I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a championship game/match
▪ He was playing in his first championship game of the season.
a charity match/concert/show etc
▪ The band appeared at a charity concert for free.
a chess game/match
▪ Who won the chess game?
a colour matches sth (=it is the same colour)
▪ The colour in this tin of paint doesn’t match the walls.
a cricket match (=a game of cricket)
a football match/game
▪ Do you often go to football matches?
a matching colour (=one that is the same as something else)
▪ I bought some gloves and a scarf in a matching colour.
a match/marriage made in heaven (=a happy and successful marriage)
an exact match (=something that is exactly the same as something else)
▪ The two DNA samples were an exact match.
clinch a match/championship/victory etc
▪ A last-minute touchdown clinched the game.
debut match/performance etc
▪ He scored in his debut match for the club.
fit/match a description (=be like the person in a police description)
▪ The first man they arrested did not fit the description given by the victim.
match point
match/suit sb's mood
▪ The terrible weather matched her mood.
return match
safety match
shooting match
▪ We’re having a big church wedding with bridesmaids, a pageboy – the whole shooting match.
shouting match
slanging match
test match
win a game/match
▪ It’s supposed to be easier to win your home games.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ They loiter outside the big match with fistfuls of grubby tickets priced at many times their face value.
▪ He may be a talented shot-maker, but as a big match strategist, he is an acknowledged fool.
▪ Today the Echo offers you the chance to become one of the big match mascots.
▪ Worse followed when 10,000 coupons were handed out at a big match at Hull - but 9,999 vanished.
▪ With only 9,000 tickets allocated to the county, many are faced with the prospect of watching the big match on television.
▪ But if Liverpool are playing in a big match, we let them stay up until the end.
▪ A winner for the authentic big match atmosphere every time.
▪ Then Vivienne joined in and the three of us had a big slanging match.
final
▪ Waysiders will accompany Moray out of Division Five after only drawing 5-5 in their final match at Glenrothes.
▪ The final three-day match against the full Leewards side was a slight disappointment.
▪ The series now stands at one match each, and there is all to play for in the final match in Colombo.
▪ In the fifth and final match, nobody expected Nestor to pull off more of his Friday night magic.
▪ He finally drew the cigar into red heat and discarded the final match.
▪ They are two points behind Portadown and would need to beat City of Derry by a landslide in their final match.
▪ The final match against the local Lozère Regional Select U21s was won comfortably 54-3.
▪ All of which means that Shorts require just three points from their final match of the season to clinch the championship.
good
▪ In his eyes a good match is one for which sponsors cough up cash.
▪ In fact, it would be a better match than the one Aharon made.
▪ Not surprisingly, some of the best matches of the week were those involving the top players.
▪ He hurried out exceedingly pleased with himself and enjoying the prospect of what promised to be a very good wrestling match.
▪ Now he is known best for writing and talking a good match.
▪ The cloud thought the wind would be a good match, because he was even stronger than the cloud.
▪ A good match should fit the original very closely.
▪ All this granted, it couldn't be a better match.
international
▪ Where was this important international match played?
▪ Instinctively, they are good players; what they need is exposure to international matches.
▪ It concluded that international matches should be the pre-eminent parameter to fixture programming.
▪ Maybe this was brought on because of fatigue from travelling for international matches in midweek.
▪ Gimbert is young, this was his first real international match and he didn't know how to handle it.
opening
▪ She was handed a number to indicate her challenger for the opening match.
▪ The new pitches at Judges Road have been meticulously prepared over the summer for this weekend's opening match.
▪ He will need to keep his eye on the ball during an opening match against rookie Peter Ebdon.
▪ And then he battered his highest score of the tour, hitting 165 in the opening Test match.
▪ The Teessiders finished fifth in the opening match, but were only 40 points behind winners Leicester Coritanian.
▪ Lendl's 7-6 6-2 defeat by Omar Camporese follows his opening match loss at last week's Madrid Open.
perfect
▪ As far as our school was concerned the timing of this initiative was a perfect match with our stage of development.
▪ Not that it was a perfect match.
▪ A perfect match my sister used to say.
▪ Salmon, with its reddish color, is a perfect match, as is ahi tuna.
▪ His body, as though accustomed to her shape, her rhythm, accommodated itself to hers in perfect match.
