I.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a constitution guarantees sth (=says it must happen or exist)
▪ Hungary's constitution guarantees freedom of religion.
ensure/guarantee sb’s safety
▪ There were few laws or regulations to ensure the safety of workers.
permit/promise/guarantee etc safe passage (to/for sb)
▪ The government offered safe passage to militants taking up their offer of peace talks.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
▪ Mutation is almost guaranteed and one individual among billions is certain to draw the successful ticket in the genetic lottery.
▪ Cargo shares were of course proportioned to rank, but for the more senior officers it could almost guarantee wealth.
virtually
▪ Those price agreements, which virtually guarantee the firms a 25 percent profit on the drugs, are being renegotiated this month.
▪ Yet this refusal to intervene virtually guarantees that core group behavior will continue to be encouraged by profit-minded entrepreneurs.
▪ Official leniency is exploited by the smugglers who can virtually guarantee secure entry, whatever happens.
▪ Yet continuity of basic policy is virtually guaranteed by the retention of Norman Lamont at the Treasury.
▪ Like those cars, it's available in numbers exclusive enough to virtually guarantee future classic status.
▪ When he batted, his name did not merely promise runs as virtually guarantee them.
■ NOUN
constitution
▪ The constitution should guarantee respect for equality and autonomy, yet leave individuals to pursue their own interests as they wish.
▪ The 8 by 14-inch paper outlines an argument that the Arizona Constitution already guarantees the right to carry concealed weapons.
▪ The constitution guarantees federal payments, but that does not mean they have to be made on time.
freedom
▪ The closed shop: Mr Fowler said the legislation would guarantee people the freedom to decide whether or not to join a union.
▪ Article 19 of the Covenant guarantees the right to freedom of expression in all its forms.
future
▪ However, that still leaves ministers well short of the 13 million tonnes they need to guarantee the future of enough pits.
▪ You can't guarantee the future. 7 Past Loves Is there some one he's never got over?
government
▪ They are also demanding that the government guarantee their security.
▪ Some even had government guaranteed prices.
▪ Can the Government guarantee that the recent increases in railfreight charges will not continue under their privatisation proposals?
▪ This was a classic example of big government advocates misunderstanding a problem and designing a government solution guaranteed to make it worse.
▪ While local programmes are the responsibility of the TECs, the Government guarantees the offer of help to particular groups of unemployed.
▪ That problem cost the federal government, which guarantees the loans for lenders, several billion dollars a year.
▪ The Bank lends to governments and governmental agencies, although private organizations can borrow if the national government guarantees the loan.
income
▪ And by age 75 they must use most of their pension fund to buy an annuity guaranteeing an income for life.
▪ Better by far to invest while the going is good, to guarantee yourself an income, rather than rely on an uncertain future.
▪ These reforms will ensure that every citizen is guaranteed a decent minimum income, whether or not they are in employment.
job
▪ Some have been guaranteed jobs on leaving school after proving themselves reliable.
▪ Improving the knowledge and skills of young people certainly does not guarantee that the jobs will come.
▪ Employers who join the Compact make a collective guarantee to offer jobs to young people who have achieved the Compact goals.
▪ Health benefits are maintained during the leave, and workers are guaranteed their job back when they return.
▪ Your ability to guarantee jobs will depend on the size and nature of your business, and recruitment pattern.
▪ He would demand work from welfare recipients but provide them with more day care and guaranteed public jobs.
▪ In return, they are guaranteed a job with training - or training leading to a job.
▪ Governments can easily guarantee their employees a job, without guaranteeing the job they currently hold.
law
▪ Thus in Britain, a series of laws have guaranteed solicitors a monopoly on particular services.
▪ On March 6 a federal judge, Gabriel Cavallo, repealed two amnesty laws that had guaranteed immunity for 1,180 army officers.
▪ The law guarantees that sufficient additional funds are available to act quickly in the event of a spill.
▪ Both sides have agreed on a new electoral law which guarantees secret balloting and an immediate count.
loan
▪ Goldhawk has discovered that Ansbacher would not guarantee the loan notes until the Telecom deal was certain.
▪ The city would guarantee each loan for its first five years, to limit the bankers' risk.
▪ You should have been told that an endowment policy is not guaranteed to repay a loan.
▪ That problem cost the federal government, which guarantees the loans for lenders, several billion dollars a year.
▪ Firstly, loan demand must come from creditworthy customers who can guarantee loan repayment at a future date.
