I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a conservation programme/project
▪ A conservation programme has been underway since 1980.
a construction project/programme
▪ There are always a lot of large construction projects in Dubai.
a development programme/plan/project
▪ the United Nations Development Programme
a research project/programme
▪ The research project will be funded by the Medical Research Council.
a team/group/project etc leader
▪ Ask your team leader for advice.
bank/sales/project etc manager
▪ She’s now assistant marketing manager for the south east area.
▪ one of our regional managers
housing project
present/project/promote an image (=behave in a way that creates a particular image)
▪ He presented an image of himself as an energetic young leader.
undertake a task/project
▪ Every task he undertook was tackled with great determination.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
▪ Management of a large information project.
▪ However, several may be assigned to large, complex projects, particularly because inspectors specialize in different areas of construction.
▪ The minutes also record two accidents on the site, an astonishingly small number for such a large project.
▪ On a large construction project, for example, the estimating process begins with the decision to submit a bid.
▪ The latter take longer to learn and are intended for those involved in larger, ongoing projects.
▪ The decisionmaking process which propels these large projects is far removed from the intended beneficiaries.
▪ The Commission was attempting by these measures to reduce the past bias towards spending on large infrastructure projects favoured by national governments.
▪ Another, even larger project is in the works just north of Puerto Pe asco.
major
▪ Mr Norris said standards applied in reaching the decision were the same as those used for all other major transport infrastructure projects.
▪ Throughout any major development project, there have always been development problems.
▪ Eight schools would be selected, subject to defined criteria, as major project schools.
▪ Linked to any major construction project are men and women with every type of personality, intellect, and qualification.
▪ A programme to trade and dispose of these interests in order to concentrate on major projects and significant new opportunities has already commenced.
▪ He was seeking a post with a major underground rail project.
▪ The quality of his work has always been of exceptional high standard and featured in every major project in the company.
▪ Newcastle has seen a massive £1.4m in major project grant aid for the construction of a new North stand.
new
▪ Further expansion through the development of tourism, financial and other services is dependent on the implementation of new projects.
▪ Businesses usually use lines of credit to pay for day-to-day costs, rather than new projects.
▪ If we want to start new projects there will not be much money in the new expenditure.
▪ Her marketing firm represents builders of three dozen major new projects that will open during the first six months of 1996&038;.
▪ The most beneficial projects should then be selected until the aggregate resources estimated equal those allocated to new projects in Figure 2.6.
▪ But an intriguing new project awaited him.
▪ There are also exciting new projects which will require assistance; overseas sales, student network and indexing.
▪ The experience at Aswan has many imbedded lessons which could aid planners of new projects.
pet
▪ No organization likes being told that it has got to hold back its expansion or abandon some pet project.
▪ Even as the trajectory of his thought kept rising in the early seventies, the clock was ticking on his pet project.
▪ The proposals are seen as a pet project of the right wing of the Conservative Party and Conservative students' groups.
▪ Both grants represented pet projects of two council subcommittee members.
▪ His pet project is a biotechnology institute in which state funding will be matched by contributions from the Schering drug company.
▪ Monitoring the telephone conversations of the Kremlin hierarchy had become one of his pet projects over the last few years.
▪ Stirling also had a pet project up his sleeve.
■ NOUN
construction
▪ Many construction projects will involve some element of loan finance.
▪ However, he said there is an open issue of how such a construction project would be financed.
▪ This will be referred to in more detail in connection with recent developments in financing construction projects.
▪ Construction managers plan, budget, and direct the construction project.
▪ A market downturn in rig moves was more than compensated for by a significant increase in supporting offshore construction projects.
▪ On a large construction project, for example, the estimating process begins with the decision to submit a bid.
▪ But even without the construction project, she'd still struggle to crank out prose.
development
▪ Further large-scale deforestation is occurring in response to government-sanctioned development projects, many of which involve cash cropping and ranching.
▪ Already, Buss said, talk of the Padres presence has prompted some property owners to map renovation or development projects.
▪ It will assess the environmental impact of new and existing development projects and carry out research and consultancy.
▪ McDougal and his former wife Susan were partners along with the Clintons in the Whitewater land development project in Arkansas.
▪ Others found themselves struggling to plan development projects.