▪ But in a sense Helmsman is the perfect match for him.
▪ All in all it is a perfect match reel.
return
▪ In the return match, however, Sheffield thrashed Derby by 34 runs to win handsomely.
▪ In the return match at the Basin Reserve he took five wickets in the first innings and scored a handy 42.
▪ Although, to be honest, I'd understand if he turned down the offer of a return match.
▪ The return match is to be held next week at Leeds United's home ground, Elland Road.
▪ I could hardly wait for a return match.
whole
▪ They did not like it, argued against it - argued against the whole match - but she held firm.
▪ Why not rerun the whole shooting match in every state that was too close to call?
▪ According to the Telegraph, Man City had only 3 attacks of note in the whole match.
▪ One old stalwart who stuck with the whole match contracted such a severe cold that he died of exposure.
▪ It completed the 4-0 sweep and proved to be one of the key moments of the whole match.
▪ Wetherall did very well against Dowie who was literally a handful the whole match.
▪ The whole match was very difficult for us.
■ NOUN
championship
▪ However, the field will again be widened and seating capacity adjusted to 54, 000 for the championship match.
▪ In those five seasons of triumph, 86 of their 140 championship matches were won and only 20 lost.
▪ Declan Bonner was not in the Donegal line-up - he was far too busy running the show in a club championship match.
▪ Meanwhile, Essex and Lancashire were again frustrated by the Manchester weather on the final day of their championship match.
▪ The World Championship match will not be the first time the two players have contested a world title.
cricket
▪ One man had taken photographs in the churchyard ... and at that cricket match when Flyte had been scoring.
▪ Let Lopwitz watch all the cricket matches he wants to!
▪ Looking down, Branson could see a cricket match in progress in the grounds.
▪ He is at the cricket match today?
▪ There his spot was to organize a Tonbridge v Clifton cricket match, news of which hit the national press.
▪ Tomorrow, which was a Saturday, David was going to a cricket match at Luke's school.
▪ He walked off and I gazed blankly at the cricket match.
▪ First a cricket match with a murder at the end of it, then having to face Mama.
cup
▪ Now the Walker Cup match is over, certain players should think hard before chasing a mirage.
▪ The distribution of tickets late in the day on Tuesday for the sale of Saturday's Cup match are a good example.
▪ Extra Time - Can be played if a cup match is drawn.
football
▪ On Tuesdays we may have a school football match but we usually do not have one.
▪ A football match with a one-legged goalkeeper and all of the crowd bearing arms was one of many memorable scenes.
▪ We may have a football match planned but not always.
▪ Even the kick-off for the Barcelona v Liverpool football match was delayed to accommodate the episode.
▪ It degenerated into a three-sided football match, with blue, yellow and red-lit supporters all but waving rattles in support of their teams.
▪ An equal amount of injury might have happened at a football match but that was beside the point.
▪ However, visitors from outlying areas to attend football matches will contribute substantially to the local economy of the cities mentioned above.
▪ The others were discussing a battalion football match.
home
▪ If I remember right, first home matches have been similar for a few years now.
▪ Last home match, Gloucester ran in 6 tries and 38 points against Bristol.
▪ Wright will be replaced by Gary Harker for Boro's home match against Huddersfield.
▪ In a home match against Huddersfield Town, Newcastle were 3-2 down after conceding a questionable penalty to the visitors.
▪ If it is a home match, though, he will usually get up around two-thirty.
▪ Starting with next Saturday's home match against Towcestrians they face three successive league matches, with Durham Cup ties in midweek.
▪ Ironside's one-month loan spell will be completed after the home match against play-off outsiders Gillingham.
▪ The following week, they play their first league home match, when Bective will provide the opposition.
league
▪ The team lost nine of their last 11 league matches and have now won only seven out of 49.
▪ Richardson Report: Gloucester's league match at Saracens was a cliff hanger right until the very last kick of the game.
▪ In the event he need not have worried as Liverpool won six of their remaining seven league matches and drew the other.
▪ But Torquay had a League match at Colchester on the same night, with the black star out with a calf injury!
point
▪ He needed seven match points before beating his opponent.
▪ Muster angrily smashed his racket on the court after double-faulting on match point and could be fined.
