I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bank statement (=a written statement of how much you have in a bank account)
▪ I get a written bank statement once a month.
a bold statement/assertion/claim
▪ In a surprisingly bold statement, the couple said they had no intention of marrying.
a policy statement
▪ There has been no policy statement on this from the French government.
bank statement
clarify issues/a statement/matters etc
▪ Could you clarify one or two points for me?
▪ Reporters asked him to clarify his position say exactly what his beliefs are on welfare reform.
contradictory messages/statements/demands etc
▪ The public is being fed contradictory messages about the economy.
cryptic remark/comment/statement etc
▪ a cryptic note at the end of the letter
factual information/knowledge/statements etc
▪ Libraries are stores of factual information.
fashion statement
▪ Mobile phones make a big fashion statement.
fraudulent statement
▪ a fraudulent statement
issued...statement
▪ Silva issued a statement denying all knowledge of the affair.
joint statement
▪ The two ministers have issued a joint statement.
mission statement
▪ Use a personal mission statement to chart your career course.
prepared statement
▪ The President read out a prepared statement.
provocative comment/remark/statement
▪ The minister’s provocative remarks were widely reported in the press.
the statement/testimony of a witness (=what a witness says)
▪ The testimony of one witness led to his conviction.
thesis statement
▪ a paragraph introducing your thesis statement
took...statement
▪ The police took a statement from both witnesses.
written agreement/reply/statement/report etc
▪ Please send a cheque with written confirmation of your booking.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
brief
▪ The columns are headed by brief statements of key activities in that stage of the project, laid out in logical order.
▪ He issued a brief statement late Monday noting that he had discussed the matter with Rep.
▪ I conclude this paper with a brief statement about thematic work.
▪ Nunn, who is retiring at the end of the year, explained his vote switch in a brief written statement.
▪ He failed to do so in his brief statement from the Dispatch Box.
▪ These and all other consultants should be listed by name, title and a brief statement of relevant experience.
▪ Chapter 2 makes brief statements about value bias, too many variables not enough countries, and equivalence.
▪ Aronoff, who asked to be arraigned today, appeared before the media for just minutes Thursday to read a brief statement.
clear
▪ I think it has an important function in providing a clear statement of a furniture-maker's design philosophy.
▪ Again, it is crucial that a clear specific statement or set of statements be made.
▪ A Will is simply a clear statement about how your money and possessions are to be divided when you die.
▪ Statement of objectives: clear statements of what departments were setting out to do were required.
▪ To reject such a clear statement of opinion and fact by doctors would be unreasonable.
▪ This was an unusually clear and succinct statement of assumptions which had been current for generations.
▪ Putting it at its simplest it should be at least a clear mission statement which the whole organisation understands.
▪ By making their status as speech acts clear, these statements are both more direct and more impolite.
false
▪ Similarly subsequent facts will not make a false statement true.
▪ The grand jury indicted Aronoff, R-Cincinnati, and Riffe, D-Wheelersburg, on two counts of filing a false statement.
▪ This individual is not required to show how he or she was injured by the false statements.
▪ It can only be activated when a false statement actually damages a reputation.
▪ A false statement is viewed as a lie regardless of the intent.
▪ For example, listening comprehension may be measured by circling true or false after each statement which is heard.
financial
▪ It would be necessary to make full disclosure of the arrangement in the financial statements.
▪ During the deposition, Symington defended the use of the $ 67. 5 million Esplanade appraisal in his 1990 financial statement.
▪ The financial statement will be ready for the A.G.M. The donations from the general public show a decrease on previous years.
▪ Have an up-to-date credit report and, if needed, a financial statement from parents.
▪ The consolidated financial statements include those of the Company and all its subsidiaries made up to the end of the financial year.
▪ A financial disclosure statement of Sen.&038;.
▪ What disclosure should be made in the respective companies' financial statements?
▪ The material involved may go to show how accurate were the company's financial statements and how accurate were any representations made.
general
▪ It is difficult to evaluate this very general statement.
▪ This sequence of topics begins with a very general statement and continue to narrow down to very specific detailed material.
▪ An extravagant signal could be a general statement of a male's ability to cope.
▪ In fact, a more general statement must hold, namely that no signal is permitted to travel outside the light cone.
▪ Since we can never investigate all protons, any general statement about them whatsoever must depend upon a principle of this sort.
▪ Accordingly, a number of migration theories and general statements have been formulated over the years, as shown in Table 5.1.
▪ They accepted it as a general statement of how things were in the past.
▪ It is therefore prudent to examine both periods in turn before attempting to produce any general statements about rural population change.
joint
▪ The two issued a joint statement calling for the continuation of negotiations between the two blocs.
