation because aromatherapy was being used mainly as a palliative.
▪ He wasn't entirely happy about that.
▪ They did not seem entirely happy, to Esther, but Esther put her suspicions down to jealousy.
▪ The Filbert Street fans are not entirely happy despite Leicester's healthy position in the table.
▪ Alchemy, it seemed, was not an entirely happy affair.
▪ This satisfaction is relative, one or either may emerge less than entirely happy with the result.
new
▪ Like Venice, it is impossible to say anything entirely new about them.
▪ Through this process Walden itself becomes an entirely new world.
▪ She then had a delectable mushroom soup - and for the main course she chose something that was entirely new to her.
▪ Web browsers, once limited to displaying text and graphics and downloading files, have created an entirely new element of risk.
▪ For the Colonial Service, this was something entirely new.
▪ All this is not entirely new.
▪ Although it shares many features and concepts with the R22, the R44 is an entirely new design.
▪ And in the process we stumbled across a great idea, an entirely new security.
possible
▪ It is entirely possible that our backwater of a planet is literally the only one that has ever borne life.
▪ It is entirely possible that the trustees will be wrong.
▪ And it would have been entirely possible with the right companion.
▪ It is entirely possible that there isn't.
▪ It was entirely possible that Jos was still trying to warn him off, for his own good.
satisfactory
▪ This, though a more realistic standard of judgement, was also not entirely satisfactory.
▪ The penalty under Section 242, when only one individual acted, was still not entirely satisfactory.
▪ For most novels of literary merit, neither the dualist nor the monist doctrine will be entirely satisfactory.
▪ Neither method is entirely satisfactory since apparently homologous muscles may change their sites of attachment during evolution and alter their functions.
▪ For reasons explained in the rolling stock chapter, they were not entirely satisfactory and were returned at the end of 1923.
▪ Yet neither of these explanations on their own seems to me to be entirely satisfactory.
▪ They were not entirely satisfactory and had a tendency to derail on the very sharp corner at Pitlake.
▪ But these provisions are not entirely satisfactory.
sure
▪ I wasn't entirely sure whether he was joking or not.
▪ He was in fact confused himself, not entirely sure how his career had carried him here.
▪ Brian and I weren't entirely sure how to deal with the Yanks' antagonisms.
▪ The policy-makers are still not entirely sure why inflation has remained so low despite a 5. 3 percent unemployment rate.
▪ Alice was not entirely sure how.
▪ It is too early to be entirely sure, but it looks as though the tide may well have turned.
▪ Mrs Webster, though not entirely sure that they were unnecessarily worried, pitied their anxiety none the less.
unexpected
▪ The news was not entirely unexpected.
▪ It was entirely unexpected, and its cause a mystery, so much so that poison was inevitably suspected.
▪ This omission was not entirely unexpected.
▪ The amount and quality ofthe sculpture unearthed was not entirely unexpected.
▪ But this was not entirely unexpected.
▪ Since that showed a degree of consistency in attitudes, it was not entirely unexpected.
▪ Not entirely unexpected, but still remarkable.
■ VERB
agree
▪ I agree entirely with my hon. Friend on that matter.
▪ That district authority and I agree entirely on the future of local government.
▪ Before anybody complains that all this is very sexist and demeaning - I entirely agree.
▪ Mr. King I entirely agree with my hon. Friend.
▪ I entirely agree that salaries should be performance-related and subject to shareholder control.
▪ I entirely agree and would be content to adopt the judgment of Taylor L.J. as my own.
▪ The Prime Minister I agree entirely with my hon. Friend's analysis on that point.
based
▪ The claim to legitimacy of particular possession is based entirely upon the institutionalization of rights.
▪ Maybe you prefer not to think of yourself as some one whose value to baseball is entirely based on the revenue you provide.
▪ Finally, if cut-price really does equal cut-corners, why are contributions based entirely on gross fees?
▪ There was a time when law was entirely based on the oral tradition.
▪ But the Fed's timing may not have been based entirely on domestic considerations.
▪ Their plans are made far in advance, based entirely on their own thinking.
▪ Contamination of water supplies by oily mists threatens agriculture in the region since it is almost entirely based on irrigation.
▪ His idea of success is based entirely on the growth of his budget, staff and political profile.
consist
▪ Certainly, it is no justification in itself for ruling out ads consisting entirely of words.
▪ He proposed designing a plane consisting entirely of flat triangles.
▪ In these terms, the original puzzle becomes that of why natural selection does not produce a population consisting entirely of hawks.
▪ These organizations usually consist entirely of older people committed to fighting elderly issues directly.