▪ The best he could do was to save a match point and take the third game.
report
▪ Could anyone please post a full match report please?
▪ Does anyone have any team news, or a match report?
▪ Inflated language sometimes enlivened a dull game but most match reports were glib and full of clichés.
▪ Referee Alf Buksh is understood to have complained in his match report of being verbally abused by officials from both teams.
tennis
▪ During a tennis match, the movements of the foot can gradually loosen laces.
▪ Enthusiastically squired to polo matches, luncheons, swims, and tennis matches, Margarett did not miss Eddie.
▪ Well, no, but an interesting verbal tennis match did take place.
▪ He watched the two student sections like a tennis match, his head swiveling back and forth as the refrain continued.
▪ Adam recalled the table tennis match.
▪ Celestine had remained totally silent, her eyes moving as in a tennis match between her professor and Leah.
test
▪ As a commentator he achieved an international double by being behind the microphone for two Test matches and one rugby international.
▪ This had been his first Test match on home soil and he was far from satisfied.
▪ Mine helped to lose a Test match.
▪ After all, they all had another Test match in four days' time.
▪ The deal marks the first time a Test match will be shown live, in full, from the sub-continent.
▪ Mr Major, meanwhile, cancelled a scheduled visit to Manchester to watch the Test match and worked on his speech instead.
▪ But during the heat of a test match battle, the instantaneous decision by a captain can have an irreversible effect.
■ VERB
light
▪ She heard Ludovico stumble, curse and then light a match.
▪ You just sit on the ground, chant, douse yourself with gasoline and light a match.
▪ Basil also remembers he smoked a pipe which he managed to fill and light with matches, entirely unaided.
▪ Walter lit a match and lowered his face toward it.
▪ He had been mischievously lighting matches and throwing them around the room.
lose
▪ McEnroe, who lost a tough match with Stefano Pescosolido, 7-6 1-6 6-4, said he was losing his mental edge.
▪ Trinidad lost its first match, falling to El Salvador 3-2.
▪ On their last trip to these shores, the Aussies lost their opening match embarrassingly to Ian Botham's Worcestershire.
▪ The Galaxy, who had lost their five previous matches, knotted the game early in the second half.
▪ But only if he beats Ivanisevic today and Courier loses his match with Chang.
▪ Mine helped to lose a Test match.
▪ Marsden was bowled early on the third morning for 16 so losing the match by an overwhelming innings and 50 runs.
▪ Trace Coley, who'd lost a match and a lover in as many minutes, burst into tears.
meet
▪ But they met their match in Ryde School from the Isle of Wight, who pipped them for victory.
▪ He has met his match, and probably better.
▪ It was downstairs in the hotel's night-bar that the unfortunate Simonsen met her undignified match.
▪ Two years ago the 41year-old received a similar amount when his former teams of Liverpool and Arsenal met for a testimonial match.
▪ It was low tide at St Catherine's Dock, and the Thames was about to meet its match.
▪ It seemed on this occasion she had met her match.
▪ But in political lobbyist Palmer Stoat he meets his match.
miss
▪ He was skipper of the relegated Robins side last year and missed just one match.
▪ It could mean him missing the next match as a result.
▪ Influence Dewi Morris is back at scrum-half after missing the middle match of the divisional season.
▪ What's more, I got back home late, and missed most of the match on Sportsnight.
▪ After being ruled out of Leeds' championship run-in last season, he's now set to miss Saturday's match against Wimbledon.
▪ Winger John Hendrie misses the match with a calf injury.
▪ Les Smith - who at 77 never misses a match - is one of many left bitterly disappointed.
play
▪ We played the match and won, and just before saying goodbye I said I'd see him at Birkdale.
▪ After playing in a match during a snowstorm he caught pneumonia which led to fatal tuberculosis.
▪ But if Liverpool are playing in a big match, we let them stay up until the end.
▪ Children playing with matches killed 37 people in one year.
▪ They'd played with matches in their room, lighting a fire in the garden of their dolls' house.
▪ He could play his first match for Lazio on Sunday September 13 at home to Fiorentina.
▪ He did not leave Hampshire until 1936, during which lengthy spell he played 700 matches - a record - for them.
shout
▪ Precipitating the shouting match at Lindale was a 25-cent increase in the $ 1 admission fee.
