noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
energy needs/requirements
▪ 65% of the country’s energy needs are met by imported oil.
entry requirements
▪ Applicants must satisfy the normal entry requirements for the school.
exacting standards/demands/requirements etc
▪ He could never live up to his father’s exacting standards.
fulfil a requirement/condition/obligation etc
▪ Britain was accused of failing to fulfil its obligations under the EU Treaty.
▪ Much of the electrical equipment failed to fulfill safety requirements.
satisfy a requirement
▪ The application must satisfy the requirements of Article 6.
strict requirements
▪ Landlords must comply with strict safety requirements.
suit sb's needs/requirements
▪ The building has been adapted to suit the needs of older people.
tailor sth to meet/suit sb’s needs/requirements
▪ The classes are tailored to suit learners’ needs.
the visa requirements
▪ Check the visa requirements with your travel agent.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
basic
▪ The basic requirement is that glazing in certain critical locations must be safe.
▪ Nor are dialects subject to judgment, so long as they meet the basic requirement of having clearly defined rules.
▪ Safety is a basic human requirement for survival, development, health and self-fulfilment at every stage of the lifespan.
▪ This is a very basic requirement of any measuring device.
▪ Each of them, however, raises certain basic requirements of a conceptual and empirical kind.
▪ Certainly there may be the odd chart or graph thrown in for luck but the basic requirement is for high quality text.
▪ Playing to a consistent length is one of the basic requirements to perform to a high level.
▪ Societies have certain basic needs or requirements which must be met if they are to survive.
borrowing
▪ Leasing schemes will allow large-scale investments to be financed at relatively little cost to the public sector borrowing requirement.
▪ They would certainly have had no chance of financing their programme without large increases both in taxation and in the borrowing requirement.
▪ It also affected the borrowing requirements of corporations, countries and international agencies.
▪ A total of £3,500 million was taken out of the public-sector borrowing requirement.
▪ The borrowing requirement for the whole of financial year of 1991-92 was £13.9 billion, after £7.9 billion of proceeds from privatisations.
▪ The public-sector borrowing requirement would be cut from Esc539,000 million to Esc416,000 million.
▪ Sales of state assets helped the government to reduce the public sector borrowing requirement.
exact
▪ The exact requirements of natural justice can vary depending on the particular situation.
▪ All the products can be personalised to the client's exact requirements.
▪ Students will be informed of exact attendance requirements when accepted for courses.
▪ This will give the exact requirements for the system that you are going to buy.
▪ The exact requirements of the mortgagee to be contained in the conveyance or transfer should be ascertained.
▪ All Strachan fitted furniture is expertly crafted to your exact requirements in our own workshops.
general
▪ Presumably, the lawmaker must determine the content of these general requirements of justice.
▪ Such general requirements would clearly include teachers, therapists, and counselors who work with children.
individual
▪ Ward organisation is important in ensuring that the learner's individual requirements for the development of her clinical skills are met.
▪ To meet these needs we have a wide range of plans which can be adapted to suit individual means and requirements.
▪ Each Savoy bed is constructed from natural materials and can be specially made to suit individual requirements.
▪ Our professional Banqueting Department will be pleased to discuss your individual requirements.
▪ Properties carefully selected to clients individual requirements.
▪ Unfortunately, although demand for sites is still high, the individual requirements of the operator dictate selection.
▪ All students can, in consultation with their Director of Studies, arrange a programme of courses specifically tailored to their individual requirements.
legal
▪ The nature of the legal requirement depends upon the type of organisation it is.
▪ Both are now scrambling to determine exactly what their legal public-disclosure requirements are in the new bi-national arena.
▪ But this is not a legal requirement.
▪ Others take earmarked money but go beyond the legal requirements and identify big donors.
▪ She wasn't immunised That's a legal requirement!
▪ Strike fits requirements White House officials said the potential pilots strike appeared to meet the legal requirement for presidential intervention.
▪ Beer is classified as a food stuff and yet it is excluded from the legal requirements to list ingredients.
▪ There is no legal requirement for a child's evidence to be corroborated in civil proceedings.
minimum
▪ Mainly New Zealand wool was used for which just enough foreign currency was released to buy the minimum immediate requirement.
▪ The minimum lot size requirement is 20,000 square feet.
▪ However, the following proposals are tentatively put forward as minimum requirements for most kinds of library. 1.
▪ As far as minimum requirements go, you will need to take at least one blank video cassette with you.
▪ In terms of study leave, some organisations were not convinced that the Institute's minimum requirement of 20 weeks was necessary.
