noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
acted on information
▪ Police say they acted on information received.
Additional information
▪ Additional information can be obtained from the centre.
an information centre
▪ For further details contact the Tourist Information Centre.
ask for information
▪ I wrote asking for information about language classes.
basic information
▪ This leaflet has been designed to provide some basic information.
collate information/results/data/figures
▪ A computer system is used to collate information from across Britain.
comprehensive information
▪ The information we have is fairly comprehensive.
computerized information
▪ computerized information
conflicting information
▪ There’s a lot of conflicting information about what is best for you to eat.
contextual information/factors etc
convey information
▪ Your movements also convey information to people.
correct information
▪ I’m not sure that I’ve been given the correct information.
crucial information
▪ The government did not publicize this crucial information.
disclosed...information
▪ Some companies have already voluntarily disclosed similar information.
divulge information/secrets/details etc (to sb)
▪ It is not company policy to divulge personal details of employees.
essential information
▪ You can get essential travel information from the website.
extract information
▪ They used torture to extract information about their families.
factual information/knowledge/statements etc
▪ Libraries are stores of factual information.
further details/information etc
▪ Visit our website for further details.
Home Information Pack
inaccurate information/data etc
▪ He was fined $300,000 for making inaccurate statements to Congress.
information centre
information overload
▪ The greater the amount of data, the greater the risk of information overload.
information overload
▪ the modern day information overload
information pack
▪ Send away for your free information pack today.
information retrieval
information science
information superhighway
information technology
information theory
information
▪ The police were contacted by a number of people who had valuable information about the bombings.
information/ticket etc office
▪ the tourist office
▪ Is there a lost property office?
Office Of Public Sector Information, the
piece of advice/information/gossip etc
▪ Let me give you a piece of advice.
▪ We’re witnessing a piece of history in the making.
receive...information
▪ If you would like to receive further information, return the attached form.
seek advice/information
▪ If in any doubt, seek the advice of a senior officer.
the information age (=since the Internet has become widely used)
▪ Business has had to evolve in the information age.
up-to-date information/data/figures/news etc
▪ They have access to up-to-date information through a computer database.
up-to-the-minute information
▪ The general lacked up-to-the-minute information at the crucial moment.
useful information/advice
▪ She gave me some useful advice.
vital information
▪ The radio was a source of vital information on sea and weather conditions.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
additional
▪ To see how men began to entertain values and engage in the pursuit of excellence we need additional sources of information.
▪ For additional information please read Jan.
▪ The additional property information form is appropriate for leasehold property.
▪ If you need additional assistance or information, phone direct to Myrtle Beach at 0-800-89-1390.
▪ For additional information the original papers should be consulted.
▪ The searcher is kept better informed as to related terms under which additional information or documents have been indexed.
▪ It gives additional information which can be used as experience grows and by those who already possess some knowledge of Homoeopathy.
▪ The figure therefore gives the possible combinations of project outcome and additional information.
basic
▪ Different interpretations might be applied to different organizations, but the basic information needs are the same.
▪ It provided basic information on Soviet missile testing and, development.
▪ The basic information they needed had been discovered more than two centuries before.
▪ Many genealogists are surprised to find that some of the most basic information is not on the Internet.
▪ But many poor countries lack even basic information about existing education and health programmes.
▪ Another study found that acquainting students with basic job information in high school was associated with higher earnings in the future.
▪ An investment overview should therefore quickly impart the essential basic information which will interest the potential purchaser.
▪ It includes basic information for the newcomer either as a solo performer or as a team flyer.
confidential
▪ The first concerns the definition of confidential information.
▪ He has his confidential sources of information.
▪ Schering disclosed what it regarded as confidential information to Falkman and the expert for this purpose.
▪ A separate venue must be available, however, if confidential information is to be considered in relation to nursing care.
▪ Thus if the confidential information was published in full detail then the initial recipient would not have a head start.
▪ Whether or not a policy exists, social services staff have a legal duty to keep confidential all information which is given to them.
▪ Treat as completely confidential any information they bring to you.
