noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
beast of burden
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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The big beasts of medical ethics have been locking horns, the rationalists against the religious as usual.
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But big-beast politicians aren't wholly normal people.
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This jungle is suddenly full of big beasts .
different
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But Hawksmoor is a different beast .
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A health standard based on cost is a different beast .
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But it seems a different beast altogether now that I can ride on top.
great
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In 1963, too, the sperm-whale kill reached its peak, claiming about thirty thousand of the great beasts .
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The great beast landed with both feet in the water, right on top of the little fellow swimming there.
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Oliver's hell hounds are on his trail for sure, great slavering paisley-patterned beasts with saucer-sized eyes and claws that catch.
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Right from childhood, he had recognized that these great beasts had potential for almost limitless friendship and loyalty.
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The ground still shook in time with the footsteps of the great beast .
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And when the great beast stopped to answer a call of nature, I felt as if I was sitting astride Mount Pinatubo.
huge
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Fitzormonde, despite his travels, had never seen such a huge beast .
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The huge beast strained at the great iron chain clasped to the collar round its neck.
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He edged past the dragon and hurried away, the huge beast turning with difficulty to follow him.
little
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What a scheming, clever, manipulative little beast .
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Only little beasts , animals, say things like that!
mythical
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Some letters were pictures in themselves, containing miniature dragons, wyverns, centaurs and other mythical beasts .
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Legendary in concept, this depiction of Barbarossa at Gelnhausen portrays him in the company of mythical beasts .
poor
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We dumped all the junk the Luftwaffe keeps stuffing into these poor beasts .
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I shot the poor beast in the head to save it from its misery, and me from mine.
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The poor beast flew round and round above my head in considerable distress.
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In a few minutes the poor beast dropped dead.
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My horse got a spike in the belly, poor beast .
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From time to time the poor beasts lowered their heads to the thick grass verges, and the men let them graze.
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And there weren't too many deer, so the poor beasts didn't starve through mismanagement and maladministration!
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A weightier cause is the burden the poor beast was carrying already.
strange
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There were chariots driven by demons, pulled by strange winged beasts .
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The second was the sight of strange mythological beasts and demonic gargoyles which surrounded and surmounted the gateway.
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I never tire of watching this strange beast that lurches like a turkey and sways its neck like a swan.
wild
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A wild beast does not at once become tame, or a new breed arise in an instant.
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Later the slave was recaptured and sentenced to die in the arena facing a wild beast .
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Such rules serve to distinguish further basic social categories: friends from enemies, domestic animals from wild beasts , and so on.
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I am really a wild beast , you know.
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The Kurd entered the first of them cautiously, sniffing for wild beasts , then beckoned them in.
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That she had doubted him. Wild beasts would not have stopped him.
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Innocent llamas and other wild beast roam the screen, helpless, bleating and afraid.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bird/beast of prey
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But Men persecuted us and other birds of prey like us were poisoned, trapped and shot.
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In fact, the only bird of prey I ever saw hovering over the park was a kestrel.
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Many birds of prey regurgitate pellets which contain the indigestible remains of their prey, including much of the bone.
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Meanwhile, the larger birds of prey were tucking into things like mice, rats, chicks and rabbits.
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Most of Britain's birds of prey are only now recovering from this long persecution.
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On 24 January he identified six new species of birds of prey - two of which came from the Galapagos.
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The diurnal birds of prey and the mammalian predators consistently have the highest rates of mandibular and maxillary breakage.
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You will have to pass beasts, fierce beasts of prey , and they are all that you will see.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I'm lucky that beast didn't bite my arm off.
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Philip has a real beast of a father.
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The El Niño weather pattern is an unpredictable beast .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For this whole business of killing, whether killing beasts or killing men, is supposed to be fraught with danger.
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He had a good scientific understanding and quickly dismissed the beast .
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The beast also chased Etty Moorhen within an inch of her life.
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The striped markings enable the beast to become invisible against a wide range of backgrounds by day or night.
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The tribesmen assumed the names of beasts and in their rites wore animal masks.
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There are several images, which are clearly icons, showing isolated pillars with a pair of attendant heraldic beasts.
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They were thirsty and starving, vacant-eyed beasts with bellies bloated from hunger and protruding ribs.