I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bus service (=a service that provides regular buses)
▪ It's a small village but there is a good bus service.
a church service (=a religious ceremony in a church)
▪ There’s a church service at 10:30 every Sunday morning.
a coach service
▪ Our express coach service goes to the South of France and Costa Brava.
a commuter service
▪ More money is needed to improve commuter services in the region.
a comprehensive service
▪ Our professional staff provide a comprehensive service.
a delivery service
▪ We try to maintain a high standard of delivery service to our customers.
a prayer service (=church service at which people pray)
a rail service
▪ People want a safe, reliable rail service.
a service charge (=for service in a hotel, restaurant etc)
▪ The restaurant’s prices include a 10% service charge.
a service economy (=one that is based mainly on selling services such as insurance or tourism)
▪ Britain has shifted from a manufacturing to a service economy.
a service industry (=businesses that provide a service, such as banking and tourism)
▪ Most of the new jobs are in service industries.
a taxi service
▪ We operate a taxi service to and from the airport.
active service
▪ Powell was declared unfit for active service.
ambulance service
▪ the ambulance service
an advice centre/service/desk/bureau
▪ They offer a 24-hour advice service to customers.
an efficient service
▪ We aim to provide our clients with an efficient and friendly service.
an Internet service provider (=a company that allows you to connect to the Internet)
▪ Your Internet service provider should be able to solve the problem.
application service provider
basic services
▪ They lack basic services such as water and electricity.
care services/facilities
▪ How much money is spent on health care services?
catering business/service etc
civil service
community service
community services (=providing schools, health facilities, roads etc)
▪ Some tax goes towards paying for your community services.
customer service/care (=serving and looking after customers)
▪ Our aim is always to raise the level of customer service.
customer services
▪ You should call customer services and complain.
day care centre/services/facilities
▪ subsidized day care facilities
denial of service attack
dinner service
Diplomatic Service
dispense with sb’s services (=no longer employ someone)
do military service
▪ More and more men are refusing to do military service.
domestic serviceformal (= the work of a servant in a large house)
▪ She went into domestic service at the age of 15.
domestic service
emergency services
enlist sb’s help/services etc
▪ He has enlisted the help of a sports psychologist for the team.
essential services (=organizations such as the police or the fire or health service)
▪ The law prohibits workers in essential services from striking.
faithful service
▪ years of faithful service to the company
Financial Services Authority, the
fire service
for services rendered (=for something you have done)
▪ a bill of $3200 for services rendered
funeral service
▪ the minister who conducted the funeral service
goods and services
▪ The company provides a range of specialized goods and services.
health service
▪ reforms to the health service
inferior service
▪ He wrote a letter to complain about inferior service at the hotel.
intelligence agencies/services etc
▪ In Britain there are three main intelligence organizations.
Internal Revenue Service
jury service (=when you have to spend time on a jury)
▪ He has been called for jury service in July.
jury service
library services
▪ Public library services are threatened by budget cuts.
lifeboat crew/station/service
lip service
▪ organizations that pay lip service to career development
loyal service
▪ her many years of loyal service to the company
memorial service/ceremony
▪ A memorial service will be held at 7 pm on Saturday.
military service
▪ More and more men are refusing to do military service.
military/service personnel
▪ There have been attacks upon US military personnel.
National Health Service, the
national service
offer...services
▪ A number of groups offer their services free of charge.
outreach program/service/center etc
▪ outreach centers for drug addicts
perform a service
▪ Our troops are performing a remarkable service and a terribly important mission.
Police Service of Northern Ireland, the
postal service
▪ the U.S. postal service
provides...service
▪ The hotel provides a shoe-cleaning service for guests.
public service
▪ efforts to improve quality in public services
rental contract/scheme/service etc
▪ Could you sign the rental agreement?
room service
scheduled flight/service (=a plane service that flies at the same time every day or every week)
▪ Prices include scheduled flights from Heathrow.
secret service
security service
service a debt (=pay the interest on a debt, but not pay it back)
▪ By then, she was borrowing more money just to service her debts.
service area
service charge
▪ There’s a service charge for advance tickets.
service club
service industry
service occupations (=a job in which you provide a service rather than producing goods)
▪ Around two thirds of the labour force is employed in service occupations.
service station
service/maintenance engineer
shoddy goods/service/workmanship etc
▪ We’re not paying good money for shoddy goods.
shuttle service
▪ There’s a shuttle service from the city center to the airport.
social service
▪ Contact social services for help.
tea service
the education service (=all the government organizations that work together to provide education)
▪ There are plans to expand the adult education service.
the security services/forces (=the police, army etc)
▪ Clashes with the security forces continued.
the service sector (=the part of the economy to do with providing services, such as banking or tourism)
▪ The proportion of service sector jobs within the economy has grown.
the wedding service (=the ceremony in a church)
▪ It was a beautiful wedding service.
