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Collocations for excellent - adj.

VERBS

appear, be, look, prove, remain, seem, sound
consider sth
The school is considered excellent.

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ADVERB

most, really, truly
absolutely, quite
rather
generally
The meals are generally excellent.
consistently, uniformly
The performances and recordings are uniformly excellent.
apparently
potentially
otherwise
In an otherwise excellent issue, I found Creed's article very unconvincing.

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PREPOSITION

at
Clancey was excellent at keeping the kids under control.
for
These potatoes are excellent for baking.

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Excellent is used with these nouns:
accommodation, acting, advice, amenity, article, balance, bargain, base, book, buffet, camouflage, candidate, cast, champagne, chance, character, chef, choice, coffee, collection, command, condition, conductor, cook, coordination, credentials, crop, cuisine, dancer, description, design, dinner, display, doctor, education, example, excuse, eyesight, facility, fit, food, foundation, fun, goal, goalkeeper, GP, grade, guide, health, hearing, hotel, idea, illustration, impression, ingredient, instinct, introduction, investment, job, lawyer, library, match, meal, memory, model, mother, museum, musician, news, opportunity, package, performance, photograph, piece, play, player, point, presentation, progress, prospect, pub, quality, range, rate, record, recording, recovery, reference, report, reproduction, reputation, resource, restaurant, result, return, review, run, save, score, selection, service, shape, shop, shot, source, speech, start, starting point, subject, suggestion, summary, taste, teacher, training, try, tutorial, value, vehicle, visibility, vision, weather, win, wine, work

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