▪ A joint statement to that effect was issued afterwards.
▪ The six-point joint statement also agreed on co-operation in shipping, communications, scientific surveys, and combating piracy and drug trafficking.
▪ After his lunchtime lecture from a furious Mr Major, he agreed a joint statement calling for talks to re-start immediately.
official
▪ An official statement the companies were hammering out also at press time was unlikely to clarify that point.
▪ By contrast, the Justus Township standoff has been notable for the lack of any official statements.
▪ Journalistic speculation and inference about official statements are not protected.
▪ Amtrak refused to confirm that date Wednesday, saying an official statement will be made today.
▪ Government documents and official statements concerning integration are replete with romantic and ill-defined language.
▪ The various official statements are unhelpful in practice.
▪ At least four official statements have been made by the United Kingdom.
▪ However the pressures are such that in many countries no clear unambiguous official statement is available.
personal
▪ Tomorrow, Mr Kinnock will make a personal statement about his future as leader of the Labour Party.
▪ I use the pronoun I to make it a personal statement.
▪ There has still been no clear personal statement from the Prime Minister.
▪ The photographs have all the encoded language of fashion iconography, yet seem to wish to express some more personal aesthetic statement.
▪ I wish to refer to the personal statement which the Secretary of State made.
▪ Against the odds, she succeeds in making an intimate personal statement out of tunes that are almost public property.
public
▪ These privileges attach to reports of public statements and public documents.
▪ At the meetings, as in their public statements, they tended to personalize the issues.
▪ In a rare public statement, the tough undercover soldiers - whose motto is Who Dares Wins - have apologised.
▪ By 1988, the regime was forced to issue public statements denying it intended to destroy any more religious sites.
▪ Under pressure from Muccio, Rhee qualified his previous remarks in a further public statement.
▪ Charfi had never before put his name to such a public statement.
▪ A number of prominent politicians made public statements supporting Stolpe, including the federal President, Richard von Weizsäcker.
▪ He makes it clear that both the official guidance and Yeo's public statements are not supportable in law.
written
▪ The hearing was adjourned to allow all parties to submit written statements by April 24.
▪ Such a right instilled trust in the written statements by carriers and encouraged consignees to deal with distant and unknown sellers.
▪ The appeal will be dealt with by an exchange of written statements.
▪ Difficult concepts can be illustrated on a hand-out as diagrams or graphs, backed up by short, clear, written statements.
▪ Further details were set out in the written statement published on 13 November.
▪ The initial approach should be made informally; thereafter you may submit a written statement of your grievance.
▪ Ideally the combined written statement and budget estimate should stand as the Development or Corporate Plan of the governing body.
▪ They had given him one written statement.
■ NOUN
bank
▪ She ran a sticky finger down the monthly balance-sheet, then checked the figures against the handwritten bank statement.
▪ Two weeks ago, Leavey glanced at the bank statements NationsBank was sending to Dena.
▪ After the couple's death police discovered bank statements which showed they paid the builders £23,000 for it.
▪ On your bank statement, it will show up as $ 47, 395.
▪ And don't forget: keep a record of your order, so you can balance it against your bank statement.
▪ Sands opened the bank statement first.
▪ Tax inspectors should be empowered to examine a man's bank statement as well as his credit-card dealings.
fashion
▪ Reporting from the international catwalks, Meredith Etherington-Smith has defined and simplified this season's fashion statements, beginning on page 261.
▪ Tonight, you might take the shaved head as a fashion statement.
▪ The textiles from Qawrighul are more than a fashion statement.
▪ The Minipod is more than a fashion statement.
▪ No fashion statements with the Mary Chain.
▪ Now it was to become a fashion statement for the world.
▪ But one man stands alone, and he's making his own fashion statement.
▪ Even Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons, high priestess of the black fashion statement, is designing in color.
mission
▪ Putting it at its simplest it should be at least a clear mission statement which the whole organisation understands.
▪ Your clearly defined mission statement will help you to focus on what you really want out of your entrepreneurial life.
▪ Schools are encouraged to produce a mission statement resulting from widespread discussion of the school's raisond'etre.
▪ Can you create a mission statement that is a reflection of your personal and business goals in two sentences or less?
▪ This becomes part of your mission statement and will help you focus as your business grows.
▪ Develop a mission statement of two sentences or less that clearly defines your definition of personal and business success.
observation
▪ An observation statement is one made in response to certain stimuli and strongly verifiable by appeal to the occurrence of such stimuli.
▪ This example clearly illustrates the theory dependence and hence fallibility of observation statements.
▪ It was stressed in Chapter 3 that observation statements must be formulated in the language of some theory.
