noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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They were thus especially suitable to guard sacred relics and great sanctuaries .
new
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A new sanctuary had been built.
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The new sanctuary has been set up on dry prairie land south of Lac Leman.
■ NOUN
bird
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It is used by fishermen and is designated a bird sanctuary .
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Nearby is the Heritage Museum of local history and the Wildfowl Trust bird sanctuary .
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Perhaps the only way of getting a picture would be to take one in a bird sanctuary .
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Today, the site at Amchitka in the Aleutian Islands is a bird sanctuary .
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A number of bird sanctuaries were seriously affected by the spill.
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You can take a boat trip along the coast to Lundy Island, the famous bird sanctuary .
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Read in studio Thieves have stolen seventeen rare parrots from a bird sanctuary .
wildlife
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Read in studio A wildlife sanctuary has appointed it's first resident artist.
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A wildlife sanctuary is releasing eight of the animals into a special protected set.
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At the wildlife sanctuary in Caerlaverock you can see natterjack toads, and in winter flocks of geese arrive.
■ VERB
find
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Joan found the transition from sanctuary to Tower wholly satisfactory.
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They fled with their father by ship to Argos, where they found sanctuary .
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How did she know that she could find sanctuary in the familiar and the ordinary?
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She found sanctuary in this remote place where she stayed alone for fifteen years.
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He found sanctuary in the Priory church.
leave
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Even if she left the dubious sanctuary of the car she had no clue to the best direction in which to seek help.
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It was necessary, she told her persuasively, that she leave sanctuary for the time being.
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Now tell them firmly to leave your inner sanctuary .
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Heaving his body up to his feet he left his cool sanctuary and ambled over towards them.
seek
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Like you, I intend to seek sanctuary with Resenence Jeopardy.
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But word also had it that he was up in Abra, seeking sanctuary from the government at a church.
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After a few hundred yards, he sought sanctuary in a nearby house.
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He had instructed Simon to wait, and had sought sanctuary in the corner of the Chamber.
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Where monks sat in quiet contemplation, guests now seek sanctuary from the city's bustle amid lush palms and ivy.
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Nor did he seek sanctuary in numbers.
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Suchinda had resigned on May 24 and had subsequently sought sanctuary in a military barracks in Bangkok, the capital.
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Would a person like Crevecoeur be so desperate as to seek sanctuary in such a place?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I thought of my bedroom as a sanctuary .
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The center is a sanctuary for battered women.
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The Church should be a sanctuary for the oppressed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After 20 calls to animal sanctuaries a person who would foster Holly was found, so that the woman could have her operation.
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Behind them all walked Bishop Corrada, who sat in the sanctuary , solemn and stone-faced, throughout the liturgy.
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But the mountains are more than sanctuaries.
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Even if she left the dubious sanctuary of the car she had no clue to the best direction in which to seek help.
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It is a society with few sanctuaries when protectors turn upon you.
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My insight into this came at the Ranthambhor tiger sanctuary in Rajasthan.
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So school becomes a sanctuary , a haven of stability, hot food and teachers who care.