I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
combustible material/gas etc
construction materials
▪ expensive construction materials like cement and steel
course material
▪ Teachers are provided with course material.
curtain fabric/material (=for making curtains)
▪ I need to go to town to buy some curtain fabric.
instructional programmes/materials/techniques etc
▪ a free instructional video.
material hardship (=a serious lack of money or of things that you need in order to live)
▪ Emergency government aid helped to relieve the flood victims' material hardship.
material possessions (=things you own, rather than personal qualities, relationships etc)
▪ Many of them have lost all their material possessions as a result of the civil war.
material resources
▪ Most people lack the material resources to be able to deal with periods of unemployment.
material rewards (=money or possessions that you get)
▪ They think money and material rewards are more important than quality of life.
physical/psychological/material etc well-being
▪ the physical and emotional well-being of the children
plant material
▪ They feed on decaying plant material.
raw material
▪ His time here provided the raw material for his novel.
raw materials
▪ The cost of our raw materials has risen significantly.
reading material
▪ a supply of interesting reading material
synthetic fibres/materials/fabrics
teaching materials
▪ This will help teachers to prepare their own teaching materials.
writing materials (=pens, pencils, paper etc)
▪ Pupils were able to try old writing materials such as slates and steel-nibbed pens.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
genetic
▪ No novel genetic material will be introduced into the environment.
▪ That enzyme is crucial to the translation of the virus' genetic material and the reproduction of more viruses inside the host.
▪ The genetic material has to divide exactly.
▪ In the intermediate zone between a population boom and a population bust, this superfluous genetic material is pruned out.
▪ For instance, the basic genetic material is similar.
▪ The more violent the oscillations the greater the amount of parasitic genetic material.
▪ Some bacterial populations are asexual: no means of exchanging genetic material exists.
▪ The work was conducted on genetic material retrieved from embryos, not on embryos themselves.
instructional
▪ As instructional material it is indirect in that the reader is not necessarily told what to do, as in a routine.
▪ They have helped develop curricula and have contributed instructional materials and advice.
▪ Eventually some instructional material did arrive, but not until October, by which time the whole detachment had qualified.
▪ The professional also learns quickly not to rely solely upon personal qualities and a limited collection of instructional materials.
▪ This gives an indication of the potential impact of this type of instructional material.
▪ The use of simple equipment to produce teacher-made instructional materials for classroom use. 4.
▪ The preview and evaluation of instructional materials through classroom use. 5.
▪ Included in the collection are diagnostic and testing materials, professional materials, and instructional materials to be used directly with learners.
new
▪ The company is also developing two new materials which it hopes will be strong enough to fill cavities in the back teeth.
▪ In its place was a halo of entirely new material.
▪ By the 1950s and 1960s, delicate equipment for reaching and investigating single nerve cells could be built with new materials.
▪ But they made them of iron, and Justice proposed to make them from the new miracle material, steel.
▪ Ideas about representing the structure of energy and movement were sought through experimentation with new materials and light.
▪ Then we learned to extract raw materials from her biosphere to create our own new synthetic materials.
▪ New products, including liquid crystal display televisions, long-life batteries and new materials offer promise for the future.
▪ Such persons will frequently lead you to new or additional material.
nuclear
▪ It then swells-for the nuclear material is highly compacted within the sperm-and so becomes a pronucleus.
▪ Pentagon officials say they have already had some success reducing the risk that nuclear materials will fall into the wrong hands.
▪ Each of the two divisions of meiosis produces two daughter cells, each of which contains the same amount of nuclear material.
▪ There have been some real instances of just dumping nuclear material in the oceans.
▪ Since the amount of nuclear material increases as cells grow and divide, new pyrimidines and purines had to come from somewhere.
▪ Obtaining nuclear material is the hardest part of building a bomb; a clever physics graduate student can figure out the rest.
▪ Storage of nuclear materials is in jeopardy, a government official warned recently.
organic
▪ They also, astonishingly, contain abundant organic material.
▪ An independent chronology for these reconstructions is essential and this is provided by radiocarbon-dating of organic material preserved in the sediments.
▪ Uneaten food and other dead organic materials left in the tank are the worst offenders in pollution of the water.
▪ They are separated by a thin layer of a very complex organic material.
▪ The corals feed passively on bits of organic material suspended in the water.
▪ Snow close to the coast is often additionally contaminated by mineral salts and organic material from the sea.