▪ Valmark guaranteed the loan with its three commercial properties in Chatsworth, which carried a value of $ 2. 2 million.
▪ A few pounds a month will guarantee the loan is repaid if the worst happens.
▪ Federal programs to guarantee loans to small businesses have been expanded and targeted at women.
money
▪ The Treuhandanstalt would guarantee creditors against losing money lent to businesses unsuccessfully attempting to adapt to unification.
▪ This is supposed to guarantee the new money will be stable and strong.
▪ And, if you're not delighted with your purchase, we guarantee to refund your money in full.
▪ First among these responsibilities is to guarantee sound money.
▪ And as with all our offers we guarantee to refund your money if you're not entirely satisfied with your order.
payment
▪ The constitution guarantees federal payments, but that does not mean they have to be made on time.
▪ Instead, farmers would get a guaranteed but dwindling federal payment over each of the next seven years.
▪ An importer gets his own bank to guarantee payment by issuing a letter of credit.
▪ Under the Conservation Reserve Program, farmers are guaranteed rental payments to idle sensitive crop land.
▪ To do so would suggest that the Bank were in effect guaranteeing their payment at maturity.
▪ The federal government currently protects its nonworking elderly with a promise of guaranteed Social Security payments.
▪ The banks or organisations that issue them guarantee payment of bills run up by the credit card holder up to a certain limit.
▪ Instead, participating farmers will get guaranteed but declining federal payments.
place
▪ And as soon as any of the old big names are fit, they're guaranteed a place in the team.
▪ However, as the home country, the United States is guaranteed a place in the field.
▪ Whoever wins that bout is likely to be in the semi-finals, which should guarantee an Olympic place.
▪ It does not guarantee you some privileged place on earth.
▪ It would be a tremendous blow if Boro lost Pears for a game that could guarantee a Premier League place.
▪ A good performance from Baggio today would probably guarantee his place in Vicini's World Cup side.
▪ It guarantees a training place to all 16- and 17-year-olds who leave full-time education and can not find a job.
▪ The Government must speedily ensure that the necessary public and private resources are made available to guarantee the investment takes place.
price
▪ This is similar to a put option that guarantees investors a minimum price at which they can sell their shares.
▪ By selling gold forward, producers are guaranteed a fixed price for their future gold production.
▪ Basically the policy protected farmers by guaranteeing a price for their products and by setting up barriers against imports.
▪ Some even had government guaranteed prices.
▪ Keith Prowse are able to guarantee top price east stand seats together with first class hospitality facilities, situated within the Club.
▪ Jim McCrery, R-La., said competition among oil companies would guarantee lower prices for consumers.
▪ I guaranteed a starting price so long as I got last refusal - he was auctioning the piece.
▪ Two, they guarantee the lowest prices.
quality
▪ Is it worth paying the extra money to a company in order to guarantee good quality support and back-up?
▪ Could Langlitz guarantee that level of quality, the company wonders, if it turned out 1, 000 jackets a month?
▪ Ways of guaranteeing a quality service to clients have also been pursued in specific fields of work.
▪ We will establish a new National Inspectorate for Health to guarantee a quality service.
▪ If so, did managers have access to the type of training which would guarantee their quality?
▪ Birds are bred by crossing champions, to try to guarantee a high quality of song.
▪ Sites will guarantee the quality of the information available from their links, and these might become the Yahoos of the future.
▪ Only when Anis controls every stage of production and can guarantee quality and delivery will it try exporting again.
rate
▪ This includes two things: the guaranteed interest rate and the regular bonus rate.
▪ It is invested in Treasury securities with a guaranteed monthly rate.
▪ Every pound you repay on your mortgage offers a guaranteed rate of return of 11.5 per cent.
return
▪ These companies must pay a price that gives growers a guaranteed return, including a premium for social investment.
▪ A bond promises a fixed interest rate, fixed maturity and guaranteed return of your principal, barring default.
▪ Every pound you repay on your mortgage offers a guaranteed rate of return of 11.5 per cent.
▪ Unisys bought $ 211 million worth of these Executive Life contracts, which guarantee a specific return to investors.
▪ The agreement guarantees Kurds their safe return - but who is to be the guarantor of their long-term safety and freedom?
▪ Unfortunately, choosing a top-paying account now does not guarantee the best returns in the long run.
right
▪ Yet nowhere are people guaranteed a right to food.
▪ So far, 29 states have taken action to guarantee victims' rights.
▪ We don't guarantee immediate positive rights.
