I.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a demonstration in support of sth/sb
▪ public demonstrations in support of the rebels
a gesture of support
▪ She wrote a letter to the Prime Minister as a gesture of support.
a message of support/sympathy/congratulations etc
▪ Other celebrities sent messages of support.
a support group (=a group that meets in order to help the people in it deal with a difficult time)
▪ She set up a support group for people suffering from the same illness.
a supporting actor (=acting a part that is not the most important one)
▪ She was awarded an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
a supporting cast (=all the actors except the main ones)
▪ There’s also a fine supporting cast.
a supporting role (=not one of the main roles)
▪ Lee has a supporting role as Judy’s best friend,
active support (=encouragement or help)
▪ He wrote the book with the active support of his wife, Pam.
an offer of help/support/friendship etc
▪ Any offers of help would be appreciated.
ask for sb’s support
▪ Labour councillors asked for our support for the proposal.
canvassing support
▪ The US has been canvassing support from other Asian states.
child support
command respect/attention/support etc
▪ Philip was a remarkable teacher, able to command instant respect.
community support officer
deserve support
▪ This is a splendid proposal which deserves our support.
drumming up support
▪ He travelled throughout Latin America drumming up support for the confederation.
emotional support
▪ She provided emotional support at a very distressing time for me.
enthusiastic support
▪ His policies won him the enthusiastic support of middle-income voters.
express your support (=say that you support someone or something)
▪ The Israeli leader expressed his support for the U.S. plan.
gain support
▪ The proposal failed to gain support.
generate excitement/interest/support etc
▪ The project generated enormous interest.
generous offer/support/donation etc
▪ my employer’s generous offer to pay the bill
groundswell of support
▪ a groundswell of support for the Prime Minister
income support
life support system
majority support (=votes or support given by the most number of people)
▪ a solution that will command majority support in the House
marshal support
▪ Senator Bryant attempted to marshal support for the measure.
meet with support/approval etc
▪ Her ideas have met with support from doctors and health professionals.
mobilize support
▪ a campaign to mobilize support for the strike
mutual support
▪ MAMA puts new mothers in touch with each other, for mutual support and friendship.
offer advice/help/support etc
▪ Your doctor should be able to offer advice on diet.
pledge (your) support/loyalty/solidarity etc
▪ He pledged his cooperation.
police community support officer
popular support
▪ There was widespread popular support for the new law.
practical help/support (also practical assistanceformal)
▪ There will be trained people available to listen and to provide practical help.
price support
prove/support an accusation
▪ There were very few facts to support the accusation against him.
prove/test/support etc a hypothesis
▪ We hope that further research will confirm our hypothesis.
rally support
▪ an attempt to rally support for the party
receive attention/affection/support
▪ She received no support from her parents.
seek support/approval
▪ He said he would seek shareholder support for the proposal.
stout defence/support/resistance
▪ He put up a stout defence in court.
strong support
▪ The idea won strong support in rural areas.
support a cause
▪ Giving money is only one way of supporting a good cause.
support a charity (=give money to one)
▪ Do you support any charities?
support a claim
▪ The court found no evidence to support her claim.
support a conclusion (=suggest that something is true)
▪ The evidence supports the conclusion that his death was an accident.
support a move
▪ The move was supported by the government.
support a notion
▪ There is no evidence to support the notion that girls are treated better than boys in school.
support a team
▪ "Which team do you support?" "Chelsea."
support a theory
▪ Modern research strongly supports this theory.
support a view (=believe or help to prove that it is right)
▪ There are many people who would support his views.
support an event (=pay to attend a charity event in order to encourage it )
▪ I’d like to thank everyone who came tonight for supporting the event.
support group
support staff (=office staff, technical staff etc)
▪ A school needs good support staff.
support/assist development (also further/facilitate developmentformal)
▪ We need to facilitate development and economic activity that provides jobs.
support/back a proposal
▪ Not one of these organizations supports the government's proposals.
support/defend/back sb to the hilt
▪ I’m backing the PM to the hilt on this.
supporting documentation
▪ Applicants must provide supporting documentation.
support...motion
▪ I urge you to support this motion.
technical support
▪ Our staff will be available to give you technical support.
technical support
▪ Maybe you’d better try calling tech support.
tremendous support
▪ She praised her husband for the tremendous support he had given her.
undying love/devotion/support etc
▪ They declared their undying love for each other.
unfailing help/support etc
▪ I’d like to thank you all for your unfailing support.
unqualified support
▪ He gave her his unqualified support.
unswerving loyalty/commitment/support etc
▪ a politician with unswerving loyalty to the President
whip up interest/opposition/support etc
▪ They’ll do anything to whip up a bit of interest in a book.
whole-hearted support/acceptance/cooperation etc
▪ Montgomery’s new style of leadership met with Leslie’s whole-hearted approval.
widespread support/acceptance/criticism/condemnation etc
▪ There was widespread support for the war.
▪ The storm caused widespread damage.
withdrawn...support
▪ One of the minority parties had withdrawn its support for Chancellor Kohl.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
strongly
▪ I strongly support the thrust of what the hon. Lady said.
▪ Participation by suburbs that once strongly supported magnet projects is in question.
▪ Both of these Republican presidents undertook aggressive antitrust actions, and both strongly supported, and expanded, federal housing programs.
▪ We believe therefore that the available evidence strongly supports the use of full-dose aspirin as adjunctive therapy to thrombolysis.
▪ We strongly supported that anti-lobbying clause.
▪ Let there be no mistake: the Oxford public strongly support the police and they have our confidence.
▪ The efficient-market hypothesis strongly supports index funds over more active mutual funds.
