noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
care services/facilities
▪ How much money is spent on health care services?
childcare facilities
▪ I think more women would work if there were better childcare facilities.
conference facilities
▪ The hotel has conference facilities for 100 people.
cooking facilities (=somewhere to cook, with the equipment you need)
▪ The apartment has one bedroom and a sitting-room with cooking facilities.
cooking facilities (=there is cooking equipment in the rooms)
▪ The rooms all have cooking facilities.
correctional facility/institution/centre (=a prison)
credit facilities (=the opportunity to buy something on credit)
▪ Credit facilities are available if you are over 18.
day care centre/services/facilities
▪ subsidized day care facilities
disposal facilities
▪ There are inadequate disposal facilities for toxic waste.
leisure facilities (=different places where you can play sports etc)
▪ The leisure facilities in the town are very good.
overdraft facility (=agreement with their bank to have an overdraft up to a particular limit)
▪ Many students have a free overdraft facility .
production costs/facilities/processes etc
▪ high-tech production methods
recreation facilities (=places or equipment for people to use to enjoy themselves)
▪ the provision of recreation facilities
residential treatment facility
sanitary facilities (=toilets)
▪ a prison with no proper sanitary facilities
sports facilities
▪ All our holiday camps have wonderful sports facilities.
toilet facilities
▪ Toilet facilities are available at the bus station.
up-to-date equipment/facilities/technology etc
▪ up-to-date kitchen equipment
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
excellent
▪ There are also excellent facilities for the technicians in their own purpose built workshop.
▪ Saalbach is the larger of the two, but both have excellent facilities to offer.
▪ The island has 24 roomy bungalows scattered about the beachfront, each with a wide verandah and excellent facilities.
▪ It's a lovely place with excellent facilities.
▪ Tennis: Hard clay courts are available throughout the town, and excellent facilities on the edge of the resort.
▪ Thee are excellent facilities for children, with a kindergarten and a kid's playground in the Kurpark.
▪ These excellent facilities are used by the University sports clubs for practice and for matches in the local leagues.
existing
▪ Adult educators in all sectors have attempted to make access to existing facilities easier; and/or special programmes have been developed.
▪ In practice these allocations reflected the scale of existing facilities and their resident populations.
▪ Investment to both upgrade existing facilities and extend our range of services has therefore been made to strengthen our position.
▪ All rural settlements in the areas were classified according to their size, existing facilities and the scope for further development.
▪ The irony being, of course, that climbing on the new wall would be considerably safer than soloing on the existing facilities.
▪ For a few years the child population remained at pre-war size and existing facilities could match demand.
▪ They feel that these systems are expensive and unnecessary, especially since they undermine firms' existing facilities for small orders.
▪ It is currently committed to a multi-million pound improvement programme involving new plant and upgrading existing facilities.
medical
▪ Tom had been keen to take advantage of the medical facilities at Wiesbaden, if only to get his teeth sorted out.
▪ Measure O backers say the university-financed roadway improvements are necessary to improve traffic flow, including emergency trips to Stanford medical facilities.
▪ Because she has mild heart disease, she may serve her whole sentence in the medical facility.
▪ In addition, airlines may ask for phone numbers of a doctor, medical facility or funeral director who can confirm facts.
▪ As a result, many women conceive at the time most convenient to their lives and seek satisfactory rather than ideal medical facilities.
▪ All medical facilities have been heavily concentrated in the capital city.
▪ County General had once been a flourishing medical facility, designed to serve the entire Santa Teresa community.
military
▪ The estimates do not include the cost of dismantling nuclear weapons and military nuclear facilities.
▪ Neither state offers women a separate-but-equal military educational facility.
▪ The United States retained its extensive military facilities but agreed to remove its nuclear weapons from the island.
new
▪ According to the Charlotte Observer, 92 professional sports teams have built or planned new facilities since 1985.
▪ Fund raising and development of new academy facilities will likely command the attention of her successor.
▪ Work on the project will start shortly and the company expects to start production at the new facility early next year.
▪ The team will practice for the first time in its new downtown Oakland facility on Thursday afternoon.
▪ Start-up of production from the new facility is expected in October.
▪ Southeastern hospitals generally have higher credit ratings than those in other regions, because they have newer facilities and lower costs.
▪ This has increased the demand for new facilities, but the supply of teams remains limited.
▪ Deductions for capital investments in new equipment and facilities would be immediate, instead of spread out over time.
nuclear
▪ Existing nuclear storage facilities are either full to overflowing or close to it.
