noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a coal/wood/log fire
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There was a coal fire in the sitting room.
a rail/coal/postal etc strike (= affecting the rail/coal etc industry )
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A rail strike would cause enormous public inconvenience.
coal bunker
coal cellar
coal gas
coal hole
coal mine
coal scuttle
coal tar
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coal tar soap
coal/gold etc miner
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a strike by coal miners
coal/gold etc mining
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the coal mining industry
coal/gold/copper etc mine
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one of the largest coal mines in the country
oil/coal/food imports
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The country is dependent on oil imports for almost all its basic energy needs.
seam of coal/iron etc
the coal/car/textile etc industry
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The town was very dependant on the car industry.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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Then as if the whole world had hunched over to block out the sun, the sky becomes as black as coal .
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Smoke poured from the central chimney, the rich, black coal smoke from the furnace.
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The second meeting I had toast from her, burnt black as coal under lavish butter.
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Wilson had grown up black with coal dust.
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He was kneeling before the fire, his hands and face black with coal dust.
burning
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They merely pave the way for an increasing proportion of those emissions to come from the burning of imported coal .
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Of course you'd expect to find fly ash at any period since people began burning coal in quantity.
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Thermal stations burning coal , oil or nuclear fuel work 24 hours a day and their output is less easy to adjust.
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And burning coal , of course, produces, carbon dioxide as well as sulphur dioxide.
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It was hung with pots and pans, and a huge range was slowly burning coal .
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From a range of six, from leading d-i-y stores Left: Suitable for burning wood or coal , the Dovre 2000.
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After that, he ignored the hand and massaged Bobby's arm until he felt the sensation of burning coals .
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Startled, she turned to discover the dark-haired woman glaring at her through eyes that were like burning coals .
cheap
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They will gain from the ability to buy cheap imported coal in coming years.
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But miners say that the continuing importation of cheap foreign coal is helping to put their jobs on the scrap heap.
clean
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The clean coal project, he said, was to have a five-year timetable to replace the original 10-year timescale.
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We have invested in clean coal technology to safeguard the environment.
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I simply say that it is fairly obvious that Britain could have taken the lead in clean coal technology.
hot
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It was our shovelful of hot coals for the brazier.
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Add a few hot coals after 30 minutes to maintain even heat.
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Selma arrived escorting two braziers, one to keep the coffee pots hot and another for hot coals for the incense pots.
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That would explain why Clemson's football recruits can walk on hot coals ....
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Throw a few twigs of rosemary, fennel or lavender on to hot coals for extra fragrance.
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Cook for 25 minutes over hot wood coals , about 18 inches from coals.
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I'd have walked across hot coals for my grandfather.
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The sausages are also excellent grilled over hot coals .
imported
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The £10,000 scheme has lifted spirits at the school which is close to imported coal mountains at Gladstone Dock.
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They merely pave the way for an increasing proportion of those emissions to come from the burning of imported coal .
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The threat to coal jobs has been much more from gas than from imported coal.
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They will gain from the ability to buy cheap imported coal in coming years.
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What is more, 20 million tonnes of imported coal means another £1,000 million added to the balance of payments deficit.
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If it is not straw, it is imported coal from foreign lands.
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The imported coal is heavily subsidised, as we have said many times in the House.
large
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We are determined to ensure the development of the largest possible economic coal industry that the market can support.
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Almost all large modern coal fired boilers utilize pulverized coal because pulverized coal burns approximately like oil or gas.
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But despite those structural changes, there will continue to be a large market for coal .
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Cerrejon is the second largest open pit coal mine in the world.
opencast
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Social and environmental costs Much has been written on the social and environmental costs of opencast coal .
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This is mainly opencast coal and even its continuance is in doubt.
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Mr. Walker: In making decisions about opencast coal applications, one must consider carefully both the short-term and long-term environmental implications.
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We will reverse the present planning presumption in favour of opencast coal mining and give top priority to local people and their environment.
