adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a local/regional election
▪ The Green Party increased its share of the vote in the French regional elections.
a regional accent (=from a particular area of a country)
▪ If you have a regional accent, don’t try to hide it.
a regional conference
▪ In Northern Africa, there have been important regional conferences on education.
cultural/political/regional etc differences
▪ the major cultural differences between the west and the east
local/regional office
▪ The agency has a network of regional offices.
regional development (=development of particular regions of a country or area)
▪ a programme of regional development in Eastern Europe
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
authority
▪ About 40 possible sites were inventoried and then proposed to the appropriate regional authorities for an opinion.
▪ Funding for this network will be provided by the three ministries, regional authorities, and network users.
▪ The regional authority provided £40,000 for ophthalmology and £10,000 has been identified for general surgery.
▪ An influential minority report by Derek Senior advocated a map involving solely two-tier regional authorities, 35 in number.
▪ There are 8 regional authorities and 47 second-tier districts.
▪ Transport does not appear as a separate item, but as part of the overall block grant to regional authorities.
▪ Ministers are expected to delay approving the Hastings eastern and western bypasses despite the regional authority voting in favour last month.
bank
▪ So are those of the best regional banks.
▪ Earnings at some major regional banks suffered from higher-than-expected provisions for problem loans.
▪ Underneath them stand thousands of weaker regional banks, mutual banks and credit unions, as well as non-bank banks such as leasing firms.
▪ Drug, telephone, oil, communication-equipment and regional bank shares paced the advance.
▪ He transformed the Midland from a successful regional bank into one of the country's largest institutions.
▪ Lomak Petroleum; and First Union Corp., regional bank.
▪ Data are captured partly through the computerized payroll system, and partly by terminal input at regional banks.
▪ The network of regional banks is being decentralised, in order to give local managers more freedom and accountability.
basis
▪ The Division's businesses are reviewed on a regional basis.
▪ There will be about 15 management heads along product lines, with specialization on a regional basis, depending on demand.
▪ That number is enough to operate on a regional basis.
▪ Such networks are inevitably built up on a regional basis because the finds are usually confined to a limited geographical region.
▪ There are hints of preferred shapes on a regional basis, but there is little distinct typological development discernible.
▪ Indeed categorizing data on a regional basis can conceal almost as much as it reveals.
conflict
▪ It has also been severely affected by debt and regional conflicts.
▪ A force that can handle two major regional conflicts can be funded in several ways.
▪ Losses associated directly and indirectly with regional conflict between 1980 and 1988 are estimated at US$16 to 17 billion.
▪ Other regional conflicts were immigrating, too.
▪ The potential for the fighting to spill over into a wider regional conflict has triggered a flurry of diplomatic activity.
▪ The Helsinki summit, arranged at very short notice, dealt almost exclusively with the specific issue of a major regional conflict.
▪ It is easy to get confused about the regional conflicts that have raged in the area.
▪ The defence doctrine pointed out the risks to the country posed by regional conflicts in the former Soviet Union.
council
▪ An official at Zaporizha's regional council said one welder was burned to death immediately.
▪ Residential Homes provided by the regional councils are known as Part iv accommodation.
▪ At present, the further education authorities take as much advantage as possible of the economies of scale through the regional councils.
▪ Signs exist to make driving safer, not to keep the regional council amused.
▪ This week the local regional council, Lothian, revealed that over £25 million was outstanding.
▪ Accident prevention schemes are also planned and regional councils will be invited to suggest schemes costing up to £1m.
▪ It also established a 150-member National Assembly elected from among the members of eight directly elected regional councils.
development
▪ Our proposed regional development agencies will also provide help to areas particularly affected.
▪ It is within the overall context of national development that regional development can most effectively be addressed and actioned.
▪ Measures have included the setting up of regional development agencies, private- public partnership schemes and privately organised enterprise trusts.
▪ Crucially, this instability hinders regional development, incites repressive governance, and compounds the poverty on which militancy feeds.
▪ Others will be in centres of regional development, local authorities and commerce.
▪ We will set up and fund new regional development and local enterprise agencies.
▪ Specialised bodies, such as regional development agencies are also extremely important.
▪ Despite their differences, their implications for the sociology of urban and regional development are rather similar.
difference
▪ There is, however, apart from these regional differences, a similarity about most Scandinavian Medieval architecture.
▪ Within this general pattern we must however be careful to distinguish some important regional differences.
▪ There are enormous regional differences in the fishing industry and they must be recognised.
▪ This is an underestimate and masks great regional differences.
▪ No obvious regional differences in response to ligand were detected in these cultures.