▪ Then the shouting matches would commence.
▪ Once, amid a furious shouting match reported by Clinton biographer David Maraniss, then-Gov.
▪ Not only did the two men hate each other personally, but their disputes often degenerated into shouting matches at mission meetings.
▪ Board meetings deteriorated into black-white shouting matches.
▪ It ended in a shouting match, with Milken being escorted from the building by a security guard.
▪ International observers and journalists crowded around each minor scuffle and shouting match.
strike
▪ He took one of the smaller candles and, striking a match, held it to the wick.
▪ She was so cold that she struck a match for warmth.
▪ It's like striking a match, Meg.
▪ Eulah Mae saw her sharply strike a match against a square match box to light a cigarette over a fresh beer.
▪ She had so obviously struck a match with some one else.
▪ She struck a match and blew it out.
▪ Some one struck a match at the open door of the landing bedroom.
▪ She saw these things when she struck her matches that she was supposed to sell.
watch
▪ I got back to Durham today after staying on in Leeds to watch the Villa match!
▪ Let Lopwitz watch all the cricket matches he wants to!
▪ It will cost me a packet to travel down to watch the rescheduled match!
▪ Sometimes after I watch a match, I feel sick because of it.
▪ She wished she hadn't watched the match.
▪ You just press a button and watch the match.
▪ My father and two brothers had been watching the match on television.
▪ With only 9,000 tickets allocated to the county, many are faced with the prospect of watching the big match on television.
win
▪ They could; and should have won this match and the players have to look to themselves.
▪ Deep Blue made history by winning the match with two victories against one loss and three draws.
▪ Herefordshire were the team to catch in the Eastern Division by winning their first two matches - just.
▪ Even then they battled until the service run was broken and Cotswold took the set 15-12 to win the match 3-0.
▪ In this way, short-handed teams still have a chance to win and the match is therefore meaningful.
▪ We went out there and knew we were going to win our matches and crush them.
▪ Wycombe will draw level on points with Colchester if they win their Conference match at Farnborough this afternoon.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(match sb) stride for stride
benefit concert/performance/match
▪ Browne played a benefit concert at Zellerbach Hall on the UC-Berkeley campus Thursday night.
▪ He later played a benefit concert in aid of the protest.
▪ Last August, after leaving a rehearsal for the benefit performance, Hicks witnessed a stabbing and wound up being the suspect.
▪ Most significant for a county player was the opportunity to have a benefit match.
▪ This group also organized musicians to play benefit concerts for the campaign.
evenly matched
▪ The teams seem pretty evenly matched, so it's hard to say who will win.
▪ As a result, the two parties ended up being fairly evenly matched.
▪ Flow is experienced when people perceive opportunities for action being evenly matched by their capabilities.
▪ Importance of national security considerations Public opinion polls published on the eve of the election showed the two main parties evenly matched.
▪ In the early stage the sides were evenly matched effectively cancelling each other out.
▪ Leeds scored through Wallace with 7 minutes to go in an evenly matched game.
▪ Outside, the sexes are more evenly matched, I admit.
▪ Sometimes there will be two candidates who are fairly evenly matched and there may be uncertainty about which should be appointed.
▪ When fighting does occur - as when two evenly matched individuals meet - it seldom results in injury.
grudge fight/match
▪ None of the combatants in this grunge grudge match are over 20.
▪ Six other players were sin-binned as Britain beat New Zealand 3-2 in a grudge match.
meet your match
▪ I slowly started to realize I had met my match in Nigel.
▪ It seems Connoly's finally met her political match.
▪ She's a good player but she'll meet her match when she plays Sara.
▪ All that changes when she meets her match in Doug.
▪ And, in any case, I think she realised she had met her match.
▪ But in political lobbyist Palmer Stoat he meets his match.
▪ But they met their match in Ryde School from the Isle of Wight, who pipped them for victory.
▪ He has met his match, and probably better.
▪ It seemed on this occasion she had met her match.
▪ It was low tide at St Catherine's Dock, and the Thames was about to meet its match.
▪ Well, this time you've met your match, Adam Burns.
mix and match
▪ You can mix and match this home-office furniture to fit your needs.
▪ But juicy fruit-punch shades like orange and lime to be mixed and matched are equally hot.