■ NOUN
claim
▪ But we must not support the innateness claim with the wrong arguments.
▪ This will help you support your claims, create continuity within the document, and use interesting language and ideas.
▪ Reformist government ministers used the press revelations to support their claims that Khasbulatov was building up a power base.
▪ A letter from Fremont to Senator Benton supports this claim.
▪ Or are public subsidies being given to support unspecified claims about cultural maintenance, diversity, and development?
▪ Several specialists questioned whether there is enough fossil evidence yet to support a claim for a new genus.
▪ Some patterns in the survey evidence seem to support this claim.
▪ To support its claim, Barneys cites certain terms of its lease agreements, including the length.
development
▪ Allied to this is the appropriate acquisition of resources both human and technical, to support the developments.
▪ In its decentralized and block form, federally supported community development can take many directions.
▪ Emap recently announced the creation of Emap Digital which will support the development of all group investments in internet and new media.
▪ Some of them we would characterize as networks, others as staff support / staff development cooperatives.
▪ One should not, however, think that the nucleus of any cell will support development if transplanted into the egg.
▪ In addition, the Congress is considering legislation supporting its development.
▪ All three organisations are now firmly supporting the development of a single survey in the future.
▪ They supported curriculum development and professional development for teachers and work-site mentors.
effort
▪ If we do not support their efforts, animal-based research in this country will be slowly stifled.
▪ Since my first days in the Congress, I have supported efforts to turn off the faucet of big-money campaign contributions.
▪ We need to support teachers in their efforts to steer our children in this direction.
▪ Some of the Act's underlying principles can support efforts to overcome suspicion between travellers and welfare authorities.
▪ The Human Rights Campaign is supporting an effort by Sen.
▪ He called on business to support the effort.
▪ In a widely supported effort that ended in December, black leaders, including the Rev.
evidence
▪ But there is already much evidence to support the presumption that the effect was pervasive.
▪ Browning found there was a lack of corroborating evidence to support the oral copulation offense, according Fox.
▪ There seems to be evidence to support both of these arguments.
▪ The anecdotal evidence is supported Statistically.
▪ However, while there is no proof, there is ample historical evidence to support many balance-of-power propositions.
▪ We have recently produced direct evidence supporting the possibility of amplification of the birth weight-blood pressure relation in childhood.
▪ On balance, the evidence does not support this tactical scenario, although it may well have occurred to de Gaulle.
▪ These suppositions are rejected because there is little evidence to support them.
family
▪ For example, the social security system sets conditions which can make it hard for families to support family members who live elsewhere.
▪ Obviously, the cost of building and installing a sys-tem big enough to support the average family would bankrupt a small nation.
▪ Was this the price that these incomers to Orkney were to pay for befriending and attempting to support another family in trouble?
▪ Interestingly, efforts to support the family at work have not always been friendly to women.
▪ What else did I have to support my family on in the West?
▪ We will set up a new Family Credit telephone advice service to support working families.
▪ Suicide was epidemic among men who felt their manhood lost because they could no longer support their families.
government
▪ Nationalists supported the Wilson/Callaghan governments for years, only to be stabbed in the back in the end.
▪ Fini said he might support a government led by Senate President Carlo Scognamiglio.
▪ The upshot was that the Liberals promised to support the Labour government in the House by their votes.
▪ I would support strongly a bigger Government grant for acquisitions because there are many good uses to which it could be put.
▪ The Liberal Democrats were supporting a Government which they claim to want defeated.
▪ Instead the structure chosen for the Inquiry ensured that it could only be resolved in favour of the course supported by the government.
▪ The opposition were loyally supporting the Government, but were also pressing for a definitive statement.
▪ In future, large amounts of taxpayers' money will go to support local government.
hypothesis
▪ These results support the hypothesis that individuals are willing to pay more in order to live in communities that provide high-quality services.
▪ This supports the hypothesis that adaptation is due to visual change.
▪ This tends to support the hypothesis that although customers will complain about price increases it does not necessarily alter their visiting behaviour.
▪ Seventeen pages of notes support his hypothesis.
▪ The finding that their number is neither affected by ranitidine nor by cisapride treatment does not support this hypothesis.
▪ Experimental and human studies support this hypothesis.
▪ The evidence, particularly of Willis, would support this working hypothesis.
idea
▪ Central and Fife are understood to be less enthusiastic but agreed to support the idea.
▪ Even before his death, Kerouac supported the idea of a portable reader of his work.
▪ This startling discovery has supported the idea that cancer develops when a cell contains too much of a perfectly normal cellular protein.
▪ The size of the hands indicate women made the handprints, supporting the idea that women artists created the paintings.
▪ In both patients naloxone led to great improvement, supporting the idea that endogenous opiates are involved in the condition.
▪ Many prominent college presidents and political scientists as well as a good many newspaper editorials supported the idea.
▪ What evidence can you find which supports the idea that historical knowledge has improved with time?
▪ It is a relationship supported by an idea that kinship matters profoundly.
party
▪ As a result the Edinburgh Conference of 1936 passed resolutions leaving the Labour Party supporting collective security but opposing rearmament.
▪ The guidelines competence was transferred to a Coalition Committee, a committee of representatives of the parties supporting the government.
▪ Moreover, the major parties today are supported by two distinct coalitions of voters, each with core interests and demands.
▪ In these systems, the electorate selects legislative candidates from a party committed to support a particular prime minister.
policy
▪ Finally, last Wednesday he threw in the towel, claiming he could no longer support Blunkett's policy on education.
▪ Environmentalists and representatives of the timber industry, nearly always at odds, find themselves supporting a policy of increased burning.
▪ One supporter said Mr Norris would not be able to support this policy.
