noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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colonial
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War and cold war had some progressive effects with the colonial empires .
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But this was even more striking in the colonial empires .
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As noted in chapter 1, much of this interest in modernisation was prompted by the decline of the old colonial empires .
evil
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Just the thing to bring down the evil empire .
great
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It was the centre of a great empire .
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The power and skill of this one man built the great Frankish empire , and upon his death seemingly it died.
new
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She quite fancies one of the new empire lines.
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The arrival of a fresh-faced entrepreneurial capitalism intent on whole new empires may not be entirely comfortable for writers.
old
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Contact was made with the old human empire in Cathay.
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As with the old eastern empire , the inspiration was a mixture of piety and politics.
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Even in 1832, slavery was abolished only within the old empire .
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It was the same in the old empires .
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As noted in chapter 1, much of this interest in modernisation was prompted by the decline of the old colonial empires .
ottoman
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Selim had formidable obstacles to overcome, however, in modernising the archaic structure of the Ottoman empire .
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Even in the Ottoman empire there was some sign of change.
persian
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His outpost on the Dardanelles was within the Persian empire .
roman
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In the public realm Christians identified themselves almost without reservation with the political and social order of the Roman empire .
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To change the religion of the Roman empire was to change the world.
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Among the causes of the fall of the Roman empire were successive attacks by barbarians.
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Among other forms of religion that flourished in the Roman empire was Mithraism.
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Pausanias the traveller, under the Roman empire , saw one wooden column still surviving inside.
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Almost a thousand buildings are represented, mainly from the city of Rome and from eastern provinces of the Roman empire .
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The Zeus survived to receive the tributes of writers under the Roman empire .
soviet
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The street battles of Vilnius and Riga show a brutal determination to keep the Soviet empire together.
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Multinationals, once shunned as colonialists by the developing world, have been courted as never before since the Soviet empire dissolved.
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Rhys Williams was very convincing and his books did much to whet my appetite to visit the vast Soviet empire .
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The West now viewed his government as a satellite in a monolithic Soviet empire .
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Life goes on, despite nuclear accidents and the collapse of the Soviet empire .
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Murphy retired in 1991, but not before seeing the Berlin Wall crumble and the Soviet empire collapse.
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The Soviet empire once rules half our continent - and threatened the rest.
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The public release of data from sensitive military intelligence-gathering systems was unthinkable until the collapse of the Soviet empire .
vast
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In deep antiquity, vast , sprawling empires rose and fell, usually the result of happenstance rather than deliberation.
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With two partners, he created a vast financial empire of over half a billion dollars in some six years.
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Rhys Williams was very convincing and his books did much to whet my appetite to visit the vast Soviet empire .
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It was a mammoth and indeed crippling undertaking and by the end of the Darius reign the vast empire was in decline.
■ NOUN
building
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By stating her views on the way out she could not be accused of empire building on her own behalf.
business
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A millionaires' row for the aristocracy, film stars and the kings of international business empires .
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And he now sits at the helm of a $ 2 billion business empire that includes truck leasing and auto dealerships.
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Like how he started his business empire , where the money came from.
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The discovery was made by accountants sifting through the remains of the Maxwell business empire .
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Conran had launched a business empire that was eventually to employ thirty-three thousand people.
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Despite promises, he has yet to resolve conflict of interest issues relating to his business empire .
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The club was put up for sale after the Kumar brothers' business empire went into receivership last month.
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The way ahead would now seem to be clear for Mr Thompson's rivals to take over his business empire .
media
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The top people from around Rupert Murdoch's media empire had gathered to talk budgets.
■ VERB
build
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Chaps like Penny had once built empires .
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Don Robey built an empire worth millions in a city far removed from the main line of entertainment.
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Other crops can not sustain the increased population, but you can build empires on maize.
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So their employees assiduously protect their jobs and build their empires , pursuing larger budgets, larger staffs, and more authority.
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We're going to build an empire .
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What happened was we took a look at the company and found that some areas had built up little empires .
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A computer whiz-kid, he had built up an electronics empire that rivalled the best in the world.
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Meanwhile, opponents build their empires , and eventually the civilizations bump into each other.
create
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With two partners, he created a vast financial empire of over half a billion dollars in some six years.
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Making Belfast Work money is allowing the church to create and expand its empire .
expand
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Making Belfast Work money is allowing the church to create and expand its empire .
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Now, as Brown moves to expand that empire , he says he is feeling persecuted himself.
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Building after building, the Puzzle Palace continued to expand its empire .
lose
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We have been mesmerised by Dean Acheson saying that having lost an empire , Britain has not yet found a role.
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But the problem is not that Britain has lost its empire .
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As Dean Acheson had commented back in 1962, Britain had indeed lost an empire yet failed to find a post-imperial role.
run
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He is still barred from many corporate towers from which he ran his empire .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a media empire
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But after Charles's death, his empire dissolved in a turbulence of Frankish feud.
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Forbes to the eponymous publishing empire created by his flamboyant father, Huffington to oil-and-gas millions made by his dad.
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It was an age of unparalleled prosperity: the empire was at peace and trade was flourishing.
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Ribault soon had to abandon the other two ships, the last reminders of a planned Huguenot empire .
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Selim had formidable obstacles to overcome, however, in modernising the archaic structure of the Ottoman empire .
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Some of these may try to act as conscientious promoters of talent, but others are empire builders.
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The point is that the fact of empire affects both white and black communities.
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This is the last main chapter in the story of this country's empire .