I.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a single/individual item
▪ This is the largest amount ever paid for a single item of jewellery.
an individual sport
▪ You have to be mentally tough to compete in individual sports.
individual differences (=between one person and another)
▪ We respect the children’s individual differences.
individual organism
▪ Genes operate together in determining the characteristics of an individual organism.
individual preferences
▪ This partnership can take a variety of forms, depending on individual preferences.
individual/personal liberty
▪ Any law that increases police power may be seen as a threat to individual liberty.
personal/individual freedom
▪ Our personal freedom is being restricted more and more.
private individuals
▪ Seven police and three private individuals needed medical attention.
the individual conscience
▪ Decisions like this are a matter for the individual conscience.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
case
▪ Precedent counts for much, especially in the dreadfully slow handling of individual cases.
▪ There is no need to deny the importance of existential affirmation as the locus of meaning in individual cases.
▪ They emphasised that it was the circumstances of the individual case which led them to reject charges of degrading or inhuman treatment.
▪ Mr. Redwood I do not intend to comment on individual cases before the courts.
▪ But, except by private or hybrid Bills, Parliament does not legislate for individual cases.
▪ Indeed it can still be found in our own time, in some individual cases but also in new forms of patronage.
▪ The diagonal group is treated as individual cases.
child
▪ Several prospective studies have shown improvement in linear growth in individual children with nutritional restitution.
▪ Such interests, unique to the individual child, often reflect disequilibrium and are affectively charged sources of motivation.
▪ The second solution is to regard linguistic knowledge or competence as a characteristic of the individual child.
▪ It essentially involved asking individual children carefully selected questions and noting their responses and their reasoning for those responses.
▪ In the Health Study, individual children were randomly assigned either vitamin A or placebo.
▪ Activities are not necessarily presented according to the interests of individual children.
▪ In other words, individual children have very different educational experiences, both at an ideological and at a resource level.
▪ No interviews were held with individual children, though some data were collected through chats with individuals in the library.
company
▪ It has never lost an artist from its record label, supposedly because it consists of many small and friendly individual companies.
▪ These centers provide education and experiences to apprentices that the individual companies can not.
▪ They are trained on short training sessions run by the individual companies.
▪ It also assigned staff people to work with individual companies that wanted to launch a program.
▪ They argue for the primacy of collective bargaining at the level of the individual company.
▪ Some are a result of our national mentality, but some are specific to individual companies.
▪ A number of actuaries are responsible for individual company pension schemes with funds amounting to hundreds of millions of pounds.
▪ But there may be problems getting individual companies to follow suit.
country
▪ For an individual country, acting alone, huge efforts will make little difference.
▪ In many individual countries, Catholics use contraceptives at rates equal to or higher than do adherents of other faiths.
▪ How rugs are measured depends on the individual country.
▪ What is true in individual countries has also been true globally.
▪ Additional information includes tables of weights and measures and basic and commercial information on individual countries.
▪ Because of our comparative approach, we must regretfully bypass interesting problems within the individual countries.
▪ Unless there is action both by individual countries and by international organisations, it will not happen.
▪ A third hypothesis can be derived from our analysis, this time concerning the share of intraindustry trade for individual countries.
freedom
▪ But, as will be seen shortly, this individual freedom has limits.
▪ Restriction strikes hard at the sense of individual freedom that is essential to an innovative environment.
▪ One argument is that excessive government expenditure adversely affects individual freedom and choice.
▪ It's about individual freedom of thought.
▪ Extension of the individual freedom of conscience decisions to business corporations strains the rationale of these cases to the breaking point.
▪ Radicalism can mean conserving what needs to be guarded, like our attenuated traditions of individual freedom.
▪ In both, individual freedom dominates community obligations.
investor
▪ Everyone, it seems, wants individual investors.
▪ Indeed, some of the largest institutional money managers catering to wealthy individual investors advertise tax-related investment strategies based on computer models.