▪ The claims of the falsificationist are seriously undermined by the fact that observation statements are theory-dependent and fallible.
▪ So, as well as being probably infinite in length, the list of conditional observation statements was probably rather vague in content.
▪ However, I do not wish to claim that it follows from this that observation statements should play no role in science.
▪ I am not urging that all observation statements should be discarded because they are fallible.
▪ We might assume that perceptual experiences of some kind are directly accessible to an observer, but observation statements certainly are not.
policy
▪ Robert Blatchford's socialism became codified in Labour's founding policy statements and has become known as Labourism.
▪ After its experience with the disease, the public utility company issued an AIDS-specific policy statement and set of guidelines.
▪ Recent policy statements have been even more succinct.
▪ Without laws, thoughtful policy statements are merely well-meaning rhetoric.
▪ Rainbow was developed in 1989 as a multi-cultural education policy statement to create anti-bias lessons.
▪ But the demands and realities of Presidential office should cause him to consider his foreign policy statements more carefully.
▪ The Secret Committee - now called the Main Committee - produced two very different policy statements in the course of the year.
■ VERB
contain
▪ Some sources, especially primary ones, may contain statements made in error.
▪ Evidence of this surfaces in the opening page of the preface to the Almagest which contains a revealing statement worthy of quotation.
▪ The Judicial Statistics contain a statement of the average amount at which bills are taxed in a particular year.
▪ The latest twist in a deteriorating relationship between police and loyalist activists was contained in a statement issued to Sunday Life yesterday.
▪ In addition each of the gospels contains contradictory statements about the same event.
▪ Access to files sometimes leads people to worry that they will be sued if the record contains unprovable statements.
▪ A share certificate will contain two statements on which the company will know that reliance may be placed.
include
▪ Those that have not yet been spent should be included on the completion statement, but not on the bill.
▪ You should always include statements about feelings of relief and self-confidence.
▪ It includes also some illuminating statements by the poets themselves on their aesthetic outlook and their place in literary history.
▪ If there are no such circumstances, the notice of resignation must include a statement to that effect.
▪ This may include a statement confirming that the animals are healthy and fit to travel and an import licence.
issue
▪ The attacks are every bit as alarming to local unionist politicians who have been quick to issue statements of condemnation.
▪ He issued a brief statement late Monday noting that he had discussed the matter with Rep.
▪ Years ago that disappeared, and today official bodies are always being asked to issue statements on safety issues.
▪ After its experience with the disease, the public utility company issued an AIDS-specific policy statement and set of guidelines.
▪ Normally, a prime minister's office would issue a statement about an editor.
▪ On December 31, Herrera issued a final statement to the nation.
▪ Sony has issued a statement defending itself.
▪ Other building societies said they were considering their options and would issue statements later today.
make
▪ Johnson said, making a statement instead of a question.
▪ A supplementary statement may be necessary, for example, where further relevant events have occurred since the original statement was made.
▪ In the second half of the year almost every manager made that statement to me, almost verbatim.
▪ What he did not know until late on was that his former Chancellor was to make a statement on his resignation.
▪ We had a chance to make a statement.
▪ Fashionable hotels usually make their statement by treating guests grandly.
prepare
▪ These investments have therefore been treated as cash equivalents in preparing the cash flow statement reflecting the liquid nature of the investments.
▪ In a prepared statement, one targeted member, Sen.
▪ The Shop Officers and Mary Purcell would prepare a statement. 4.
▪ Most of the speakers were women and many had prepared lengthy and detailed statements of their views.
▪ Note that this aggregation applies whether or not the parent prepares consolidated financial statements.
read
▪ He was close to tears when he started to read a statement in which he opened his heart as never before.
▪ Aronoff, who asked to be arraigned today, appeared before the media for just minutes Thursday to read a brief statement.
▪ And looking tense and grim-faced, he walked slowly to the pulpit and read a statement from a small piece of paper.
▪ He read a statement charging that the prosecution meant to destroy the Moon family.
▪ Andrew Beattie's wife saw the secretary of state read the statement on television.
▪ They, too, saw the secretary of state read the statement.
▪ I simultaneously read a statement like that from Guru Nanak, Guru of Sikhs, a very spiritual man.
say
▪ The hon. Gentleman said that my statement was a blow against consultation.
▪ Alan Bannister, 39, said in a final statement.
▪ President and Chief Executive Dan Case said in a statement.
▪ The financing is backed by a letter of credit from Societe General, Bancomext said in the statement.
▪ Which is not to say that statements of fact had no implications of principle.
▪ Shoemaker said Friday in a statement issued by Santa Anita.
▪ Medical Technology Systems said in a statement.
write
▪ An employee who is refused a written statement can go to an industrial tribunal to enforce their right to receive one.