▪ Muck is formed by the decaying of saw grass and other organic material over thousands of years.
other
▪ My first lesson on Day One; labour is a commodity like any other raw material.
▪ The placenta detaches itself from the uterine wall and, with other material, is forced out after the baby.
▪ All other materials contract when they solidify.
▪ Conclusions: The velvet cloth is a near perfect black, but more expensive and less readily available than the other materials.
▪ For example, research in composites, polymers and other new materials could aid a range of engineering industries.
▪ These and other language-based materials are offered as supplementary materials which will slot into a range of syllabuses.
▪ At the time of manufacture the foil would obviously become mixed with other materials.
▪ Nowadays boards can means pasteboard, cardboard, strawboard or any other stiff material used in hard-covered books.
radioactive
▪ This would have resulted in more radioactive material being released.
▪ They left radioactive material in Moscow and said they were going to use that kind of weapon....
▪ Officials admit that another 700 firms and institutions are using hazardous radioactive material.
▪ A conventional bomb could scatter radioactive material over a large area.
▪ There is a danger of leakages and the deliberate dumping of radioactive material, with potentially catastrophic results for the environment.
▪ Two other canisters bearing labels for radioactive material were also found, but preliminary tests failed to detect any radioactivity.
▪ So far environmental lobbies have been extremely reluctant to allow radioactive materials to be flown in a chemical rocket.
▪ It was closed and capped in 1977 after an explosion inside it showered the area with radioactive material.
raw
▪ The only defence open to enterprises and manufacturing industry would be a chaotic cut in their demand for these raw materials.
▪ It consumes twice as much energy, water and other raw materials, per unit of production, as most industrialized countries.
▪ No longer is the customer at the end of the line, nor does the supplier only relate to raw materials.
▪ The problem here remains one of the identification of the sources of the raw materials used during the period.
▪ For these industries steel from Motherwell is an important local raw material.
▪ It announced the suspension of all work on the grounds of lack of raw materials.
▪ In addition, all regional buyers inspect and approve all raw material stores personally to ensure they achieve our laid down standards.
▪ The respondent's answers constitute the raw material to be analysed at a later point in time.
■ NOUN
building
▪ After coal, building materials figured importantly among bulk cargoes.
▪ Consequently, the fall in demand for building materials and construction workers will generate downward multiplier effects on other types of investment.
▪ Many building materials such as lime mortars and plasters, Portland cement and asbestos cement develop alkalis.
▪ First half profit before tax fell by 12% to £44.5m at Laporte; eps fell by 6% to 18.8p. Building materials.
▪ They scrounge wiring, plasterboard, wood, all kinds of building materials from local firms and are rebuilding the charred structure.
▪ Most obviously, water is an excellent building material: eminently flexible, but not very compressible.
▪ The ordering of building materials would help greatly the building supplies industry that is at present in the doldrums.
plant
▪ However, a real plant will be constrained by the amount of already existing plant material and its needs.
▪ Each time any plant material was harvested, it was laboriously weighed and recorded by the biospherians.
▪ Orfe are ideal inhabitants for a planted pond, as they only eat small amounts of plant material.
▪ York said that reconstituted tobacco is made by separating water-soluble elements, including nicotine, from the tobacco plant material.
▪ Another similar material is the partly rotted plant material in garden compost heaps.
▪ Most 14C ages are determined from the carbon in dead plant material.
▪ A second explanation is that antibiotic production is rooted in the plant material that is the food source.
▪ Gooey and black, the muck is full of decaying plant material.
reading
▪ It will need to have a ledge to support the reading material and strong clamps to hold pages in place are useful.
▪ By level 8, the reading material is as demanding as it can be.
▪ To list background reading material. 5.
▪ The Lawyers' Library in Appendix 4 gives details of these publications and other useful reading material.
▪ A spontaneous way to effect magnification is to bring reading material close to the eye.
▪ It provides a variety of reading material from newspapers and other authentic sources, which parallel and reinforce each story.
▪ Like the Prince, she requests and gathers together information and reading material on all of the subjects she has taken on.
▪ There is a hunger for reading material, for books of all kinds, educational and recreational.
source
▪ The research involves the use of primary source materials in national and local archives.
▪ A key element will be the researching of source material still held by different constabularies.
▪ But what is extraordinary about all these intricate reworkings of such disparate source material is the coherence of the final results.
