adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a domestic/internal flight (=a flight within a country)
▪ Is there a domestic flight between Havana and Varadero?
an internal review (=one that an organization carries out on itself)
▪ The Army is conducting an internal review.
domestic/internal affairs (also home affairs British English) (= events inside a country)
▪ the Minister of Home Affairs
▪ He said that the US should not try to interfere in his country's domestic affairs.
internal audit (=an audit carried out by a company’s own staff)
internal bleeding
▪ He died of internal bleeding.
internal combustion engine
internal dissensions
▪ The Labour Party was torn by internal dissensions.
internal divisions
▪ The Army was plagued by internal divisions.
internal exile (=when someone is forced to move somewhere within a country)
▪ The governor has the power to send people into internal exile in other regions.
internal injuries (=injuries inside your body)
▪ He was coughing blood, a sign that he had internal injuries.
internal logic (=logic that seems sensible within a particular activity or situation)
▪ Each major religion has its own internal logic.
internal medicine
internal organs (=organs inside your body)
▪ She died after suffering serious damage to internal organs.
Internal Revenue Service
internal structure
▪ Scientists have been investigating the internal structure of the planet Mars.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
affair
▪ Helsinki was full of pious declarations about the inviolability of borders and non-interference in internal affairs.
▪ Of more concern, Nye and other specialists feel, is the growing political influence of the military in internal affairs.
▪ Venetiaan stated his desire to reform the Constitution to reduce the involvement of the army in internal affairs.
▪ They may regulate their internal affairs and their domestic commerce as they like.
▪ The internal affairs of a member state are no business of the union, hence the reticence in Brussels.
▪ Barbuda maintains a considerable degree of control over its internal affairs.
audit
▪ The internal audit function reports to the Audit Committee.
▪ The banks have conducted two internal audits and come up with about $ 30 million in dormant accounts.
▪ In this respect it could feature as an aspect of the internal audit of a company.
▪ These periodic internal audits can be a source of revitalization and renewal.
▪ The Guidance concentrates on the organizational status of internal audit and the objectivity of internal auditors in achieving the requisite independence.
▪ This is known as an internal audit.
▪ For internal audit to carry out these responsibilities it is essential that it operates with adequate independence.
▪ However, the standard of internal audit in the public sector is not generally very good.
auditor
▪ However, because the ultimate responsibility is given to the external auditor, the role of the internal auditor is not emphasized.
▪ Many accountants and auditors were unlicensed management accountants, internal auditors, or government accountants and auditors.
▪ The concluding section considers the relationship between the external and internal auditor.
▪ Similarly, management will increasingly need internal auditors to develop new ways to discover and eliminate waste and fraud.
▪ The Guidance concentrates on the organizational status of internal audit and the objectivity of internal auditors in achieving the requisite independence.
▪ Beginning management accountants often start as cost accountants, junior internal auditors, or as trainees for other accounting positions.
▪ The chief internal auditor must be assisted by sufficient staff of the right quality and quantity.
▪ There is a large degree of mobility among public accountants, management accountants, and internal auditors.
combustion
▪ The computer chip was a huge breakthrough, greater than the lightbulb, telephone, or internal combustion engine.
▪ Nevertheless, the Foxton project was mysteriously improbable even if there had been no internal combustion on the way.
▪ First and most radical, a new means of propulsion other than the internal combustion engine might be considered.
▪ Secondly, new fuels for the internal combustion engine which do not involve the depletion of vital and limited energy resources.
▪ A combination of mass production and the internal combustion engine was responsible for the Allied victory.
▪ Both have been accelerated since the war by the widespread application of the internal combustion engine.
▪ A model car doesn't have to contain all the elements of an internal combustion engine in order to work as a toy!
conflict
▪ The organisation was complex and not without internal conflict.
▪ It would also reduce the amount of internal conflict we had within the organization.
▪ The internal conflicts caused by his strong Quaker beliefs and lack of prospects caused a breakdown when he was twenty-one.