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
voluntary work/service
▪ He does voluntary work with young offenders.
volunteered...services
▪ I volunteered my services as a driver.
welfare benefits/services/programmes etc
▪ the provision of education and welfare services
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
active
▪ In his early years John the younger saw active service abroad.
▪ He had broken his leg some time before and so had been unfit for active service till then.
▪ In 1914 Powell was declared unfit for active service, but joined the Admiralty in 1916.
▪ It was rather like being in the army on active service.
▪ Bush is one of the last western leaders to have seen active service.
▪ The Provisionals said that one of their active service units had placed the devices, causing damage to prime commercial property.
▪ We accepted this as just one of the hazards of being on active service.
▪ Grey, thinning hair and a tired face betray years of active service.
civil
▪ They thought a redesigned legal system might constrain the civil service and protect their economic interests.
▪ They possess a modern civil service of proved ability and critical acumen, at least at the higher levels.
▪ The terms of employment, which are still linked to the civil service, are to be changed.
▪ They have to hire most employees from lists of those who have taken written civil service exams.
▪ She was on her certain way into the civil service from the beginning.
▪ Those who have worked in the legal civil service report that it is much more interesting than appears at first sight.
▪ In the civil service merit pay has been extended to cover all grades from April 1990.
▪ In 1992 structural reforms to limit spending would include reform of the civil service.
domestic
▪ Leapor's poetry on domestic service is part of a wide range of eighteenth century writings concerned with this type of work.
▪ They glimpsed each other across grocery counters and in the forced intimacy of domestic service now gone out of style.
▪ Thus domestic service must be seen as a type of economic relationship operating in all levels of society.
▪ They know it when their older loved ones die sooner because of having led harsh lives in domestic service or manual labor.
▪ Olwen Hufton observes that outside domestic service single working women had difficulty surviving on their wages.
▪ Leapor, then, experienced domestic service not only as a servant but as a mistress.
▪ In 1881 as many as one in three girls aged between fifteen and twenty had entered domestic service.
▪ It was her natural defence after her early years of domestic service.
essential
▪ Public policy should redistribute income and subsidise, if not deliver directly, essential services such as education and health.
▪ Government finances are strained to the hilt dealing with essential services.
▪ Whitehall officials have encountered difficulties in deciding which essential services to include.
▪ There has been harsh rhetoric against documented and undocumented immigrants, as well as attempts to deprive them of essential human services.
▪ Gas is a desirable but not essential service.
▪ Disaster-relief loans like those following the Northridge Earthquake are still being made because they are considered essential services.
▪ What essential services have to be provided and what essential investments have to be made?
financial
▪ The banks operate the system of payment by cheques and offer a wide range of financial services to their customers.
▪ Co. for $ 2. 72 billion, putting an end to its money-losing foray into financial services.
▪ Executive salaries in financial services and the communications industry were 18 percent above average.
▪ Research and development and financial services are two further areas where progress is still slow.
▪ The group, based in Woking, Surrey, will be left with financial services and transport businesses.
▪ Their business now is to provide banking and financial services to the corporate as opposed to personal sectors.
▪ The plan aimed to upgrade existing industries and to attract a number of new ones, such as financial services.
▪ It contributes £11,000 million net to our balance of payments. Financial services employ 12 percent of our workforce.
local
▪ Therefore Kirknewton is not badly served by local bus services in comparison with Ratho.
▪ The regulation worked out so that the company provided local service at prices that failed to cover more than direct operating costs.
▪ Parents denied local authority services may seek advice on their legal position.
▪ Other for-sale-by-owner Internet firms only provided local service, he said.
▪ This answers Tory demands that the tax should be related to the amount that a household uses local services.
▪ The trio have clocked up more than 100 years of local authority service between them.
▪ First, the Social Services Inspectorate is concerned with quality standards in services provided or contracted by local authority social services departments.
memorial
▪ A memorial service will be held today at Hensall parish church, two miles from Great Heck.
▪ Nothing was going to stop Ramsey attending the memorial service for a close friend, whether it was legal or illegal.
▪ Together with the family, directors establish the location, dates, and times of wakes, memorial services, and burials.