▪ A different but not exclusive approach is to insist upon a conservation element being included in most rural development projects.
▪ Important industrial and development projects were also either postponed or cancelled.
▪ Several examples of assessment frameworks or structures used in a number of research and development projects were given earlier.
management
▪ Using project management to help yourself is actually pretty simple.
▪ Even so, the quality of project management is surely open to examination.
▪ The first step in project management is to set a measurable objective.
▪ Success in these ventures results from close project management.
▪ Of course, we also provide practical project management training from the shop floor up.
▪ Essentially the company is a project management operation.
▪ We covered the first, project management.
manager
▪ How does the project manager organize and supervise the people in the team?
▪ Tom Wesolowski was recently hired by Advanced Engineering to serve as a project manager in the Moorhead office.
▪ Do any help in choosing project managers?
▪ None the less, former project manager Ralph Allen believes he was laid off for speaking up.
▪ To co-ordinate this development, a Next Steps project manager has been appointed.
▪ Hospitals, project managers revealed the findings of samples taken since tunnel toll takers began complaining early last month of noxious odors.
▪ The builder's project manager, Alex Fishface.
▪ My superintendents and project managers deal with the final set of drawings.
pilot
▪ A recent pilot project of social work attachment in general practice has been undertaken recently in Upton on Severn.
▪ A demonstration programme of twenty-eight pilot projects was begun in 1983 with government funding of £19 million until 1988.
▪ The pilot project is being carried out on three forces and an independent evaluation will be completed in the spring of 1992.
▪ Any effective approach needs to build on the wealth of innovative pilot projects and experiments in primary and community health services.
▪ Only a pilot project, he insists, will determine whether or not the technology lives up to suppliers' promises.
▪ Thirty senior class pupils from ten primary schools in the Yarm area will attend a three-day pilot project.
▪ These pilot projects represent in principle a transition phase between research station and the real world.
research
▪ The ability to understand the policy implications of research projects is a must.
▪ A calendar of events is a time schedule for carrying out the required tasks of the research project.
▪ We might speculate that those with dementia would be less willing to participate in a research project than the mentally fit.
▪ The interviews were done as part of his five-year research project on strange Arizona phenomena.
▪ This research project focuses on three related aspects of the introduction of protection which have been comparatively neglected.
▪ The client subsequently supported a large-scale action / research project throughout the company.
▪ Special publications report the output of major research projects and staff are encouraged to publish books and journal articles.
▪ The research project will focus on children's comprehension of pretence.
team
▪ A diary based development and reporting approach was used in a few cases where close contact with the project team was feasible.
▪ Lynne and I have a project team meeting in the morning.
▪ Take the new catalyst plant at Clitheroe; the whole project team has met unbelievably difficult performance standards.
▪ Chapter 7 contains an evaluation of the test modes used by the project team.
▪ The three remaining suppliers were then visited by Mr Richards and the project team.
▪ Satisfaction and motivation which comes from working as an essential part of a dedicated management team or multi-disciplinary project team.
▪ Now only I remain, over-committed and unable to give the intellectual leadership to the arts project team.
work
▪ Mentoring and project work within the sponsoring organisation is a key feature in the development of the individual.
▪ Such difficulties seem worth addressing rather than avoiding by restricting project work to planning in the abstract.
▪ B.Eds were about equally divided between continuous assessment and examinations, with some project work.
▪ As previously argued, beautiful end-products are not in themselves sufficient justification for project work.
▪ Extensive use of the computer in project work opens up the further possibility of a computer-oriented career.
▪ It successfully combines the appeal of project work with the cognitive teaching of grammar.
▪ Gateways are available to online databases such as Profile and Kompass to support project work and research.
■ VERB
build
▪ Roads built to service the project are expected to attract slash-and-burn settlers and, possibly, illegal loggers.
▪ Four commissioners favored Community Housing, which has built other projects in the city.
▪ Could schools be built around the project method, in which the tyranny of traditional subjects was loosened?
▪ For now, the Bureau held the authorization to build the project.
▪ Whole towns built around mining projects have been left without a livelihood.
▪ In any large building project three main teams address the three major tasks of design, structural engineering, and mechanical engineering.
▪ The museum is already preparing for a huge building project that will almost double its exhibition space.
