adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a suitable donor
▪ After a 10-month wait, a suitable donor was found.
a suitable gift
▪ What do you think would be a suitable gift for a 10-year-old boy?
a suitable vacancy
▪ We will keep your CV on file in case other suitable vacancies arise.
eminently suitable
▪ Woods is eminently suitable for the job.
suitable
▪ No single method is suitable for all occasions.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ It is equally true that they are not as suitable for a truly mixed sequential-direct application as indexed sequential files.
▪ A few varieties of supple-stemmed rambler are just as suitable for this purpose, covering many square yards once they become established.
▪ Would John Barratt have considered ten or nine or eight as suitable?
▪ Suddenly it seems that only certain avenues are considered as suitable options for you.
▪ Auctioneers will recognise certain properties as suitable to be sold by Auction.
eminently
▪ Indeed, the reasonably quick and informal procedure of industrial tribunals is eminently suitable for most cases.
▪ He thought I would be eminently suitable as a wife.
▪ He remembered a certain dark-haired servant, one who had seemed eminently suitable for several weeks.
▪ Venus could not object to a goddess for her daughter-in-law; the alliance had become eminently suitable.
▪ The dish was also eminently suitable for service in a restaurant, good to look at and practical to assemble.
▪ Experiments over the centuries resulted in the predominance of the Cheviot breed with a fleece eminently suitable for finer grades of cloth.
▪ It is a doctrine eminently suitable for a nation overwhelmingly populated by sheep.
▪ The cavern was eminently suitable for the work intended for it.
more
▪ Since they are increasingly owner-occupiers, they may find substantial financial as well as emotional costs in moving to a more suitable home.
▪ The plant is more suitable for Zone 10 conditions, where the average minimum temperatures are 30-40 degrees.
▪ It was good policy to apologise, charmingly if possible, for not having brought more suitable clothes.
▪ If you have been targeting the wrong field, ask the interviewer which field he or she thinks would be more suitable.
▪ In 1922 Makarenko acquired the nearby estate of Trepke as a more suitable future home for his colony.
▪ It could be that following this flow you come upon a more suitable career than you had expected.
▪ Alden's unassuming musicality made him a more suitable partner for Braff than the brilliant but occasionally ostentatious George Barnes.
▪ Much more suitable is a fine cotton or cotton-and-polyester thread.
most
▪ You can discuss with your doctor or family planning clinic which is most suitable for you.
▪ It is one of the most suitable plants for the beginner.
▪ Nowadays most suitable marshy areas attract one or more pairs.
▪ The most suitable size is rabbit skin glue - two thin coats, each allowed to dry.
▪ This is the most suitable water for the aquarium containing clean, washed sand.
▪ The usual mixture suitable for most aquatic plants, i.e. clay or sand and peat will be most suitable.
▪ When viewing schools to decide which is most suitable, it is again necessary to give adequate notice.
particularly
▪ Their acidic characteristics makes them particularly suitable for the dairy industry, breweries and soft drink manufacturers.
▪ This area is particularly suitable for families.
▪ This method is particularly suitable for removing minor bumps in the landscape, the new level blending naturally in with the surroundings.
▪ The indium-111 leukocyte technique is particularly suitable for the present study since it utilises the homing properties of neutrophils in response to specific chemoattractants.
▪ Our experience indicates that the majority of in-patients in psychiatric hospitals are not particularly suitable, even if their major problem is anxiety.
▪ It is particularly suitable if you have a magician as an entertainer.
▪ These designs are particularly suitable for knitters who do not own a single bed colour changer.
▪ The module is particularly suitable for students with a personal or vocational interest in Home Economics.
very
▪ There we are - it looks lovely. Very suitable - high neck and nice long sleeves.
▪ Furthermore, Conservation moves are very effective in this sector and solar energy is very suitable for water heating needs.
▪ In addition all are very suitable for planting in shallow containers.
▪ The Borough of Southwark was not thought a very suitable district for me to live.
▪ Aunt Lavinia urges Catherine to entertain this very suitable young man, which she does, after some rather placid early encounters.
▪ It is easy to reject some one who is very suitable but whose first appearance is off-putting.
▪ The factory at Watford was very suitable and well located.
■ NOUN
accommodation
▪ Prices do not apply to Public Holiday periods unless otherwise stated, and are subject to availability of suitable accommodation.
▪ This judgment has to be made before the executive act of securing the suitable accommodation for the applicant can be performed.
