I.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
highlight a contrast (=make a contrast very obvious)
▪ The research will highlight the contrasts between different approaches to taxation.
highlight an issue (=bring attention to it)
▪ The minister used his speech to highlight the issue of global warming.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
case
▪ The case also highlights the widespread practice of arbitrary detention that affects about 2 million people each year.
▪ Its simplicity is precisely what makes it unsuited to being translated into law-as the Miss X case so blatantly highlighted.
▪ The house was up for sale- the estate agents say the case has highlighted the need for a change in the law.
▪ The latest case highlights the need for scrupulous hygiene on all farm visits.
▪ The case has highlighted the risks of exploitation faced by foreign workers.
▪ And believe that his case highlights the failing of the criminal justice system.
▪ Police say the case highlights the need for elderly people to be on their guard when strangers come to their homes.
▪ One case in my constituency highlights the type of thing that happens.
change
▪ This can be used to highlight changes from year to year or compare actual and required staffing levels. 4.
▪ The story begins in the mid-1980s, when national reports highlighted the gap between changes in the workplace and in education.
▪ The industry is expected to excuse itself by highlighting the last-minute change in voters' allegiances, reflected in the last polls.
▪ The ongoing discussions highlighted the basic change that had taken place in the world.
▪ This report would highlight important changes in the law likely to affect haulage operations in the short and medium term.
danger
▪ Police can't prove what the men were doing but say this just highlights the danger.
▪ A recent hearing of the Disciplinary Tribunal highlighted the dangers, albeit in a case involving two sole practitioners.
difference
▪ This feedback would highlight differences in both quantities and labour rates.
▪ Boston; and Austin, Texas-to highlight the similarities and differences between their approaches.
▪ Mr. Gummer My hon. Friend has highlighted the fundamental difference.
▪ A simple computational example will serve to highlight the differences.
▪ The Democrats have used the minimum wage dispute to highlight differences with Republicans on helping the working poor.
▪ The report also highlighted the difference in attitudes between men and women.
▪ For a differential drill they are placed side by side and drilled across to highlight the difference between them. 7.2.2.
difficulty
▪ Hearsay-II's problems with its syntactic/semantic component highlights the difficulties of accessing pre-defined processing units in speech.
▪ He noted that several accidents appeared to highlight pilots' difficulties in coping with increasing flight-deck automation.
▪ Jelinek and Schoonhoven highlight the difficulties facing managers in the type of strong culture typical of hi-tech companies.
▪ This highlights the second major difficulty with the theories, the general assumption that there is a unitary dimension of arousal.
▪ The criticism the Oregon experiment has received highlights the general difficulties of moving towards this kind of explicit rationing system.
fact
▪ Moreover he highlighted the fact that cultures do not interact simply with one another but with the environment as well.
importance
▪ Sacks etal highlighted the importance of prostatic disease as a preventable and treatable cause of renal failure.
▪ The part the Flemish towns played in the crisis of 1127-8 not only highlighted their importance, it also guaranteed their liberties.
▪ Colonel Spratt highlighted the importance of the qualification for people planning a career in marketing.
▪ The back highlights the importance of using caution and suggests how to use the card.
▪ Furthermore it seeks to highlight the central importance of localities and localism in Northern Ireland.
▪ This again serves to highlight the importance of the cut-off point in determining estimates of illness prevalence.
▪ Second, it highlighted the importance of active participation by elderly people themselves in all aspects of course planning.
▪ Such an incident highlights the importance of clarity and definition of language, both between professionals and with clients.
issue
▪ It highlighted all the issues of the unhealthiness of industrial towns, of poverty, bad housing and squalid environments.
▪ She said her organization will highlight the issue during a pair of rallies at an official protest site outside the convention center.
▪ Objections highlight the issues which are important to the buyer.
▪ He has tended to highlight few issues beyond cutting taxes.
▪ Abbey National's announcement this week that it will reduce its overdraft rate on January 1 highlights the issue.