▪ We have empty apartments in every building of this project.
complete
▪ Diploma students will complete a more restricted project in June.
▪ Her presence in the completed project adds an unintentional poignance now.
▪ Students complete a research-based project in fourth year under individual staff supervision.
▪ They also enable you to complete your writing projects and have greater control over your deadlines.
▪ It's taken just two years to complete the £60 million project.
▪ Dad may be under particular pressure to complete a project at a time when mom has more slack.
▪ When completed, the project will have brought into being a major research resource for the academic community.
▪ The National Science Foundation, which was footing the bill, decided to hire an independent contractor to complete the project.
develop
▪ An international committee has been set up to develop the project and call tenders for construction.
▪ The two entered a partnership with Southwest Savings and Loan Association to develop the project.
▪ The region has continued to develop projects to assist professionals working in religious broadcasting.
▪ Part of the delicate art of developing successful projects is to ensure that their community context is supportive.
▪ Bates has formed a joint venture to provide services needed to develop deep water projects.
▪ A relatively small number of questions on percentages was used in the tests developed by the project.
▪ Paul constantly created cross-departmental teams to develop new projects.
finance
▪ Each volunteer pays an expedition contribution which, taken together, finances the project.
▪ On Tuesday, Brown said he would begin looking for the money to finance the costly project.
▪ The Rotary Club and Civic Society are to be asked to help finance the project.
▪ They are aware that towns sell bonds to finance new projects.
▪ Savings can help finance other Community projects.
▪ When the bonds to finance the project could not be sold, Franklin Delano Roosevelt picked up the unfinished task.
▪ Writing tops up his income and finances the rare fish projects.
▪ A developer could use historic preservation credits to finance a project there, he said.
fund
▪ Landfill tax can be crucial in funding projects that fall outside the guidelines of lottery funding.
▪ However, most foundations and governmental funding agencies will supply a list of recently funded research projects.
▪ Project aid is commonest; by 1989, donors were funding 116 separate projects.
▪ In addition, the Redevelopment Agency has allocated $ 7. 5 million from bond funds for the project.
▪ It also refers to some recent developments in funding public sector projects.
▪ However, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted to fund the project.
▪ Other sources of income should be approached for funding individual projects.
▪ A decision on whether to fund the project will be made next spring, as commissioners revise long-term plans.
undertake
▪ Even before First Bull Run they undertook a project calculated to meet the problem.
▪ Students also went on job shadows; visited prisons, jails, courtrooms, and forensics laboratories; and undertook community-service projects.
▪ In the first, suppose the firm is undertaking a particular project.
▪ Groups seem to be most successful when undertaking tangible projects, as Black Mountain was when building its second campus.
▪ Students will also undertake substantial projects during this year.
▪ Remember the New Testament warning, before you undertake a project, be sure to count the cost.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
collaborative effort/work/project etc
▪ But from the start, feature animation was a collaborative effort.
▪ Combined with virtual reality capabilities, the team can design its own ideal collaborative work space without the constraints of physical reality.
▪ One of the most powerful forms of learning to which I was exposed on my course was active collaborative work.
▪ Since their Nobel lectures describe one collaborative effort, I suggest that we listen to them without interruption.
▪ The activities would demand collaborative work, role allocation and sharing.
▪ The early deadline gave little time for meetings and collaborative effort, or a very considered response to the new timetabling arrangements.
▪ The project being proposed by the Commission would put up £450 million for collaborative work in computers and automation.
▪ When it came time for his second album, he decided to make it a collaborative effort.
pet project/theory/subject
▪ Both grants represented pet projects of two council subcommittee members.
▪ Different chemists prefer different pet theories, and there is no shortage of theories.
▪ Even as the trajectory of his thought kept rising in the early seventies, the clock was ticking on his pet project.
▪ Even those Hippocratic treatises which inveigh against Presocratic dogmatism are themselves just as dogmatic where their own pet theories are concerned.
▪ His pet project is a biotechnology institute in which state funding will be matched by contributions from the Schering drug company.
▪ Monitoring the telephone conversations of the Kremlin hierarchy had become one of his pet projects over the last few years.
▪ No organization likes being told that it has got to hold back its expansion or abandon some pet project.