▪ You could tell by who was at his memorial service, from the publishing executive to the receptionist from 10 years ago.
military
▪ The alacrity with which northerners enlisted for military service whenever warfare flared up on the Border speaks for itself.
▪ The United States further reserves to these provisions with respect to individuals who volunteer for military service prior to age 18.
▪ I was seventeen, and most of the other students in my year had done military service and were a lot older.
▪ Franken also avoided military service with student deferments while at Harvard and, ultimately, a high lottery number.
▪ Armed forces: No standing army since 1868; citizens under 60 liable to military service in emergency.
▪ They will consider introducing exemptions from or alternatives to military service. 29.
▪ The military services themselves have adapted remarkably well and are not less respected for it.
national
▪ On 31 March 1987 there were 942 practices in the national health service which used a computer.
▪ No longer was it enough to write a program that connected reliably with local computer bulletin boards or even national on-line services.
▪ Has not the experiment proved a disaster for vast numbers of national health service patients?
▪ Improved access to information about services at both local and national services.
▪ Information gathered by the national criminal intelligence service reveals a growing use of crack cocaine in the Shire counties.
▪ If that is true, those figures bring little consolation to the national health service as a whole.
▪ Our congratulations should go out from the House to the national health service for what it is achieving.
personal
▪ Health and personal social services expenditure trends are harder to interpret.
▪ The two most obvious and irksome are subjection to satraps and extortion of tribute, including personal military service.
▪ Management is a very personal service.
▪ These people work mainly in the new, rapidly growing, employment sectors such as personal services, advertising and the media.
▪ Restaurants, household and other personal services and less elegant public employments are all their conceded domain.
▪ The dismantling of the personal social services would also open the way for commercial providers.
▪ The Weather Communications Aviation Service starts at just £100 per year for a personal telephone service.
postal
▪ Rules should be made permitting access to postal services on the same basis by all users meeting the same conditions.
▪ Except when a hurricane hits, life in this part of Mississippi is as regular as the postal service.
▪ Or you may like to take advantage of our bathroom postal planning service, also £60.
▪ The Crown relied on the postal service for such notices.
▪ The Ego was designed as a mere postal service which delivers messages to our conscious mind.
▪ Internal printing and postal services were reviewed during the year and a reduction from four to three staff was made.
▪ There will be two direct channels - a fast-answer telephone service for sophisticated customers and a postal service for the less sophisticated.
public
▪ The aura of compulsion in the public child care services has been extensively analysed in recent years.
▪ Administrators must constantly interpret and apply public policies that provide public goods and services to individuals and groups. 4.
▪ In the new liberal framework, however, both system redundancy and public service culture are inexorably fading.
▪ People from public health services tried to dissuade him, citing bad epidemiology and a waste of important supplies.
▪ The private sector service industries make only a small contribution while the public services make none.
▪ Its increase measures the increase in national wealth. Public services, by comparison, are an incubus.
▪ I want to restore pride in our public services.
▪ They're all well aware of it in the public services, only they call it going through channels.
secret
▪ That is the means by which we control the operations of our secret services.
▪ Even when secret services are grossly incompetent they get away with it.
▪ This is usually regarded as the most sensitive aspect of secret service work.
▪ I fired one frame and the secret service guy put his hand up.
▪ Pacepa was not the first defector from the world of Soviet bloc secret services to make such a claim.
▪ He also kept a keen eye on MI9, the secret escape service.
social
▪ Further information: local Age Concern group; social services department.
▪ It would bar benefit payments and other social services to most noncitizens and legal immigrants.
▪ But they provided a vital social service and their closure was a disastrous token of things to come.
▪ Variations in joint commissioning practice between social services and health services will have to be piloted and monitored carefully.
▪ In particular it requires a more flexible approach to taxation, and the operation of the social services.
▪ There are some good arguments for tax payers' money being channelled to social service providers that are not statutory bodies.
▪ Travellers' contact with social work services frequently resulted in the loss of children into care and an alien culture.
▪ All local authority social services departments offer different kinds of help and support.
■ NOUN
ambulance
▪ An ambulance service spokesman blamed the icy driving conditions.
▪ An ambulance service volunteered its equipment to transport a severely crippled man home for weekends.
▪ An air ambulance service looks set to be scrapped tomorrow.
▪ It is for the chief ambulance officer of each area ambulance service to decide how best to match those standards.
▪ The troops will join the police, who were reluctantly involved yesterday after the London ambulance service said it could not cope.