■ NOUN
bunker
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In the backyards were the brick wash-houses and the coal bunkers .
cellar
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They often drag down members of their family into their coal cellar of degradation as they fuel the fires of self destruction.
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Wes's greatest triumph was undoubtedly the time he removed the grating from the coal cellar outside Skeldale House.
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Otherwise the attic or the coal cellar had to suffice, but concealment had been the fashion.
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I had lights put in the coal cellar and wash house too while he was at it.
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It might seem a bit like looking for a black cat in a coal cellar .
dust
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The blast, 610m below ground, is thought to have been caused by a mix of coal dust and methane gas.
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Though it is not yet the coal regions, the trees feel darkened by coal dust .
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Jeff even carried out trial runs using rockets stuffed with coal dust .
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Wilson had grown up black with coal dust .
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Campaigners claim deposits of coal dust released into the atmosphere are a health hazard and a nuisance.
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His face was still covered in coal dust and he looked anything but a gent.
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For some of the women, selling the coal dust provides their only income to feed their families.
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A lever lid tin was used to heat coal dust , using a spirit burner.
field
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Like oil, gas and coal fields , peat bogs act as vast carbon stores.
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We do know that most coal fields began life as swamps about 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous period.
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This is, after all, the last working pit on the vast Lancashire coal field .
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North Shields became the export base for much of the South East Northumberland coal field .
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If Serpell went through, not a single power station would be linked to a coal field in Great Britain.
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Much of the peripheral area is former coal field rather than rural.
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Geographically this runs from South Northumberland to Cleveland and extends inland to include all the coal field and former coal field areas.
fire
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Raffles A lounge cellar bar with a relaxed atmosphere and a real coal fire .
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A coal fire made the room stuffy, the way he liked it.
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The office was a 2-bedroomed bungalow with a coal fire in the grate!
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The coal fire burned steadily away in the grate.
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It had central heating, a rarity in the experience of people like us who depended on open coal fires .
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Check the ventilation in each room, particularly if there are gas or coal fires .
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My neighbour's house is the only one in a block of seven with a coal fire .
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Other times we burn it either on the coal fire or garden bonfire and that produces ash and gases.
gas
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Meanwhile the manager had started to put coal gas into the other, oxygen, bag.
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And the smell of coal gas forces residents to wear make-shift masks.
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I vividly recall the smell of damp wool and coal gas , which was unlike anything I'd experienced before.
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He was also first in his use of coal gas for train lighting in 1862.
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It was also while Murdock was living in Redruth that he started his experiments with coal gas .
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He was also the first person to use coal gas for lighting purposes.
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Murdock's investigations of coal gas were a direct result of his search for materials to preserve the bottom of ships.
industry
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In the public sector, the coal industry and the whole sphere of public administration and defence both appear.
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That is how it dismisses the coal industry .
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However, they use it as a weapon to bash the coal industry .
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I do not believe that there is a quick fix for the coal industry .
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Indeed, the coal industry as a whole would be put at risk through premature shutdown of the opencast sector.
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There is a large degree of uncertainty about the extent to which women worked underground in the eighteenth-century coal industry .
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Of course, the coal industry faces real challenges - environmentally, for instance.
merchant
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The 13 coal merchants and some of the 12 corn and seed merchants no doubt operated from the wharf.
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Other services provided by Co-operative societies include undertakers, coal merchants and opticians.
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The worst was a coal merchant .
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While doing this he gave a wonderful imitation of his coal merchant and his wife.
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Take an example: Mrs. Jones telephones her coal merchant asking him to deliver six bags of coal.
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If you use solid fuel many approved coal merchants provide budget schemes and supply small quantities.
mine
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The cleft stick plight which is his current political position is displayed most vividly over Mr Heseltine's coal mine dilemma.
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The cars are usually air-conditioned, but the platforms are as comfy as coal mines .
