I.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bleak future/prospect
▪ The company still hopes to find a buyer, but the future looks bleak.
discuss the future of sth
▪ He met the chairman of Nuclear Electric to discuss the future of the nuclear generating industry.
face an uncertain/difficult future
▪ The company is facing an uncertain future.
future earnings (=money that a person or company is likely to earn in the future)
▪ With serious injuries, the court may award substantial damages for loss of future earnings.
future generations
▪ We need to preserve the planet for future generations.
future happiness
▪ Living together before you marry is no guarantee of future happiness.
future perfect
futures market
future...uncertain
▪ My whole future now seemed uncertain.
has a bright future
▪ I’m sure the company has a bright future now.
in the not too distant future (=quite soon)
▪ We’re expecting a final decision in the not too distant future.
long-term future
▪ the long-term future of the fishing industry
plan ahead/plan for the future
▪ Now that you’re pregnant you’ll have to plan ahead.
rosy future
▪ a company that sees a rosy future for itself
secure future
▪ We want a secure future for our children.
secure...future
▪ an agreement to secure the future of the rainforest
the distant past/future (=a long time in the past/future)
▪ It is a fictional story set in the distant past.
▪ In the distant future, there may be a cure for the disease.
the future king (=someone who will later be king)
▪ She married the future king of France, Philip Augustus.
the immediate future
▪ He promised that there would be no tax increases in the immediate future.
uncertainty...the...future
▪ There is a great deal of uncertainty about the company’s future.
what the future holds
▪ Thousands of workers are waiting to see what the future holds.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
date
▪ In addition, or alternatively, they may be redeemable, thus promising cash from the company at a future date.
▪ Be sure at some future date you will regret it if you don't.
▪ He made great promises for future dates but failed to ring the numbers they gave him.
▪ At some future date it might become necessary for Anna Beckett to be admitted to a private asylum.
▪ Firstly, loan demand must come from creditworthy customers who can guarantee loan repayment at a future date.
development
▪ This is to include an opinion of future development. 4.
▪ If the deal is completed, Rouse would immediately become a dominant force in the future development of Las Vegas.
▪ A solid platform for future development has now been established.
▪ The Internet Society has various engineering committees that help make technical recommendations for the future development of the Internet.
▪ The research aims to examine the relevance of this concept to the future development of two case study areas in Co Fermanagh.
▪ Discussants will respond to the speakers with their assessment of the implications of the work undertaken and the need for future development.
▪ This is the stuff that, if plans hold true, will be the platform for future developments like a microkernel.
▪ Looking back on it, Roddick believes that too was a good training ground for future developments.
event
▪ Contributions with regard to future events are invited for publication in Campus.
▪ The observational abilities of the ancients were to have practical application beyond those of time-reckoning and attempt to predict future events.
▪ Does the relative desirability of a future event affect the assessment of a likelihood?
▪ It would allow staff members to plan future events and meetings as well as to compile a list for holiday cards.
▪ The meetings provided an opportunity to exchange information about future events and to discuss problems of mutual interest.
▪ They depend on assumptions which have been made and on uncertain future events.
▪ The opportunity to influence the programme of future events.
▪ This may take the form of individual optimism or pessimism about likely future events within the territory.
generation
▪ We in turn modify the field for our future generations.
▪ Therefore, a gene is by definition the descendant of a gene that was good at getting into future generations.
▪ Or a weapon to be used against future generations?
▪ Under the last Government, debt rose to unprecedented levels, which was essentially postponed taxation on future generations.
▪ How could they be transmitted unchanged to future generations?
▪ Now it's hoped future generations will leave statistics like that behind.
▪ Furthermore, they did not have the same access to health services that future generations will have received.
▪ Government will work in partnership to secure our heritage for the benefit of future generations.
growth
▪ Youth represents potential for future growth and development, a time of hope and expectation.
▪ Profits reinvested in the corporation are available to finance future growth of the corporation or to pay future dividends.
▪ New products currently under development and in clinical trials in our biomedical business offer exciting potential for future growth.
▪ Developed countries are responsible for most past and present emissions: developing countries will account for nearly all future growth.
▪ The funding is decided on future growth.
▪ Reinvested earnings finance the future growth of 1 he company.
