I.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a controversial measure (=an official action that is controversial)
▪ Banning smoking in public places was a controversial measure.
a degree/measure of protection (=some protection)
▪ The shelter gave us a measure of protection against the bitter cold.
a safety measure (=something that is done to make something safe)
▪ New safety measures have been introduced after two horses died in last year’s race.
an earthquake measures 5/6.4 etc on the Richter Scale
▪ The earthquake, which measured 7.6 on the Richter scale, left more than 20,000 homeless.
an experiment to test/measure/find out sth
▪ We did an experiment to test the acidity of the soil.
austerity measures (=reductions in government spending)
▪ IMF-backed austerity measures
biosecurity measures
▪ Poultry producers have started to adopt strict biosecurity measures.
conservation measures/policies/issues etc
▪ It is important that nature conservation issues are taken into account.
corrective action/measures
▪ corrective measures to deal with the country’s serious economic decline
defensive measure
▪ The rockets are a purely defensive measure against nuclear attack.
desperate measures (=extreme things you do to stop a problem or bad situation)
▪ They had to take desperate measures to stop the spread of the disease.
draconian measures/controls/penalties etc
▪ draconian measures to control population growth
drastic action/measures
▪ NATO threatened drastic action if its terms were not met.
efficiency measures (=changes introduced to make something more efficient)
▪ The new efficiency measures are designed to improve the health service.
emergency measures (=special actions that are taken to deal with a very serious situation)
▪ The president announced emergency measures to deal with terrorism.
fiscal policy/measure
▪ sound good fiscal policy
generous amount/helping/measure etc
▪ a generous helping of pasta
half measures
▪ Half measures will not fix the health care system.
measure the distance between things
▪ Now we are able to measure the distances between the planets.
measure the length of sth
▪ The children measured the length of their shadows at three different times of day.
measured (=very carefully controlled)
▪ He spoke slowly, in a calm and measured tone.
measuring jug
measuring tape
measuring...on the Richter scale
▪ a severe earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale
package of measures/proposals/incentives etc
▪ The government has announced a package of measures to assist affected areas.
precautionary measure
▪ More troops were sent to the area as a precautionary measure.
preventive action/measure
▪ While travelling abroad, take preventive measures to avoid illness.
punitive action/measures etc
▪ The agency sent a letter, but took no punitive action.
radical measures (=extreme actions)
▪ Instead of retreating, he suggested even more radical measures.
security measures/arrangements
▪ Residents have been warned to take extra security measures following a spate of burglaries.
stopgap measure
▪ It’s only a stopgap measure, not a long-term solution.
tape measure
temporary measure
▪ The bridge was erected as a temporary measure.
Traffic calming measures
▪ Traffic calming measures have been introduced.
veto legislation/a measure/a proposal etc
▪ President Bush vetoed the bill on July 6.
yardstick...measure
▪ These subjects are used as a yardstick against which to measure the children’s progress.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ The main physical benefit is improving the fitness level as measured by the maximum oxygen uptake.
▪ They help train Baja California police officers, firefighters and rescue teams in such basic first-aid measures as cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
▪ Instead, they would each have their own individual time, as measured by a clock each carried with him.
▪ Inventory control, as measured by the below-average days sales in inventory number, also must be judged as excellent.
▪ Portion of gamma-ray spectrum as measured by Fleischmann etal.
▪ But perhaps he had taken his own colleagues' measure as well.
▪ The emphasis was switched to the growth of narrow money, as measured by M0.
▪ The middle class, as measured by the percentage of households at each income level, is fading.
how
▪ A spectrograph measures how bright a star is at any given wavelength.
▪ We invented something called the roar-o-meter to measure how funny something was.
▪ The standards set out guidelines against which practices can measure how well they manage themselves.
▪ One might as well try to measure how many grains of sand will be moved by a tidal wave.
▪ The technique can continually measure how much pressure is being exerted.
▪ Before you put the cake in the oven, measure how far the mixture is from the top of the pan.
▪ Typically a test might consist of measuring how many symbols could be copied in 2 minutes.
▪ The researchers measured how much food the students ate by weighing how much was left in the room after the students departed.
up
▪ Take a look at yourself in a mirror and judge for yourself if you measure up.
▪ But it simply has not measured up to that daunting task.
▪ How does the performance measure up against the best in the world?
▪ Try as they might, however, the younger singers rarely measure up to their forebears.
▪ But does any church really measure up to that kind of expectation?
▪ He had technique and discipline, and he insisted she measure up.
▪ The graphics are very slick for an arcade game that measure up very well compared to the latest Sega offerings.
▪ There is no guaranteed way for you or me to see reality measure up to our dreams.
■ NOUN
activity
▪ Answer guide: Because the accounts are to do with measuring economic activity rather than the timing of receipts and payments. 7.
▪ It is easier to observe and measure electrical activity than it is to understand the chemical properties.
▪ Second, their brain functions, as measured by electrical activity and high-tech scanning, are dissimilar.
▪ The index measures Chicago-area activity only, but that accounts for a significant part of the state economy.
▪ The study of the kinetics of this reaction enables the laboratory to measure enzyme activity accurately and specifically.
amount
▪ The researchers' aim was simply to measure the amount of oxygen consumed by the camels under various conditions.
▪ They worry that there is no way to measure the amount of milk the baby is receiving.
▪ Economic development is measured using the amount of energy consumed in any given year.
▪ If younger children want to feed your fish it's usually best to measure out the correct amount for them.
▪ Weighing machines work by measuring the amount by which a spring is compressed when some one stands on it.