▪ For example, online techniques are being increasingly used for the rapid transmission of confidential non-publicly available information.
detailed
▪ The ability to search for supporting detailed information as time and necessity dictate. 11.
▪ Many asked for more clearly presented and detailed information with less false claims.
▪ More detailed information can be obtained on an adhoc basis.
▪ For more detailed information about the allocation of Offline Manager privilege, see Section 11 of this manual.
▪ The detailed information that my hon. Friend requires can be found in documentation that has been placed in the Library.
▪ More detailed information is available free on request.
▪ Documentation is well written and contains detailed information on usage of the function calls.
▪ All three send out very detailed information which should help you to decide whether open learning really is for you.
factual
▪ However it can be used when the buyer is clearly seeking factual information.
▪ They serve as role models and sources of factual information for other teens.
▪ In practice this may not be onerous as very limited factual information is contained in the typical advertisement.
▪ Many respondents criticized campus police for not disclosing enough factual information about the racial events, fueling rumors and speculation.
▪ The approach to course design emphasises the development of understanding of key ideas rather than extensive memorisation of detailed factual information.
▪ Yes, you memorized all types of lists and pieces of factual information with regard to, say, the physical sciences.
▪ In historical writing you may need a great deal of factual information to support your argument or opinion.
▪ Use the written word when possible, particularly for factual information of times, prices, dates, sizes and explicit details.
financial
▪ CompuServe is serious, a great place for financial information or technical advice about your computer.
▪ Careful consideration should be given to the timing of the release of both beneficial and potentially awkward financial information.
▪ It even went so far as to share financial information that previously had been restricted to management.
▪ B in markets for news and financial information.
▪ As noted in Section 5.1.3, financial information is required by planners at the corporate level.
▪ The financial information on credit reports, such as bank accounts and loans, is tightly regulated.
further
▪ Please complete the attached coupon for further information.
▪ There were also several other schemes for which further information was not subsequently obtained.
▪ Look for these products in your high street stores or write for stockists and further information to Abbey Kapok &038; Fillings,.
▪ For further information on this service contact the Occupational Pensions Board on.
▪ For further information see the expedition report.
inside
▪ Some of these rules prohibit the misuse of inside information.
▪ When Milken trades junk bonds, he has inside information.
▪ Almost any conversation with a company would probably put the analysts in possession of inside information.
▪ Of course, not everyone gets caught, nor do the laws cover everyone with inside information.
▪ A number of the Take-over Panel rules prohibit trading on the basis of inside information.
▪ On the day the inside information was made public, the price of the share concerned jumped to reflect it.
▪ As there are no Premier games between now and 14 Jan, we all have the same inside information.
▪ In Britain, the balance of the equation favouring the exploitation of inside information is changing.
new
▪ Inventions - the discovery of new information about the production process - are a particular example of this general theme.
▪ He found that over two-thirds of the neurons increase their activity when a new item of information enters memory.
▪ Stinson gives as much definition as one reasonably can, but there is no new information here.
▪ Those guidelines evolved over time as new information was acquired.
▪ The impression you gave that I provided your reporter with new information following the meeting is totally false.
▪ The possible impacts of these new information technologies are considered later in this chapter.
▪ This information may be relevant as a reminder or it may be presented as new information.
▪ They allow you to acquire new information more reliably.
relevant
▪ Try processing all the relevant information contained in the problem to help you come up with one plausible explanation.
▪ The market permits people to make decisions and to act without going through the impossible task of collecting all the relevant information.
▪ The social workers were bound by rules of confidentiality and legal requirements which prevented them from revealing any relevant information.
▪ But the reader has no way of knowing because the relevant information has not been given by the writer.
▪ Always answer with a greeting and any relevant information, such as' Good morning!
▪ All those decision making activities for which relevant information existed only in implicit form were carried out exclusively by experts.
▪ To ensure a mutually beneficial outcome it is necessary that both parties be fully informed of all relevant information.
▪ The professional therefore needs to keep an open mind to check on relevant information.
useful
▪ Each is a slim volume but so packed with useful information and recipes that the price of £4.99 seems modest.