▪ This is often more comfortable for the patient and relieves the ambulance service.
▪ He said the order, set up in 1099 as a religious order, was much more than just the ambulance service.
area
▪ Voice over Oxfordshire County Council wants service areas included in motorways right from the planning stage.
▪ Echo Sten-Tel's primary service area includes North Dakota and Minnesota.
▪ In the motorway service areas, Trusthouse Forte alone have invested over £80 million since they were allowed to purchase their leases.
▪ Southwestern Cable is providing free access to its high-speed Roadrunner Internet service in 14 public libraries within its service area.
▪ There were already signs that told the motorist he was approaching, say, the Newport Pagnell or Watford Gap service areas.
▪ He kept his eye on a tan Ford turning slowly into the station and coming to a stop near the service area.
▪ When the lift doors opened she stepped quickly out into the wide service area, and began to run towards the door.
▪ When it comes to naming New Jersey Turnpike service areas, being white is definitely the No. 1 qualification.
care
▪ During 1992-95 we will: Develop and publish free, easy-to-read information about community care services.
▪ The aura of compulsion in the public child care services has been extensively analysed in recent years.
▪ Local authorities will produce and public clear plans for the development of community care services in their areas.
▪ It briefly outlines activities such as helplines, respite care services and consultation on community care proposals.
▪ We are entering a period of deterioration in health care services.
▪ A statutory duty on local councils to provide integrated child care services for the under-fives.
▪ Good community care services work best where skilled professionals work comfortably hand-in-hand with unskilled staff, families, neighbours and voluntary organizations.
▪ But it had a profound effect on the child care service of the time.
charge
▪ Local Taxes and normal service charges.
▪ Is there a service charge on top of the labor charge?
▪ The service charge may be in dispute or there may be an inadvertent omission to pay on the part of the tenant.
▪ The rate also includes full breakfast daily, hotel service charges and taxes but not airfare.
▪ In addition some clubs levy a service charge for infants payable in resort.
▪ One of the purposes of health service charges is to transfer a proportion of the cost of treatment to the patient.
▪ And if they didn't, the bill would probably still be lower than the price of the service charge.
▪ The unions were opposed to proposals for increases in health service charges and restrictions on wage rises for public servants.
community
▪ At the same time, substantial numbers of mentally handicapped and mentally ill persons were receiving some attention from the community services.
▪ A misleading assumption is that only lesser will be drawn into community service.
▪ The community service that is most interesting is by those who indeed are intellectually productive.
▪ He was banned from driving for 6 months and ordered to do 200 hours of community service.
▪ Many actually work in community service projects, which most journalists only write about.
▪ Perhaps local authorities should thankfully accept this solution and turn their attention to the needs of non-dementing elderly residents and community services.
▪ The offer included a $ 250 fine, community service and domestic violence counseling.
customer
▪ A high level of customer service also tends to greatly increase distribution costs.
▪ Hall has said Kmart will focus on improving the look of its stores, customer service and the efficiency of its operations.
▪ They understood statistical process control, total quality customer service, reengineering, and the economics and finance of film manufacturing.
▪ Opinions are sought at all levels and team-work training enhances management skills and customer service.
▪ So would a series of short-term customer service improvement projects aimed at providing positive experiences with change.
▪ They are very data conscious now and more wired into productivity, quality, the importance of training, and customer service.
emergency
▪ Under the scheme, only vehicles carrying invalids or supporting the emergency services would be allowed into the centre.
▪ National Park Service phone lines were jammed with calls throughout the night, affecting emergency service, a park statement said.
▪ The hon. Gentleman will recognise that many people work on Sundays to deliver our emergency services.
▪ The frantic driver was able to get out of his car and call emergency services on his mobile phone.
▪ The emergency services say it could cut vital minutes from the time it takes to respond to a call.
▪ The subsequent call to emergency services reported a decapitation.
▪ The incident was one of dozens which emergency services had to deal with across Merseyside on Bonfire Night.
▪ The city also would get half of any profit made on the emergency service.
health
▪ Maybe all that stuff about cuts in the health service wasn't true.
▪ I wonder what the Labour party would cut elsewhere in the health service to make up for that loss of revenue.
▪ First, health service managers must be able to price their services reasonably accurately for trading purposes.
▪ The community health services then came to be financed wholly by central government.
▪ Family health services authorities should have already identified a lead officer for research and development.
▪ Whatever the position three months earlier, our original offer to the health service could no longer stand.
▪ Of the 1m females in the health service in 1970, for example, just over 40 percent were part-time workers.