▪ The Giral government, consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans, was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation.
▪ These should consist entirely of high upland in which no agricultural or forestry activities would take place.
▪ He describes Lebna Dengel's capital as being the size of a town but consisting entirely of tents.
convince
▪ I am entirely convinced that Joseph Kosuth has never seen work by Claudio Parmiggiani either actually or in reproduction.
▪ Other critics were positive but not entirely convinced.
▪ Perhaps she still isn't entirely convinced.
▪ Although I am not entirely convinced by the contents of the motion, I agree with parts of it.
▪ Even the fashion world is not entirely convinced by the rehabilitation of fur-wearing.
▪ This is not an entirely convincing explanation either, but there is little else that can be suggested.
▪ They've got the one in hospital down as Hans-Heinz Lemke, but they aren't entirely convinced.
▪ This explanation is not entirely convincing.
depend
▪ How good the meal was depended entirely on what the cook was like, you couldn't believe the difference.
▪ Their numbers and size depend entirely on climate, and that climate must be perfect.
▪ In the second class, the jurisdiction depends entirely on the character of the parties.
▪ Manycommunities depend entirely on glacial meltwater.
▪ But the symbolic gesture is likely to be of dubious long-term value and will depend entirely on the personalities and circumstances involved.
▪ It will depend entirely on the subject, so be prepared to think laterally!
▪ The oasis is man-made and depends entirely on the river.
disappear
▪ But if we can achieve that, then their argument on the urgency for entry entirely disappears.
▪ About 1629, scarcely a quarter-century after the first accounts of it, the cahow disappeared entirely.
▪ Such taboos have not entirely disappeared today.
▪ The small lead to which Samuel had previously clung had entirely disappeared.
▪ Robertsbridge, the great Cistercian house, disappeared entirely, torn down by the local people.
▪ They lose much of their natural paranoia about predators, but is never disappears entirely.
▪ This is not to say that the age of the Great Leader has entirely disappeared.
▪ Embalming was rarely practised during the eighteenth century and it had almost entirely disappeared during the nineteenth century.
satisfy
▪ And as with all our offers we guarantee to refund your money if you're not entirely satisfied with your order.
▪ Clinton has been too protean to entirely satisfy either.
▪ But she wasn't entirely satisfied.
▪ The children themselves, 75 she continues, can be entirely satisfied.
▪ A similar structure would not entirely satisfy the Panel.
▪ And yet, am I entirely satisfied with my lot?
▪ She has said she will not give a penny until she is entirely satisfied the unit will go ahead as planned.
seem
▪ The freakishness of their own appearance seemed entirely appropriate.
▪ This seemed entirely logical and fair, but when state analysts finally looked at the results, they were horrified.
▪ Two years on, and Roughley's class seem entirely unfazed by the technology and being asked to present some research findings.
▪ Eleanor, on the other hand, seems entirely real.
▪ They did not seem entirely happy, to Esther, but Esther put her suspicions down to jealousy.
▪ No one - not even Buckingham Palace - seemed entirely sure.
▪ It seems entirely natural simply because most of us have been using it since we were teenagers.
▪ He sat down beside her and it seemed entirely natural that he should take one of her hands.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a (very/completely/entirely) different animal
▪ But as I take my very first step on to the ground she becomes a very different animal.
▪ Each dancer had to assume the actions of a different animal.
▪ I was a Territorial, a very different animal.
▪ My second example, although involving a very different animal, raises the same kind of questions.
▪ So in Utah now, Rivendell is really a different animal.
▪ You should repeat each test at least ten times using a different animal of the same kind for each test.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At the very beginning of the project, Paul made it clear that he would be entirely in control.
▪ I'm not entirely sure what she meant.
▪ Jeff and Mike come from entirely different backgrounds.
▪ The audience consisted almost entirely of journalists.
▪ The foundation depends entirely on voluntary contributions.
▪ The reasons for his departure weren't entirely clear.
▪ The sculpture is made entirely of old car tires.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Abortion can be surgical, part-surgical or entirely non-surgical.
▪ For the first time in their careers, they are featured entirely naked in ecclesiastical, urban and pastoral contexts.
▪ Hong Kong swirled with news of his whereabouts, all of it entirely speculative.
▪ Of course it is a commonplace that a memory of a later time may color if not change entirely a former.
▪ Our physical world consists, is entirely made up, of these perceptions.
▪ Then I saw that the senders wanted something else entirely.
▪ These may be entirely contained within the borders of a single country even though their effects are transnational.
▪ When they come to depend almost entirely on staff members for every duty except voting?