adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
open
▪ Warning: none of these are officially open to the public.
▪ Another review will be required before it can officially open.
sanctioned
▪ A few concerts were organised in connection with national holidays - for example on railworkers day or at officially sanctioned Youth parties.
▪ Tolerance exists only for officially sanctioned ideas.
▪ The trader gives his orders by open outcry and officially sanctioned hand signals.
■ VERB
accept
▪ Margaret had now officially accepted General Francis as her next case.
acknowledge
▪ This is patently not an area that has been officially acknowledged.
▪ The city has never officially acknowledged the losses of the displaced residents and their descendants.
▪ It had become aware of the blossoming void long before the situation at Princetown was officially acknowledged.
▪ Although evidence of its existence has been growing since the mid-90s, no government has officially acknowledged involvement.
announce
▪ It was from Camilla Parker-Bowles and had been written several days before the engagement was officially announced.
▪ At least after her pregnancy was officially announced on November 5, 1981 Diana could publicly discuss her condition.
▪ Clinton and Vice President Al Gore have yet to officially announce their candidacy.
approve
▪ BGovernment officials say it is unlikely that anything will stop the project from being officially approved as early as January.
▪ The controversial legislation has not yet been officially approved by Parliament.
▪ Surveys had shown that many consumers mistakenly believed that these had been officially approved.
become
▪ Edenderry, hitherto a small village in the parish of Seagoe, became officially part of Portadown in 1840.
▪ As the army and the navy became officially involved in the conquest of California, the major fighting shifted to the south.
▪ There are dangers in becoming officially accepted.
▪ After the conference, I decided not to do any more personal interviews until I officially became president that December.
▪ Last week, you officially became a candidate for the White House when you appeared on the primary ballot in California.
begin
▪ The All-Star break officially begins Friday, but the Clippers' extended weekend is coming just a few days too late.
▪ Campaigning for municipal, legislative and presidential elections due in October and November officially began on May 23.
▪ On June 24 the election campaign will officially begin, lasting four months until the voting in November for the Constituent Assembly.
call
▪ Apparently the movie has to be officially called off in some way and that takes time.
▪ The Pap smear is officially called the Papanicolaou Test, after the doctor who invented it.
▪ Load management, as this remote switching is called officially, is already practised by industrial consumers.
▪ Following the transfer of power the opposition parties officially called off their agitation programmes and urged a return to work.
close
▪ Four hours after the fair had officially closed, there were still six women waiting to have their palms read.
confirm
▪ The club has officially confirmed the appointment nineteen days after Liam Brady resigned the position.
▪ The newspaper's further claim that the police funded an Inkatha rally in January 1991 was later confirmed officially.
▪ After the musical interlude, Gijssen declared himself satisfied and the time out was officially confirmed.
▪ Last night pressure was mounting on Buckingham Palace to officially confirm or deny the claims.
declare
▪ Once a child has written a bit of text, we can officially declare him an author.
▪ Two days later, war was officially declared.
describe
▪ It commemorated two arrests in 1961, in Jefferson Parish, for what were officially described as crimes against nature.
end
▪ My own training had officially ended and I had, for the past 36 hours, been in pre-race mode.
▪ Parliamentary elections are scheduled for March 3 -- more than a year before the Socialists' term officially ends.
▪ The Jubilee 2000 campaign, which officially ended last week, has been an extraordinary achievement.
give
▪ Although the national turnout was officially given as 60 percent, the elections were marked by a high rate of regional abstention.
▪ The population of Hong Kong is officially given as 5.7 million, however it is probably around 6 million.
▪ His birthday is officially given as 19 May 1890.
▪ Its magnitude is officially given as below 9, so that it should be invisible with binoculars.
inform
▪ On 27 November the Cabinet was accordingly officially informed of the whole matter for the first time.
▪ Although shop stewards held a meeting yesterday, union organisers had not been informed officially of the authority's move.
know
▪ This means that they were officially known to be the only copies in any library in Britain and possibly in the world.
▪ Very little was officially known about any of them.
▪ It is not officially known whether this is attributable to the greenhouse effect or natural climate variability.
launch
▪ This week Rover is officially launching its new executive car which will be made at Cowley.
▪ But the speech officially launches a seven-week campaign that pits Riordan against state Sen.
▪ This tax relief will no longer be available to new buyers of waiver of premium once the stakeholder is officially launched.
▪ That announcement came as the Reform Party officially launched its own petition drive to win Texas ballot access in November.
recognised
▪ This has now been officially recognised and it is expected that extra student places will be provided to make up the deficiency.
▪ They suggest that the disease is likely to be far more widespread than is officially recognised.
▪ This emphasis on its international business was officially recognised by a change of name to John Stork International.
▪ Their relationship to the officially recognised Liberal, Labour and Tory parties has been close.
▪ Clearly, where the State decides to draw this line determines how many are officially recognised to be in poverty.
▪ Yet although the problem is officially recognised, workers may not know the risks, say researchers.
▪ The right for their tenants' association to be officially recognised.
recognize
▪ The role that Zaballeen waste recyclers of Cairo play in keeping the city clean is now at last officially recognized.
▪ After years of persecution by colonial rulers, Orisha worshipers only recently had their religion officially recognized by the government.
▪ The remoteness that tourists value has long been officially recognized in the mountains as an affliction.
▪ Slavery was officially recognized as an institution in colonial laws by the 1660s.
▪ The preservation was officially recognized by the Congregation of Rites in I 835.
record
▪ Rather criminal activity as officially recorded is by and large a masculine activity, but one in which women do participate.
▪ The toll was never officially recorded.
register
▪ And Simpson has moved aggressively to protect those trademarks, even before the government officially registers them.
release
▪ They should not be officially released until they are in their final form.
▪ The analysis was never officially released, because the data were incomplete, the agency says.
report
▪ Her last officially reported earnings were nearly $ 23m in 1997.
retire
▪ Couldn't they have waited just another couple of weeks until he had officially retired at the end of the month?
▪ Not that it ever officially retired, mind you.
sanction
▪ Blacks knew that every peaceful march and favorable court decision was being answered with acts of officially sanctioned violence.
▪ Beyond the category of leaks described above exists a second category: the officially sanctioned leak calculated to produce a specific effect.
▪ The live ammunition that I experienced was not officially sanctioned as being hazardous enough to be included.
▪ At best, this organization achieves a grudging, superficial conformity to officially sanctioned patterns of thought and action.
start
▪ The campaign has already been in full swing for several months, even though it has not officially started.
▪ All clubs received a letter warning them against organising practice or trial matches before the season officially starts on 1st September.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Officially, Carter resigned, but everyone knows he was fired.
▪ At that stage, Britain and Germany were still not officially at war.
▪ The changes to borders were officially announced in the European Parliament.
▪ The details of the reforms are to be released officially next month.
▪ thirty square miles of woodland that has been officially designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
▪ Three players were officially reprimanded for fighting on the field.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although he is now officially bankrupt, the underworld mastermind still has a multi-million-pound property empire.
▪ Experts are now being called out to check this tress vital statistics, and establish it officially as a record breaker.
▪ In effect, it officially condoned segregation.
▪ Now we had to get the document that would officially make us husband and wife.
▪ So far, although Pottz was now officially numero uno, he still hadn't actually won in Hawaii.
▪ That makes me officially not part of the exalted Baby Boom generation.
▪ The motorway will be officially opened at the end of the month.
▪ Wanuskewin Heritage Park officially came into being in 1989 via an act of the Saskatchewan Legislature.