▪ He should stop coming to the House pretending to support home-owners when his policies would discriminate against them.
project
▪ After the intensive twelve months support with the project, girls need somewhere to come with any problems that may occur later.
▪ It is usually subject to negotiation after the decision to support the project is made.
▪ These funds support infrastructure projects and training courses.
▪ International equity investment in local stock exchanges could also support renewable energy projects.
▪ Edinburgh City Council is also supporting the project and 14 other local primary schools are taking part.
▪ Gateways are available to online databases such as Profile and Kompass to support project work and research.
▪ Within their limited means, they provide community services, education programmes and support small workshop projects.
▪ He has not yet come off the fence and told us whether he supports the barrage project.
proposal
▪ This has been used to support proposals to move from income to expenditure taxation.
▪ Elorriaga had decided to withdraw when Congress refused to support his proposals on taxation and on the refunding of the public debt.
▪ However, a consultation exercise last year showed that councils, police and courts supported the proposals.
▪ We wonder if any of the other signers are similarly being misrepresented as supporting this seriously flawed proposal.
▪ No permanent member supported the proposal, and it was dropped.
▪ The newspaper, El Tiempo, supported the monarchical proposal without subterfuge.
▪ Margaret McGregor, the board's Labour convenor, is to support the proposal.
▪ His only promise to the Democrats, he says, was to support the final budget proposal that emerged from the committee.
research
▪ How can university personnel be involved to support research carried out in schools by teachers?
▪ Since then, Quaker has continued to support university-based research into the substance.
▪ Encourage innovative alternatives by supporting research and development of synfuels 4.
▪ The Faculty has a number of scholarships which are used mostly to support research students.
▪ Furthermore these are claims that have actually been supported by empirical sociolinguistic research.
▪ The certificate modules have been specifically designed to support teachers undertaking research in their own schools.
team
▪ Young people are placed in open employment and trained and supported by social service teams.
▪ Lanier said he thought he had Adams' support to attract a team.
▪ Oxford United's fans, more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team.
▪ For the most part, that community supported that team when it was fairly competitive.
▪ They're supported by teams of physiologists and laboratory researchers.
▪ They support their local baseball team, the Hanshin Tigers.
▪ General practitioners work mainly as individuals supported by primary care teams.
▪ Twelve staff, working in six shifts are supported by a team of engineers and administrative personnel.
view
▪ There is factual evidence to support the view that Storni entertained the idea of suicide long before 1938.
▪ There is no evidence to support this view.
▪ They support the views of Goldthorpe and Lockwood that clerical workers are in an intermediate class between the working and service classes.
▪ There are indeed certain aspects of the marriage system of such societies which support this point of view.
▪ Research evidence supports the view that this relationship is valued highly, especially by the grandparental generation.
▪ But it is not merely the minimum content of natural law which supports such a view.
▪ A recent study of primary school practice across the arts supports this view.
weight
▪ The liquid helps to support the weight of the compass card, and also dampens oscillation.
▪ The floors themselves were strong enough to support the weight of the materials used to fill in the gaps.
▪ Both your stand and the floor it stands on must be capable of supporting this weight.
▪ A major concern, he said, is that many sky divers use canopies that are too small to support their weight.
▪ The design specifications had called for the columns to rest on bedrock that supported a weight of seven tons per square foot.
▪ Righting the stool with his foot, he pushed it under Jason's dangling toes to support some of the weight.
▪ The main structural consideration with any door or window is supporting the weight of the structure above.
work
▪ If you are new, decide which senior colleagues would support you in your work.
▪ Interestingly, efforts to support the family at work have not always been friendly to women.
▪ You can help by joining the Research Defence Society and supporting our work to safeguard the future of biological and medical research.
▪ It also sells Lacandon crafts in the gift shop, and uses the proceeds to support its work in the jungle.
▪ In this way we trust that your appreciation of the need to support our work will grow.
▪ It is very important, therefore, that we do everything possible to support the mind work of reading.
▪ Proceeds from the sale of these corporate-generated materials support the ongoing work of the foundation.
■ VERB
continue
▪ There are good reasons for continuing to support the moratorium.
▪ This talented orchestra can only survive if the people of Merseyside continue to support it.
▪ Nevertheless, doctors continued to support the use of starvation diets.
▪ Apple will continue to support A/UX on its 680x0-based systems, but will be pushing PowerPC/PowerOpen-based systems into these markets.
▪ The salmon runs, though much reduced by overfishing in the spawning rivers, continue to support the leading fishery.
▪ And we will continue to support hill farmers through the Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowances.
▪ Most Democrats, of course, continued to support McClellan, attributing the fiasco entirely to administration mismanagement.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be loud in your praise/opposition/support etc
▪ Nevertheless, both my master and Agrippa were loud in their praise of my martial prowess.
moral support
▪ Steve went with her to provide moral support.
▪ I don't believe Wellington stayed to give De Gaulle moral support.
▪ I want you there not just for moral support but to have a witness present.
▪ Last year they gave heavy financial and moral support to Democrats.
▪ Louise came up for the funeral and stayed on for three weeks to give moral support.
▪ Mahdi denies that his movement wants weapons or financing from Washington, saying moral support and diplomatic pressure are enough.
▪ Voice over Finally, Dawn came here, where she's been given practical and moral support.
▪ When a baby is newborn, friends, family, and even strangers deluge us with moral support and advice.
▪ With his moral support a group of nobles and clergy from both sides tried to work out peace terms.
supporting part/role/actor etc
▪ At a crucial moment, the United States played an important supporting role.
▪ Benicio Del Toro won the best supporting actor prize for Traffic.