▪ Cochrane's criticism of the impact of health care has had a lasting influence and is often used to undermine health services.
industry
▪ Products offered by service industries include hospital care, dental treatment, holiday arrangements and accountancy services, for example. 5.
▪ Several legislators have urged the government to suspend the controversial value-added tax that was extended to cover service industries.
▪ You can't afford the service industries unless you've got a good manufacturing base.
▪ The growing importance of the service industry is especially apparent in a place like Miami.
▪ According to the report, 45 percent of Hispanic firms were concentrated in the service industry.
▪ You can be sole trader, in a partnership or limited company, in the manufacturing, retailing or service industries.
▪ In 1988 slightly more than 82 percent of employed women worked in service industries as compared with 57.5 percent of employed men.
information
▪ Consumer information services are a new type of catalog business.
▪ Next in line was information services with 6.4% median turnover growth and 12.3% pre-tax growth.
▪ These channels act as on-ramps to the Internet or other on-line information services.
▪ To be very hard-nosed there is also a vested interest in running an efficient information service for a band.
▪ This meant that companies could set up their own on-line information services without having to use the Interchange network.
▪ Is our information service adequate to cope?
▪ The three concerns will focus on high-growth information markets, financial information services and consumer-product market research.
intelligence
▪ As taxpayers we are entitled to know why intelligence services failed to spot signs of an end to the Cold War.
▪ At one point U.S. military and intelligence services had 17 spy planes over Escobar's home city of Medellin.
▪ He was the kind of material Stalin's Intelligence services needed in the Cold War.
▪ In addition there were comprehensive links between the two intelligence services.
▪ She'd been in the business long enough not to be surprised by anything the intelligence services got up to.
▪ Information gathered by the national criminal intelligence service reveals a growing use of crack cocaine in the Shire counties.
▪ Life in the intelligence services, by a former M16 officer.
▪ The Foreign Office, Ministry of Defence and intelligence services were resolute in their opposition to relaxation of the security rules.
lip
▪ Politicians pay lip service to crime.
▪ It pays lip service to local choices but provides no specific means to make them more rational and efficient.
▪ Local authorities are expected to pay more than lip service to this requirement.
▪ Little has really changed despite lip service paid to the democratic process.
▪ Are we delicate mistletoe, paying lip service to the green theme, or full-blown Lincoln green?
▪ The professors all pay lip service to welcoming every point of view, but most really do not.
▪ This is in spite of the lip service paid to the proud independence of the States.
▪ It has been a problem, despite all the lip service given it over the years.
provider
▪ There should also be rules to meet the needs of other service providers.
▪ The second group of existing language skills I would like to address is that of the service providers.
▪ What more would local leaders and social service providers like to see done to reduce the ominous numbers?
▪ Currently highways authorities and main services providers are allowed to cause chaos by digging up roads whenever and wherever they wish.
▪ You may instead be using software from an Internet service provider or from the company that bundled software with your computer.
▪ And then it grew, and traders and service providers thought it worthwhile to settle here and go into business.
▪ All service providers require you to buy the local loop segment from your facility to their closest PoP.
rail
▪ Flooding disrupted rail services in three areas of Devon and Cornwall where flood warnings were issued on 33 rivers.
▪ I recently travelled on the Kent rail service and visited my hon. Friend's constituency with him.
▪ A manual of advice on how best to forecast the demand for new rail services of various types will then be prepared.
▪ We will sell certain rail services and franchise others.
▪ Public transport is poor - with buses only adequate for local use - and there is no rail service.
room
▪ And, of course, gave a whole new resonance to the phrase room service.
▪ Third Message: Hi, listen we got your complaint about the room service.
▪ It does not include travel insurance, wine and drinks with meals and room service.
▪ They take Missy on walks through cities and wilderness areas and have learned to forgo restaurant meals for picnics and room service.
▪ The action takes place over one disastrous weekend full of rain, fights and missing room service.
▪ We decided that she would take one weekend off at a hotel where they had room service.
▪ Sitting on my unused bed, swigging room service orange juice, I switch on the Rosenbloom show.
▪ My room service breakfast practically leaped through the door.
sector
▪ Since that date the number of jobs in the service sector has risen by over three million.
▪ They surveyed 1, 598 organizations in 40 different industries about evenly split between manufacturing and the service sector.
▪ These are not new jobs as such, but rather jobs that have been reclassified as service sector jobs.
▪ Huge growth in the service sector is largely dependent on people and not machines.
