I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a current flows
▪ Sea currents flow at up to 12 miles per hour around parts of the coast.
a river flows
▪ The River Avon flows through the town of Stratford.
a steady stream/flow/trickle
▪ All day long a steady stream of customers came and went.
blood flows
▪ A quick walk will get the blood in your legs flowing again.
cash flow problems
▪ The builder is unable to pay due to cash flow problems.
cash flow (=the amount of money coming into a business compared to money going out)
▪ The company was having a few problems with cash flow.
cash flow
▪ We expect a rise in both our production and our cash flow.
continuous flow
▪ a continuous flow of information
flow chart
stem the tide/flow/flood of sth
▪ The measures are meant to stem the tide of illegal immigration.
the blood flow
▪ Fat reduces the blood flow to the surface of the skin.
the direction of movement/travel/flow etc
▪ It was hard work rowing against the direction of flow.
the flow of migrants (=the movement of people to or from a place)
▪ the increasing flow of migrants into California
traffic flow (=the steady movement of traffic)
▪ The road widening should help to improve traffic flow.
traffic moves/flows
▪ At last the traffic was moving again.
water flows
▪ We watched the water flow under the bridge.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
circular
▪ A hurricane is a storm of strong circular wind flow which rotates in a counter-clockwise direction.
▪ Let us build on the circular flow model by discussing more fully the concept of a market.
▪ The circular flow of income and spending.
▪ Having identified the main sectors we can now include them in the circular flow approach adopted in Figure 1.2.
▪ We could examine the workings of the multiplier by considering changes in other injections into the circular flow.
▪ In other words, extra spending automatically generates additional leakages from the circular flow.
▪ Taxation Tin the circular flow has been interpreted as income taxation and is the difference between gross and disposable income.
▪ On the other hand reduced injections will have a contractionary effect on income levels in the domestic circular flow.
constant
▪ It needs a constant flow of information.
▪ The narrative line wavers, its constant ebb and flow in political affairs and love story creating a sense of drift.
▪ Without this it would be difficult to maintain a constant flow of fuel to the engines.
▪ This will give a firm footing and will stand up to the constant flow of traffic.
▪ There is a constant flow of people leaving the land and going into service and hotel jobs, particularly in Funchal.
▪ One problem is the constant flow of visitors who arrive unannounced on my doorstep.
▪ Tiny shops line the bridge, attracting a constant flow of visitors.
continuous
▪ It evens out the peaks coping with fluctuations in work and ensuring continuous work flow.
▪ In continuous flow analyzers, all Specimens flow through the Same tubing.
▪ Separation of the components on or in the stationary phase by a continuous flow of the mobile phase.
▪ Hence, carry-over or cross-contamination can occur in continuous flow analyzers if suitable precautions are not taken.
▪ We hoped for a continuous flow of information and exchange of art and culture between the two countries.
▪ The volatility / uncertainty of sponsorship prejudices a continuous production flow of excellence.
▪ The run-on lines create a continuous flow capturing the rush of Bedivere.
▪ From the holding silo grain passes over the continuous flow drier and any overflow travels back to the holding silos.
free
▪ Companies surely benefit from being quizzed about their strategies and from a free flow of ideas with the market.
▪ They said that without his presence, there will be a freer flow of ideas, especially from Smith and Gentry.
▪ But that free flow of images is a threat to photojournalism.
▪ We depend on a free flow of ideas.
▪ Not sniffling, it's free flow.
▪ The cash performance in 1992 was strong. Free cash flow after dividends amounted to 205 million.
▪ An unnatural element is introduced between the writer and the free flow of creative thought.
▪ A self-sufficient community is a thrombosis, a deadly block to the essential free flow of profits.
full
▪ He returned to the bathroom where he ran the taps at full flow.
▪ Foods spoil more rapidly if the refrigerator or freezer is packed so full that air flow is compromised.
▪ Just over the aisle it's the seaside, complete with botanist, David Bellamy in full flow.
net
▪ The net flow will show as a change in the stock of public deposits.
▪ Only particles that can not cross cell membranes obligate net water flow across such membranes.
▪ None the less, at the end of each day there will be a small net flow into some banks and out of others.
▪ The best single measure is probably the net flow of global capital into the developing countries.
▪ The net flow inward from these two faces is.
▪ It is not until point C on the time base that net positive cash flow begins.
▪ Imagine, for example, a net flow of payments to the government as the private sector writes cheques to settle tax demands.
▪ However, as we said earlier, this stock may expand or contract depending upon the net flow of newly issued bills.
steady
▪ Her relationship with Meirion was crucial, too, for ensuring the steady flow of garments from Carno to London.