▪ In Chapter 2 I gave a breakdown of the five minimum requirements of the graph search mechanism.
▪ Success in the examination did not secure by itself a study position abroad, but it was the minimum requirement.
new
▪ Advisers will therefore have to make clients aware of this new requirement.
▪ The new requirements were set in 1992, but they are being phased in over a 16-year period that began in 1994.
▪ Insurers, Mr Leventhal noted, are interested in selling because of stiff new regulatory capital requirements on their real-estate holdings.
▪ Places that can not meet these new requirements by January 1991 may consequently lose a Crown.
▪ The Treasury Department announced Thursday it has implemented new requirements intended to restrict firearm purchases by foreign visitors.
▪ In these circumstances the Committee felt justified in insisting that the new requirement be met.
▪ Instead, there are a new set of requirements, new standards, more exams.
other
▪ Propagation is very easily achieved by cuttings. Other requirements: Light: Bright light, but not too strong.
▪ The plant will require regular pruning. Other requirements: Light: Moderate to bright light satisfactory.
▪ Propagates by the plantlets produced on the runners. Other requirements: Light: Good bright light essential.
▪ An occasional application of liquid fertiliser is beneficial. Other requirements: Light: Good illumination is essential.
▪ Propagation is done by stem-cuttings, which root very easily. Other requirements: Light: Good illumination.
▪ Propagation is by stem cuttings. Other requirements: Light: Requires bright light and plenty of it.
▪ These should be pruned periodically and propagated accordingly. Other requirements: Light: Requires plenty of bright light.
public
▪ Leasing schemes will allow large-scale investments to be financed at relatively little cost to the public sector borrowing requirement.
▪ It has gone on reducing the fantastic levels of public sector borrowing requirement that were reached under the last Government.
▪ Then he got the public sector borrowing requirement wrong.
▪ Nevertheless, obsession with the size of public sector borrowing requirements began at this time.
▪ Sales of state assets helped the government to reduce the public sector borrowing requirement.
special
▪ The disabled and frail elderly will, of course, have special requirements and will need to select a home with a view to adaptation.
▪ Were the objectives and special requirement achieved?
▪ Older customers with special requirements do not wish to be seen as different.
▪ Readers too, may have their own special requirements.
▪ There are no special entry requirements for the module.
▪ I would like a home of my own but I have special requirements.
▪ The needs of vegetarians, or those with special diet requirements are met, and a reasonable variety of menus is provided.
▪ The catering contract is unique in character, with special requirements for quality and speed of service.
specific
▪ The rather specific environmental requirements of salt weathering mean that its action is spatially highly variable.
▪ In applying these principles in particular cases, various courts have set out more specific requirements.
▪ Even to the extent of formulating new or repackaging existing products to suit specific requirements.
▪ Persons interested in a career as a funeral director should contact their state board for specific state requirements.
▪ We are able to arrange all types of insurance, tailor-made to a client's specific requirements.
▪ The A level grades normally required are published in the Prospectus, as are fields' specific entry requirements.
▪ They have no specific food requirement and wild rabbits have no significant water intake.
▪ The company will, however, package to customers' specific requirements as regulations permit, in order to reduce delivery time.
statutory
▪ There is the concern about how the school can both maintain its own curriculum priorities and meet statutory requirements.
▪ But it is governed in some detail by statutory requirements, and so is undeniably a system of statutory regulation.
▪ Lord Morton went on to construe the statutory terms extremely narrowly as permitting challenge only if express statutory requirements were violated.
▪ The document summarises statutory requirements and policy guidance, and comments on information contained in other Firecode series documents.
▪ To meet statutory requirements in certain dangerous industries and services 6.
▪ Alternatively, if those banks subject to statutory cash requirements were short of cash, they could attract cash away from the uncontrolled institutions.
▪ It is, I think, generally felt that the youth service is already a statutory requirement under various education Acts.
▪ In those circumstances, a central statutory requirement for a training levy is absolutely necessary.
surplus
▪ First, consider a firm which has a machine which originally cost £10,000 but has recently been surplus to requirements.
▪ It was very pale and had no expression, as though expressions were surplus to requirements.
▪ An official opening of the new station is now being arranged and the old station is to be declared surplus to requirements.
▪ It may be some time yet before Mansell's services are surplus to requirements.
▪ Most housing developers believe about 30,000 of these are surplus to requirements.
▪ The social services department says the three homes are surplus to requirements.
▪ So now you have a new baby, your 15-year-old is surplus to requirements.
■ NOUN
disclosure
▪ It is with regard to these latter companies that additional disclosure requirements must be considered.