▪ She measured the amount with one quick look.
▪ The hood was attached to a machine which measured the amount of oxygen breathed in and the carbon dioxide produced.
change
▪ It certainly can not, therefore, be used to measure change over time: one of the reasons for its use.
▪ All are subjects of experiments that will measure changes in development brought on by space flight.
▪ He developed statistical techniques to study the variability of wild populations and to measure changes in the range of variability over time.
▪ Other important methods measure regional changes in blood flow within the brain.
▪ Durkheim was especially concerned to try to measure changes in the basis of social solidarity.
▪ Pollsters who surveyed the group before the convention will measure changes in their attitudes after the four-day event.
▪ This measures the percentage change in the value of the call in response to a given change in the price of the share.
▪ If performance indicators are designed to measure change, and goals are expressed in terms of improvement, this process will be easier.
concentration
▪ Bile salt and peptides were measured in molar concentrations.
▪ For clinical purposes, one means of measuring overall concentration would be to measure the serum osmolality directly.
distance
▪ It won't be very accurate in practice, because of difficulty in measuring the distances accurately, but at least it's right.
▪ Then measure the same distance from the outside down, and that will mark where the floor is on the inside.
▪ Have a student use one of the yardsticks to measure the distance. 2.
▪ Both, in their different ways, were measuring the distance between themselves and others.
▪ A laser altimeter will measure the distance to Eros, gradually assembling a detailed topographical map.
▪ Hubble was forced, therefore, to use indirect methods to measure the distances.
▪ Sergeant Ninez was playing with his compass and map, measuring distances and calculating the best route back to Orange.
foot
▪ The body itself was not much more than five feet tall, the coffin measuring five foot 6 inches in length.
▪ He had time to measure the shot in feet, meters and degree of difficulty in seven languages.
▪ Within the hour, Hari had measured several pairs of feet and had enough orders to keep her busy for several weeks.
▪ It measures 28 feet in length and 20 feet in girth. the tail from point to point is 8 feet.
▪ It was of square plan, each side measuring over 350 feet and completely enclosed by stoas.
▪ The members would like six-inch knitted squares or six-inch wide strips measuring six or four feet.
▪ Participants fight with poles measuring around six feet in length.
▪ Many of the rides in Monks Wood are wide, measuring up to sixty feet across.
index
▪ The city keeps a four-part Municipal Performance Index, which measures both its efficiency and its effectiveness over time.
▪ The index is designed to measure the performance of the local economy.
▪ The index measures small businesses' sales, hiring, stock prices and other factors.
▪ The index measuring the prices manufacturers paid for goods rose to 11. 4 from 4. 5 in December.
▪ The index measures Chicago-area activity only, but that accounts for a significant part of the state economy.
level
▪ Hall effect semiconductors will measure low flux levels although their response tends to be non-linear and temperature dependent.
▪ Respiratory alkalosis is characterized by a primary deficiency in physically dissolved CO2 which is quantitated by measuring the blood PCO2 level.
▪ The test measures levels of ubiquitin in individual sperm.
▪ It is important to measure serum levels at steady state after each change of dose.
▪ Attempts to measure interaction level are usually based on self-report studies, which do have methodological problems.
▪ It remains difficult, however, to measure this level of self-sufficiency on purely archaeological grounds.
▪ She also needs an expensive test to measure levels of virus in her blood.
method
▪ Real time ultrasound is a simple method of measuring gastric emptying which has been validated by previous studies.
▪ Another difficulty is that the various methods of measuring the lag are subject to severe criticisms.
▪ Hubble was forced, therefore, to use indirect methods to measure the distances.
▪ Other important methods measure regional changes in blood flow within the brain.
▪ The main problem with this demand for money function is that of finding a method of measuring total wealth.
▪ A better method is to measure the time taken for the full code to be read in.
▪ Sir Crispin advocated the need to change the method of measuring the wealth of nations.
▪ Banks will be able to choose among different methods of measuring credit risk.
number
▪ C is to measure the number of atoms present, or a proportion of them, by mass spectrometry.
▪ Our economy is measured in numbers and statistics.
▪ And, measured by the number of delegates at stake, the next, the pivotal battleground would be New York.
▪ But that is measured by the number of workers - which has declined sharply.
▪ Such a theory would have no predictive power because one could never measure all the infinite number of parameters.
▪ They measured the number of cases brought to court by persons who alleged that their cattle had been stolen.
▪ The performance of lexical access is often measured by number of words correctly identified.
▪ This last has always to be measured in terms of numbers, and can take no account of degree of motivation.
performance
▪ They measure the performance of their agencies, focusing not on inputs but on outcomes.
▪ Because they measure performance, they touch upon people's sensitivities and self-interest.
▪ A comparison of different kinds of rocket engines with each other requires some measure of their performance.
▪ It can be very difficult to decide how to measure performance at many jobs.
▪ The managers eventually learned to cope with the ambiguity in measuring their performance.
▪ Mental performance tests By now it might be wondered whether there is any satisfactory way to measure mental performance.
▪ The index is designed to measure the performance of the local economy.
position
▪ Using a sensing laser the robot measures its position more than 1000 times a second.
▪ The greater the precision with which you measure the position, the more uncertain the momentum becomes, and vice versa.
▪ With switch S1 in position 1 the distortion-plus-noise is measured.
▪ In classical mechanics one can predict the results of measuring both the position and the velocity of a particle.
▪ Alternatively, he can predict the result of measuring one combination of position and velocity.
▪ The more precisely you measure the position of a particle, the less precisely you can measure its velocity, and viceversa.
