Collocations withevent
These are words often used in combination withevent.
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actual event
Although one's ultimate concern is an actual event in the future, a sentence like (20a) directly describes a representation of this event.
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acute event
This was an example of a resident who, seemingly stable, suddenly had an acute event, a stroke, which meant she was expected to die.
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adverse event
The rate of discontinuation due to an adverse event was greater in the olanzapine group (7.6%) relative to the placebo group (0%).
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annual event
In schools in which the opera has become an annual event, students are also challenged by the standards set by the previous year's opera company.
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anticipated event
Stress involves preparation for an anticipated event that has been evaluated as being threatening or harmful.
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astronomical event
This full moon does not currently correspond directly to any astronomical event, but is instead the 14th day of a lunar month, determined from tables.
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athletic event
This subsection exempts from the general prohibition lotteries promoted incidental to an entertainment, such as a bazaar, sale of work, fete, dinner, dance, or a sporting or athletic event.
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bizarre event
But sometime slightly after 11:00pm a bizarre event occurred; all the power suddenly turned off and the slaughterhouse was thrown into total blackness.
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cardiac event
Exercise advice, anxiety management, breathing management, cardiac event monitoring, and discussion with relatives were undertaken as indicated.
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cardiovascular event
The cardiovascular event occurred in the morning, during athletic training.
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cataclysmic event
At the same time, demobilization proved not to be the cataclysmic event that some had feared.
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catastrophic event
However, this catastrophic event (which was unpredictable and uncontrollable) may serve as a natural experiment.
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celestial event
Of these, three were celestial events, whereas the other five were magical or miraculous in greater or lesser degree.
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ceremonial event
Their primary duty is to march at the head of the battalion on all ceremonial event.
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charitable event
She turned the contest's swimsuit competition into a charitable event, with the money received destined to those organizations.
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charity event
A young policewoman was turned away from a charity event because she is confined to a wheelchair.
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climatic event
Was this an inevitable climatic event or could we be suffering the consequences of climate change caused by human behaviour?
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commemorative event
During the course of the year 2004, governments, committees and activists organized commemorative events, negotiated memorandums and discussed claims for or against reparations.
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communal event
Since prayer is now an activity that everyone does together, it has become the fundamental communal event.
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contemporary event
The second contemporary event of some political importance is illustrated in plate 79 in the upper right corner (fig. 4).
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contingent event
These propositions report the existence or nonexistence of a contingent being, as well as the occurrence or non-occurrence of a contingent event or states of affairs.
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cultural event
The installation was covered as both general news, and as a cultural event for more in-depth consideration.
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current event
At call events (line 7), predicate collect extracts the depth from the current event (line 8) and increments the corresponding counter (lines 10 and 14).
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cycling event
However, the cycling event went ahead as scheduled with no objections from the athletes.
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decisive event
In such a case, therefore, one will try to realize the now decisive event-type in the experiment.
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defining event
Train accidents have provided a defining event from which other elements in a plot (families divided) can be derived.
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disastrous event
We are a prime target in the disastrous event of war breaking out.
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discrete event
The discrete event-based nature of granular synthesis suggested the rainfall metaphor used in the device, which then indicated a watering can as an appropriate controller.
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distressing event
Admission to palliative care is usually a distressing event.
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disturbance events
The duration of disturbance events in human-dominated landscapes is longer, the average gap size is increasing, and the return interval of disturbance is decreasing.
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dramatic event
Of course, a spectacle is an object intended to be seen, but it is also a dramatic event, a theatrical mise-en-scene that demands an audience.
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duplication event
This suggests a duplication event of a cluster of apparently unrelated genes during evolution.
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equestrian event
During the games every portion of the equestrian event besides the cross-country portion of the eventing competition will be held at the venue.
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event handler
The mechanism cannot provide real-time timing because the time needed to evaluate an abstract event handler may exceed a given time interval.
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everyday event
This is not an everyday event, to put it mildly.
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exciting event
In order to simulate the first peak, however, we needed to postulate a uniform exciting event that stimulates state transitions.
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external event
In section 3.5 we show how to make a widget reactive to an external event such as a mouse click.
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extraordinary event
Seen from today, when so many things have happened since, his approach and the survey of his discoveries seem an extraordinary event that marked and even shocked his environment.
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extreme event
First, it could serve as a basis for estimating whether one or more paths are required to explain the most extreme event in the trajectory.
