adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a constant/permanent reminder (=that makes you think about something all the time)
▪ Peter's letters to me are a constant reminder of the happiness we shared.
a constant/permanent/perpetual state of sth
▪ They lived in a constant state of fear.
a lasting/permanent peace
▪ He has the chance to forge a lasting peace with the Palestinians.
a permanent collection
▪ The art gallery hosts exhibitions and a permanent collection.
a permanent exhibition
▪ The museum hosts a permanent exhibition of Boston’s history.
a permanent record
▪ You will have a permanent record of your work.
a permanent scar
▪ That affair left a permanent scar on my heart.
a permanent scar
▪ If the wound is not stitched, a permanent scar may result.
a permanent/temporary employee
▪ Some of the temporary employees were later hired as permanent staff.
a permanent/temporary home
▪ Flood victims were offered temporary homes.
a permanent/temporary position
▪ It's a temporary position initially, for six months.
a permanent/temporary post
▪ I have a two-year contract, not a permanent post.
lasting/permanent harm
▪ The injury caused him discomfort but no lasting harm.
permanent exile
▪ The King threatened her with permanent exile.
permanent press
permanent wave
permanent
▪ The brain can be affected by permanent injury after a serious accident.
permanent/irreparable/irreversible damage (=that cannot be repaired)
▪ By smoking for so long, she may have suffered irreversible damage to her health.
permanent/lasting memorial
▪ An appeal has been launched to build a lasting memorial to the composer.
permanent/temporary employment
▪ university graduates entering permanent employment for the first time
permanent/temporary residence
▪ Jeff has permanent residence in Canada, but is still a US citizen.
permanent/temporary staff
▪ Much of the work is done by temporary staff.
temporary/permanent
▪ The job is only temporary, but I’m hoping it will be made permanent.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
less
▪ The duke therefore had to be satisfied with rather less permanent methods of limiting the Woodvilles' power.
▪ McGaw had hoped for a relationship with Ringwald that was less permanent, and he tells her so.
▪ The learning has become more or less permanent.
▪ Even after two Jacobite invasions had failed the Highlands remained in a more or less permanent state of lawlessness.
▪ It was, however, looser, more flexible and far less permanent and structured than in the West.
▪ Syntactic relationships thus occur in documents, but are less permanent than semantic relationships.
▪ Some people live with a more or less permanent anxiety that this shattering event could happen at any time.
more
▪ Above: For regular kite workshop use, templates made in plywood are more permanent.
▪ They belonged to a time before heavy, more permanent objects gave way to lighter, temporary ones.
▪ The finish is also more permanent and does not upset the float's balance.
▪ Some changes in temporal lobe function may be more permanent.
▪ For a more permanent display use dried flowers.
▪ A more permanent shade structure will be erected soon, Boyer said.
▪ By around 1910 the cultivation of rubber and tea had brought about a more permanent change.
▪ Nothing human can feel more permanent than that.
■ NOUN
basis
▪ Some foreign children are residential on a permanent basis.
▪ They man checkpoints on a permanent basis, screening vehicles and their occupants for weapons.
▪ Anne Wallwork was retained on a permanent basis to help with some of Laura's more exotic ideas.
▪ We all have the option to withdraw our energy on a temporary or permanent basis.
▪ Now it's been so successful, it's opening on a permanent basis.
▪ I don't know why the fairs don't put up their tents on a permanent basis.
▪ Current boss Ray Hankin is waiting and hoping he will land the job on a permanent basis.
▪ It would put the emergency powers he was granted last autumn on a permanent basis.
change
▪ It is not a permanent change as suggested in yesterday's paper.
▪ Probably because some short-term changes provide the scaffolding for making permanent changes, casting things in concrete.
▪ By around 1910 the cultivation of rubber and tea had brought about a more permanent change.
▪ Too often New Labour appeases and buys off opposing forces: this third-way strategy makes few friends or permanent changes.
▪ Even so we do not expect such spells to lead to permanent changes in our lifestyle.
▪ The emphasis of action taken in favour of DRAs must be to achieve permanent changes in income earning potential and social cohesion.
▪ Good if you are nervous about making a permanent change.
collection
▪ Meanwhile, the town's Musée des Beaux Arts will be showing a selection of the Carré d'Art's permanent collection.
▪ The fifteen Calders join seven in the museum's permanent collection, including three mobiles previously given by the Horwiches.
▪ The Center for International Exhibitions would have non-profit Kunsthalles without permanent collections in those cities.
▪ Museum and Art Gallery host exhibitions and a permanent collection.