▪ We are, indeed, a nation of the law, and every citizen is guaranteed certain minimum rights.
▪ The comparative method discloses a number of key issues which any legislation guaranteeing equal employment rights for disabled workers must address.
▪ Pensions are guaranteed for workers whose right to them has been vested.
▪ Both guarantee every woman's rights to have a child and everybody's right to found a family.
▪ The Covenant is designed to guarantee civil and political rights to persons within each country that ratifies it.
safety
▪ He threw out no sounding parties too weak to guarantee their own safety, and he lost none of them.
▪ The families agreed not to contact police to guarantee the safety of the two men.
▪ All this is supposed to guarantee a sense of safety, but after Mr Safra's death, the image is threatened.
▪ Do it only if you can guarantee your own safety.
▪ Omar expressed anxiety that we might be attacked as we withdrew from Bahdu, but Ali Wali guaranteed our safety.
▪ Interior Ministry officials have said that they can not guarantee safety for protesters, so public protests will be banned indefinitely.
▪ This will guarantee that safety and animal welfare standards have been satisfied.
security
▪ They are also demanding that the government guarantee their security.
▪ The federal government currently protects its nonworking elderly with a promise of guaranteed Social Security payments.
▪ He promised to guarantee the security of the populace and to continue the peace process.
▪ The salary, usually small by normal standards, guarantees these individuals security through slow times.
▪ We can't possibly guarantee their security and we wouldn't want to even if we could.
▪ For one consequence of the whole deception was to guarantee my job security.
▪ Security in any situation can never be guaranteed but the security that farming provided was obviously appreciated.
▪ But developing nations are loath to agree unless they too are given some kind of guaranteed status on the Security Council.
success
▪ These are the qualities which will guarantee long lasting success.
▪ What themes nearly guarantee success in movies and television?
▪ The overbearing sophistication of conceptualism and minimalism did not guarantee success in art for anyone.
▪ There are no cut-and-dried rules or regulations that will guarantee success or unfailingly point to the one correct decision.
▪ The scheme has to be voted on by Headteachers and parents within ten days to guarantee it's success.
▪ Furthermore, even the cherished college diploma no longer guarantees success.
▪ The results are a blow for women who thought their long and hard-fought campaign would guarantee success.
▪ It may feel it lacks the means to guarantee success and that a military enterprise would be too risky.
system
▪ Anyone who imagines that any regulatory system can invariably guarantee success is naive.
▪ As heartbreaking as it is to acknowledge, no system can guarantee that.
▪ But the capitalist system has no mechanism guaranteeing a smooth transition in such circumstances.
▪ Although the school system guarantees youths an interview for a possible internship, it does not promise them an actual placement.
▪ A system of guaranteed successions did exist, but was much more restricted in its scope.
▪ The offline system automatically guarantees that two copies are taken before the online copy is deleted.
▪ Proposed changes would phase out that support system, but guarantee farmers a gradually dwindling subsidy payment over the next seven years.
way
▪ Ownership by the Trust is often the surest way of guaranteeing the preservation of beautiful places of national importance.
▪ There is the suggestion that being sick is one way of guaranteeing that a child will be taken care of.
▪ It's the only way to guarantee that it will spread, and spread widely.
▪ Monorail does the upgrades itself, paying for Federal Express shipping both ways and guaranteeing a four-to six-day turnaround.
▪ As the preceding analysis should make clear, there is no way to guarantee success in the battle of the forms.
▪ There is no way to guarantee that any particular group will achieve greatness, but there are ways to maximize the likelihood.
▪ The most effective way to guarantee rapid distribution is to let people try the program out before asking them for payment.
▪ But the fact that they teach the calendar in no way guarantees that my son or any other child will learn it.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cast-iron excuse/alibi/guarantee etc
▪ According to Ken Harris, she has a cast-iron alibi.
▪ Do not expect a cast-iron guarantee of success.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A good education doesn't guarantee a good job.
▪ I can't guarantee the plan will work, but I'll give it a try.
▪ The first emigrants to Canada were guaranteed 200 acres of land each.
▪ The king had guaranteed our safety on our journey.
▪ The loans are guaranteed by the government.
▪ We guarantee that you won't lose your jobs when the company is taken over.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After all, it is orders that businesses need to provide jobs and to guarantee employment.
▪ And by age 75 they must use most of their pension fund to buy an annuity guaranteeing an income for life.
▪ Anyone who did this last time would have been guaranteed a win.
▪ But uniformity of content and, increasingly, of process has been guaranteed.
