verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bask in...reflected glory
▪ I certainly don’t want to bask in any reflected glory.
reflect light
▪ Snow reflects a lot of light.
reflect reality (=match or show what is really happening or true)
▪ Do these novels accurately reflect contemporary reality?
reflect/capture sb's mood (=show what someone is feeling)
▪ His comments reflected the national mood.
reflected glory (=fame that you get because you are close to someone who has done something that people admire)
▪ She basked in the reflective glory of her daughter's marriage to such a famous actor.
reflected glory
▪ I certainly don’t want to bask in any reflected glory.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
accurately
▪ This procedure most accurately reflects normal conception.
▪ The letters and complaints accurately reflect the outrage by the taxpayers at this blatant partisan action.
▪ His reality accurately reflected his belief system.
▪ The report he submitted to his superiors accurately reflected the poor state of Volunteer morale and the need for immediate corrective action.
▪ While age is clearly a highly relevant factor it does not always accurately reflect ability to understand.
▪ Their emphasis on giving instead of getting accurately reflects the demands of a tough and radical gospel.
▪ Although this picture no longer accurately reflects the reality of many modern corporate structures, legal rules still rest upon the old idea.
▪ The cover art accurately reflects the content, which is often pensive, delicate and private.
also
▪ But I think it also reflected his sense of the inherent fragmentary nature of life.
▪ But as we will see, the superiors' point of view about the managerial role also reflected their biases.
▪ It may also reflect the nature of the inmate population.
▪ The will of the people is also reflected in the elected officials the voters have chosen to select the judges.
▪ Good nature and a sense of humour, as well as an alert and well-stocked mind are also reflected in the face.
▪ It also reflects the characteristics of the family as a part of the political system.
▪ Mr Ashdown's personal popularity is also reflected in a separate Gallup poll measuring the standing of the parties.
▪ The Stoic tradition also reflected diverse perspectives.
back
▪ The monument is a V-shaped low wall of polished black granite that reflects back the image of the viewer.
▪ From time to time, the counselor might reflect back to the child what is happening.
▪ Their faces were reflected back, two black heads and one brown, close together.
▪ At first, I could see only my own face reflected back.
▪ For her other people only exist to help her reflect back well on herself.
▪ The windshield was smeared with dirt and reflected back the perfect depth of the sky.
▪ An optometrist can calculate the strength of glasses a person needs by judging the light reflected back from the retina.
▪ The resource person listens attentively and reflects back what is said, in the L1, in a non-critical way.
on
▪ The anniversary had remained trapped in the unconscious, never reflected on.
▪ I urge those on both Front Benches to reflect on how they can make up for that democratic lack.
▪ What questions do the words ask you to reflect on?
▪ A peaceful journey home with lots to reflect on and pray and share with others.
▪ For several days afterward, reflecting on what he had said, she found herself close to tears.
▪ We must reflect on whether further measures might be needed to put extra pressure on authorities to bring properties back into use.
▪ She reflected on how much she had changed since the last festival, less than seven weeks ago.
probably
▪ The concerns of older people about their future health care probably reflect beliefs about modern medicine and priorities within the medical profession.
▪ That probably reflects a higher number of unemployed managers and others in the business world.
▪ This difference probably reflects the variation in questions and methodology used in the two surveys.
▪ Reynolds and others say the loss probably reflects the nationwide average cited by the cable association.
▪ The range of mating systems shown by the dunnock probably reflects the differences in the interests of males and females.
▪ This probably reflects a change in the children to be placed.
▪ This probably reflects the balance of their training where the emphasis is upon pre-school aged children.
▪ The election's last-minute switch to Labour probably reflected a genuine desire on some voters' part to get the Tories out.
■ NOUN
attitude
▪ His game reflects an attitude with shots crisp, incisively biting.
▪ The black jurors who voted to acquit Simpson reflected the attitudes of their communities and brought their life experiences into the courtroom.
▪ However, she felt that this was artificial and did not reflect their real attitudes.