▪ Chairman Charles Dolan moves close to realizing his longtime vision of mixing and matching sporting events on different levels of television.
▪ Creative maps have been drawn, land swaps considered, municipal powers mixed and matched.
▪ Female speaker Voice over It's mix and match at Chipping Norton, where they're staging their first ever mixed fours.
▪ Lenders may mix and match Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac requirements.
▪ The mix and match formula ensures that shareholders are treated on an equal basis.
▪ The units may be mixed and matched with topics already being delivered in early stages to provide a scientific context.
▪ This is what allows you to adjust the colours and mix and match them for your new palette.
seal a victory/win/match
▪ Andy Cole's first international goal sealed victory in injury time.
▪ He then supplied the finishing touch to a 32-pass move to seal victory.
strike a match
▪ Eulah Mae saw her sharply strike a match against a square match box to light a cigarette over a fresh beer.
▪ Four Negro GIs went apeshit striking matches on sleek bottoms.
▪ He took one of the smaller candles and, striking a match, held it to the wick.
▪ It's like striking a match, Meg.
▪ She struck a match and blew it out.
▪ She had so obviously struck a match with some one else.
▪ She was so cold that she struck a match for warmth.
▪ Some one struck a match at the open door of the landing bedroom.
the whole shooting match
▪ Why not rerun the whole shooting match in every state that was too close to call?
throw a match/game/fight
▪ This year, he is throwing a game party at his home in Austin.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A cricket match was in progress on the school sports field.
▪ a tennis match
▪ Are you going to the match tomorrow?
▪ Chess experts expected Kadparov to win the next match.
▪ Doctors failed to find a match for the bone marrow transplant.
▪ Eric scored the only goal in the match against Albany.
▪ If we win the next three matches, we could still go through to the semi-final.
▪ Keith sprained his wrist in a wrestling match.
▪ Stores will mix paints so you can get a good match for your curtains.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A fairytale match it is - makes one wish one were young again!
▪ Do I fear for her chances of making another match?
▪ Female speaker Don't play with matches and don't play near fires.
▪ From what I saw of the match he played well.
▪ Furthermore, Gregor Townsend, the 19-year-old fly-half, had an excellent match to confirm he is a player of rich potential.
▪ Sir Thomas now welcomes the match that he first feared.
▪ The other goal in that match is quite amusing as well when he chips the goalie.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
closely
▪ Use a foundation that closely matches your skintone, topped with transparent loose powder to set, then add your pinks.
▪ I would try to guide a child to work with texts in which the pictures more closely match the words.
▪ Table 3.5 shows that sterling and non-sterling liabilities are quite closely matched by corresponding assets.
▪ These are the environments that, in terms at least of summer climates, most closely match milder parts of the northern tundra.
▪ The first is that the data model more closely matches some real-world entities.
▪ The stored characters that most closely match the input are identified as the most likely interpretation of that input.
▪ These firms are closely matched in terms of industry, size, and complexity.
evenly
▪ Outside, the sexes are more evenly matched, I admit.
▪ As a result, the two parties ended up being fairly evenly matched.
▪ In the early stage the sides were evenly matched effectively cancelling each other out.
▪ Flow is experienced when people perceive opportunities for action being evenly matched by their capabilities.
▪ Even if the cars were evenly matched, he knew he couldn't out-drive the police.
▪ Teams were evenly matched with experienced players and beginners carefully balanced.
▪ Teams were evenly matched and all games proved to be very close affairs with penalties deciding many of them.
▪ Edward felt that he and the malign force were fairly evenly matched.
exactly
▪ This almost exactly matches up with the periodic variation present in the Mercury-transit data.
▪ At this extreme duration the researchers noticed that the respirations of man and algae were not exactly matched.
▪ This light is tuned so that the photon energy exactly matches the desired atomic transition energy.
▪ He was dressed in a scrupulously clean but threadbare dhoti and he wore a pale blue turban which exactly matched his eyes.
▪ The structure will therefore match exactly what is achieved by the use of ordinary predicative position.
▪ Tailor your list of achievements to match exactly the requirements of your future position, and leave everything else off.
▪ When the losses incurred on the call are exactly matched by the profits received from the shares.