▪ But what happened in Jerusalem between 168 and 164 B.C. went beyond the ordinary internal conflicts of the Seleucid state.
▪ It is surrounded by states with internal conflicts and has received successive waves of refugees.
▪ It is most often used when there is an internal conflict of feeling.
▪ This, coupled with internal conflicts at Motorola over the 680x0 program, led to a weak positioning of both product lines.
▪ When it is expressed by the marriage partner the internal conflict is externalized, sometimes on a daily basis.
control
▪ Britain still hoped that a Commonwealth front could be achieved, with considerable internal control of Empire air routes.
▪ Related Occupations Accountants and auditors design internal control systems and analyze financial data.
▪ An important supplement to these direct and internal controls is provided by efficiency audits.
▪ For example, during construction, the subject of an internal control questionnaire might be variations and site instructions.
▪ In order to compare signals hybridization in Northern experiments, srRNA was used as an internal control.
▪ Internal audit is an integral part of internal control.
▪ The auditor's work on systems of internal control is a subsidiary task.
▪ Indeed, the definition of a financial audit explicitly includes examination of systems of internal control whereas the commercial audit does not.
dissension
▪ Unti1 1939 the Labour Party was bedevilled by internal dissensions on this issue.
division
▪ The bank was wracked by internal divisions between the bank's traditional managers and the outsiders headed by Sir Kit.
▪ But one worrisome development for insiders is the appearance of internal divisions.
▪ Fractions are the deepest internal division of a class, where incompatible material interests show up in separate political organization.
▪ Whatever disagreement there is about the internal divisions of the texts in the manuscripts, the whole treatise has a shape.
▪ The size and internal divisions accommodate A4 and A5 paper and documents.
▪ Labour, they say, is likely to be distracted by deepening internal division over its constitutional plans and its election failure.
▪ The internal division will be only temporary because the other states-crucially, Britain-will soon be drawn in.
▪ The internal divisions which seemingly threatened, but actually assisted, the political survival of General Franco continued into 1942.
document
▪ The revelation came in the form of internal documents of the Aleyeska Pipeline Service company, which were leaked to a congressman.
▪ The brief represents another attempt to use internal documents against the $ 50 billion tobacco industry.
▪ The reports produced to date are internal documents, and only those referring to botany need be mentioned here.
▪ One internal document puts the price tag at $ 1. 7 million.
▪ Many companies use Intranets to distribute internal documents-in effect publishing Web pages for their own private use.
▪ Instead, particular issues raised by these internal documents will be addressed in separate submissions by the affected companies.
▪ No report should be issued since this is an internal document.
▪ Another internal document showed that Hip Hing generated only $ 38, 400 in income in 1992.
injury
▪ A post-mortem examination showed he had suffered internal injuries, said a spokesman.
▪ Miss Tish was rushed to the hospital with internal injuries.
▪ Sandra is still under sedation in hospital, suffering from internal injuries and a broken collar bone.
▪ They ran over Mr Letts and left him lying in the road with serious internal injuries.
▪ At that point people were not giving much for his chances, but luckily he had no internal injuries.
▪ The usual cause of death is due to internal injuries caused by butting, or exhaustion resulting from being chased.
▪ Andrew suffered a broken leg, broken arm and internal injuries.
▪ Ron Letts died in hospital from internal injuries after being hit by a stolen van.
investigation
▪ Polisario sources claimed that in a recent internal investigation he had been found guilty of corruption and diversion of funds.
▪ An internal investigation last year failed to turn up the culprit, according to Disneyland spokesman Tom Brocato.
▪ The roster, till rolls and security cameras were examined in Thresher's own internal investigation.
▪ He has made no public comment since the school began an internal investigation in November regarding recruiting.
▪ After an internal investigation on Monday, the Bafta council rejected allegations of vote-rigging.
▪ The most far-reaching internal investigation in Phoenix police history cost four officers their jobs Friday for purchasing banned rifles under false pretenses.
▪ The practice was stopped immediately it was discovered and is now under internal investigation.