▪ How else can members of Congress assume a steady flow of campaign contributions?
▪ So prices are inflated and will remain so until there is a steady flow of imported goods.
▪ We joined the steady flow of couples returning to the Barre cars.
▪ This can excite continuous, even steady, poleward flow as the boundary subsequently relaxes poleward.
▪ And 5 months on, there's a steady flow of orders.
▪ Now he had made it bleed again, a steady flow of drops falling on to his trousers.
▪ A steady flow of oxygenated water can be maintained by an air stream in the uplift attached to a filter plate.
■ NOUN
air
▪ Only a small amount of sand is sucked up if the air flow is kept low.
▪ There are many sleep disorders, but the most prevalent is sleep apnea, involving brief interruptions of air flow.
▪ With a simple T-piece you may need clamps to adjust air flow to each appliance.
▪ The soffit vents provide cooling air at the eaves, the ridge vent allows the air flow constantly.
▪ Suspended floors to allow air flow and prevent radon build-up.
▪ Foods spoil more rapidly if the refrigerator or freezer is packed so full that air flow is compromised.
▪ It also causes less condensation than double glazing thanks to improved air flow.
▪ There also are improvements to the heater / air-conditioning system, which Chrysler says make it quieter and improve air flow.
blood
▪ This is seen as a greyish-white accumulation of material which grows and obstructs blood flow.
▪ It is commonly due to globally diminished cerebral blood flow, which may be caused by a variety of mechanisms.
▪ Not tightly enough to restrict the blood flow, but sufficient to make her long to be able to stretch.
▪ Studies using blood flow changes in normal volunteers have shown something similar.
▪ Mefenamic acid will reduce blood flow by between 30 and 45 per cent.
▪ The blood flow to the tip of the temporal lobe does increase in studies of anticipatory anxiety.
▪ Automatic control of ram movement and strip feeds of hydraulic press; Blood flow analysis and bone necrosis.
▪ Further, no firm experimental evidence shows that these drugs diminish regional cerebral blood flow in migraineurs.
cash
▪ Thirdly, in comparison with cash flow accounting, accruals adjustments demand a higher administrative and accounting cost.
▪ A company with severe cash flow problems may have no choice but to run a lean inventory operation.
▪ Shaftesbury Homes' report was praised for a good treasurer's report, accounts and cash flow statement.
▪ That will be paid off by using cash flow, or replacing it with medium or long-term bonds.
▪ Franchisees at the meeting worried about cash flow, and what it will take to attract more customers.
▪ These investments have therefore been treated as cash equivalents in preparing the cash flow statement reflecting the liquid nature of the investments.
▪ It's the only way he will get some cash flow to bring in a couple of new faces.
▪ Success, market valuation and cash flow provide a powerful momentum.
chart
▪ These are explained with flow charts, diagrams and summaries assisting an understanding of the text.
▪ Mitchell visualized a hormonal flow chart that resembled a metropolitan subway system, all lines headed for the downtown station.
▪ The scale of the effort would have precluded updating the flow chart when new experience was gained or after equipment modification.
▪ It could disappear into the whirring computers and multicolored flow charts of the economic miracle.
▪ An illustration of a flow chart is given in Fig. 1.21.
▪ Institutions have regulations, codified systems of behavior, organizational flow charts, and job descriptions.
▪ The relationship between the functions discussed in this chapter is indicated diagrammatically on the flow chart shown.
▪ Obviously if you have a very large project you would never do a flow chart manually.
diagram
▪ The flow diagram is based on the following process.
▪ The two main economic agents in the flow diagram are households and firms.
▪ Decide on the order of the presentation of material to the learner and produce flow diagrams. 4.
▪ Fig 2 shows a flow diagram of the database.
▪ Instead of couplets the information is presented in the form of a pictorial flow diagram.
▪ A simplified flow diagram of an economy.
▪ Many flow diagrams also include the quantities of materials flowing in and out at each stage of the process.
energy
▪ The healing process involves correcting imbalances and freeing blockages, thus restoring a proper energy flow through the body.
▪ Each serpent or conduit conducts its respective energy to form the human electro-magnetic energy flow.
▪ The energy flow through the faces at, and is respectively.
▪ The net effect is thus to balance and harmonize the energy flow.
heat
▪ This is consistent with high heat flow across Western Cordillera and altiplano.
▪ The total geothermal heat flow is 1028 ergs per year.
▪ Palaeoclimate reconstructions indicate that the meridional temperature gradients decrease, and poleward heat flow increases, as global mean temperature increases.
▪ These areas of concentrated heat flow can sometimes provide enough power to run a small town.
▪ The prediction of thermal history is somewhat more problematical and requires the modelling of basin evolution and heat flow.
