noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a church bell
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She woke on Sunday morning to the sound of church bells.
a church clock (= one on the outside of a church tower )
a church wedding
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I wanted a church wedding.
a16th-/19th- etc century house/church etc
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They live in a 17th-century farmhouse.
Church of England
Church of Scotland
church school
church/village hall (= used by people who live in a place )
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A coffee morning is to be held in the village hall.
entered the Church (= became a priest )
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He entered the Church as a young man.
Episcopal Church
High Church
Low Church
parish church
the village hall/school/shop/church
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A meeting will be held at the village hall on Tuesday.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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Look at what we can learn from the black churches .
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Far into the next century, Du Bois lost support of many black church people when he espoused the creed of Marxism.
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He circulated them to black churches and initially got some resistance because of his history as a blues artist.
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In recent weeks, black churches have burned in such places as Elko, Ga..
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The next day Kennedy was addressing a meeting in a black church in Los Angeles.
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Working with black ministers, it asked each black church to find at least one family willing to adopt a child.
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This dear woman brought the clean washing in a black bag to church and left it in the vestibule.
catholic
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Dickinson stopped outside a Catholic church on the outskirts of St Denis.
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Outsiders would not respect the hierarchies of leaders whose ranks were as formally defined as those of the Roman Catholic church .
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There is a Roman Catholic church with a Virgin Mary statue out front.
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Our families are restored by forces of regeneration from both fundamentalist Protestant and traditionalist Catholic churches .
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Look too for the cupola and arched ceilings that marry the high decoration of Catholic churches with an excellent sense of style.
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The attack was within the context of a speech largely praising the Roman catholic church in Ireland.
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It wasn't defined by the Roman Catholic church until 1854.
early
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The early church faced this problem too.
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This phase of religious intensification began in the late 1950s and early 1960s when church membership began to grow across all denominations.
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St Mark was writing at a time when the early church was under terrible persecution.
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The problem of her scant appearances in the New Testament was readily solved by early church scholars.
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If all of the evidence for early church sites is put together, we can see that these were widespread before 1066.
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This is an early church , dating from the ninth-century, which was rebuilt under the direction of San Carlo Borromeo.
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Some of the early church fathers used to argue that marriage was more of a sacrifice than celibacy.
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It is a well-preserved and particularly fine example and one of the four early churches extant.
local
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He was involved in the establishing of local administration, churches and schools.
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He took orders from no bishop and could start a local church at any crossroads at which he could attract a gathering.
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Below: Skyview of Pembury in Kent use this delightful view of a local church as their business card.
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Typically when the Graham crusade goes into a community, it garners participation from a third of the local churches .
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The local guide book will provide information on local churches and public services.
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Bennett and others promote cultural renewal through public sermonizing and support for local initiatives like church programs to teach parental responsibility.
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Embracing local and provincial churches was the Church, headed by the papacy.
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Then one lady wrote and said that the ladies of the local church should do it for us.
new
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Then, as the congregation grew, she bought land off Edge Hill and had a fine new church built in 1887.
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When you start a new church , if you begin informatively you promote healthy natural growth among these people.
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And yet many of these new churches have to confess they find themselves in precisely this position.
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They are now back in this country in the process of establishing new Vineyard churches .
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If my people ... Behind all these initiatives, the new church needs to pray.
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The houses remained until the early 1950s when they were knocked down to make way for the new church .
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But at the same time, they are to start planting new churches .
old
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The final indignities suffered by our old church has been in the last few years.
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In that office he translated the old church language about a sense of mission, redirecting it to the nation.
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If the manor was opulent, the old church was positively bleak.
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The ruins of old Seagoe church are to be seen in the lower graveyard.
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His greatest holiday delight was to view old churches and their stained glass.
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It was also in Edessa that the oldest known church was built, then destroyed in A.D. 201.
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Along with the name came the Servite Fathers who had officiated at the old church .
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It used to be the site of an old church , and has already been previously excavated.
orthodox
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The monks of Valaam could be regarded as the future of the orthodox church .
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Austin has two main Orthodox churches .
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Many areas in which the new buildings are going up already have Orthodox churches with a shortage of parishioners.
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Like all Orthodox churches it was divided into three sections.
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During Lent, in the Orthodox churches , the gospels are read at a single sitting.
roman
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The Roman church was exercising leadership long before anyone appealed to this text.
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The Roman Catholic church forbade the wedding of cousins.
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There is a Roman Catholic church with a Virgin Mary statue out front.
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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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The attack was within the context of a speech largely praising the Roman catholic church in Ireland.
