I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
allocating resources
▪ the importance of allocating resources to local communities
cash resources
▪ The organization’s cash resources are limited.
divert...resources
▪ The company should divert more resources into research.
drain on...resources
▪ The war was an enormous drain on the country’s resources.
draw on sb's resources
▪ The committee has drawn on the resources and skills of several local people.
energy resources
▪ The world’s energy resources are being used up at an alarming rate.
expend energy/effort/time/resources etc
▪ People of different ages expend different amounts of energy.
▪ Manufacturers have expended a lot of time and effort trying to improve computer security.
finite resources
▪ the Earth’s finite resources
human resources
limited resources
▪ The organization has very limited resources.
meagre resources
▪ a school with meagre resources
mineral resources
▪ a country with few mineral resources
natural resource
▪ a country with abundant natural resources
non-renewable resources
▪ All countries are being asked to cut down on their use of non-renewable resources.
pool...resources
▪ Investors agreed to pool their resources to develop the property.
redistribute income/wealth/resources etc
▪ a programme to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor
renewable resources
▪ an industry based on renewable resources
resources
▪ The government has squandered the country’s precious resources.
scarce resources
▪ There was fierce competition for the scarce resources.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
additional
▪ We have promised to provide new and additional resources to help the developing countries to tackle their environmental problems.
▪ They act as guardians of the public purse when dealing with members of spending departments who seek additional resources.
▪ Over the next 22 months, additional resources of at least £600 million will be available for investment in education.
▪ Used as an additional resource, a different dimension which adds to an otherwise laborious process, programs can be very effective.
▪ The new top-up loan provides additional resources for those groups as well as for other students.
▪ At least initially, additional resources to the cities were largely contained within the Urban Programme.
available
▪ Its being so means that more than usual demands must be made on available resources, whether human or material.
▪ One of the most widely available resources are adult-education classes run by local school districts or community colleges.
▪ It is obvious that the relatively low price of high grade primary aggregates discourages efficient use of available resources and increases wastage.
▪ They then compared total spending implications of policies against available resources and different expenditures against each other.
▪ A second reduction of available resources is due to short term problems in other company functions.
▪ To balance demand against available resources is a continuing function of health service management intra-contractually and extra-contractually.
▪ To some degree, managers do have a responsibility to control costs or rather to optimise the use of available resources.
▪ But they can also be seen as communicatively motivated, the realization of available resources to get a message across.
economic
▪ The tourist boards see these areas as economic resources where development brings money.
▪ Technologies have proliferated, economic resources have become constrained, and competition has intensified.
▪ Married women are treated as dependents by the income tax system, whatever their actual economic resources and social situation.
▪ In short, monopoly tends to cause a misallocation of economic resources.
▪ Knowledge, power and economic resources are the raw materials of social action, and they are all unequally available.
▪ Discontent grew, however, when elected black mayors found that they had few economic resources to command.
▪ More economic patterns of resource allocation will result as underlying comparative advantages are allowed to exert their full potential.
▪ As with other parental costs, parental expenditures On education arc also social costs because they absorb economic resources.
extra
▪ The choices being made by purchasers and providers will have an impact, and in some places extra resources may be required.
▪ Colonel Bill Creech fired no one, and the wing received no extra resources.
▪ You can find some extra energy or resources from somewhere.
▪ These funds are only one element of the package of extra resources for students which I mentioned a moment ago.
▪ That is the quantity of extra resources that a competitive industry would use because it has higher average and marginal costs.
▪ I am not one who believes that extra resources necessarily solve problems or necessarily smooth the way to their solution.
▪ The Committee concluded that a commitment of extra resources was needed if significant further progress was to be made.
▪ Will my hon. Friend do his best to ensure that constituents and police combine to spend the extra resources wisely?
financial
▪ All in all the Tudor monarchs made no permanent addition to the financial resources of the Crown.
▪ Usually they pool their financial resources and their business acumen.
▪ Some elderly people entering private care do so using there own financial resources.
▪ A self-employed per-son with an idea has to be very good at marshaling financial resources.
▪ There is nothing wrong with being a bit conservative and building up financial resources, and not just jumping straight in.
▪ Through the securities market, corporations can pool the financial resources of extremely large numbers of people.
▪ Without state pensions, many elderly people would be deprived of access to any substantial financial resources in their old age.