▪ Maps, climate charts and fact boxes provide instant, useful information.
▪ Both naturally-occurring and artificial isotopic mixtures can give useful information.
▪ Other useful information includes file size and date.
▪ Similarly, the Investment Business Gazettes offer concise and very useful supplementary information.
▪ What useful management information is available from the accounting system from which the annual accounts are produced?
▪ This amount may be expressed as a ratio of the amount of useful information compared to the amount of redundant information.
▪ But whatever his motives, he soon realized that he had tapped a very useful vein of information in Ted Morgan.
vital
▪ The Commissions of Inquiry Act was to be amended to prevent the withholding of vital information.
▪ So we rely on instruments and probes to provide vital information.
▪ The helpline for former pupils, staff and parents is producing vital new information.
▪ All night long, serious, important matters were addressed; vital information was exchanged.
▪ I made sure the vital information was given out as simply as possible, without any of the accepted police jargon.
▪ In both cases it is the position of the lips that conveys much of the vital information.
▪ We hope that you will continue to provide us with this vital information as we embark together on the second piloting year.
▪ She does not work in isolation, and poor records will deprive others involved in teaching of vital information about the student.
■ NOUN
background
▪ The symbolism is complicated and relies on a great deal of background information.
▪ There are also chapters with background information on birding and a list of species with range maps.
▪ Pupils need an introduction to the topic, and may need background information to appreciate what they will see on site.
▪ The knowledge of a critic is useful here for filling in relevant background information.
▪ The Working Party has met on several occasions and a research project is under way to provide all relevant background information.
▪ In documentary-style demonstration material the commentary is used to provide background information.
▪ In addition they draw on all kinds of background information they may have about that particular situation.
▪ It was only to be expected that the contestants would take note of this background information, in one way or another.
retrieval
▪ Nor does it seem that systems of information retrieval will come to his help for a long time, if ever.
▪ Web server functions can be categorized into information retrieval, data and transaction management, and security.
▪ Orientation is also concerned with the creation of a positive attitude to this kind of information retrieval.
▪ Instruction is concerned with enabling the user to learn in detail how to carry out computerized information retrieval.
▪ Thus lectures might be suitable for providing a general introduction to a course on information retrieval.
▪ The part of the programme which had received highest priority was the introductory course in information retrieval for the engineering undergraduates.
▪ Increasing relevance to practical information retrieval.
▪ Train pupils in methods of information retrieval 4.
service
▪ Skymaster is stuck in a conundrum that affects a lot of electronic information services.
▪ Consumer information services are a new type of catalog business.
▪ Club activities centre on monthly meetings, an information service and the production of application demonstrators.
▪ The three concerns will focus on high-growth information markets, financial information services and consumer-product market research.
▪ The 127 were then divided into three sectors: information services, telecommunications services and hardware.
▪ This technology could attract more home users to information services.
▪ Others cover patents and information technology, and there is back-up from library and other information services.
▪ J., information service said.
system
▪ The information system aims to support decision-making and the decisions ought to be directed towards achieving the goals of the organisation.
▪ They also provide services for the Internet, information systems, telecommunications and Web server use.
▪ The information system is updated by a monthly pack which is sent to all bureaux.
▪ Information systems are introducing similar quality improvement programs to link information systems with basic business needs.
▪ So the service offers a payment system and a management information system rolled into one.
▪ Manman/X is the Unix version of Ask's business information system that supports all aspects of manufacturing.
▪ A fourth approach removes all decision taking into the information system itself and is called a decision-taking system.
▪ Some fear that the information system is regarded as an easy target for cuts.
technology
▪ Of the three information technology sectors telecommunications services was pack leader with 7.7% turnover growth and 13.1% median pre-tax growth.
▪ Through the information technologies they have spawned, computers step up the pace of the ticking.
▪ Entries for information technology were increasing significantly at all levels, the results show.
▪ There is some basis for this hope, since information technologies are becoming powerful aids to learning and communication.
▪ Others cover patents and information technology, and there is back-up from library and other information services.
▪ Norstan is an information technology, networking and communication system business based in Minneapolis.