▪ The only effective countermeasure to such activities is international inspection of all the nuclear facilities on Earth.
▪ She added that the party would not approve the construction of nuclear waste disposal facilities.
▪ Despite that, the experts said security at nuclear facilities there is weak and there are few controls at national borders.
▪ There was also fierce local opposition in June to plans to build the world's largest nuclear waste facility near Krasnoyarsk.
▪ The closure of some of Britain's nuclear facilities means the equipment isn't needed here any more.
▪ It has reiterated demands for the closure of all ex-Soviet nuclear facilities.
▪ The estimates do not include the cost of dismantling nuclear weapons and military nuclear facilities.
other
▪ Otherwise it will rob other facilities - or grants.
▪ The sheltered housing is close to local amenities to allow residents easy access to shops and other facilities.
▪ It was further recommended that Okinawa be retained and that whatever was needed by way of other facilities should be obtained in the Ryukyus.
▪ The annual fee includes the subscription for student unions, athletic clubs, and other facilities.
▪ Plans for the centre include two department stores, an open-air market, a 1,100-space car park and other stores and facilities.
▪ Air traffic control and other facilities could be shared, Coun Mike Hughes, chairman of Warrington's planning committee, said.
▪ Such families would therefore have no legitimate claim to nursery provisions and other facilities.
▪ When combined with the other facilities in ARC/INFO, quite complex disaster management scenarios can be handled.
private
▪ Supplements per person per night: No supplement in single rooms without private facilities.
▪ All staterooms are outside with large picture windows and private bathroom facilities.
▪ Single room with private facilities £3.50.
▪ All bedrooms in the hotel are of a high standard with private facilities, television, telephone &038; minibar.
▪ Rooms all have private facilities, and balconies with superb views.
▪ All the bedrooms have private facilities and a balcony.
▪ Single rooms have private facilities accessed via the balcony.
▪ It has rooms with private facilities and balconies.
public
▪ The losers were Liverpool citizens who continued to be denied access to a public facility.
▪ Communities are overcrowded, with public facilities more often aimed at impersonal masses rather than stimulating intimate interaction.
▪ Hotel Amenities Please refer to page 154 for a guide to the bedroom amenities and public facilities of the hotels featured here.
▪ The public facilities authority raises capital by issuing taxable bonds to investors, whose money pays to renovate the stadium.
▪ Miquel Tàpies points out that the Fundació's impressive library is actually Barcelona's only public specialist art facility of its kind.
▪ The city government throbbed with nepotism, malfeasance and awesome abuse of public money and facilities.
▪ The sports hall of a public sector facility is used more for aerobics classes than was the case ten years ago.
▪ Typically, developers build new public facilities and incorporate their cost in the base price of their homes.
recreational
▪ Middlesex sought to prevent urban development, with the secondary purpose of preserving amenity and providing recreational facilities.
▪ Collie recently returned with the opinion that the county can conduct a referendum in November for recreational facilities.
▪ In its 10-year history, the London Marathon has made grants of almost £900,000 for recreational facilities in the capital.
▪ Eckels said that baseball and football stadiums could be considered recreational facilities, therefore an election could be conducted in November.
▪ With only very limited recreational facilities available on the camp, the gym is popular.
▪ When completed, the center will be the largest recreational facility in Los Angeles, at more than 80,000 square feet.
▪ In addition, environmental standards have improved - sometimes dramatically - and leisure and recreational facilities have been substantially enhanced.
▪ Local government agencies that provide libraries and parks and recreational facilities still work, to a degree.
residential
▪ Out of 174 local authorities, 97 or over half had no residential care facilities for children and 24 had no arrangements at all.
▪ They are housed in small community-based residential facilities.
▪ If local authorities do seek to improve their residential care facilities, what form might this take?
▪ A residential facility will remain at the Countess of Chester Hospital for people requiring in-patient treatment.
▪ There are currently an estimated 45 day-centres in Flanders, many of which are linked to residential facilities.
▪ Twenty-four track, residential facility just over an hour's drive from Dublin.
special
▪ Unless Oxendown had certain special facilities, something not easily transferred ... He would like to take a look at Oxendown House.
▪ It may be worth paying a bit extra for luxuries such as a personal service or a special lending facility.
▪ Provisions for cyclists will therefore require both the use of existing transport infrastructure and special facilities for cyclists.
▪ If you are taking small children, lots of operators now offer special creche facilities.
▪ Develop special care facilities for people with dementia in residential and nursing homes and day centres.
▪ It offers special education facilities for children who are maladjusted, usually those referred by the child guidance clinics.
