I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gas explosion
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Firefighters say that a gas explosion destroyed the building.
a gas fire
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She lit the gas fire and settled in front of the TV.
a gas flame
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The glass is heated over a gas flame.
a gas pipe
an electricity/gas/phone etc bill
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I’ll have to pay the gas bill too next month.
Calor gas
coal gas
combustible material/gas etc
CS gas
drill for oil/water/gas etc
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BP has been licensed to drill for oil in the area.
electrical/gas appliance
fuel/electricity/gas consumption
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There are three possible methods of reducing oil consumption.
gas chamber
gas man/rent man etc
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I waited all day for the gas man.
gas mask
gas meter
gas pedal
gas ring
gas station
gas turbine
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the ship’s four gas turbine engines
gas/torture chamber (= used for killing people by gas or for hurting them )
greenhouse gas
laughing gas
marsh gas
mustard gas
natural gas
nerve gas
petrol pump/gas pump (= for putting petrol into cars )
plume of smoke/dust/gas/spray etc
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A black plume of smoke rose above the city.
poison gas
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There are reports that poison gas is being used against the rebels.
pump gas American English (= put gasoline into a car )
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He got a job pumping gas for the hotel guests.
run on electricity/gas/petrol etc (= get its power from electricity etc )
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Most cars run on unleaded fuel.
sulphur dioxide/carbon dioxide/greenhouse gas etc emissions
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The treaty calls for a 30% reduction in sulphur dioxide emissions.
tear gas
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The police used tear gas to break up the demonstration.
toxic chemicals/substances/fumes/gases
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Toxic chemicals were spilled into the river.
water/gas/electricity meter
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A man came to read the electricity meter .
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The taxi driver left the meter running while I ran in to pick up my bags.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
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It offers considerable future potential for the discovery of large oil and gas reserves.
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Because the silica in andesite makes it thick and pasty, andesite tends to trap large amounts of gas .
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About 4.5 billion years ago a large cloud of gas slowly contracted under gravity into the glowing ball that became the Sun.
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On weekends I washed cars at a large gas station near our home.
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A large exhaust gas pressure implies that there is not much flow to the gas.
natural
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The share of demand for natural gas should rise to some 17% by the year 2000.
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Projected demand for natural gas 4.
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One energy mix simply chose the cheapest options for supplying energy - using entirely coal, oil and natural gas .
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The dwindling supplies of crude oil and natural gas are frequently discussed in newspaper articles.
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It said it will use the net proceeds to acquire long-life natural gas reserves and exploit development opportunities.
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Conventional wisdom did not favor retrofitting to coal use boilers originally designed for oil or natural gas .
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However, because of the much higher efficiency, such a configuration need not entail much higher natural gas demand.
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Let us choose a coal which upon combustion yields 2. 0. Natural gas Produces negligible 502.
■ NOUN
appliance
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Extending the regulations to more types of gas appliances including premises using gas from cylinders or garden tanks.
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It's often caused by poorly installed gas appliances .
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Ensure that all your gas appliances are regularly serviced.
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The Society already has an extensive collection of gas appliances which will also be displayed.
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These include faulty gas appliances and flammable furniture, two of the biggest causes of death by fire.
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The poisonous gas is called carbon monoxide and gas appliances can produce it if they're not regularly serviced.
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This check will show whether your gas appliances and installations are safe to use.
bill
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If the Government won't boost pensions, can't it help with gas bills and the like?
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I got the gas bill and the bill for electricity.
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You think to yourself, yes I could get the kids shoes or pay the gas bill .
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However, increasing water, electricity and gas bills are adding to production cost pressures, the association says.
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She followed her last winter gas bill with a decision to turn off several heaters.
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What she couldn't understand was the more she shivered ... the higher the gas bills .
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Voice over Meanwhile downstairs neighbour Nikki Davies was delighted with her gas bills .
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You can use gas stamps to pay your electricity bill and electricity stamps to pay for your gas bill.
chamber
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The gas chamber , Maryland Penitentiary.
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The last to die was David Mason, who was sent to the gas chamber in August 1993.
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Like a gas chamber , it overwhelms.
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Fourteen murders was more than enough for jurors to vote Bonin into the gas chamber .
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They knew Amelia was too skinny to avoid the gas chamber .