▪ The second is a measure of the depth and severity of partisan cleavage, reflected in attitudes toward marriage across party lines.
▪ His performance in the job was to reflect that attitude.
▪ Our thoughts on dying, of course, reflect our attitudes toward life.
▪ Between them they reflect some of the attitudes and show some of the suffering of the period.
▪ This has been reflected in the attitude of the National Front towards new commonwealth citizens in the United Kingdom in recent times.
change
▪ The 1992 figures reflect a change in the method of accounting for certain deferred income tax benefits.
▪ The $ 200, 000 capital gain is illusory, reflecting the change in the overall price level since 1962.
▪ Jessamy's mood didn't reflect the change in the weather.
▪ The Sunday Night Supper reflected a fundamental change in social Washington since the beginning of the war.
▪ There is an urgent need for publishing to reflect that change of perspective.
▪ Thus it is that evolving behaviors reflect qualitative changes in many schemata.
▪ The 1993 figures reflect changes in the method of accounting for post-retirement benefits.
▪ From the 1950s to the 1990s radical changes in teaching styles reflect major changes in social and cultural values.
concern
▪ Censorship reflects the social concerns and even fears of society and government at the time.
▪ His call reflects concern that other currencies could depreciate against the euro, leading to strains among the 15 member states.
▪ It reflected growing concern about the level of spending on congressional election campaigns.
▪ Gene Taylor, D-Miss., but it reflected concerns a number of lawmakers voiced Tuesday about constituent complaints.
▪ This image has attracted extensive discussion from a range of perspectives, reflecting many differing concerns.
▪ The subject never appears in polls reflecting major public concerns.
▪ The principle of ability to pay thus reflects a concern about vertical equity.
▪ The noble cataract reflects the concerns, the fancies, and the failings of the times.
difference
▪ It also highlights significant regional variations, possibly reflecting a marked difference in schools' approach to discipline.
▪ The split reflects a difference of opinion simmering for months within the Republican Party.
▪ Health authorities are encouraged to arrange for the services which ethnic minority communities need and which reflect cultural differences.
▪ We think what this reflects is an honest difference of opinion about business decisions.
▪ This variation in signal intensity may reflect the differences in the cell density of tissues that express the gene.
▪ With older children, the issues are more complex and may truly reflect differences in male and female attitudes.
▪ That discussion in turn reflected a second difference.
▪ Expressions of power often reflect honest differences between people seeking to achieve their work-related objectives.
fact
▪ However slowly, the forms tended over time to reflect the facts.
▪ The methodology chapter must reflect the actual facts of the research experience.
▪ My regard for her was reflected in the fact that I asked her to be my son, Giles's godmother.
▪ I think the success of ballot measures to restrict hunting reflects the fact that our society is increasingly urbanized.
▪ These phases and the difficulties of separating them reflect the fact that mental processes are not subject to clearly defined distinctions and boundaries.
▪ Here, you can help him reflect on the fact that maybe he is being extra hard on you.
▪ He said the school's difficulties partly reflected the fact it will not employ teachers permanently without seeing them teach.
▪ But it also reflects the fact that older workers are, by virtue of their life situation, more reliable.
interest
▪ Are the competing views purely academic debates, or do they also reflect wider social interests? 4.
▪ Other products will help those same users personalize their workstations with themes reflecting their interests.
▪ The divergent views simply reflected their different interests.
▪ Fairbank's personality reflected wide cultural interests and a gift for friendship.
▪ Rather they appeared as a selection - and a selection that seemed to reflect the interests of the powerful.
▪ Their degree reflects their interest and comments upon their specific abilities.
▪ Those organisations reflect interests from conservation to tourism, from business to rural affairs, and from education to art history.
▪ Criminal law is assumed to express and reflect the interests of the ruling class.
level
▪ In both countries, therefore, the priority given to education was reflected in high levels of expenditure.
▪ Together the two motions should, they believed, reflect sea level throughout the ages.
