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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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fall
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The match fell into abeyance when the Druids had too few golfing Brothers.
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The following year Civil War was declared, and drainage works fell into abeyance .
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The Forest law fell into abeyance .
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The umbrella group we'd formed in 1987 had fallen into abeyance , but the name still meant something.
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The result is that any notion of musical futurism has fallen into abeyance .
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In some forests the local Forest courts also had fallen into abeyance .
hold
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A sizeable reservoir of homosexuality, which had been held in abeyance , suddenly stirred in the town.
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They seem to know that conscious thought must be held in abeyance .
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I have held myself in abeyance .
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These things could be held in abeyance for a time, while he thought only of the girl herself.
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Positions and statuses are held in abeyance until the following season until they can be redefined and re-established.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For some time thereafter matters of defence, policy and filial duties were in abeyance .
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In abeyance at the moment is a cricket pitch.
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Like a stranger in a strange land, he travelled with his other life in abeyance .
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The Basqueness that is in abeyance in Biarritz returns in full as you drive south from there towards the frontier.
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The following year Civil War was declared, and drainage works fell into abeyance .
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Theoretically, she can dissolve Parliament without advice, but the right has been in abeyance for years.