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Whole families crowded into gas chambers , their clothing, gold fillings, and eyeglasses more valued than their lives.
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Ronald Reagan appointee, was on the panel that unanimously upheld the gas chamber ban Wednesday.
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It took him 11 years to get to the gas chamber , from the day he was convicted of five murders.
cloud
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A heavy overcast like a poison gas cloud was stationary over the battered city.
coal
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Meanwhile the manager had started to put coal gas into the other, oxygen, bag.
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And the smell of coal gas forces residents to wear make-shift masks.
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I vividly recall the smell of damp wool and coal gas , which was unlike anything I'd experienced before.
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He was also first in his use of coal gas for train lighting in 1862.
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It was also while Murdock was living in Redruth that he started his experiments with coal gas .
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He was also the first person to use coal gas for lighting purposes.
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Murdock's investigations of coal gas were a direct result of his search for materials to preserve the bottom of ships.
company
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Mrs. Chalker I am aware that a number of United Kingdom oil and gas companies are extremely interested.
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We have ambitions to become the world's first Global gas company and already operate in 20 countries.
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Gas utility companies fell after the government said it was considering allowing non-gas companies to enter the retail gas market.
cooker
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Emily Mahon stood in front of the gas cooker and grilled the ten rashers that she served every morning except Friday.
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It is the start of a new generation of gas cookers .
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Instead he'd fill his aluminium container and take it back to boil on his small gas cooker .
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From outside in the passageway the sound of water bubbling and steaming on the old gas cooker could be heard.
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Britain's most advanced gas cooker .
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Clarence entered the park at the request of the Trust to repair the gas cooker in the cafeteria.
cylinder
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Teesside trains were also stopped when firemen discovered a gas cylinder near the fire.
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Hassan has to buy gas cylinders to light the stove and the two small lamps that light his apartment.
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One of the boats sank after gas cylinders inside exploded.The other was completely burned out.Richard Barnet reports.
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Rolled up, admittedly, but those things can be opened and inflated from their gas cylinders in seconds.
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There are candles and a gas cylinder .
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I assemble my Trangia and cook food, avoiding the almost overwhelming temptation to use the gas cylinder .
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Another was attached to a high pressure gas cylinder .
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Since the attack, the gas cylinders have remained out of use.
emission
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What has emerged so far confirms the pessimism that has settled over the international effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions .
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The market could grow much bigger if countries further subsidize wind power to curb greenhouse gas emissions .
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Focuses on urban ecology, social equity, land conservation, greenhouse gas emissions and environmental quality.
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However, no such action was to be credited against any forthcoming national required reductions in greenhouse gas emissions .
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The Committee also outlined tough recommendations on how greenhouse gas emissions should be reduced.
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The report lists practical measures that, if implemented, will help restrict greenhouse gas emissions with a view to meeting these targets.
explosion
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Coal gas production became involved with safe gas explosions .
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A natural gas explosion that killed three and injured more than 20 others in 1992 has made the community particularly wary.
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Ronan Point, a 22-storey block in East London, crumbled like a pack of cards after a gas explosion in 1968.
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There had been a gas explosion and there were several casualties.
field
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Moreover there are indications that in this gas field a secondary fracture porosity may exist.
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On the liquids front condensate is being produced at the Kapuni on-shore gas field .
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No gas fields occur in the Bramsche and Vlotho Massifs, although in the past many boreholes have been drilled there.
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Privatization of oil and gas fields A decision to privatize oil and gas fields was announced on Oct. 1.
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The Atyrausk zone contained oil and gas fields .
fire
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The Echo investigation highlighted a series of deaths caused by carbon monoxide poisoning from faulty gas fires .
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It had minimal busted furniture, yellow walls and a gas fire .
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She was beside the gas fire , just staring.
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She made herself a high tea, put the gas fire on full blast and sat with a tray in front of the television.
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He also lit the portable gas fire .
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She perched on the edge of the sofa, gazing into the mock flames from the gas fire .
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From time to time there are special offers on gas fires .
flame
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The saffron-azure of the gas flame starred the orange dark.
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Later we ate lunch in front of the trembling gas flame .
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Woks are best used over a gas flame .
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The process uses a natural gas flame to break down the effluent into sulphur dioxide.