▪ There was nothing caught in her throat, absolutely, guaranteed.
▪ TRESemmé's 4+4 Exothermic perm guarantees a strong wave formulation which means the curl structure lasts the full life of the perm.
▪ Unisys bought $ 211 million worth of these Executive Life contracts, which guarantee a specific return to investors.
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
certain
▪ In order to make this possible, certain guarantees and machinery would have to be established.
▪ Socialist victory in the advanced capitalist countries constitutes the only certain guarantee of enduring peace.
▪ Innocent needed to be approached as arbiter and he wanted certain guarantees.
▪ He has certain guarantees to live in peace in Cuernavaca.
▪ The property may be sold with the benefit of certain guarantees to its conditions.
constitutional
▪ The letter called for implementation of constitutional guarantees, freedom and justice, and criticized the government's handling of the economy.
▪ The czars introduced constitutional guarantees, only to ignore them whenever it suited their purpose.
▪ Collectivism is thus given a very positive image when linked to constitutional guarantees of individual rights.
▪ What you have here is a situation where custom and convention comes up against constitutional guarantees.
▪ Beside these confusions, the constitutional guarantee of free speech has an impressive simplicity.
▪ The present case, then, concerns a relationship lying within the zone of privacy created by several fundamental constitutional guarantees.
federal
▪ Many House Republicans want to eliminate all entitlements, or federal guarantees of aid to certain groups.
▪ The vote against a federal guarantee of a minimal, subsistence level of support was a devastating loss to all women.
▪ It eliminates the federal guarantee of cash assistance for the needy.
international
▪ These proposals have generally assumed the need for international guarantees of this status.
▪ For Soviet officials such international guarantees should become a component part of a political settlement.
only
▪ The only real guarantee of output and investment growth, however, is demand growth.
▪ The only guarantee that I can give is that there will not be a Tory Government after the 1992 election.
▪ If the Government use their majority, the only guarantee of consideration is another place.
personal
▪ Such personal guarantees become effective if and when the company itself can not meet its financial obligations.
▪ Should you sign any personal guarantees?
▪ Purchaser to use reasonable endeavours to release target directors from any personal guarantees.
▪ And he adds his personal guarantee of company and protection, with the assurance of eventual safe return.
▪ The company subsequently went into receivership and the bank called in the personal guarantees.
▪ That is not surprising if they stand to lose large amounts of money through personal guarantees they may have given.
■ NOUN
back
▪ Many companies offer a 30-day money back guarantee.
▪ Three-year manufacturer's warranty and 30-day money back guarantee.
▪ A money-#back guarantee could be attractive to potential customers-but are you willing to pay the price?
card
▪ Cheque guarantee cards facilitate the process.
▪ Clearly, the absence of cheque guarantee cards limited the value of the cheque book facility.
▪ As we saw earlier, societies were previously inhibited in this by the fact that they could not issue cheque guarantee cards.
▪ The fact that such a cheque is supported by a cheque guarantee card makes no difference.
▪ And the Eurocheque guarantee card which comes with them will draw cash from dispensers.
▪ One contained only an empty ammunition box, the other a number of receipts from firearms dealers and some guarantee cards.
cheque
▪ The bank has simultaneously raised the cheque guarantee limit to £250 for its Premier Visa cardholders..
▪ Clearly, the absence of cheque guarantee cards limited the value of the cheque book facility.
▪ As we saw earlier, societies were previously inhibited in this by the fact that they could not issue cheque guarantee cards.
▪ The fact that such a cheque is supported by a cheque guarantee card makes no difference.
credit
▪ These included indirect costs such as losses incurred by the state export credit guarantee agency Coface.
▪ All of the companies had asked for the export credit guarantee agencies of their countries to fund their part of the work.
▪ Is this about export credit guarantees?
loan
▪ Counselling services and loan guarantees are among the better known.
▪ How are loan guarantees to be counted?
▪ To be managed by the Federal Railroad Administration, the programme will offer loans and loan guarantees for up to 25 years.
▪ Congress has approved $ 117 million in development aid and loan guarantees to Pretoria this year.
▪ The government-sponsored loan guarantees could be an alternative for some airlines which have been seeking foreign partners, the Times said.
▪ He had helped lead the Senate fight for the loan guarantees.
year
▪ And it comes with a removable air filter, an extra long cable, fitted plug and a two year guarantee.
▪ Priced from £12.99 to £32.50, they are all beautifully designed and each comes with a two year guarantee.