▪ In stepped pupils from Ysgol ap Iwan, Abergele, who used special facilities available at the school to do the job.
▪ Are there any places you want to praise for their special facilities?
■ NOUN
care
▪ Day care facilities for the mentally handicapped include what used to be known as adult training centres.
▪ We re licensed as an acute care facility.
▪ Out of 174 local authorities, 97 or over half had no residential care facilities for children and 24 had no arrangements at all.
▪ With this merger, there are concerns about what happens to the workers in these health care facilities.
▪ Full day care facilities are available on request.
▪ About 1 in 4 were in nursing and personal care facilities or offices and clinics of physicians.
▪ Meanwhile, however, the lack of adequate community care facilities has led to a campaign to save the old mental hospitals.
▪ There are no health care facilities. 7.
childcare
▪ The Act requires childcare facilities to be registered to ensure that standards are maintained throughout the country.
▪ Another frequent response is that additional, affordable childcare facilities are required.
▪ How much does it cost an employer to provide childcare facilities and what is the cheapest option?
▪ The University Childcare Officer is also able to provide information about other childcare facilities in the local area.
▪ Employers who do not offer career breaks and childcare facilities may find themselves passed over in favour of employers who do.
▪ Women entering the workforce, poor childcare facilities, marrying too late, all are blamed.
conference
▪ We carried out a survey to determine how buyers of conference facilities selected venues.
▪ Licensed bar, restaurant and café. Conference facilities for 60 persons.
▪ Accessibility 144 points 2. Conference facilities 149 points 3.
▪ The results were as follows: 1. Conference facilities 152 points 2.
▪ With conference facilities to cater up to 300 people.
▪ Of the local hotels 11 have conference facilities.
▪ It will also provide additional conference facilities which have become so important to College income.
▪ It is a two storey structure which contains conference facilities and computer facilities for the University as a whole.
credit
▪ The method of creating a bill is for the customer to arrange an acceptance credit facility with his bankers.
▪ The credit facilities replace a secured, two-year credit agreement totaling $ 170 million and set to mature Jan. 31.
▪ It follows also that it is not credit-broking merely to advertise credit facilities or even carry application forms.
▪ Armco Inc. said it completed two new credit facilities totaling $ 170 million.
▪ Buyers' abuse of their credit facilities.
▪ Accordingly, such a hire-purchase agreement could not be called credit facilities.
▪ Important Credit facilities should only be reinstated once you are reasonably sure there will be no more problems with getting paid.
▪ The Boards also aimed to expand sales through the provision of hire and credit facilities.
leisure
▪ Conclusions Hotel leisure facilities have been shown to be a worthwhile investment in that they can: 1.
▪ Parks, moreover, can provide significant leisure facilities - and revenue - in their own right.
▪ The club is a discount scheme to be operated in all the district council's leisure facilities from April.
▪ One session will look at the role of cities as major providers of huge new leisure facilities and sporting venues.
▪ It is well provided with leisure facilities for sports and arts.
▪ Fourthly, a successful terminal at Stratford would inevitably and inexorably encroach on the Lea Valley regional park and reduce leisure facilities.
▪ Projects in the pipeline include office buildings, leisure facilities and a chain of hamburger bars.
▪ The developers now need social facilities and infrastructure, such as schools, open space and leisure facilities to support their own schemes.
making
▪ All rooms have central heating, colour television, tea/coffee making facilities, en suite or private shower.
▪ All rooms have colour TV/tea/coffee making facilities.
management
▪ Rabo owns an independent facilities management firm, Facet, which will run the network should it win the bid.
▪ Hanson has more than 20 years of military and civilian airport operations, maintenance, program and facilities management experience.
▪ The restructured firm consists of three operating divisions; defence; facilities management; and I-Linie manufacturing management applications for mainframes.
▪ Browne's definition of facilities management is the management, by a third party, of an organisation's information technology infrastructure.
▪ The facilities management operator will confirm that jobs have been run according to the schedule in the Weekly Service Report.
▪ Plus various elements of facilities management-particularly if it is outsourced-and lifetime construction services generally.
▪ Income from facilities management grew 8.8% to £59.7m, making up 14.5% of the total.
▪ While turnover from services increased by 36%, the fastest growing area was managed services, such as facilities management.
overdraft
▪ We also provide interest free overdraft facilities in the first year of study.
▪ As the overdraft facility is used, however, two things begin to happen simultaneously.
▪ The company had agreed an overdraft facility with the bank that by December 1986 had been raised to £40,000.