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Cookability Even though the gas flames are shielded, you lose none of the beauty of cooking with gas.
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Skin the peppers by roasting over a gas flame or under the grill until the skin blisters black.
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The front doors were almost bare of paint and shadows cast by the gas flame took on weird shapes.
greenhouse
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Methane is a potent greenhouse gas , each molecule trapping 25 times as much heat radiation as one molecule of carbon dioxide.
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But it might contribute to global warming because methane is a powerful greenhouse gas .
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Carbon monoxide is also a powerful greenhouse gas .
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The market could grow much bigger if countries further subsidize wind power to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
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The drainage of peatbogs for forestry and agriculture is making a significant net contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, the report concludes.
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Water vapour is a naturally occurring greenhouse gas but the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere is affected by human activities.
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What has emerged so far confirms the pessimism that has settled over the international effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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Home energy efficiency is increasingly seen as a route to a reduction in national greenhouse gas emissions.
industry
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We have argued for greater competition in the gas industry than the Government have ever sought to provide.
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The natural gas industry likewise argues for more domestic production, including on federal lands that are now off-limits.
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Significant economic growth and social change has been brought about as a result of the offshore oil and gas industry .
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These relate to her previous business activities in the gas industry , which she now says she is reforming.
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Careers leaflets, technical booklets, teaching materials and general information on all aspects of the oil and gas industry .
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An accountant by training, Lord Simpson, 58, began his career in the gas industry .
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A decline in coal demand would benefit either the nuclear or gas industries .
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The oil and gas industry has lost more jobs since 1982 than the country's car, steel and textile industries combined.
lamp
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The gas lamp flickered and spluttered above him, sending moving shadows across the walls.
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In the windows of the decrepit houses, gas lamps were beginning to be lighted.
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In the light of the yellow gas lamp there was neither day nor night.
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A long line of gas lamps ran along each wall, giving it a dim smoky glow.
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Capshaw got up and turned the valve on the gas lamp .
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Down in the dark and foggy street a figure stood waiting beneath a lighted gas lamp .
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He sat back in the armchair and watched the smoke drifting upwards from his pipe towards the gas lamp .
leak
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Vote paves way, page 2 News in brief: Ferries held up by gas leak .
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Forcing independent gas suppliers to respond to gas leaks reported to them.
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The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak .
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But firemen confirmed the blast at 3.42am was caused by a gas leak from a water heater.
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The first reactor was closed down for repairs earlier this year after a gas leak .
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Delicate arrangements are required to maintain the controlled gas leak and these are prone to wear and maintenance problems.
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That was the occasion when a gas leak caused an explosion which wrecked an entire tenement.
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But responding to Nathan Bryce's flirting was about as wise as striking matches to find a gas leak .
mark
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The heat in Keegan's kitchen barely rose above gas mark one.
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Place pan in a preheated hot oven 200 °C gas mark 6.
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Return pan to oven and increase heat to 220 °C gas mark 7.
mask
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They took gas masks and attached grenades to their belts.
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Delaney snapped on his gas mask .
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Some even began wearing gas masks to block the suspicious fumes.
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Heard him say that sirens were blowing and people were donning gas masks and moving into sealed rooms.
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While they all wore gas masks , none were tightly clothed, and none wore gloves.
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Every child had a gas mask and a suitcase, or paper parcel.
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Everywhere I went, I carried the gas mask I had purchased on the black market.
methane
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The blast, 610m below ground, is thought to have been caused by a mix of coal dust and methane gas .
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Four others are hooked into systems to control the release of methane gas .
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Experts believe the absence of water in the toilet allowed a lethal build-up of methane gas .
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Then it is combined with hydrogen in a catalytic converter to produce methane gas and water.
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It is the biggest single concept, many others being devoted to using methane gas at waste product dumps.
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That plant uses methane gas from the landfill to generate electricity.
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Furthermore, once initiated, the combustion of methane gas at 25°C is very spontaneous.
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As with domestic refuse, the problems of methane gas generation also exist when disposing of industrial waste underground.
mustard
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The leaves of cabbages, mustard and some other brassicas contain toxic mustard oil, similar to the deadly mustard gas .
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The world greeted the news as if President Tucker had reintroduced mustard gas .