▪ You can not pay some one more money if you do not have a power base that controls financial resources.
finite
▪ This indeed has been the case ever since self-replicating molecular assemblages evolved to exploit finite resources.
▪ Plastic-producing petroleum is a finite resource.
▪ Social evolution without ecological reference is ultimately a logical impossibility in a world of finite resources.
▪ However, given finite resources, concepts of effectiveness and efficiency must be considered alongside concepts of need.
▪ The use of finite natural resources, e.g. coal, oil, must, perhaps, result in ultimate shortages.
▪ The North can argue, of course, that in a world of finite fossil fuel resources inefficiency in itself is immoral.
▪ Large amounts of undeveloped land, a finite resource, have been covered by roads and built development.
▪ The habitat of an animal population offers only finite resources for its use.
great
▪ The man had to have great financial resources and staying power to follow the Girl if she went on tour.
▪ Glastonbury Tor and Avebury Where later societies put great resources into fortification the Neolithic people built monuments.
▪ Here it was effectively a form of non-elected local government, which had access to greater resources than Glasgow District Council.
▪ Exposure to a variety of past bosses seemed a great resource for the managers.
▪ We will continue to extend City Challenge and allocate a greater proportion of resources by competitive bidding.
▪ A great resource often remained an unrealized potential for weeks or months after completion.
▪ What is needed now is far greater resources, both physical and human, in order that this ideal can be realised.
▪ Ultimately, this popular support proved to be his greatest resource.
human
▪ His intellectual approach to the management of human resources seems to have made matters worse.
▪ The vice president of human resources, Sam Smith, had brought the game with him.
▪ Several have human resources consultancies, while Eversheds recently set up a risk management consultancy.
▪ In other organizations, the chief human resources official serves as top management for the briefing.
▪ Geoff Pye is director of human resources, Forte Restaurants.
▪ We have to be visible in our support of human resource professionals as they attempt to deal with AIDS-related problems.
▪ What I had seen of Czechoslovakia was a society which encouraged a miserable waste of human resources.
▪ George, 41, brings more than 14 years of experience in human resources and as an attorney specializing in employment issues.
important
▪ This augurs well for the future and underlines the truth that music as a universal language is an important resource for ecumenism.
▪ More important, new resources were available to help meet those demands.
▪ The existence of these sets provides an important sociolinguistic resource for inner-city speakers, and their survival must surely depend on this.
▪ Water, the most obvious and important resource, was not an immediate problem.
▪ Data is a very important resource of the business.
▪ Flows become more important than resources.
▪ But substantial progress is being made and the most important resources of all, expertise and know-how, are now becoming available.
▪ However, water is the single most important resource standing between you and panic.
limited
▪ Moreover, departmental rivalries are endemic in the style of central government whereby competitive bids are made for limited financial resources.
▪ We think that power is a limited resource, and if one person has it then another one can't.
▪ This poses enormous problems for developing countries with severely limited educational resources, especially in the rural areas of those countries.
▪ Inevitably, this has brought them into competition for limited resources with the other activities of the polytechnics and colleges.
▪ This principle is warmly supported because it rightly treats the coast as a limited and special resource.
▪ The basic ecological problem of limited resources remains.
▪ The time has come for Britain to cut its military spending and begin to use its limited resources for our real needs.
▪ The second is that limited resources should not be used for this patient.
local
▪ It was therefore possible to staff the area studies program largely from local resources.
▪ Those who may need further evaluation are referred to local treatment resources.
▪ Kemira's system is called Loris, or local resource information system.
▪ Many Army garrisons have no choir and rely a good deal on local resources, especially overseas.
▪ Husbandry was so neglected the population could not feed itself from local resources.
▪ They know that there are no alternatives they can suggest because of the lack of local resources.
▪ It will draw up these plans in the light of national policies and local priorities and resources.
mineral
▪ Yet many of these countries are rich in organic and mineral resources.
▪ By all accounts, they also are rich in mineral resources.
▪ Branch lines were arranged to tap either mineral resources or new areas of settlement.
▪ On Earth, no mineral resource with such a low concentration has ever been mined for its own sake.
▪ The largest mineral resource deliberately sterilized by the process was the Windy Craggy copper property in the remote northwestern corner of B.C.
▪ The three central problems are energy, mineral resources, and food.