▪ When the overdraft facility is fully used, the composition of assets will have changed.
▪ Mr. Tucker agreed to allow an overdraft facility of £60,000 for one month.
▪ You may want a permanent overdraft facility.
▪ But remember that this change in the composition of assets came about because the borrower used his overdraft facility.
▪ We can offer current accounts with overdraft facilities and deposit and loan accounts in any major international currency.
production
▪ Merrydown has bumped up production facilities to cope with the expected demand.
▪ The locations range from former weapons production facilities to fuel tanks to federal landfills.
▪ But a major part of the work is the creation of production facilities to treble capacity to around 10,000 cars a year.
▪ The business has made substantial progress in terms of integrating production facilities, warehousing and administration.
▪ Further expansion of the production facilities has recently taken place.
recreation
▪ Britain even lagged behind the United States in the provision of industrial recreation facilities.
▪ But they also use many city services, from the Community Center to Tucson parks and recreation facilities.
▪ Most recreation facilities like swimming pools and sports halls are under their control.
▪ They have begun to offer their customers choices-of schools, of recreation facilities, even of police services.
▪ They can also help to make exercise opportunities available to their elderly clients by encouraging local recreation facilities to provide special classes.
▪ Street improvements and improvements in park and recreation facilities were widespread among the neighborhoods phased in by the second-year stage.
▪ Is social development any more than the provision of village halls and recreation facilities?
research
▪ Connolly likes the manager's size and research facilities, which help it to make better investment decisions.
▪ After the war, the site became a physical rehabilitation center and research facility.
▪ I asked for certain research facilities and I got them.
▪ The second phase also provides upgraded services for 200 to 300 research facilities directly linked to this backbone.
▪ The purpose-built research facilities can be booked on appointment by anyone wishing to carry out their own desk research.
▪ A spokesman said the company also would add people at its research facility in Bridgewater.
▪ Both departments involved in teaching this degree are actively engaged in palaeoenvironmental research and possess established research facilities.
▪ The quality of teaching and research in the Faculty of Arts is underpinned by the excellent research facilities that are available.
storage
▪ Limited cooking and food storage facilities are, however, available in the utility rooms on each floor.
▪ Existing nuclear storage facilities are either full to overflowing or close to it.
▪ It also requires a terminal storage facility.
▪ It turned out he had forgotten to inspect my fertiliser storage facilities and was very apologetic about the oversight.
▪ To conserve your time, your energy, and gasoline, shop as infrequently as your storage facilities permit. 3.
▪ This has several advantages: fragile items will be spared the cumulative damage resulting from repeated handling and removal from storage facilities.
▪ Old charts were automatically retired to the storage facilities out here.
toilet
▪ It has inadequate parking and only very limited toilet facilities.
▪ The carrousel therefore contained the kitchen, dining, washing, and toilet facilities.
▪ This was followed by Station facilities at Pant with its cafeteria, licensed restaurant shop and toilet facilities plus local workshops.
▪ Public disabled toilet facilities are available at a wide variety of places within York.
▪ Each unit has kitchen and toilet facilities, together with lighting, heating and three-compartment skirting trucking for maximum flexibility.
▪ A system which allowed electronic unlocking of cells so that they could use shared toilet facilities seemed preferable to most.
▪ Bullingdon will house 635 prisoners, many in single cells, all with toilet facilities, ending slopping-out.
▪ As for toilet facilities, I have an earth closet so the lack of water does not affect that side of things.
treatment
▪ Water treatment facilities are non-existent in the area, with chemicals such as chlorine unobtainable to stop the outbreak.
▪ Llanos came to Washington, apparently to enter a psychiatric treatment facility for priests in Maryland.
▪ There might be, he concedes, a few problems with small firms with inadequate or non-existent treatment facilities on site.
▪ Likewise, growing population placed increasing demands on electric generation and water treatment facilities.
▪ We have heat treatment facilities here that nobody else can replicate.
▪ But unless the city met the requirement, it would have to build a $ 135 million treatment facility.
▪ The new treatment facilities should be commissioned in late 1993.
▪ The first priority is to provide sewage treatment facilities.
■ VERB
build
▪ According to the Charlotte Observer, 92 professional sports teams have built or planned new facilities since 1985.
▪ Simply repaying the bonds used to build the facility accounts for nearly 60 % of the cost of producing power there.
▪ Expand existing facilities or build new facilities that can adequately and safely maintain a specimen bank of etiologic agents and clinical specimens.
▪ Are you building a new skate facility?
