adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a coastal area
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The bird is found mainly in coastal areas.
a coastal belt (= land along the coast )
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The wide coastal belt is a flat plain, partially wooded.
a coastal cliff
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Here the coastal cliffs are low, jutting out into the sea.
a coastal habitat (= a place near the coast where animals and plants live or grow )
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Dolphins are vulnerable to these poisons because of their coastal habitat.
a coastal/desert/mountain etc environment
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The storm caused significant damage to the coastal environment.
a coast/coastal/cliff path
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From the cliff path, you get superb views out to sea.
coastal scenery
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The walk takes in some of Britain’s most breathtaking coastal scenery.
coastal/border/central etc region
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Flooding is likely in some coastal regions of the Northeast during the early part of the week.
marine/coastal erosion (= on land that is close to the sea )
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Coastal erosion is worrying the local residents.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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area
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It arose from the recent conquest of the northern coastal area as far as Anglesey by his friend Hugh, earl of Chester.
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The first is to look for geological records of ancient tsunamis in coastal areas throughout the world.
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In some coastal areas basket making was a major female occupation.
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Global warming will cause the seas to rise, engulfing islands and flooding coastal areas .
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It refers to urban decline and work on rural and coastal areas .
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But a much smaller rise could be devastating for many coastal areas and islands.
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There is little fresh crab available except in coastal areas .
city
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They included the construction of sewage purification plants in 100 coastal cities and the establishment of at least 25 supervised toxic waste depots.
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Venice, therefore, had an imperative need to extend its influence over the Dalmatian coastal cities .
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At least 250 more people were reported to have been arrested on Nov. 14 and 15 in the coastal city of Alexandria.
community
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Exempt certain businesses and coastal communities from complying with wetlands regulations.
defences
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It said it was already paying for improved flood and coastal defences .
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Built in 1540 as one of Henry VIII's network of coastal defences , it is now little more than a rock pile.
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The results will be used to develop coastal defences .
district
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These passage-graves were covered with cairns of stone, frequently mixed with shells in coastal districts .
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The Hindu of May 20 reported that the death toll in the coastal districts had reached 817 and was expected to rise.
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Most records since 1947 have been for coastal districts , which perhaps just reflects the distribution of observers at the migration seasons.
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These are lean times for the poor small farmers who work marginal lands in the coastal districts .
erosion
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Waxholme is on the coast and suffers badly from coastal erosion .
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Exact positions of the 120 pegs will depend on the state of the beach due to the recent coastal erosion .
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In 1816 the old church at Owthorne finally succumbed to the coastal erosion and its remnants disappeared into the sea.
marsh
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One or two pairs breed in coastal marshes .
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Sandbanks and coastal marshes are now clear, as are the variations in the sediment load of the estuarine waters.
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Cattle fattening on the coastal marshes supported a prosperous peasantry as in Lincolnshire.
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In winter on estuaries, coastal marshes and farmland.
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The monks of Furness reclaimed the coastal marshes of Walney, with embankments incorporating beach pebbles.
path
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Volunteers will be constructing steps along a coastal path .
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The coastal path , Peddars Way, and Thetford Forest provide many interesting walks.
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The coastal path alone is sixty-five miles long.
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Easily Accessible: Dartmoor, with its woods, tors and ancient sites, and the long coastal path provide numerous walks.
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The work includes constructing steps along the coastal path and several days pitching on the nearby Glen River path.
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In winter we look for work on the more difficult lowland sites such as coastal paths .
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For walkers there is the excitement of exploring Dartmoor National Park and the miles of scenic coastal path .
plain
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The Hinkley Point development in fact erupts with total incongruity from the flat coastal plain which borders the Bristol Channel.
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We sat with our backs against the trig point and gazed down like Gods on the coastal plain of Thassos.
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For the Downland, sheep remained dominant; it was in the coastal plain and Weald that a new impetus was given.
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Macadam until we run out of the coastal plain and start to climb.
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How different was the rich, irrigated coastal plain !
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Undulating coastal plains and other ungraded lowlands, underlain by permafrost, in summer form some of the tundra's wettest areas.
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The outward journey was quite uneventful as far as the Wadi Tamit, a steep defile leading down the escarpment on to the coastal plain .
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Where the road passed through the coastal plains there were farms with cattle grazing on knee-high grass.
region
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Meanwhile Grom's attentions had turned to the west and to the coastal regions of the Empire.
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For two days, police in the remote coastal region around Sodwana Bay had stumbled and fumbled their way into the case.
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An estimated 2,000,000 people either fled or were evacuated from the coastal regions in advance of the hurricane.
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The coastal regions , those richest in marine life, were found to have the highest concentrations.
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It comes from coastal regions of Sierra Leone, again in soft, acid water.
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Unless expensive sea defences were built, low-lying coastal regions would be permanently submerged.
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These forests vary in character from closed forests to open woodlands and include mangrove forests that occur in coastal regions .