▪ The proposals are seen as a pet project of the right wing of the Conservative Party and Conservative students' groups.
pilot study/project/scheme etc
▪ A pilot study is being carried out with Manchester University.
▪ Olmsted saw Niagara as a pilot project for a larger and more ambitious campaign.
▪ Schools are being invited to put forward their brightest pupils to do the tests as part of the pilot scheme.
▪ The pilot scheme bid backed in principle by the committee yesterday is proposed for Darlington and Durham.
▪ The colours were roughly matched for salience in pilot studies with healthy observers.
▪ The Environmental Defense Fund brokered a series of pilot projects in Juarez, including one to test vehicle emissions.
▪ Under a pilot scheme multinationals have been allowed to issue their own work permits to foreign staff.
▪ With modest resources, the Agriculture Department is introducing the new technologies to growers in a handful of pilot projects nationwide.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a joint US--British research project
▪ I've been working on the Inner City Development Project for the last five years.
▪ The project still must be approved by the Board of Supervisors.
▪ The federal government will help fund this immense project, which includes the building of 150 day-care centers.
▪ The government scrapped the project after ruling that the costs were too high.
▪ These are encouraging signs that the ballpark project is moving from blueprint to reality.
▪ Work on the new freeway project began yesterday.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Another project that the ministry has suddenly accelerated after two years of inaction is a new missile designed to destroy enemy radars.
▪ Second, you are counting on Donna Davidson and her two project colleagues to champion the change.
▪ The findings from these projects indicate some of the ways in which girls' performance is produced and evaluated.
▪ The principal message conveyed by the leadership was that the Three Gorges project had reached the point of no return.
▪ They also enable you to complete your writing projects and have greater control over your deadlines.
▪ This is a special project supported and organised by all the Protestant churches in the country.
▪ While replacement would make retrofitting unnecessary, the first phase of the retrofit project began last September.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
deficit
▪ The president began with a budget that projected deficits of $ 200 billion through the end of the decade.
future
▪ Sometimes when we project into the future we have a reasonable expectation, based on experience, of what will happen.
▪ Expositions and congresses projected a future wherein human aspirations would be realized through the wonders of technology.
▪ One study conducted in 1980 examined seven economic-demographic models constructed to project the future of food and resource supplies and pollution levels.
▪ Deciphering the true history of that era is perhaps no longer possible, but projecting the future is another matter.
growth
▪ It projected global economic growth in 1992 at 1.4 percent.
▪ Technological gains and slower projected growth in energy-intensive industries will restrain the rate of increase, the department says.
▪ These regions have similar inflation outlooks, low-cost labor and projected growth rates two to four times our own growth rate.
image
▪ When you project an image, you project an intensified version of the original.
▪ This is only true if the image is projected for less time than it takes for the eye to move.
▪ An image is projected on to the retina.
▪ From the first sight, what struck me was the image he projected.
▪ The image you are projecting for your campaign will not be confined to people.
▪ The image you project in print is important.
population
▪ Their known and projected populations are given in Table 1.
▪ Demographers project that its population will double in size within a generation.
voice
▪ Now DeCicco can project his voice, balance better and use his hands.
▪ There are innumerable books on public speaking, dealing with everything from how to project your voice to what to wear.
▪ The use of the microphone helped to project her voice.
■ VERB
try
▪ Does it reflect the image of the caring school that we are trying to project?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A computer image of an eyeball was projected onto a screen on stage.
▪ Kirk doesn't realize how arrogant an image he projects.
▪ School officials are projecting a rise in student numbers next semester.
▪ The pier would be 1000 metres long and project about 400 metres into the sea.
▪ Two walkways projected over the gorge on both sides of the river.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By the end of this fiscal year in June, maritime operations are projected to lose $ 6. 4 million.
▪ Examining past, present, and projected student enrollments in one district, the school board voted to dismiss four teachers.
▪ He thus asserts the Truth of History while constantly projecting forwards and deferring its proof.
▪ It is projected to hit $ 1. 17 billion in 1996 sales, nipping at the heels of Sega and Nintendo.
▪ Lastly it is worth noting any usual features like sunken logs, projecting tree roots and big boulders.
▪ Modernism has projected a compelling image of the artist in a state of splendid isolation.
▪ These projected rooms also had to be able to accommodate existing pieces of furniture.