"promise" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

promise sustantivo

sustantivo + promise
Kolokacji: 7
campaign promise • election promise • Government promise • promise of life • Scout Promise • ...
promise + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 3
Promise Keeper • Promise Ring • Promise Land
promise + verbo
Kolokacji: 15
promise makes • promise comes • promise keeps • promise proves • promise seems • ...
verbo + promise
Kolokacji: 40
show promise • hold promise • make promises • give promise • keep one's promise • break one's promise • fulfil one's promise • ...
adjetivo + promise
Kolokacji: 89
great promise • broken promise • early promise • empty promise • false promise • vague promise • solemn promise • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 26
(2) broken, contractual, glowing
Kolokacji: 3
(4) empty, hollow
Kolokacji: 2
(6) vague, faint
Kolokacji: 2
(7) solemn, real
Kolokacji: 2
(9) similar, verbal, oral
Kolokacji: 3
(11) bright, rosy
Kolokacji: 2
(14) extravagant, lavish
Kolokacji: 2
(16) electoral, pre-election, major
Kolokacji: 3
(17) bold, rash
Kolokacji: 2
(18) mere, simple
Kolokacji: 2
(19) firm, long-standing
Kolokacji: 2
(20) sweet, tantalizing, public
Kolokacji: 3
(21) utopian, official
Kolokacji: 2
1. utopian promise = utopian obietnica utopian promise
  • Maggie Thatcher was right: the utopian promise of a single currency turned out to be a trap that surrendered basic decisions within a democracy to a foreign power.
  • But for all their color and utopian promise, the new notes are lifeless.
  • "Translation Map," by Warren Sack and Sawad Brooks, argues against the Internet's utopian promise.
  • Later, there came the utopian promise of cancer chemotherapy.
  • This may already be happening, which is why utopian promises of cyberculture have been seeming even more strained and artificial of late.
  • In Spa Green, first designed in 1938 and developed in 1943, Tecton aimed to fulfill this utopian promise.
  • In both analyses, the utopian promise of Cyberia is usurped by a lust for domination and a deeply felt resentment.
  • A proud survivor of the 1960's and its utopian promise, Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis) lives alone on an island with his only daughter.
  • At first glance, Mr. Manglano-Ovalle's Mies installations seem a requiem for modernism and its broken utopian promises.
  • Like all utopian promises, eugenics disguised its essential dystopianism in the language of order, rationality, cleanliness and the irrefutability of science.
2. official promise = urzędowa obietnica official promise
(22) long-term, longstanding
Kolokacji: 2
(24) sensual, erotic, seductive
Kolokacji: 3
(25) divine, sacred
Kolokacji: 2
(26) conditional, unconditional
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + promise
Kolokacji: 19
despite promises • of promise • on one's promise • to one's promise • in one's promise • ...

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