noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a violent incident
▪ Violent incidents such as kidnapping dropped sharply last year.
alleged offence/crime/incident etc
▪ their alleged involvement in international terrorism
▪ The alleged victim made the complaint at a police station in York.
an amusing story/anecdote/incident etc
▪ The book is full of amusing stories about his childhood.
incident room
isolated incident/case/event
▪ Police say that last week’s protest was an isolated incident.
ugly incident
▪ an ugly incident
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
isolated
▪ They were alarmed that the continuing growth in the number of foreign tourists could be jeopardised by an isolated serious incident.
▪ The law doesn't distinguish between an isolated lustful incident and a serious long-standing affair.
▪ The shot putt and resultant hospital visit was not an isolated incident in Roy's life.
▪ This friendliness wasn't an isolated incident.
▪ Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents.
▪ The apparently small and isolated family incidents observed by the family counsellor are often typical examples of family interaction.
▪ The brutal suppression of the insurrection of the early 1980s was not an isolated incident.
▪ Police, however, say that so far only one or two isolated incidents have been reported.
late
▪ The latest incident came to light when pupils were overheard discussing the expulsions at the Rising Sun pub in nearby Newbury.
▪ The somatic strip is handled in a late incident just as it is sent to an earlier one.
▪ Although it is impossible to be sure what happened, this latest incident follows a developing pattern of violence in the camps.
▪ Furness said he was satisfied with the safety measures put into place following the latest incident.
▪ Kites have special protection under the law and North Yorkshire Police have been notified of the latest incident.
▪ The latest incident follows 24 attacks - one fatal - in Hampshire over the past year.
▪ The latest incidents come just hours after yesterday's fatal accident inquiry into the upsurge of drug deaths in the city.
major
▪ Construction faults, equipment failure and inadequate training of staff were given as the major causes of incidents.
▪ The deadline passed without major incident.
▪ A Merseyside Police spokesman said the operation had passed off without major incident.
▪ The most recent major incident was a blast last April 1 at the Shell refinery in Martinez.
▪ In County Durham the A689 at Killhope was blocked but police said there were no major incidents on the roads.
▪ When there is a major nuclear incident it affects people well beyond the borders' of individual countries.
▪ However, eighteen people were killed during the year. Major incidents were at Wembley, Eccles, and Morpeth.
▪ This was the first major incident of its kind since the beginning of the November revolution.
minor
▪ Even a minor incident reveals his desperate determination to overcome, the desperation of the poor.
▪ Sometimes seemingly minor incidents can have a major impact on the outcome in New Hampshire.
▪ Before this happened, however, there were two minor incidents worthy of comment.
▪ Police reported a number of minor incidents but no further serious accidents.
▪ First, the physical injuries suffered by the children were relatively minor but the incidents which caused them were significant.
▪ There are, of course, always a number of minor incidents and accidents during training.
▪ The commercial incentive to reduce minor incidents therefore goes hand in hand with incentives to reduce major accidents.
other
▪ Anyone with any information about stolen vehicles or any other suspicious incidents around the town should contact Darlington police on Darlington.
▪ Female speaker Could it be linked with any other incident?
▪ Only other major incident was an edge of the area free kick towards the end.
▪ In other words the incident is exploited for personal, political, etc. gain.
▪ The fish has also been involved in other incidents of distress, such as having a fight with a Picasso Trigger.
▪ In other incidents the legal situation has been less clear.
recent
▪ But now I see, from a recent incident, that people are not ill any more.
▪ The most recent major incident was a blast last April 1 at the Shell refinery in Martinez.
▪ I have developed a theory to explain recent incidents in the light of what I have learned about you.
▪ At the last Parish Council meeting concern was expressed about a number of recent incidents.
▪ Efforts by the government and the judiciary to combat the cartels had been further damaged by two recent incidents.
▪ Two recent incidents have led me to question my responses in a job that I continue to enjoy and do well.
▪ In my hon. Friend's own area in Cambridgeshire there have been no recent incidents.
▪ If anything, though, the more recent incident had proved more damaging.
separate
▪ In a separate incident, a driver escaped drowning when his fuel tanker plunged into a canal.
▪ They shot or bludgeoned to death numerous others in separate incidents.
▪ The warning, from doctors at Salisbury District Hospital, Wiltshire, follows the separate incidents, one involving a 20-month-old girl.
▪ And fire crews were stoned in three separate incidents as they tried to deal with fires.
▪ Three people were reported to have died in separate incidents of pre-election violence.
▪ In a separate incident, a pensioner was knifed in the head as he sat on a street bench.
▪ In a separate incident, a prisoner who was being moved, broke free and vandalised furniture.
▪ In a separate incident, a journalist, Turan Dursun, was shot and killed on Sept. 4.
serious
▪ They were alarmed that the continuing growth in the number of foreign tourists could be jeopardised by an isolated serious incident.
▪ Among the most serious incidents occurred at a University of Rhode Island fraternity.
▪ Bloomington treated this as a serious gang incident.
▪ The only serious incident that has ever occurred involved a clear and flagrant case of product alteration and misuse.