▪ The break of slope at ± 2000 m is probably indicative of considerably higher heat flow in the past.
▪ Wattset al. 1982 have shown that lateral heat flow results in anomalies in the normal thermal subsidence profile following crustal stretching.
▪ This simple model assumes no increase in heat flow to accompany the inversion event.
information
▪ So far, Firbas' approach to information flow can be summed up as follows.
▪ Each regime of control is boosted by deepening loops of feedback and information flow.
▪ These include the fast-changing aspects of the situation: the information flow, flow of goods and so on.
▪ Ideas and information flow more rapidly, and action becomes easier.
▪ It is as flexible, in terms of processing and information flow, as the blackboard system used in Hearsay-II.
▪ This is by far the easiest model of information flow to control.
lava
▪ Meanwhile, powerful United States Army helicopters continued dropping massive concrete blocks to hinder the lava flow.
▪ Their film shows the steep underwater flow front of a lava flow which was being erupted from a vent on Hawaii itself.
▪ And I bet no man has ever appreciated the lava flow of sensuality so near your ice-perfect surface.
money
▪ Nammack in New York. Money flow measures the volume of shares traded every time a stock goes up or down.
▪ The opposite scenario would result in positive money flow.
▪ To be sure, not all strategists use money flow as a market gauge.
▪ P and Nasdaq resumed their climbs after the July 19 drop -- but money flow into both kept declining.
▪ The Dow Jones Industrial Average remained relatively unscathed during the last six months, attracting more positive money flow.
rate
▪ As no water is pumped through the unit, no flow rate restrictions apply.
▪ The treatment is maintenance of a high urinary flow rate.
▪ How much would I need, and what flow rate is suitable?
▪ These include: severe slugging, flow rate transients, thermal transients and pipeline rupture.
▪ Catalytic reaction kinetics are favourable over a wide range of pressures, temperatures and flow rates.
▪ At smaller Re, the difference between laminar and turbulent flow rates is too small.
▪ The propellant flow rates were controllable either manually or via the on-board computer system.
traffic
▪ If everyone knows and obeys the rules traffic flow and safety at roundabouts is much improved.
▪ Measure O backers say the university-financed roadway improvements are necessary to improve traffic flow, including emergency trips to Stanford medical facilities.
▪ Driver-only buses have become the norm, and may have increased privatised profitability, but they've decreased traffic flow.
▪ Whatever option is picked should allow the maximum unimpeded traffic flow on to and off of city streets.
▪ This may be achieved through better driving habits, improved traffic flow systems and road networks and car pooling.
▪ He checked the traffic flow, watching the lemon-drop headlights approach in pairs.
▪ The diamond rivers of traffic flow inexhaustibly on.
▪ A police officer negligently sent the plaintiff, another police officer, into the tunnel, against the traffic flow.
water
▪ Constant very slow water flow should take place inside the media preventing true dead areas forming to leach back impurities.
▪ It was the quickness of the changes in water flow during previous operations of the dam that led to the most erosion.
▪ Household items allow the junior magician to make an erupting volcano and camera obscura, hypnotise books and see water flow uphill.
▪ Only particles that can not cross cell membranes obligate net water flow across such membranes.
▪ We saw many examples of the type of water flow which had flipped our rafts over like pancakes.
▪ I feel the water flow over passing faces.
▪ This won't significantly affect the water flow, but should prevent it sticking in the future.
▪ Must be fitted so that sweep is in direction of water flow.
■ VERB
allow
▪ A slightly different principle, which allows solvent flow to take place, forms the basis of the Melab and Knauer models.
▪ The soffit vents provide cooling air at the eaves, the ridge vent allows the air flow constantly.
▪ Suspended floors to allow air flow and prevent radon build-up.
control
▪ Ballvalves A ballvalve controls the flow of water into a cistern.
▪ I usually posted myself then at a busy intersection where a traffic light controlled commuter flow from Newark.
▪ The machine is fitted with a computerised management system to control stock flow.
▪ They controlled the flow of whatever it was the people needed or thought they needed or were persuaded they needed.
▪ But Duran's failure to control his cash flow had him ducking under the ropes again 18 months later.
▪ The outcome demonstrates just how difficult it is becoming for national regulators to control the flow of information.
▪ Interface-the circuit, or physical connection, which controls the flow of data between a computer and its peripherals.
▪ The child is not capable of controlling this flow and will show staining of his or her pants.
ensure
▪ Her relationship with Meirion was crucial, too, for ensuring the steady flow of garments from Carno to London.
▪ The restoration scheme, to be completed by 1998, should ensure a minimum flow of 34 million litres a day.