▪ The central problem is that you could never measure the original position of the page with sufficient accuracy.
▪ Consider what is involved in measuring the position of an electron.
price
▪ The relationship between quantity demanded of a commodity and its price is normally measured by the price elasticity of demand.
▪ These stories choose to measure the price of things rather than to lay blame.
▪ But then they tumbled the following year, crashing by 31 percent when measured against the price of manufactured goods.
▪ The price deflator measures the size of price increases, and detects whether higher costs drive consumers away from a product.
▪ Most subsequent studies have shown the difficulty of measuring the price response of demand.
▪ The change in price from the first to the second sale of each house is the basic unit measured.
▪ Default risk will be measured by the price spread on the two bonds being compared.
▪ The index measuring the prices manufacturers paid for goods rose to 11. 4 from 4. 5 in December.
rate
▪ Measuring the rate of protein synthesis then becomes a matter of measuring the rate at which amino acids are incorporated into proteins.
▪ The real rate as measured by the rate on long-term government bonds has actually risen since the end of the cold war.
▪ Thus it should be possible to measure growth rate by this method.
▪ Since the mid-1980s a direct means of measuring present rates and directions of plate motion has become available.
▪ The big differences are to be measured in terms of rates of growth of output and of levels of output per head.
▪ It is doubtful whether this index provides an appropriate basis for measuring the rate of inflation.
▪ We do not expect doctors to run an intensive care unit simply by measuring the pulse rates of their patients.
scale
▪ But there is no scale for measuring our efficiency to smell.
▪ Five standardized scales were used to measure these factors.
▪ The scale is measured from Force 0 to Force 12.
▪ The time scale is measured in years rather than months.
security
▪ Some security police were measuring distances; others were looking for clues.
▪ The bombing has forced Olympic officials to step up security measures throughout Olympic venues and surrounding facilities.
▪ Heavy security measures and heightened sensitivities to protecting Dole and Kemp were symbols of the convention.
size
▪ When you measure the sizes of birds' beaks, there may be some scatter among the readings.
▪ In the pre-space age era, astronomers measured the size and shape of the Moon and analyzed its motions with precision.
▪ That is measured by the size and capacity of the halls in each territory.
▪ The price deflator measures the size of price increases, and detects whether higher costs drive consumers away from a product.
▪ Measure the rooms carefully; measure the size of the whole plot also.
▪ The observer has no means at his disposal to measure either the size or the distance of the object.
▪ But he had to live a life measured to the size of people who lacked the capacity to understand this.
speed
▪ How does having their own individual time cause people traveling at different speeds to measure the same speed of light?
▪ Are we measuring time and speed or are we measuring something we think is time and speed?
▪ This is important because many devices for measuring low flow speeds in turn require calibration.
▪ Other features of the disc include a built-in metronome that permits players to measure and pace the speed of their playing.
▪ Then I could measure the speed of the wind inside me and know where on the scale I was in general located.
▪ It measures the speed at which you can download material from the Net.
▪ For the more advanced user the speed mode allows typists and companies to measure typing speeds.
▪ Efficiency could be measured in terms of speed of performance, the least amount of storage required or the least number of program lines.
success
▪ It is now not uncommon for consultancies to include in their proposals for a campaign how they intend to measure its success.
▪ This means finding alternative routes to success, and it means measuring and treasuring success in small amounts.
▪ Banks are profit-making corporations; they measure their success in terms of profit, with client satisfaction as the constraint.
▪ Tacitly or explicitly, these beliefs provide your organization with guidelines and criteria for measuring success.
▪ No one can predict the sales success of an ad, and it is often difficult to measure the success even afterwards.
▪ But how to measure success is a matter of debate.
▪ But even a mayor who measures his success at street level must sometimes lift his head above the foliage.
▪ The only way I could be measured as a success would be to win the Super Bowl.
temperature
▪ ERS-1 will also measure sea temperature, contributing to studies into the role that the oceans play in determining global climate.
▪ As you continued to measure temperatures, the temperature in the ceramic cup dropped faster than the temperature in the foam cup.
▪ Tony measures the temperature and tells me it is warming up.
▪ The pilot measures temperatures and samples water and rock and an orange microbial fluff.
▪ If you have a thermometer, measure the temperature of the soil after about 2 hours.
▪ What geophysicists have been lacking is a way to measure the temperature deep down, where radioactive heating plays a lesser role.
▪ Thermocouples are placed in the freshly poured concrete to measure the concrete temperature.
▪ The experiment to measure core temperature, though, had to wait nearly thirty years.
test
▪ The test measures levels of ubiquitin in individual sperm.
▪ About 74 percent supported using a standard test in California to measure student achievement.
▪ Typically a test might consist of measuring how many symbols could be copied in 2 minutes.
▪ Twenty forces do not have tests to measure whether their officers have racist attitudes.
▪ She also needs an expensive test to measure levels of virus in her blood.
▪ Breath hydrogen analysis after oral lactulose containing meals is an easy, non-invasive, bedside test to measure mouth-to-caecum transit time.
▪ And the tests they took measured how well they had learned to do these tasks.
value
▪ How do you measure the value that comes with that exposure?
▪ In the current cost version, capital is measured in terms of its current value, which in many cases is its replacement cost.
▪ The time it takes for a dose of a drug to wear off is measured by a value called a half-life.
▪ Without money, some other means to measure the value of goods against each other would have to be used.
▪ The Black-Scholes model is prized because it measures the fair value of stock option contracts.
▪ These amounts measure the exposure value of each party's sites, regardless of how they were booked.