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Gene mutations occur spontaneously and can be induced by mutagenic agents such has high temperature, mustard gas , and radiation.
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It was called mustard gas and was used at Ypres in 1917, when it caused many thousands of casualties.
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Four kids to rear and a husband coughing away his lungs from mustard gas .
nerve
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The nerve gas would only be released if the incorrect code was programmed twice into the computer.
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Yep, that Soviet nerve gas , all hooked up to a computerized bomb.
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The essence was there in all its hideous implication. Nerve gas tests with human tissue.
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And much of the liquid used to simulate nerve gas at the test site was contained by the wooden crates.
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A new form of nerve gas ?
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The fact was he had broken a Senate tie back in 1983 and voted for the production of nerve gas .
oven
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If you have a gas oven , you may use a special lighter wand to spark it off.
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Saturday night I always do the gas oven out.
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I knew that occasionally people put their heads in gas ovens , but there was no mention of that.
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His sister-in-law kills hers, along with its two small cousins, before swallowing poison herself sooner than surrender to the gas ovens .
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The blast - triggered when Alan lit his gas oven - had ripped off his clothes.
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Jimmy popped into the scullery then to turn the mutton chops in the pan in the gas oven .
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A month later she stuck her head into a gas oven .
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She even forgot about Rab, pondering between the river and the gas oven .
pipeline
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Many problems lie ahead for the development of gas pipelines , but the prospects are increasingly positive.
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Cities are full of gas stations, motor vehicles, natural gas pipelines , and the like.
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Without those proposals, I am sure that the gas pipeline would never even have got out of the locker.
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What should be the first region to be developed for the long-distance gas pipeline ?
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To fill the gap, imports from the Siberian gas pipeline are envisaged.
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But the war is also about the building of a gas pipeline .
poison
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It's a land where doom hangs upon the air like poison gas .
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At the time, however, I feared poison gas .
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There was fear of poison gas , in a nation where Zyklon-B was part of the collective memory.
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Bombs and poison gas would rain down on undefended cities.
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If this emission takes place it triggers the breaking of a vial of poison gas which instantaneously kills the cat.
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A heavy overcast like a poison gas cloud was stationary over the battered city.
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Whether it's against poison gas or pollution or radiation he can't say.
price
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The critical aspect still to be agreed was the gas price .
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The concept that has predominated is that higher oil and gas prices are better.
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In 1954 wellhead gas prices also came under government control.
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The high gas prices and long lines were prolonged by government interference in the private sector.
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But rising gas prices in the 1970s forced the corporation to abandon the project.
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Energy stocks ended the year on the upside, enjoying higher natural gas prices and lower inventories.
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Oil companies fell in response to weaker crude oil and natural gas prices .
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Natural gas prices also tumbled amid concern warmer weather would dampen demand for heating fuels.
production
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Figures produced at a World Energy Conference showed that oil and gas production should reach a peak between 1985 and 2000.
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Coal gas production became involved with safe gas explosions.
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The words add urgency to the administration's push to increase domestic oil and gas production .
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About 24 percent of such gas production globally is attributed to the United States.
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Oil and gas production in the Permian is on a seemingly inevitable decline.
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Conclusions Reservoir rocks suitable for gas production are widely developed in the Zechstein.
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The platform carbonates are probably the most important reservoir in the Zechstein and most gas production comes from these sediments.
reserve
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The Caspian basin, which is rich in oil and gas reserves , is central to his new foreign policy doctrine.
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It said it will use the net proceeds to acquire long-life natural gas reserves and exploit development opportunities.
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Chesapeake believes there are substantial oil and gas reserves in this eastern leg of the geological formation known as the Austin chalk.
ring
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He threw down the knife, turned off the gas ring and stamped down the hall.
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An analogy from control engineering would be a kettle on a gas ring .
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In one corner is a gas ring , in another a table with some school books on it.
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There is a gas ring in my room and the percolator is bubbling.
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And once he had realized that ... To the left of the gas ring was a note.
station
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Shortages of imported oil sparked lines at gas stations and sent energy prices skyrocketing.
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I pulled into a gas station this morning.
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In 1973 she married her present husband, Taufik Kiemas, a well-connected businessman who owns a string of gas stations .