▪ Existing scale charges are not sufficiently refined to reflect the level of benefit of any particular car provided to an employee.
▪ Trading was extraordinarily heavy, reflecting high levels of computer-driven trading activity.
▪ The production of the three subunits in minicells should reflect the level of production within the cell.
▪ Very low-grade disseminated copper mineralisation may reflect the eroded deep levels of a copper porphyry system.
▪ The composition of the panel usually reflects the level of required expenditure.
▪ Two examples serve to reflect the level of evidence.
mood
▪ Cheney's announcement nevertheless reflected a mood of caution at the Department of Defence.
▪ Despite such incidents, photocopies of articles critical of Niyazov circulate anyway, as do jokes that reflect the public mood.
▪ The bags under their eyes reflect the wild mood swings that have afflicted the party since the first week.
▪ Isolationism reigned in the Congress, reflecting a national mood.
▪ Easy Rider happened to become the film of the moment because it reflected the mood of the moment.
▪ The main colour in your scheme should reflect this mood.
▪ As usual Congress reflects the mood.
▪ The stock market reflected the more optimistic mood, with the FTSE-100 index closing up 18.2 at 2,400.9.
nature
▪ These variations presumably reflect the nature of the sea-bed and availability of food.
▪ So our crying level may reflect more nature than nurture.
▪ The constant should be adjusted to reflect fairly the nature of the actual work involved.
▪ Their different responses reflected the nature of the history they had so far lived through, and partly determined their future.
▪ It may also reflect the nature of the inmate population.
▪ These bases reflect the ecumenical nature of her work.
▪ These investments have therefore been treated as cash equivalents in preparing the cash flow statement reflecting the liquid nature of the investments.
▪ If the state of affairs in Bosnia reflects the nature of a multi-cultural society, this policy is open to question.
need
▪ The next step was to devise a budget allocation procedure that reflected the health needs of different areas.
▪ Eliminate narrow job-training programs, those geared to low-wage, low-skill occupations, and those that do not reflect labor-market needs.
▪ This chapter will reflect those needs.
▪ Serigraph also has worked to raise standards at the high school to reflect its needs.
▪ The structure of the course in Office Studies reflects those changes and needs.
▪ Architectural form should not rigidly follow function, but ought to reflect the needs of the social body it represents.
▪ From this, we step forward to reflect on the essential need for humility.
▪ This is your day and we will endeavour to organise it in a way that reflects your needs and requirements.
performance
▪ The physical limitations of the processor and memory in the existing configuration are reflected quantitatively in the performance of the system.
▪ That reflects past performance, a fact, not future performance, which is largely guesswork.
▪ The main point of our work is to establish earnings that reflect the company's performance.
▪ Morrison's strong showing in recent years reflects its performance as a recession-proof business.
▪ The dynamism within the urban system is reflected in the performance of individual cities.
▪ Interrelated tasks should be linked in order to reflect areas where performance and time-scale may be critical.
▪ They are also attracted by the pay: because it reflects performance, precocious types can earn more than their elders.
▪ The value of your units can go up and down reflecting the performance of the underlying investments.
price
▪ They must instead stick to a range of sensible prices reflecting the value of the target business to them.
▪ The stock price already reflects the expected profits that come rolling in when the college kids invade.
▪ Much more complicated is how to make allowance for price differences which reflect different qualities of goods.
▪ Allowing insiders - ie, better-informed people - to profit from trading means that share prices reflect information more quickly.
▪ In order for markets to be allocatively efficient, prices must correctly reflect the opportunity costs of goods.
▪ When the information becomes publicly available the share price will adjust to reflect the true underlying value of the shares.
▪ Moreover, countries should price fuels to reflect their full costs, including environmental costs.
▪ The aim is to have prices reflect all available information and so provide reliable signals upon which investment decisions can be based.
reality
▪ Social and employment policy must reflect these new realities.
▪ Attitudes and speech patterns remain in place long after they no longer reflect reality.