▪ Table 1 o.3 throws some light on regional differences in enterprise saving in 1987.
▪ On the question of regional differences, these studies of financial exchanges suggest that geographical location is rather unimportant.
▪ The only notable factor in determining regional differences was the availability of building materials.
director
▪ He has organised a meeting between the regional directors of the major clearing banks and the Federation's North-East members.
▪ Neither he nor his peers were surprised when the regional director asked him to consider a management career.
▪ Ian Frost, regional director of Inntrepreneur, said the leases offered big advantages over the short-term agreements.
▪ Robert Pafford, the regional director, wrote a memo to Dominy discussing the options the Bureau had.
▪ A new united sales team for East Anglia is in place reporting to regional director.
▪ The regional director, Ken Vernon, had revised the repayment contract under political pressure and it was a complete giveaway.
▪ Then the final choice lies with their regional directors.
▪ An elected health commissioner would run the system with an appointed medical advisory board and regional directors.
economy
▪ Currently trends are also tending to make each nuclear power station a centre of support and development of the regional economy.
▪ The regional economy has been reorganized so as to distribute tasks and responsibilities equitably.
▪ For centuries cities such as Damascus and Aleppo were at the hub of the regional economy.
▪ Water in Bio2 was diverted from one locality to another like so much federal spending meant to stimulate a regional economy.
▪ Strong regional economies for new developments.
▪ Cleveland: Most indicators showed little change in regional economy from the last beige book Dec. 6.
▪ There is an erosion of the specialized character of regional economies and redundancy of big plants and associated big industrial cities.
election
▪ The bomb followed the announcement on Tuesday that early regional elections will be held in May.
▪ His primary task in the short term would be to mobilize it for the regional elections in March.
▪ Full details, he said, would be presented in 1992 after the March regional elections.
▪ Before the regional elections a year ago he was constantly predicting that his party would win 15-20 percent of the vote.
▪ The most disputed regional elections were cancelled by Hodge but the new elections again led to rightist triumph.
▪ The municipal and new regional elections on 12 November will be the Front's first test.
▪ The man the media call the Cavalier intends to replicate the tactics that won him regional election in April.
government
▪ In fact, regional government would have the opposite effect.
▪ Minnesota, the land of rational government, is one of the only places that has created a true regional government.
▪ The killings have damaged relations between the governing Popular party in Madrid and the Basque regional government.
▪ Mr Babangida and his predecessors have tried to meet competing ethnic demands by spreading power around regional governments in a federal system.
▪ There is no constitutional precedent for regional government such as that proposed by the Opposition.
▪ Who will they go to if there are regional governments as well?
▪ Now Norwich is a centre for shops and offices, including business, county council and regional government offices.
health
▪ An internal 1976 report on Friern by the regional health authority's own long-stay hospital monitoring team was leaked to the Telegraph.
▪ A spokeswoman for the regional health authority said that 206 people on the two-year list were treated during March.
▪ Now regional health chiefs have decided against funding the service themselves.
▪ Mr. Waldegrave I welcome the steps taken by the West Midlands regional health authority.
▪ To deal with disputes over such matters, regional health authorities will act as conciliators.
▪ Trusts take a much narrower view on long-term needs than regional health authorities, and nursing education is not even an obligation.
▪ The opted-out units are no longer under the direct authority of the regional health authorities but report directly to the Secretary of State.
jet
▪ Provost McDonald said last year BAe had moved the headquarters of its regional jet operation to Prestwick.
▪ In 1999, SkyWest, 25 % held by Delta Airlines, ordered 50 Bombardier regional jets.
▪ This was also a record for the world regional jet industry.
level
▪ Trade union representatives meet with management regularly at national and regional level at meetings known as Whitley Councils.
▪ These programs differ from those that went before them in that they are largely located at the school district or regional level.
▪ A similar analysis comes from Harvey, although the class alliances are here seen as being at national or regional levels.
▪ Higher education and expanded trade would be available at the regional level.
▪ More significant for Scandinavia was its retreat in 1950 back to limited and relatively non-controversial sectoral coordination at the regional level.
▪ At the regional level, income and expenditure vary considerably.
▪ At a regional level, this meant that the North West and West Midlands were particularly badly affected.
▪ But these changes are not just taking place at regional level.
manager
▪ Details are available from area managers, regional managers or commercial operations manager Carol McGhie.
▪ We focused on those three initial regional managers then polled some of the neighboring ones.
▪ It is her responsibility to make sure any relevant information is passed on to the regional managers.
▪ The regional managers occupy a crucial role in providing a strategic framework for management of the Teacher Placement Service.
▪ Based at its Newcastle headquarters, Malcolm is regional manager in charge of water quality.