▪ The exhibition in Vienna coincides with the reopening of the rooms of the permanent collection of Flemish art in the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
▪ This matched the initial outlay by the city, regional and provincial governments for the building and a £20 million permanent collection.
▪ It will also be used to show work by design students inspired by the permanent collections.
▪ Portions of the collection also will be rotated in a permanent collection gallery.
damage
▪ But he said Cherie should not suffer permanent damage if cured soon.
▪ No permanent damage was done to the substation, officials said.
▪ He started to have fits and he suffered permanent damage.
▪ But if the artery stays plugged up for something like 15 minutes or more, permanent damage occurs.
▪ Too much strain on the relaxin-softened tissue can cause permanent damage.
▪ Even if you suffer permanent damage but are still able to work, this is the only way around it.
▪ The order to create wealth can never justify permanent damage to the balance of nature.
▪ Tsukamoto says that when the liver is engaged in breaking down alcohol it becomes vulnerable to permanent damage from Tylenol.
display
▪ As for the craftsman, he says he's just pleased to work on something that's a permanent display.
▪ For a more permanent display use dried flowers.
▪ It does not deal directly with the main problem of providing more room for permanent display.
▪ Regular exhibitions, including permanent display of tartans and clan insignia.
▪ Acknowledgement of your seat donation on permanent display in the theatre.
employment
▪ Through contacts made during their industrial placement, many graduates subsequently obtain permanent employment.
▪ Such training is advantageous in gaining permanent employment in the field.
▪ Others who have been in permanent employment as nurses have found the restrictions of poor pay and stringent working conditions too harsh.
▪ It is from this tradition that he would see organizational commitment and permanent employment deriving.
▪ The extra experience gained during this year places graduates in a very favourable position when they come to seek permanent employment.
▪ Private agencies deal with temporary and permanent employment and are called Vikarbureauer.
▪ Many graduates and diplomates have in the past been offered their first permanent employment through contacts made during their industrial placement.
exhibition
▪ A permanent exhibition on the history of the valley is to be established near the dam in the early 1990s.
▪ The Ground Floor should be reserved for a permanent exhibition on the work of the Garden.
▪ Based on the new permanent exhibition at the museum.
▪ His two front windows were a permanent exhibition for the benefit of passers-by.
▪ A Merkhet is on permanent exhibition in the Science Museum, London.
▪ The museum's permanent exhibition is basically an educational trot through London's history from prehistory to the present day.
▪ The Museum has a permanent exhibition depicting the social and natural history of the Daventry area.
feature
▪ Later this month it will be a permanent feature of full-time courses at the hotel school.
▪ Is this just to get rid of the nomenklatura or will it be a permanent feature?
▪ In other words, you have to assume that these kind of arrangements will become a permanent feature.
▪ It is J permanent feature of the library and accessible by students when and where they require it.
▪ Shouldn't the removal of Stamp Duty become a permanent feature?
▪ On 19 July 1990 the House resolved to accept the televising of its proceedings as a permanent feature.
▪ Help in maintaining the prices of agricultural products became a permanent feature of government policy from this time.
▪ Exhaustion is a permanent feature preventing the completion of even the most simple task.
fixture
▪ But a room divider doesn't have to be a permanent fixture, particularly if you don't have much space.
▪ As the only permanent fixture in a constantly changing group, Sinclair Goodlad maintains continuity and lays down the scheme's philosophy.
▪ Let's hope he keeps it up, and makes himself a permanent fixture in the side.
▪ Like Ross Vartian's museum, it will be a permanent fixture.
▪ It was one of those grey February evenings when winter seemed a permanent fixture.
▪ The jokes have been flying thick and fast since he became a permanent fixture on Hallowe'en.
▪ Both had highly promising futures and were expected to become permanent fixtures in the Springbok side before long.
▪ A photographers platform on the platform-less side became a permanent fixture allowing photographers to get next to the lip to capture the action.
grassland
▪ The main cause is the expansion of farming on to permanent grassland and the widespread use of fertilisers.
▪ Its main attractions are the optimal utilisation of permanent grassland and the control of internal parasitism without resort to therapy.
▪ In winter most Golden Plover are found on coastal farmland, including the permanent grassland of the levels.
▪ The mid-grey is permanent grassland while the light areas are intensively-cultivated fields of peas, beans and other cash crops.
▪ The total cereal area is 280,000 hectares and permanent grassland covers 68% of the utilised agricultural land in the Auvergne.