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Thus most power stations are built alongside rivers, canals or the sea, while some are also adjacent to coal mines .
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He was scarcely out of school before he had patented a rock-boring machine for coal mines .
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Further risks are the increase in diesel fumes, back injuries, dermatitis and stress-related problems - all increasing in coal mines .
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Instead you want to work in the coal mines with the rest of them.
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A supreme baseliner, he approached the net about as frequently as Michael Heseltine visits a coal mine .
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Cerrejon is the second largest open pit coal mine in the world.
miner
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K Thousands of coal miners marched through central London to protest at the Government's bungled pit closures.
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Government and industry are behind by some $ 4 billion in paying workers, from coal miners to teachers.
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The Government's prime motivation is to carry out an act of revenge on coal miners and coal mining communities.
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A total of 1272 men from the general population and 2099 retired coal miners aged 50-75 years took part in the study.
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Not only that, the coal miners throughout the Soviet Union went on strike.
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What problems are there for the coal miners ?
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I wanted to be a coal miner , and that was a serious ambition, too.
mining
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Mr. Leigh I agree with the hon. Gentleman to this extent - that the coal mining areas need this money.
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The excess mortality was attributed to coal mining and the extensive use of soft coal in the mining areas.
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The authors thus concluded that the excess mortality noted for gastric cancer was probably related to socioeconomic class rather than coal mining .
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Who introduced a Bill - long overdue - to deal with the coal mining subsidence problem?
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The Bari lands are also threatened by coal mining , and national oil company Maraven has begun seismic tests in the area.
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We want these moneys to go to the coal mining areas, many of which are represented by Labour Members.
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The Government must be reminded that the average age of the labour force in the coal mining industry is about 30 years.
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The line was once a mineral extraction route constructed mainly for coal mining in the area.
price
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The subsidiary threat of a sudden rise in coal prices also made little sense in 1989.
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Not only is production expanding rapidly as foreign mining outfits plunge in, world coal prices have been rising.
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In view of the importance of coal prices we have examined Possible trends in coal prices in another way.
production
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But this could soon be the more familiar face of coal production in Gloucestershire.
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When was the peak period for coal production ?
seam
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The sedimentary rocks, with their coal seams , have been folded and faulted.
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Table 3. 2 provides individual estimate for gaseous coal seams with the geometric mean used wherever a wide spread is given.
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The buried trees became coal seams and the mud and sands turned to shale and sandstone.
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Claystones and siltstones containing finely dispersed coaly matter are considered to be good sources - besides many coal seams .
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He proposes that the coal seams should be worked in the advance.
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Beneath them the coal seams are buried and preserved for our miners today.
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They plan to pump a suspension of catalysts in steam and air or hydrogen, down into a coal seam .
tar
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A new family shampoo comes by way of Cuticura Medicated Shampoo, with an original coal tar formula that helps prevent dandruff.
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Janice smelt of piety and coal tar soap.
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Getting rid of PAHs requires the replacement of old cast iron mains lined with coal tar paper.
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She was using the best guest soap every day instead of the coal tar soap which was to be used by family.
■ VERB
bring
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These ships in return bring coals and lime-stone and many other commodities.
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I brought in some coal from the bin in the hallway.
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Weeping from fatigue when bringing coals up, singing for joy then going back with empty baskets.
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The renewed interest in alternative fuels and feedstocks has revived coal gasification and the old technology is rapidly being brought up to date.
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It brought mainly coal and chemicals to the port for shipping to the Continent.
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He takes one of them, brings it to the coal house and empties it there.
burn
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Then the others will be free to burn the oil and coal that might otherwise be consumed in the nuclear nations.
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A kindness heaped up on her head like burning coals .
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Many landlords in Calcutta, for example, make prospective tenants promise not to burn coal .
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The technology to implement the displacement of oil by burning coal with gas does riot compare in complexity with these wartime developments.