▪ Hayworth faxed a written statement before he left, but declined to respond to reporters' questions.
▪ The resulting income statement, Exhibit 4. 7, is essentially a written statement of the closing process.
▪ The judge rejected his request and ordered his written statement impounded.
▪ The physicians who wrote these statements were the leading specialists of the time.
▪ Can you write down your mission statement in one or two sentences?
▪ Clinton said in a written statement.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bald statement/facts/truth
▪ And the truth was - the bald truth was - Lori was crazy about him.
▪ Historians do not make bald statements and always attempt to substantiate their point.
▪ The bald truth is he did the wrong thing, but perhaps he had some of the right reasons.
▪ The account relied more heavily on innuendo than bald statement but the message was clear.
▪ We recognised that the bald statement in the preceding paragraph requires amplification.
blanket statement/rule/ban etc
▪ Cine Blitz International publisher Rajesh Mehra attacked the blanket ban.
▪ His support for a 15-month blanket ban on strikes suggests that he is still not wholly aware of this fact.
▪ One of the most urgent measures is a blanket ban on all animal and bone meal in animal feed.
▪ The ban is a blanket ban covering all marches or all marches of a particular class such as political marches.
▪ The existing blacklist of substances not to be dumped at sea would be superseded by the blanket ban.
▪ The idea behind this imposition of blanket bans was to prevent the temptation to discriminate against particular marches.
▪ The state bar would prefer to set a blanket rule governing all types of lawyers.
▪ They already had been instructed to avoid Simpson coverage, but Fujisaki expanded his order to a blanket ban on all news.
evidence/statements etc to the contrary
▪ But it also held evidence to the contrary.
▪ Despite all evidence to the contrary, the list price of the SE-40 is $ 980.
▪ Despite the evidence to the contrary, most of Monday morning's newspapers subscribed to the Army's version.
▪ Indeed, there is a good deal of evidence to the contrary.
▪ This, despite the evidence to the contrary that had surfaced since the Fort Lauderdale conference.
▪ Though many more polar homeotherms have been examined since then, evidence to the contrary has been slight.
▪ True he was not, so far as we know, misogynist: there is evidence to the contrary.
▪ Without evidence to the contrary, it may be unwise to go against the behavior suggested as appropriate by the myth.
personal mission statement
sweeping statement/generalization
▪ He prefers a complicated sentence to a sweeping statement.
▪ Of course, this is usually so, but I am having little niggling doubts about such a sweeping statement.
▪ This is a sweeping statement which makes little obvious sense on first reading, so let us dissect it more carefully.
sworn statement/evidence/testimony etc
▪ The application was based on a sworn statement from a lay midwife who said she attended his birth in La Paloma.
▪ The reports were based on sworn statements of graduates of the camp, whose seven-month training including the use of explosives.
▪ This is confirmed by her not going against her sworn statement, unlawfully though it had been extracted from her.
▪ This meant that sworn statements by Mitchell, Stans and others would not be made public before the election.
▪ Years later her parents made a sworn statement testifying that the couple had met in July 1917.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a bank statement
▪ According to its financial statement, the company made a profit of $15 million last year.
▪ In a statement, the BBC admitted that it had given incorrect information.
▪ The President will make a statement to the press this afternoon.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Aversion relief statements are also included here.
▪ Mr. Speaker I will take points of order after the statement.
▪ Once again, in his autumn statement yesterday, the Chancellor of the Exchequer was forecasting an economic upturn.
▪ Shevardnadze did not repeat in public or in his internal report his most emphatic statement in Pyongyang.
▪ The boffin claims to be able to lower bust-up ratios by analysing responses to statements about their lifestyles.
▪ The company gave no year-ago figures in its statement.
▪ The Court relied upon lack of protest coupled with public statements of the position, preferring overt behaviour to formal requirements.
▪ This becomes part of your mission statement and will help you focus as your business grows.
II.adjectivePHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
evidence/statements etc to the contrary
▪ But it also held evidence to the contrary.
▪ Despite all evidence to the contrary, the list price of the SE-40 is $ 980.
▪ Despite the evidence to the contrary, most of Monday morning's newspapers subscribed to the Army's version.
▪ Indeed, there is a good deal of evidence to the contrary.
▪ This, despite the evidence to the contrary that had surfaced since the Fort Lauderdale conference.
▪ Though many more polar homeotherms have been examined since then, evidence to the contrary has been slight.
▪ True he was not, so far as we know, misogynist: there is evidence to the contrary.
▪ Without evidence to the contrary, it may be unwise to go against the behavior suggested as appropriate by the myth.
personal mission statement