adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an independent commission
▪ The plan requires approval by an independent commission.
an independent country (=not controlled by another country)
▪ Malaysia has been an independent country since 1963.
an independent expert (=someone who is not controlled by, or does not receive money from, an organization or the government)
▪ The authorities called in an independent expert to advise them.
an independent film (=a film made by a small film company)
▪ Young directors began making small independent films.
an independent inquiry (=one that is organized by people who are not involved in a situation)
▪ The Labour Party is calling for an independent inquiry into the conduct of the police.
an independent review
▪ Their findings have been confirmed by a recent independent review.
an independent state (also a sovereign stateformal)
▪ Croatia became an independent state in 1991.
an independent/sovereign nation (=one that rules itself, rather than being run by another country)
▪ Countries that were once colonies of Britain are now independent nations.
an outside/independent consultant (=one who does not belong to your organization)
▪ An educational programme was planned by outside consultants.
economically independent (=not depending on other people for money)
▪ Societies change when women become economically independent.
independent clause
independent/impartial advice (=from someone who is not involved and will not get an advantage)
▪ The banks claim to offer independent financial advice.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ Who seeks to support and encourage midwives in their struggle for recognition as independent practitioners?
▪ Living out that ideal has been the key to the Severns' success as independent owners of their own business.
▪ We're as independent as ever.
▪ He does not complete work assigned as independent work.
▪ In the first months the Provincial Juntas acted as independent sovereign states.
▪ A knowledge of these 895 will, obviously, include the 660 that occur as independent phonetics.
▪ This right to operate as independent contractors rather than as salaried servants of the state has been zealously preserved by general practitioners.
▪ Both the companies will continue to exist as independent companies.
financially
▪ He was over sixty and a relatively wealthy man, with a wife who was financially independent.
▪ Less than a dozen years after their car wash days, Pam and Larry Winters are financially independent.
▪ The poster campaigners at Beida picked up this point, that academics were becoming financially independent and seeking ways of making money.
▪ Many of them were financially independent.
▪ His father's death in 1821 left him financially independent.
▪ It wanted the new structure to be a financially independent party with exclusive political loyalty from its members.
fully
▪ A social worker is usually involved because a person has ceased to be fully independent in some aspect of daily living.
▪ There is a fully independent, four-wheel-suspension system with McPherson struts and stabilizer bars, front and rear.
more
▪ Bees, thus, actively approach horizontal stripes and avoid vertical ones, suggesting that there are two or more independent channels.
▪ As already stated, a system whose parts vary in a more independent manner is more adaptable.
▪ Rosa's concern was partly on her own account: she wanted to encourage him to be more independent.
▪ Term limits for commissioners would enable them to make more independent judgments regarding violations of the law.
▪ In some other countries central banks are more independent of the government and can take much more initiative in deciding monetary policy.
▪ A moment's reflection will show that it would make private members more independent.
▪ As he became more independent of booksellers he began to choose works for publication which suited his own taste.
▪ Correspondingly, the police have become gradually more independent of local capitalist interests.
newly
▪ Or it could have refused to recognise Bosnia, stayed on the territory of the newly independent state and fought.
▪ These problems reveal the contradictions within the newly independent society, particularly the contradictions between the new rulers and the masses.
▪ Subsequent economic development in these newly independent nations was assisted by the overall growth of world trade and investment.
■ NOUN
advice
▪ Secondly, is the fact that there was no separate independent advice fatal to the plaintiffs' claim?
▪ Nothing but independent advice or relief from the ascendancy of her husband over her judgment and will would suffice.
▪ The wife had no independent advice.
▪ On independent advice, the syndicate of more than 200 banks appears to have decided Eurotunnel is no longer a bankable proposition.
▪ Price Waterhouse had been used to help with quality issues and to provide independent advice.
▪ But the new rules require any directors not involved in the buy-out to obtain independent advice.
▪ Again it makes sense to take independent advice on how to save for old age when you're living abroad.
