| 词汇 | collocation_english_promise |
| 释义 | Collocations with promiseThese are words often used in combination with promise. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. breach of promise The central concept is breach of promise in marriage or marriage situations - and all the subsidary information leads into that. broken promise On the other hand, the fault for a broken promise may lie with some unforeseen event beyond the promiser's control. campaign promise He made a campaign promise to work to abolish the office for which he was running. conditional promise Some of the more naive thought that it made an absolute promise, but it turned out to be a very conditional promise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 considerable promise But, on the basis of the analysis presented here, it holds out considerable promise. empty promise At the end of the day, such a court judgment basically will remain on paper as an empty promise. explicit promise In other words, we have a hole in the scale, but we also have the speaker's explicit promise that he plans to fix it. extravagant promise After millennia of dead-ends and extravagant promises, we can now see our way to understanding the mechanisms of ageing. false promise Because so few people are likely to have a transplant, relatively few are given the false promise of being placed on a transplant waiting list. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 greatest promise Within-subject designs using biological interventions hold the greatest promise for scientific progress on consciousness, but objective knowledge of another person's experience appears impossible. hollow promise It was a hollow promise, especially for those who bore the harshest consequences of the poll tax burden. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 implicit promise In addition, workers are now leery about accepting the implicit promise of lifetime employment that many larger firms formerly offered. promise of freedom If they stake their lives for us, they must be prompted by the strongest motives, ever a promise of freedom. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 solemn promise That has caused a great deal of anger in my constituency, because people feel that the solemn promise that was given has been broken. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 vague promise It does nothing concerning working people in the industries, although we have a vague promise about that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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