▪ The magazine has provided Benetton with an avenue to highlight issues, which their advertisements have touched on.
▪ Both these studies highlight issues that needed urgent attention from policy and practice.
▪ Many respondents said that the information fails to highlight critical issues and a majority rated such information as only poor or average.
lack
▪ However, it highlights the clear lack of an agreed national coastal strategy by the Government.
▪ The book highlights the lack of good signposts to help guide grieving individuals.
▪ The report highlighted the lack of regulation of family mediators, many of whom are lawyers.
▪ Properly applied better-off tests would have highlighted how the lack of competition in an internalised link imposes extra costs.
▪ It's this last figure that best highlights the Safrane's lack of sprinting zest.
▪ The report highlights the lack of help for these youngsters.
need
▪ All this highlighted the need for more land to be allocated by planning authorities for development.
▪ This increased public concern has highlighted the need for greater information and understanding of these issues.
▪ This also highlights the need to find an effective treatment, particularly as diagnosis is not relatively straight forward.
▪ Children were asked to design an interpretative poster which highlighted the vulnerability and needs of Britain's threatened otter population.
▪ Surveys of adopters consistently highlight the need for pre-placement support and preparation.
▪ Commissioning authorities should outline their current commissioning priorities and highlight the research needs of their health strategies and primary care developments.
▪ Yoga also highlights the need for investigating the preventive as well as the curative effects of complementary therapies.
plight
▪ First introduced in 1989, Adopt-a-Pet aims to highlight the plight of abandoned animals and encourage more responsible pet ownership.
▪ Elderly people isolated A new report has highlighted the isolated plight of elderly people in residential care who have a hearing loss.
▪ There are better ways to highlight the plight of the homeless.
problem
▪ The book highlights the problem university staff have in keeping up with recent developments.
▪ Another study by researchers at Northern Kentucky University also highlighted the problem of expecting too much from unathletic children.
▪ Now she has hit a brick wall and has written to me to highlight the problem.
▪ Nothing else big was happening in the world and newspapers love to highlight problems that the television networks face.
▪ We produce in-depth reports highlighting problems and offering solutions.
▪ The teacher unions and professional associations have produced clear and accurate documents for their members which inevitably highlight these problems.
▪ Escalating numbers of night visits highlight the problems of a pool system for paying doctors.
▪ This highlights a crucial tactical problem for new groups or those whose demands are seen as in some way unconventional.
report
▪ The report highlights large variations in early retirement dates throughout the public sector.
▪ The story begins in the mid-1980s, when national reports highlighted the gap between changes in the workplace and in education.
▪ We produce in-depth reports highlighting problems and offering solutions.
▪ There is no duty on the Prime Minister to publish any interim reports highlighting specific abuses.
▪ The report also highlighted the difference in attitudes between men and women.
▪ The report highlighted the under-utilisation of expensive equipment.
▪ The report highlighted the lack of regulation of family mediators, many of whom are lawyers.
risk
▪ To highlight the risk of such accidents, the association filmed several simulated train crashes in Chula Vista this month.
▪ It also highlights the additional risks arising in off-exchange transactions and transactions on foreign markets.
▪ Ministers are planning to fund an advertising campaign to highlight the risks of drug-driving.
▪ Inevitably the sharp drop in property values and the collapse of some property groups has highlighted the risks.
▪ The case has highlighted the risks of exploitation faced by foreign workers.
▪ This practical 2-day course highlights the risks and provides you with the knowledge to contain them.
role
▪ The comparison of results in groups D and E highlights the important assessment role of occupational therapists as cited by other workers.
▪ Judge Jackson highlighted government's mediating role when he explained why he ordered the company split in two.
▪ The issue of disability culture was highlighted, with the role of disabled people viewed as being isolated away from wider society.
▪ This highlights the key role played by the perfect capital market assumption.
▪ The event will highlight the vital role played by the waterway in the region's industrial development.
▪ Anonymity, like the uniforms of nurses, the police or soldiers, highlights the role, not the person performing it.