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She then began pointing to a gas station , or what used to be a gas station.
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Dangling from one hand he carried the object he had brought from the corpse-strewn forecourt of the gas station .
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In many towns I stopped in, the public buildings were a store, a gas station , and a museum.
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Atop the gas station at Everett, Washington State.
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And that fall takes her to a nearby gas station , presided over by 20-something Jimmy.
stove
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The gas stove was commonplace enough, although very old, standing on four straight legs.
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Leila cooks on a tiny gas stove nestled into the hold of one of the boats.
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A is the armchair and E the gas stove .
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And where was her gas stove and the red rose bush from the yard?
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Then we boiled it dutifully and heated our tins on the Calor gas stove in the kitchen.
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She lights the gas stove , and makes herself a breakfast of muesli, wholemeal toast and decaffeinated coffee.
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To fight dirt costs more it you have only a gas stove on which to heat water.
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For many years I huddled over a calor gas stove in the winter and ate beans on toast.
supply
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Some estimates suggest that up to 11 percent of total gas supply in Britain is being lost.
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Now, with temperatures warming and demand easing, greater gas supply and pipeline space are becoming available.
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Alarms sound if gas supplies break down, and automatically connect reserve tanks.
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The gas supply situation is, however, the subject of some controversy with substantial differences appearing in estimates by authoritative groups.
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A simple change in the weather can make significant changes in demand on the gas supply system.
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Interruptible gas supplies undercut the cost of fuel oil considerably.
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But neither at school nor at home was there a gas supply .
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Wave charts show breathing pattern, and alarms sound if breathing falters or gas supplies are affected.
tank
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This will also entail moving the gas tanks which feed over 200 point heaters in the station throat.
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Others squeeze their bodies into gas tanks .
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Then fill up the gas tank .
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Find something to eat and fill up the gas tank and see what the day brought.
tax
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Sam Nunn said Thursday that he will support a minimum wage increase and oppose a repeal of the gas tax .
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The gas tax rollback, initiated because gasoline prices spiked this spring, has since fallen by the wayside.
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The White House sidestepped questions about linking the gas tax repeal with the minimum wage.
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Phil Gramm, R-Tex., urged his colleagues to cut the gas tax in order to help low-income families, Sen.
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The courageous thing for Clinton to do would be to veto the repeal of the gas tax .
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But that was before presidential politics intruded and the 4. 3-cent-a-gallon gas tax suddenly took on huge political import.
tear
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The Washington police fired tear gas at them and the gas was blown at once across the White House garden.
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Charlie mixed in some tear gas with the mine.
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The Army moved in with a water cannon and tear gas , forcing the marchers into hasty retreat.
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They had to use tear gas to drive off the rioters.
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On Sept. 17 reports stated that tear gas was used to halt protests at a Mandalay high school.
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A tear gas canister fatally wounded one young demonstrator.
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We tried to run out, but there was more tear gas outside the stadium.
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Initially rounds of tear gas were exchanged but later shots were fired.
turbine
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Subcontractor, Woodward Governor, also provided an interesting display with the Netcon 500 gas turbine monitoring and control system.
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The batteries are charged on-board by a small gas turbine auxiliary propulsion unit.
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The gas turbine also keeps the batteries topped up.
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One of its most significant features is the choice of a gas turbine rather than internal combustion engine.
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Rolls-Royce has a strong order book in aero gas turbines and the prospect of further large orders in a buoyant aircraft market.
■ VERB
light
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He lit the gas mantle and light beamed.
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The room was quite brightly lit by two gas brackets, one at each side of a shining black stove.
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She lit the gas and filled the kettle, then warmed her hands over the lid while the water boiled.
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He also lit the portable gas fire.
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She was able to light the gas and make tea in the big brown family teapot.
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She lights the gas stove, and makes herself a breakfast of muesli, wholemeal toast and decaffeinated coffee.
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He lit one of the gas mantles above the fireplace.
produce
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We don't just produce gas guzzlers.
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One is hemorrhage produced by gas in the capillaries in the eye socket.
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It took no more time to produce the gas by the new method than it did using metals and acids.
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Then it is combined with hydrogen in a catalytic converter to produce methane gas and water.
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Later he considered a centralised system able to produce gas for a whole neighbourhood.
