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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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ancient
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It is quite another to attribute a sense of mechanical consciousness to ancient pre-industrial civilization .
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His philosophy is that we were seeded by an ancient civilization .
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Probably this text on the ancient civilization of Sumer would not be a good place to begin.
great
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Through this astounding revolution, she rediscovered her original pride and her dignity as a great civilization .
high
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The higher civilization ultimately can claim a higher right.
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The Beta stands on a much higher plane of civilization and is more developed.
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Britain would advance to a higher stage of civilization via favourable environment and sound heredity.
human
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The pattern of devaluing women's contribution is as old as human civilization .
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The effects of comet and asteroid impacts are potentially damaging to life in general, and to human civilization in particular.
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The expansion of human civilization into space is feasible because of the availability of vast asteroidal and planetary resources.
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I told them that we have dramatically transformed the relationship between human civilization and the earth.
minoan
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What we certainly can see is a tendency towards synthesis and dynamic development, a typical feature of Minoan civilization .
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It may have wiped out the Minoan civilization in Crete.
modern
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As modern civilization spreads, population increases become more manageable.
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Energy is the primary requirement of modern civilization .
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On the outcome of the race between man and power depends the future of modern civilization .
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Our modern civilization has convinced itself that the morality and conventions of civilization are somehow basic reality.
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Only after the last ice age did modern civilization , such as it is, evolve.
new
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In its new sense, civilization meant broadly the opposite of barbarism.
western
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Britain stood for political ideals that must prevail if western civilization were not to break down.
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Truman, Harriman, and others viewed the United States as the chief defender of Western civilization .
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Such a state tends to be rare in contemporary western civilization .
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By accepting it, the world is not taking on Western civilization lock, stock and barrel: far from it.
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The blight of western civilization has been to divorce our thought from our emotions.
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Historically, they are rooted in the values of Western civilization .
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Sanders is merely the athlete who best defines the decline of Western civilization .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the dawn of civilization/time etc
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Once, long ago, at the dawn of time, he had persuaded man to disobey in a garden.
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Since the dawn of time, roughly a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet Earth.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Our century has seen greater climate changes than any period since the dawn of civilization .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But there is a sense in which religion is no less essential to civilization than literature and the fine arts.
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Called to attend at 10.15 in the morning, we started in the time-honoured way of civilization with a coffee break.
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He just came in and destroyed this really high civilization and then left.
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Much of the hostility towards civilization felt by people in the suppressed classes is understandable.
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Once humans had invented civilization , they never lost it.
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There was nothing down there on the earth-no towns, no light, no signs of civilization at all.
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To see them clearly one has to withdraw, mentally at least, from the civilization of which one is a part.
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When the time came for civilization on the planet of the Perks, they built war-trains, undermining engines, mole bombs.