▪ Total permanent grassland represented 65% of the utilised agricultural land and this proportion has changed little over the years.
home
▪ They gained a permanent home in 1961 when the groundsman's hut became vacant.
▪ Unlike many of the Germanic tribes from whom they exacted tribute, these Asiatics had no permanent homes and no kings.
▪ Finally, the palazzo is now the permanent home of the Ugo Marsia collection of marine art.
▪ There was talk about finding a permanent home for the company and a school, but not a great deal of activity.
▪ However, the uncomplaining hero Bobby is without a permanent home.
▪ A person's domicile is the country which is in fact or in the eye of the law his permanent home for the time being.
▪ In education and training Apples have found a permanent home.
▪ They will be cared for by a foster family while a court in Missouri decides where they should make their permanent home.
income
▪ First, the Keynesian function includes current national income, whereas Friedman is using permanent income as a proxy for total wealth.
▪ Or perhaps more sophisticated methods are applied along the lines suggested by Friedman's permanent income hypothesis.
▪ This is why economic income is sometimes called permanent income, and it is also why economic earnings and dividends are equivalent.
job
▪ He left to take a permanent job.
▪ Johnstone decided to join Source Legal, a firm that places lawyers and paralegals in temporary and permanent jobs.
▪ Hamilton has estimated that these two projects and the offshore development will create some 3,000 construction jobs and over 200 permanent jobs.
▪ And many more workers are joining the unemployment lines because of permanent job loss rather than temporary layoffs, official statistics show.
▪ Second, fewer workers will have full-time, permanent jobs.
▪ They were so productive that the company began hiring them for permanent jobs.
▪ D' you want a permanent job on the Globe?
▪ With those operations closing, it is not expected to result in a net increase in permanent jobs.
member
▪ Membership in the United Nations' most powerful body includes 10 rotating and five permanent members.
▪ No permanent member supported the proposal, and it was dropped.
▪ Consider whether any cases need continuity and transfer these to a permanent member of the team.
▪ Time and again action by the Security Council was blocked by the veto power of the Soviet Union and other permanent members.
▪ As such, and as one of the five permanent members of the Security Council, she has world responsibilities.
memorial
▪ It will stand as a permanent memorial to the man whose generosity has so benefited the Theatre Collection.
▪ It's too early to discuss a permanent memorial, she said.
▪ Now the people of the town have honoured his bravery by erecting a permanent memorial.
pasture
▪ These were in contrast to upland permanent pasture, where arable farming could only be undertaken infrequently, in special circumstances.
▪ All permanent pasture and most leys contain a large number of grasses, clovers, weeds, and herbs.
▪ Their construction and use indicates permanent pasture, thus they presumably represent abandoned areas when occurring on village and field sites.
▪ Upland farms usually have at least 50% or even all of the land classified as enclosed, sown, short-term and permanent pastures.
▪ As mentioned earlier, most permanent pastures can be improved in both composition and productivity by good management.
▪ The present agricultural pattern has clearly involved great changes and the loss of permanent pasture is of particular significance ornithologically.
▪ Total production in the long term is seldom higher than that of permanent pasture.
▪ Areas of woodland and permanent pasture are mapped together with built-up areas as inaccessible to archaeologists.
peace
▪ The truce also provided for the continuation of discussions about a permanent peace between the two realms.
▪ The treaty ending it should establish permanent institutions to ensure a permanent peace.
▪ But whether the compromise bolsters the prospects for permanent peace in Bosnia is another story.
place
▪ Thereafter he took heed from being dropped once or twice, and soon established a permanent place in the team.
▪ To me it seemed such a milestone: I had earned myself a permanent place in his life at last.
▪ The staff of the Home were involved, and Mrs R. opted for a permanent place and was transferred at once.
record
▪ Evidential: the retention of data as a permanent record of our activities.
▪ That's only storage - a permanent record.
▪ A strip chart recorder duplicates the reading of the computer and forms a permanent record.
▪ Student's handbook can be used as a reference work and permanent record after the course.
▪ One of the major advantages of letters over telephone conversations is that they provide a permanent record.
▪ Once the film credits are over, you have no permanent record.
representative
▪ It will meet in Vienna and be composed of the permanent representatives of the participating States. 19.
residence
▪ He remained temporarily in Paris and even considered permanent residence there.
▪ All those with permanent residence in the republic are to be allowed to vote in a 10 December poll.
▪ Bloody Gorgeous seems to have taken up permanent residence in her bed.
resident
▪ Wildlife officer Malcolm Ingham with two-year-old barn owl Zuky, a permanent resident at the Wirral park.