▪ Several planners expressed the need for independent advice in this area.
body
▪ It is an independent body and the courses are drawn up by specialist committees including representatives from government, industry and teaching.
▪ The Centre is an independent body, with charitable status.
▪ The client may need reassurance that the standards the hotel claims to offer have been scrutinised by an independent body.
▪ This is an independent body of doctors, philosophers, lawyers and theologians which promotes the study of ethical issues.
▪ Each is the independent body recognised by government as responsible for promoting training in its own part of the economy.
▪ Sugden warned that independent bodies would become toothless if they were constantly overruled by the government.
candidate
▪ In addition 84 seats in the expanded 250-member Assembly were reserved for independent candidates.
▪ In the 1975 election, however, voters chose four independent candidates for the council and elected independent Margaret Hance as mayor.
▪ The chairman of Cheltenham Conservatives discounts any fears of an independent candidate splitting the Tory vote.
▪ Texas state law does not allow for the substitution of an independent candidate once he has won a spot on the ballot.
▪ In elections to rural councils independent candidates won two-thirds of the seats and 80 percent of mayorships.
▪ But Perot is listed as an independent candidate, and he promised a nominating process open to all comers.
▪ Neither group competed as a political party in the elections, instead giving their backing to independent candidates.
▪ The campaign also reverted to the traditional two-party contest with the unexpected withdrawal of undeclared independent candidate Ross Perot.
company
▪ With our long tradition of effective management and careful attention to quality we have a bright future as an independent company.
▪ An independent company, that is, with its two main engines of growth showing definite signs of maturity.
▪ Patricof plans to operate Neill as an independent company.
▪ Both the companies will continue to exist as independent companies.
▪ That's helped to make it one of the most profitable independent companies.
▪ It also convinced managers of the trucking and warehouse operations to buy them out and operate as independent companies.
▪ The more independent companies shown in Table I were Cosmos and Horizon.
▪ We are a totally independent company dedicated to providing a high level of professional services to users of all Lotus software.
contractor
▪ It is thought that the independent contractor is not covered.
▪ The National Science Foundation, which was footing the bill, decided to hire an independent contractor to complete the project.
▪ This right to operate as independent contractors rather than as salaried servants of the state has been zealously preserved by general practitioners.
▪ Bragg, 30, of San Marcos, who works as an independent contractor for a mortgage bank.
▪ The Act will also facilitate the further development of internal markets with competition between suppliers and opted-out hospitals acting as independent contractors.
▪ Many employees also prefer to be independent contractors, although it is not always clear why.
▪ Similarly, a small business that hires a marketing consultant must determine whether the consultant is an employee or an independent contractor.
▪ Perhaps the best rule to follow when it comes to independent contractors is not to make obvious mistakes.
counsel
▪ By the mid 1930s, he had begun to rule as a royal dictator without the benefit of independent counsel.
▪ If there are, the attorney general must petition a Washington-based panel of three federal judges to appoint an independent counsel.
▪ Forbes said an independent counsel was probably the best way to go.
▪ In several other less serious cases, Reno asked for an independent counsel.
▪ An independent counsel is subject to removal by the attorney general, the same as any federal prosecutor.
▪ Of all of these, the appointment of an independent counsel is the least desirable.
▪ It is clear that the independent counsel law has been misused or at least overused.
▪ Some Democrats on Capitol Hill have joined in the call for an independent counsel to investigate campaign fund raising.
film
▪ The subject is contentious enough in all conscience - the independent film.
▪ No one could argue with the contention that 1996 was the year of the independent film.
▪ The independent film movement, broadly speaking, grew out of an art tradition.
▪ But he eventually migrated to Chicago, where he acted in independent films and theater.
▪ National Video Resources aims to help increase public access to high quality, independent film and video.
▪ Mr Afman built up a profitable portfolio of loans, mostly to small, independent film studios and heavily secured.
▪ And those vignettes were made by local college students working with an award-winning independent film director.
inquiry
▪ The document could not be used for an independent inquiry arising out of other facts.
