adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be properly enforced
▪ Rules are only effective if they are properly enforced.
eat properlyBritish English, eat right American English (= eat food that will keep you healthy)
▪ He hadn’t been eating properly and was drinking far too much.
function normally/correctly/properly etc
▪ Flights in and out of Taipei are functioning normally again.
properly/suitably dressed (=wearing suitable clothes for something)
▪ It’s important to be properly dressed if you are walking in the mountains.
suitably/properly qualified
▪ Make sure that the therapist is properly qualified.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
belong
▪ Assault on a constable in the execution of his duty, it is argued, properly belongs in constitutional law.
▪ Bourgeois tragedy properly belongs to an age of science.
▪ But there is Marxist work on the origins and on typologies of art which properly belongs in this first division.
▪ So I feel that all these jottings of the past forty years properly belong in a corner of that institution's cellar.
▪ I make it my business to acquaint myself with where objects properly belong in a house.
▪ He was an unpopular officer, one who didn't properly belong anywhere, but who was uprooted and anxious everywhere.
eat
▪ People who eat properly feel good about themselves.
▪ She said she encouraged him to eat properly and start exercising.
▪ Without an audience, but with a very hungry tummy, it wasn't long before Suzy began to eat properly.
▪ The four found Mary and Reggie in the kitchen, eating properly off plates.
▪ When I was on my own I would feel sad and would not eat properly.
▪ Eat properly Eating well before and during pregnancy is very important.
▪ I guess I was fairly content - bored sometimes, but happy to be alive and eating properly.
▪ Students increasingly complained that they could not afford to eat properly.
function
▪ The monetary role enabled the coin to function properly as a coin by ensuring that it circulated smoothly and without interruption.
▪ About two-thirds of all collisions at state public crossings actually occur where everything is functioning properly.
▪ Pull one part out and all of the others cease to function properly.
▪ The bacteria can enter the bloodstream, but are usually quickly destroyed when antibodies and the immune system function properly.
▪ Thanks to a sound system that fails to function properly, Kevin's words of diseased warning and wisdom are indecipherable.
▪ Impairment describes parts or systems of the body which do not function properly such as hearing or sight.
▪ It is this secondary mandate which ensures that our bi-cameral system can properly function.
▪ For nearly 45 years, it was unable to function properly because it became a political battleground in the Cold War.
implement
▪ Firstly, changing external factors meant that many plans became rapidly out of date and so they could never be implemented properly.
▪ Then thirdly, make quite sure the objective is implemented properly, so you have to monitor.
▪ Not surprisingly, commitments are broken and only the less important matters are implemented properly.
▪ The minister did not believe that Tameside Council could properly implement the change within the limited time available.
investigate
▪ The content and form of social and economic formations along with institutions can not be properly investigated by projecting preconceived notions.
▪ A reliable source had eluded him, although certain other prospects had yet to be properly investigated.
▪ Some deep-down instinct she'd never properly investigated had simply made her back off.
▪ No one has been brought to justice for any of these killings, nor does it appear that they have been properly investigated.
▪ There are some cases that you simply can not investigate properly without an engineer's report.
▪ It must be assumed that the title was properly investigated at the time of the purchase by the husband and wife.
▪ However, some elderly people have gone to live in private developments without properly investigating all the extra costs involved.
▪ He has not properly investigated the target's dining facilities.
manage
▪ A corporate personality can become a tangible asset if it is managed properly and consistently.
▪ Trees are a renewable resource that when managed properly can sustain our needs indefinitely.
▪ A fund was established to reward headmen for good police work, but it proved difficult to manage properly.
▪ If the economy is managed properly it can benefit us all with some impressive growth in jobs and tax base.
▪ When properly managed, they offer the prospect of a tidy retirement nest egg.
prepare
▪ When he worked at night he prepared properly, never allowing his vision to become impaired in any way.
▪ The rich dark meat, when prepared properly, is extremely flavorful with a slightly earthy taste.
▪ Touche Ross has audited this pro-forma and states that it is properly prepared on the basis set out.
run
▪ Dawes believes that getting users' networks up and running properly is one of the biggest challenges facing the industry.