▪ The content of core programmes will continue to evolve to reflect the changing reality of the business environment.
▪ The appearance is one of thoroughness, but whether the assumptions reflect reality can usually be questioned.
▪ Instead it is argued that the unusual social profile of lawbreakers did reflect social reality.
▪ This first budget also reflects practical and political realities.
▪ A second advantage of the legal definition is that it reflects a political reality.
▪ Other viewpoints reflected a different reality.
value
▪ Its chairman, Ralph Hinchcliffe, said the price fully reflected the value of the businesses.
▪ These plays were the mouthpiece of the revolutionary bourgeoisie and always reflected their values.
▪ They must instead stick to a range of sensible prices reflecting the value of the target business to them.
▪ But lawyers reflect the standards and values of the people who hire them.
▪ Chicago policemen, like most policemen, reflect blue-collar values.
▪ It is no accident that these three processes combine to produce buildings that reflect the values of those involved.
▪ Our institutions were set up by middle-class people and the staff, even when their own origins are working-class, reflect those values.
view
▪ The regulatory approach to credit has generally reflected the more guarded view.
▪ The rest of the media reflected this view of an activist President keenly pursuing a policy he deeply believed in.
▪ He apologized for that statement and, as he explained at the time, that statement does not reflect his views.
▪ But there is little doubt it reflected views held strongly in the Oval Office.
▪ This he did, insisting that Mr Bangemann's remarks reflected his own personal views.
▪ In contrast, the group approach reflects an integrative view of society.
▪ Compromise is often seen to be weak and commitment to the decision reflects that view.
▪ This is a crucial point reflected in the contrasting views of the role of the state discussed earlier in this chapter.
■ VERB
design
▪ It is an exhibition designed to attract and reflect all aspects of health and leisure activities.
▪ Louis area is designed to reflect the local economy.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bask/bathe in sb's/sth's (reflected) glory
▪ A less ambitious painter would have been content merely to bask in the glory that his canvases had earned him.
▪ And, on occasions like last Sunday's Baftas, bathe in reflected glory. % % % Overreaction?
▪ His boss sat on the forty-first floor and was still basking in the reflected glory of his minion.
▪ I certainly don't want to bask in any reflected glory.
▪ Nigel went on for years basking in the glory of his first book.
▪ She would have basked in the reflected glory of their marriages; she could have boasted of her sons-in-law for ever more.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ From my hotel room, I saw the lights of Budapest reflected in the Danube.
▪ His fair, freckled skin and blue eyes reflect his Irish heritage.
▪ I was dazzled by the sunlight reflecting off the wet road.
▪ In warm weather, wear light-coloured clothing to reflect the heat.
▪ Picasso's "Le Miroir" is a rear-view of a model reflected in a mirror.
▪ The culture of a nation is always reflected in its language.
▪ The moon reflects the sun's rays.
▪ The poll results reflect widespread anxiety about the economy.
▪ The radar signal that reflects back from the airplane is received by the radar dish and is electronically analysed.
▪ The three-year guarantee reflects the company's confidence in the quality of its products.
▪ The white painted walls reflected the firelight.
▪ This poll reflects what the Republicans of California are sensing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A 1995 national survey of more than 1, 000 restaurant and fast-food workers reflected the findings of Lewicki and his colleagues.
▪ Eliminate narrow job-training programs, those geared to low-wage, low-skill occupations, and those that do not reflect labor-market needs.
▪ However slowly, the forms tended over time to reflect the facts.
▪ If the serum albumin concentration is normal, the total serum calcium level reflects the ionized calcium concentration.
▪ It was, she reflected, exactly the kind of place a high-flier like Luke would choose.
▪ Perhaps, she reflected ruefully, she was just easily irritated.
▪ Plant fossils are often to be found in particular beds, reflecting conditions of deposition that were just right for their preservation.
▪ Tax studies purporting to show that most capital gains tax is paid by higher-income individuals reflect a fundamental error.