▪ This requirement alone would preclude most individual investors from using such models.
▪ The goal is to make the market much fairer for individual investors.
▪ However, in all countries, individual investors also have an important duty of care.
▪ The principle underlying the programs was that these agencies could better assess and charge for credit quality than individual investors.
▪ Just under 50 percent will be available for the individual investor if demand warrants.
▪ Names, as individual investors in the insurance market are known, will vote on the proposals this spring.
liberty
▪ But the central principles for us are individual liberty and personal fulfilment.
▪ At the most, therefore, one can only inquire whether individual liberty was increasing in fact, or not.
▪ Does this incursion upon individual liberty without consent serve a worthwhile purpose or rest upon some important principle?
▪ Attempts to force equality are unacceptable also because they directly undermine individual liberty, a value of far greater importance.
▪ These measures are an important extension of consumers' rights and some safeguard of individual liberty.
▪ A libertarian society was seen as one which was based on individual liberty.
▪ The result is a muddle in which police efficiency and individual liberty are two certain losers.
▪ The value of individual liberty is not absolute, but is subject to the authority of established government.
member
▪ The objectives will be personal to the individual members.
▪ When an organization as a whole is engaged in the process of denial, its individual members often follow suit.
▪ But it does so at a high price, both for the organization and its individual members.
▪ There are two trio collective compositions and the other seven pieces are by individual members of the group.
▪ Photographic Collections held by individual members of staff.
▪ Even so, the conventions of the group inevitably overrule the preferences of individual members.
▪ It is for individual members and their firms to decide what subject matter is useful and relevant to their needs.
need
▪ Clearly, individual gains, in terms of meeting individual needs, have important collective consequences in a trade union.
▪ And each business should choose its set carefully, to fit its individual needs.
▪ The time we spend attending to these individual needs is bound to vary somewhat.
▪ How far can programs such as legally mandated parental leaves go toward meeting the individual needs of employers and families?
▪ Instruction Instruction is informal and tailored to individual needs.
▪ All instructions should be paced and adapted to the individual needs of each woman and her baby.
▪ Instruction Coaching is informal and tailored to individual needs, though novice instruction may be interrupted occasionally by stronger winds.
▪ The main focus, contrary to scientific management theory, was on individual needs and not on the needs of the organization.
organism
▪ The rivalry between individual organism and group of organisms for the vehicle role, being a real rivalry, can be settled.
▪ That is, Gaian homeostasis originates in the local activity of individual organisms.
▪ As it happens the outcome, in my view, is a decisive victory for the individual organism.
▪ The population dynamics emerges from the interactions among the individual organisms.
▪ This is because it is second nature for them to pose their questions at the level of the individual organism.
▪ Because the individual organisms vary, some are bound to be better able to survive in particular circumstances than others.
▪ By 1841, he had very probably worked out, also, his later theory of individual organism generation: pangenesis.
pupil
▪ Sarah is completely focused on the needs of individual pupils instead of being centred on a particular area.
▪ Seven teachers of widely differing experience each taught five one-hour lessons to an individual pupil while being recorded on videotape.
▪ This section too starts with a premise, which is that individual pupils are active participants in their own education.
▪ Being a school photographer means being employed by a firm that contracts to do school / class / individual pupil photographs.
▪ The good restricted professional is sensitive to the development of individual pupils, an inventive teacher and a skilful class-manager.
▪ Funding based on age-related pupil numbers may not run to small groups and bespoke programmes for individual pupils.
responsibility
▪ People who otherwise consider individual responsibility the pinnacle of virtue seem unable to perceive an individual responsibility to protect an endangered planet.
▪ But it also diminishes individual responsibilities and all but guarantees that organizational performance will remain consistently low.
▪ People who otherwise consider individual responsibility the pinnacle of virtue seem unable to perceive an individual responsibility to protect an endangered planet.
▪ We talk of the individual consumer, individual professional responsibilities, individual responsibilities within the family, and so on.
