Object

• agm: The Executive Committee may postpone the AGM if it would conflict with a Parliamentary Election in the Constituency, or for other urgent reason.

• referendum: The decision to postpone the referendum on the euro will also mean that the Convention gets an absolutely clear run in the next year.

• hearing: The complaint, which invites Ms Gibb to postpone the hearings, demanded a response by noon tomorrow ( Friday ).

• election: There were no plans to postpone the local elections on May 3. He could not be clearer than that.

• onset: By enriching the lives of older people out service may help prevent or postpone the onset of debilitating conditions which entail greater dependency.

Adjective complement

• due: Use of Web Site - postponed due to lack of time.

Modifying Another Word

• indefinitely: No doubt Fergie is praying that the next Derby game with us ends up indefinitely postponed.

• temporarily: Progress in the Parliament on Takeover Bids has been temporarily postponed to allow the Council of Ministers to reach an acceptable compromise.

• due: The camp regatta is postponed due to lack of wind.

• twice: Attempts were made to hold this meeting and arrangements were made twice and postponed twice and we finally met in February 2005.

• repeatedly: The completion of the work has been repeatedly postponed.

• again: The court again postponed acting, giving the state more time to reply to the claims.

Used with why or when

• when: A number of dates were postponed when a lighting grid collapsed at the weekend.

Infinitive complement

• allow: Progress in the Parliament on Takeover Bids has been temporarily postponed to allow the Council of Ministers to reach an acceptable compromise.

Present participle complement

• pend: In the event the meeting was postponed pending clarification of the Council's budget cuts.

Preposition: until

• autumn: The charges were due to be introduced by April 2006 and these could now be postponed until the autumn of 2006.

• notice: Therefore, the work scheduled for next weekend Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th January has been postponed until further notice.

Preposition: for

• while: I was excited when I got the part, but then it was postponed for a while and anyway I was pregnant just then.