▪ The Justice Department began an internal investigation, and Republicans began aiming for Coffey.
management
▪ A mixture of consultation and internal management control might well prove a better starting point.
▪ Party political factors, professionalism and the dispositions of key personalities all usually have some bearing on internal management structures.
▪ Organisational needs Organisations will need to collect information and maintain records for a range of internal management purposes.
▪ This orientation to the political sphere conditions internal management organization and culture.
▪ An attempt to substantiate this point will be attempted in chapter 8 from an internal management perspective.
▪ For internal management control purposes a annual budget will normally be broken down into discrete quarterly, monthly or even shorter periods.
▪ We are looking at ways in which the internal management of local authorities might become more effective.
market
▪ Evaluation of the first year's operation of the internal market is not straight forward.
▪ This, and many similar references, suggests that this remains the popular conception of an internal market.
▪ Relations between employees are even worse in companies where different teams are set to compete against each other in an internal market.
▪ Is not this a case of your money or your life in the internal market?
▪ One way is to be more specific about the expected effects of internal markets.
▪ The buying up of sometimes very good pictures or drawings for internal market prices was a legalised form of robbery.
▪ The fundholding scheme has entailed costs for other actors in the internal market.
▪ The acknowledged annual implementation costs referred to earlier were running at almost double the £220m estimated for setting up the internal market.
medicine
▪ Smith has been practicing internal medicine in Mesa since 1976.
▪ Physicians trained in internal medicine are attached and function as consultants.
organ
▪ If we look at the internal organs there is not much to distinguish a chimpanzee's heart or liver from our own.
▪ Without insulin, sugar lingers in the bloodstream, silently damaging the internal organs.
▪ These electrical pulses are then analysed and used to produce detailed pictures of a patient's internal organs.
▪ Medical illustrators keep the Pernkopf Anatomy on their drawing boards for ready reference as they depict obscure internal organs with computer-generated images.
▪ Yet the distribution of internal organs is asymmetric.
▪ Who knows what permanent disability his little internal organs may be suffering because of our good intentions?
▪ One wretch wishes his head returned, another even claims his internal organs.
▪ Segmentation is not only shown in the external differentiation of the body but also involves many of the internal organs.
organization
▪ State conjunctural policies respond, similarly, to variations in the strategies and internal organization of the dominant class.
▪ The internal organization of state policy-making has tended to reflect the lines of cleavage within dominant economic groups of civil society.
▪ In comparison, internal organization is a more attractive way of administering such transactions.
▪ A further organizational trend under way in the tourist industry concerns an aspect of the internal organization of travel firms themselves.
▪ Arbiter theorists also recognize that liberal democratic states vary greatly in their internal organization between federal and unitary forms.
▪ If the scale of the society is a natural first question, the next is certainly its internal organization.
▪ This is the internal organization of the text.
politics
▪ Many firms find that the implementation process is not merely complex but that it amplifies strains in the internal politics.
▪ Human institutions can not be understood without understanding their internal politics.
▪ But it was beset by internal politics and narrow-mindedness.
▪ Our evidence for the organization and internal politics of classical Corinth is meagre, and out of proportion to the city's importance.
▪ A number of young activists who had been involved in internal politics since 1976 were also elected.
power
▪ Looking to internal power and control within the family is one consequent strategy.
▪ Simply put, it is a means of generating internal power so enormous one can fell an opponent without actually touching him.
▪ We will assume you are using an efficient undergravel, or internal power filter.
▪ The emergence, or re-emergence in some cases, of Nation-States which intended to organize internal power according to their own values.
▪ The tank is three feet long and has both undergravel and internal power filtration.
▪ Interpet products are widely available in the aquatic trade, in case of difficulty contact Another internal power filter comes to us from Eheim.
▪ The set us is run on a Fluval 4 internal power filter.
▪ An extra water pump in the form of an internal power sponge filter will be necessary for good water circulation.
problem
▪ The rivalry between Fabius and Rocard had been a major component of the party's internal problems.