▪ Once in place a flow deflector and venturi unit can be set to ensure the required flow and aeration.
improve
▪ This improves the flow of gases, but also increases noise, so the firm must find a compromise.
▪ Performing exercise when you are tired can acutely raise your energy level by improving the flow of oxygen through the body.
▪ Capital allowances reduce a company's tax liability and thus improve its after-tax cash flow.
▪ Measure O backers say the university-financed roadway improvements are necessary to improve traffic flow, including emergency trips to Stanford medical facilities.
▪ Conventional treatments, including surgery, had failed to improve the blood flow to the heart.
▪ To improve cash flow, Kmart eliminated its dividend, cut expenses and boosted earnings.
▪ If these skills improve then we may yet have the desired effect of improving the flow of the ball.
▪ The goal is to improve the communication and flow of information among the sales, customer, and production functions.
increase
▪ During either chore, many areas of your brain would receive increased blood flow.
▪ Panting increases the flow of air through the muzzle and enhances evaporation.
▪ Osmotic diuretics cause in-creased potassium losses, probably primarily because of the increased urine flow accompanying them.
▪ Scalp stimulants can help to revitalise dormant hair follicles by increasing the blood flow to the scalp.
▪ Undo the coupling slightly so water can trickle into the container, and open the air vent to increase the flow rate.
▪ Because of the increased flow of traffic, Clarke revamped his Special Branch into three streamlined sections.
interrupt
▪ Remember here that some people do not like seeing you write down their words for it interrupts their flow of thought.
▪ To avoid interrupting the flow of the main text, occasional bits of parenthetical material appear as footnotes.
▪ At least it interrupts the flow of retired vice- marshalls.
▪ He then organized a team of five employees who revised the proposal and several other documents-without interrupting the regular work flow.
▪ Do this as a separate routine after writing if you are concerned not to interrupt the flow of composition.
▪ There are some folks who believe the two two-minute intermissions unnecessarily interrupted the flow of the film.
▪ I had to interrupt her flow of catastrophes to suggest that we try to understand what was going on beneath the surface.
▪ The pads can be inserted into an undergravel set up as a gravel tidy without interrupting the free flow of water.
maintain
▪ Difficulty in maintaining coherent flow of thought.
▪ Our academic institutions help to maintain a flow of the kind of cultural capital on which our wider social institutions are based.
▪ Without this it would be difficult to maintain a constant flow of fuel to the engines.
measure
▪ This is important because many devices for measuring low flow speeds in turn require calibration.
▪ The trade balance measures the flow of goods in and out of the country.
reduce
▪ Mefenamic acid will reduce blood flow by between 30 and 45 per cent.
▪ The relief of pain by oxygen inhalations, which reduce cerebral blood flow, also suggests that this is a factor.
▪ Faxes and telephones add to the flow of communication but do little to reduce the flow of people.
▪ Water managers have already shut a gate north of the crash site to reduce the southerly flow of water.
▪ Somatostatin is known to reduce splanchnic blood flow without modifying systemic arterial blood pressure.
▪ Dumping the air from one line into another at a 90-degree angle creates turbulence and can drastically reduce air flow.
▪ The head bored through the blockages that were reducing the blood flow.
▪ So what will reduce the illegal flow?
restrict
▪ Not tightly enough to restrict the blood flow, but sufficient to make her long to be able to stretch.
▪ By then, the critical decision had been taken to restrict the flow of refugee children into Britain.
▪ A recent decision tightening up the laws relating to overseas players will greatly restrict the flow of foreigners to Ireland.
▪ Wear loose clothing Avoid tight socks or stockings that restrict the flow of blood.
slow
▪ Sitting still reduces this action, slowing blood flow and increasing the chances of clotting.
▪ This simply slows the flow of traffic and causes unnecessary and frustrating delays.
stem
▪ Sandbags were used to stem the flow but several corridors were soon under water.
▪ To stem the flow, he advocates strict trade protections, including high tariffs on imported goods.
▪ When was she going to stem the financial flow?
▪ The brigadier tried to stem the flow with a tourniquet.
▪ How can we stem the tidal flow of change?
▪ She stemmed the flow of tears that came, knowing they would sting his body.
▪ Rose stemmed the flow, encouraged the ebb, and he allowed it to be that way.
▪ After the game Kasparov said that Karpov had to play 24 ... d3 to stem the flow of the White attack.
stop
▪ Somewhere, there will be a plug of ice stopping the flow.
▪ A pressure dressing was applied to stop the flow of blood.
▪ Once you have stopped the flow, relax and allow the bladder to empty completely.
▪ They were determined to stop the flow.
▪ Redemption and grace stop the flow of cause-and-effect in our parenting.