▪ Unquoted companies are not subject to such disclosure requirements and accordingly represent a greater risk.
▪ Two additional disclosure requirements are proposed.
▪ Most such respondents did not identify specific disclosure requirements that they considered excessive.
▪ There are various restrictions and disclosure requirements in relation to such dealings, and dealings may have certain effects on the offer.
▪ The Listing Particulars Directive of 1980 sought to harmonise disclosure requirements, with a view to eventual mutual recognition of listing particulars.
▪ More detailed guidance was given about what should be included under this heading, and a minimum disclosure requirement proposed.
entry
▪ Passes, sometimes at specified grades, in individual subjects usually reflect the particular entry requirements of a field.
▪ The A level grades normally required are published in the Prospectus, as are fields' specific entry requirements.
▪ There are no special entry requirements for the module.
▪ Garden Design: Anyone: there are no age limits or entry requirements.
▪ Certain courses require passes in specific subjects; details of these course entry requirements are given in the tables.
▪ However the entry requirements and the course content will be the same for all students regardless of which institution has admitted them.
▪ It seems very important that adults are made aware of entry requirements particularly when applying to science courses.
system
▪ This process should be wherever possible part of a systematic analysis of diagnostic system requirements.
▪ But they vary in terms of gameplay, interaction with the gaming environment, graphics, storyline and system requirements.
▪ They will be of limited use as evidence that system requirements are being met.
■ VERB
borrow
▪ TranSys will fund the £200m borrowing requirement and spend £150m on capital equipment over the next five years.
▪ Lower bill yields would cut the amount of debt to be retired at each auction, reducing borrowing requirements and the deficit.
▪ It has gone on reducing the fantastic levels of public sector borrowing requirement that were reached under the last Government.
▪ Then he got the public sector borrowing requirement wrong.
▪ Public sector borrowing requirement is forecast to rise from £37 billion this year to £44 billion next year.
▪ This is a percentage of the total borrowing requirement and, if you are carrying accumulated losses, can be considerably high.
▪ The increase is due partly to looser borrowing requirements.
▪ The local authority borrowing requirement fell to £1.8 billion last year from £3.4 billion, suggesting higher poll tax receipts.
comply
▪ On 21 September 1982 Mr. Dennis committed an act of bankruptcy by failing to comply with the requirements of a bankruptcy notice.
▪ All states have complied with this requirement.
▪ The court may intervene where there has been a failure to comply with express procedural requirements.
▪ Low-fat cottage cheese is prepared in the same manner as cottage cheese and must comply with all labelling requirements for cottage cheese.
▪ It is vital to comply with legal requirements before embalming.
▪ Failure to comply with this requirement is also a criminal offence.
▪ Great care must be taken in complying with the requirements for advance disclosure.
▪ Unfortunately, not many of our rivers now comply with the basic requirements of the otter.
fulfil
▪ Compensation for unfair dismissal or redundancy may be available to you if you have lost your job and fulfil the qualifying requirements.
▪ There is a short but significant list of Aegean settlements which fulfil the requirements.
▪ Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth fulfilled almost all the requirements of a criminal woman imbued with evil.
▪ If you don't then like the package, or find it doesn't fulfil one of your requirements, hard luck.
▪ It is men rather than women who have, typically, been able to fulfil these requirements.
▪ It fulfils the essential requirement of an expressive image, which is to illuminate brightly and quickly.
▪ Still, he has not fulfilled the requirements for salvation either.
▪ To fulfil operational requirements as well may lead to data being collected, validated and stored more than once.
impose
▪ Margin Rule 5-28 imposes various requirements in relation to margined contingent liability transactions.
▪ S.-#imposed requirements, most having to do with eliminating programs, cutting staff and slashing budgets.
▪ Nor does the Act impose a requirement of advance notice of meetings and assemblies.
▪ Since all variables are non-negative this imposes the requirement.
▪ Article 5 imposes the plain language requirement and the obligation to interpret ambiguities in the way most favourable to the consumer.
▪ It does not distinguish between different types of hearsay or impose any procedural requirements for its admission.
▪ After consultation with the chief officer of police, the power to impose requirements in relation to the conduct of the investigation. 3.
▪ Banks choosing to operate with a lower liquidity ratio could be prevented by the authorities imposing statutory reserve requirements on banks.
include
▪ References to a supervision requirement in the Act include references to a requirement made in substitution for an existing requirement.
▪ The new work environment includes unique learning requirements that classroom training alone can not meet.
▪ We make no charge for including your requirements in this register.
▪ The Legal Aid Board's franchising package will include requirements about practice management.
