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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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classical
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Roman funerary customs; art and mythology; women in classical antiquity .
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For the Renaissance: a reverential longing to recapture classical antiquity .
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The spread of this belief marks the divide between the mental outlook of Classical antiquity and that of the Middle Ages.
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The Kalahari only partly closes the way to the South; and the Sahara was crossed as early as classical antiquity .
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For most philosophers of classical antiquity the world was both animate and divine.
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For the first time in classical antiquity the nuclear family had assumed a central role in the politics of state.
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Dealers in primitive, tribal, Oriental art, classical antiquities , and objetsd'art are excluded.
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Ivory continued to serve many of the same purposes in Christendom as it did in Classical antiquity .
great
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There are trips by water dolmus too, and longer coach excursions to the great antiquities of Epheseus.
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At the base there is a locally derived ground moraine that may be a remnant glacial deposit of much greater antiquity .
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Were they really placed as milestones or could we be on the track of the elusive mark stones of great antiquity ?
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There was a dank, sour smell to everything, a smell of decay and great antiquity .
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St Sophia still survives and is generally accepted as one of the great buildings of antiquity .
late
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The bust was mutilated in late antiquity , probably by Christians who carved a cross in the forehead.
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Until late antiquity Vulso's triumph remained a byword for luxury.
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The building fell in an earthquake in late antiquity , but all its features are recoverable.
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Even in the sciences it was thought in later antiquity that all wisdom lay in the past.
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The nose is mutilated; the bust was apparently deliberately buried in late antiquity with a companion piece of slightly later date.
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This hairstyle proved pervasive, lasting with minor variations into late antiquity .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the antiquity of Chinese culture
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The museum contains Soane's personal collection of art and antiquities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Beyond its antiquity , it is hard to say precisely what makes the Old Course such a pleasure.
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Norbert Schimmel was famous as a passionate collector of antiquities spanning 8,000 years of human creativity.
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Prehistoric archaeologists the world over have increasingly focussed attention on the ecological and economic aspects of life in antiquity .
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The Kalahari only partly closes the way to the South; and the Sahara was crossed as early as classical antiquity .