▪ There are implications from this analysis for the application of information technology within organisations which will be explored in Chapter 6.
▪ They overlapped but each new phase rapidly established dominance in the world of information technology.
■ VERB
based
▪ When it's ill-conceived, ill-considered or based on incomplete information, the Profitboss won't criticize the critic.
▪ They can not make informed decisions based on serious print information.
▪ Whoever the commentator is, the opinions expressed are often only beliefs based on sketchy information that is only indirectly relevant.
▪ Compiled by Darrel Koehler, Herald staff writer, and based on information supplied by the attraction listed.
▪ One always had to start with some ideas based on the available information.
▪ Criticize or defend this claim in terms of evidence based on the information presented in chapters 3 through 6. 14.
▪ We now accept that the report was based upon inaccurate information and conveyed completely the wrong impression about Linford.
▪ Finally the research is based on information collected from the ASWs themselves.
call
▪ Cover is $ 5 at the door. Call 544-2427 for more information.
▪ Admission is free. Call 722-1255 for information.
▪ It runs from December 26 to January 1. Call 628-7785 for information on local activities.
▪ Admission is $ 15. Call 206-6988 for information.
▪ There is no word yet regarding an alternative line-up, but you can call 882-0400 for more information.
▪ The show starts at 10 p. m. and admission is $ 5 at the door. Call 628-8844 for more information.
collect
▪ The authority is hoping to collect as much information as possible on the Tees course fishery in the light of the river's barrage development.
▪ As the most active trader, Salomon collected more information about prices and customer demand than its competitors.
▪ Another method is to collect information on structural and other contextual properties and to use these as a basis for sampling.
▪ While positioning itself to be the provider of new media, the company is collecting extensive information about this emerging market.
▪ Most local authorities now have a research and intelligence unit to collect and analyse information on their areas.
▪ It will force you to collect information on yourself.
▪ One difficulty of primary sources is that a purist definition tends to suggest that the writer has personally collected the information.
▪ While government statisticians will return to work this week, they will still need time to collect and analyze information.
contact
▪ Anyone wanting further information should contact John McIntosh on 031-557 4117.
▪ For more information, contact Tony Davis, 422-6486, ext. 215.
▪ Anyone with information should contact the police on.
▪ Anyone with information is asked to contact Dursley Police.
▪ For further information, contact John McLean Fox at the above address.
▪ For further information contact the Valley Leisure Centre.
▪ The owner who doesn't want to be named, is urging anyone with information to contact the police.
contain
▪ A package may therefore contain any mixture of information judged relevant to its application.
▪ Other sites containing X Games information have already begun to pop up.
▪ The dictionary definitions contain the information about the irregular derivations.
▪ My newspaper contained information from the high school on homeroom assignments.
▪ Viewfinders also commonly contain displays of useful information such as the state of the battery and the mode of operation in use.
▪ These transmit coded signals containing information from highly accurate atomic clocks on board.
▪ The database contains failure history information and the graphics interface allows circuit diagrams and drawings to be displayed.
▪ It usually contained very little general information on the country he had visited.
disclose
▪ Some companies have already voluntarily disclosed similar information.
▪ When prosecutors refused to disclose information about their procedures, a federal district judge dismissed the charges against the five defendants.
▪ Coetzee was found guilty of currency smuggling, telephone tapping and disclosing official information.
▪ Trading in Rohr shares was halted by exchange officials yesterday until the company disclosed more information about the acquisition.
▪ The writer Tony Geraghty was similarly charged last year for disclosing information about mass surveillance by the army in Northern Ireland.
▪ Customers were not told about the fees in advance; they were disclosed later on their information tickets.
▪ Anyone who discloses financial information via the internet is vulnerable to fraud or electronic mix-ups.
▪ Many respondents criticized campus police for not disclosing enough factual information about the racial events, fueling rumors and speculation.
exchange
▪ As we exchanged information, the Alsatian sat at our feet, licking the salt out of an empty crisp packet.
▪ Children exchange information with one another in their conversations and learn to view events from the position of others.