▪ In some cases, quite new kinds of source material will become practical.
▪ At best, his work is defined by what is known to be available as source material.
▪ Unlike structured databases, Viewdata is useful for a great variety of written source materials.
▪ Searches that predominantly involve specific words or phrases known to have been used in the source material.
teaching
▪ Teachers in a cluster group might share the work of producing teaching materials or assessment materials.
▪ Earlier publication will make timetabling easier, and reduce the pressure on staff who need to review and develop teaching materials.
▪ One other possibility that is sometimes considered if a camera is available in an institution is local production of teaching materials.
▪ It is easy to get teaching materials wrong, difficult to get them right.
▪ The Department is committed to teaching materials in an engineering context and much of its research reflects this attitude.
▪ The national clearinghouses co-operate to some extent but largely through exchanges of information and teaching material.
▪ The larger format will offer at 3-4 levels a range of self-study language teaching materials.
■ VERB
build
▪ They had tunnelled down into the plateau, and they had built upwards as far as their materials and construction abilities would allow.
▪ During the three-week run, the sophisticated internal monitoring equipment indicated no buildup of gases either from building materials or biological sources.
▪ These ideas have been built into curricula and materials.
▪ He made his way through a ragpickers' village built with material scavenged from other parts of the city.
contain
▪ Many of these works contain important statistical material, but there exist also many purely statistical digests and collections.
▪ They also, astonishingly, contain abundant organic material.
▪ All of the books containing material related to the theses in the present study are such compilations.
▪ CompuServe recently shut down direct access to certain newsgroups containing indecent photographs and material.
▪ Now if you will refer to your folders, you have extracts containing the relevant material.
▪ Confidential data contain material that is secret but whose existence is not a secret.
▪ If the second edition of a book contains revision material, it is the first revised edition.
▪ The child-use section contains instructional materials in a wide variety of format and subject matter for the children themselves.
include
▪ These include materials and fuel, work in progress, and stocks of finished products.
▪ Each lesson includes a list of materials needed.
▪ The database of approximately 180 references include audiovisual and print materials held in the school library.
▪ Examples of chemical poisoning include chlorine-based materials released into the atmosphere.
▪ Many pre-school poetry collections include material which presents negative images of older people.
▪ Individuals with similar functions include materials, operations, purchasing, and traffic managers.
▪ Perkins also includes some useful material for experimental physicists such as stopping power and multiple scattering formulae and definition of radiation lengths.
▪ The documents included allegedly misleading sales material and records from individual customers' files.
produce
▪ This produces materials which are as clean as first-use plastics.
▪ User need prevails when such produced materials reduce abstractions to a level of reality and personal meaning to the individual.
▪ Through working together the schools are able to buy in expertise and share the costs of producing high quality materials.
▪ But Raye, with his sweet, Vince-Gill-like tenor, continues to produce strong material.
▪ It uses the best talents available to produce promotional materials to recruit new members.
▪ No one is advocating producing more of this material, as some fear.
▪ Older methods of producing duplicated material can be defective in this regard.
▪ But, what if you really must produce more material?
provide
▪ It is this process which provides the material of creativity.
▪ A stunning move by Franklin Roosevelt provided dramatic material for the new team.
▪ The research brings together academics from the countries included in the study to provide descriptive material on decentralisation for an edited publication.
▪ It will provide supporting material for the annual review of implementation and, where necessary, clarify or supplement information received.
▪ In the past, waste was not useless, but provided fuel, building materials and industrial materials, as well as rough grazing.
▪ Chord changes were of particular importance, because they provided the raw material for each improvised solo.
▪ In doing this they provide the material for their own cultural development that is self-determining and self-governing.
▪ We love Dan Snyder because he provides us with material.
read
▪ They should read a selection of material that includes short stories, novels, plays and poems.
▪ Parents need to read these published materials, acknowledging that some teachers will rely more or less on these.
▪ A: It is rare for a child to sustain interest in reading material that is completely beyond him.
▪ He reads and digests material on a vast range of topics and picks the brains of most of the leading authorities.
▪ Most likely this person is inundated with reading material at work and at home.
▪ In reading the material which follows an important point should be borne in mind.
▪ This will give everyone a chance to read the material, make comments, and come prepared for a discussion.
use
▪ Alongside the Manchester Ship Canal there were open spaces suitable for large modern factories using imported raw materials.
