adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
army
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If so, they may have reckoned without the fleet, which provided the Roman army with its mobility.
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The picture Weiser begins drawing on the white board looks like a diagram of a Roman army .
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A massive Roman army besieged Jerusalem, utterly destroying the Temple and razing the city to the ground.
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This extremely masculine religion appealed to the Roman army .
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This long involvement with the Roman army deserves a separate consideration elsewhere.
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The dual organization of the Roman army reflected of course the dual organization of the Roman state.
catholic
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The devout Roman Catholic said she got involved with Richard because he said he cared for her and he was single.
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She was a Roman Catholic , which Papa didn't like.
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Two C of E and a Roman Catholic .
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Religion: Christianity-around 70% Roman Catholic , 15% Protestant.
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Certainly, Mr Patten, a Roman Catholic , ought to be able to appreciate casuistry.
catholicism
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He resigned his office but was retained on the council when he announced his reversion to Roman Catholicism .
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Ultimately, the king was swayed to Roman Catholicism by his prisoner.
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To guard the Church's other flank, Taylor was asked by his colleagues to write a book against Roman Catholicism .
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The Moravian Church, not Roman Catholicism , is the largest religion.
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His real purpose was to further the cause of Roman Catholicism .
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Moreover, he overcame what many saw as his main problem - his Roman Catholicism - by meeting it head on.
church
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The kingdom of Sicily, it was agreed, belonged to the Roman Church .
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The kingdom of Sicily became a fief of the Roman Church during the minority of Frederick.
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The Roman church was exercising leadership long before anyone appealed to this text.
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Like most Roman churches , the building is of brick and is fronted by a porch and open narthex.
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Trifling though they may appear, these are the conventionally cited points of contention between the Celtic and Roman churches .
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Innocent had been brought up within the structure of the Roman Church .
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The South is seen as dominated by the Roman church .
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He was an archbishop, the king's chief minister, but he was also a cardinal of the Roman church .
city
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No, the walled Roman city hasn't unearthed an Underground among its excavations.
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George Grindal remembered that some twelve feet below him lay the remains of a Roman city where once Constantine was proclaimed Emperor.
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Apart from these walls little remains today of the great Roman city laid out by Constantine and his successors.
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Nearby Carthage contains the intriguing ruins of that once prestigious Phoenician and Roman city .
coin
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The Roman coins showed the head and inscription of the Emperor.
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Many people spend years detecting without ever finding Roman coins .
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Research Please can you identify this Roman coin for me?
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I issue a monthly list, with the main emphasis on Roman coins .
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In his bedroom he had a collection of Roman coins .
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Finds of Roman coins and pottery within the graveyard may indicate a similar relationship.
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Coins date: Roman coins unearthed in Malton will go on show at the town's museum from April 18.
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This is by far the largest cache of Roman coins to be uncovered in Britain since the eighteenth century.
emperor
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Hadrian Road was named after the Roman emperor who, we agreed, must have genetically bequeathed to us some superlative qualities.
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It's like that Roman Emperor who made his horse into a consul.
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A number of the Roman emperors were great patrons of building and endorsed and encouraged extensive schemes of architectural development.
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This is the only example portraying a Roman Emperor which has survived intact from such an early age.
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He would have made a good bad Roman Emperor .
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The deposition of Nepos and then that of Romulus Augustulus in 476 saw the end of the line of western Roman emperors .
empire
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Mass-production of greenish glass also occurred at the western end of the Roman Empire as mentioned above.
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It was luxuries like A / C that brought down the Roman Empire .
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Pausanias the traveller, under the Roman empire , saw one wooden column still surviving inside.
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Almost a thousand buildings are represented, mainly from the city of Rome and from eastern provinces of the Roman empire .
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Henry died with the title of emperor of the Holy Roman Empire .
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It is through talk that our children learn about barometers, mortgages, civil rights, psychotherapy, and the Roman Empire .
glass
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One possible source of the antimony might be recycled Roman glass tesserae.
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The glass contains lower soda and generally higher aluminia than found in Roman glasses.
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They suggest that Roman glass was melted down and recycled to make a range of distinctive early medieval vessel forms.
law
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There were some striking continuities in terms of the survival of Roman law and custom and language.
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Formulary procedure was the classical procedure of Roman law .
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Roman Law B: non-classical Roman Law.
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Childebert's legislation is remarkable not only for its range, but also for its clear dependence on Roman Law .
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Most of the wordings initially used for trusts in Roman law are words that could be described as precatory.
nose
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Both had a slightly Roman nose .