▪ In fact, some day-care centers are purposely built adjacent to senior facilities to encourage the connection.
▪ Typically, developers build new public facilities and incorporate their cost in the base price of their homes.
improve
▪ Some farms had in recent times improved their stock handling facilities and this had helped greatly.
▪ Immediate priorities should include improving facilities to deal with infectious agents that require high level microbiological safety precautions. iii.
▪ A Northallerton Town football player has been signed up to improve fitness facilities at Hambleton leisure centres.
▪ Late in the nineteenth century some efforts were made to improve irrigation facilities in these areas, where.
▪ It is now looking to raise a further £900,000 to improve facilities.
▪ In addition to the afternoon's official programme, there were several extra events, all raising funds to improve facilities at the centre.
▪ If local authorities do seek to improve their residential care facilities, what form might this take?
▪ The clubs use the cash either to improve facilities or go on tour.
include
▪ Most trains are steam hauled by one of the railway's extensive collection of tank engines and include full buffet car facilities.
▪ Immediate priorities should include improving facilities to deal with infectious agents that require high level microbiological safety precautions. iii.
▪ Many shopping centres include car-parking facilities.
▪ The company also has held talks with Apple Computer about a technology sponsorship that could include kiosks at the facility.
▪ The Altivar 28 range, for example, includes communications facilities as standard, allowing remote configuration and control.
▪ It would also make sense for Microsoft to include network mail facilities.
▪ Entries include information on facilities such as disabled access and interpretation services.
▪ The price of space in the building includes use of the facility.
offer
▪ Here there are three beaches and a busy little town which offers every facility.
▪ The hotel also offers huge banquet facilities and the recently opened bar, Point Moorea, sports an open kitchen as well.
▪ Private firms must be formidably efficient to overcome these handicaps and offer facilities at the same or lower prices.
▪ An unspecified number of employees were offered jobs at other facilities, said Witco spokesman Carl Soderlind.
▪ If you are taking small children, lots of operators now offer special creche facilities.
▪ Finally, some ISPs will also offer facilities to allow you to publish your own content on to the Internet.
▪ Gillingham marina offers top grade facilities without the South Coast price tag.
▪ Several companies offer this facility and some will even do it free of charge.
provide
▪ Parks, moreover, can provide significant leisure facilities - and revenue - in their own right.
▪ But they must also provide powerful facilities to reduce the proportion of total failures and to aid demanding and persistent users.
▪ It had been intended to provide turning facilities at the Robin Hood, but no suitable place could be found.
▪ If this service is not available press the council and local retailers to provide facilities for recycling.
▪ We should expect, therefore, to see employers providing exercise programmes and facilities for their staff.
▪ How much does it cost an employer to provide childcare facilities and what is the cheapest option?
▪ They also provide personal loan facilities and financial advice to their customers.
train
▪ This saves on training facilities and teacher trainers and also helps fill the gaps in the ranks of the existing teaching force.
▪ He sent decorators to pick out carpet and paint schemes for a new training facility in Anaheim, Calif.
▪ Discussions between the school district and Austin Community College about sharing education and training facilities also got under way.
▪ He is negotiating for both a summer training camp facility and a permanent office / practice facility.
▪ Construct a new off- site practice field and training facility.
▪ Swim Stadium will serve as a training facility for Olympic hopefuls in the 2004 and 2012 Summer Olympics.
use
▪ Users are therefore encouraged to use the information available and if they need more help to use the Freephone facility.
▪ The Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal employees during work hours using government facilities.
▪ The children are being invited to attend special masterclasses, using facilities not available at their own schools.
▪ I have to use the facilities.
▪ Guests can use all Village facilities, the pool at the Castello and two reserved tennis courts.
▪ Anyone who wants to use the facility can use it.
▪ There's a swimming pool and large sun terrace and guests are welcome to use the facilities of the Montanamar hotel opposite.
▪ In particular these London-wide resources have been used to provide facilities for children with special needs in specialist day and boarding schools.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Money is being raised to build a new sports facility.
▪ The college has excellent research facilities.
▪ The phone is equipped with a call-back facility.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ The Sport and Recreation Department offers some of the finest indoor sports facilities and outdoor playing fields in the province.
▪ There is a vast range, and the facilities and opportunities offered by these vary considerably.
▪ There was also fierce local opposition in June to plans to build the world's largest nuclear waste facility near Krasnoyarsk.
▪ They are usually purpose-built, with facilities to help disabled people and are staffed by qualified people.
▪ We will encourage more effective use of local sport and leisure facilities through compulsory competitive tendering.