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Ex. 5. Continue the strings of collocations, translate them. Make up a sentence with one collocation from each list.

1. fleeting: moment, ______________, ________________, _______________

2. plagued by: disease, ________________, ________________, ________________

3. implausible: theory, ________________, _________________, ________________

4. to deprive of: civil rights, ________________, _________________, _______________

5. to relinquish: control, _________________, _________________, _______________

6. political, ________________, _________________, _______________ constraints

Ex. 6. Fill in the gaps with the words from Ex. 4 and Ex. 5 or their derivatives.

1. Cambodia is now formally a democracy, but the country is _______________by corruption

and poverty.

2. Her Majesty the Queen paid a ______________visit to Heaton Chapel yesterday on her way

to opening the new Co-op building in Manchester.

3. We hear that his Lordship possesses no other powers _______________ the dispute be

tween Great Britain and the United States than those mentioned in the act of the British Parliament.

4. It is not entirely _______________that George Bernard Shaw's Henry Higgins could identify

a speaker's origins within a mile or two, or within a street or two in London.

Unit I. UK: from Empire to Democracy

Unit I. UK: from Empire to Democracy

5. A Tunisian court has ______________ th e party of deposed President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali,

ousted on 14 January.

6. The Constitution placed no religious ______________ on the separate states, restrict

ing clearly and specifically the federal Congress from making law on or interfering with religion.

7. The benefits of isolated outdoor smoking areas ______________ the negative effects that this

kind of controlled smoking would have on the general student population.

8. A year later, South Korea fell into crisis with Asia's other former tiger economies. While Korea's

meltdown had myriad causes, it mostly boiled down to ___________________.

9. In the same year the Webster-Ashburton treaty between Great Britain and the United States

was concluded, but England did not thereby ________________ h e r claim of the right to

search American vessels.

10. Nearly all of the estimates of «harm» concerning Ed Snowden's actions were based on the

faulty _______________that he «took» (and revealed) every document he ever «touched»

while at NSA — somewhere around 1.7 million.