▪ But the chief joy despite several eye-catching supporting roles remains watching Courtenay milk the script for all its worth.
▪ He felt the other two were satisfied to play supporting roles to Gedge and to a lesser extent, himself.
▪ Hopper won a supporting role in that film too.
▪ Its most unarguable successes are in the main supporting roles.
▪ The meats are unfailingly tender and flavorful, and the stuffed tomatoes deserve a Tony Award for best supporting actor.
▪ The three supporting roles are all superbly played.
supporting wall/beam etc
▪ The roof was in an appalling state and the supporting beams were rotten.
▪ There was a portico, generally of wood, with posts supporting beams, and decoration was in terracotta.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A lot of people can barely earn enough to support themselves, let alone their families.
▪ Do you have any evidence to support these claims?
▪ During the renovations, a temporary wall will support the ceiling.
▪ Employers support the training program by offering places for young people.
▪ For twenty-five years he painstakingly amassed evidence to support his hypothesis.
▪ He has a wife and two children to support.
▪ Her body was so weak that she had to be supported by two nurses.
▪ I always support the Girl Scouts by buying a few boxes of cookies.
▪ I am very grateful to members of the faculty who have supported me in so many ways.
▪ I have always supported the Democrats.
▪ If she can't support herself, how's she going to support a child?
▪ My friends and family have all supported me through the divorce.
▪ My parents didn't have to support me when I was at college because I received a grant.
▪ Plans for a new school were strongly supported by local residents.
▪ Public opinion in America supported Gandhi in his struggle for an independent India.
▪ She is my daughter, and I will love and support her no matter what happens.
▪ She wrote a newspaper article supporting the idea of a minimum wage for workers.
▪ Sitting at a table in the coffee shop, her chin supported by her hands, she was deep in thought.
▪ The ceiling was supported by huge stone columns.
▪ The changes in the tax code are supported by the Democratic party.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Many elderly people support Milosevic because they are scared.
▪ Psychological theories support two main forms of gender bias.
▪ The environment ministry, to which it is ultimately responsible, supports it to the tune of almost 5m francs.
▪ The Fed chairman actually supports Mr Neal's bill.
▪ Together they shoot up, play soccer, get into barroom brawls, mug tourists and steal to support their habits.
▪ We supported the demands for a thorough and credible investigation by independent and impartial experts.
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
emotional
▪ It's an emotional support from my boyfriend, sister, father.
▪ Finally, the managers received critical emotional support from peers.
▪ In addition to medical prescription, victims require emotional support and reassurance which is not available from sources such as the family.
▪ While separating these activities analytically from other major processes, like emotional support, it does this for justifiable theoretical reasons.
▪ Personality based depression happens to people with poor self-image, or to some one who is heavily dependent on others for emotional support.
▪ A lot of practical information is exchanged, as well as emotional support.
▪ They didn't all desert their girlfriends when they became pregnant, some have remained to provide crucial emotional and practical support.
▪ That emotional support will be needed.
financial
▪ It must be emphasised that you can not expect any financial support from the University.
▪ All of these networks receive financial support from their national governments.
▪ The publication has received financial support from the Czech Ministry of Culture but is still in need of funding to ensure its survival.
▪ Jerry Lewis, left the title untouched but drained financial support.
▪ Normally this financial support passes from older to younger generations in families in a one-way flow.
▪ Ed Schafer has received more than 95 percent of its financial support from North Dakotans.
▪ Please give your financial support to help them continue their work tomorrow.
▪ President Robert Batscha would make regular forays West to draw financial support from the people and enterprises whose work is ostensibly honored.
full
▪ Roddy Neill, the Clydesdale Bank's business sector manager, said the improvements had the bank's full support.
▪ The United States will continue to furnish you and your people with the fullest measure of support in this bitter fight.
▪ Too early a Western commitment of full support could be dangerous.
▪ We see this as a national event of great importance and we are lending it our full support.
▪ We shall continue to give full and active support to the United Nations.
▪ The company is pleased to give them its full support, which includes supplying a 38 ton lorry.
▪ Promotional groups will only be effective when they can deliver the full support of their clientele.
▪ Will she give all such initiatives her fullest support?
moral
▪ He can also make a point of talking to Mr Yeltsin and other republican leaders to offer them moral support.
▪ By and large the teams gave each other both moral and technical support.
▪ The frontiersman heroes such as Davy Crockett no longer excite our moral support.
▪ When a baby is newborn, friends, family, and even strangers deluge us with moral support and advice.
▪ And for a number of reasons Lisa's moral support would have been welcome.
▪ Last year they gave heavy financial and moral support to Democrats.
▪ If he had to go, he should go quietly and give continued moral support to the paper.
▪ Bring a friend or relative for moral support and help in juggling insurance forms and your overnight bag.
mutual
▪ But those that come together for mutual support can and do survive.
▪ Something whole, something alive dwells in that mutual support.
▪ This relationship of mutual support between reading and text displaces the authorising criteria of true and false in critical activity.
▪ Tonight eight children would be married, thus forming important alliances and mutual support between families which would last lifetimes.
▪ His two-term governorship has been an exercise in incessant mutual support between Texas business and Texas politics.
▪ And by establishing coordination committees operating within the team concept, he brought about far better mutual support.
▪ Free discussion about attitudes to a problem will relieve anxiety, and mutual support can be obtained.
▪ Positive long-term acceptance of the child involves the parents' mutual support throughout the time after birth.
political
▪ Regardless of their initial intentions, their work has been understood and accepted as an open manifestation of political support.
▪ In the end, one has to wonder about the sources of political support for minimum-wage legislation.
▪ Yet is also harboured doubts about whether there was widespread political support for the Republicans.
