favourable impression

collocation in English

meaningsoffavourableandimpression

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favourable
adjective
uk
/ˈfeɪ.vər.ə.bəl/us
/ˈfeɪ.vɚ.ə.bəl/
showing that you like or approve of someone ...
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impression
noun
uk
/ɪmˈpreʃ.ən/us
/ɪmˈpreʃ.ən/
an idea or opinion of what something or someone ...
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(Definition offavourableandimpressionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffavourable impression

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Well-packaged ones can create afavourableimpression, as an elegant business card does.
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His relatively lenient sentence - twenty years in prison - was due in no small measure to thefavourableimpressionhe made on the judges.
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As will hopefully have become clear from the preceding discussion, this reviewer has come away from reading the book with a predominantlyfavourableimpression.
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Attention was required to be given to their personal appearance to produce afavourableimpressionin respect of themselves and a change of habits.
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It makes a deep andfavourableimpressionupon anybody.
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Will he try to make sure that our industry cashes in on afavourableimpression?
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I must say that his words left a veryfavourableimpression.
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To my mind he gave an excessivelyfavourableimpression, even though he did nothing but cite ascertained and ascertainable facts.
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A visitor may in that way form afavourableimpression.
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I know that almost every patient receives an extremelyfavourableimpression.
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However, that initialfavourableimpressionquickly vanished.
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There is one aspect of disease which may give a lessfavourableimpression, and that is the statistics as regards lunacy and mental deficiency.
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He said that he had thefavourableimpressionthat all was going extremely well.
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My first-hand contact with teachers and governors at the meeting led me to form a mostfavourableimpression.
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He has, however, made an extremelyfavourableimpressionall through the industry.
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I think it would make afavourableimpressionon the country if we did our duty by reassembling after a shorter adjournment than three weeks.
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On the other hand, they have not received a particularlyfavourableimpressionfrom some of the noises coming from another place that they have heard on the radio.
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I should have thought that, if the bulbs were unwanted, they would not be likely to produce good results, and so would not produce a veryfavourableimpression.
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Foundation hospitals will be given not only greater freedoms but more money to try to make them work, to create afavourableimpression.
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I acknowledge that it may in practice make very little difference, but it will create afavourableimpressionin the country and will be much to the good.
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