▪ This detailed knowledge of land formations should help geologists find mineral resources and evaluate geologic hazards such as earthquake zones.
▪ The Programme is focussed on world mineral resources, production, trade and use.
national
▪ A database also exists as a national resource of innovative practice and ideas.
▪ All pre-cious national resources are lighted this way.
▪ Clearly, national union resources on their own will not be sufficient to deal with this problem.
▪ The funding to do anything, however, must in the long run derive from national resources.
▪ There are few important national resources that are entirely exempt from economic transnational practices.
▪ To provide a national resource for the training of social researchers in specific research skills.
natural
▪ But can we really afford to take such risks with our limited space and natural resources in Britain?
▪ Those homes were determined by the location of natural resources and the possession of capital.
▪ Imperialism focused on one or two natural resources, thus creating a homogeneous agricultural proletariat, all doing the same labouring job.
▪ Modern products simply use fewer natural resources.
▪ The major sectors witnessing recovery have been the shipping and the natural resources sectors.
▪ The world is still rich with natural resources that could be reshaped by your creative mind.
▪ Not only do they consume more natural resources, they also produce more pollution.
▪ The state owns the land, the natural resources, the factories, the machines, and so on.
precious
▪ Over the next few years, we're going to have to change our attitude to this precious resource.
▪ People embody intelligence, by far the most precious resource in the universe and one in terribly short supply.
▪ On this basis, precious resources have been allocated to mass literacy campaigns all over the Third World.
▪ Smart governments know that by allowing trade, nations gently coerce their citizens to shift precious resources from low-productivity to high-productivity industries.
▪ And he called it the long-term stewardship of a precious natural resource.
▪ He was used to taking his time and not seeing every instant as a precious resource.
▪ They began to suspect that time would be one of their most precious resources.
renewable
▪ The basic challenge for sustainable agriculture is to maximise the use of locally-available and renewable resources.
▪ Trees are a renewable resource that when managed properly can sustain our needs indefinitely.
▪ Do we aggressively develop renewable resources?
▪ Paper Association, which points out that paper-producing wood is a renewable resource.
▪ The alternative is a small-scale industry, based on renewable resources - but designing this requires chemical expertise too.
▪ Today, very late, we are coming to accept the fact that the harvest of renewable resources must be controlled.
▪ Assessing those effects of global change which will be large scale and cause major modifications to both renewable and non-renewable resources.
▪ Data in essence were a free and renewable resource contributed by members of the cooperative and cooperatives like them around the world.
scarce
▪ Both countries rely on the river for scarce water resources.
▪ Capital is not the scarce resource it once was.
▪ At the same time others may, through overfunding, be absorbing an unfair amount of scarce resources. 2.
▪ Then competition for scarce resources might favourably select more complex organisms.
▪ State politics ends up as a perennial battle between squabbling regions for scarce resources.
▪ Create and focus energy and meaningful language because they are the scarcest resources during periods of change.
▪ This suggested that the fundamental problem of many working class families was one of scarce resources.
▪ But Aristotle knew just enough about economies to know that time was a scarce resource.
valuable
▪ Simply put, it consumes too many valuable resources to be practiced indefinitely.
▪ If staff are the most valuable resource in a surveying practice, then accommodation and equipment will rank second.
▪ The managers generally failed to take advantage of a potentially valuable resource, their immediate superiors.
▪ The commitment of teachers is the most valuable resource that a school can have.
▪ This strategic approach aims to optimise information and technology as valuable resources to achieve the key business objectives of the corporation.
▪ The modern service provides the busy and prosperous County in the 1990s with quality care and valuable resources.
▪ The agency is a valuable resource to meet staffing shortfalls or an unexpected increase in workload.
■ NOUN
allocation
▪ The management of resource allocation involves giving attention to all these matters and how they affect roles at different hierarchical levels.
▪ Deciding on optimal resource allocations for different research projects is a serious issue.
▪ Proposals for resource allocation according to quality of teaching as well as research endeavour are undoubtedly overdue.
▪ The first move has been in converting to a project-based resource allocation system rather than funding an overall area of activity.
▪ The final perspective upon resource allocation is by age group.
▪ The presumption is that resource allocation will be improved upon by this type of government activity.
▪ Such a pattern of resource allocation is called a Pareto optimum.