▪ But Berisha, tied up in an election year and basking in Western political support, ignored the warnings.
▪ By building up an army of individual shareholders the Conservatives may well have expected to gain political support.
▪ The initiation and implementation of economic development projects also provides government with opportunities to gain political support from a diverse constituency.
▪ Control of jobs and access to political leaders can be used to win political support for themselves.
▪ The market quickly comes to be seen as unfair, and political support for official privatization falls.
popular
▪ On the other hand, thirteen percent hardly constituted the tidal wave of popular support that de Gaulle was looking for.
▪ All three bills had popular support, according to polls.
▪ The statement went on to urge popular support for Sihanouk's candidacy in these elections.
▪ Invocations of popular support or consent may be baseless and even blatantly dishonest.
▪ For one thing, there is not exactly a popular outcry in support of a Romanov return.
▪ The extent of popular support, if any, for this enterprise was never clear.
▪ It would not be surprising if, to gain popular support for emancipationist petitions, reformers had to work very hard.
public
▪ The government decided on dollarisation without getting public support for the project.
▪ The great exodus was on, from city to suburb, aided by developers but also enjoying great public support.
▪ As a major national organisation, commanding massive public support, the Trust's influence in Whitehall is strengthened.
▪ Bennett and others promote cultural renewal through public sermonizing and support for local initiatives like church programs to teach parental responsibility.
▪ You can not expect public support if you do not have the support of your own ministers.
▪ The Zapatistas' public support has dwindled in recent months, but officials say privately that Marcos remains a wild card.
▪ However, this development would require public support in the form of a new East Coast motorway.
▪ The union leaders appear to be building public support for their cause, with clever use of symbolic gestures and public relations.
social
▪ For them, the priority was the provision of direct social work support and advice.
▪ Strong social pressures often support or repudiate their use, and sometimes the pressures lead to control or prohibition by governments.
▪ He managed with twice weekly meals on wheels, and social work support.
▪ Day care, residential care and social work support essentially provide care in the community, rather than in large institutions.
▪ All other systems of social support should be for voluntary organizations of citizens to devise and subscribe to.
▪ At least at the beginning it lacked social support, usually freely available in the schools from which secondees came.
▪ These two groups of children have quite different characteristics, care histories, prognoses and needs for social work support.
strong
▪ We have given strong support to the Sports Council and its efforts to raise participation in sport.
▪ This apparently was done in spite of their claim that they required strong scientific support for their categories.
▪ Polling shows that the family-leave law has strong support among women voters and working families, he added.
▪ Thirdly, there is strong support for the hill livestock compensatory allowances, amounting to £142 million in a full year.
▪ It passed the Legislature with strong bipartisan support.
▪ However, it became clear that this section would need a much stronger system of support.
▪ But I knew I would get strong support from a lot of influential people.
technical
▪ Gold service will offer personal technical account support, on-site and phone support and extended coverage hours.
▪ A technical support team provided information systems, technical, and engineering support to the operating teams.
▪ Steve Belkin, 32, is technical support manager for a City software house.
▪ Verio provides around-the-clock network monitoring and technical support with all promotional packages.
▪ A nationwide sales force and technical services support can help with any application.
▪ It said it would hire more safety inspectors, create a technical support staff and continue to improve crew communications.
▪ The company will also provide them with the technical support necessary to ensure the milk's quality.
▪ If you're a newcomer to the Net, the technical support on offer will probably be important to you.
widespread
▪ In the north, the party can count on fairly widespread support.
▪ Yet is also harboured doubts about whether there was widespread political support for the Republicans.
▪ In this case there was widespread support and sympathy from the overtaxed gentry and clergy.
▪ It has widespread support in the House as far as it goes, but missing is legislation to protect against victimisation.
▪ But there is also widespread support for state or collective provision of welfare even over tax cuts.
▪ Does he accept that there is widespread support from industry and the community generally for the Government's roads programme?
▪ There is widespread support for the principle across the Community, and we believe that it should be rigorously applied in practice.
▪ There is widespread support for completing that road at the earliest opportunity.
■ NOUN
child
▪ This approach to child support also gives priority to a particular type of family relationship - that based on biological parenthood.
▪ But Garcetti said his office has made strides in child support collections.
▪ Maintenance and child support Bradshaw and Millar found that only 29 percent of lone parents received maintenance from their former partners.
▪ Nachshin argued that $ 30, 000 a month in permanent spousal and child support would be enough.
▪ Other trends noted by the report: The average California county collects only $ 78 monthly for each child support order.
▪ But we have no right to force collection of child support for the kids.
▪ He gives no money for the care of his son, and Aurora has abandoned plans to pursue child support.
▪ In addition, some custodial parents do not pursue collection of child support because they fear retribution from the nonpaying parent.
group
▪ Then Lisa, one of the support group for the Refuge, moved away.
▪ The strategic support group ground rules were all they needed to get started.
▪ A number of support groups were involved: Radical Alternatives to Prison.
▪ Announcements can be made from the pulpit about area shelters or support groups for abusers and victims.
▪ The support group wants to take part in a sitting service to give carers a break.
▪ She also was a benefactor to other health support groups and animal charities.
▪ One of lung cancer's success stories, he runs a support group for lung cancer patients and their families.
▪ By that time all the support group were staying at the Copley Plaza.
income
▪ Seventy percent had only income support.
▪ Savings of over £3,000 will limit the amount of income support.
▪ A switch from price support to income support comes dear.
▪ A person may be eligible for income support if their income is below their income support entitlement.
▪ Both of these categories may be helped under the income support scheme.
▪ Lone parents can earn up to £15 a week before their income support is reduced.