▪ But according to Potter, further development of overseas business is fundamental to Psion's future growth strategy.
▪ On the casino side, Bollenbach said that future growth will have to come from big companies buying little ones.
husband
▪ But Tess, in answer to your question, whatever you do, don't tell your future husband anything about your past experience.
▪ My future husband was becoming my whole world, and more than that, my hope of heaven.
▪ But hands off Declan; he's my future husband.
▪ It was more difficult - and more intriguing - to conjure up a picture of her future husband, Dom João.
▪ Nevertheless several girls did meet their future husbands during the course.
▪ Just one in 10 single girls want to marry one, although they like their future husband to have good job prospects.
▪ She'd fallen in love with Antonio at first sight, but didn't trust his fidelity as a future husband.
plan
▪ Money to help pay for ambitious future plans was at least one motive for seeking publication.
▪ If he had future plans, they were shattered by a stroke.
▪ This is a time of tension when the stakes may be high and a future plan hangs by a thread.
▪ Sunday's fine for discussing future plans and ambitions with a loving partner and ironing out any differences of opinion.
▪ This learning will be related to future plans for work, education or training and other aspects of the student's life.
▪ Despite his apparent interest he had given her no clue as to whether his future plans might include her.
▪ In the interview they asked me about my future plans.
▪ Mr Lekszton's future plans include a private television station and an airline.
role
▪ The consultants' report is part of our wider consideration of the future role of the inspectorate.
▪ This has important implications for the future role of the archivist.
▪ He even found himself liking the gunman in an abstract way, despite Gomez's future role as his executioner.
▪ Conversion into an agency would introduce a need for detailed thought about its functions and its future role.
▪ Now, however, it is limiting Railtrack's future role, mainly to track maintenance.
▪ The future roles of medical and pharmaceutical advisers are unclear.
▪ Will he give us an idea of the future role of the Royal Corps of Transport?
use
▪ Destroy the secret accounts with a fire or a bomb, but take the Plus List for future use.
▪ The nature of the environment surrounding the site is of obvious importance, including possible future uses of the land.
▪ It is conceivable that quotas may come into future use to encourage or limit the numbers of certain types of applicant.
▪ Restrictive covenants are sometimes used in relation to the future use of licensed premises.
▪ Prospects for its future use will have been considerably enhanced by this initiative, and reflects well on those involved.
▪ Perhaps he was only locating the jugular vein for future use.
▪ And while on his travels Ken gathered those recipes for future use.
wife
▪ It was here that he met his future wife, Jan, and the pair eventually set up their own practice.
▪ DeVito met his future wife while performing onstage as a demented stable boy.
▪ There he met his future wife, Idayu Njoman Rai, said to belong to a Brahman family.
▪ Simon first met his future wife whilst on holiday in Majorca three years ago.
▪ So he has already made his will, yes, leaving all already to his future wife.
▪ He says it's very hard on his future wife.
years
▪ It is, of course, conceivable that the community charge will have a bigger direct effect on local elections in future years.
▪ But affirmative action is clearly going to be a more constrained remedy in future years than in past decades.
▪ There is a financial risk in producing your own cards and there is little chance of selling old stock in future years.
▪ The company said the charge will provide a noncash benefit in future years from reduced depreciation and amortization.
▪ While reducing shareholders' funds to £19m, the move will reduce depletion charges in future years.
▪ The White House urged the colleges to view this as a model to become involved in literacy work in future years.
▪ It needs careful and knowledgeable underwriters to monitor and hopefully improve the capacity in future years.
▪ Plans are to enroll 100 participants from five high schools this summer and then expand the program in future years.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
at a later/future date
▪ Or how about a vital organ being removed and the opt-out card being found at a later date?
▪ Peter Novick dismisses the Freudian theory of repression of trauma leading to problems at a later date.
▪ Secondary sources, in contrast, are interpretations of the past produced at a later date.
▪ Some firms are very flexible on this issue and where possible, allow them to relocate at a later date.
▪ The total would be capped at a later date.
▪ They feared further repercussions at a later date because their participation in the boycott would almost certainly go into their files.
▪ This is particularly helpful if your school's organisation seeks to register as a charity at a later date.
