I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a chain/group of islands
▪ Our destination was a chain of islands, sixty miles east of Taiwan.
a community group
▪ Community groups do not have enough say over what is built in their neighbourhoods.
a conservation group (=a group of people who support or work for conservation)
▪ the growing number of conservation groups
a consumer group (=an organization that protects consumers’ rights)
▪ There have been complaints from consumer groups about the high prices charged by some companies.
a group booking/block booking (=a booking for a large number of seats, rooms etc)
▪ There's a 20% discount for group bookings.
a group email (=one sent to several people at the same time)
▪ Those group emails telling you who is leaving and joining the company are so boring.
a group of individuals
▪ We need to perform as a team rather than a group of individuals.
a group/party of tourists
▪ The guide was talking to a party of tourists.
a leisure group (=a group of companies in the leisure industry)
▪ The leisure group reported record profits last year.
a minority group
▪ It’s ridiculous to refer to women as a minority group.
a protest group/movement
▪ Students at the heart of the protest movement have called for a general strike.
a resistance group
▪ The resistance groups are well armed.
a team/group/project etc leader
▪ Ask your team leader for advice.
a terrorist group/organization
▪ No terrorist group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
a voluntary organization/group/body/agency
▪ The day care scheme was run by a voluntary organization.
ad hoc committee/group etc
age group
▪ a book for children in the 12–14 age group
an ability group (=a group that students are taught in, based on their level of ability)
▪ Children are divided into different ability groups.
an age group/bracket/range
▪ Men in the 50–65 age group are most at risk from heart disease.
▪ The school takes in children from the seven to eleven age range.
an environmental group
▪ a campaign by environmental groups to protect the Antarctic
an ethnic group
▪ People of Ukrainian descent are Canada’s fifth largest ethnic group.
an income level/group
▪ The tax rate rises with the individual’s income level.
animal rights activists/campaigners/groups etc
▪ Bill has been involved in the animal rights movement for years.
arrange sth in pairs/groups etc
▪ The children were arranged in lines according to height.
blood group
book group
consumer group
control group/population/sample etc
▪ A control group of non-smoking women was compared to four groups of women smokers.
distinct types/groups/categories etc
▪ There are four distinct types.
focus group
food group
ginger group
group captain
group dynamics
▪ He did research on group dynamics and leadership styles.
group dynamics
group practice
group sb/sth into categories
▪ Let’s start by grouping the books into categories.
group therapy
group/bereavement/debt etc counselling
▪ a debt counselling service
high-risk patients/groups etc
▪ cancer screening for women over 55 and other high-risk groups
in the ... age group
▪ a book for children in the 12–14 age group
interest group
loose federation/alliance/group etc
▪ a loose federation of political groups
peer group
▪ the TV shows that are popular with his peer group
pop group
pressure group
▪ environmental pressure groups
rival factions/groups
▪ My task is to unite the rival factions within the party.
sb's blood type/group (=one of the different types of human blood)
▪ What blood type are you?
self-help group
▪ a self-help group for single parents
set up/establish a working group (to do sth)
▪ The commission has set up a special working group to look at the problem.
special interest group
splinter group
support group
user group
working group
▪ The commission has set up a special working group to look at the problem.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
▪ Those projects covered a range of different client groups.
▪ Photographs and brief biographies of the major subjects accompany different portrait groups.
▪ Because different groups have different values and understandings of right and wrong, the state would have to be neutral between them.
▪ They could contain schools with different age groups and varying styles and ways of organizing.
▪ This leads to the relationships between different groups, including groups from different cultures.
▪ But now, there are so many different groups out there.
▪ And flower names for the different groups.
▪ Rather, many different groups become active in the political process on a narrow range of issues relevant to their interests.
environmental
▪ The 25 members of the commission include representatives from the car, oil, chemical and other industries as well as from environmental groups.
▪ But Selikoff persisted in his campaign against asbestos, aided and abetted by labor unions and environmental groups.
▪ Five years ago, increasingly concerned about the environment, he decided to work directly for an environmental group.
▪ Her decision drew strong criticism from environmental groups, nuclear non-proliferation activists and some members of Congress.
