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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ancient
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The ancient manuscript which sparks it all off is ingeniously devised to yield two possible meanings, one mystic, one mundane.
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The result of this sad story is that we have 4, 000 ancient Samaritan manuscripts all over the world.
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Other ancient manuscripts give the number as seventy-two which shows that even then there was some confusion about statistics!
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We went on a tour of the ancient manuscripts , the antique mazes.
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Many feature museums displaying such artifacts as ancient icons and manuscripts , stylized crosses and other ritual objects.
early
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The historical sections of the exhibition include early charters, manuscripts , views of London before and after the Great Fire.
illuminated
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The result is a candidate for the best book on illuminated manuscripts ever written.
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An in-depth study of the production of hand-written illuminated manuscripts by medieval monks.
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She also restored illuminated manuscripts for Ruskin.
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Here there are 100,000 old books and illuminated manuscripts , some dating back to the tenth century.
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The screens of our word-machines glow as serenely as illuminated manuscripts .
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His own collection of miniatures was begun, he has said, because he could not afford to purchase entire illuminated manuscripts .
medieval
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Many medieval manuscripts have decorated borders filled with comic animals and birds and people.
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It comprises an extensive accumulation of medieval manuscripts , and a number of antiquarian collections.
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It was perfect, like the letter-high illuminations in a medieval manuscript .
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Similar techniques have been used on the fire-damaged medieval manuscripts of our Cotton collection.
old
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Any College treasures, any old manuscripts for example?
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He found old manuscripts and adapted or arranged them for groups performing ancient and baroque music.
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Nearly a hundred years ago there emerged from an obscure Suffolk parish an eight hundred year old manuscript book of the Gospels.
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Ward kept old manuscripts down there.
■ NOUN
copy
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The assignments will include typing of varying difficulty from printed and manuscript copy .
■ VERB
find
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Here we find that the manuscripts themselves may vary in the figures they give.
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He found old manuscripts and adapted or arranged them for groups performing ancient and baroque music.
include
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The collection, which included rare artefacts and manuscripts , was encased in the bubbles whilst the bookcases were treated for woodworm.
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Types of material treated include books, manuscripts , maps, globes, photographs and ephemera material.
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This epilogue is included in still fewer manuscripts than the shorter prologue.
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The historical sections of the exhibition include early charters, manuscripts , views of London before and after the Great Fire.
read
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Holmes is alone, leaning back in his chair, reading a manuscript piled on his desk.
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Having read both manuscripts carefully I had no doubts at all that both men were speaking the truth.
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It was therefore an important moment when Tolkien gave Lewis the Lay of Leithian to read in manuscript .
send
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Submission Format: Send the complete manuscript .
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This is how it should be: a fast publication of results after a conference or after sending in a manuscript .
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And it also it makes more fun sending in a manuscript .
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It must be rare for a publishing house to be sent a manuscript twice after an interval of 62 years.
survive
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The E text, despite surviving in a manuscript eighty years younger than that of C, may sometimes preserve better readings.
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As well as church music many of the earliest troubadour lyrics, with their accompanying melodies, survive in manuscripts from St Martial's.
write
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In Britain, copyright exists as soon as a song is recorded on to tape or written on manuscript .
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John Ferrar's Life of Nicholas was not published at the time when it was written and the manuscript disappeared until 1790.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
illuminated manuscript/book
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An in-depth study of the production of hand-written illuminated manuscripts by medieval monks.
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Here there are 100,000 old books and illuminated manuscripts, some dating back to the tenth century.
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His own collection of miniatures was begun, he has said, because he could not afford to purchase entire illuminated manuscripts.
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It selects 140 illuminated books such as the Sherborne Missal and the Bedford Hours.
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She also restored illuminated manuscripts for Ruskin.
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The result is a candidate for the best book on illuminated manuscripts ever written.
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The screens of our word-machines glow as serenely as illuminated manuscripts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All Kingston's original manuscripts were lost in the fire.
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ancient manuscripts
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The finished manuscript was sent to the publisher on 3 January.
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We were shown some of the ancient manuscripts and rare books that are kept in the British Library.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Among the first to see the manuscript were two of his colleagues, journalist Dontun Adebayo and editor Steve Pope.
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Back went the manuscripts to other editors.
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Dear Professor Doctor: Your manuscript is safe.
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He gathered up the music manuscript into a tidy pile and put his pencil slant-wise across the top.
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Just the chance to transcribe the manuscripts was the most fantastic luck, the greatest thing that's ever happened to me.
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The books were in manuscript and the text was interspersed with lively pen-and-ink sketches.
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This did not deter him, as, between 1980 and 1984, he completed over 400 pages of manuscript .