adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
natural/synthetic/man-made etc fibre
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Nylon is a man-made fibre.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
chemical
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But what about patients who are apparently fit and healthy until they suffer a massive exposure to toxic man-made chemicals ?
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Do man-made chemicals affect our fertility?
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Sensitivity to man-made chemicals also seems to be part of the picture.
fibre
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They were given a grandstand view of how the world's first new man-made fibre for 30 years is manufactured.
fibres
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Polyester has become one of the most successful of the man-made fibres .
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For exceptional durability other man-made fibres are used.
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She looks as if she's made of man-made fibres you see.
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Made mainly of man-made fibres such as viscose, acetate or blends.
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And there are outlets for it in plastics, rubber and man-made fibres .
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Many new qualities were introduced into these man-made fibres that could not be obtained from their natural counterparts.
island
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Osaka has fought back with a splurge of infrastructure projects, most notably a new international airport perched upon a man-made island .
lake
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Rutland Water is a large man-made lake situated just east of Oakham.
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The remote Sylvan Lake Lodge overlooks a striking man-made lake and spruce forest.
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In 1968 they were raised to their present position to escape inundation by the rising waters of a man-made lake .
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Going has its own man-made lake , the Badesee which is popular with swimmers and sun worshippers.
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Fifteen metres below the surface of a man-made lake , the unknown treasures of ancient Rome will be abandoned for ever.
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Farmers claim that there are high levels of lead, zinc and cyanide in a man-made lake .
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To use an artificial lure to catch a hand-reared fish in a man-made lake seems a funny kind of sport to me.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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man-made fibers
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a man-made lake
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Current weather problems may actually be man-made , a direct result of environmental damage.
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The amusement park is built around a man-made lake.
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The coat is 80% wool and 20% man-made fibers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Beneath this man-made mechanism of oppression are the people, literally distanced from their surroundings by Kahlo's use of photo-collage.
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But what about patients who are apparently fit and healthy until they suffer a massive exposure to toxic man-made chemicals?
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Gardening is really interfering with nature; it's man-made and you're putting the plants where you want them.
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I suspect the yellowish colour is due to the pollution in the air-our own man-made pollution.
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Louis did well to take Carlat, its fortifications natural as well as man-made .
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Some seek personal de-criminalisation and rehabilitation, others have a more fundamental objection to man-made laws and courts as such.
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The arrival of man-made instruments represented the supplanting and indeed deliberate transcending of nature by human values.
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We can then see that such areas have developed fairly recently, and very largely at the expense of man-made landscapes.