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The Roman catholic church , in episcopal statements, unequivocally condemns violence North or South.
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Away from the shops, the Roman Catholic church faced a wide tree-lined eighteenth-century street.
■ NOUN
bell
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The church bell was tolling mournfully as the carriage entered the cemetery gate.
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The air was filled with the tolling of church bells .
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It was as if a harvest festival were enacted daily, for throughout the hours of market the church bell tolled quietly.
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Last night I heard church bells in the background.
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The window was open at the top and I could hear the church bells ringing in the distance.
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The church bells were ringing, and the streets were filled with well-dressed people.
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In the distance he heard the church bells signal the awakening of a new day.
hall
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Rehearsals every day in church hall from ten till five-thirty.
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In March 1973 the Trustees returned to the original idea of building a church hall attached to the Memorial hall.
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It's much easier to hide in a church hall !
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He would be at the next meeting in the church hall along with Swire Sugden, and were they in for a surprise!
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Sadberge met their rivals, Haughton-le-Skerne, near Darlington, in Haughton church hall yesterday for a championship game.
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I started up the bagpipes and was soon under way, marching up and down the church hall .
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When I walked into that church hall I was unaware of what was to come next.
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The village supports a church hall and a village institute.
leader
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In 1859 the tsar intervened personally to prevent church leaders from consigning Belliustin to a monastery in the White Sea.
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Northern church leaders used equally strong language about their southern counterparts.
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New converts and transfers in should be introduced to the church leaders and members of the congregation.
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Similar appeals to restive Protestant gunmen came Thursday from civic and church leaders and government officials.
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Prophets and priests, disciples and church leaders are male.
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Civic and church leaders are turning to downtown businesses for help in replacing shrinking government resources.
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You are also asked to keep your church leaders informed of your involvement so that they can ensure you are adequately supported.
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It would be headed by the Monarch, followed by the Lord Mayor of London, the aristocracy and church leaders .
music
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The tradition of church music was confused by the peculiar nature of Henry VIII's semi-Reformation.
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Together with the evident popularity of cathedral music , these are a cause of encouragement for church music in this country.
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However, it is the combination of words and music which constitutes what most people understand as church music.
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Most of its 3,000 members are Anglicans and many of them work in the field of church music .
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Another body concerned with qualifications in church music is the Guild of Church Musicians.
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Chosen with discrimination, they make a welcome addition to parish church music .
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And that voice was nothing like the voice he had heard on the tape of church music .
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Sales of traditional church music records are boosted annually before Christmas, with a wide variety of recordings of carols.
parish
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Main character established between twelfth and fifteenth centuries, with the choir later restored for use as parish church .
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Even in the parish churches it is heard lingering among the faithful.
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This was the only Nonconformist chapel Butterfield ever designed and in 1976 it became a parish church .
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Father Luke pedalled backwards in the direction of Whitechapel's parish church and fell over the barrow.
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The family has been told a rabbit would be allowed on the head stone of the infant in the parish church .
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Not all, however, survived, and of those that did, not all became parish churches .
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It has a very old parish church , St Mary's, and the Lamb Inn opposite is fifteenth century.
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Today we see this in terms of which places have the shops, local school, or perhaps the parish church .
school
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Likewise, in a church school , priorities such as those stated in the admissions policy here can properly be applied.
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Can children attend church school at home?
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At first I tried to make a comparison between a large northern comprehensive school and a smaller London church school.
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He said the move increased parental choice and responded to complaints that the Government was discriminating against church schools .
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Funding church schools is foolishly promoting bigotry and intolerance.
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However, I continued to collect data from the church school .
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The council says it's trying to save money, and is merely proposing to bring church schools into line with other state schools.
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Both Alex and Thrash attended church schools and still nurse sour memories of indoctrination there.
service
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She is also expected to join other royals at the church service on Christmas Day.
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He succumbs to the temptation of attending church services at Lowick, where Casaubon cuts him irretrievably.
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If the burial service follows a church service on a separate occasion, a fee will be charged.
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The church services were mercifully short.
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On Sundays no fewer than 15 church services were available.
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There will be fireworks, concerts, parties, dinners, church services , receptions and a parade.
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Those wishing to attend church services also have to make their way to Kirkburn.
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Some attended secret Christmas Day church services , while many more continued to celebrate the day with traditional feasting and merriment.
village
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The village church , tucked away at the very end of a winding leafy lane, is dedicated to St Mary.
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On Sundays there was a morning service in the village church and an evening hymn-sing in the auditorium.