▪ Strictly speaking, the Internet is an international network of computers linked up to exchange information.
▪ It is very helpful to exchange information and coping measures with other sufferers of the disease and their families.
▪ The meetings provided an opportunity to exchange information about future events and to discuss problems of mutual interest.
▪ Bulletin boards are a low-tech way to exchange information.
▪ Both sides also agreed to exchange information on a weekly basis between senior military commanders on troop deployments and movements.
▪ There are also local credit associations that exchange credit information.
extract
▪ From him Méli, who was much more interested in eating his lobster, extracted a little information.
▪ If they were captured by the Border Security Forces, well, it was pretty hard to extract information from a camel.
▪ The wine mellowed the atmosphere between them, and Blanche felt less hurried than the week before to extract information from him.
▪ The fact that some one can extract meaningful information from network traffic is nothing new.
▪ Dealers, sometimes surreptitiously encouraged by their firms, would go to great lengths to extract information from employees of rival firms.
▪ A third feature becomes clear when we extract from the cosmogonies information which is relevant at this point.
▪ His fear is that he will be tortured to extract information about his brother.
▪ Somehow she has to try to extract the information she wants from the information she gets.
gather
▪ It is part of the function of the clearinghouses to gather this unreported information - systematically if possible.
▪ Their other function was to gather information, again to be employed for propaganda.
▪ The new organisation's assessors will conduct local visits and will gather information on patients' experience of the doctor's service.
▪ But up to this point, nobody has figured how to gather and provide that information.
▪ The research has sought to gather comprehensive information on financial support to firms in the study area over the period 1974-84.
▪ Your only interest in life is to gather information that will locate.
▪ Grocery and discount stores give shoppers with buyers' cards special discounts in exchange for permission to gather information on their purchases.
▪ Clinical trials not only collect and analyze medical data, they also gather information on the costs of alternative treatments.
give
▪ I must take no notice of their politeness or kindness which was designed to trap me into giving information.
▪ Lev is simply thinking out his actions aloud, with no desire to give anyone any information.
▪ They give managers additional information on which to base their judgements, but they do not provide a company control system.
▪ Both of these techniques give information about the solid surface rather than the bulk.
▪ The wind-tunnel tests had given useful information about the high-pressure areas and the maximum wind force to be expected.
▪ I think I should give you some general information about Lilliput.
▪ I am convinced they are giving the information I need to some people, just not to me.
include
▪ These include extra physical information from the pattern level - namely some measure of word length and word shape.
▪ Services to parents and teachers include providing requested information, duplicating materials, and helping plan and prepare teacher-made materials.
▪ This includes the syntactic information and the root index for the word.
▪ Your editor should ask for your opinions, why you chose certain words or decided to include or omit information.
▪ He will sell anything he can lay his hands on in exchange for drugs, which includes any information he may have.
▪ A typical day includes offering information to dozens of tourists and picking up litter.
▪ This policy was included in the mid-March information pack.
▪ If this letter reaches you, please write back and try to include the following information: 1.
need
▪ Others need the extra information to answer readers' letters, whose numbers in some instances can be quite substantial.
▪ He did not need quite so much information.
▪ There are many areas of everyday life where we may need to write for information, eg when booking a holiday.
▪ They need to provide better information and more evidence of courtesy, caring and professional competence, researchers concluded.
▪ Prevention New parents may need some information in understanding the developmental progress of bowel function.
▪ In order to be able to help effectively, we need to hold personal information on file.
▪ They are explicit, in Objective 5, that users need information for evaluating efficiency and effectiveness.
▪ Please contact me in Oxford if you need any further information.
obtain
▪ She sought to discover where he had obtained the information he was supposed to have passed on to a Sunday newspaper.
▪ We were convinced we were right, that we had satisfied state and federal standards for obtaining information from a journalist.
▪ It also seems that psychiatrists are sometimes unaware of the difficulties that general practitioners may face in obtaining the information required.
▪ Our first step is to obtain information about the hens' own point of view.
▪ The morphological system can require a long time to obtain the syntactic information for a word.