▪ Proceeds go to the environmental group in the fight to save creatures killed in their thousands in nets set to catch tuna.
▪ George Miller, D-Martinez, which has the backing of environmental groups, is stalled in committee.
▪ The Environmental Defense Fund, a Washington-based environmental group, endorsed the plan.
ethnic
▪ The master list includes about a dozen organisations covering the main ethnic groups.
▪ Different ethnic groups within the country have been engaged in a civil war for more than forty-five years.
▪ This was the rendezvous for every ethnic group.
▪ By 2015, two populations, composed of very different ethnic groups, faced each other as adversaries across a great divide.
▪ Snobs abound, mustn't live the wrong side of the tracks, which ethnic group are you?
▪ Other restive ethnic groups will now be quicker to resort to arms.
▪ Mr Pejic has consistently refused to broadcast propaganda for any one ethnic group.
▪ Certain ethnic groups are at higher risk for developing diabetes.
large
▪ The largest identifiable youth group are the monks.
▪ The coffee to which Wynn was invited included an unusually large group of senior White House and party officials.
▪ The largest group affected is, as we have already noted, that consisting of the associatives discussed in Chapter 2.
▪ Adolescent girls are the largest group of new smokers in the United States.
▪ What percentage of people are in each of these two largest groups?
▪ We have a very large immigrant group, in the city and coming in to the university.
▪ He reflects on his own diffidence and awkwardness in large groups.
▪ He also lacked experience leading a large group, and he was sometimes abrasive and patronizing.
local
▪ A few months ago they were a rag-bag of local pressure groups.
▪ Instead, clients had become small local groups doing small, local things.
▪ However, the Teams are always looking for new ideas which they can work on in partnership with local groups and individuals.
▪ Some of the most dynamic individuals in these local groups developed a national network.
▪ Ask at your council or local advice group if you are unsure what you can claim.
▪ The plans include changing the bill of rights, restoring police power to ban protests and restricting foreign funding of local groups.
▪ As a member of a local group you can receive a newsletter and attend regular social meetings.
▪ The local chamber of commerce prepared a promotional film on redevelopment that was shown to scores of local groups.
other
▪ Several other groups, including some psychiatrists, began to investigate the drug chlorpromazine about the same time.
▪ Within a few years the movies had added a significant number of other social groups to its audience.
▪ For other groups the authors note that the overall marginal tax rate was at an historically high level in excess of 60 percent.
▪ Trade unions and other groups can be officially affiliated to the Labour Party.
▪ The polishers, and several other groups could also reach that level of pay.
▪ By now the pressure from the other group members was enormous, but the four in possession of the body resisted by staying close together.
▪ The challenge to this interpretation comes from the performance of the two other groups shown in the figure.
▪ Like most other molluscan groups they rapidly diversified in the Ordovician.
particular
▪ Ideology can be seen as a set of beliefs and values which express the interests of a particular social group.
▪ Some legislators feel such deep loyalty to particular group or societal norms that they seldom experience seriously conflicting pressures.
▪ In the Roman Catholic Church priests are sometimes appointed to look after the needs of a particular ethnic group.
▪ Similarly, other centralised reservation systems are in operation which are not attached to any particular group.
▪ One aspect of this was to focus on the experiences of particular groups: the poor, women and ethnic minorities.
▪ The holdings of particular newspaper groups fell into no tidy pattern.
▪ If you fail to experience tension you must try to develop your own exercise which serves to tense that particular muscle group.
▪ It does not maintain that all criminal laws directly express the interests of one particular group, such as the ruling class.
political
▪ Eurosceptic business and political groups said the figures proved that Britain could thrive without losing its currency.
▪ Most individuals rely on political groups to represent their interests within the political system.
▪ During and after the Gorbachev regime many political groups were formed.
▪ Well-intentioned white allies of black political groups are even more susceptible to this mistake than most black leaders.
▪ Weber's view of parties suggests that the relationship between political groups and class and status groups is far from clear cut.
▪ Types of Interest Groups To this point, we have not distinguished among political interest groups.
▪ Members of political groups went on brief raids into its ranks, and returned with little except contempt for its prospects.
