COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
built environment
built...from scratch
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He had built the business up from scratch .
specially designed/built/made etc
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The boats are specially built for the disabled.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Rome wasn't built in a day
be built of sth
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Many of the houses are built of brick.
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Everything seems to be built of mirrors - what on earth has happened to brick?
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Gley's chambers were built of one of the new metals created through the exigencies of war.
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It made a sound like he was built of hollow wood.
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Its sister mission in Tumacacori was built of adobe and has crumbled under the weight of the years.
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The church was built of brick and chicken wire.
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The colossal church in southern Charlotte is built of glass and steel spires, rising above its stone front.
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The evidence suggests that almost all the village houses in earlier days were built of dried mud with thatched roofs.
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Very few of the stations on what was built of the Cape to Cairo railway were anything more than small wayside halts.
heavily built
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A heavily built man in a corduroy jacket edged closer to him on his left.
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Angus is heavily built and fair.
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Constantine was tall, heavily built and had a commanding presence.
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He was certainly a heavily built man, but a lot of it was fat.
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In a rough kind of way he was good-looking, but he was heavily built and looked an aggressive type.
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Luckily, my shield was heavily built.
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Shorter than Carver - five foot seven - he was heavily built with wide shoulders and stocky legs.
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To his left was a heavily built grey-haired man, who looked straight ahead.
slightly-built