▪ Parents will have control over which rating service or software they use and what material their kids can access.
▪ You could think of using video material occasionally as an input to these activities.
▪ Regionals use a lot of material originated by public relations, sometimes in the form in which it was sent.
▪ Team leader Alan Smith said the nursery was committed to preserving the environment so it did not use peat materials or chemicals.
▪ The challenge in designing and using materials is how to delay the moment of ultimate failure.
▪ A good general purpose tripod using the minimum material for the maximum load is illustrated in Figure 7.
▪ It is for the teachers, drawing on their professional knowledge and expertise, to use the materials appropriate for their pupils.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the material world
▪ Flash heat, volcanism, lightning, wind, and waves all renew the material world.
▪ For Marx the material world is the ultimate reality.
▪ His followers are to trust in the goodness and providence of their heavenly father and abandon their care about the material world.
▪ Such scientists refuse to admit that here they are dealing with another level or scale of being in the material world.
▪ That meant he could project his spirit as he slept, and wander the material world and even the spirit lands.
▪ The child's actions on the material world also provide a stimulus for conceptual development.
▪ The members of the second were practical men who were leaders and men of action in the material world.
▪ These are no doubt spiritual matters, but they have their analogue in the material world.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A layer of insulating material should be placed between the panels and the solid wall.
▪ art material
▪ building materials
▪ Could I have six metres of that curtain material?
▪ I've been unable to find any reference material on the subject of interracial adoptions.
▪ Menken is collaborating on the new material with Tim Rice.
▪ She was wearing a long black dress made of some silky material.
▪ Some materials are easier to dye than others.
▪ Steel is a stronger material than iron.
▪ T-shirt material
▪ The chairs are made of recycled material.
▪ The company supplies building materials such as bricks and cement.
▪ The stories he collected became material for the biography he is now writing.
▪ There's a basket there with some books and writing materials.
▪ There wasn't enough material to write a whole book.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Appropriate educational material will continue to be co-ordinated, evaluated and distributed to schools as it becomes available.
▪ However, even this material would not be strong enough if the balloon was designed along conventional lines.
▪ In any trial, the prosecution must prove beyond reasonable doubt that the material is obscene.
▪ It is still prudent to re-condition bought materials.
▪ It smelt not only of mud and rotting materials, but also the unmistakable odour of human waste.
▪ No one is advocating producing more of this material, as some fear.
▪ Samples of the material were collected and sent for analysis while crews worked to remove the material.
▪ The rubble of solid chilled material overlying the hot core naturally tends to insulate it, and it does so very efficiently.
II.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
advantage
▪ Anderson argues strongly that such patterns can be explained only by looking at the material advantages and disadvantages of people living together.
▪ It was a nice bit of play by Deane which gave Speed the opportunity to translate our complete domination into material advantage.
▪ This illustrates the crucial point that practical constraints affect people in differing degrees, depending on their level of material advantage.
▪ I would not dream of seeking any material advantage from our meeting.
▪ Even when due allowance is made for the material advantages of Gloucester's lordship, there is no doubt of his personal attraction.
basis
▪ In general, what the theory of dialectic materialism states is that every society is structured around its material basis of production.
▪ Wage incentives were needed to motivate officials, thus giving bureaucracy an institutional and material basis for power.
▪ What experience gives us is not knowledge itself, but the ideas which form the material basis for knowledge.
▪ I shall also argue that crises have a material basis, which relates to the periodic replacement and expansion of fixed capital.
benefit
▪ Titanic pay increases and tax cuts for the wealthy and prosperous are of material benefit to the poor.
▪ First, to be sure, some reap material benefit from inflation.
▪ Broadly speaking, workers obtained certain rights and material benefits.
▪ Also the material benefits of Prussian citizenship had begun to show in improved living standards and educational opportunities.
▪ Cities and towns were, of course, sometimes able to offer material benefits not available to the residents of the countryside.
▪ It could have led to a certain amount of resentment, particularly when the material benefits flowed in for Hannah.
breach
▪ The Soviet Union can never be a party to the Treaty, and material breach gives no rights to non-parties.
▪ If a Protocol party acts in material breach of the Protocol, who has the right of termination or suspension?
change
▪ Target business to be run in ordinary course up to completion with no material changes in trading performance or net assets.
▪ Such language suggests that the riots were less about forcing material change than about making symbolic gestures.