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Another example is the use of both urban and agricultural wastes to produce methane gas under controlled fermentation.
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Methanol could well become a significant fuel for transportation and is already being produced from natural gas in New Zealand.
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These unexceptionable points, however, are merely the leaven that produce the gas to lighten the dough.
pump
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But, the Daily Mirror revealed in May, it will pump deadly Krypton gas back into the atmosphere.
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Before he made it to Broadway, Kelly pumped gas .
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Consequently all the cryogenic tanks and pipes were pre-cooled by pumping cold gas through the supply lines.
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He bootlegged whiskey, pumped gas , worked in a steel mill handling hot wire, stole hubcaps.
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After two years of college, Swensson completed a two-week Standard Oil training course and went to work pumping gas .
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He wanted to be an auto mechanic, but, really, he pumped gas .
run
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In time, local villages had piped gas , running from the gas generator.
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Mechanics were needed to keep them running , gas stations to fuel them, insurance agents to insure themthe list is endless.
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The engine was started and run solely on gasifier-produced gas and employed another ingenious hybrid device as a speed regulator.
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The other crash came about because the plane ran out of gas .
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Half way there you run out of gas .
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Five minutes later she ran out of gas .
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Or you could have your engine converted to run on gas .
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Has the husky engine of real estate that Cotton watched drive the county out of multiple recessions run out of gas ?
step
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According to his lawyer, Brooks claims he heard some one utter the N-word, so he stepped on the gas .
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A car honked behind him, and Miguel gratefully stepped on the gas .
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Miguel stepped on the gas , roaring past all of them with a gust of dirt.
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Then he stepped on the gas and sped away from him.
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He stepped on the gas suddenly.
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A movement toward the driver halted as he stepped on the gas , forcing the woman to jump out of his way.
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Miguel stepped on the gas and grinned.
turn
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Warm the solid and it turns straight back into gas .
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I went into my dark little room and turned on the gas jet.
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Leslie offloaded to Hodge, Tom Smith dummied and turned on the gas to score.
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I had turned out the gas jet and did not have a match with which to relight it.
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He turned on the gas and put a match to the stove so that it could warm the office.
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Ellie, who had the only key, arrived first and, turned up the gas heater in the large bright bedroom.
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As he turned out the gas jet he whistled to himself.
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The teakettle came to a boil and I turned the gas off.
use
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Extending the regulations to more types of gas appliances including premises using gas from cylinders or garden tanks.
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To eliminate scale-up assumptions demonstration data were obtained using a recycle gas flow configuration.
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The reason for that is the ability to use natural gas as a feedstock.
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Outside the group's headquarters, police and soldiers used tear gas against demonstrators.
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While addressing this economic question, how can we use natural gas to mitigate the environmental consequences of increased coal burning?
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But having looked at this I don't think I shall be using the gas , let's put it that way.
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They had to use tear gas to drive off the rioters.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gas/oil/water etc leak
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But firemen confirmed the blast at 3.42am was caused by a gas leak from a water heater.
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But responding to Nathan Bryce's flirting was about as wise as striking matches to find a gas leak .
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That was the occasion when a gas leak caused an explosion which wrecked an entire tenement.
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The first reactor was closed down for repairs earlier this year after a gas leak .
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The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak .
be cooking (with gas)
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Laundry flew from the flagpoles; windows were broken or boarded-up; there were cooking fires in the roads.
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Once in a while, think about why you are cooking , serving and eating together as a family.
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Soon I saw a small hut where an old man was cooking his breakfast over a fire.
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The air was rippling with heat above the goats, as if they were cooking .
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The East Village was cooking then.
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While parsnips are cooking , in a small skillet, saute onion and saffron in butter until soft but not browned.
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While the Quorn mixture is cooking , cook the rice according to the instructions.
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While the rice is cooking , add the saffron to the stock and allow to stand. 4.
coal/oil/gas field
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A slim slice of those revenues has always been cut for the communities in the oil fields , local politicians say.
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A third appraisal of this potentially significant heavy oil field will be drilled in 1993.
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For many residents of the oil fields , Pemex executives seem little different from the foreign overlords they replaced.
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Moreover there are indications that in this gas field a secondary fracture porosity may exist.
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North Shields became the export base for much of the South East Northumberland coal field .