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The living turtles are placed on burning coals and heated until their top and bottom shells become malleable enough to rip off.
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The burning of coal , oil and gas to provide energy results in the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
carry
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Developed for carrying coal and agricultural produce a passenger service was rapidly initiated using wagons, open carriages and converted stage coaches.
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Piece of blue polythene sheeting used to carry coals also discovered close to scene of fire where human remains found.
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Some were small colliers, to carry coal to London.
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We can certainly prefer not carrying endless scuttles of coal up from the cellar.
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A Fellowship Porter was one licensed to carry coal , corn, fish, fruit, or salt.
haul
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Back in the study Edward Crumwallis collapsed into the chair usually reserved for boys whom he was hauling over the coals .
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A big dray horse might be suited to haul a coal wagon, a more delicate saddle horse to recreational riding.
produce
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This is just across the road from Incline Top and should produce 650,000 tonnes of coal .
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It recommends halving opencast within five years and subsidising deep mines by over £5 per tonne to produce the coal instead of us!
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The smell is distinctive, too: chemicals and rotten eggs, the hydrogen sulphides produced by processing coal .
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Because Great Britain is not to produce coal nor have any significant mining industry.
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It is estimated that the 150 men could produce 10,000 tons of coal a week.
rake
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Was he trying to rake over old coals ?
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A dusty-faced boy was now raking the coal and wood from this into a tidy, white pile of ash.
use
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Jeff even carried out trial runs using rockets stuffed with coal dust.
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How is the derating influence by the higher quality physically cleaned coal which should be used for coal / water mixtures?
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Piece of blue polythene sheeting used to carry coals also discovered close to scene of fire where human remains found.
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It soon ventured into steelmaking to use its coal and iron ore.
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These tough animals, who live on the moors year round, were once used extensively in the coal mines.
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Those were the only times when we used a bit of coal .
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One energy mix simply chose the cheapest options for supplying energy - using entirely coal , oil and natural gas.
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What are the names of the main power stations using coal ?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
coal/oil/gas field
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A slim slice of those revenues has always been cut for the communities in the oil fields , local politicians say.
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A third appraisal of this potentially significant heavy oil field will be drilled in 1993.
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For many residents of the oil fields , Pemex executives seem little different from the foreign overlords they replaced.
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Moreover there are indications that in this gas field a secondary fracture porosity may exist.
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North Shields became the export base for much of the South East Northumberland coal field .
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The downturn in the energy industry dragged on so long that workers drifted away and oil field equipment became outdated.
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We do know that most coal fields began life as swamps about 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous period.
haul sb over the coals
live coals
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The central position was taken by the headmaster himself, and the live coals sent vivid warmth to his posterior.
rake over the past/old coals
smokeless coal/fuel
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If she burned smokeless fuel, the soot problem would disappear.
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Real fires Always use smokeless fuel.
wine/coal/timber etc merchant
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Branches of timber merchants , such as W H Newson, stock a range of hardwood mouldings for you to put up yourself.
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Consumers should go there only with guidance from a capable wine merchant or reviewer.
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Other services provided by Co-operative societies include undertakers, coal merchants and opticians.
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Take time to shop around; get to know your local wine merchant or investigate your local supermarket.
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The 13 coal merchants and some of the 12 corn and seed merchants no doubt operated from the wharf.
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The worst was a coal merchant .
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Whigham's Wine Cellar Attached to the famous wine merchants .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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coal miners
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Grill the steaks over medium-hot coals for 5-7 minutes on each side.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For the Schuman plan had implications beyond a simple coordination of coal and steel production.
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Heat is radiated entirely from the ceramic coals or logs.
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Known oil reserves are enough to last for 40 years, natural gas for over 65 years and coal for 250 years.
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Now coal exports are smaller and these docks are less busy.
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Soft coal is notorious for its content of pollutants, such as sulfur.
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What of Labour's plans for the future of the coal industry?
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Wilson had grown up black with coal dust.