▪ Why not all financial instruments measured at fair value?
ways
▪ In 1993/94 we shall be looking for more specific ways of measuring the performance of the Society towards its members.
▪ There are many ways to measure the return on these two basic factors of production, all of them controversial.
▪ Both, in their different ways, were measuring the distance between themselves and others.
▪ They give you ways to measure progress.
▪ Employment and output represent the different ways of measuring the progress of an economy.
▪ In those accounts, as the name implies, there are two ways of measuring the total output of the economy.
▪ This easy-to-read article presents business examples of ways to measure and improve service quality.
▪ Of necessity two different ways of measuring the same thing must come to the same conclusion.
weight
▪ Mass is measured in kilograms and weight in newtons.
▪ He then measured their body weight.
▪ Pancreatic mass can be assessed by measuring wet weight, nucleic acid contents, and protein contents.
yardstick
▪ She had her own yardstick by which she measured complaints as either trivial or needing attention.
▪ Have a student use one of the yardsticks to measure the distance. 2.
▪ They still serve as a yardstick against which to measure each individual school.
▪ They consider that they can use their minds as a sort of yardstick with which to measure the secrets of the Cosmos.
▪ Employers will be given a yardstick against which to measure teachers.
■ VERB
design
▪ These were designed to measure their ability to process sounds.
▪ The index is a price-weighted list of 36 companies designed to measure the economy of west-central Florida.
▪ If performance indicators are designed to measure change, and goals are expressed in terms of improvement, this process will be easier.
▪ The index is designed to measure the performance of the local economy.
▪ Liquidity: ratios designed to measure the ability of the firm to meet its short-term liabilities as they come due. 3.
▪ The freezing point osmometer is an instrument designed to measure the freezing point of solutions.
use
▪ The statistic most often used to measure within-group variability is the standard deviation, although there are other possibilities.
▪ Amperometry iS used to measure the increase in conductivity.
▪ Hopefully in the future it will become standard public relations practice to use research to measure the results or achievements of campaigns.
▪ It certainly can not, therefore, be used to measure change over time: one of the reasons for its use.
▪ Possible models are a power of the intensity or its exponential, where the radiometer is used to measure the intensity.
▪ In practice, a mechanical formula is used to measure depreciation.
▪ The three criteria used to measure the worth of information were; speed of response, quality and cost.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fence-mending measures/talks/trips etc
give sb short measure
half measures
▪ Half measures will not fix America's health-care problems.
▪ I suppose I was never contented with half measures.
▪ Learn your trade fully, do the job properly - no half measures.
▪ The only alternative to Lloyd George's lies were Asquith's half measures.
▪ There's no half measures to playing this way.
in large part/measure
▪ Alvin had always made it plain that his company existed in large part to provide work for black dancers.
▪ As it turns out, the fears that govern such organizations derive in large part from invalid or negative core beliefs.
▪ My conception of postmodernist de-differentiation via an aesthetics of desire was also in large part dependent on Lyotard's work.
▪ Realism is now out of fashion, in large part as a consequence of those silly semantic claims.
▪ This continuity can be explained in large part by the nature of the superstructure.
▪ This is due in large part to the national officers and to yourselves and your colleagues.
▪ Whether the high jumper can requalify against stiff competition depends in large part upon the other big change: her takeoff.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Can you measure the desk to see if it'll fit into that corner?
▪ Electrodes were attached to his chest in order to measure his heart rate.
▪ Put the soil into a sack measuring 50 centimetres across.
▪ Seismologists in Japan measured the earthquake at 7.7 on the Richter scale.
▪ Some species of python have been measured at over 28 feet long.
▪ Surgeons use a laser with a beam measuring less than the width of a human hair.
▪ The foam seat pad measures 19 by 22 inches and is a quarter-inch thick.
▪ The GNP figures measure the rate of growth in the economy.
▪ The nurse weighed me and measured my height.
▪ The tree in the backyard measures 30 feet in height.
▪ The yacht measures eighty-four feet and is fitted out to the highest standards.
▪ We should measure the wall before we buy new shelves.
▪ When full grown, the Blue Whale measures 110 feet in length.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Again, how many could be one in a set period of time would be measured.
▪ Income must equal expenditure when all the sources of income and types of expenditure are classified and measured.
▪ Long enough that he stopped looking around, stopped measuring his relationship to his surroundings.
▪ Rabbits and other hunted animals do not need to measure distance accurately.
▪ The value of government support to the industry can not be measured in terms of cash expenditures.
▪ They measured it all out painstakingly.
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
appropriate
▪ In such situations we take appropriate measures to ensure that strict confidentiality is maintained in all respects.
▪ Adopted the appropriate safety measures, and 3.
▪ Consider whether this is likely, and if it is, try out the appropriate avoidance measures.
▪ It is then necessary to develop appropriate measures for this performance.
▪ We all have to show goodwill and find appropriate emergency measures.
▪ What is the appropriate measure of scale difference between industrial activities?
▪ Devaluation has often been perceived as an appropriate measure for countries running high and persistent balance of payments current account deficits.
▪ Performance indicators are becoming more sophisticated as managers wrestle with the problems of choosing and monitoring appropriate measures of quality and effectiveness.
desperate
▪ But by 1613 even more desperate measures were in contemplation.
▪ So far, the most desperate of measures has not been taken, perhaps because would-be refugees have nowhere to run.
▪ Desperate times call for desperate measures.
▪ The first is that if she stayed it would look as if the Conservatives were resorting to desperate measures.
