noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a river valley
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The route passes through beautiful wooded river valleys.
an ocean/sea/river current
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Ocean currents carry young fish out to sea.
cross (over) the road/street/river etc
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It’s easy to have an accident just crossing the road.
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He was hit by a car when he tried to cross over the road near Euston station.
divert a river/footpath/road etc
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Canals divert water from the Truckee River into the lake.
polluted air/water/rivers etc
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The project’s aim is to clean up polluted land.
river basin
river bed
river/sea fish
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Pike are river fish.
the sea/river bottom
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fish living on the sea bottom
water/river pollution
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The National Rivers Authority tests levels of water pollution.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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Next, the region became the delta of a great river .
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Nuln is the second biggest city of the Reikland and like Altdorf it sits astride the great river Reik.
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The Oceanids, the nymphs of this great river , were their daughters.
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He opened the door of a big airy room with views down to the great river itself.
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Round about Grace herself the great river deposited little but mounds of plastic containers.
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How much greater is the river flow in January compared with that in June?
■ NOUN
bank
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She went for him now, on the grassy river bank , surprising staider strolling couples.
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It started a fire which spread to the river bank .
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But the best place was the river bank .
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They built their homes out of the materials of the river bank itself.
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For example, mink have been radio-tracked along river banks inside major cities.
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It will include development of canal and river banks and extensive landscaping.
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Cross the stones then turn left to walk along the river bank .
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After the attack another lorry driver saw a man of the same height scrambling away from the river bank .
basin
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A considerable amount of time and money has been spent in pursuing the study of river basin dynamics.
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In the early 1940s, the Bureau devised the plan of considering an entire river basin as an integrated project.
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The results from the model can be used to answer questions relating to the long-term behaviour of the river basin .
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Another use of the simulation model might be to assess the effect of increasing the urban area lying within a river basin .
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The river basin is a well-defined spatial unit that is of great interest to hydrologists, geomorphologists and geographers.
bed
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A particularly interesting feature of the trestle piers was the method used for founding them on irregular river beds .
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These species do not grow in association with Lagenandra and Hygrophila because they do not occur in river beds .
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By 1803 the river beds , in some parts of the city, were two or three metres above the city.
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The cryptocorynes occur mainly in cultures of single species on overgrown river beds and are exposed to the conditions of amphibious life.
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It was thus possible to assemble a bridge pier and lower it complete on to the river bed .
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The entrepreneur made a million dollars out of Pet Rocks-rocks that you could find in any river bed .
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To my astonishment I find that we use the river bed as a road.
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By proceeding a little further, a scrambling descent to the river bed may be made.
mouth
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At Pevensey, reclamation of the adjacent estuary had reduced tidal scouring, which had previously kept the river mouth open.
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On Romney Marsh, silting of river mouths was worsened by the problem of peat shrinkage.
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On the other hand, once clear of the river mouth , he could sail a clear reach for Key Canaka.
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Trent believed that they were less than two miles from the river mouth .
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It seems unlikely that 69 could be taken to include river mouths .
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Visualising the chart, he calculated the distance to the Makaa river mouth at about twelve miles.
system
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Six species of fish are found only in the Mamberamo river system .
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The principal river systems and their major tributaries are described below.
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In tracing characteristic source-specific sub-populations of sediment passing through a river system the closest possible spacing of sieves may be required.
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The park was formed to preserve for ever the spectacular countryside, lakes and river systems created in the wake of the glacier.
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There were obvious oxbow lakes and many river systems .
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It exists only in the river systems of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra.
valley
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All records are for the river valleys , levels, or the coast.
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As the climate gradually became cooler and more moist, humans again moved in, usually following river valleys .
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The city of Belfast has a magnificent setting, ringed by high hills, sea lough and river valley .
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The truck roared and ripped down the last descent to the river valley .
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In most cases these are agricultural groups clinging to river valleys where water and nutrient rich soils are plentiful.
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Around the coast and in river valleys there are stretches of tropical jungle with pythons and other snakes.
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Nowhere up ahead did I see anything that looked like a river valley .
■ VERB
cross
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Chariots can not move over obstacles or difficult terrain except to cross a river at a bridge or ford.
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They immediately crossed the river and fired several houses in the village of DeSoto, so as to illuminate the river.
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The Earl Siward and his Northumbrian army have crossed the river Tweed.
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Her three children she had already packed into a wagonload of others in a caravan of Negroes crossing the river .
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How was she to cross the river ?
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Did you see the truck that was crossing the river and crashed through the ice?
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Follow the south shore, crossing the river where it is shallow enough.
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Carrying a child on his shoulders, he also crossed a billowing river on his knees.
flow
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The clean water can then flow back into the river .
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The streets flowed with rivers of women dressed in their plain black dresses, all on their way to work.
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Enjoy flowing with the river for as long as you wish - then gently come back to the room.
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Ejected from our bodies, the spirit flows out on the river of blood, losing its name and its place.
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The chemical effluent from the process flows untreated into the rivers .
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The mine was shut down last August after a spill of polluted water from a waste pond flowed into a nearby river .
follow
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The Clyde cycleway provides a traffic-free route from Glasgow centre and follows the river Clyde to its source.
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As the climate gradually became cooler and more moist, humans again moved in, usually following river valleys.
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We were deployed to follow the river .
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They followed rivers for convenience, then struck out in a straight line, bisecting mountain ranges, cutting watersheds in half.
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Then follow the river to Mertoun Bridge.
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And because the railroads often followed river valleys, not many homestead acres lay in well-watered bottomlands.
pollute
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It says that the company razed forests, polluted rivers , retarded crop growth and caused birth defects.
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Businesses that polluted the river were fined.
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Transnational oil and mining companies pollute rivers and finance grossly disruptive mines.
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The River Doe Lea is much more polluted than all other rivers in the area.
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Water rising through abandoned mines could pollute rivers , kill wildlife and contaminate drinking water.
run
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Mr Camdessus, the blood is so much, you know, it runs in rivers .
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Shadows ran down like rivers from the airy uplands, filling the depths with a gathering chill.
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Wally walked me over to the steel pipes running horizontally along the river side of the promenade.
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The Dvortsovaya runs along the Neva river and in front of the State Hermitage.
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All that snow in New Hampshire is running for the river .
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Far below, leaves blew across the concourse, piling against the railings which ran beside an inhospitable river Thames.
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They say we need more rain because most of the downpour will run down the rivers to the sea.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
drag a lake/river etc
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Police were still dragging lakes all over the Catskills.
sell sb down the river
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The workers were promised that they would not lose their jobs as a result of the merger. Later they found out that they had been sold down the river.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A passenger sitting next to me flung a coin into the river with great enthusiasm.
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He lit one of his Gauloise cigarettes, sat back in his chair, and stared at the river in silence.
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In the dry season, the wonderfully cool river water is a stunning blue-green in the deep pools below the falls.
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The river was dangerous here, still gnawing at the rim of the path.
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The other rivers from the Pennines are roughly the same size.
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The toll includes drowned livestock, ruined wheat crops and boats torn from their moorings on rivers around the north state.
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Transnational oil and mining companies pollute rivers and finance grossly disruptive mines.