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festive event
It is usually a festive event observed with meetings for prayer and music and dancing.
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four-day event
The four-day event was a great success and the public response far exceeded expectations.
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fund-raising event
The voluntary people with their own bus could have a fund-raising event and fit their own.
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future event
The first of these states is that a 'future event occurs for which the conserved indigenous breed is important'.
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gala event
The gala event was interrupted by two protests.
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historic event
A past situation, a historic event, cannot, as a matter of law or the correct interpretation of the charter, justify the imposition of sanctions now.
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historical event
But you ask whether a dialogue with the past leaves room for the historical event behind the material remains.
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horrible event
Now these are the dangers to which our people would be exposed in the horrible event of war.
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horrific event
All sorts of conjunctions of accidents can take place simultaneously and start a horrific event.
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improbable event
The formulation there said that if there is some basis for contrasting the particular improbable event with all the alternatives, taken together, then explanation will be called for.
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inaugural event
Nowhere was this more strikingly demonstrated than in its extraordinary inaugural production - or, perhaps more accurately, its inaugural event.
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indoor event
The 60 metres is a common indoor event and it is an indoor world championship event.
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isolated event
However, it was not an isolated event, and, as a result, there is more than just an interesting story here.
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key event
Adjustment of conformational flexibility is a key event in the thermal adaptation of proteins.
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landmark event
That will be a landmark event in the development of relations between our two regions.
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large-scale event
It deals with most of the major hazards which could affect the environment if there were a large-scale event.
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launch event
Copies of the summary report were distributed at the launch event and a copy of the full report has been sent to each organisation represented.
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live event
The company is known for its work in the film, television, performing arts, themed exhibit, military simulation, and live event industries.
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main event
The main event consisted of a spectacular 'illumination' in the courtyard, followed by a fantastic all-night fireworks display, intended to impress guests and visitors alike.
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major event
A minor incident within a major event can signal the dimensions of the problem.
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medal event
The ski jumping (normal hill) event was held separate from the main medal event of ski jumping, results can be found in the table below.
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memorable event
Despite its risks and horrors, combat can be the most memorable event of an otherwise tedious life.
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meteorological event
It was a remarkable meteorological event, and the fact that it occurred three times was particularly remarkable.
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miraculous event
Using statistical mechanics' route, rigging the evolution of a system to be apparently normal, until the anti-thermodynamic, miraculous event is required, seems most generally applicable.
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momentous event
It was a momentous event in the country's politico-military history.
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mundane event
These are the mundane events people describe when asked what they did today: making coffee, fixing a flat tire, installing computer software.
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musical event
But this obviously refers to the intrinsic musical event, and has nothing to do with operatic convention in the broadest sense.
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negative event
Although spousal loss is generally considered a negative event, investigating various aspects of the care-giving situation may help explain disparities in survivors' adjustment.
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newsworthy event
The less newsworthy event would be represented as e, x, y, bite(e), man(x), dog(y), agent(y), patient(x).
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notable event
It seems that on this occasion we are within an ace of that notable event.
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observed event
The observed event could be due to unusual presentation of the disease itself.
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one-day event
The cost of the one-day event was £1,240.
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one-off event
The coining of the term 'natural hazard' within the social/environmental sciences has likewise refocused attention from the peculiar or one-off event to the normative condition which 'disaster' ruptures.
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one-time event
With habitual stories, the imperfect was true, and the preterite was false; with one-time event stories, the preterite was true, whereas the imperfect was false.
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outdoor event
It is usually an outdoor event, and a staple meal on many show events.
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pay-per-view event
One event was filmed and broadcast as a pay-per-view event, later released on video.
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pivotal event
The gym was the scene of a pivotal event during the period of integration.
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precipitating event
The inferential task is more challenging when no precipitating event is evident and the usual battery of palliating efforts (feeding, rocking, pacifiers, etc.) proves ineffective.
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precipitation events
Epiphytes also increase the surface area of phorophytes for interception of water and nutrients during precipitation events.
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prestigious event
However, there may come a time when there will be the opportunity to stage such a prestigious event.
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promotional event
Both editions contained a card with a serial number on it used in a draw, as a promotional event for the single.
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qualifying event
To avoid interference with acute-phase treatments, patients were enrolled after 15 days from onset of the qualifying event.