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Yesterday, Coun Davies said she understood that bids had been invited for exploration of the coastal region which included Aberconwy.
resort
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Thus the mixture of people in the coastal resorts is different from that in the industrial towns.
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This was mainly rural farmland with a few market towns and small coastal resorts .
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Some of the inland villages stood still in time and were quiet and peaceful respites from the glamour of the coastal resorts .
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In the worst-case scenario, coastal resorts , ports and communities face disaster or vast expenditure on coastal protection works.
road
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Soon we were off, heading northward, along the coastal road .
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Guests are transported by lift from the main coastal road to the garden setting.
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In recent years a new coastal road has been built from Ribeira Brava to Tabua.
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The route taken to the abbey was through the Circeo National Park and along the scenic coastal road next to the Tyrrhenian sea.
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The coastal road to the A259 linking the town with the Cross Channel Ports.
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There were salt marshes on the seaward side of the coastal road and Davis had found a causeway that flanked them.
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The A259 is the coastal road to the Cross Channel Ports.
site
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From the coastal sites at Shakespeare Cliff and Sandgatte the tunnels continue landward.
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We would like to re-emphasise the need to recycle coastal sites such as those used for power generation.
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For these rocks there is no need for a coastal site .
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Dounreay was chosen because it possesses cable links to the national grid and a suitable coastal site .
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An assessment is under way of some of the most important coastal sites and already widespread damage has been found.
strip
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And the ban will stay in place as long as the coastal strip is starved of much needed rain.
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The islanders inhabit the coastal strip only, and subsist almost entirely on royalties from the mining.
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Although hierarchy was not expressed by ritual along the coastal strip , inequality remained fundamental to perceptions of caste.
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With his vision of what they could achieve, he planned a whole series of assaults on airfields along the coastal strip .
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Large deposits of ash, burnt clay and associated briquetage have been found in numerous places along this coastal strip .
town
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Before the closing of the railway from Hull to the coastal town of Hornsea, Sutton was a station on the way.
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A displaced community outside the coastal town of Catumbela illustrates what canbe achieved.
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The coastal towns are expanding in their hinterlands rather than along the waterfront, and disused industrial areas are favoured for development.
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Olbia, a busy coastal town , serves the area with an airport.
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Together they made an arduous two-day trek across mountains with women and child refugees to the coastal town of Split.
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Rottingdean, coastal town in Sussex where Miss Pankey's aunt lived.
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The Crown had long had an unquestioned right to commandeer ships from coastal towns .
village
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She was brought up in Cramer, a coastal village a few miles from Dunstanburgh.
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The tour begins in Genoa, and proceeds along the Ligurian coast to the five hidden coastal villages of the Cinque Terre.
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Many of the small, pretty inland and coastal villages can be incorporated into walks.
walk
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There is a stunning 10-mile coastal walk from St Andrews to Crail.
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Excellent shops, fine coastal walks and lovely gardens complete this picturesque resort.
water
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Still and slow-moving fresh water , estuaries, sheltered coastal water, sometimes breeding in swamps.
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In Kent the coastal water is up to three metres higher than it should be.
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Margins of fresh and coastal water , marshes and cultivated land.
waters
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This renders them sterile and has resulted in their virtual elimination from the Southampton and Solent coastal waters .
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Most of these species of wrasse are commonly seen by divers in shallow coastal waters .
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Not only has it been sailing in calm coastal waters , but it also has one of your sea-marshals on board.
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Breed exclusively by fresh and brackish water and marshes; often in coastal waters on migration.
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The sailfish is found worldwide in tropical oceans, at the edge of coastal waters and in the open sea.
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It cooed about sewage treatment, environmental improvements and coastal waters .
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Experts from their Ross-on-Wye headquarters carried out an extensive survey of the coastal waters around the Shetland isles.
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Because it inhabits coastal waters in heavily populated and fished areas, the harbour porpoise has suffered greatly in recent years.
zone
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There is an opportunity here to explain why the coastal zone is so special.
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The deal envisaged would permit a limited resumption of commercial whaling inside the 200-mile coastal zones of the countries concerned.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the coastal waters of Florida
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Altogether, it was a vast area whose different parts were cut off from each other except by slow coastal navigation.
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Exempt certain businesses and coastal communities from complying with wetlands regulations.
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First entering shallow equatorial seas, then estuaries and coastal oceans, the prehistoric cetaceans spread through the seas of the world.
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In the 1800s most fishermen were after whales, until their coastal net fishery wiped out local populations.
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In the worst-case scenario, coastal resorts, ports and communities face disaster or vast expenditure on coastal protection works.
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Pierluigi stood up to pull down his roller map of central coastal California.
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The coastal ports also saw an increased trade, especially with rich Byzantium.
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They included the construction of sewage purification plants in 100 coastal cities and the establishment of at least 25 supervised toxic waste depots.