▪ The police had realised how serious the incident could be, and managed to find Robert before he was physically harmed.
▪ The responsibility for the serious incident to which he referred was shared among several water authorities.
▪ The most serious incident came in April 1812 when two men were killed in attacking the well-guarded mill of William Cartwright.
▪ A more serious incident was when Eric Langmaid, Chief Engineer, had to repeatedly stop the generators due to overheating.
shooting
▪ Mr Marchant said Durham police have voluntarily referred the shooting incident to the police complaints authority for a full investigation.
▪ There were several bombings and shooting incidents in Ankara and Istanbul in late March and April.
similar
▪ A similar incident happened in the Hartest district of Suffolk.
▪ Preston says the tribe is looking at a precedent set in a similar incident litigated and settled out of court.
▪ As clashes in the capital continued there were similar incidents in the provinces of Malange, Huambo and Huila.
▪ Jackson and the national media were noticeably absent from Baltimore last November, when a similar incident happened.
▪ There have been similar incidents in Northumbria.
▪ One retired submarine admiral said he had never heard of a similar incident in more than 30 years in the Navy.
▪ In May at least 20 were reported drowned in a similar incident in heavy seas.
▪ It plans to write to the Crown Office to seek an assurance that a similar incident would not occur.
violent
▪ There have been several reports this year of petty theft and one violent incident.
▪ Grigsby has been plagued by several lawsuits and violent personal incidents.
▪ Sefton councillors this week stripped the club of its entertainments licence after being handed a police dossier detailing violent and rowdy incidents.
▪ In 1983 alone, 147 violent incidents were reported to the National Abortion Federation by member clinics.
▪ Between 1968 and 1970, there were numerous violent incidents involving shootouts between the police and members of the Black Panthers organisation.
▪ By March 1984, forty-four violent incidents had already been reported that year to the National Abortion Federation.
▪ Mr Chinotimba has been identified at the centre of several violent incidents.
▪ A handful of violent incidents flared before June 30.
whole
▪ She may even be asked to visualise the whole incident in a different way.
▪ The whole incident, overblown though it was, points out the need for greater coordination within government.
▪ The picket was charged with obstruction of the highway although the whole incident lasted for not more than nine minutes.
▪ Although she apologized later, I still have a bad feeling about the whole incident.
▪ I want to say this, too, about the whole incident.
▪ You can let some time pass and hope that this whole incident quickly fades away, which it may well do.
▪ The people, by this time, had also come to regret the whole incident and they beseeched him to stay.
▪ He looked as though he had stage-managed the whole incident.
■ NOUN
log
▪ See preceding error message in the incident log file for a fuller explanation of the error encountered.
▪ Check the incident log file for errors which may have occurred earlier and resolve these.
pollution
▪ Between 1979 and 1990, the number of reported pollution incidents from farm waste more than doubled.
▪ This accounts for 90 percent of reported pollution incidents.
▪ The figures show that the number of pollution incidents rose for the fifth successive year and have doubled since 1985.
▪ Although major disasters such as large oil pollution incidents and deaths from pesticides are few, both cause continuing problems.
▪ Of the 2802 pollution incidents from the industrial sources only four percent were classified as major.
▪ The first two chapters discuss a number of pollution incidents and the biological cycles of carbon nitrogen and sulphur.
▪ There are battles being fought all over Ireland about pollution incidents and industrial hazards.
room
▪ They've re-opened an incident room they set up in November when a fourteen year old girl was raped.
▪ Milton Keynes police have set up an incident room and they're appealing for any witnesses.
▪ Several potential witnesses have already called the incident room at Cheapside.
▪ The police have set up an incident room with four teams of officers working on the case.
▪ Blanche dictated the direct line to the incident room.
▪ Kate looked around her at the busy incident room.
▪ From a garage on the ascent out of the town she phoned the incident room.
▪ The police incident room in Leyland is on.
■ VERB
allege
▪ The Washington Post, like other newspapers, played-up alleged racial incidents to bolster scare headlines.
▪ Alameda County prosecutors are now looking into alleged incidents dating back to 1995, a year after he joined the church.
describe
▪ Mr Deane was quoted in the local paper describing the incident as' an awful shock.
▪ A news announcer is describing an incident that occurred yesterday in Texas.
▪ They've described the incident as mindless stupidity.
▪ Immediately preceding this extracted fragment, the narrator has been describing an incident relevant to the main story.
follow
▪ A man has been reported for a number of alleged motoring offences following the incident.
▪ A rather typical instance of the way such fears develop can be seen in the following incidents from our practice.
▪ There were several repercussions following my slight incident in the clothes shop.
▪ He relates the following incident as an example of how superficial his understanding was during this early period.
▪ The warning, from doctors at Salisbury District Hospital, Wiltshire, follows the separate incidents, one involving a 20-month-old girl.
▪ The warning follows a number of incidents in Coalisland when fireworks were thrown.
▪ It follows an incident in which a horse became trapped on a gate.
▪ The arrests follow an incident on Sunday when a man hailed a passing ambulance on the A12 near Chelmsford.
happen
▪ The incident had happened on the return journey.