▪ We get a new body, mind structure and destiny which exactly matches our mental impressions, desires and tendencies.
never
▪ The delay has led to fears that the leukaemia unit will never match the fund raisers' hopes.
▪ Two remakes never matched this original, which was named best foreign film by the New York Film Critics.
▪ Whatever he does, his degree of energy will never match mine.
▪ He came for several weeks just to watch Halsey, who never matched his performance of that first evening.
▪ What a shame it must one day become reality - it will never match these views for charm and elegance.
▪ Socata's engineers first looked at the Mooney 301 left, concluding it could never match such performance.
▪ Ferry never matches his college promise.
only
▪ Some long utterances may contain phoneme sequences which only match the intended words.
▪ The majesty of life in the White House is matched only by its isolation.
▪ Blanche, whose enjoyment in wearing elegant clothes was matched only by resentment at their ludicrous cost, suddenly felt over-dressed.
▪ These days, the media loves dads whose high-profile positions are matched only by their high-profile paternity.
▪ My relief on gaining the stance was matched only by the strength of my desire to finish the route.
▪ Lowercase letters will match either lowercase or uppercase characters in the document, but upper-case characters will only match their exact counterparts.
▪ Wilson's disappointment was matched only by her horror at Ellen's suggestion - never would she return to East Retford.
▪ The dizzy rapidity of changes in the ministry was matched only by the accelerating deficit.
perfectly
▪ Crossover distortion is actually due to the fact that the two halves of the circuit are not perfectly matched.
▪ Computerised records ensure that colours are perfectly matched on return visits.
▪ Everything matched perfectly, even her pink beads.
▪ Their brown colouration perfectly matches the decaying leaves around them, their blotches and lines disrupt their outlines.
▪ Whether stylish laminate, natural wood or high-gloss finish, the Miele Specialist can tailor a kitchen to perfectly match your requirements.
▪ The simplest method of all, where body concealment is concerned, is to match perfectly the colour of the background.
▪ Her gorgeously drowsy voice is perfectly matched to shimmering, twilight atmospherics.
▪ The girl friendly school Unfortunately the pattern of option choice and attitude differences is not perfectly matched within each school.
quite
▪ We found that they matched quite closely.
▪ Reality did not quite match the myth.
▪ As with so much of what he envisaged, the reality did not quite match the vision.
▪ No dam after Hoover has ever quite matched its grace and glorious detail.
▪ Somehow a little business in Deptford didn't quite match up with his own ideas of McCloy's origins.
up
▪ Where there are gaps in matching up goals to resources, what can you do about it?
▪ We seem to know where our basic talents match up.
▪ He wanted her every day and no girl he had met since had remotely matched up to her.
▪ This line should match up well with the offensive lines on the 49ers' championship teams.
▪ This almost exactly matches up with the periodic variation present in the Mercury-transit data.
▪ What he says or does is not as important as the extent to which he matches up to an ideal.
▪ In a Clinton / Dole match up, Dole is ahead 49 percent to 40 percent.
■ NOUN
attempt
▪ But soon he had to slacken, for Nora made no attempt to match his pace.
▪ The Democratic National Committee, in its failed attempt to match Republican fund raising, went a little bananas.
▪ Initially these were organized rather haphazardly with little serious attempt to match contributions to prospective claims on the funds.
description
▪ Any word could follow any other word, just so long as it matched the phonetic input description.
▪ Only one matched the description of some one they arrested.
▪ The parodic elements of Gay's pastorals are matched by close descriptions and a genuine sympathy for rural life.
▪ The designs on the robes also matched the descriptions of those robes in which the Saint had been enveloped in 1104.
▪ A car matching police descriptions had been found in Jedforest rugby club car park.
▪ Imagine how difficult it would be to videotape the pictures to match that description.
▪ Those that matched Darby's description had been borrowed from the newsroom and the wording of the death threat typed on them.
▪ Scrambling turned to roped up exploration as the frustrating hunt for anything remotely matching the guidebook description ensued.
expectations
▪ It is also the intention to match the expectations of the parties and their legal advisers against eventual outcome.
▪ If possible, you should test-market this road map to make sure it matches your expectations. 3.
▪ Failure to match performance to expectations has developed into something of a national neurosis.
▪ But even those that match expectations get no free ride.