▪ Within a few days you will have identified the relevant muscles needed to stop the flow.
▪ The police Sergeant was kneeling beside the wounded man, pressing a pad against his side to stop the flow of blood.
▪ If you can stop the flow fairly easily it is the latter.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ebb and flow
▪ Manufacturers need to anticipate the ebb and flow of consumer demand.
▪ A moaning north wind that ebbed and flowed like the sound of surf and ocean waves.
▪ But he related well to me, although his engagement ebbed and flowed.
▪ In the harbour you got a secondary ebb and flow between the main tides.
▪ Inside the room I saw the pulsing ebb and flow of light that meant a fire.
▪ It was ebb and flow, up and down, punch and counterpunch that didn't want to end.
▪ Nixon always will remain a vivid figure for those of us who watched the ebb and flow of his remarkable career.
▪ The ebb and flow of controversy in television news items did not produce corresponding trends in public interest and discussion.
▪ There is always an ebb and flow, an inner energy used to enhance mood and expression.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a lava flow
▪ the flow of oil from the Middle East
▪ The civil war has severely disrupted the flow of humanitarian aid to the region.
▪ the ebb and flow of the tide
▪ The road repairs should not affect traffic flow.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And it is bad for his cash flow.
▪ Money flow measures the volume of shares traded every time a stock goes up or down.
▪ Sink mixers have divided flow so that the hot and cold water do not mix until they have left the tap.
▪ The momentum derives not from a lulling flow or titillating suspense but from astoundingly acrobatic leaps from perch to perch.
▪ Under the function-oriented approach to the flow of authority, the night cashiers work for a head cashier.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
▪ They flow around events rather than meeting them head-on.
▪ Alice, black hair flowing around her beautiful face: other images arose clear and bright in all their colours.
▪ There may also be signs that liquid rock flowed around the crater, from impact melted materials.
▪ The ocean currents flow around these in the same way that winds blow around high and low centres of atmospheric pressure.
▪ The wall at his back flowed around him with the softness of feathers.
▪ It looked as if the rock had flowed around the pistol, curling strands of stone that gripped the barrel and the trigger-guard.
▪ The river Talabec flows around the outside of the crater.
freely
▪ In Berlin, Friedrichstrasse meets Zimmerstrasse at a very ordinary road junction across which traffic flows freely.
▪ Cecilia viuda is highly charged emotionally and tears flow freely.
▪ Beer and whisky flowed freely, amid much back-slapping and bonhomie.
▪ But the fountain was flowing freely this morning.
▪ It operates as a conduit for ideas to flow freely throughout an organization.
▪ John Carroll rightly reminded others that Catholic blood had flowed freely during the war.
▪ Again, press smooth so water will flow freely.
▪ In the primary processes of the unconscious system, psychical energy flows freely by means of displacement and condensation.
smoothly
▪ The toastmaster opens the proceedings and keeps them flowing smoothly.
▪ He waltzed her around the room a little as the soft music started to flow smoothly over them.
▪ If you succeed in this, your cuts will be effectively invisible, and the images will flow smoothly.
▪ This allows traffic to flow smoothly between networks. 2.
▪ But as experience is gained through constant repetition, each movement of the form begins to flow smoothly into the next.
▪ Bonnie invited her input, and gave her the assignment to get things flowing smoothly.
▪ Above all, the notes need to be spot on while allowing the overall rhythm to flow smoothly.
▪ This keeps the solution flowing smoothly and, together with keeping the solution at 2°C, stops convection currents building up.
■ NOUN
adrenalin
▪ Although the adrenalin may flow, you owe it to yourself not to become carried away.
▪ The urgency kicks in, the adrenalin flows a bit faster, the pulse quickens.
▪ Yet there are certain composers who fall flat on their face unless the adrenalin really start to flow.
▪ In addition, a couple of deep breaths calms the nerves wonderfully when your adrenalin is flowing.
▪ But the adrenalin flowed, and Gough began to throw caution and the bat.
air
▪ Does he agree that that contrasts with the breath of fresh air that is now flowing through our universities and polytechnics?
▪ The air flowing across her felt fresh, cool, high, and late.
▪ These subtle curves encourage air to flow under the board which gives extra lift and better acceleration.
▪ Natural gas fed through the spud drillings are rapidly and intimately mixed with combustion air flowing through the burner throat.
▪ If you open the valve on the tyre, air flows out until the pressure inside the tyre equals that outside.
▪ The great success of our air campaign flowed from a strong quality foundation, shaped on those three basic points.
▪ The craft's rear structure minimises turbulence in the air flowing into its propellers to reduce internal noise.