▪ They had been spoon-fed for so long that they had lost the habit of independent inquiry.
▪ He hoped that it would express disquiet at the circumstances of the Tully-West shooting and would call publicly for an independent inquiry.
▪ Stephen Merrell says a full independent inquiry should be held.
▪ An independent inquiry into the death of Ashley Kriel, and for his killers to be brought to trial.
▪ They still want an independent inquiry conducted by doctors from outside the Oxfordshire Health Authority.
▪ It has decided to launch an independent inquiry, to see whether more could have been done to help him.
▪ Opposition parties of both the right and left joined with the unions in calling for an independent inquiry into the Fez incidents.
life
▪ Voice over Bob is helping a dozen patients at Stoke Mandeville to prepare for a new independent life.
▪ Some one should have tipped these people off before they opted for the independent life.
▪ After leaving school, many Down's adults would be able to live reasonably independent lives if the appropriate environment were created.
▪ No woman should have to choose between an independent life and a baby.
▪ The recent changes in Community Care are designed to give more people the chance to live independent lives.
▪ They do not illustrate or copy familiar images, but live their own independent lives according to their own programmes.
▪ However, the presence of the physical handicap will make it more difficult for the person to eventually lead an independent life.
▪ The promotion of coherent networks of services which assist people to live dignified and independent lives in the community.
producer
▪ Twenty years later Channel Four, originally conceived as a publishing house for independent producers, succumbed to the same institutional pressures.
▪ Just how tough it could be for the independent producer is evident from the history of Minerva Films.
▪ He was more instrumental than any other independent producer in breaking the stranglehold of the major studios.
▪ One thing is for certain - the role of the independent producer is secured.
▪ The larger ones hope to soldier on as independent producers.
▪ The switch to waged work of previously independent producers also increased union membership.
▪ Do regional broadcasters need regionally based independent producers and do regionally based producers need regional broadcasters?
radio
▪ Most other independent radio stations had either had their equipment destroyed or had broadcast music programmes and other safe material.
▪ Read in studio One of the region's independent radio stations has won a top award at the radio Oscars.
▪ And there are now 15 independent radio stations in London alone, compared with three in 1979.
▪ The independent radio sector is also thought likely to attract foreign interest.
▪ This was the first independent radio station in the republic and was to be run by the students' official youth organization.
▪ The government withdrew facilities for independent radio stations.
school
▪ The poll, of nearly 2000 adults, showed 72 percent favoured the retention of independent schools.
▪ Of the 42,000 who leave independent schools, more than 11,000 go to a top-13 university.
▪ Fees for independent schools are high.
▪ What is true of schools in the public sector is true also, to a lesser extent, of independent schools.
▪ Parents began to turn in increasing numbers to the independent schools.
▪ The same would not be true of independent schools, which at least are well resourced.
sector
▪ A number depend upon special arrangements with one or more local schools, in either the state or the independent sector.
▪ So where does this leave the independent sector?
▪ Local authorities will be expected to make maximum use of the independent sector. 4.
▪ We shall continue to encourage the development of childcare arrangements in the voluntary and independent sectors.
▪ No such option is available to the more fragile independent sector.
▪ State schools, she declared, had much to learn from the independent sector.
▪ The lack of strong leadership in the independent sector reflected the absence of any new producer talent.
▪ A third priority raised is contracting with the independent sector.
software
▪ It claims that over 1,000 independent software vendors have already signed up for the new version.
▪ The enticement to independent software vendors is the range of stable Sparc systems from laptops to supercomputers coming to market.
▪ Another 7 percent is contracted with independent software house, and computer makers provide the remaining 6 percent.
▪ If demand for its Microsoft based Intel Corp desktops encourage independent software vendors sufficiently development of a MicroSparc-based desktop will be considered.
▪ He believes such an outcome would only tick off independent software companies.
▪ Thousands of independent software developers have done so, to their profit and his.
▪ Some have to be dealt with using adhoc, independent software vendor solutions at present, such as application development environments and distributed databases.