▪ A more stringent barrier includes the requirement for staff to shower on entering the unit and a complete change of clothes.
meet
▪ The timing had to be strict to meet television requirements for the finish at about 5 p.m.
▪ Settle on a connection type that will meet your transmission time requirements.
▪ A portfolio of over 30 short courses complements the longer programmes and also meets more specialist requirements.
▪ All banks need to maintain a cash ratio large enough to meet the cash requirements of their depositors.
▪ Full details of the payments made must be supplied to the Inland Revenue to meet its requirements.
▪ They demand an advanced level of quality technical sales support and the tailoring of research and technology to meet customer requirements.
reduce
▪ It was intended as a staff information bulletin, and it may be that electronic mail will reduce the requirement for it.
▪ Lower bill yields would cut the amount of debt to be retired at each auction, reducing borrowing requirements and the deficit.
▪ At the same time, the nation's rulers have reduced their requirements for particular items.
▪ One of the most important ways by which this can be achieved is by reducing our requirements.
▪ This speeds up calculations, reduces memory requirements and often lets you use narrower columns, so you can fit more on-screen.
▪ The use of a heat shield made from asteroidal materials is highly attractive because it reduces propulsion requirements.
▪ In particular, did the regime permanently change their patterning of sleep, as well as reducing their sleep requirement by over an hour?
▪ Psion also intends to implement a just-in-time strategy both at this site and at Psion Dacom to further reduce working capital requirements.
satisfy
▪ However, such restrictive exercise would not satisfy the ethological requirements of breeds such as dalmatians, dobermanns and collies.
▪ We have found that a single hidden layer node per about 50 input nodes will satisfy our requirements in imaging applications.
▪ Next year one will be able to satisfy one's requirement by visiting Disneyland, Paris.
▪ Much of what had seemed useless except for satisfying formal requirements, was now vital and important in the teaching situation.
▪ The examination is a collection of questions and individually a question goes some way to satisfying the requirements of the examination.
▪ A specification for the computer system which will satisfy the user's requirements begins to evolve.
▪ Beyond satisfying those requirements no specific grouping of subjects is stipulated.
▪ It is claimed that such systems satisfy heating requirements at a reasonable cost.
suit
▪ Investors can build a portfolio of zeros with staggered maturity dates to suit their requirements.
▪ These days there are a range of sizes, specifications and prices to suit nearly every requirement.
▪ Even to the extent of formulating new or repackaging existing products to suit specific requirements.
▪ To meet these needs we have a wide range of plans which can be adapted to suit individual means and requirements.
▪ Each Savoy bed is constructed from natural materials and can be specially made to suit individual requirements.
▪ Drawing on our knowledge of the city we can tailor make all the arrangements to suit your particular requirements.
▪ Accommodation is available on lease conditions to suit tenants' requirements and short-term lettings may be considered.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be surplus to requirements
▪ It may be some time yet before Mansell's services are surplus to requirements.
▪ It was very pale and had no expression, as though expressions were surplus to requirements.
▪ Most housing developers believe about 30,000 of these are surplus to requirements.
▪ So now you have a new baby, your 15-year-old is surplus to requirements.
▪ The social services department says the three homes are surplus to requirements.
meet a need/demand/requirement/condition etc
▪ Booksellers are in the vanguard and many of them simply can not get enough books to meet demand.
▪ But, on the theory, to ask if it is true is just to ask if it meets a need.
▪ Compaq are accelerating production in an attempt to meet demand.
▪ Education, training and skills development is another way in which the government attempts to meet demands for labour.
▪ Then it meets requirements for his powerful living.
▪ There was something fishy about the way supply met demand in an investment bank.
▪ To meet demand, Cirrus is stepping up production.
▪ Under the present system the Central Electricity Generating Board is charged with ensuring there is enough power station capacity to meet demand.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ For the second year in a row, the city's water supply has failed to meet minimum purity requirements.
▪ The average daily food requirement for an adult is between 2000 and 3000 calories.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both are now scrambling to determine exactly what their legal public-disclosure requirements are in the new bi-national arena.
▪ Each would prepare a business plan that included sales projections, budget requirements, and net profitability.
▪ Full implementation of the directive, however, would not of itself meet all the accounting requirements of credit institutions.
▪ Some applicants who meet the requirements are rejected because they write for the same market as an existing member.
▪ The fundamental requirement for incorporated practice is recognition of the company by the Council of the Law Society.
▪ There is no legal requirement for a child's evidence to be corroborated in civil proceedings.
▪ While a majority of the homes in Larchmont and Hancock Park meet that requirement, many do not, said Spaeth.