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rainfall event
At least in 1998, the exit of butterflies from overwintering sites was relatively sudden and coincided with the first spring rainfall event.
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random event
The hallmark of a random event or mechanism is that the outcome is unknowable in advance.
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rare event
This is, for example, the case in domains where experts find it impossible to imagine 100 occurrences of a rare event.
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real-life event
Another less-remembered real-life event also helped inspire the novel.
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recall events
We now have a literature that supports the capacity to verbally recall events even if language was not present at the time the event occurred.
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recent event
Respondents were asked how long ago the most recent event had occurred.
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recombination event
In the simulations reported below, individuals consist of 7 chromosomes, each experiencing an average of 1 recombination event per chromosome.
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relay event
The four women took silver in the inaugural women's relay event.
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rodeo event
Sponsor contests are the genesis of barrel racing, which is today the premier womens rodeo event.
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rowing event
This rowing event is a quadruple scull event, meaning that each boat is propelled by four rowers.
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salient event
There was excellent congruence between the two sources of information on the age of menarche suggesting that adult women date this salient event reasonably well.
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scheduled event
A scheduled event whose start time is determined with an assigned time based upon the facility master clock.
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seismic event
Although some seismic events can already be identified as earthquakes there is no known method of positively identifying every seismic event.
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shocking event
The death of a child is always a shocking event.
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significant event
It is also a significant event in the short history of electronic publishing.
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singular event
Put differently: he designates as an epistemic factor the non-deducible sudden insight ("sudden idea"), which manifests itself as a singular event ("flash").
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special event
But it easily gets pushed to the margins, and usually needs some special event to elicit the funds it requires.
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specific event
No specific event marks its emergence in the vocabulary applied to long-term care for older people.
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spectacular event
This campaign will be the largest and most spectacular event ever organised by the board and the country's first celebration of our maritime heritage.
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sponsored event
A sponsored event is such that the meeting is open to anyone who wants to pay £7.50 for breakfast.
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spontaneous event
Typically, patients are asymptomatic at the time of assessment and the opportunity to capture a spontaneous event during diagnostic testing is rare.
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sporting event
An emphasis on circus, that most athletic of art forms, seemed very appropriate to accompany a major international sporting event.
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stressful event
However, in this patient, nasal bleeding was a stressful event that induced brief psychotic disorder.
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subsequent event
The differences among individuals in the timing of each event affect the timing of each subsequent event.
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supernatural event
This action was largely to lead toward a great supernatural event, but had a great deal of real world notions of progress.
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terrible event
Survivors and relatives of the deceased will want a thorough investigation, to find out how such a terrible event came to pass.
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theatrical event
Although very different from their audience in appearance, action, specialized skills, and speech, no stage lighting or physical barrier is likely to separate these two participants in a theatrical event.
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three-day event
This three-day event is attended by over 35,000 people, each paying around £70 for the privilege.
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thromboembolic event
The total incidence of thrombotic or thromboembolic events in our cohort was 1.8% per patient year.
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tour event
It became an official tour event in 1972.
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tragic event
Hence, it has become a taboo for people to speak about this tragic event.
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traumatic event
These studies either focused exclusively on military veterans or assessed personality traits after the traumatic event.
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two-day event
There was, in truth, little agreement throughout the two-day event.
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unanticipated event
This is used to influence perception, make predictions about the world, handle unanticipated events, determine the context-dependent meaning of concepts, focus attention and select actions.
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unexpected event
Components that facilitate the understanding of the logic of events include setting, unexpected event, psychological 0 physiological response, object state change, unplanned action, attempt, and consequence.
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unfolding events
The discussion on these topics lags behind unfolding events.
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unforeseen event
On the other hand, the fault for a broken promise may lie with some unforeseen event beyond the promiser's control.
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unfortunate event
To conclude, preterm birth is a relatively common but unfortunate event that confers many stresses, physiological and experiential, upon the child and his or her family.
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unlikely event
Most commonly, a past-tense form may be used to mean 'past event' or 'unlikely event'.
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unusual event
Also, patients appreciated the unusual event that the hospital was interested in their well-being afterward.
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upcoming event
A patient may repeatedly ask questions about an upcoming event and be afraid of being left alone, which may lead to constant shadowing of the carer.
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vascular event
In a proportion of patients vascular events occur both in the cortex and the subcortex, but again without evident historical stroke-like events.
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yearly event
It is pleasant to have this, what might be, yearly event.
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