▪ I was really disappointed with it I suppose, it just didn't match up to my expectations.
▪ Or will they watch the market drift lower until the overall yield matches their new expectations?
▪ She undertook work experience with a tour operator to find out whether the reality matched her expectations.
▪ Yet this dilemma is generated nationally, not locally, by the failure to match resources and expectations.
increase
▪ The amount of cover is index linked to match increases in building costs.
▪ The rise in student numbers in polytechnics has not been matched by an increase in teaching staff.
▪ But both companies' increase in money sales merely matched the six-fold increase in the retail prices index over the 20 years.
▪ The decrease in the percentage classed as good is matched by an increase in the percentage defined as fairly good.
▪ But the increase in incomes was not matched by a similar increase in the cash becoming available to farmers.
▪ However, the growth has not been matched by an increase in lessees' sophistication.
need
▪ It merely seems to stimulate the body to produce more and more to match the daily need.
▪ Post-secondary institutions have a better track record of designing programs that match labor-market needs and place their graduates in jobs.
▪ Constant vigilance to match appropriate services to needs, assessed along tight guidelines, is one way to avoid temptation.
▪ In my view, it is a programme of legislation which matches the needs of the time.
▪ The Bill matches the needs of the times, and I commend it to the House.
▪ Colleges could match the needs of the Catholic school system either in numbers or range of subjects.
▪ First he looks for the one that he likes or that matches his needs, then he sees if it fits.
pattern
▪ It also pays to try and match the pattern of the border at the joint.
▪ In many cases a number of possible matches will be found as parts of other words will match the input pattern.
performance
▪ This level of ability is matched by the performance of the brakes.
▪ If the economy falters in 1996, corporate earnings will be hard-pressed to match the performance of the past few years.
▪ Socata's engineers first looked at the Mooney 301 left, concluding it could never match such performance.
▪ He came for several weeks just to watch Halsey, who never matched his performance of that first evening.
▪ He has given it continuity and confidence, matching perspiration with performance.
▪ Instead, they try simply to match the performance of a market benchmark, such as the S &038; P 500.
▪ Failure to match performance to expectations has developed into something of a national neurosis.
▪ The evening's proceedings struggle to match up to Jesse's performance.
word
▪ Thus, the lexical access component may have to match each word against every possible alignment of the input with the lexicon.
▪ I would try to guide a child to work with texts in which the pictures more closely match the words.
▪ Equally, it is important that the creditor nations match words with deeds.
▪ People have learned what to say, but their actions do not match their words.
▪ Some long utterances may contain phoneme sequences which only match the intended words.
▪ Clearly if Henry's protests were to be taken seriously he would have to match his words with deeds.
▪ The result can be that line endings may not match or letter and word spacing are different.
▪ Firstly there is the whole word approach, whereby shape and pattern recognition procedures attempt to match directly with complete words.
■ VERB
fail
▪ But they expressed disappointment that sales decisions failed to match the Government's rhetoric.
▪ The Democratic National Committee, in its failed attempt to match Republican fund raising, went a little bananas.
▪ But it has failed to match the risks.
▪ An island-driving algorithm will explore those paths that ultimately fail to match the beginning and ending of the utterance.
▪ But these side-effects can become intolerable if political freedom fails to match economic liberty.
▪ Sadourny at 34 was a rare gem of invention and sleek skill, but other veterans failed to match him.
▪ We do make a great deal of fuss when children fail to match our expectations particularly when standards of behaviour are concerned.
hope
▪ Naturally, the young cricketers of the present could never hope to match the deeds of the past.
▪ He hopes to apply for matching funds by next week.
▪ She bought from pictures, hoping things would match.
▪ She didn't want some tarted-up part-time hooker spoiling it with tales about him she couldn't possibly hope to match.
▪ He can not hope to match the advances which the likes of Waite, McCarthy and Terry Anderson could command.
▪ Sixth formers in the midst of A-Level examinations hope their grades match university requirements or job expectations.
mix
▪ You have to offer customised make-up, which is mixed or matched to the client's personal needs.
▪ So plan ahead. Mix and match your favorite combo, and enjoy.
▪ The units may be mixed and matched with topics already being delivered in early stages to provide a scientific context.