▪ This means that the sea in which the Bright Angel was deposited flooded the land in the east at a later date.
mortgage the/sb's future
▪ But, in practice, if allowed to get out of hand, it firmly mortgaged the future.
▪ Finally, notice that the question of mortgaging the future hinges crucially on what is done with the privatization revenue.
▪ There's a pool of talent in this area most employers can draw from without mortgaging their financial future, Miller said.
▪ We will also ensure that home-buyers receive proper advice about the potential cost of their mortgages in future years.
the future perfect
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Before the scandal erupted, Grieg was talked about as a future presidential candidate.
▪ He's an extremely talented football player -- he could well be a future captain of England.
▪ In future years some of you will regret the decision you have made today.
▪ It is our duty to preserve our culture for future generations.
▪ It was then that Milstead took the first steps toward a future career in law enforcement.
▪ The company is building apartment buildings for future employees.
▪ The time and place for future meetings has not been revealed.
▪ We're getting together to talk about future plans for the show.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But Fujisaki ruled that future earnings were an acceptable concept in the law.
▪ He can use stock motifs and patterns and superfluous work can be retained to cater for future demand.
▪ In addition, various factors may interfere with development or future health.
▪ The miners then sell the gold at prevailing rates, and use the future output to pay back the central banks.
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bright
▪ This is the design the world's oldest motorcycle manufacturer hopes will give it a brighter future.
▪ M University, a freshman on the starting leg of a bright and promising future.
▪ No bright future Stephanie Nettell controlled her over-large panel well, asking probing questions to lead them on their way.
▪ Just then I was too happy to think about anything except our bright future.
▪ And we believe sponsorship is a key to this brighter future.
▪ All four look set for a bright future.
▪ He's hoping for a bright future.
▪ Cardiff has already begun a brighter future.
distant
▪ In any event it will be a vision of bow the profit is going to be achieved in the distant future.
▪ Prometheus tried to comfort her, but he could point her only to the distant future.
▪ Afterwards, Mr. Reynolds announced that the President would be visiting Ireland in the not too distant future.
▪ Mercifully, this scene is set in some distant hazy future.
▪ As yet, no one was prepared to worry about what might happen in the distant future.
▪ Unknown distant future threats are not a reason for spending so much money on the military now.
▪ The latter is already yielding fresh produce and fresh fruit is expected from the orchard in the not too distant future.
▪ In the not-so-#distant future, technology will continue to change radically what we see and how we see it.
foreseeable
▪ But the Four Powers are likely to remain responsible for the city for the foreseeable future.
▪ It would be unrealistic to not expect to pay higher royalties in the foreseeable future.
▪ Each one of you have slowly begun breaking up your resources and had intended to continue doing so for the foreseeable future.
▪ And the mad requests of potential customers should keep Microjet pretty busy for the foreseeable future.
▪ Later that same enemy had been bloodily counter attacked and neutralised as a threat for the foreseeable future.
▪ The project provides a control and information system that meets the needs of the Barcelona company for the foreseeable future.
▪ Nevertheless for the foreseeable future a considerable proportion of elderly people will require care at specific periods of their lives.
immediate
▪ Now for the immediate future, and the various centenary celebrations which begin this weekend.
▪ It seems reasonable to assume that he used his science to determine the probable course of the history of the immediate future.
▪ There were more optimistic things in the immediate future.
▪ By that time Ed had some fairly definite plans for his immediate future.
▪ Some tourist attractions say they're still drawing in the crowds, although the immediate future is far from rosey.
▪ He also knows that Camby will not be available to the team in the immediate future.
▪ The move has done little to dampen speculation that the middle tier will see more mergers in the immediate future.
near
▪ Fears about the threat of more deportations in the near future are believed to be behind the resistance to the police action.
▪ It will help him decide, make it real, set this one thing, a place, in his near future.
▪ The local council in Yokohama hopes to increase the number of these trucks to 30 in the near future.
▪ A very limited selection of wines is available; one hopes that this will be expanded in the near future.
▪ Oscar was not the only one who would have to muster some excuses in the near future: so would he.
▪ Recent news from the Golden Gate Fields backstretch indicate that Brent's problems will be getting more severe in the near future.