▪ We stress the evils of idleness and bad resource allocation which were relevant to efforts to increase output a century ago.
centre
▪ The number of people in the catchment area of the resource centre who now seek residential care has dropped dramatically.
▪ The Centre maintains a documentary resources centre and has recently set up a national ethnic minority statistical database.
▪ The learning resources centre serves teachers and learners alike.
▪ Also historical resource centre and family history department.
▪ The Institute offers facilities for computer-assisted learning, as well as a self-access centre, library and teachers' resource centre.
▪ There will also be an Internet resource centre for analytical scientists.
information
▪ Job seekers who lack the education to use information resources effectively are at a disadvantage.
▪ This may contribute to the organisation missing major opportunities to manage the records element of the information resource strategically.
▪ Information brokerages dispatch agents capable of information resource gathering, negotiating deals, and performing transactions.
▪ New legislation is needed that is mindful of the value of electronic information resources to future researchers.
▪ His 10-point information policy stresses free access, establishment of information resource centres and public access to data banks.
▪ Staff require access to most information resources in order to answer enquiries.
▪ Background Awareness among historians of the changing character of contemporary information resources is limited.
management
▪ Where ownership is agreed, responsibility for resource management can be supported by law, and management is generally possible.
▪ Human resource management emerged in the 1980s to compensate for these shortcomings.
▪ They waxed lyrical on the virtues of introducing business-like methods and improving resource management.
▪ This does not mean that it is simply an exercise in resource management.
▪ Schools have always been involved in issues of resource management such as the allocation of capitation allowances.
▪ The consultancy is to investigate possible applications of artificial intelligence to information resource management.
water
▪ Both countries rely on the river for scarce water resources.
▪ Several large water resource projects are currently being planned while criticism is most in evidence.
▪ Follow up geophysical work has been done at selected sites to assess what water resources are actually present.
▪ Drainage had already leached away much of the water resources of the Great Plains grain belt.
▪ A land use plan is to be produced providing guidelines for protecting water resources, developing tourism and promoting ecological agriculture.
▪ The law also gives the Army Corps of Engineers new power to protect water resources throughout the country.
▪ In 1986-88 steps were taken to rationalise the use of water resources.
▪ As populations grow, pressure will grow on water resources both from rivers and from artesian wells.
■ VERB
allocate
▪ The rankings guide Britain's four higher education funding councils in allocating resources.
▪ He is a selfish, competitive fighter who is totally calculating about how he allocates his time and resources.
▪ Are markets a good way to allocate scarce resources?
▪ Budgets are financial plans used to estimate future requirements and organize and allocate operating and capital resources effectively.
▪ In terms of funding, there's going to have to be some political decision as to how we allocate those resources.
▪ The operating system is the set of instructions that allocate resources and order tasks within a computer.
▪ In straitened times, group directors will face tough decisions about allocating resources between divisions.
▪ In short, here is a service which yields substantial benefits but for which the market would allocate no resources.
concentrate
▪ Thus, it leaves room for poor countries with well-distributed resources and rich countries with concentrated resource distributions.
▪ The desire to concentrate power and resources.
▪ Attempts to do something about the problem have to concentrate on underground resources.
▪ More often a funding agency will concentrate its resources in a few areas.
▪ The first decision was clearly whether it made sense to concentrate all our resources behind the two core businesses, without foods.
▪ For we concentrated entirely on resources internal to the individual rule-follower, on things which a solipsist could point to.
▪ This would allow dermatologists to concentrate resources on patients who need the technical support available in hospitals.
divert
▪ Local NGOs thus divert resources and personnel out of the public health services.
▪ Local economic development strategies divert attention and resources of government away from direct efforts to resolve social problems. 7.
▪ For years Dieter had diverted resources away from the army and into his own pocket.
▪ This emphasis tends to divert scarce financial resources from true development objectives.
exploit
▪ This indeed has been the case ever since self-replicating molecular assemblages evolved to exploit finite resources.
▪ But it managed to reach them, convert them, link them to its cities, and exploit their resources.
▪ What seems to have been crucial was an ability to survive cooling temperatures and, perhaps, to exploit unusual food resources.
▪ Thus, female orangutans choose to live alone in strict territories, the better to exploit their scarce food resources.
▪ Rights to exploit northern marine resources are only slightly less clear.