▪ They mix together. Air too flows from one place to another.
benefit
▪ We are not told of the use or otherwise of anaesthetics, nor of any benefits flowing from such research.
▪ They need to obtain positive economic benefits or cash flow early in the project life.
▪ Sir William Shelton Will my right hon. Friend confirm that we already see benefits flowing from the citizens charter?
▪ But do I think genuine social benefits will flow from victory in my cases?-precious few....
▪ Indeed, it was considered a desirable benefit flowing from Britain's advanced technology.
▪ It could have led to a certain amount of resentment, particularly when the material benefits flowed in for Hannah.
▪ Even the workers who still have jobs feel few benefits have flowed their way.
blood
▪ She says a massage will help loosen you up and get the blood flowing normally and warm up those aching muscles.
▪ Underground streams evoke the blood flowing under the surface of our own bodies.
▪ I strongly disapprove of needless bloodshed, be the blood flowing from human veins or otherwise.
▪ John of the Cross, fresh blood flowed from the wound resulting from an amputated finger.
▪ Had she known, she'd have torn him limb from limb, bitten his sun-browned flesh till the blood flowed.
▪ Her blood seemed to flow swifter, hotter, in response.
▪ The soul begins to expand, the blood begins to flow more sweetly in your veins.
capital
▪ Such critics have argued for the imposition of transaction taxes to choke off short-term capital flows.
▪ Gordon talked about multinationals, international finance, global capital flows.
▪ People ask what can be done to discourage short-term capital flows.
▪ Enormous capital flowed into these projects in the hope that the network infrastructure would eventually settle into place.
▪ The extent of economic globalisation is illustrated by the recent enormous growth in trade and foreign capital flows.
▪ By 1993 net capital flows into the developing world more than doubled to over $ 110 billion a year.
▪ They say they can not prove the liberalisation of trade and capital flows has caused the decline in progress.
▪ External capital flowed in, attracted by the strong peseta and lax controls.
cash
▪ His attempts to put things right have been undermined by a cash flow that was always spasmodic and is now drying up.
▪ The truly rich can afford the tax advice and the expendable cash flow to avoid paying cap gains taxes all together.
▪ It is cash flowing on costs as the case progresses which provides another incentive to settle.
▪ Unit costs were down and cash flow up, providing a steady increase in the gainsharing payout to employees.
▪ As far as consumerism is concerned, discrimination against older people will only disappear as their cash flowing through the tills influences change.
▪ Some analysts say the December sales shortfall helped to push cash flow further into the red than expected, however.
▪ When leaders manage cash flow they manage organizational vitality.
▪ Second,, it ignores expected cash flows beyond the payback period.
country
▪ At that stage, the tigers accounted for only 19% of the money flowing into these countries.
▪ If the Ruritanian tributary was to flow into the country of junior fiction, it could only be in a narrower channel.
current
▪ When electrical currents flow they produce magnetic fields and so it is possible that these two therapies amount to the same thing.
▪ The current flowed so rapidly that it lapped the banks, undermining the verges which fell in clumps.
▪ All of the interesting events, like impulses, involve making currents flow, using those batteries.
▪ The ocean currents flow around these in the same way that winds blow around high and low centres of atmospheric pressure.
▪ Some years it is there, but for most years it is absent and the current flows along the coast as normal.
▪ Care has to be taken to make sure no excessive currents can flow during these transients.
▪ The current flowing in the system is measured.
direction
▪ And when you look about, there is the city, grey on grey, flowing outwards in every direction.
▪ The managers were responsible for seeing that information and resources flowed in both directions, as needed.
▪ But the political tide seemed to be flowing in a different direction.
▪ The money that changes hands can take a bewildering variety of forms and flow in various directions.
▪ The banks of the river move; water flows in new directions.
▪ Rather than study them, we here describe a kind of network in which information can flow in both directions.
▪ Refugees flowed in both directions, in appalling conditions, and there were innumerable killings.
energy
▪ The information captured shows a kind of luminescence and streams of energy flowing from the fingers or toes.
▪ When we have established the precise type of energy flowing here, we can probably measure it with better precision.
▪ It's immensely enjoyable to feel those tingling currents of energy beginning to flow all over you.
▪ In the primary processes of the unconscious system, psychical energy flows freely by means of displacement and condensation.
▪ His therapeutic techniques enabled the blockages to be dissolved and the body's energy to flow freely.
▪ Just as the blood is circulated through our physical body, so energy flows through and between the subtle bodies.
▪ The energy flows upward, but does not go far.
▪ Prana is seen as a universal energy which flows in currents in and around the body.
funds
▪ As a result of these expectations, funds flow from short-term markets to long-term markets, thereby driving down long-term interest rates.
▪ A simplified funds flow statement is shown below.