▪ How best to obtain information about health services is the subject of much debate within and between disciplines engaged in such research.
▪ You can obtain further information and an application form from the address given below.
▪ The purchaser's solicitors will raise preliminary enquiries with the vendor's solicitors to obtain general information about the property.
pass
▪ He was alleged to have passed information to the Brussels ring.
▪ He passes this information on to his boss who is always well prepared for project review meetings.
▪ It checks calls and recovers them in case of a failure and passes the information back to the initiating program.
▪ Informed by the two farmers, local authorities passed the information up the chain of command.
▪ It passed this information on in a terrible hushed whine that seemed to creep in and fill the head.
▪ She allegedly tipped her son, who passed the information on to his business associates, Paul Tsang and Robert Guerin.
▪ A paddle stroke is like any other model or diagram which is used to pass on information.
▪ Kopyion had expressed a great deal of interest in these killings but had not passed on all the information available to him.
provide
▪ However, its purpose seems to be viewed as one of providing information.
▪ It is also provides an information representation scheme.
▪ The project provides a control and information system that meets the needs of the Barcelona company for the foreseeable future.
▪ Young, which provides local stations information on progress in ad sales, said they could not reveal studies done for clients.
▪ It provides some information on biomechanical properties of the rectal wall.
▪ The analogy of the sales pitch is revealing, for advertisers do not promote their product merely by providing information about it.
▪ Free market equilibrium occurs at E. A government agency now provides information about the product.
receive
▪ Many people receive information about politics from their conversations with others.
▪ And fax machines that enable you to send and receive pages of information anywhere in the world - in seconds.
▪ All freshmen who attend optional orientation sessions receive information on date rape.
▪ The survey also found that a quarter of foster parents had received no written information on the Act.
▪ Investigators said they received information that Berry set off the bomb himself.
▪ They receive information on it from people they trust, and whose opinion they hold in high regard.
▪ Communicating is an exchange-a giving and receiving of information.
require
▪ And new efforts also tend to require special information, more data, new sources of knowledge.
▪ After patients supply their medical records, a company medical team contacts their physicians for any required information not in the records.
▪ Although managers require up to date information they have access to more information on a day to day basis than external users.
▪ A telephone service helps users locate information, varieties of material needed, prices, and other required information.
▪ More often than not, to account for linguistic phenomena we require diverse kinds of information from different components of a grammar.
▪ There are other higher-level categories, such as Strategic, which requires information from all areas for planning purposes.
share
▪ There are also leasing companies happy to share information.
▪ It had evolved into a powerful but unintimidating small appliance for organizing and sharing information.
▪ The different police forces share their information and that has led to some proposed gatherings being stopped.
▪ It even went so far as to share financial information that previously had been restricted to management.
▪ Participants agreed to share information and resources, review regional training programmes, and cooperate wherever possible.
▪ When management shared such information, employees could understand the need to change.
▪ Male speaker It's very important to share information and in the Aids field this works very well.
▪ Would you please share this information with your readers?
use
▪ At the outset we should be aware of the problems of using this type of information.
▪ Without those who have used information in the past and know how to get to it again, information it-self gets lost.
▪ Advanced computer technology then uses the information to stimulate human deliberation in tackling management and production problems.
▪ Newborns also can process visual information, remember what they have seen, and use that information.
▪ Calculations can be carried out using information from the files. 3.
▪ You can then use this information in a variety of ways.
▪ The cheat uses the information provided by its opponent and gives nothing away about itself.
▪ This makes it hard to use the information it provides constructively.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a mine of information (about/on sth)
▪ A trip to Brussels to meet the responsible officials can turn up a mine of information.
▪ His column in the Angling Times was the first thing that I turned to and what a mine of information.
▪ If used properly, the diary was a mine of information.
▪ Study a local map and the Ordnance Survey, which is a mine of information.
a thirst for knowledge/education/information etc
exchange information/ideas etc
▪ As they exchanged ideas and memories, both felt richer.
▪ Both sides also agreed to exchange information on a weekly basis between senior military commanders on troop deployments and movements.
▪ Bulletin boards are a low-tech way to exchange information.