▪ Again material changes stimulated the new thinking just as much as the perceived inadequacies of existing theory.
▪ Running alongside these personal connections, however, were material changes affecting these societies during the late nineteenth century.
▪ Clearly in such circumstances there appears to be a material change of use.
circumstances
▪ The contents of the racist pathology and the material circumstances to which it can be made to correspond are thus left untouched.
▪ His material Circumstances determined much of his essential nature.
▪ Do they operate independently of the economic and material circumstances in which individuals are placed?
▪ However, material circumstances on their own do not account fully for changes in co-residence.
▪ Moreover, abortion as a method allowed decision making to be delayed until material circumstances could be assessed.
▪ The explanation is better sought in the specific social and material circumstances and their articulation with political and ideological structures.
▪ It is frightening, a triumph of the will over material circumstances.
comfort
▪ The unworldly, peace-loving doctor, oblivious of both material comfort and public opinion, is in some respects a self-portrait.
▪ He wanted to enjoy this lull and the reasonable material comfort.
culture
▪ The other grave goods provide what little evidence we have for the economic basis and material culture of its population.
▪ But energies are also expended on devices intended for introduction into the material culture of the host society.
▪ Distinction does not provide a theory of either consumption or material culture as the form of modern culture.
▪ Within anthropology, there has always been a tradition seeking to locate underlying and generalizable processes and patterns in material culture studies.
▪ So far as material culture is concerned, the Siberian peoples fell into two main categories.
evidence
▪ The material evidence of the archaeological record has been lying around for a long time.
existence
▪ What mathematicians want from infinitesimals is not material existence but rather the right to use them in proofs.
▪ Can there be any spiritual reality transcending this material existence?
fact
▪ The omission of a material fact only involves an offence where that fact was concealed with dishonest intention.
▪ But the material facts themselves - the evidence - do not show us their causes, for which we need theories.
▪ It is a mystic power not of the world of material facts, a divine gift in compensation for our ephemeral life.
▪ Nevertheless, the material fact is, of course, that capital has largely abandoned these inner urban areas.
▪ Was there any contractual duty on the defendants to disclose this material fact to the plaintiff?
form
▪ The material form of the surplus-product has an important bearing upon this.
▪ Selfhood, in other words, has individual identity only as it exists in material form.
gain
▪ So, although a rich source of status and prestige, athletics could not compare with professional sport in terms of material gain.
▪ In middle age a nation seeks safety and consolidation of material gain.
▪ The party is an instrument of material gain.
goods
▪ Government jobs and the opportunities which association with the government gives allow them the possibility of accumulating material goods.
▪ Psychologists say that work helps us meet our needs for food, shelter, and material goods.
▪ In the purchase of material goods, issues of quantity, quality, price and delivery are crucial in several respects.
▪ Their food, dress and material goods encompassed all the richness and variety society could provide.
▪ The production of material goods is the primary activity of humans, and it must come before all other activities.
▪ All they live for, the only thing they care about, is material goods.
▪ Soon it was not enough to demonstrate your success in life by the acquisition of material goods.
▪ The relative paucity of material goods owned by Corpsmen is, in terms of transcultural perception, a complicating factor.
information
▪ Confer with clients on any material information received but not in a way that confuses them. 7.
interest
▪ This struggle revolves around opposing material interests of competing classes and groups in all countries.
▪ Their limited national horizons and bureaucratic rivalries and material interests preclude it.
▪ No Director has or had during the period any material interest in any contract of significance to the Company's business.
▪ It leaves out place and circumstance, the powerful and unconscious drive of material interests and class identity.
life
▪ Inequalities in material life-chances are fundamental; status differences and differences in political influence tend to be dependent on material life chances.
▪ The problems of housekeeping and material life occupied a certain portion of each day.
▪ The mode of production of material life conditions the social, political, and intellectual life process in general.
▪ At any given moment, its material life has been dominated by particular centres of privilege and influence.
need
▪ You are likely to secure the material needs and objects you desire.
▪ Led by some bishops, we have replaced spirituality with an amorphous concern for the material needs of others.
▪ He lists expression of love through words, touch, spending time together, providing material needs and many others.
▪ None of this material need in my opinion be disclosed to the prisoner.
object
▪ It may take the form of a material object.
▪ Newton gave three laws governing the behaviour of material objects.
▪ The concept of mind is such that we should not wonder how material objects can be present to it.