▪ James's increasing financial difficulties impelled him to desperate measures.
▪ There are other examples, however, of desperate times begetting desperate measures.
drastic
▪ The report, drawn up by a special council management team, says drastic measures are needed to stop the decline.
▪ California law protects him from having to take such drastic measures, however.
▪ In any case, there may be no need to resort to the drastic measure of buying with friends.
▪ Companies these days also reduce costs by taking drastic measures within.
▪ I was beginning to get desperate. Drastic measures were called for.
▪ Last year, the Republic of Texas set up headquarters in San Antonio and resolved to take more drastic measures.
▪ Why did I think it necessary to take such drastic measures?
▪ On a tough Oxford estate drastic measures were needed to prevent further damage.
economic
▪ They did not create too great an economic burden; they were not themselves economic measures.
▪ They also plan to push for economic measures to reduce promotion and sales, and boost taxation of tobacco products.
▪ Arteaga and Alarcon have publicly opposed the extreme economic measures Bucaram had announced, while supporting more gradual reform.
equal
▪ Advertising proved a more fertile category, with decisions which set heads nodding and shaking in equal measure.
▪ The opponent during all of this was reduced to looking on with equal measures of admiration and amazement.
▪ Her doubts about its truth do not, in equal measure, dislodge her belief.
▪ Neil Young commands fear and respect in equal measure.
▪ I was angry and embarrassed in equal measure and hated them.
▪ Is it one of those reactions that occur spontaneously when journalists' ink is mixed with an equal measure of pure ignorance?
▪ Bishop had known what was happening: the Guild of Adjudicators was famed and feared in equal measure amongst the Earth colonies.
extreme
▪ Public opinion, it was argued, would react unfavourably to such an extreme measure.
▪ It was not an alien phenomenon and, as such, did not provoke an extreme response or demand extreme measures.
▪ Extreme measures perhaps but unfortunately extreme measures are becoming necessary.
▪ He hoped that such extreme measures would not be necessary.
▪ In times of political unrest, the danger that extreme measures will be taken increases.
▪ So when a blizzard or a budget standoff sends them home, some federal workaholics resort to extreme measures.
▪ Arteaga and Alarcon have publicly opposed the extreme economic measures Bucaram had announced, while supporting more gradual reform.
▪ The strike is the most extreme measure by which the students can peacefully protest their dissatisfactions.
fiscal
▪ A supplementary package of time-limited fiscal measures aims to help get the economy moving.
▪ Mr. Maples Any change in fiscal measures has to be agreed by unanimous vote in the Council of Ministers.
▪ Any fiscal measures dampening demand for new cars will only increase unemployment in the motor trade.
▪ What would be the likely consequences of specific changes in the current set of fiscal measures affecting forestry?
▪ Discusses possible constraints on developing urban capacity, and examines planning and fiscal measures to unlock it.
▪ In addition to fiscal measures, price controls have sometimes been used as a weapon.
full
▪ The long room was dark, but a tiny light behind the bar showed the bartender which shot-glass held a full measure.
▪ Jose rests his burden on the ground and straightens his back to full measure.
▪ The love was returned in full measure.
▪ The United States will continue to furnish you and your people with the fullest measure of support in this bitter fight.
▪ Whatever their form, the new media should enjoy the same full measure of First Amendment protection as the old-fashioned press.
good
▪ It is a schedule from hell, with the Lions thrown in for good measure.
▪ The best single measure is probably the net flow of global capital into the developing countries.
▪ For the rest it's twenty five minutes of speed and skill ... and then two more laps for good measure.
▪ I gave her a good strong look just for good measure.
▪ A dash of eau-de-Cologne for good measure.
▪ This pudding also includes a little cocoa powder for good measure.
▪ If you are lucky you might get a codex thrown in for a good measure for telecomms application.
▪ If he had married Iskandara for her sheep, he had given good measure in return.
large
▪ The one large measure for which they were responsible was the Housing and Town Planning Act 1909.
▪ In very large measure, the older preoccupations remain.
▪ He poured out a large measure of the whiskey and brought it to McQuaid.
▪ It is the steep temperature gradient that makes it possible for us to work black smokers with a large measure of safety.
▪ Here then is a man, a large measure of a man: your man!
▪ He found the bottle of Southern Comfort and poured himself a large measure.
▪ Mrs Thatcher herself emerged with greater international stature now, in large measure because of her relationship with President Ronald Reagan.
▪ The growth of towns was in large measure the result of an influx of migrants from the villages.
new
▪ They also introduce new measures for which the government seeks Parliament's approval.
▪ Kessler has proposed a new measure that forbids using cattle parts in animal feed but still permits them in fertilizer.
▪ The government is considering new measures to control the student protests.
▪ It will address their further development, and if appropriate, adopt new measures to meet new challenges. 3.
▪ The local authority have agreed to implement a series of new measures to fight the pollution.
▪ No new tax measures were proposed.
▪ The new measures are a real step forward for the Employment Service.
▪ The new measures will be phased in between now and 1999.
other
▪ All the other measures of money supply only include sterling.
▪ If poor visibility in itself is rejected as a means of achieving speed reduction through anxiety, other measures are necessary.
▪ There is a range of other measures which could be used. perhaps the most obvious other measure is output.
▪ The United Kingdom and United States can be expected to employ their ordinary procedures for issuing subpoenas or other measures.
▪ There is a range of other measures which could be used. perhaps the most obvious other measure is output.
▪ In the meantime it is essential not to risk a further pregnancy and other contraceptive measures must be taken see above.