▪ And it prompted the ideas of individual responsibility, dignity, and equality that are the pride of capitalism.
▪ Polybius pursues the search for individual responsibilities where non-Roman kings and leaders are concerned.
▪ Clinton emphasized the spirit of community and Watts stressed individual responsibility.
school
▪ For example in June, the percentage of pupils absent in individual schools ranged from 0% to 44% of the school roll.
▪ Some individual schools offered one-page profiles.
▪ As with most averages, these percentages conceal a degree of variation between individual schools.
▪ Uneven Commitment Level Companies often discover that the capacity and interest of individual schools to work with employers differ.
▪ It concludes that intensive analysis of individual schools and classrooms is required.
▪ In the meantime, he suggested local authorities and individual schools might introduce their own schemes.
▪ These documents would form the basis of development plans worked out by each individual school.
▪ Governors of individual schools needed to be at the same level of understanding and acceptance of what was being planned.
teacher
▪ It is a personal activity at best, an aid to the individual teacher, the individual child and the parents.
▪ And governmental immunity may protect some school districts, but it is not a defense for individual teachers.
▪ One other scheme allowed for one-to-one tests but left the decision about including them to individual teachers.
▪ Merit pay for individual teachers, to cite one example, just sets teacher against teacher and undermines morale.
▪ Thus subject departments and individual teachers are to be involved in forming curriculum policies rather than having rights over such policies.
▪ We will fully fund individual teacher costs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Individual tickets for Red Sox games go on sale this morning.
▪ a tennis player with a completely individual style
▪ an individual serving of mashed potatoes
▪ Each individual employee was given a bonus.
▪ Every baby has its own, individual personality.
▪ He has his own individual method of organizing his work.
▪ She dresses in a highly individual way.
▪ The children get far more individual attention in these small classes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After this review process, budget analysts consolidate the individual department budgets into operating and capital budget summaries.
▪ But also at work are the varied purposes of the individual employees.
▪ How rugs are measured depends on the individual country.
▪ How such paradoxical objectives are handled will depend upon the individual counsellor.
▪ Imagine now that a customer of an individual bank applies successfully for an overdraft.
▪ In two of the studies the details of the individual patients are not reported.
▪ The Roman script was phonetic and the book consisted of a series of dialogues, building up with phrases rather than individual words.
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
certain
▪ And it is unclear how certain individuals, namely Marxists, transcend false consciousness.
▪ Well, these dullish facts can mean a lot to certain individuals at certain times.
▪ You should not exceed this amount because iron can be toxic in certain individuals.
▪ But there is no doubt that media depictions of violence sometimes have influenced certain individuals to act out what they saw.
▪ Many karate movements suit certain individuals more than others.
▪ They must never blame themselves for what happens, if the cat reacts fearfully to certain individuals or certain specific conditions.
▪ Rather it is a characteristic that marked certain groups, individuals and movements during the first half of the twentieth century.
▪ However, following the campaign of certain organisations and individuals like Jaqueline Drake, things are looking up.
different
▪ It is widely distributed in space among different individuals, and widely distributed in time over many generations.
▪ Different part of the terrain was visited. Different individuals marked with the white smoke.
▪ To some extent, this will be inevitable in any organisation made up of different individuals.
▪ Causes, symptoms and tactics of conflict Conflict may be caused by differences in the objectives of different groups or individuals.
▪ Growth occurred in bursts, with different individuals beginning and ceasing growth at all stages within the growing season.
▪ The police tend to operate with different expectations of individuals from different social backgrounds.
▪ The assumption is that organisations are made up of different types of individuals who have different motives.
▪ The main emphasis is on the various ways that these relationships may pattern and establish expectations and opportunities for different individuals.
other
▪ In other collaborative activities individuals take turns in sitting vigilantly alert while others feed, thereby functioning as watchdogs or guards.
▪ Several other individual and household characteristics could be examined for their influence upon probabilities of early childhood survival.