▪ His career also includes twenty two years with the sales force of Stoddard of which he became a regional Manager.
network
▪ The local and regional networks were based on the railways with animal power feeding to and distributing from the stations.
▪ The financial health and viability of regional networks varies.
▪ The new fund is intended to establish a regional network of protected areas in seven countries.
▪ State and Campus Networks State and campus networks link into regional networks.
▪ Since March 1989 the regional network has grown to include over 300 research and education renters.
▪ SURAnet, the strategic networking initiative of the Southeastern Universities Research Association, is another large regional network created in 1986.
▪ At the regional network level, Verio continued to consolidate its POPs, closing 11 redundant POPs during the quarter.
▪ That increase is reflected in the number of local, state, and regional networks connected to the network.
news
▪ Changes will be more apparent in regional news programmes.
▪ Stuart Prebble, head of Granada's regional news, argues that this is ridiculous.
▪ The eastern regional news programme includes a series of short features screened on the last Wednesday of each month.
▪ But viewers soon came to rely on Central South as their major source of regional news.
▪ At present, regional news broadcasts have the tone of a modified sensationalist journalism.
office
▪ The head office was responsible for company administration and the regional offices dealt with administration for the firm's 40 sales outlets.
▪ Then there were regional offices, field offices, project offices.
▪ Yorkshire A regional bookshop was opened at the regional office and has made an encouraging start.
▪ Specifically, they complained that the corporate and regional offices often made unreasonable demands on those in the field.
▪ Some staff were offered employment in the sales offices which were geographically closest to their regional office.
▪ The staff of the 49-county San Francisco regional office has been increased from 45 people to 190.
▪ The closure of the regional offices was phased over an 18-month period and affected 435 staff.
▪ Yeewho had managed regional offices of national retail chains for two decades before founding Zhenwas skeptical about branching out into department stores.
policy
▪ There is now considerable overlap between what district councils are doing and what regional policy is attempting to achieve.
▪ A number of estimates have been made of the effects of regional policy in terms of new jobs created directly and indirectly.
▪ In other ways the activities of the councils tend to conflict with regional policy and weaken its effects.
▪ It is partly because of that false economics that the Conservatives have never had a regional policy.
▪ Production was possibly undertaken in the older industrialized regions, especially if projects could claim regional policy or some similar incentive.
▪ We will ensure that regional policy is well targeted.
▪ In particular, they have very different assessments of the importance of: regional policy labour availability.
sale
▪ David Savery is regional sales manager of the sales centre.
▪ The regional sales people obviously have their reasons for doing what they did.
▪ I started as a junior receptionist and now I am a regional sales manager with a very attractive salary and benefits.
▪ The only other question I have is about the regional sales forecasts.
▪ The make-up of the Glasgow head office committee is slightly different from the committees at Craigforth, branches and regional sales centres.
▪ But I did get him to agree that I could get some input directly from the regional sales managers.
security
▪ It considered its gains in the 1967 war as vital to its regional security.
▪ It can not be excluded from regional security arrangements if stability is to be achieved in oil flows from Gulf oil producers.
▪ The erosion of regional security could be halted only at Kosovo s borders.
▪ The Assembly also agreed on closer co-operation on the environment, on regional security and in the fight against drug trafficking.
▪ It will damage the environment, ruin the lives of thousands of Kurdish people, and threaten regional security.
variation
▪ Because regional variations tend to be more pronounced among working-class speakers, it is also a class variation.
▪ But both groups include many profoundly different peoples, owing partly to the accidents of history and partly to regional variations.
▪ It also highlights significant regional variations, possibly reflecting a marked difference in schools' approach to discipline.
▪ As before, their distribution among institutions takes account of student numbers and regional variations in housing costs.
▪ There are many regional variations of this delightful fish, and colouring will vary according to where the stock has been collected.
▪ Equally, regional variations in speech may generate different spellings.
▪ But great regional variations were apparent.
▪ This provides the evidence for possible regional variation in the focus of particular newspapers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Nuclear programs are a threat to regional and world peace.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A stream of regional studies followed throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s.
▪ Ethnic, religious, class, regional and national antipathies have all been known to find expression through football and football support.
▪ Ian Vickers, 33, becomes regional planner and Patrick Boyle, 24, has been appointed design and build manager.
▪ In a short period of rapid theoretical development the emergent core of regional planning principles and practices strengthened considerably.
▪ The findings are likely to generate important implications in terms of competitiveness, regional and labour market impact and regulatory policy.
▪ There is also a regional dimension to this problem.
▪ They were to be based on existing regional and other colleges already substantially engaged in higher education.