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.
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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.