▪ This particular crab grabbed the other individual and forced it out of its shell.
▪ She is almost an inch long, twice the length of any other individual in her army.
▪ In effect they confer on the individual a sphere of immunity against interference by the state, other organisations and other individuals.
▪ The emphasis here is on the individual's capacity to understand and interpret what other individuals mean by their social actions.
▪ There is, however, one other option where individuals can contribute, and that is recycling.
▪ Steer them away from attacking other individuals in terms of personalities.
particular
▪ Early experience with particular individuals is not the only source of variation in adults' mating preferences.
▪ Particular towns can specialize, just as particular individuals can.
▪ It does not require it to take care of particular individual or sectional interests, since these will often conflict.
▪ Any competent adult has the absolute right to refuse to be examined by any particular individual.
▪ In any particular organization individuals bring in these anxieties from their inner, phantasy worlds.
▪ She saw only the immediate need of a particular individual and tried to meet it then and there.
▪ He may be required to report to a particular individual or place at regular intervals as part of a monitoring process.
▪ These factors do not reveal why these particular individuals devoted their lives to political causes.
private
▪ Clive's estimate was that the Company and various private individuals made £3m. out of the change of rulers.
▪ There were a disturbing number of private individuals who called in to say they hoped he would not be a candidate.
▪ Where a government body seeks an injunction against a private individual or corporation, the position may be different.
▪ So the best way in for most private individuals is through insurance funds, investment trusts or unit trusts.
▪ It was too expensive for most private individuals there to send telegrams; the network was used almost exclusively by the authorities.
▪ Advertisers masquerading as private individuals will be liable to prosecution.
▪ Prosecutions brought by determined private individuals may present greater problems.
▪ It is an expression of alliance between groups of kin rather than a short-term arrangement between two private individuals.
single
▪ Usually, only a single individual was placed in each grave, unlike the first type where single burials were rare.
▪ We begin by looking at power relationships, not at the absolute power of any single individual.
▪ No search should ever be carried out by a single individual.
▪ As the name implies, the sole proprietorship is owned and operated by a single individual.
▪ For the Spix's macaw this process reached its inevitable terminus with just a single individual left in the wild.
▪ The same marketing principles that work for a chain of electronic stores also work for a single individual.
▪ By 1840 not a single individual remained.
▪ He felt that to have any chance of preserving the family tradition, a single individual must inherit.
■ VERB
allow
▪ The ability to maintain physical and mental powers has allowed some individuals to pursue their chosen careers regardless of their age.
▪ Customer-driven systems also allow individuals to meet their needs in a holistic way, without applying to half a dozen different programs.
▪ It may be too bound by rules and not allow individuals to exercise discretion within their work. 5.
▪ Income transfers, in contrast, allow individuals to effectively opt out of the capitalistic process.
▪ Self-expression allows individuals to explain their attitudes, outlook and feelings about their total situation.
▪ The tax-exempt savings accounts would allow individuals to set aside money to spend on medical needs under catastrophic-illness coverage.
▪ Phenomenology allows that every individual has a unique state of knowledge, based on previous experiences and inherited ideas.
▪ Market systems that allow individuals to pursue their own interests within a system of property rights, contracts, and market prices.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Effects of the drug vary from individual to individual.
▪ It is the responsibility of each individual within the class to make sure they have the correct books.
▪ Mandy's a real individual.
▪ The decision to have an operation should be up to the individual involved.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even if the public had the necessary information, there was nothing any one individual could have done about fixing the system.
▪ For Pateman, participatory democracy hinges on the premise that individuals and their institutions can not be placed apart.
▪ How familiar the class or individuals in the class, are with the microcomputer. 5.
▪ Just as both individuals can lose, if proper timely action is taken, both can also win.
▪ Many individuals choose to walk away from a promising situation rather than restore a damaged relation-ship.
▪ Personality Personality can be broadly defined as the propensities within an individual to act a certain way, given a particular context.