▪ Instead, political interest groups reach out directly, using computerized mailing lists and modems in addition to the old-fashioned campaign techniques.
small
▪ Such a powerbase is potentially much more difficult to change in the interests of a small discriminated-against group.
▪ These are all small ethnic groups, mere specks on the map.
▪ They also set up and run small group discussions, which is done by independent free-lance researchers as well.
▪ Analysis Have the students answer the following questions in small groups.
▪ The only proof provided for such inflammatory allegations is that anarchists are organising into small groups, and these groups are autonomous.
▪ There is a small group of parents who are concerned with behavior modification.
▪ The few guests that remained stood about in small, shocked groups.
▪ Children have choices in literary activities; they collaborate in pairs, in small groups, and with their teachers.
social
▪ The bureaucracy represented a stable social group with a specific psychological style.
▪ Each of them has gods and ancestors whose respective power closely corresponds to that of the social groups themselves.
▪ However, each social group in Bradford uses the zero variant more than the corresponding group in Norwich.
▪ Marx argues that a social group only fully becomes a class when it becomes a class for itself.
▪ Differences between the two main social groups in the community were most evident in the question of landscape control and identity.
▪ One of the most characteristic signals of a cat entering or leaving a social group is the raising of its tail.
▪ This brings us to our third point, that of geographical mobility as it affects different social groups.
▪ In particular, the relationship between the major social groups is one of exploitation and oppression.
special
▪ Recruiting the practices through a special interest group and through self selection is likely to have biased results.
▪ The 1995 version was the first set of guidelines to include oral testimony from special interest groups and individuals.
▪ The same applies to the subject of Section 10-4: the impact of special interest groups and class conflict.
▪ But both note that there are a growing number of special groups that might need supplements.
▪ Open daily. Special terms for groups booked in advance.
▪ Changes resulted from outsiders impacting the plant-Hanes management, external consultants, special interest groups, and other plants.
▪ These set limits to the level of contributions with the aim to prevent candidates from becoming obligated to special interest groups.
▪ In selecting this special group of children, it seemed to-me that Edward deserved the extra help as much as anyone.
■ NOUN
age
▪ One half of all women aged 65+ are widowed, compared to just one fifth of men in this age group.
▪ It made me proud of my age group.
▪ To be sure, there are more young men and women in this age group because of the 1960's baby boom.
▪ Next Saturday, the state championship for casting accuracy will be held, with two age groups, 7-10 and 11-14.
▪ In 1981 there were marked differences in the marital status of men and women in the older age groups.
▪ The competition is divided into two age groups, six-eleven and 12-16.
▪ Is the debate about reducing waiting lists less relevant to the medical care needs of older people than the younger age groups?
▪ Event 14 at Nottingham perhaps attracted the largest entry for the 14 and Under and 11 and Under age groups.
consumer
▪ The codex secretariat has pressed governments to encourage more consumer groups to attend.
▪ After objections from consumer groups, however, Kaiser decided in November to eliminate bonuses related to shorter hospital sta ys.
▪ Join a consumers group and lobby for government legislation to make manufacturers label their products fully and accurately.
▪ Ten consumer groups, along with some veterinarians and meat inspectors, are urging even tougher action.
▪ The consumer group encourages the women to continue.
▪ Its members include major airlines, automakers, labor unions, medical societies, consumer groups and some insurance companies.
▪ But consumer groups, which have insisted that genetically modified foods should be labelled as such, rejected the plan.
▪ He ignored complaints from alarmed consumer groups in order to maintain popular momentum for a measure he regards as essential.
control
▪ A control group included five patients with no evidence of pancreatic disease.
▪ By contrast, productivity for the control group rose just 3. 9 percent.
▪ A group of young people without Saturday jobs, will act as a control group.
▪ By comparison, only 23 percent of the infants in the control group lived in homes that had suffered recent water damage.
▪ One patient in the control group died of pulmonary embolism.
▪ Experimental designs always have an independent or cause variable present and a control group.
▪ These differences were mostly caused by the increase in the weights in the treated groups compared with the control group.
▪ Attention is focused on the organization undergoing change, rather than on comparison with any control group.
interest
▪ Recruiting the practices through a special interest group and through self selection is likely to have biased results.