▪ He estimates that for every one manufacturing job there are up to four service sector jobs dependent on it.
▪ Real income growth is rising, but the number of high-paying jobs is shrinking with expansion of the service sector.
▪ The service sector - the financial sector which produces nothing - needs inflation.
▪ Expansion in the service sector has been considerably smaller than the decline in manufacturing.
security
▪ In Northern Ireland, the police, in common with the other security services, are controlled directly by central government.
▪ Security September 1990: Leaders of Communist international security service put on trial.
▪ The revelations will deeply embarrass the security services and lead to further accusations of incompetence as yet another operative tells his story.
▪ The city council estimates that the conference will bring an £11 million bonanza for hotels, restaurants, shops and security services.
station
▪ Two hours later and ravenous, we settled for egg and chips at a motorway service station.
▪ To help pay the bills, I worked every night until eleven at a Sinclair service station on Main Street.
▪ Well, if you stop to fill up at a motorway service station your dreams could come true.
▪ Today, the town has a service station, convenience store, barber shop and a few smaller service businesses.
▪ So it will be some time before he can turn his full attention to his hobby-horse Britain's motorway service station crisis.
▪ Johnson was reading a local newspaper he had bought at the Frankenwald service station when his phone trilled discreetly.
▪ She pulled in at a motorway service station and decided on lunch.
▪ However, most people would welcome a greater availability of motorway service stations.
welfare
▪ These groups can also have different experiences of authority and welfare services.
▪ The object of this research is to examine the structure of public opinion about state and private welfare services.
▪ He advocates ways of limiting men's role in child welfare services, and says men should practice nurturing each other.
▪ It became an impersonal, distant, uncaring, social and welfare service.
▪ C., a proposal in Congress would end federal financing for health and welfare services for legal immigrants.
▪ We aim to provide and extend a welfare service and raise many thousands of pounds annually to sponsor medical research.
▪ However, the most striking developments in welfare services have been on the delivery side rather than the personal counselling aspect.
▪ The development of welfare services in Northern Ireland.
■ VERB
improve
▪ And the aim was to improve services for people in the town.
▪ He is enticing insurance companies to improve their level of service to urban areas.
▪ They rake through customer complaints for ideas for improving their products or service.
▪ Short-term projects to improve customer service might buck up the conviction of those managers.
▪ While regrettable, this will enable us to maintain the collections and improve the level of service that we currently offer.
▪ Since it began its pay-for-service test about two years ago, the bureau has improved its service, he said.
▪ Their support is based on a belief that the left governments have clean hands and have improved municipal services.
▪ The rise in imports reflects the efforts of foreign companies to expand sales networks and improve service here.
offer
▪ The future was in offering services over the Internet, he added.
▪ The aftercare program offers medical and psychosocial services to homeless youths.
▪ Solicitors willing to offer either of these services are indicated in the Solicitors Regional Directory.
▪ They prevent problems before they emerge, rather than simply offering services afterward.
▪ Many of them offer wide-ranging services.
▪ After Friday, the Postal Service will no longer offer packing services at its post offices.
▪ More than 120 stockbrokers in Britain offer share-dealing services to private investors.
▪ Providers can offer this service with both dial-up pools and private lines.
pay
▪ Society pays noisy lip service to monogamy but, in reality, encourages affairs.
▪ What amount is the consumer willing to pay for these services?
▪ You're paying for the service, and I provide it.
▪ You own the phone, as you can in your own house, but you must pay for the service.
▪ These councillors were not paid for their services and paid their own expenses.
▪ It pays for these services with oligopolistic profits.
▪ Of course, this simplest first step opens whole new avenues to explore about how we pay for services.
▪ Take greater advantage of federal money that pays for many services.
provide
▪ There are also many organisations who provide a variety of services to people with HIV/AIDS.
▪ There are specialist firms who will provide this service.
▪ Over the years, they built a network of local dealerships and warehouses to sell equipment and provide service and repairs.
▪ All these departments provide a support service to the Group in their specialised fields.
▪ Nielsen Media Research, provides information services for broadcasters; and Gartner Group, provides advisory services in the technology sector.
▪ Nevertheless, Southwark will provide services based on clear and publicly available eligibility criteria.
▪ Instead, the city should be preparing to bid on the contracts to provide services to the new communities.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
domiciliary services/care/visits etc
▪ Developments in day care, the home help service and other domiciliary services were the currency of growth in these departments.
▪ Hence domiciliary visits by medical staff are an integral part of any specialist service.
