CAE Collocations 2

a flicker

• of problems
• of hope
• of change

a dash 

• of cream on your apple pie
• with cream on your apple pie
• over cream on your apple pie

a  major power failure can wreak 

• havoc in a big city
• danger in a big city
• suffering in a big city

face

• the consequences/the music
• a hope
• the reason

a dramatic 

• effort
• shift
• hope

everything was turned

• way up
• upside-down
• downside

to undergo 

• a policy
• a question
• a transformation
• a plan

the town remained

• untransformed
• inaltered
• unchanged

an accident can bring traffic

• to detain
• stopped
• to a halt
• down

a school can decide to abandon 

• a policy
• attempts 
• a consequence