▪ Major interest groups can also exert influence through their compliance or noncompliance with the government policy process.
▪ The representativeness of service users' involvement is questioned far beyond that of other interest groups.
▪ A major segment of local ISPs is the thousands of bulletin board systems catering to different interest groups.
▪ Gerry: It's really strange how the special interest groups of oppressed people came into existence.
▪ Types of Interest Groups To this point, we have not distinguished among political interest groups.
▪ It comprises the entire body politic, with all its citizens and all their interest groups and social movements.
▪ Because politicians tend to be driven by interest groups? public managers-unlike their private counterparts-must factor interest groups into every equation.
minority
▪ A family systems approach to work with minority groups must take account of all these factors.
▪ Wilson has been under fire from many minority groups because of his campaign against affirmative action programs.
▪ A smaller labour market creates a window of employment opportunity for minority groups, including those who are disabled.
▪ It is not the fact that you belong to minority groups, but how you handle them that counts.
▪ Hacker believes that the position of women in society is analogous to that of minority groups such as immigrants and Blacks.
▪ Then pick another minority group and do the same exercise again.
▪ There were also several minority group demonstrations in December.
▪ The proprietors have no desire to discriminate against any-one and in fact have several members of minority groups on their payroll.
peer
▪ Cosmopolitans were defined as showing higher levels of commitment to specialized skills and professional peer group judgement than to the employing organization.
▪ Anything that deviates from what is customary is going to raise questions among the peer group.
▪ Where affection is the preserve of family and friends, status is more the preserve of the wider peer group or community.
▪ It might be that this peer group is the best possibility available to the extremist-activist to achieve closeness with anyone.
▪ The peer group makes decisions in a democratic way, with all owners having a say in the final decision.
▪ Rather, the programs will use school-based education programs, family members and peer groups.
▪ The adolescent uses the peer group to evaluate the perspectives of others, while developing his or her own values and attitudes.
▪ Questions that the peer group are likely to ask of a design could include: Can bespoke programs use library routines?
pressure
▪ The influence of pressure groups and special interests will become pervasive.
▪ The role of pressure groups such as the drink industry and motoring organizations will be considered.
▪ The emphasis on councillors, officers and pressure groups proved to be a great limitation.
▪ This type of comment was backed up by a small pressure group which acted independently of the main Association at public meetings.
▪ This research will study interactions between industry, government and pressure groups in the regulation of biotechnology hazards.
▪ At present victims must take their claims to court ... a pressure group says the Government should pay.
support
▪ Three women are now ready for an informal support group to share their experiences of the child protection system.
▪ This can form part of the deeper work of a support group or a counselling relationship.
▪ The strategic support group ground rules were all they needed to get started.
▪ One of lung cancer's success stories, he runs a support group for lung cancer patients and their families.
▪ They seek shelter in a Sunday night support group.
▪ The invalid care allowance she receives is 33.70 a week Marian set up a support group for carers in Oxfordshire.
▪ We can speak and share our stories and be quiet, like a support group.
work
▪ But the conventional longwall work organisation fails to build these tacit skills into the work groups.
▪ Then, the selection system itself prepares the candidate for successful entry into the work group.
▪ Group norms Work groups differ from free-forming groups outside employment in that they evolve over long periods of time.
▪ Here, Nucor organizes its work force into small work groups of twenty-five or thirty-five people.
▪ In most work groups, both roles emerge clearly.
▪ Employees are paid bonuses based upon the production of their work group over a predetermined standard.
▪ By the end of the month it had been codified into a document which was widely circulated for study among work groups.
▪ These employees are paid based upon what they produce either individually or as members of small work groups.
■ VERB
form
▪ A child prodigy, Balling won a jazz contest in 1944 and formed his own small group.
▪ Bone destruction is commonly seen in this disorder with the plasma cells forming densely packed groups in the lytic areas.
▪ They formed a woodcarving group and set about carving bench ends.
▪ He took some still pictures of them with his Leica, and they immediately formed groups, asking him to take more.
▪ First, older people do not form an exclusive group, but one of which every individual will eventually become a member.
▪ They formed a warm jostling group of six.