▪ Window frames carry a thirty year guarantee against rot or decay.
▪ Airbus has been given a three year guarantee on that contract.
▪ The plastic tanks carry a 25-#year guarantee.
■ VERB
carry
▪ They carry no guarantees, but many of them are likely to be near the mark.
▪ Even for old conservatives, though, a return to central planning carries no guarantee of a stress-free future.
▪ Such acknowledgment indicates receipt of your order and carries no guarantee of availability.
▪ Window frames carry a thirty year guarantee against rot or decay.
▪ Obviously, recognition does not carry with it any guarantee of military protection.
▪ The name seems to carry its own guarantee of quality and prices are generally fair, so you can't go wrong.
▪ There's a choice of four great family models and each one carries a 10-year guarantee.
end
▪ The welfare plan still would end the basic guarantee of money to poor families.
give
▪ They may then have been required to give hostages as a guarantee of future good behaviour.
▪ We will start by giving this guarantee to those groups most in need, including the long-term unemployed and single parents.
▪ It gives him a guarantee against a falling market, but also allows him to benefit from an upturn.
▪ The deposit of a thesis in a library gives no guarantee of copyright protection.
▪ But the key sticking point is that the Government will not give a mortgage guarantee without Cammell raising a performance bond.
▪ Here too the legatee would be asked to give a guarantee that he would make over the property as requested.
▪ These are the 16 to 18-year-olds to whom the Government have given a guarantee.
limit
▪ The Regulations make clear that these sections do not apply to any private companies, whether limited by shares or guarantee.
▪ This normally applies to private companies limited by guarantee.
▪ If the company is limited by guarantee then slightly different considerations apply.
▪ A company limited by guarantee must register.
▪ A private company may, however, be limited by shares or limited by guarantee.
▪ However, no new company limited by guarantee is permitted to have shares.
▪ Legislation is also in the pipeline to allow companies limited by guarantee, and hybrid companies, to be formed.
meet
▪ Those letters tell us that more than half the TECs are not meeting the youth guarantee.
offer
▪ To be managed by the Federal Railroad Administration, the programme will offer loans and loan guarantees for up to 25 years.
▪ There are few places that offer a guarantee.
▪ Choose 100 percent wool or an 80/20 combination of wool and nylon, especially if it offers a wear guarantee.
▪ But he offered few other guarantees and rejected the Democrats' request for a termination date for the investigation and hearings.
▪ The benevolent powers offer no guarantees.
▪ A shop will prove a little more expensive but may be able to offer some kind of guarantee.
▪ Mach3 offers money back Gillette is offering a money back guarantee in its latest promotion for razor brand Mach3.
▪ Overdrive will try to find a replacement driver but offers no guarantee in this regard.
pay
▪ Each pays a fixed guarantee rate of return, which we receive TAX-FREE.
▪ Promoters also complained about having to pay higher guarantees to artists, which cut into their profits.
▪ The successor to the guarantor had a branch in London and deducted tax on paying sums under the guarantee.
▪ Only when you pay off on your guarantee does a bank loan give you basis in the corporation.
provide
▪ Alternatively, a purchaser may refuse to provide a parent company guarantee if this was not covered in the heads.
▪ The Novartis team used a low risk philosophy, which necessarily cost more, though it provided guarantees against disaster.
▪ Will the Treasury provide guarantees of losses over the life of a franchise on, for example, rural or commuter routes?
▪ The bank also provided guarantees without which the consortium would not have committed itself to the project.
▪ They would have had to provide a £ 5,000 guarantee that they would not settle illegally.
▪ The Act also provides new guarantees and more favourable tax allowances.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cast-iron excuse/alibi/guarantee etc
▪ According to Ken Harris, she has a cast-iron alibi.
▪ Do not expect a cast-iron guarantee of success.
carry insurance/a guarantee etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a loan guarantee
▪ After the Second World War, Belgium wanted a guarantee that it would not be invaded again.
▪ Is the camera still under guarantee?
▪ The contract contains a guarantee that the building will be finished within 6 months.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a member of parliament Mr Berezovsky is theoretically immune from prosecution, but he described this guarantee as worthless.
▪ But what guarantee is there that technique No. 2 will actually be used?
▪ For workers in small firms employment guarantees are very rare, working hours are longer and safety records poor.
▪ It said this document was a guarantee of the pensions.
▪ Neither biological nor cultural evolution is any guarantee that we are inevitably moving towards a better world.
▪ Royal guarantees secured such a division.