▪ Careful thought must be given to the requirements of the plants and livestock and suitable accommodation provided.
▪ Jack was offered voluntary redundancy in late August and it was confirmed that there was suitable accommodation at the Kings Lodge base.
▪ Particular difficulties with regard to finding suitable accommodation at the right price, have been experienced by married students arriving with their families.
▪ Some follies, however, do not provide suitable accommodation or are simply too small.
▪ The mess room car contained a mess room for the personnel and suitable accommodation for the cooks.
candidate
▪ There may appear to be only one suitable candidate for the job.
▪ By curious coincidence, the suitable candidates are somehow always chaps.
▪ Opportunities for joint supervision with members of staff from these bodies are available when suitable candidates with appropriate research topics present themselves.
▪ Staff can help with the issue of application forms, shortlisting suitable candidates and interviewing facilities can be provided.
▪ Recruiting suitable candidates is a delicate business.
▪ Failure to select a suitable candidate because of age is often a covert form of racial and gender discrimination.
▪ If not, could anyone suggest a suitable candidate?
▪ Its demands probably do exclude some otherwise suitable candidates.
case
▪ Doctors have discovered that in suitable cases the lumpy atheroma deposits can be squeezed flat, widening the arteries again.
▪ In short, the inner city appeared in 1987 to be a suitable case for treatment.
▪ These works raise a serious question as to whether their subjects are suitable cases for treatment - that is, by librettists and composers.
▪ In suitable cases they award their distinctive triangular logo as a mark of their approval.
▪ Here are some further special conditions, some of which in a suitable case may be useful.
donor
▪ Regrettably the customer's daughter died following unsuccessful attempts to find a suitable donor for a heart-lung transplant.
▪ She vowed if it was humanly possible, no other patient would suffer a similar fate through lack of a suitable donor.
▪ One third of patients accepted for heart transplantation die before a suitable donor is found.
▪ In fact, 80% of people who die under the age of 60 are suitable donors.
material
▪ Members are asked to consider donating any suitable material they have to the Society.
▪ Amid talk of rebuilding and reorganising resources it appears suitable material is in short supply.
▪ And yet there are some customers who in their search for a suitable material prefer to study complex tables of technical data.
▪ Now, there are customers who in their search for suitable materials prefer to study copious technical data sheets.
▪ Anecdotal evidence suggests that the tabloid press stores up suitable material for use in election campaigns.
▪ No suitable material came to hand for the box hedges.
▪ This could result from a structural change in a single solid material, though no suitable materials are known.
place
▪ It has to be admitted that Shetland is not the most suitable place for wintering waders.
▪ Now the doctor has to try and locate a suitable place to inject the blood.
▪ It had been intended to provide turning facilities at the Robin Hood, but no suitable place could be found.
▪ Patio, terrace, base of wall or building, front of shrub border are all suitable places.
▪ What does the map show about Bristol being a suitable place for managers to have their wholesale warehouses?
▪ Over the coming months we hope to begin the process of finding and purchasing a suitable place.
▪ If another competitor catches you up, they may overtake at a safe and suitable place, and you should give way.
site
▪ The ground outside this principal gate rises along Watling Street and it would seem a most suitable site for a large cemetery.
▪ The only suitable site is along the L Street corridor, just southwest of the heart of downtown, McGrory said.
▪ The table includes all the regular winter localities, although birds may be reported from many other suitable sites.
▪ But many authorities have either not been able to find suitable sites or have not complied with the ruling.
▪ After selecting a suitable site, the mite will use its mouth parts and its four front legs.
▪ There are not many suitable sites for this.
▪ Gulls nest together in tightly packed colonies but not because there is a shortage of suitable sites.
▪ Jill returned in the spring of 1974 and was told to look around for a suitable site.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Applicants for the position must have suitable work experience.
▪ I still haven't found a suitable job.
▪ Plants of this type are suitable for use in an aquarium.
▪ The house would be suitable for a large family.
▪ The property is centrally located and eminently suitable for our purposes.
▪ You must wear something suitable - preferably black.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a result, it will be suitable for both longitudinal or transverse settings, and can sit low in a chassis.
▪ It is not exacting with regard to temperature and is suitable for tropical as well as cold-water aquariums.
▪ She has formed a fantasy that he will be what no one she now knows approaches-a suitable match for herself.
▪ The latter have a scope suitable to the question in hand.
▪ The treated organic phase is generally suitable for re-use as a fuel oil.
▪ You should find suitable non-sexist alternatives for them.