▪ This will mean that a person working 16 hours a week or more will not be able to claim income support.
▪ That means that more and more elderly people are being forced down to income support or poverty line levels.
life
▪ As the law stands it would be illegal to disconnect his life support machine.
▪ Her family approved the removal of life support, and she died Monday night.
▪ Her sister is effectively her life support machine.
▪ She was rushed to the Royal Alexandra Hospital, where she was put on a life support machine.
▪ Initially, life support will be provided as on a space station.
▪ He's unconscious and on a life support machine.
▪ Three bottles of oxygen and four cans of absorbent provide those seventy-two hours of emergency life support.
service
▪ Equally important as the links with the secondary sector are the links with pre-school and support services.
▪ The legislatures almost never have the level of support services that are available to the executive.
▪ There is therefore a need for better family support services.
▪ Now thousands of workers who had manned the booths and the support services had nowhere to turn.
▪ In addition, all published information related to the business environment and support services in Stirling will be collated and analysed.
▪ Ameia attended a school that offers special classes and support services for pregnant girls.
▪ Support will be available from leading vendors backed by a contractual support service from Microsoft.
▪ First-line administrative services managers directly oversee staffs involved in various support services.
staff
▪ Training regular training sessions and monitoring of all teaching and support staff.
▪ They tend to wear suits and have lots of support staff.
▪ The company employed new support staff in Congleton.
▪ Top executives are generally provided with spacious offices and secretarial and support staff.
▪ This can be broadly broken down for descriptive purposes as a program staff of 11, and a support staff of 4.
▪ It said it would hire more safety inspectors, create a technical support staff and continue to improve crew communications.
▪ A member of your support staff can then go through the newspapers extracting cuttings on a daily basis.
▪ From April 1, some 255 scientists and support staff were put directly under the control of Courtaulds operating businesses.
system
▪ Membership of a group also offers an added social support system.
▪ Proposed changes would phase out that support system, but guarantee farmers a gradually dwindling subsidy payment over the next seven years.
▪ The very rapid expansion of the education system has left support systems running to catch up.
▪ Despite this huge expansion, our students enjoy one of the most generous support systems in the world.
▪ In Amsterdam, Querido introduced a twenty-four-hour domiciliary support system, linked with the care of general practitioners.
▪ With adequate resourcing and well designed support systems, relocation can enhance lives.
▪ He's on a life support system.
■ VERB
attract
▪ It will help her attract support for the Thatcher Foundation - the means by which she hopes to preserve her legacy.
▪ The Communists vastly exaggerated their own Resistance role in order to attract postwar political support.
▪ North West Water's impressive set of results failed to attract support.
▪ Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who dropped out after failing to attract enough money or support.
▪ The movement attracted widespread support from peace campaigners.
▪ For Republicans running in blue-collar districts, where raising the wage attracts support, the argument hurts.
▪ Polreis' case has attracted attention among support networks for adoptive parents of troubled foreign children.
claim
▪ Retirement benefits are not enough to live on, so nearly 2 million pensioners have to claim income support.
▪ Hamas claims the support of about 15 percent of the population.
▪ The organisation claims the support of prominent industrialists and of former members of the security forces.
▪ He is fighting for a second term and claims the support of other key nations in defiance of the Clinton administration.
▪ This will mean that a person working 16 hours a week or more will not be able to claim income support.
▪ If the man does not leap in, the Adlerian can again claim support for his theory.
▪ If Mr Ali makes it here, his family could claim support worth £1,300 a month.
▪ To claim income support or a payment from the social fund contact your local social security office.
command
▪ Programmes would wither away if they did not command sufficient local support.
▪ This is an all-star team that commands support and respect.
▪ The coterie of would-be revolutionaries commanded no widespread support.
▪ It is a standard which even today does not command the support of a majority of this Court....
▪ Proposals for the expansion of post-school education are therefore likely to command majority support.
▪ There are other changes which would command general support.
▪ Clearly, this is a programme which could command considerable support, but its development has been impeded by several problems.
▪ The difficulty is to find a solution that will command majority support in the House.
continue
▪ This week-end event continues to excite enthusiastic support, demonstrating the strength of community life which exists in Kidlington.
▪ Schmidt said Bertelsmann was continuing to seek the support of other music companies in remaking Napster.
▪ Thank you for your continuing support.
▪ Strong, unified and continued support is essential.
▪ Meanwhile Fund raising events continue, your support is always appreciated.
▪ Ministers also continue to express full support for protective designations, especially the green belt26.
▪ Conference, scheduled for Sofia in 1995, and express their intention to continue their support for this process. 12.
enjoy
▪ Coffee, however, enjoyed no such support.
▪ The great exodus was on, from city to suburb, aided by developers but also enjoying great public support.
▪ Consequently, these relationships enjoy unrestricted support and protection.
▪ For 15 years, I have worked for a nonprofit civil-rights organization that regularly enjoys the co-counsel support of major law firms.
▪ The Socialist project of the Mitterrand government may be dead, but its cultural entrepreneurship continues to enjoy wide popular support.
▪ But Lott appears to enjoy the support of a majority of Senate Republicans, especially conservatives led by Sen.
▪ The Nonconformists were therefore greatly encouraged and enjoyed much popular support at this time.
▪ The growth of home ownership has enjoyed cross-party support in Parliament.
express
▪ UMass coach John Calipari said former players had called, expressing concern and support.
▪ Ministers also continue to express full support for protective designations, especially the green belt26.
▪ Texas Republican chairman Tom Pauken expressed strong support for the proposal.
▪ The rates were incapable of bearing the burden in their view and they expressed cautious support for a local income tax.