▪ There are also other measures that can improve overall health and make the body more resilient.
▪ Without the agency to exercise a central monitoring role, they said, the effect of the other measures would be incomplete.
precautionary
▪ Tobacco that tolerates salinity is a precautionary measure against the rising tides that a changing climate will bring.
▪ Center Jelani McCoy did not participate in the defensive drills as a precautionary measure.
▪ Short confidentiality clauses in standard conditions are really only precautionary measures to be relied upon in an emergency.
▪ One resident was taken to hospital with chest pains as a precautionary measure but was released after a check-up.
▪ Nevertheless, it is a serious condition if the eye is affected, and sensible precautionary measures should be taken.
▪ Nine more were taken in as a precautionary measure while firefighters ventilated the building and removed the canisters involved.
▪ Nevertheless, it was time to take a little precautionary measure.
▪ The issue probably deserved more consultation and more precautionary measures.
preventive
▪ Despite this, primary preventive measures of the sort recommended by Wilson have not emerged in public policy.
▪ He is among a growing minority of physicians combining the standard care of traditional medicine with certain nontraditional treatments and preventive measures.
▪ The use of preventive measures is also illustrated.
▪ The only preventive measure researchers can take is to concentrate on what is triggering quakes on the rifts that are turned on.
▪ Seen simply as a preventive measure, education for older adults is a good investment.
▪ Currently, Medicare covers no preventive measures except for flu shots and mammograms every other year for women over 65.
▪ The effects of preventive and corrective measures will be monitored and the operation may be postponed until any problems have been resolved.
▪ There are a lot of preventive measures that would reduce the number of severe mental problems.
punitive
▪ Its proposed abolition and replacement with more punitive measures would further criminalise travellers for their way of life.
▪ As a punitive measure, the mayor closed black lodging houses and hotels at public insistence.
▪ His renunciation also rested upon a dubious legal sentence of 1202, a punitive measure against King John by Philip Augustus.
▪ The bulldozing was a punitive measure.
▪ The government, however, had only just begun their punitive measures against excessive liberalism.
temporary
▪ Thus this approach may be considered both safe and effective as a temporary measure to relieve stone related biliary obstruction.
▪ But more likely they will just be a temporary measure until even better technologies arrive.
▪ Severn Trent has already introduced temporary measures at the site which will help improve the situation.
▪ Republicans have used temporary spending measures and government shutdowns in attempts to pressure Clinton into accepting their budget plan.
▪ In either case the patient should be reassured that this is only a temporary measure.
▪ The government is now operating under a temporary measure, or continuing resolution, that expires at the end of next week.
▪ Although a temporary measure, it soon became apparent that rent control could not be abolished with the war's end.
▪ These paints should be considered a temporary measure until the cause of the damp has been found and cured.
tough
▪ He promised tougher measures to beat the criminals.
▪ She also would press for tougher gun control measures, such as licensing all new handgun owners.
▪ Cresson had originally demanded even tougher measures.
▪ But some school groups said the influential lawyers' group shouldn't be so quick to condemn the tough student discipline measures.
▪ On a recent morning, it was evident that Gavrilova's tough measures had not wiped out drunkenness.
▪ Implementing them means we have to resort to some tough measures in the short and medium term.
▪ United Nations approval for the tough measures is expected next week.
▪ Liberals and conservatives in government, however, disagree about tougher judicial measures.
■ NOUN
austerity
▪ The austerity measures affected primarily spending on health, social welfare, defence and overseas development assistance.
▪ Once she took office Ellie instituted stringent austerity measures.
▪ But it remained to be seen whether the ambitious plan would withstand the impact of possible future austerity measures.
▪ The report demonstrated that the 1980s austerity measures had disproportionately affected blue collar workers in comparison with white collar workers.
▪ A new economic commission was set up to monitor the success of the austerity measures.
▪ The three parties had disagreed on major issues and the coalition had been undermined by national discontent over recent austerity measures.
▪ However, other austerity measures have been imposed which have checked spending on education.
conservation
▪ Improved revenue collection will help finance better conservation measures.
▪ At the same time, the effectiveness of soil conservation measures is apparent.
▪ It identified 500,000 hectares of costal habitat which it said were in need of active conservation measures.
▪ The success of any conservation measure is directly dependent on the degree of public opinion mustered to its support.
▪ Now he still has fifty acres of setaside: Male speaker Farmers should be given money to take more conservation measures.
▪ But conservation measures could actually meet the shortfall in supply expected by planners.
▪ We will improve the Governments' decommissioning proposals and appraise, with the industry, effective technical conservation measures.
▪ The current review of the Structure Plan identified the gap in conservation measures.
control
▪ Council officers say control measures including screening and exclusion are paying off.
▪ Democrats also intend to push for privacy initiatives and to propose modest gun control measures, party aides said.
▪ Furthermore, most of the government's quality control measures are irrelevant.
▪ The department would be required to identify priority zones where lions have posed particular problems and institute special control measures.
▪ In the North East the commissioning of treatment plants and other pollution control measures will lead to a drop in discharges.
▪ Investigate environmental sources of infection and formulate effective control measures.
▪ Fumigation of vineyards with Telone has improved conditions, but no control measure has yet eradicated nematodes on a field scale.
▪ But Republicans now in command at the White House and in Congress generally oppose new gun control measures.
safety
▪ After safety measures were enforced at his firm he went back to work and never experienced symptoms again.
▪ The rope-secured entry is part of the safety measures established in 1992.
▪ In each case there were criticisms that each could have been prevented by better safety measures and checking.
▪ Then they can work on safety measures.
