noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a forest fire (= a very large fire in a forest )
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Greece has suffered many forest fires this year.
dense forest/wood/woodland/jungle
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Their helicopter could not land because of the dense jungle.
forest/park etc warden
forest/rainforest destruction
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a Brazilian report on rainforest destruction
rain forest
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the destruction of the rain forest
roam the countryside/desert/forests etc
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Wild sheep roam the hills.
tropical rain forests
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the tropical rain forests
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ancient
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There are also plans to log 57,500 hectares of ancient forest , containing trees of up to 600 years old.
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Since this left them without fuel, they began to cut wood from the ancient forests .
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The purposes and administration of these ancient forests have of course changed fundamentally.
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Locked still in ancient forest dreams, they stand at significant points in the landscape.
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The decline of the dormouse has mirrored the loss of ancient forests .
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Mussels had colonised the remains of an ancient forest and we asked about waders, so busily taking advantage and feasting there.
dark
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Somewhere, in an unknown region, his spirit, his lost ghost, flew above dark forests .
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Both of them spoke with longing of the flowering meadows and dark forests .
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The hairs prickle on my nape whenever I see a picture representing a deep, dark forest .
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Down their slopes the flame ran to the low-lying valleys and the dark forest lands, until all things everywhere were ablaze.
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Kislev is a land of dark pine forests , snow-clad wilderness and wind-swept steppes.
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It was not everyone who would have relished going off into the dark forest .
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I preferred the raven, that black leaf torn from the dark forest .
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Miles of dark and silent forest walled the whole camp in.
dense
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Day 9 Ottawa-Orilla Head north into stunning wilderness country, a region of sparkling lakes, rushing streams and dense forests .
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Inmates were paid 50 cents a day for the back-breaking chore of clearing right of way through dense forests and laying track.
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Not like the Harz with its dense forests .
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She gazed at the dense forest , then up at the sky.
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They are equally at home in dense forest , sparse woodland, savanna, or even on rocky hillsides.
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As the pace of deforestation picked up, the area of land covered by dense forest declined considerably.
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Some 360 million years ago the beginnings of dense forests showed up in the fossil record, with tall, looming foliage.
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I remember going through a dense forest .
national
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A huge, 150 square mile, national forest is now in the process of being planted in the East Midlands.
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Despite the closure of nearly 18 percent of national forests in Arizona, developed campgrounds within those closed areas are open.
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We will plant a new national forest in the Midlands and community forests elsewhere.
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A lot of eco-voters-present company included-think we ought to ban logging altogether in the national forests .
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Grants for woodland management will be available from 1992 and a new national forest for the Midlands considered.
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For example, about 60 percent of the Coconino and Kaibab national forests in northern Arizona will be closed to campers.
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The basis for the great national forest , park, monument, and wildlife refuge systems of the present had been laid.
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The bill would pose too much danger to national forests and other public lands, she said.
natural
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You soon pass through oakwoods at Glenhead and Buchan - remnants of the original natural forest .
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Not the natural forest , the forest that used to be here, which was pine, now cut over and gone.
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I watch chalky earth plains give way to natural forest and fear for their future.
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Most of the survivors are ornamental trees; only a very few remain in natural forests .
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There have even been proposals to clear natural forests and replace them with dense plantations of fast-growing trees to claim extra credits.
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If current trends continue, all natural forest land with significant commercial value will be gone within a generation.
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With only 2 percent of the natural forest left, so-called secondary forests mean a lot.
royal
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Many of the royal forests were granted to them to hold in fee.
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Boroughs within the royal forests were prepared to pay for exemption from their hated authority.
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The revenues collected and the perquisites enjoyed by the wardens of the various royal forests show a general similarity.
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It became a royal forest in Norman times, but, after its disafforestation in 1239, some settlement took place.
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Since 1923 they have been, not royal forests , but state forests.
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Bishops and barons were to have the right to take one or two deer when passing through the royal forest .
thick
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Spinneys and woods are all that remain of once thick forest cover.
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We stood on the shoulder and peered down through the thick forest of old fir and knew he was there somewhere.
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In such places the abundant rains produce a tall thick forest beneath which the air is constantly warm and humid.
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The country we passed through was once thick forest .
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On the other hand, the mountains were covered by thick oak forest .
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At its foot, the pastures of the valley divide it from the thick forest which rises up the facing mountain.
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Hundreds of kilos of muscle and fat manage to snap not even the tiniest twig as they move through thick forest .
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Lush mountains, fragrant spice and tea plantations drift via thick forests to fabulous sandy beaches and the stunning Arabian Sea.
tropical
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The contrasts between temperate and tropical forests are striking.
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For the environmentally minded contractor, several lumber companies in California are now marketing ethically chopped tropical rain forest timber.
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But the initiative was rejected by the countries where tropical forests are being indiscriminately felled for quick cash profits.
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Most are from tropical rain forests , and 95 percent have been studied, Collins said.