▪ The Upper Mill formed part of a group of buildings around Standish Court and stood immediately to the rear.
▪ We want to form structured groups.
join
▪ It is argued that this is a significant factor in reducing the likelihood of girls joining delinquent groups.
▪ After Claire joined a consciousness-raising group, she began to use the word quite freely.
▪ Recently I joined a drama group - I may have said.
▪ I joined a group of about twenty volunteers.
▪ I joined an eight person group one Saturday morning at ParAvion's centre in Bishops Cannings.
▪ Alexander joined the group with a $ 1 investment.
▪ Father even allows quite unrelated youngsters to join the family group if they will take on some of the work of baby-carrying.
▪ Perhaps Gladys would join the group of Leicester ladies who were fluttering with anticipation in the back corner.
lead
▪ It's hard driven, but Tommy is unmistakeably a jazz drummer, very crisp and energetic and clearly leading the group.
▪ Mickelson had a 71 to lead a group of five players at 203.
▪ Conscious of the straining ears of the rest of the company, Paul Lexington led the little group out into the corridor.
▪ Currently, he leads an investment group that has reacquired Canary Wharf from a bank consortium.
▪ Any major omission will lead to a group of documents which can not be classified under the scheme.
▪ More recently, he has been teaching in Los Angeles and leading his own groups.
▪ Mitchell said last week as she led her group of pupils and parent volunteers along the native plants trail.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
action group/committee etc
▪ A shareholders action committee has been formed to see if any value can be obtained.
▪ Members of a local action group say this isn't good enough.
▪ Members of political action committees might have hoped for a little breather before being hit up again for money.
▪ Outhwaite names' champion Peter Nutting is to head a new working party to co-ordinate syndicate action groups.
▪ Political action committees, which are more active in congressional races, represented only 2 percent of the presidential campaign coffers.
▪ They've formed an action committee to try to recover the funds.
▪ Traffickers have become a political action committee.
▪ Under the Apostolic listing are prison visiting, family contacts, catechism classes, Catholic action groups and Sunday schools.
at-risk children/patients/groups etc
▪ First, that it detects the affected or at-risk groups, and second that these can then be referred for suitable treatment.
▪ Other potential strategies include the provision of vitamin A supplements to at-risk groups.
breakaway group/party/movement
▪ De Rossa said that his breakaway group would form a new democratic socialist party.
▪ Members of a breakaway group who blocked traffic in University Square the same evening were forcibly dispersed by police.
▪ Nor were there frustrated breakaway movements from a handful of top clubs.
▪ Thus the breakaway group, organizing its own exhibition, was an obvious initiative.
chart-topping record/group/hit etc
fringe group/event/issue etc
▪ After the uproar created by Nicholas Tolstoy over the Cossack repatriations, the fringe groups had been taken very seriously.
▪ Few attendees doubted that some fringe groups would respond violently.
▪ One girl shared her story of a fringe group, which for ten years had dominated her life.
▪ The remaining 5 percent aligned themselves with fringe groups such as the Natural Law, Green and Libertarian parties.
▪ To transform a scholarly consensus into something that appears the obsession of a disreputable fringe group requires more than accidental bias.
interested party/group
▪ All interested parties are invited to attend the meeting.
▪ Almost 1500 copies were despatched, ensuring that the proposals reached as many interested parties as possible.
▪ At the other end of the political spectrum, some left-leaning think tanks take money from interested parties.
▪ Costs and expenses Article 12 of the Convention specifies that costs and other expenses must be borne by the interested parties.
▪ Every effort will be made to accommodate requests to provide all interested parties with the same information.
▪ Information memoranda should not be sent to interested parties until a signed confidentiality letter has been received.
▪ Local authorities must also respond to requests for information from a variety of interested groups.
▪ That is increasingly being recognised by many interested parties.
▪ The Department of Education is inviting interested parties to submit comments on the new support arrangements by October 31.
target audience/group/area etc
▪ It is worth reiterating here the point that the media offer a means of influencing your target audiences.
▪ Most of its students are the provincial poor, the target audience of leftist guerrilla groups.
▪ Providing prevention materials to state health departments will ensure that target groups have ready access to such materials.