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The downturn in the energy industry dragged on so long that workers drifted away and oil field equipment became outdated.
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We do know that most coal fields began life as swamps about 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous period.
gas/electricity/water etc supply
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But neither at school nor at home was there a gas supply .
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Is there an electricity supply ? 7.
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It is claimed the dust left behind pollutes water supplies .
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That left municipal water supply as the sole conceivable justification.
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The cisterns were the huge catchment tanks which held the city's water supply .
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The companies plan to apply the concept to gas and electricity supplies as well as security systems.
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This' black rain' left a sticky oily coating on people, livestock, crops, water supplies and buildings.
mains gas/water/electricity
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A smaller pond was pressure cleaned and filled with direct mains water.
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Even horse clippers were powered by this system, but this was replaced by mains electricity.
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Facilities are basic - only one has mains electricity - although all have a toilet and cold water.
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In every case there is mains electricity & a good water supply.
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My mains water is a problem.
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The station, seven miles from the nearest road, has no mains electricity.
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Used in such a way, there is no requirement for electricity, telephones, mains water or drainage.
noble gas/metal
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a gas stove
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But he was on a weekend break visiting relatives in the town when he sniffed the gas .
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Perhaps when unhappy people die they release an effluvium of depression, like marsh gas .
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With the M16, that gas was ported straight into the bolt.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
coal
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This ruling would appear to accommodate our 25: 75 percent gas: coal scenario.
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These reasons rest largely upon the intermediate nature of various properties of residual oil as compared to gas and coal .
oil
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That's more profit than the oil and gas industry and twice as much as the auto industry.
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But these conventional products caused problems for companies wanting to produce oil and gas offshore.
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S.-based oil companies now receive for taxes they pay on oil and gas produced abroad.
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These reasons rest largely upon the intermediate nature of various properties of residual oil as compared to gas and coal.
s
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The lower price estimate is based on new projections that show larger U. S . gas reserves than previously thought.
tear
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The guards used to fire blasts of tear-gas into the cells while forcing their occupants to shout out their names.
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The night sky was lit by flames from burning cars, the smoky air stinging with tear gas .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gas/oil/water etc leak
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But firemen confirmed the blast at 3.42am was caused by a gas leak from a water heater.
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But responding to Nathan Bryce's flirting was about as wise as striking matches to find a gas leak .
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That was the occasion when a gas leak caused an explosion which wrecked an entire tenement.
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The first reactor was closed down for repairs earlier this year after a gas leak .
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The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak .
coal/oil/gas field
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A slim slice of those revenues has always been cut for the communities in the oil fields , local politicians say.
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A third appraisal of this potentially significant heavy oil field will be drilled in 1993.
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For many residents of the oil fields , Pemex executives seem little different from the foreign overlords they replaced.
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Moreover there are indications that in this gas field a secondary fracture porosity may exist.
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North Shields became the export base for much of the South East Northumberland coal field .
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The downturn in the energy industry dragged on so long that workers drifted away and oil field equipment became outdated.
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We do know that most coal fields began life as swamps about 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous period.
gas/electricity/water etc supply
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But neither at school nor at home was there a gas supply .
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Is there an electricity supply ? 7.
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It is claimed the dust left behind pollutes water supplies .
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That left municipal water supply as the sole conceivable justification.
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The cisterns were the huge catchment tanks which held the city's water supply .
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The companies plan to apply the concept to gas and electricity supplies as well as security systems.
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This' black rain' left a sticky oily coating on people, livestock, crops, water supplies and buildings.
mains gas/water/electricity
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A smaller pond was pressure cleaned and filled with direct mains water.
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Even horse clippers were powered by this system, but this was replaced by mains electricity.
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Facilities are basic - only one has mains electricity - although all have a toilet and cold water.
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In every case there is mains electricity & a good water supply.
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My mains water is a problem.
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The station, seven miles from the nearest road, has no mains electricity.
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Used in such a way, there is no requirement for electricity, telephones, mains water or drainage.
noble gas/metal
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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5000 civilians were gassed to death by the army.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I was a long time because everyone was gassing in the shop.
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To get away from some guys in a Camaro who wanted to race, Juan says, the friend gassed the bike.
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You want to gas people, gas them after November fourth.