▪ It supplements care by kin, but families continue to provide the bulk of domiciliary care.
▪ Last year only voluntary Welfare Officer alone, made over 102 domiciliary visits.
▪ Nevertheless, companies trading in domiciliary care are now beginning to multiply - some from a base in the residential sector.
▪ One of the principal domiciliary services is that of home helps.
▪ Success typically gives access to one existing service, such as domiciliary care, and rejects another, such as residential care.
▪ Traditionally the burden of long-term domiciliary care has fallen on women.
pay lip service to sb/sth
▪ It pays lip service to local choices but provides no specific means to make them more rational and efficient.
▪ Politicians pay lip service to crime.
▪ Previous governments have paid lip service to the idea but achieved little.
▪ The conventional methodology tends to pay lip service to user involvement.
▪ The professors all pay lip service to welcoming every point of view, but most really do not.
▪ They pay lip service to equality but they don't want to have to do anything committed about it.
▪ Though everybody pays lip service to performance, politics is often the ultimate arbiter of their fate.
▪ We need to stop paying lip service to them.
premium rate number/line/service
▪ Because of the high cost of providing and gathering this information, Climbline would not exist were it not a premium rate service.
▪ Choice has not been considered in premium rate services.
▪ That is certainly true in the context of telecommunications and, more specifically, in premium rate services.
press sb/sth into service
▪ Cut it down, dye it red and press it into service for that next dinner dance?
▪ Eric, at the time a budding saxophonist, press ganged Melanie into service as a singer in his band Adventure.
▪ It presses new mutations into service as they arise and is just as ready to make do with what is already around.
▪ The penguin presses the pants into service for a dastardly diamond heist.
skeleton staff/crew/service etc
▪ A skeleton staff was on duty to keep the world-wide operations of Royalbion ticking over.
▪ The skeleton staff were no match for Massenga and his team of ex-Security policemen.
▪ The Automobile Association skeleton staff trio will be huddled in front of their personal computer screens relaying road conditions to drivers.
▪ The doc pointed out how appropriate it was to have a Skull in a skeleton crew.
▪ The Republicans and Democrats tick over with a skeleton staff and then hire specialist consultants for each campaign.
▪ There was only a skeleton staff on duty and no one took much notice of him.
▪ Various versions were filmed on closed sets with skeleton crews and strict security.
▪ Without you ghost ferries would cross the Mersey manned by skeleton crews.
social services
the Diplomatic Service
the civil service
the secret service
voluntary work/service etc
▪ A larger number still provide a wide range of formal and informal voluntary services.
▪ A recent Gallup poll found that 98m adults are involved in voluntary service, a 23% increase in two years.
▪ An alternative to clubs and classes is voluntary work.
▪ But people without a job who have found fulfilling voluntary work or an absorbing hobby also score highly.
▪ Morley took up her evenings but daytime was given to voluntary work.
▪ Several had written books and articles and others were involved in voluntary work.
▪ Use the expertise and facilities of your local authorities and voluntary services for practical help, advice and social activities.
▪ We have a great tradition of voluntary services and charitable giving.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A private car service is available from the airport.
▪ Any major problems with the car should be picked up at the 5,000 mile service.
▪ Electrical service was cut off from up to five hours in some parts of the country yesterday.
▪ I'm looking for information on family planning services.
▪ I just subscribed to a new e-mail service.
▪ I thought the service in the pizza place was very good.
▪ My car's due for service - I'll book it into a garage next week.
▪ The business, if properly regulated, performs a useful service for lottery winners.
▪ the foreign service
▪ The priest who performed the marriage service is a friend of the family.
▪ the U.S. customs service
▪ There were usually most people at the evening service.
▪ We always go to the service on Sunday morning.
▪ We got incredibly good service at that French restaurant.
▪ We knew the should would never survive if we didn't provide a good service from the minute we opened the doors.
▪ We recommend an annual service for all central heating boilers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It's growing out of sync with the rest of service provision and service development, and this has all sorts of spin-offs.
▪ It is important to note that we have greatly increased the number of professionals providing services on a wide range of fronts.
▪ Nevertheless, the share of national income going to government spending on goods and services is now falling.
▪ Social services departments were strongly criticized in the 1980s for not taking more effective action to protect children at risk.
▪ The service starts at 11.00 a.m.
▪ The other sources of free Web space are the many providers of free email services.
▪ Though it offers more sites and possibilities than any on-line service, it can be confusing, and the quality uneven.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
▪ Eddie did the shopping, tended the garden, mended the taps and the fuses, and serviced the family car.