▪ According to government officials, regulations covering the registration of parties would be announced in the near future.
▪ Thus, throughout these chapters there is an ominous foreboding of death to come in the near future.
political
▪ Our political editor, Jon Lander, assesses Mr Heseltine's political future.
▪ Is he trying to earn political support for those projects or for his own political future?
▪ Although the political future remains unclear, the new circumstances have allowed much more room to manoeuvre than in the past.
▪ He said people were advising him that that might be best anyway for his political future.
▪ And he must know that if there is a war, his political future depends on it being short and decisive.
▪ The sort of man who wishes only to shift the political future of his country.
▪ The political future will largely depend on how these perceptions develop, and it is not impossible to gauge that development.
secure
▪ A secure future in their home from an established landlord.
▪ Many entrepreneurial companies simply can not even match six percent pretax margin or look forward to a secure future.
▪ Adoption offers the most secure future.
▪ There are exceptions, of course, but a good education is still the ticket to a secure future.
▪ These people were all robbed of a secure future by Robert Maxwell.
▪ And it should mean the 370 employees working on propellers can look forward to a more secure future.
▪ The new order should mean a more secure future for the remaining staff.
▪ Few young people face a secure future.
uncertain
▪ They also warn that some leading hospitals may face an uncertain future if they lose patients to outside bidders.
▪ But Wu said Amelio must still convince customers they should buy Macs, a product that may have an uncertain future.
▪ As we consider the dream of Jacob we find a man who stood alone and facing an uncertain future.
▪ He said the uncertain future of the council already has caused a third of the staff to move on to other jobs.
▪ With the conclusion of the conference, Yardley sailed back to the United States and to an uncertain future.
▪ Better by far to invest while the going is good, to guarantee yourself an income, rather than rely on an uncertain future.
▪ A series of articles in newspapers and leading periodicals began to harp on the uncertain future of the great cataract.
■ VERB
discuss
▪ At some stage they would discuss their future together.
▪ The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the future of Marysville Dam.
▪ There is a meeting of shareholders being planned to discuss the future of the Bank of Edinburgh.
▪ The company is selling bonds on Wall Street and is restricted from discussing the future much while the offering is active.
▪ In my letter I had told Karen that the purpose of the trip was to discuss the future of our relationship.
▪ I hear the company has been closeted with parties unknown, discussing the future of this once-promising product.
▪ In addition many of the other TAs included a commitment to discuss such standards in future.
▪ He will be discussing the future of Leeds over the next 5 years or so.
face
▪ But as she lapped up the five-star treatment on the champagne Concorde flight, angry pensioners were facing a bleak future.
▪ Kevin Smith, still recuperating from a ruptured Achilles' tendon, faces a future very much in doubt.
▪ His marriage has broken up, he rarely sees his teenage daughter and he faces a bleak future.
▪ Lefors, founded in 1900 as the Gray County seat, long has faced an uncertain future.
▪ They also warn that some leading hospitals may face an uncertain future if they lose patients to outside bidders.
▪ Exports to the United States faced an uncertain future because of the rise in costs.
▪ Not only is he facing an uncertain future, he is being forced to behave in an uncharacteristic fashion every day.
▪ As we consider the dream of Jacob we find a man who stood alone and facing an uncertain future.
plan
▪ The only satisfactory resolution is to plan future visits in order to complete a thorough sampling.
▪ If a social worker comes to see your family, you can ask what is being planned for your future.
▪ It could also serve as a basis for planning a future meeting.
▪ As a result, planning the future has become even more critically important.
▪ Brezzo has also been planning future shows.
▪ How should they use it to plan the future of the car industry and those who depend on it?
▪ Community plans, future urbanizing area plans, suburban cities' general plans are nearly all written and waiting for implementation.
predict
▪ The problems in constructing such a device seem at present insurmountable, but who can predict the future?
▪ Expected future demand for electricity is significantly less difficult to predict than expected future demand for most high-technology products.
▪ A lively tour of continental culture, seeking for signs of unity and predicting a grim future.
▪ Clelia Barbiere is frequently heard accompanying the sisters in prayer, speaking to them and predicting future events.
▪ Or you can read some source of information that predicts the future.
▪ No one can predict the future.