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Many other animals of the tropical forests have adapted themselves to some means of gliding.
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Coral reefs contain a greater variety of species than any other habitat except for tropical forests .
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The conference also agreed on a Statement of Forest Principles, aimed particularly at limiting the destruction of tropical forests .
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Nevertheless, the data reflect the magnitude of the impact of agriculture on tropical forest areas.
virgin
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It found evidence of extensive oil pollution of lakes, rivers and groundwater and of the destruction of virgin swamp and forest .
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Cloud shadows scudded across immeasurable stands of virgin forests .
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Some scientists believe that it can take up to a thousand years for virgin forest to be truly established.
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The trees here were all larger and growing much more vigorously than in the virgin forest above.
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Another road runs south, through the oilfields, and is constantly being extended into virgin forest .
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In response to the beard-shaving incident the Dwarfs chopped down entire virgin forests to spite the Elves.
■ NOUN
area
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What is the length and breadth of the largest forest area ?
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To the north-east of the town is the Pyhätunturi park, another fine unspoilt forest area .
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The incursions... take place in forest areas .
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On the way we decided to visit the Catlins, a little-known forest area on the coast, near Balclutha.
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The forest areas have deeper soils with an organic layer.
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In total, the seven states lost 1,003 square kilometres of forest area and gained 492 square kilometres.
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The Kamuku Game Reserve is a typical example of a forest area that is experiencing the kind of problems described above.
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But this book takes in many forest areas too and I suppose there isn't room for everything.
decline
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No longer was it to look for signs of forest decline , it was to investigate a link between pollution and forest decline.
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The conundrums surrounding forest decline were many.
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By the mid-1980s well over a hundred hypotheses had been put forward to explain the forest decline .
fire
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Think of the might of a forest fire or the burning heat of the sun.
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After a forest fire , it is always the first to spring forth.
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Like new outbreaks of flame in a forest fire , fresh worries flared in his mind.
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However small the sparks at Azusa Street were, within a few decades, pentecostalism had become a full-fledged forest fire .
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On one occasion a great forest fire raged through the area of Telegraph Station 30.
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In a forest fire , you usually find areas among the trees that have some calming influence on it.
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Two were destroyed in forest fire work while the other three are firmly entrenched in museums.
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Seems too early in the season to be a forest fire .
floor
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Open steel mesh on the walkway decking allows visitors to see through to the supporting trusses and forest floor below.
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Impermanence reigns in Atlanta, where white tents dot the landscape like so many mushrooms on the forest floor .
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Piles of fallen leaves carpeted the forest floor with gold, and the stillness was broken only by the steady rain.
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Pick up a handful of pine needles from the forest floor .
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The forest floor is safe at last for us to walk on!
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And the potential for catastrophic wildfires is very high because of so much dead wood on the forest floor .
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A huge snake was unravelling from a tree, sliding along the forest floor .
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Whoo, whoo,-we would yell from the dappled forest floor into the cool green treetops where the jays chattered.
land
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Set among forest land in the Eifel area, its 14-mile lap certainly tested a driver's skill and concentration.
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Even without population pressures, such policies could have placed pressure on forest lands .
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On Oct. 5 the Council of Ministers issued a decree on the preservation and use of forests and forest land .
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Thousands of acres of the forest land where truffles grow have been cleared for farming.
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Imposed management is a necessary desideratum, as 11.3 million ha of mature forest land is being lost annually.
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Down their slopes the flame ran to the low-lying valleys and the dark forest lands , until all things everywhere were ablaze.
pine
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Fifteen reserves are to be established by 2000, covering 12,000 hectares of pine forest , loch, bog and mountain.
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We were parked at the edge of a pine forest above Chichicastenango.
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When he had his bearings he plunged into the pine forest , heading east.
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Sixteen parrots were released in the pine forests of the Chiricahua mountains early this year.
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Stately pine forests carpeted the shoreline.
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Towards the north these turn into pine forests and eventually thin out to form the grassy plains of Kislev.
rain
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Farming, then, is the biggest devourer of rain forest .
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A simulated rain forest will be installed inside two climate-controlled buildings, also in the post-2006 phase.
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Flowering bushes appear to be taking over the hillside and then we enter what looks like a real rain forest .
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It is ideal for trees; and this, indeed, is the region of tropical rain forest .
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Most species live in tropical rain forests .
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We want to get an idea of what's going on in the rain forest canopy.
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Up to half of the tropical rain forests cut down or burned are transformed not into wasteland but into secondary forest.
road
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Navigating along dry forest roads we arrived at the base of Mount Robert.
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Mud boggers drive their puddle plowing trucks down rutted forest roads .
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Today's final 78 miles of stages are over the notoriously deceptive Yorkshire forest roads .
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Beyond the lochan the route follows the wide forest road .
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Cross the forest road and keep straight on up the hill.
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Do the same at the next forest road .
