Preposition: as

• whole: So thanks are due to the profession as a whole for the contribution which it has made to the generation of new standards.

Converse of object

• ally: Our fully illustrated reports share our best practice with others in our own and allied professions.

• enter: This course provides a good basis for entering the actuarial profession.

• regulate: The Commissioners considered in what circumstances a body set up to regulate the profession could be charitable.

• practice: You must also have successfully completed any professional training required to enable you to practice the profession concerned.

• choose: As a dancer you have chosen an artistic profession, as I did.

• quit: Doctors may quit profession - 30 Nov 05 Doctors will leave the profession because of declining medical professionalism, a new survey has predicted.

Adjective modifier

• actuarial: This course provides a good basis for entering the actuarial profession.

• veterinary: For the veterinary profession, all three are changing fast.

• medical: Irvine has been a man with a mission: the reform of the medical profession.

• legal: The legal profession should be barred from the process.

• caring: Increasingly, the attitudes of male professionalism have seemed outrageously at odds with a supposedly caring profession.

• chosen: They go into auto-pilot to escape they true nature of their chosen profession, closing their eyes to the very world around them.

Modifies a noun

• framework: An emerging health professions framework The subject specific statements for physiotherapy have been set within the emerging health professions framework outlined below.

Noun used with modifier

• accountancy: Some of our people make an important contribution to the accountancy profession more generally.

• nursing: They would have to pull together to try to attract to the nursing profession very many more nurses.

• healthcare: These new schemes are an important step forward in ensuring that the healthcare professions better reflect the wider population through widening participation.

• teaching: In the long term the Government expects up to 5 % of the teaching profession to have gone through the fast track.

• accounting: Thirdly, the accounting profession is quite influential in Hong Kong.

• auditing: Hewitt also launched a review into the regulation of the accountancy and auditing professions.