▪ To Aristotle the spheres were truly material objects, crystalline shells that surrounded and carried one another along.
▪ And so there is psychokinesis, mind acting upon a material object, namely brain cells.
▪ The sign consists of the signifier, the material object, and the signified, which is its meaning.
▪ Klein is not the only psychoanalyst to have commented upon the place of material objects in play.
possession
▪ We think of the desert of modern life with the concentration on material possessions and its resultant poverty.
▪ Society is composed of many different groups, which are unequal in power, status, and material possessions.
▪ We realize that the spiritual life matters infinitely more than all the material possessions or human status we once may have enjoyed.
▪ Individual achievement is often symbolized and measured by the quality and quantity of material possessions that a person can accumulate.
▪ In the West, the value of materialism motivates individuals to invest time and energy producing and acquiring material possessions.
▪ So great is the lure of material possessions!
▪ If the Monster's lust for what is mine ended there, with my material possessions, I could stand it.
progress
▪ This time, material progress did not serve the cause of the Church.
prosperity
▪ They are the generators of the material prosperity which is now taken for granted in the West.
▪ This suggests that in some circumstances material prosperity may increase without cultural patterns changing markedly.
▪ Such marginalization of older people was accompanied by increasing material prosperity and political activism.
▪ Yet material prosperity is in no way guaranteed.
▪ There is, in other words, plenty of evidence of poverty indicated by the traditional markers of lack of material prosperity.
▪ Meanwhile Europhiles delude themselves that material prosperity attributable to membership can move emotions.
reality
▪ But most of those who thought there was a material reality were not uncompromising materialists of a Hobbesian sort.
▪ Art, they say, is beauty, and beauty is truth in its material reality.
reward
▪ Finally, the satisfaction of the job is regarded by sentimental observers as sufficient compensation for the lack of material rewards.
▪ Just as material rewards are disappearing, job security is barely a memory and company loyalty a psychic fossil.
▪ The bureaucracy enjoys more material rewards and privileges than other sectors of society.
▪ The data showed that information specialists' actions were often impelled not simply by material rewards or to avoid punishment.
▪ But to attempt to implement such principles in society as a whole will be disastrous unless people are seriously interested in material reward.
success
▪ We often speak of climbing the ladder don't we when it comes to the world of work or material success.
▪ Economics is, of course, crucial to material success.
support
▪ They are entitled to expect all the necessary encouragement, and legal and material support from the Government.
▪ Practical and material support linked to helping interventions.
▪ The movement seems to have substantial sums of money, but I saw no sign of material support.
things
▪ Yet covetousness goes farther than material things alone.
▪ After they want those material things, they want their health.
▪ We are justified in using it for a quality of material things only if the quality is like the bodily sensation.
▪ Triangles are not material things, but shapes which material things can have.
▪ For Hegel, material things were less real than ideas.
▪ Triangles are not material things, but shapes which material things can have.
▪ Materialism says that the only things that exist are material things in space.
wealth
▪ For centuries, material wealth and abundance has been seen as incompatible with spiritual growth.
▪ Studies and statistics underline the fact: 200 large-scale enterprises control about half the fabulous material wealth of the United States.
▪ At the same it reveals a society rich in material wealth.
▪ In particular, a tax on the transfer of material wealth may well make other forms of transfer more attractive.
▪ Food was in short supply, of course, and there were few signs of any material wealth at all.
▪ True, education is often also useful in its results - useful in the sense of promoting the creation of material wealth.
world
▪ For Marx the material world is the ultimate reality.
▪ In the material world they share telephone and mailing lists all the time.
▪ His followers are to trust in the goodness and providence of their heavenly father and abandon their care about the material world.
▪ Flash heat, volcanism, lightning, wind, and waves all renew the material world.
▪ Such scientists refuse to admit that here they are dealing with another level or scale of being in the material world.
▪ That meant he could project his spirit as he slept, and wander the material world and even the spirit lands.
▪ Malebranche makes the material world not just a bare possibility but a redundant one too.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Material damage to the ship was negligible.
▪ a material witness
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At an individual or party level discourses not only mediate between material conditions and their interpretation but can organise experience itself.
▪ Selfhood, in other words, has individual identity only as it exists in material form.
▪ The cocoon is another material resource used, directly or indirectly, for musical purposes.
▪ The search for human origins in the material record, by the techniques of archaeology, could begin.