▪ Some independent software vendors have gone further.
state
▪ The republic was declared an independent state on Sept. 23.
▪ Newly independent states now enjoy sovereignty, but the; y still need electricity.
▪ By 1830 MiloÜ was the internationally accepted ruler of a virtually independent state.
▪ Now in April 1958 there was a conference of independent states.
▪ They're independent states these days, no more free transport.
▪ This, in outline, is the situation facing the government of the newly independent state.
▪ Or it could have refused to recognise Bosnia, stayed on the territory of the newly independent state and fought.
▪ It has been replaced by a commonwealth of independent states.
study
▪ It will make provision for mixed-ability groups much easier to organise, and encourage independent study.
▪ Two independent studies since the 1968 election confirm the trend.
▪ Councillors will discuss the possibility of funding an independent study into the mine's viability.
▪ In the spring semester Gordon taught two seminars and took on more than a dozen students for independent study projects.
▪ The course manual can be used for independent study.
▪ Other recent examples of comparative studies are those of Lowe - independent study modules and lecture tours, in 1981.
▪ The Bellcrest File is designed for independent study.
▪ For use in class, or for independent study.
television
▪ The results of the research will be given to both national and independent television networks.
▪ While they were still together she started a video course and now works for an independent television company.
▪ It was Mellor who salvaged something from the disastrous 1990 Broadcasting Bill, which presaged the widely-ridiculed independent television franchise round.
▪ These days there are hundreds of newspapers, including four competing dailies, and a handful of independent television and radio stations.
▪ Read in studio One of the founding fathers of independent television has been celebrating sixty years in broadcasting.
▪ The business is owned by the regional independent television companies.
▪ It is in the field of editorial content that the Great and Good of independent television have exercised their most direct influence.
variable
▪ So far only one report has used information for both birth weight and gestational age as independent variables in the analysis.
▪ It could not handle too many independent variables.
▪ An alternative choice of independent variables that is more convenient for certain types of four-terminal network is the input current and output voltage.
▪ In other words it enables one to modify the artificially simplistic notion of clear-cut dependent and independent variables having one-way causal links.
▪ It was the fact of the experiment that was the important independent variable, not the ones that Mayo was working with.
▪ The space-economy for example is simply the spatial pattern of organization created by the industrial economy; it is not an independent variable.
▪ The independent variable on which one has to focus is the political culture.
▪ Therefore, the regression coefficient is often considered as a measure of the effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an independent/a positive/a free etc thinker
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Independent legal experts have been studying the case.
▪ a strong independent woman
▪ Changes in the rural economy turned many independent farmers to hired labourers.
▪ Croatia became an independent nation in 1991.
▪ Dad left me all his money when he died, which made me financially independent.
▪ I've always been attracted to strong, independent women.
▪ I quite like living alone. It's made me more independent.
▪ I suddenly realised that my precious son was a full-grown man, quite independent of his father and me.
▪ Joe's still not very independent, and he tends to follow me around.
▪ Local companies and industries have been helping independent schools to provide buildings and equipment.
▪ My mom was in fact quite independent. She had always had a job and her own bank account.
▪ Robin worked for one of the largest independent television companies.
▪ She is financially independent.
▪ The blood samples are being sent out for independent analysis.
▪ The country became independent from France in 1964.
▪ The country has three major network television stations, plus one independent station.
▪ We must encourage independent governments, not economic satellites.
▪ Yonkers has several independent bus lines.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Certainly he did not advise the wife that she should seek independent advice.
▪ Chain supermarkets are more likely to be discounters than independent supermarkets which favor specials.
▪ Corporate power is not merely a matter of the resources and market share of formally independent entities.
▪ However, older age at first pregnancy and fewer children were not independent factors.
▪ In the 1975 election, however, voters chose four independent candidates for the council and elected independent Margaret Hance as mayor.
▪ Small independent merchants who were threatened by both the supermarkets and the chains were forced to adopt the supermarket principle.
▪ The independent project organization appears to be the best approach from a social point of view.