▪ Furness said he was satisfied with the safety measures put into place following the latest incident.
▪ One of these probes sits permanently just beneath the viewport on the bottom of the sphere as a safety measure.
▪ As a further safety measure, the screen must not be readily climbable by children.
▪ Adopted the appropriate safety measures, and 3.
security
▪ He says that they've hired security guards, and taken other security measures.
▪ Its legacy: changes in employment policies, more security measures and more money from the legislature for improvements.
▪ Shoplifting and robberies forced the company to spend heavily on expensive security measures.
▪ Critics include the panel charged with reviewing how tighter security measures might affect freedoms and civil rights.
▪ Simple security measures - such as fitting good locks to doors and accessible windows - can cost as little as £150.
▪ Fuller flights and new security measures are prompting the attention.
▪ Increased security measures and better staffing will be particularly welcome to women, elderly and disabled people.
▪ Nor had he had any reason to complain about the security measures surrounding visitors to the base.
tape
▪ When you have guessed all these, get a tape measure and find the real sizes.
▪ Square the frame by pulling a tape measure from corner to corner to check diagonal measurements.
▪ There they gently laid it down on top of the so-centimetre mark at the middle of the tape measure.
▪ You all saw that to begin with the tape measure stretched across from one side to the other, exactly.
▪ Santa's first shock came from the tape measure - the Claus tum measured a bloated 47 inches.
▪ The tape measure is perfectly all right.
▪ They were asked to monitor their progress not only with scales but with a tape measure.
■ VERB
adopt
▪ The board adopted its own measure, which will go on the March ballot in opposition to the Kuper initiative.
▪ The restrictions were initially adopted as a temporary measure designed to slow down the flight of foreign currency reserves from the country.
▪ The board hopes the Federal Aviation Administration will urge the airlines to adopt such measures.
▪ Since the King's Cross fire of 1987, London Underground has been forced to adopt certain stringent safety measures.
▪ It will address their further development, and if appropriate, adopt new measures to meet new challenges. 3.
▪ Nevertheless, some LEAs are adopting tough measures.
approve
▪ The Senate had already approved a similar measure.
▪ Even if approved, the measure faces an uncertain fate in the Democratic-controlled state Senate.
▪ Parliament will soon be asked to approve measures to reform education, health, the criminal justice system and welfare provision.
▪ Voters overwhelmingly approved a measure last month to exempt the ballpark from waterfront development restrictions.
▪ The House of Representatives had approved the measure on Nov. 14, the day after it was reported out of committee.
▪ The House of Representatives approved a similar measure Tuesday by voice vote.
▪ Plans still have to be approved but the measures may be in place by September.
▪ Voters approved two bond measures to pay for the seismic retrofit, interior renovations and modernizing the electrical systems.
consider
▪ Councillors will consider the measures tonight prior to a meeting with the town's transport operators.
▪ They agreed that police and intelligence experts should convene in Paris in July to consider specific measures.
▪ The government is considering new measures to control the student protests.
▪ And third, consider these measures.
▪ These paints should be considered a temporary measure until the cause of the damp has been found and cured.
▪ I hope that the Minister will consider that package of measures to stop people carrying knives and to change the ethos.
▪ If they are elevated, you should consider alternative measures, such as hormone replacement, to prevent osteoporosis.
improve
▪ What projects does your work group have under way to improve performance on these measures?
▪ The City's ability to keep a secret appears to have improved beyond measure over the past two years.
▪ Voice over Horsewatch encourages its members to look out for each others animals and to improve their own security measures.
▪ As for the arms control matters, we have been working to improve the measures of arms control.
▪ The workplace manager should report to senior management on any measures considered appropriate to improve security.
include
▪ Clearly, though, future Budgets may well include measures specifically aimed at expatriates.
▪ Internal measures of quality will include measures of scrap, rework, rejects, and waste.
▪ The talks were due to include discussions of measures to reduce tension between the two states and to promote bilateral exchanges.
▪ The $ 25 million for the Presidio Trust included in the measure was the expected annual contribution by the federal government.
▪ But what should be included in the measure?
▪ The initiative will be on a statewide ballot that already includes an anti-affirmative action measure and one to raise the minimum wage.
▪ The bill also includes measures to reform local government by creating directly elected mayors and cabinets.
▪ The Table does not include various non-specific measures which are part of any treatment procedure of this kind.
introduce
▪ They also introduce new measures for which the government seeks Parliament's approval.
▪ He has introduced a measure that would ban contributions from all political-action committees.
▪ Rather cuts should come from examination of working methods and materials and introducing more cost-effective measures.
▪ Some introduced measures in Congress to prevent Washington from helping move the peace process forward.
▪ Some local authorities may not have introduced those measures as quickly as possible, but it goes further than that.
▪ Stan Barnes, who introduced the measure in the Senate Appropriations Committee.
▪ One policy of the Regional Council is to introduce measures to improve conditions and facilities for pedestrians and cyclists.
oppose
▪ I should have thought that good sense would dictate that some one who opposes every measure begins to lose credibility.
▪ Arteaga and Alarcon have publicly opposed the extreme economic measures Bucaram had announced, while supporting more gradual reform.
▪ He may oppose this measure but he should not pre-empt the results of the environmental assessment.
▪ Could individual States that were part of the Union oppose measures adopted by its central Government?
▪ Some atheist groups also oppose the measure.
▪ All the Republicans except Buchanan support global free trade and oppose direct measures to discourage companies from moving manufacturing plants overseas.