▪ Further funds flow from the Kaleidoscope programme.
▪ Final legislation signed by the president kept the funds flowing to Bath.
▪ Now, however, the funds are flowing in.
▪ It is a more standardised approach than the funds flow statement.
hair
▪ Her mass of blonde hair was down, flowing free in the winter air.
▪ His long blond hair flows from a black cap.
▪ Alice, black hair flowing around her beautiful face: other images arose clear and bright in all their colours.
▪ His rich dark hair flowed down over a purple cloak that covered his strong shoulders.
▪ The girls' long hair flowing over tight turtle-neck sweaters, eyes darkened against pale skin.
information
▪ We had to get the basic structure right, the basic information flows in and then bring the consultants in.
▪ The managers were responsible for seeing that information and resources flowed in both directions, as needed.
▪ Both men wanted computers when they controlled the direction in which the information flowed.
▪ There was plenty of time for information to flow up the chain of command and decisions to flow back down.
▪ Organizations depend on upward communication and a multitude of systems are designed to force that information to flow.
▪ In contrast, innovative organizations foster constant communication, so information flows quickly through their ranks.
▪ Rather than study them, we here describe a kind of network in which information can flow in both directions.
▪ But the information will flow one way, making popular Internet features like e-mail impossible.
juice
▪ Come Wimbledon, of course, his juices will doubtless be flowing again.
▪ But Charles knows his business, visiting me with exactly the right frequency to keep my juices flowing without hardening my resistance.
▪ It helps the guy to answer, starts the vocal juices flowing, passes air through the throat.
▪ The professor was likable, it was the sixties, not having your creative juices flowing was understandable.
▪ You can, of course, make up anything frisky that's going to get your juices flowing.
▪ I say, hoping this will get the creative juices flowing.
lava
▪ Since they were erupted so low down, it was not long before the rivers of lava were flowing through inhabited areas.
▪ The discovery of lava flows that cover vast distances on the Moon provided an interesting clue to their composition.
▪ These depths consist of vast mountain ranges, deep canyons, mighty steaming lava flows.
▪ She just wanted to be on her own so that the lava of tears could flow unchecked, melt it all away.
money
▪ The current account compares the value of exports and inward money flows to imports and outward money flows.
▪ No other word but redistribution describes how the money has flowed towards the poorest with a little taken from the top.
▪ The current account compares the value of exports and inward money flows to imports and outward money flows.
▪ After his death in 1998, the money continued to flow from Botnar's estate and charitable foundations.
▪ Investors who monitor the money flowing into and out of stocks think she may be.
▪ They said the tax cut would reduce the amount of money flowing to schools.
▪ Some channels through which money flows into the system will be closed.
oil
▪ A high skin means oil can not flow as easily as it could from an undamaged well.
▪ This would earn Moscow substantial transit fees once the first oil starts flowing next autumn.
▪ From January 1974 the oil once more began to flow freely.
▪ Could you suggest a medium which would help the oil paint to flow better?
river
▪ The River of Souls which flowed nine times round the Prison.
▪ Then, at the beginning of the dry season, Tonle Sap river flows back to the Mekong.
▪ Southern Britain abounds in small rivers all flowing eventually into larger ones and the sea.
▪ It would seem cruel to watch clean rivers flowing sweetly through a heartless and divided nation.
▪ Since they were erupted so low down, it was not long before the rivers of lava were flowing through inhabited areas.
▪ Normally the water level is high enough during the spring and summer for the river to flow.
▪ A lovely river flowed into the sea there which had excellent washing pools with an abundance of clear bubbling water.
sea
▪ A lovely river flowed into the sea there which had excellent washing pools with an abundance of clear bubbling water.
▪ When the tide flows out, the current often flows straight out to sea washing any distressed windsurfer with it.
stream
▪ A steady stream of metal flowed down Piccadilly.
▪ Underground streams evoke the blood flowing under the surface of our own bodies.
▪ Permeable areas usually have only a few streams, but they flow with little variation throughout the year and rarely flood.
▪ The life streams were flowing with buoyancy.
▪ Right: The little stream which flows under Puente Chinoluiz where we found an abundance of fish.
▪ He then put pen to paper, and soon a stream of adjectives was flowing.
▪ That car there, in the stream of lights flowing along the Parkway - that might be the Waylands.
▪ Currents move in the sea - the lights of traffic streams flowing and eddying.
tear
▪ Today it didn't work, the tears started flowing again.
▪ Cecilia viuda is highly charged emotionally and tears flow freely.
▪ She just wanted to be on her own so that the lava of tears could flow unchecked, melt it all away.
▪ Only her tears flowed and could not stop.