▪ Instead, they help keep your computer running properly or fix it when something goes wrong.
▪ If there is a policy of having nuclear weapons, those weapons must be serviced at intervals to keep them running properly.
▪ In a properly run business - a sufficiently benevolent dictatorship - they should be unnecessary.
▪ To be strictly accurate about it, they are mostly very reliable once they are up and running properly.
speak
▪ He hasn't properly spoken to me since our refusal to carry drugs.
▪ There are often misunderstandings which I have to let go because I can not speak properly.
▪ But, even if not properly speaking a science, it is still worthy of systematic pursuit.
▪ We are trying to break the speech patterns of these children, trying to get them to speak properly.
▪ For the first time, properly speak to her.
▪ A woman can not, properly speaking, desire at all.
▪ One of the most fundamental questions which has been posed is whether we can properly speak about the drama as writing.
train
▪ Our research confirms that it is vital that professionals be properly trained to work with paraprofessional personnel.
▪ This scrutiny of medical credentials ensures that patients get properly trained doctors.
▪ Had you trained properly for the complete distance?
▪ Further, and more important, it was open to doubt whether the nobility was properly trained for war.
▪ Each encounter represents a potential flashpoint unless your dog is properly trained.
▪ The creature is not fit to be seen until it is properly trained.
▪ When I came to train properly I was already aware of the professional background.
understand
▪ There seemed to be something which I had not properly understood.
▪ As we now know, quantum theory is needed in order that the actual structure of solids can be properly understood.
▪ Perhaps he never properly understood, she thought, as the car sped along the roads to Yonder.
▪ As we will soon see, the inability to make oneself understood properly was at the root of the crisis in Vicos.
▪ I realized I had not properly understood my own needs.
▪ That is true only in the vaguest terms and only when the whole context of how tribal government evolved is properly understood.
▪ Do they properly understand what is required?
▪ I couldn't believe my ears but she repeated it: I realized I had not properly understood my own needs.
use
▪ I can not speak from experience but the same can probably be said about most instruments if used properly.
▪ They must be used properly as aids to administrative evaluation-not in place of it or as ends in themselves.
▪ Chris stresses that some herbs can be dangerous if not used properly.
▪ People who have type 2 diabetes do not produce enough insulin, or their bodies can not properly use the hormone.
▪ There are several ways of doing this, but any method chosen must be used properly.
▪ When used properly, air bags save lives.
▪ Today the Government is still advising farmers that the products - if used properly - are safe.
▪ Your muscles are now being used properly to create a much more beautiful contour of the body.
work
▪ These are experimental and slightly unreliable weapons, but extremely deadly when they work properly.
▪ A properly working Macintosh is a marvel, but a Macintosh with an undiagnosed software problem is slow torture.
▪ The system could work properly only if the values of the two currencies did not drift too far apart from each other.
▪ And most important, are they working properly, so that they can protect Getty from AIDS-related infectious disease?
▪ For the system to work properly, several practical and technical obstacles will need to be overcome over the next 12 months.
▪ Then, for a moment, his back and shoulders were working properly.
▪ This arrangement might be fine if it worked properly.
▪ This would almost certainly prevent the main circuit from working properly.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Finding running shoes that fit properly can be tricky.
▪ He accused me of not doing my job properly.
▪ He questions whether the experiments were conducted properly.
▪ It will take time to properly investigate the matter.
▪ Make sure the door is properly closed.
▪ The company had failed to properly train their workers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But Sierra Club lobbyist Raena Honan said the program never was properly funded since being approved in 1986.
▪ For this reason any purchaser will wish to see that all documents in the chain of title are properly stamped.
▪ However, the insurer probably will inspect the new house carefully, to be sure that it is properly retrofitted against earthquakes.
▪ In fact I damn nearly lost early on because I found it hard to concentrate properly on her defence strategy.
▪ Keep on using lead free if the engine is not set properly after its recent service.
▪ Shamlou stood before her, and for the first time looked properly at his victim.
▪ Surely manufacturers who offer these products and recommend them of use as a priming support for oils have done their research properly?
▪ The failure to treat Tamils properly has carried a fearsome price.