"formal" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

formal adjetivo

formal + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 512
formal education • formal training • formal garden • formal complaint • formal agreement • formal request • formal announcement • ...
verbo + formal
Kolokacji: 4
ignore formal • sound formal • make formal • become formal
adverbio + formal
Kolokacji: 12
most formal • purely formal • somewhat formal • stiffly formal • overly formal • ...
(2) purely, strictly
Kolokacji: 2
1. purely formal = wyłącznie formalny purely formal
  • A masterpiece must also have powers beyond the purely formal.
  • You cannot approach this work on a purely formal.
  • For other artists, the lessons to be learned from van Gogh were purely formal.
  • The college no longer functions as an administrative body and its use is purely formal.
  • This isn't just a purely formal difficulty, by the way.
  • But the artist insists that her concerns are purely formal.
  • The proceedings next morning were purely formal, evidence of arrest only being given.
  • Expressed in purely formal terms (Table 4.1) there is very little similarity between them.
  • Thus an art that seems to be purely formal and exceedingly poetic comes around to the political by the back door.
  • The proceedings were purely formal and occupied only a few minutes.
2. strictly formal = ściśle formalny strictly formal
(3) somewhat, overly, fairly
Kolokacji: 3
formal + preposición
Kolokacji: 3
formal in • formal with • formal of

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