▪ Darren's gulps were immediately checked although the tears flowed on.
▪ Odysseus as usual was on the sandy shore letting his salt tears flow while he gazed at the empty sea.
▪ He was rubbing and pulling at his mouth, tears flowing, along with copious saliva.
▪ My own tears start to flow, and more words rise to my lips.
traffic
▪ In Berlin, Friedrichstrasse meets Zimmerstrasse at a very ordinary road junction across which traffic flows freely.
▪ She was pressed up against his door as traffic flowed past, bathing her in headlights.
▪ The traffic kept flowing steadily, giving her no chance to escape.
▪ Much of the traffic flowing into the Puzzle Palace consists of unencrypted voice and text from telephone, cable, and telex.
▪ Currents move in the sea - the lights of traffic streams flowing and eddying.
▪ This allows traffic to flow smoothly between networks. 2.
▪ Ashley glanced up to see that, at long last, the donkey carts had shifted and the traffic had begun to flow.
▪ Driving up Sacramento Street, I pulled over to the side, the brakes whining. Traffic flowed by.
vein
▪ I strongly disapprove of needless bloodshed, be the blood flowing from human veins or otherwise.
▪ Enraged, he had her broken on a wheel, scourged and beheaded, at which milk flowed from her veins.
▪ Sometimes I could almost see her flowing through his veins.
▪ The sap flowed easily through her veins.
water
▪ A river of golden water surrounded it, flowing between banks cut out of the stone, crossed by four bridges.
▪ In the West, it is said, water flows uphill toward money.
▪ Layers of rock that are porous and permeable enough to store water and let it flow through them easily are called aquifers.
▪ I turn on some faucets and water flows into the dishwasher.
▪ The clean water can then flow back into the river.
▪ Just how much water used to flow past the foremast step when we were in Hong Kong?
▪ The water that flows out comes from elastic storage.
▪ The banks of the river move; water flows in new directions.
word
▪ In his clear, dreamy voice, words and melodies flow as one.
▪ The more you struggle, the slower the words flow, the stiffer they get.
▪ His words flowed down smoothly as the black cloth of his soutane.
▪ Cantor prided himself on his lecture style: his carefully drawn figures and precisely spoken words flowed together effortlessly.
▪ They spurred each other on, allowing the action and the words to flow naturally.
▪ So you let the words flow faster than beer on tap.
▪ Text from a word processor file is flowed on to the page as a galley of typeset material.
▪ The whole word flows as one-it is taken for granted.
■ VERB
ebb
▪ Should sentences therefore ebb and flow with the same tides?
▪ But he related well to me, although his engagement ebbed and flowed.
▪ The music often has ethnic undertones, and it ebbs and flows with great subtlety.
▪ With a yet slower rhythm than the polar ice, the tides of civilization ebbed and flowed across the galaxy.
▪ Both types of water and a brackish mixture can ebb and flow together.
▪ A moaning north wind that ebbed and flowed like the sound of surf and ocean waves.
▪ Over the past decade this brutish conflict has ebbed and flowed.
▪ She has seen her popularity ebb and flow.
let
▪ Layers of rock that are porous and permeable enough to store water and let it flow through them easily are called aquifers.
▪ And a couple of performers have trouble with the verse, galloping through the rhymes rather than letting them flow naturally.
▪ Take my moments and my days - Let them flow in ceaseless praise.
▪ Odysseus as usual was on the sandy shore letting his salt tears flow while he gazed at the empty sea.
▪ So why not just let things flow on.
▪ So you let the words flow faster than beer on tap.
▪ I let it flow over me.
▪ Miguel felt his soul grow lighter as he let it all flow out of him.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ From here, factory waste flows straight into the sea.
▪ If I change this paragraph, do you think it will flow better?
▪ Oil flowed from the tanker into the sea.
▪ Tears flowed down her cheeks as she hugged her children.
▪ The conversation flowed from one topic to another.
▪ The river flows more slowly here and it is safe to swim.
▪ The widened freeway should help keep traffic flowing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Applications have been flowing into the Manor Ground but no moves have yet been made.
▪ Boswell's unhappiness flowed from his own unsteady and volatile character.
▪ Does he agree that that contrasts with the breath of fresh air that is now flowing through our universities and polytechnics?
▪ Everyone got along well, and the scripts flowed easily.
▪ Here in the slow movement she allowed the gentle principal theme to flow naturally and above all musically.
▪ Natural gas fed through the spud drillings are rapidly and intimately mixed with combustion air flowing through the burner throat.
▪ The managers were responsible for seeing that information and resources flowed in both directions, as needed.
▪ The professor was likable, it was the sixties, not having your creative juices flowing was understandable.