▪ Both Texas senators, Phil Gramm and Hutchison, voted against tabling the amendment because they opposed the measures.
▪ Mulholland, however, along with most leaders in the Republican and Democratic parties, opposed the open primary measure.
pass
▪ Congress may pass measures of constitutional significance, for example, certain stipulations of electoral law or the War Powers Act.
▪ Large measures harder Sweetwater may have some difficulty passing such a large measure, however.
▪ The House is expected to pass the measure by an overwhelming margin Wednesday.
▪ Congress is expected to pass the measure within a month and send it to Clinton.
▪ The Senate is expected to pass the measure next month.
▪ Congress passed the measure, but then-President George Bush vetoed it.
provide
▪ It can also provide measures of confidence in its classification, which a conventional perceptron can not.
▪ The structures provide a measure of vertical relief sought by deep-sea invertebrates that make their living off particles in the water column.
▪ Education provides a final measure of inequality.
▪ Each participating State will provide and maintain measures to guard against accidental or unauthorized use of military means. 25.
▪ Clearly this definition can be generalized in order to compare a number of different systems and thus provide a useful comparative measure.
▪ This provides a measure of comfort for the general scientific community and allows mathematicians some great sport.
▪ Income for them includes taxation, which provides no measure of the willingness of the community to pay.
▪ Certainly Table 14.3 provides a measure of support for this view.
support
▪ Kawawa's intervention succeeded in rallying most backbenchers to supporting the measure, and the Bill was passed.
▪ Pollster David Binder found 65 percent would support the ballot measure and 28 percent would not.
▪ Only 126 out of 180 Labour peers turned out to support the measure.
▪ Individual lawmakers thus were left free to support the measure almost unhindered.
▪ I was supported in almost equal measure by a new-found friend.
▪ Wilson says House Democrats rewrote his amendment, yet he supported the revised measure.
▪ On the other, the trial lawyers' association refused to support the measure.
▪ The members of the Warren Association of churches only grudgingly supported some of his measures, but were in a compromising mood.
take
▪ He says that they've hired security guards, and taken other security measures.
▪ They will, in conformity with domestic law and international obligations, continue to take effective measures to this end. 31.
▪ Why did I think it necessary to take such drastic measures?
▪ Not everyone feels this way, though, mostly because they've taken measures to make changes in their lives.
▪ His job was made all the more easier by drivers who hadn't bothered to take measures to stop people like him.
▪ The city built the California Center for the Arts, Escondido downtown and has taken other measures to help revive that area.
▪ Will he give an assurance that a future Conservative Government will take measures further to encourage savings?
▪ So he took measures after the season to help avoid injuries.
use
▪ Petrie used a complicated measure of condition to get rid of the effects of size alone.
▪ Sunnyvale uses literally thousands of measures.
▪ But relative decline is used as an indicator by some; and output can be used as a measure rather than employment.
▪ Republicans have used temporary spending measures and government shutdowns in attempts to pressure Clinton into accepting their budget plan.
▪ At no time, however, did they use such draconian measures to stifle dissent.
▪ This is not the same as the most commonly used measure of dividends: the dividend yield.
▪ Unisys uses this never-before-released measure to express the technological leap it believes Pentium represents.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fence-mending measures/talks/trips etc
give sb short measure
half measures
▪ Half measures will not fix America's health-care problems.
▪ I suppose I was never contented with half measures.
▪ Learn your trade fully, do the job properly - no half measures.
▪ The only alternative to Lloyd George's lies were Asquith's half measures.
▪ There's no half measures to playing this way.
in large part/measure
▪ Alvin had always made it plain that his company existed in large part to provide work for black dancers.
▪ As it turns out, the fears that govern such organizations derive in large part from invalid or negative core beliefs.
▪ My conception of postmodernist de-differentiation via an aesthetics of desire was also in large part dependent on Lyotard's work.
▪ Realism is now out of fashion, in large part as a consequence of those silly semantic claims.
▪ This continuity can be explained in large part by the nature of the superstructure.
▪ This is due in large part to the national officers and to yourselves and your colleagues.
▪ Whether the high jumper can requalify against stiff competition depends in large part upon the other big change: her takeoff.
table a bill/measure/proposal etc
▪ At that time, Dole voted to table a measure that would have negated the Supreme Court ruling.
▪ Baldwin tabled proposals which involved payments of £34 million a year.
▪ For example, by the drinks table Bill Muggeridge seemed to be trying to make up to Mrs Crumwallis.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a measure of bourbon
▪ a table of U.S. standard weights and measures
▪ An inch is a measure of length.
▪ Drastic situations require drastic measures.
▪ Government officials refused to say what measures were being planned to deal with the refugee crisis.
▪ Jones simply wanted a measure of respect from her co-workers.
▪ Lawmakers are searching for the best measures to strengthen Social Security.
▪ To make the drink, you will need one measure of red wine to two measures of lemonade.
▪ Voters in Montana rejected a measure to increase cigarette tax.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the measure is still pending and has the backing of the Clinton administration and congressional leaders.
▪ However, the Supreme Soviet criticized the government over its social protection measures.
▪ Intuitively, we should not expect widely differing results from these two measures in the assessment of portfolios.
▪ The measure, sponsored by Rep.
▪ The expenditure on science is another possible measure of growth, either nationally, or as numbers of research grants.
▪ The House of Representatives had approved the measure on Nov. 14, the day after it was reported out of committee.
▪ Through the use of intelligence tests and other measures, at-tempts are made to estimate individual abilities.
▪ Worse yet, the prices for the stocks in the portfolio are, by some measures, extremely high.