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When he had leisure he went bicycling to Lincolnshire village churches .
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The village church is gone, the orphanage is still standing, though one wing of it has been gutted by fire.
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Coberley Mill, formerly known as Cubberly, nestles deep in the valley, close to the village church .
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They are quietly married in the village church .
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Of great interest are the church bells, very fine for a small village church.
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The remarkable Black Virgin of Belloc has been transferred from her abandoned mountain sanctuary to the village church of Dorres.
■ VERB
attend
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They attend different churches and are said to hold separate bank accounts.
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Once, while attending church , I saw the priest snoring while the lector read from the Bible.
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They married with a view to inheritance, attended the local Protestant church and contributed handsomely to its building programme.
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The people who attend Pentecostal churches tend to be from the same population that plays the lottery.
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What about those who would like to attend church but through disability or remoteness are unable to do so?
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He had attended church , had a family, helped in the underground railroad, fought in the Civil War.
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Those wishing to attend church services also have to make their way to Kirkburn.
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Various indicators suggest less than 10 percent of San Franciscans regularly attend church .
build
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A large Family Centre being built next to the church will cater for various activities.
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They built churches , hospices, monasteries, and convents.
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The Ecclesiological Society wanted to build a model church .
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She asked him to build a church to her memory and per-formed the first miracle in the New WoAd.
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And plans are already afoot to to build a church there called the Cathedral On Spilt Blood.
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He built churches and converted thousands.
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In March 1973 the Trustees returned to the original idea of building a church hall attached to the Memorial hall.
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Ike and New Hope were building an even bigger church next door to the old new one.
enter
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At first when you enter , the church seems forbidding and rather a muddle.
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When the bodyguards have parked and walked to his car, he gets out and enters the church .
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They could not enter the church , were excommunicated and were never to eat meat.
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She told me about her brother being handed a pink azalea plant as he entered church for the funeral service.
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People walked many miles just to enter a church building even once a month.
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On entering a church the Roman Catholic drops to one knee and makes the sign of the cross.
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From here cross the road and enter the church gate.
establish
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They are now back in this country in the process of establishing new Vineyard churches .
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Naturally most of the more established churches were embarrassed and angered by the unseemly goings on.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a broad church
charismatic church/movement
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Despite the recent successes of house churches and charismatic movements, the overall picture is unchanged.
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Evangelical and charismatic church seem to be more successful in bring adults to faith.
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We see the resurgence in the new nonconformism of the house churches and sometimes in the charismatic movement.
established church/religion
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Carroll did not choose to keep a low profile but spoke up on many issues, often against the officially established religion.
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During the plague, the rich people and most of the ministers who had remained in the established church fled from London.
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His rebellion began quietly enough in a dispute over whether or not to pay taxes for established religion.
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Naturally most of the more established churches were embarrassed and angered by the unseemly goings on.
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That same light revealed the corruption of the established Church.
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The only result of clerical opposition was that the established Church once again forfeited its chance to control developments.
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The representatives from seventeen national parties at the Paris conference were quite plainly non-attenders in the established church of politics.
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Therefore, it is certainly more comfortable to remain in the security of stable established church life.
go to school/church/work etc
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And I was going to school.
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Dad, I want to go to school.
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Everyone says the space program is great, he goes to work on the space program.
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His Mum went to work this afternoon.
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I was too upset to go to school.
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Keith makes himself go to work.
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Phillips should have lost his eligibility for the year while continuing to just go to school.
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When he was told he must go to school, he said he would not.
pillar of society/the community/the church etc
storefront church/law office/school etc
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In Sanchersville, she opened a storefront law office perforating the heart of the ghetto.
the Church of Scotland
the bosom of the family/the Church etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Do you go to church every Sunday?
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Even though I belong to the Catholic Church , I don't agree with everything it says.
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He took us to a Pentecostal meeting in one of the city's many black churches.
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Prayer in schools may be against the separation of church and state that the Constitution requires.
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The Church of England finally agreed to accept the ordination of women priests.
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The evangelical churches are particularly strong in the big cities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Despite all obstacles, state conventions of black Baptist churches did form.
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During the Middle Ages, living pictures of biblical stories were used in churches to educate the illiterate masses.
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I've seen her in church occasionally.
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It may be no more than a little park near work or a church that you stop by during lunch hour.
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Or does it simply make clear that the church tolerates a margin of contradictory views in which extremists can flourish?
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The number of divorcees remarrying in church has risen steadily since such weddings were sanctioned in 1981.