▪ More than 1,000 residents of Aldeburgh have expressed support for Mr Wilson.
▪ He began organizing the event in earnest after the White House expressed support 10 days ago.
gain
▪ In contrast, the electrostatic mechanism is moderately noisy and initially failed to gain any real support.
▪ Another way to gain support is to place a bed board between your box spring and mattress.
▪ Having gained the support of the staff, attention then focused on the children.
▪ They worried that the experienced subordinate would go over their head and gain support from their superiors.
▪ However, if the result is a more effective birth control programme, it may gain her active support.
▪ This arrangement proved fairly successful in terms of gaining popular support.
▪ Yet here was Gardner, muscles bulging through his blue singlet, gaining support from the and gaining hope.
give
▪ Internationalism required that two thoroughly nationalistic and non-socialist movements be given complete support.
▪ Studies of other disorders show that medications given without such support likely are doomed to fail.
▪ Competitors are forbidden to give each other support and are individually timed.
▪ This will happen only if a literacy struggle can be given the support and the priority that it demands.
▪ If so, you need to give her lots of support and encouragement to resolve that.
lend
▪ Some psychoanalytic writing appears to lend support to these assumptions.
▪ Elizabeth Hurley and Robert Wagner lend support.
▪ In these circumstances it was the business of responsible churchmen to lend support to the monarch in every way they could.
▪ We see this as a national event of great importance and we are lending it our full support.
▪ However plausible this suggestion, empirical investigation has lent it no support.
▪ These results lend support to the idea that tenascin alternative splice forms may also have functional significance at the protein level.
▪ And, given his political sympathies, was Bernstein deliberately lending his support to that account?
▪ Throughout the 1630s he continued to lend his wholehearted support to the Arminian takeover of his church.
need
▪ It needs support from an explanation, in terms of the conditional theory, of how there can be such counter-examples.
▪ They need all the support they can get.
▪ It needs the support of the Department of Culture as it reinvents itself.
▪ As men, we need this type of support.
▪ Imprisonment and becoming refugees had affected us badly and we needed the support we were given.
▪ If the floor is properly framed, you should not need extra support underneath to bear the weight of the fireplace.
▪ Now he needs to build his support by explaining what he believes in.
▪ As important as the Organization Pillar is, it still needs strong support from the other four.
offer
▪ Most adoption agencies offer support for three months after the adoption, but this is unlikely to be sufficient.
▪ Strangers patted their shoulders and offered words of support.
▪ They appeal for her to contact the hospital staff on a special telephone number so that they can offer her help and support.
▪ The president offers partial support for training for some workers, but no income support.
▪ Not only may she offer him her full support, she may say he is unassailable.
▪ Students may comfortably do this work if an adult is next to them, offering emotional support.
▪ A worship committee should be able to offer support as well as advice to the director.
▪ My job is to offer help, support, advice.
pledge
▪ He has pledged to increase support by 10 percent above the rate of inflation for the next three years.
▪ It pledges their support for efforts to protect the Stockton Darlington Railway Line.
▪ Netscape Communications also pledged its support for the new operating system.
▪ Having pledged its support for the environment and the poor, there is mounting pressure for it to institutionalize some safeguards.
▪ Call 623-1000 to pledge your support or get more information.
▪ More than 400 Wensleydale Smokebusters have pledged to help support some one wanting to give up cigarettes.
▪ The Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin was helpful toward that end and pledged monetary support.
provide
▪ David was therefore offered inpatient care for up to 10 days to provide him with intensive support.
▪ When crop-dusters come under fire, it is up to DynCorp helicopter pilots to provide support.
▪ Married women whose husbands provided the support expected of them, however, had a low risk of depression following life events.
▪ If they provide excellent support for some one of heavy build they're most unlikely to suit anyone lighter.
▪ The Trust provides fact-sheets and support for anyone affected by toxoplasmosis and educates health professionals.
▪ We will continue to provide generous support for students and to expand our student loans commitment.
▪ As well as losing power this provides support for the pronounced body lean into the turn.
rally
▪ A campaign to rally support for this was launched in March.
▪ Still, Reagan could not rally support sufficient to get the Congress behind the effort.
▪ The essential need when a proposed redevelopment poses a threat is to rally popular support.
▪ They must also be able to rally support and achieve results in the midst of almost constant organizational change.
▪ I intend to rally that support.
▪ She rallies support for the endangered whale, catalogues underwater life and creates new devices in which to explore virgin sea worlds.
▪ The intelligentsia was actively rallying support against the eviction.
▪ Banks own small stakes of their own and can rally support against a bidder.
receive
▪ Nevertheless, museums were among the first scientific institutions to receive direct government support for science, and particularly for scientific research.
▪ Being a conservative, Arrangoiz did not receive even as much support from Congress as had Pinay Cuevas.
▪ They have received the support of the private sector and they are now requesting material from the Regional Council.
▪ Example Mr Smith receives income support so he pays 20% of the community charge.
▪ Lilley asked to be put into receivership after a financial rescue package did not receive full support from its bankers.
▪ It is by no means clear that the Labour Party would receive little support in Northern Ireland.
▪ All of these areas of research receive financial support from industry or government sources.
▪ Gundobad fled to Avignon, where he may have received Visigothic support.
seek
▪ The Profitboss is wary of finance people, seeking their support but running miles to avoid their control.
▪ Schmidt said Bertelsmann was continuing to seek the support of other music companies in remaking Napster.
▪ I have to seek such support from charity.
▪ And, as noted earlier, the finance and senior executives at TeleCable already have the skills needed to seek equity-based support.
▪ However, in 1990 the government launched a full-scale economic restructuring package for which it sought World Bank support.