▪ Chairman Charles Dolan moves close to realizing his longtime vision of mixing and matching sporting events on different levels of television.
▪ Creative maps have been drawn, land swaps considered, municipal powers mixed and matched.
▪ Lenders may mix and match Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac requirements.
▪ Using the 15 double-sided plates and crayons, they can mix and match different body parts to make a thousand fantastic characters.
▪ But juicy fruit-punch shades like orange and lime to be mixed and matched are equally hot.
try
▪ When not trying to match his 15-hour days, they regale each other with endless stories about his idiosyncrasies and absent-mindedness.
▪ I remembered lessons from my geography classes and tried to match them with what I was seeing below.
▪ They are invited to sense sounds played in another room, or try to match patterned cards drawn elsewhere.
▪ I tried to match up couples with complementary hankies and key-chains.
▪ Some try to match the closure programme to meet the Staff needs.
▪ Under that, they pay the double-occupancy rate, and let the line try to match them with a roommate.
▪ She liked to look at the visitors as they arrived and try to match them with the patients.
▪ Instead, they try simply to match the performance of a market benchmark, such as the S &038; P 500.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(match sb) stride for stride
benefit concert/performance/match
▪ Browne played a benefit concert at Zellerbach Hall on the UC-Berkeley campus Thursday night.
▪ He later played a benefit concert in aid of the protest.
▪ Last August, after leaving a rehearsal for the benefit performance, Hicks witnessed a stabbing and wound up being the suspect.
▪ Most significant for a county player was the opportunity to have a benefit match.
▪ This group also organized musicians to play benefit concerts for the campaign.
evenly matched
▪ The teams seem pretty evenly matched, so it's hard to say who will win.
▪ As a result, the two parties ended up being fairly evenly matched.
▪ Flow is experienced when people perceive opportunities for action being evenly matched by their capabilities.
▪ Importance of national security considerations Public opinion polls published on the eve of the election showed the two main parties evenly matched.
▪ In the early stage the sides were evenly matched effectively cancelling each other out.
▪ Leeds scored through Wallace with 7 minutes to go in an evenly matched game.
▪ Outside, the sexes are more evenly matched, I admit.
▪ Sometimes there will be two candidates who are fairly evenly matched and there may be uncertainty about which should be appointed.
▪ When fighting does occur - as when two evenly matched individuals meet - it seldom results in injury.
grudge fight/match
▪ None of the combatants in this grunge grudge match are over 20.
▪ Six other players were sin-binned as Britain beat New Zealand 3-2 in a grudge match.
the whole shooting match
▪ Why not rerun the whole shooting match in every state that was too close to call?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Match the words on the left with the pictures on the right.
▪ Anderson will receive a bonus that matches his base salary.
▪ Baltimore's economic performance has not matched that of comparable cities.
▪ Double check that you have an invoice to match every check.
▪ For every outfit, Stephanie seemed to have a handbag and shoes to match.
▪ Forming alliances with other countries was the only way to match the power of the enemy.
▪ GMI tries to match students with companies that will hire them.
▪ I'm looking for a rug to match my bedroom curtains.
▪ In the lounge everything matched; the curtains, the sofa, the carpet and the cushions.
▪ Nothing we have ever seen matches this moment.
▪ She was wearing black high-heeled shoes that matched her skirt and jacket.
▪ Teresa got everything to match for the baby's room.
▪ The only cars which could match the acceleration of the Ferraris were the Shelby Cobras and Aston Martins.
▪ Their performance in government didn't quite match their election promises.
▪ This lipstick matches your blouse exactly.
▪ Tom's description and mine matched.
▪ Wages won't go up to match prices.
▪ You can't go out wearing socks that don't match.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But its sequences did not match those of herpes strains the researchers have been able to check so far.
▪ He wore motor-cyclist's leathers underneath, black and shiny, with calf-length boots to match.
▪ Her eyes tuned in, but her mind could not match them.
▪ If he loves her, such feelings are changeable; an impulse to match Harriet with disappointed Frank is quickly put by.
▪ Otherwise, Exe Directory is a way of matching the supply and demand of research ideas.
▪ The town was getting a woozy, criminal feeling that rather matched his own.
▪ We shall have to match his fighting spirit, and not let our fear overwhelm us before the first blow is struck.