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An old track lead back through the woodlands to the forest road and your starting point at the car park.
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Turn left into the forest and follow the track downhill crossing the forest road .
tree
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Cairns itself is a spacious city with large areas of grass under low spreading forest trees and tall Alexander palms.
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Maybe I should draw those of other forest trees and bushes to go with these.
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There are oleander bushes and flame of the forest trees .
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And does the demise of the dogwood have some sort of larger meaning for the forest trees with which it associates?
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A maple seed is heavy in comparison to the seeds of some forest trees .
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Drought resulted in decreased root growth and slower breakdown of soil litter, an important source of magnesium for forest trees .
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They are compelled to do this because most of the forest trees protect themselves against molesters with a poisonous sap.
■ VERB
clear
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There have even been proposals to clear natural forests and replace them with dense plantations of fast-growing trees to claim extra credits.
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At a clearing in the forest we found a tethered camel and her calf.
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The problem arose when the government decided to clear the forest along the Sugihan river for a colonisation scheme.
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And every-where they lived they cleared the forest .
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Covering derelict land with trees, replacing long-\#cleared woods and forests , holds a great attraction.
destroy
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Acid rain poisons fish, destroys forests , and corrodes buildings.
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Two were destroyed in forest fire work while the other three are firmly entrenched in museums.
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Since then some 4 million hectares have been cut down and millions more have been destroyed by accidental forest fires.
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But fears abound that the dams will actually increase floods or at least their effects, by destroying the protective surrounding forests .
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This is one of the reasons we destroy the rain forests at our peril.
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Now unscrupulous logging companies assisted by corrupt officials are destroying forests at the rate of 50 million acres a year.
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Over the winter of 1997 / 98 huge fires had destroyed large tracts of forest in Borneo.
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The institute will also look at ways of harvesting timber without destroying the forests .
live
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Criminals who live in the forests and mountains.
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Even furniture will become part of the living forest .
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For the rest of their lives they lived in the forest .
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Most species live in tropical rain forests .
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Sunbirds and bats, which live outside the forest , also work the flowers at this level.
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Its members live in a forest , and every year they take more of it to grow crops.
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Some bird and animal populations living in forests damaged by acid deposition have been shown to have declined recently.
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And every-where they lived they cleared the forest .
protect
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Environmental groups also called for measures to protect the rights of forest peoples, which were not adequately addressed in the report.
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It is hoped that the findings will help protect forest elsewhere.
walk
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In another, stalactites reached down to the floor and they walked through a forest of pillars.
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Specters walk in the rain forest .
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We were walking through the forest .
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I walked through hardwood forest of very thick sugar maples and yellow birches.
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Easily Accessible: The area is very good for walking , through forests , hills or along the coast.
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It was remarkable how unsafe it had felt walking through the forest like this.
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It felt as if Mariah, in leaving, had walked into a forest he vaguely comprehended as eve-one else.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
old-growth forests/rainforest/timber etc
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But propaganda that all old-growth forests are being hacked down willy-nilly is nonsense.
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Like the northern spotted owl, the tiny bird is dependent on old-growth forests.
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The floors of old-growth forests tend to be fairly sterile because overhead canopies of leaves prevent light from reaching the ground.
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The report has been welcomed by many legislators as the most authoritative and independent assessment of the old-growth timber industry ever prepared.
the depths of the ocean/countryside/forest etc
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Illegal activity is not limited to the depths of the forest.
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So the depths of the oceans are full of lights moving rhythmically around and continually turning off and on.
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The sporadic gunfire, explosions and shouting in the depths of the forest, seemed to belong to a different world.
the skirts of a forest/hill/village etc
virgin land/forest/soil/snow etc
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After an initial few hundred feet across virgin land the railway will join the old trackbed of the long-disused Newbury Railway.
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Another road runs south, through the oilfields, and is constantly being extended into virgin forest.
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Cloud shadows scudded across immeasurable stands of virgin forests.
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In low range, it walks with authority across a field covered by a couple of feet of packed virgin snow.
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In response to the beard-shaving incident the Dwarfs chopped down entire virgin forests to spite the Elves.
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Some scientists believe that it can take up to a thousand years for virgin forest to be truly established.
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The trees here were all larger and growing much more vigorously than in the virgin forest above.
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Within an hour, Bucharest is buried under a blanket of virgin snow.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a forest fire
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Much of Scandinavia is covered in dense pine forest .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Arkansas saw nine million acres of marsh and swamp forest converted to farms.
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Bodies crushed and absorbed, Tallis-Holly herself became trapped in the quivering, silent forest that filled the stone place.
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First-hog-of-summer and others ran to the palisade and peered at the forest edge.
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Its members live in a forest , and every year they take more of it to grow crops.
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The Coconino and Kaibab forests imposed closures this year before any other forests in this state.
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The study claims that red squirrels have survived alongside grey squirrels for decades in forests in Norfolk and Staffordshire.
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They were searching the forest for you.