▪ The target areas were both moderate. income tracts of South Phoenix. 4.
▪ The approach involves identifying variations in the functioning of target areas and relating those variations to known differences in cortical function.
▪ The key is to analyze the target audience, Half said.
▪ The other major target group is those hospitalised with infectious illnesses.
▪ We know the terrain in the target area is complicated, rugged.
umbrella organization/group/agency etc
▪ About 130 professional and human-rights groups are folded into Concilio Cubano, a rickety umbrella group set up last year.
▪ Inpeg, the Czech environmentalist umbrella group that organised the protests, refused to condemn Molotov cocktails being thrown at police.
▪ La Raza is an umbrella group of almost 200 Hispanic advocacy groups.
▪ The umbrella group we'd formed in 1987 had fallen into abeyance, but the name still meant something.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A group of new houses is to be built on the old playing-field.
▪ A group of us went out for a drink to celebrate Sonia's birthday.
▪ a rock group
▪ A small group had gathered outside the stage door.
▪ an old photograph of a group of soldiers sitting on the ground
▪ Families in the lowest income group could not afford to educate their children.
▪ Men stood in groups on street corners.
▪ News International is a group of companies that produce newspapers and TV programmes.
▪ Outside the school, little groups of friends were talking to each other.
▪ Robberies were common on the lonely roads, so people usually travelled in groups.
▪ The factory was burned down by a group of animal-rights activists.
▪ The good thing about the class is that all the students belong to the same age group.
▪ The hospital is desperate for donors from the rhesus negative blood group.
▪ The house was hidden behind a tall group of trees.
▪ The Pearson Group owns a diverse array of companies.
▪ The teacher told us to get into groups of three.
▪ The tickets are expensive, but there is a discount for school groups.
▪ Their policy was to keep demonstrators from different political groups apart.
▪ Today you will learn a new group of verbs.
▪ We got all the family together for a group photo.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Each one of perhaps a group of four should prepare a brief summary of an article of general interest.
▪ He was one of the very few posters when the Weekly briefly tried to maintain an online discussion group.
▪ Inter-Company and Consortium programmes are run for organisations sponsoring smaller groups and provide a useful cross cultural experience.
▪ Locally we already have two Pittses and a Chipmunk group operating, and have aerobatic training available at both Perth and Dundee.
▪ The group is to be featured in a full-length movie later this year and recently signed a contract to promote Pepsi.
▪ The talks I had with members of the group I recreated in my Conversations in Bloomsbury.
▪ These research subjects are presumed to be ignorant and vulnerable groups in society and almost always include students.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
▪ Its position indicates that in the past houses were grouped around this area rather than in the lengthy one-street formation as now.
▪ Three others - all of an equally modest size - grouped around it.
▪ The rooms are all grouped around one or more peristyles.
together
▪ Relevant statutory provisions may be grouped together or scattered through the judgment.
▪ If individuals of similar income were grouped together, the outcome might be unstable.
▪ Your reference materials should be sorted out and grouped together around each subheading within the proposal outline.
▪ For collectors there was a splendid array of miscellaneous artefacts grouped together in sections.
▪ They are arranged by faculty with all the degrees offered by a particular faculty grouped together.
▪ Here and there the anti-Fascists were grouped together and running fights broke out with the Blackshirts.
▪ Members are organised in local branches grouped together in regions that are overseen by voluntary Regional Directors.
■ NOUN
category
▪ Then, when the data have been collected, the respondents are grouped into homogeneous categories according to their scores for selected variables.
heading
▪ The criticisms that users gave can be grouped under four headings.
▪ These new military technologies can be grouped under three main headings.
set
▪ The words are grouped into sets, with ten words per set and twelve sets in all.
▪ These were grouped into four sets of four placed at 90 intervals round the circumference of the module.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Julia sat down at the piano, and the others grouped together to sing.
▪ Students grouped around the notice board to read their exam results.
▪ The plates were grouped according to color and size.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ One metric by which collocations may be measured and grouped is to rate them on a scale of probability.
▪ Second, services were grouped together with respect to the scale upon which they needed to be provided.
▪ The main body spots are grouped in rosettes.