noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
aerial
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In 1932 Stanley Baldwin had revealed that, in the opinion of the experts, there was no defence against aerial bombardment .
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Taylor was forced to retreat to the eastern outskirts of Monrovia on Oct. 12 following aerial bombardment of his positions.
heavy
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Most, it had to be recognised, would have been unable to resist a heavy and sustained bombardment .
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Despite a heavy bombardment of the Occra Hills the abuses resumed almost immediately.
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On April 27 there was a heavy bombardment of Sarajevo, and fighting intensified thereafter.
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Establish as heavy a bombardment as the cannon will stand against the walls and the guns by the walls.
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In these theories the late heavy bombardment can be separate from accretion, as in curve B in Figure 6.9.
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This is called the late heavy bombardment .
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Outline the evidence that some sort of late heavy bombardment occurred on all terrestrial planets. 5.
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Outline the arguments for and against the late heavy bombardment of a terrestrial planet occurring after its formation. 6.
naval
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Scarborough had even suffered a naval bombardment !
■ NOUN
artillery
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The effects of the artillery bombardment and the air strikes had been devastating.
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Worse yet, their presence frequently meant indiscriminate artillery bombardments against innocent villages suspected of harboring the Vietcong.
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But for some extraordinary reason these bombers were wasted on attacking rail junctions that were already under effective artillery bombardment .
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The next day they withdrew under sporadic artillery bombardment .
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This took the form of an artillery bombardment in which 6000 were killed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The devastating air bombardment of the last four weeks is only the latest of a series of assaults by foreign armies.
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The Germans began their bombardment of Paris in early 1870.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the ejection of grains by bombardment will not be even on a surface such as that shown in Fig. 1 1.2.
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Despite a heavy bombardment of the Occra Hills the abuses resumed almost immediately.
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Most, it had to be recognised, would have been unable to resist a heavy and sustained bombardment .
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These factors, however, made the camps prime targets for enemy attack and bombardment .
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Thunder exploded, roll after roll after roll, so that there seemed to be no gap between but only an incessant bombardment .
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You can not imagine what the first few minutes of that bombardment were like.