单词 Collocations with promise 释义

Collocations withpromise

These are words often used in combination withpromise.

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breach of promiseThe central concept is breach of promise in marriage or marriage situations - and all the subsidary information leads into that.From theCambridge English Corpusbroken promiseOn the other hand, the fault for a broken promise may lie with some unforeseen event beyond the promiser's control.From theCambridge English Corpuscampaign promiseHe made a campaign promise to work to abolish the office for which he was running.From theCambridge English Corpusconditional promiseSome of the more naive thought that it made an absolute promise, but it turned out to be a very conditional promise.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0considerable promiseBut, on the basis of the analysis presented here, it holds out considerable promise.From theCambridge English Corpusempty promiseAt the end of the day, such a court judgment basically will remain on paper as an empty promise.From theCambridge English Corpusexplicit promiseIn other words, we have a hole in the scale, but we also have the speaker's explicit promise that he plans to fix it.From theCambridge English Corpusextravagant promiseAfter millennia of dead-ends and extravagant promises, we can now see our way to understanding the mechanisms of ageing.From theCambridge English Corpusfalse promiseBecause 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 theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0greatest promiseWithin-subject designs using biological interventions hold the greatest promise for scientific progress on consciousness, but objective knowledge of another person's experience appears impossible.From theCambridge English Corpushollow promiseIt was a hollow promise, especially for those who bore the harshest consequences of the poll tax burden.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0implicit promiseIn addition, workers are now leery about accepting the implicit promise of lifetime employment that many larger firms formerly offered.From theCambridge English Corpuspromise of freedomIf they stake their lives for us, they must be prompted by the strongest motives, ever a promise of freedom.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0solemn promiseThat has caused a great deal of anger in my constituency, because people feel that the solemn promise that was given has been broken.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0vague promiseIt does nothing concerning working people in the industries, although we have a vague promise about that.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These 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.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org/collocation/english/promise##