▪ The present article starts by highlighting the pivotal role of police results in the criminal process.
▪ It also highlights the role played by both the chemical and chemical engineering disciplines in the development of cleaner processes.
study
▪ Their study also highlights unmet needs similar to those mentioned in other reports.
▪ Both these studies highlight issues that needed urgent attention from policy and practice.
text
▪ To pursue the link, simply click on the highlighted text or image.
▪ The highlighted text will be added to the end of the stored document.
▪ In Windows 3.0 you simply highlight the text with the mouse to mark it.
▪ To print smaller segments of text, press Alt-F4 to highlight the text, then press Shift-F7.
▪ Conjunctions are highlighted in both texts.
▪ This displays the prompt Press Y to print just the highlighted text.
▪ If you pressed 1, the highlighted text is no longer there.
▪ First, highlight the text, then perform the action.
weakness
▪ The effect has been to highlight weaknesses in each of the traditional interpretations and to demythologize the revolutionary intelligentsia.
▪ He told the Institute of Chartered Accountants that recent failures had highlighted weaknesses in accounts.
▪ This highlights a serious weakness in his philosophy.
▪ Here, however, Wallas highlighted a particular weakness within Fabianism.
■ VERB
serve
▪ These unanswered questions serve to highlight the practicalities which prescriptions of this kind ignore.
▪ A simple computational example will serve to highlight the differences.
▪ They serve also to highlight certain features of the political culture.
▪ This again serves to highlight the importance of the cut-off point in determining estimates of illness prevalence.
▪ It's more annoying than serious, really, but serves to highlight problems commonly associated with less expensive instruments.
▪ This will also serve to highlight aspects of the choice of methodological framework.
▪ These three examples, juxtaposed, serve to highlight the nature of educational change.
▪ One brief example from the Southwest will serve to highlight the precision and implications of the method.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Highlight the desired file using the arrow keys.
▪ The Association's first project was to publish a 35-cent brochure highlighting nine historic sites.
▪ The report highlighted the need for prison reform.
▪ The slump in the car industry was highlighted by Ford's offer of a $600 rebate on new cars.
▪ This report highlights some of the problems faced by old people in winter.
▪ To delete a block of text, highlight it and then press Del.
▪ Your resumé should highlight your skills and achievements.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But if you place the cursor on a word, double-clicking the mouse highlights that word.
▪ But these, and the ensuing convictions and fines, have done little but highlight the scale of the trade.
▪ Many thanks for highlighting the problem.
▪ Ministers are planning to fund an advertising campaign to highlight the risks of drug-driving.
▪ Nothing else big was happening in the world and newspapers love to highlight problems that the television networks face.
▪ Now she has hit a brick wall and has written to me to highlight the problem.
▪ The block should be highlighted, as shown in Figure 10. 9.
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
show
▪ Full-length games are edited down to show the highlights in a way which sometimes irritates the purist.
▪ They showed highlights from the 1964 Celtics world championship game they won.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Highlights of the ball game will be shown later.
▪ A highlight of most Alaska cruises is a day spent among the glaciers.
▪ Before the game, fans were shown highlights of the season on a large video screen.
▪ The weekend in Venice was definitely the highlight of our trip.
▪ We were looking forward to seeing the pyramids, which promised to be the highlight of our trip.
▪ When I was young, Christmas was the highlight of the year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A highlight of this performance was the contribution of the Marquis brand to the improvement in Waterford Crystal's operational profitability.
▪ Although it may seem expensive cost of getting to Florida, it will be a highlight of your trip.
▪ August may be the best time for hitting the highlights.
▪ But to provide highlights without at least some explanation is equally so, since they are presumably meant to serve as introductions.
▪ Compare the highlights of the recent Test series in New Zealand.
▪ Her long blonde hair seemed to come alive in the sunlight which gave it golden highlights.
▪ The highlight of our trip was a stay at the Inn On Tomales Bay.
▪ The ruins of Castle Acre's Cluniac priory area one of the highlights of this section.