▪ He says he's been in the business too long to predict the future.
▪ I quite understand that psychohistory is a statistical science and can not predict the future of a single man with any accuracy.
shape
▪ Acquired expertise and skill give her the confidence to make the choices that will shape her future.
▪ Your boss is the one who writes your evaluations, recommends you for promotions and raises, and shapes your future.
▪ In the scarred, sacred land, myths continue to distort the past and shape the future.
▪ Those who are privileged achieve the competence with which to shape the future.
▪ Buffalo needed expert advice and specific strategies to shape the district's future, he said.
▪ The things they plan and share will shape the future of the city, as well as the future of their heirs.
▪ Career majors provide a context in which students can learn and apply their academic skills and shape their future goals.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
at a later/future date
▪ Or how about a vital organ being removed and the opt-out card being found at a later date?
▪ Peter Novick dismisses the Freudian theory of repression of trauma leading to problems at a later date.
▪ Secondary sources, in contrast, are interpretations of the past produced at a later date.
▪ Some firms are very flexible on this issue and where possible, allow them to relocate at a later date.
▪ The total would be capped at a later date.
▪ They feared further repercussions at a later date because their participation in the boycott would almost certainly go into their files.
▪ This is particularly helpful if your school's organisation seeks to register as a charity at a later date.
▪ This means that the sea in which the Bright Angel was deposited flooded the land in the east at a later date.
for/in the foreseeable future
▪ Arguments about this change continue to rage, and will probably burn on for the foreseeable future.
▪ It would be unrealistic to not expect to pay higher royalties in the foreseeable future.
▪ Later that same enemy had been bloodily counter attacked and neutralised as a threat for the foreseeable future.
▪ No test of the planned system against even average-intelligence decoys is planned in the foreseeable future.
▪ Now, and for the foreseeable future, the world is awash in plutonium.
▪ She is sure that this will settle them for the foreseeable future.
▪ To push them on decommissioning would be to remove any chance of it happening in the foreseeable future.
in the foreseeable future
▪ There is a possibility of water shortages in the foreseeable future.
▪ But the idea of full-blown solar power stations is unrealistic in the foreseeable future.
▪ He noted that the club would need to do work on the North and South stands in the foreseeable future.
▪ Is redundancy, early retirement, or any other major change possible or likely in the foreseeable future?
▪ Some of the causes of default, such as socioeconomic conditions, can not be changed in the foreseeable future.
▪ To push them on decommissioning would be to remove any chance of it happening in the foreseeable future.
▪ We shall not bridge that gap with particle accelerators in the foreseeable future!
in the near future
▪ I don't anticipate that happening in the near future.
▪ A very limited selection of wines is available; one hopes that this will be expanded in the near future.
▪ Already regional water shortages are causing disruptions and are predicted to become the cause of wars in the near future.
▪ Conditions might mature in the near future.
▪ Hopefully that will get settled in the near future.
▪ I think you certainly aim for that some time, maybe in the near future, but not quite yet.
▪ I was hoping that Vecchi would show up in the near future and save everybody a lot of headaches.
▪ The prudent ratio depends very much on how banks see their requirements for liquidity changing in the near future.
▪ Unfortunately we have no trainee vacancies at present, nor do I anticipate any in the near future.
mortgage the/sb's future
▪ But, in practice, if allowed to get out of hand, it firmly mortgaged the future.
▪ Finally, notice that the question of mortgaging the future hinges crucially on what is done with the privatization revenue.
▪ There's a pool of talent in this area most employers can draw from without mortgaging their financial future, Miller said.
▪ We will also ensure that home-buyers receive proper advice about the potential cost of their mortgages in future years.
the future perfect
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At issue is the future of six U.S. military bases.
▪ Gabby assured me that she is confident about her future.
▪ I'd like to discuss my future in the company.
▪ Myles is optimistic about the future of electric cars.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And there always is the possibility that lawmakers will look with favor on real estate interests in the future.
▪ But the goals of a better future for children have proved elusive.
▪ He accepts her porno past but demands from her a virtuous future.
▪ I have never flown in a tail dragger before but I would like to in the near future.
▪ It seems unlikely that this will occur in the near future.
▪ One of the main issues today is the future of young people.