▪ Adolescents, as is appropriate, sought each other out in public places and sought support from each other.
▪ It sought formal Solidarity support for the government through a permanent representation committee.
▪ They judge for themselves the quality and character of the political leaders who parade before them on television seeking their support.
show
▪ Polls had until recently shown support for Mr Patten but now a majority wants him to back down.
▪ All the indicators show that parental support helps young people come through solvent abuse quicker.
▪ All true-blues fans should come out and show their support.
▪ A poll taken earlier this year showed 80% support for abolishing conscription.
▪ He also thanked those who came to show their support.
▪ A straw-poll of representatives yesterday showed support for the Chancellor is remarkably resilient.
▪ Nevertheless, statewide polls still show overwhelming public support for the Games.
win
▪ The aim of the exercise is to win support for the constitutional settlement that Britain and Ireland have already outlined.
▪ They have articulated plans and goals and have won the support of voters.
▪ Can you win back support in this area.
▪ But never before has the proposal gone so far as to win support from one house of Congress.
withdraw
▪ They withdrew their support and Fawcett, whom they had seconded to the project, moved on to other research.
▪ On Saturday, the joint chiefs met with Arteaga and formally withdrew support from Bucaram.
▪ On Wednesday, they threatened to withdraw support for a minimum wage boost if the so-called poison pill amendment passed.
▪ On 23 November, Pollitt and Campbell withdrew their support from the initial statement and were readmitted to their positions.
▪ In the same document, Ratzinger directed bishops to withdraw support from gay Catholic organizations that did not accept this teaching.
▪ If reinsurers receive further adverse experience on political risk, they may withdraw their support for this class.
▪ WordPerfect Corp is thought to have withdrawn its support.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be loud in your praise/opposition/support etc
▪ Nevertheless, both my master and Agrippa were loud in their praise of my martial prowess.
lend (your) support (to sth)
▪ Elizabeth Hurley and Robert Wagner lend support.
▪ In these circumstances it was the business of responsible churchmen to lend support to the monarch in every way they could.
▪ President Clinton lent support to the bill Monday.
▪ She lends support to the ecumenical cause.
▪ Some psychoanalytic writing appears to lend support to these assumptions.
▪ These results lend support to the idea that tenascin alternative splice forms may also have functional significance at the protein level.
lend weight/support to sth
▪ I lent weight to his side of the story but they sent him down.
▪ In these circumstances it was the business of responsible churchmen to lend support to the monarch in every way they could.
▪ Not withstanding the need for more investigation, the evidence surveyed in the previous chapter certainly lends weight to this view.
▪ President Clinton lent support to the bill Monday.
▪ Recognising this paradox lends weight to the patriarchy thesis, explaining away many apparent counter-examples.
▪ Some psychoanalytic writing appears to lend support to these assumptions.
▪ The recent closures of the paper mill and the aluminium smelter at Invergordon lend weight to this argument.
▪ These results lend support to the idea that tenascin alternative splice forms may also have functional significance at the protein level.
moral support
▪ Steve went with her to provide moral support.
▪ I don't believe Wellington stayed to give De Gaulle moral support.
▪ I want you there not just for moral support but to have a witness present.
▪ Last year they gave heavy financial and moral support to Democrats.
▪ Louise came up for the funeral and stayed on for three weeks to give moral support.
▪ Mahdi denies that his movement wants weapons or financing from Washington, saying moral support and diplomatic pressure are enough.
▪ Voice over Finally, Dawn came here, where she's been given practical and moral support.
▪ When a baby is newborn, friends, family, and even strangers deluge us with moral support and advice.
▪ With his moral support a group of nobles and clergy from both sides tried to work out peace terms.
supporting part/role/actor etc
▪ At a crucial moment, the United States played an important supporting role.
▪ Benicio Del Toro won the best supporting actor prize for Traffic.
▪ But the chief joy despite several eye-catching supporting roles remains watching Courtenay milk the script for all its worth.
▪ He felt the other two were satisfied to play supporting roles to Gedge and to a lesser extent, himself.
▪ Hopper won a supporting role in that film too.
▪ Its most unarguable successes are in the main supporting roles.
▪ The meats are unfailingly tender and flavorful, and the stuffed tomatoes deserve a Tony Award for best supporting actor.
▪ The three supporting roles are all superbly played.
supporting wall/beam etc
▪ The roof was in an appalling state and the supporting beams were rotten.
▪ There was a portico, generally of wood, with posts supporting beams, and decoration was in terracotta.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ supports for the bridge
▪ Carter had seen his support dwindling in the southern states.
▪ He was grateful for his friends' support during his divorce.
▪ I'd like to thank you all for your support in the upcoming election.
▪ I couldn't have finished my degree without the support of my family.
▪ I would not have been able to finish writing the book without the support of my husband and family.
▪ Our two company lawyers provide all the legal support we need.
▪ Private companies should not rely on financial support form the government.
▪ Thanks for all your support - it's been a hard year.
▪ The bridge fell down because it didn't have enough support.
▪ The party's support has always been in the big cities.
▪ This sofa has good back support.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the same time, Mrs Aquino is mobilising popular support for her beleaguered government.
▪ Day-care provision also lacked the support of women trade unionists.
▪ Higher education for the deaf receives the same lukewarm support.
▪ In the light of that, the next step will be for the Government to identify proposals that will command the support of the House.
▪ In the past they say they've suffered prejudice and poor support.
▪ It is very important to have the greatest possible support around the expansion slot area.
▪ The paper support for this is a flimsy piece of plastic, and a wire loop.
▪ This dependence upon parental support, though necessary if schools are to survive, is socially divisive.