▪ It was obliged to exploit its own resources, spiritual as well as material.
▪ And without the right materials it is difficult to exploit the resource to the full.
▪ It is immediately apparent from this matrix that most of our information resources lack efficient means for exploiting those resources.
limit
▪ It is perfectly obvious that the choices made by creative social actors are limited by the practical resources available to them.
▪ CO2 is the accepted limiting resource for the biosphere.
▪ Licensed dealers trade on a scale that is only limited by their own resources.
▪ They had too much work to do in too little time with imperfect information and limited resources.
▪ The programs are simply too expensive, too specialized for their demands to be met from limited resources.
▪ We learned too how limited the managers resources were for adjusting to their work.
▪ Did the residents of different villages cooperate or compete for limited resources?
▪ Education received what stimulus limited resources would allow, particularly primary education in the departments.
need
▪ It would need management resources, and some members would have to reduce their commitment to general medical services.
▪ Economic costs are the payments which must be made to secure and retain the needed amounts of these resources.
▪ Energy, imagination and enthusiasm will be needed to bring under-used resources back into action either for school or community use.
▪ The police need both resources and practices.
▪ Some capital projects obviously need current resources to run them.
▪ We need resources to pay those six players.
▪ A campaigning approach is needed to seek better resources and develop greater understanding.
▪ In what order do we need these resources, and how much do we need?
pool
▪ Furthermore, if one of the females becomes too dominant they can pool their male resources to put her in her place.
▪ Usually they pool their financial resources and their business acumen.
▪ The obligation to pool and share resources with one's kin would be felt differently by women and men.
▪ Many companies are pooling their resources and talents through alliances and mergers with other companies to make the electronic marketplace a reality.
▪ We pooled our knowledge and resources and formed our own company.
▪ Through the securities market, corporations can pool the financial resources of extremely large numbers of people.
▪ It is even cheaper to pool your resources with four or five other bands and put together a composite album.
▪ Like pooling our resources and that.
provide
▪ We have promised to provide new and additional resources to help the developing countries to tackle their environmental problems.
▪ The belt provides vast material resources, vast amounts of solar power, and vast elbow room.
▪ The existence of these sets provides an important sociolinguistic resource for inner-city speakers, and their survival must surely depend on this.
▪ By providing them with resources, we can help our fathers be both better dads and better employees.
▪ Where the Government propose alternatives to custody, they must provide the resources to make them work.
▪ That alone will provide the resources that are essential if we are to build a steadily more prosperous society.
▪ This booklet goes some way to providing a resource.
▪ The vertical columns of Table 10.2 represent the department providing the resources and the horizontal rows the projects and activities using them.
use
▪ The host software interfaces with the native Unix spooler to allow the workstation to use its own printing resources.
▪ It involves wondering how to use hard-won resources to achieve something meaningful.
▪ Genomecenter officials investigated, and found that Hughes was using government resources to perform genetic studies on test-tube embryos.
▪ The therapeutic response must be tailored to these needs if we are economically and effectively to use our resources.
▪ Mobilized groups use their political resources to affect the decision.
▪ While this might have been expected, neither did it explore alternative ways of allowing mineworkers to use its educational resources.
▪ Modern products simply use fewer natural resources.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ important educational resources
▪ The police used every available resource to track down the killer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But each country will have to look at its own resources and solutions.
▪ Capital is not the scarce resource it once was.
▪ Making insurance compulsory would - they say - not only free Health Service resources, but guarantee freedom of choice.
▪ Our people are clearly our key resource.
▪ Perhaps purchasers or providers elsewhere would not be prepared to devote the necessary resources to involving service users in this way.
▪ The Coconino, at least, has discovered that the public constitutes one of its best enforcement resources.
▪ Try any one of the resources suggested in these chapters.
▪ Why don't we develop a resources network among our graduates?
II.verbEXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A major focus was the problem of how to resource a strategy for new local services.
▪ London needs the current establishments of beds, and needs to be able to resource them fully.
▪ No one person or department can resource the company's marketing effort.
▪ Secondly, the opportunity exists to reassess the rational or political approaches to resource management practice.
▪ The answer lies in the inadequacy of current training provision to resource these imminent training requirements.
▪ What moral principles are relevant to resource allocation in the context of the technological imperative?