▪ Labels are required to prevent cross-contamination by an auto repair shop that services the car at a later date.
▪ We used to service good cars in the old days.
cost
▪ As real interest rates rose, so did the cost of servicing the government's debt.
▪ Moreover once there are separate national currencies, there are costs of servicing the foreign exchange market.
▪ The cost of servicing these liabilities would soar if the peso were devalued.
▪ Soaring inflation meanwhile reduced the real cost of servicing a mortgage.
▪ Interest rates will also affect net worth through influencing the cost of servicing existing debts.
debt
▪ The initial acquisition of the house sucked most people into debt, often more debt than they could service.
loan
▪ Banks' need for capital is greatest when economies are in recession and borrowers can not service their loans.
▪ A lawyer representing the company currently servicing the loan denies Aikens' assertions.
▪ Yet still his outgoings, swollen by servicing the loans, were not covered in their entirety.
need
▪ Every Partnership developing a Compact will design a management structure servicing its particular needs.
▪ My adrenalin surge could service the needs of West Texas for a week.
▪ By keeping close to customers, we are better able to service their needs and we can keep ahead of industry trends.
▪ The union's slogan informs you that it is concerned with servicing the needs of today's musicians.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
domiciliary services/care/visits etc
▪ Developments in day care, the home help service and other domiciliary services were the currency of growth in these departments.
▪ Hence domiciliary visits by medical staff are an integral part of any specialist service.
▪ It supplements care by kin, but families continue to provide the bulk of domiciliary care.
▪ Last year only voluntary Welfare Officer alone, made over 102 domiciliary visits.
▪ Nevertheless, companies trading in domiciliary care are now beginning to multiply - some from a base in the residential sector.
▪ One of the principal domiciliary services is that of home helps.
▪ Success typically gives access to one existing service, such as domiciliary care, and rejects another, such as residential care.
▪ Traditionally the burden of long-term domiciliary care has fallen on women.
pay lip service to sb/sth
▪ It pays lip service to local choices but provides no specific means to make them more rational and efficient.
▪ Politicians pay lip service to crime.
▪ Previous governments have paid lip service to the idea but achieved little.
▪ The conventional methodology tends to pay lip service to user involvement.
▪ The professors all pay lip service to welcoming every point of view, but most really do not.
▪ They pay lip service to equality but they don't want to have to do anything committed about it.
▪ Though everybody pays lip service to performance, politics is often the ultimate arbiter of their fate.
▪ We need to stop paying lip service to them.
premium rate number/line/service
▪ Because of the high cost of providing and gathering this information, Climbline would not exist were it not a premium rate service.
▪ Choice has not been considered in premium rate services.
▪ That is certainly true in the context of telecommunications and, more specifically, in premium rate services.
skeleton staff/crew/service etc
▪ A skeleton staff was on duty to keep the world-wide operations of Royalbion ticking over.
▪ The skeleton staff were no match for Massenga and his team of ex-Security policemen.
▪ The Automobile Association skeleton staff trio will be huddled in front of their personal computer screens relaying road conditions to drivers.
▪ The doc pointed out how appropriate it was to have a Skull in a skeleton crew.
▪ The Republicans and Democrats tick over with a skeleton staff and then hire specialist consultants for each campaign.
▪ There was only a skeleton staff on duty and no one took much notice of him.
▪ Various versions were filmed on closed sets with skeleton crews and strict security.
▪ Without you ghost ferries would cross the Mersey manned by skeleton crews.
social services
the Diplomatic Service
the civil service
the secret service
voluntary work/service etc
▪ A larger number still provide a wide range of formal and informal voluntary services.
▪ A recent Gallup poll found that 98m adults are involved in voluntary service, a 23% increase in two years.
▪ An alternative to clubs and classes is voluntary work.
▪ But people without a job who have found fulfilling voluntary work or an absorbing hobby also score highly.
▪ Morley took up her evenings but daytime was given to voluntary work.
▪ Several had written books and articles and others were involved in voluntary work.
▪ Use the expertise and facilities of your local authorities and voluntary services for practical help, advice and social activities.
▪ We have a great tradition of voluntary services and charitable giving.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All our machinery is serviced regularly.
▪ Dunn's firm services 72 arts organizations across the nation.
▪ I'm having the car serviced next week.
▪ When was the plane last serviced?
▪ You should have your car serviced every six months.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Especially because they usually split the take with the syndicates who sell and service their output.
▪ The weakness of the economy still makes it harder for companies to service their debt.