▪ Only several months more use of both products will determine which, if either, remains as a permanent resident.
▪ The median age of the 28, 000-plus permanent residents is a vigorous 44.
▪ They also made it more difficult for temporary residents or visitors to become permanent residents.
▪ Q.. What does it take for permanent residents to become a citizens, and how long do they have to wait?
▪ But a week or so in a holiday cottage isn't the same as becoming a permanent resident.
▪ Though legal, recent events raise legitimate questions about the wisdom of accepting donations from permanent residents who can not vote.
secretary
▪ This week, for example, the permanent secretaries of all government departments will meet to discuss best practice in procurement.
▪ He would have been a jolly good permanent secretary.
▪ He liked to sit seeing others, including the permanent secretaries, arguing in front of him.
▪ Within an hour the permanent secretary was banging away on his typewriter to prepare Alexi's forms.
▪ It was hierarchical, with silly rows about the status and pay of its permanent secretary, Sir Eric Roll.
▪ By the end of the afternoon the permanent secretary had signed the stencils.
▪ In Opposition days, Heath the permanent secretary manqué set about preparing for government with a will.
site
▪ A permanent site would have to be ready by 2030.
▪ When the school first opened three years ago, there was no permanent site in which to hold classes.
staff
▪ There is no evidence agency staff are less capable than permanent staff.
▪ Employers' groups welcomed the reforms, though they said more are necessary to encourage employers to take on permanent staff.
▪ As a result of such differences there was sometimes friction between those waiting to be purged and the permanent staff.
▪ Charges of selfishness and even unjust charges of collaboration were sometimes made against members of the permanent staff.
▪ The households of early medieval kings were simple affairs; the permanent staff was small.
▪ For their part the permanent staff thought all new prisoners childish, ill-mannered and unbalanced.
▪ It had its own permanent staff; hence user - staff interaction was significantly greater than in other user groups.
▪ He was a permanent staff instructor attached to a local Territorial Army unit.
state
▪ Only children had the energy for play, the adults were in a permanent state of weariness.
▪ I live in Ridgefield in a permanent state of dread.
▪ Further, fragmentation is encouraged in many states by the relative transience of the political authority compared with the permanent state administration.
▪ Depression should not be a permanent state, but recovery takes time.
▪ Even after two Jacobite invasions had failed the Highlands remained in a more or less permanent state of lawlessness.
▪ Nobody was allowed in Judy's bedroom to tidy up, so it was in a permanent state of chaos.
▪ In fact, he's in a pretty permanent state of rage about everything.
▪ A permanent state of war with the community was untenable, but the law must be enforced.
transfer
▪ Watford's reserve goalkeeper Mel Rees has joined Southampton on a month's loan with a view to a permanent transfer.
wave
▪ The same narrow, lined face, the same grey eyes, the same grey hair with the same permanent wave.
▪ The new space has been gradually transformed from a place of permanent wave to culinary rave.
▪ A Antibiotics in your system can affect a permanent wave, giving poor or no results at all.
way
▪ But even harder to make are decisions about adoption when Marian knows that she is severing families in a permanent way.
▪ They give you a permanent way to mark pages you find interesting and want to return to regularly.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a (permanent) fixture
▪ Jerry's Hamburger Haven has been a fixture on Third Avenue for over 20 years.
▪ But a room divider doesn't have to be a permanent fixture, particularly if you don't have much space.
▪ He must be a fixture of the cliche.
▪ Horse-drawn carriages counted as an important industry; blacksmiths were a fixture of everyday industrial life.
▪ Like Ross Vartian's museum, it will be a permanent fixture.
▪ The catchphrase, after all, is a fixture in an otherwise protean world of television comedy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Most police departments keep a permanent record of all violent crimes committed in their area.
▪ Mr. Lo has applied for permanent residence in the U.S..
▪ Only five of the firm's employees are permanent.
▪ The car accident has caused permanent damage to her eyesight.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Draw a rough sketch and then translate them all in a permanent fashion to the wall.
▪ He liked to sit seeing others, including the permanent secretaries, arguing in front of him.
▪ In the Sahara there are great areas of sand where there are no permanent landmarks from which to construct one.
▪ In the summer they go right up into the mountains, way beyond the permanent snow-line.
▪ Kinship is binding and permanent but permits no choice of personnel, the individual must accept the relatives he has.
▪ Once the customer decides to buy the software, Hewlett provides a password over the phone granting a permanent licence.
▪ The fifteen Calders join seven in the museum's permanent collection, including three mobiles previously given by the Horwiches.