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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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benedictine
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Now he enjoys the popularity that being the worlds oldest benedictine monk brings.
buddhist
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He was in his mid-thirties, tall and thin, with searching eyes and hair cropped like a Buddhist monk .
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He shaved his head and donned the saffron robes of a Buddhist monk to proselytize in the temples.
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Any proposals to grant rights to the Tamils have to get the prior approval of Buddhist monks .
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Thousands of Buddhist monks were executed and their monasteries closed.
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A Buddhist monk offered prayers for their health and happiness in contrast to the royal couple's general downcast attitude.
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In August 1990 two Buddhist monks were shot dead by soldiers at an anti-government demonstration in Mandalay.
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The order of Buddhist monks and nuns has a reasonable claim, having been established during the Buddha's lifetime.
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Industrious Buddhist monks laid out gardens everywhere full of abstract patterns that preceded Picasso by centuries.
cistercian
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The Cistercian monks with their lay brothers administered the abbey wool trade.
old
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As Eadmer reported, there was nothing more precious to the older monks than the recollection of the saints and their miracles.
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There they chanced on the ruins of a temple, where among the broken walls an old monk had established his hermitage.
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Third, his sympathy for the traditions of the old Canterbury monks .
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The allegations of indecency concern a complaint by a 17 year old trainee monk .
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Now he enjoys the popularity that being the worlds oldest benedictine monk brings.
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It's understood that allegations of indecency were made by a 17 year old trainee monk in Brixton.
■ VERB
become
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The idea of becoming a monk vanished from Ramsey's heart.
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John then became a monk and built his own monastery in Vallombrosa, from the wood of a nearby forest.
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In 737 Ceolwulf abdicated and was tonsured, apparently this time at his own request, to become a monk on Lindisfarne.
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He left the battle against the Mercians to become a monk .
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On 24 September he went into retreat at Mirfield in Yorkshire, where once he thought of becoming a monk .
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Father Francis McLachlan first became a monk in 1924.
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Only a person of non-servile status might be ordained a clerk or become a monk or nun.
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Saint Columban himself, after becoming a monk , lived and studied with a bard in Leinster.
live
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The monks who worship and live here are allowed to do almost anything a holy man is not supposed to do.
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Ivan founded a monastery at Cetinje, and it was from the monks who lived there that the orthodox bishops were chosen.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the next thing he remembered was the minibus stopping and the monks helping him into it.
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Benedict and lived all his days as a devout monk .
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But at least there were no monks in there praying either.
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Each monk received good clothing, although bathing took place only irregularly unless they were ill.
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The income from admission fees helps the monks finance a lifestyle that might otherwise be impossible in the modern world.
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The warrior monks, they were known as.
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This was a panel showing a sturdy bald monk leering at a geisha.
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Throughout the centuries, the monks of Clonmacnoise had suffered from raiders sailing up the Shannon to plunder the monastic city.