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Black curls, a handsome Roman nose , shining sharp senseless saliva-moist teeth.
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It was time to rub that handsome Roman nose of his in the dirt.
period
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For the Roman period , settlement patterns are perhaps a little more precise.
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In the Hellenistic and Roman periods mystery religions and cults spread through the ancient world.
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The mercury method, so popular in the Roman period for gilding, can also be used for silvering bronze and brass.
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Coins of the Roman period have been found in the woods and fields around the village.
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Much the same picture emerges at Dragonby throughout the Roman period .
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Both tumbler and lever locks were in everyday use quite early in the Roman period , as excavations at Pompeii have shown.
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This overlapped to a considerable degree the Roman bath concept and adaptations had to be made in the Imperial Roman period .
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Interestingly, the use of key rings is confined solely to the Roman period .
road
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He and his falconer go out perhaps once in a week along the ridge towards the Roman road from Shrewsbury.
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Return is by way of the old Roman road to Biberwier.
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Of the Roman roads of the district, one need say little.
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The next morning they began their gruelling journey up the ancient Roman road which ran from London's city wall into Oxfordshire.
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A much odder but more interesting Roman road is that running north-east from Bicester on its way to Towcester in Northamptonshire.
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Three miles away at Wheeldale is a perfectly preserved stretch of Roman road .
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It was not until the eighteenth century that the Roman road was re-used and became important as a through route.
rule
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It was extremely unpopular because it was a symbol of Roman rule .
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It spread from there to Rome, and also to Athens and as far as London under Roman rule .
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After the end of Roman rule , the picture is equally unclear.
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They never asked a question about the justice of Roman rule nor about the real sources of her power.
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Taken as a whole, by the late fourth century the two dioceses had gained much from four centuries of Roman rule .
times
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A little later, in Ancient Roman times , the mobbing display again appears in the art of the day.
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Peafowl have been domesticated and valued as a special food dish for the rich since Roman times !
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The site is very exposed on that side, in Roman times there was a woodland there, so it was sheltered.
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It was the first major concrete structure to be built in Britain since Roman times .
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Verdun had a long history: it was an important city in Roman times .
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The calendar we use was developed in Roman times .
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He says the current road-building programme is the biggest in this country since Roman times .
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It was as if I were back in Roman times .
town
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There were not many pagans left in Roman towns by the middle of the fifth century.
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Towcester Perhaps most famous today for its Racecourse, it was originally the Roman town of Lactodorum.
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The road through the Roman town was abandoned and re-routed just outside it, presumably in the fifth or sixth centuries.
villa
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The merchant stared round the ruined Roman villa .
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Found in a Roman villa at Lullingstone, Kent.
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Many Roman villas were built in the form of a rectangle - buildings on three sides and a wall on the fourth.
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It was discovered at the earlier date that the remains of an impressive Roman villa straddled the course boundary.
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The town of Brading has a Roman villa with fine mosaic floors and a medieval church.
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An excavation of a Roman villa , for example, can produce several tons of small fragments of pottery, glass and tiles.
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Rebuild the Roman villa and use it for a hydro and health farm.
wall
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As recent work indicated. it too was redeveloped within its older Roman walls on a huge scale in late Saxon times.
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There are also remains of baths, a theatre and many parts of the Roman walls , with gates and towers preserved.
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The Normans were later to add their own castle, Pevensey Castle, inside the Roman walls .
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Finch had grown up in Northumberland, twenty miles from Henry, near the Roman Wall .
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The Roman Wall was built as much to keep people in, as to keep the wild tribes from the north out.
world
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This is understandable because the Gospels were written at a time when the Church had to exist in a Roman world .
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From richer areas of the Roman world , sarcophagi have been found with many of the Labours in relief.
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He ordered a census throughout the Roman world .
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It was egalitarian and free from the weakening and divisive influence of the Roman world and of urban society.
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In the Roman world it was probably responsible for any expansions which occurred in trade and equally for any constraints that existed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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First she posed as a Roman centurion and did a bit of torture.
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It's a Roman Catholic boarding school attached to a Benedictine Monastery.
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It would be just her and Roman at the breakfast-table.
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The Alliance Party had a slightly Roman Catholic image with the man in the street.
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The high grey walls of the Roman fort provided a screen for these modern soldiers and their bizarre equipment.
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The picture Weiser begins drawing on the white board looks like a diagram of a Roman army.
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Under Augustus legislation was passed to allow freed slaves to marry and their children to become Roman citizens.