▪ I should add that these three incidents happened to intelligent, middle-class patients in hospitals with international reputations.
▪ In addition there are difficulties associated with trials relating to incidents which happened in times long gone by.
▪ Jackson and the national media were noticeably absent from Baltimore last November, when a similar incident happened.
▪ Such incidents happen with greater or lesser degrees of seriousness at regular intervals in all our lives.
▪ This was a routine dawn incident that happened in Tuffah last month.
▪ Of all the incidents described, what happened when?
▪ Three parachuting colleagues and the plane's pilot were unaware of the incident as it happened.
investigate
▪ Police said they were investigating the incident as a petrol bombing.
▪ Cooper and Santos emphasized that their job was not to investigate specific incidents but to listen and offer suggestions.
▪ Steps were immediately taken to recover the diplomatic mail and to investigate the incident.
▪ Police are investigating the incident at Allistragh on the Moy Road.
▪ Police are now investigating the incident.
▪ Mr Jones suggested that Physic News magazine should be approached with a view to investigating the incidents and perhaps providing a satisfactory answer.
involve
▪ Officers say up to fifteen young men were involved in the incident, in which a white Rover car badly damaged.
▪ Both were involved in high-profile incidents last semester that heightened racial tensions on campus.
▪ It is understood Mr Pringle was involved in the earlier incident, and that the shootings were over his relationship with Leanne.
▪ The driver of the lorry involved in the fatal incident was charged on Aug. 29 with dangerous driving.
isolate
▪ I assume this is an isolated incident, as the Windows message that comes up would surely alert any keen quality controller.
▪ This does not seem like an isolated incident.
▪ It is not an isolated incident.
▪ But he insisted they were only isolated incidents.
▪ And this was not an isolated incident.
▪ At first, I wrote these off as isolated incidents.
recall
▪ Can you recall any suspicious incident, or comment, however trivial it may have seemed, which could help our investigation?
▪ David Kaczynski recalled an incident at the family dinner table when Kaczynski was about 12 or 13.
▪ Simon does not elaborate, but his face begins to tighten as he recalls some disagreeable incident.
▪ Gerald Bellamy recalls a rather macabre incident following this raid.
▪ I can, for instance, recall an incident which provided interest to the customer, and much amusement for me.
▪ The doctor warned her that recalling the incident might trigger a setback for Sergei.
▪ How indeed, writes P Kevan of Liverpool, who recalls a similar incident.
relate
▪ In addition there are difficulties associated with trials relating to incidents which happened in times long gone by.
▪ Broadus also faces another court hearing involving a felony gun possession charge not related to the Woldemariam incident.
▪ On yet another attempt to kill the Chowgarh tigress, Corbett relates the following intriguing incident.
▪ He relates the following incident as an example of how superficial his understanding was during this early period.
▪ Confidence in police handling of race-#related incidents has also plunged.
remember
▪ Dexter smiled to himself as he remembered that incident.
▪ Janet began college in the late l98Os and remembers the racial incidents of that period.
▪ After discussing this particular case of suttee, the diners went on to remember past incidents of the same nature.
▪ I remembered incidents, fragments, and these became La Strada.
▪ He can hardly remember anything about the incident.
▪ We stayed in Lehrte for three months, but I remember few incidents from it.
▪ But he remembered yesterday's incident in Marie's kitchen.
▪ But about a year ago she had begun to remember incidents which she must hitherto have blocked from her mind.
report
▪ No one should be afraid of reporting any incident that occurs.
▪ That was more than the 324 reported incidents of anti-gay harassment and violence.
▪ Another survey in 1994 found 57 percent of towns with over 25, 000 residents reporting gang incidents.
▪ Nearly half of the reported incidents involved falls off the snowmobile or collisions with another snowmobile.
▪ She admitted failing to report the incident, and withholding information when interviewed by the police.
▪ The very nature of anonymous reports naturally prevented any possibility of retribution against wrong-doers reporting the incident.
▪ Serious discussion of the phenomenon began with a debate over the role of the press in reporting violent incidents at football matches.
▪ She has suffered this abuse for almost 9 months and has reported every incident to the police and council.
shoot
▪ Mr Newton was shot after an incident in which he slapped Clifford's wife.
▪ Their house has been the reported scene of other shooting incidents.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Apart from the incident in Las Vegas our vacation was completely trouble-free.
▪ Friday's shooting incident in East London led to several arrests.
▪ One violent incident turned into a political and family tragedy.
▪ The fans were well behaved, and the game was played without incident.
▪ Three people were arrested in connection with the rock-throwing incident.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Agricultural pollution accounted for more than 10 percent of total incidents, and for a third of the major ones.
▪ From the point of view of societies, economies and the countless incidents of short-term history, civilizations must seem immortal too.
▪ Jewell Parker Rhodes' novel is based upon true incidents related but altogether forgotten by blacks and whites alike.
▪ The incidents are, as I said, legion.
▪ The allegations all relate to an incident on Sunday October 25.
▪ The North then invaded the South and the Gulf of Tonkin incident followed.
▪ This incident was notable only because it was my first seizure made on board a cutter.