▪ Children exchange information with one another in their conversations and learn to view events from the position of others.
▪ He needs to be able to exchange ideas, express moods and emotions.
▪ Meeting together at a disability arts event can also provide rare opportunities for disabled people to exchange ideas.
▪ The meetings provided an opportunity to exchange information about future events and to discuss problems of mutual interest.
▪ There are no formal ties between the national clearinghouses but they maintain regular contact, and exchange information, newsletters and materials.
exchange of ideas/information etc
▪ Can an exchange of ideas across different languages be of any general value?
▪ Click on an icon to begin an exchange of ideas.
▪ Clubs provide education, exchange of ideas and often show a profit.
▪ Communication problems may occur in the exchange of information and the expression of emotion.
▪ It does mean learning to cultivate the exchange of ideas and viewpoints.
▪ Oppenheimer also knew that science can not proceed without the free exchange of information.
▪ The key factor is the exchange of information to deal with international crime.
▪ They defined administration as routine communication activities such as paperwork and exchange of information.
freedom of information
▪ Freedom of information should be a basic right in a democracy.
▪ A lack of labelling contradicts the principles of freedom of information and freedom to choose.
▪ Britain is one of the few democracies that still doesn't have a freedom of information act.
▪ Does not that hostility to the charter give the lie to the Opposition parties' request for freedom of information?
▪ He opposed the Government over the Official Secrets Act in 1989 and has consistently backed the cause of freedom of information.
▪ She has been involved with promoting freedom of information in local government.
▪ The steering committee did however recommend the appointment of a Prime Minister, and provision for greater freedom of information.
▪ This would involve freedom of information and relocation of civil services to regions along with widespread decentralisation.
▪ Yet Butler is no fan of freedom of information.
hard evidence/facts/information etc
▪ But lack of documentation limits hard evidence.
▪ But, again, the commission found no hard evidence that Mr Wahid had lied or misused the money.
▪ For a few minutes longer Isabel tried to sort out hard facts from vague suspicions, with little success.
▪ Its record provides hard evidence to support his picture of a service in rude health rather than decline.
▪ Nothing in the way of hard facts, in any event.
▪ There are surely many answers to this question, not one of which is impeccably established by hard evidence.
▪ There is no hard evidence of files spirited away and even if they were, nobody knows whether they contain anything sinister.
▪ This was a pseudo-historical theory for which there was no hard evidence.
inside information/the inside story etc
intelligence/information etc gathering
▪ And in some cases, the information gathering exercise itself has its benefits.
▪ Army intelligence supervised most of the information gathering and army technicians handled much of the technical work.
▪ But in the mid-1970s there was an acrimonious conflict between the different intelligence gathering agencies in the province.
▪ For once in the treacherous business of intelligence gathering, the question of mutual trust had been answered on sight.
▪ He helped suppress the Matabele rising in 1896, and learned the elements of scouting and intelligence gathering.
▪ It is vital that a reformulated strategy be built upon better intelligence gathering and better coordination of intelligence between agencies.
▪ It would seem that much effort up to now has focused upon information gathering to the neglect of the other two processes.
▪ The arcane field of intelligence gathering may prove him wrong, says Charles Grant.
nugget of information/wisdom etc
▪ Knowledge Adventure is very good at throwing out nuggets of information, and placing them into some sort of context.
▪ The room grew silent as we all digested this nugget of wisdom.
storehouse of information/memories etc
▪ It comprises a vast and ever-changing storehouse of information and entertainment.
▪ Using as data what respondents say about themselves offers the social researcher access to a vast storehouse of information.
the information superhighway
titbit of information/gossip/news etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ For further information, please write to the following address.
▪ Harrington was arrested for selling government information to other countries.
▪ I'm looking for some information about breast cancer research.
▪ Ray just told me an interesting piece of information.
▪ The book contains information on how to find a job abroad.
▪ The guidebook has detailed information about the hotels in the area.
▪ The tourist office will be able to give you the information you need.
▪ The Web site provides the latest information on Medicare and Medicaid.
▪ We need more information before we make a decision.