▪ Congress and the executive branch are often too immobilized by internal problems of political survival to take action on great national questions.
▪ Apart from these public problems, the profession also has an internal problem.
▪ Even more bizarre was the terminology the firm used to describe its internal problems.
▪ Relatively clear ones arise from the structure of central and local government, their internal problems and their relations with one another.
▪ Bevin himself had earlier remarked that internal problems might moderate Soviet policy.
▪ Moreover, other territories were taken up with their own internal problems.
▪ What he did not know was that Chemical had run into massive internal problems.
report
▪ Will the historian of the future be adequately served if only the internal reports profiling donors survive?
▪ Cohen is expected to receive his own internal report on the issue in about a month.
▪ After a damning internal report this month on conditions at Brixton prison both admitted that the service was institutionally racist.
▪ The Metropolitan police has overspent its budget by £70m, according to an internal report by its auditors.
review
▪ It is an internal review, and we do not intend to publish it.
▪ He said that instead there would be a thorough internal review of the inspectorate, which would report by July.
▪ So Mr Burgreen, doing all that he could, said he would add a civilian to his internal review board.
▪ In such cases, careful consideration should be given to the appropriate internal review.
▪ Adopt and record a written plan for undertaking internal reviews which states the frequency of reviews.
security
▪ Fear of greater threats to internal security, such as open revolts, clearly does not exist.
▪ As the confederation moved toward constitutional government, issues of internal security were found to require careful consideration.
▪ The landowners were able to express their views on problems of internal security, foreign affairs, and taxation increases.
▪ The lord lieutenancy was originally devised by the Tudors as a means of internal security.
▪ An initial preoccupation was co-operation over economic development, but later priorities were internal security and defence.
▪ The second was the problem of internal security.
▪ He graduated from Moscow University with degrees in psychology and political science and joined the internal security.
▪ The Governor, representing the sovereign, is responsible for external affairs, defence and internal security.
state
▪ What happens if the federal Minister of Finance and the Minister of Finance for the largest internal state take different lines?
▪ We call these the internal states of the device.
▪ The internal state of the organism is monitored by means of receptors, mostly situated in the brain stem.
▪ It is in internal state o and reads a 0.
▪ The former stresses the individual's internal state, the latter his or her relations with others.
▪ The internal state of the cell changes.
▪ Being explicit about internal state is an obvious advantage to the signaller as well as to the receiver.
▪ Recall that the internal states of our device are to be finite in number.
structure
▪ However, the gut in all animals is an internal structure.
▪ But schemata are more than the behavior; they are the internal structure from which the behavior flows.
▪ Diagnosis Within the internal structure of the cell, in the cytoplasm, the energetic interactions are weak and electrostatic effects predominate.
▪ Thin sections show a great variety of internal structures important in accurate identification.
▪ This policy of renewal was effected by installing a replacement internal structure of load-bearing brick walls and insitu concrete floors.
▪ The bottom boards showed no sign of the disturbance that would have occurred if anyone had interfered with the internal structures.
▪ Their organisation and internal structures were normally fluid, even amorphous.
▪ They focus on the family, analysing both its internal structure and its functions for the wider society.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ internal organs such as the heart or liver
▪ a computer's internal hard drive
▪ After the accident, NASA conducted an internal investigation.
▪ an internal dialogue with himself
▪ an internal memo
▪ Each country has the right to control its own internal affairs.
▪ Guest ordered an internal investigation into the money transfers.
▪ In November the directors wrote an internal memorandum suggesting that the company should close down three of its factories.
▪ Many companies use the program for internal accounting purposes.
▪ Mrs Jones suffered serious internal injuries as a result of the accident.
▪ Russia faces many internal problems, for example inflation.
▪ The internal affairs of other nations should not be of concern to us.
▪ The doctor said they found some signs of internal bleeding.
▪ The US was accused of interfering in the internal affairs of the country.
▪ They took him into the internal corridor.
▪ Western countries have been accused of interfering in Brazil's internal problems.