I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a specific/concrete proposal
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The report will make specific proposals for further investigation.
concrete jungle
concrete mixer
concrete noun
reinforced concrete
stone/brick/concrete wall
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The estate is surrounded by high stone walls.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
action
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Similarly, the government must take concrete action .
base
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Mastic asphalt can be laid over any deck but, in general, a general, a concrete base is preferred.
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But next morning I was shovelling away anew, soon to discover the concrete base of the original pool.
block
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Most likely to suffer are concrete block houses built in the Twenties and Thirties and earlier buildings where shuttered concrete was employed.
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There was another little room, the Quiet Room, plain concrete block walls without chairs or windows.
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Meanwhile, powerful United States Army helicopters continued dropping massive concrete blocks to hinder the lava flow.
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This building also will be made of structural steel and concrete blocks .
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The concrete block shell was in place by early 1992 ready for the 25-week facing brickwork stage to begin.
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Since then, her head has felt like a concrete block .
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Construction method would be single walled using concrete blocks and bricks.
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A hand inscribed concrete block says' A Sailor's Grave.
building
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You can see it from here - that concrete building .
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Red brick dormitories and concrete buildings that rose like geometric blocks from a foundation of asphalt and cement.
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Below Manescu saw a complex of concrete buildings and a circular tower block surrounded by a high wire fence.
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Building officials said the highest risks are from pre-1976 concrete buildings.
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More than these towering concrete buildings - these prison walls of glass and stone.
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We drove up to a group of concrete buildings that looked like dormitories.
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Grey concrete buildings that had been thrown up, always wherever they could be fitted in, on either side.
bunker
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It's rather like a concrete bunker but hopefully with some work we can make it look quite nice.
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The primary edifice, Mandeville Center, is about as inviting as a concrete bunker .
evidence
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They were continual concrete evidence of the sleight of hand which had conjured me from one world to another.
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The report appears content that such rhetorical gaps loom between the concrete evidence it amasses and the maxims it imparts.
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In the absence of any concrete evidence of an agreement it is unlikely that this could have been done.
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Not even the National Enquirer can dispute such concrete evidence .
example
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The present chapter provides concrete examples of such an evaluation.
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For a concrete example , consider again the commercial airliner industry.
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We do this via some concrete examples , simple enough to allow the logical principle involved to be easily seen.
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I made the same point in the previous chapter but it may help if I give a concrete example .
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They sometimes contain concrete examples of changes which need to be made.
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To give a concrete example , consider the capsule to be falling radially toward the Earth.
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The message here is: Don't be afraid to examine lots of concrete examples .
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Let me give a concrete example of what I mean.
floor
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His shoes were off and his cloven hooves showered sparks across the concrete floor .
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He fell and hit his head on the concrete floor .
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In doing that every day for fifty one years he actually wore a trench in the solid concrete floor .
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On the concrete floor inside are tire tracks, and skid marks where kids have done wheelies or donuts.
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A low interest loan from an anonymous benefactor allowed the concrete floor to go in.
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The lowest six stories were fully framed and concrete floors were being poured.
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This policy of renewal was effected by installing a replacement internal structure of load-bearing brick walls and insitu concrete floors .
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There were pools of water on the concrete floor , and all around a smell of dead and standing air.
form
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Typically, a project takes concrete form as a document or suchlike.
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It might take concrete form as civic leadership groups, public-private partnerships, industry councils, or other institution-spanning bodies.
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All these issues take concrete form in the exchange's rules and regulations.
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The concrete form in which the host may benefit is, as noted in the previous chapter, the creation of linkages.
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The City's only the outward, concrete form of it.
foundation
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A concrete foundation is laid after digging down to firm ground.
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Currently, the bridge towers sit on concrete foundations that are anchored to bay soils by 85-foot Douglas fir timbers.
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What you say during a political campaign is the concrete foundation of it.
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Designers are considering enlarging and strengthening the concrete foundations , and anchoring them into Bay soils with steel pilings.
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One man glued a pressure-treated board to a concrete foundation in his basement.
jungle
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Val d'Isere because the skiing is just so brill and Tignes is, well, a concrete jungle really.
mixer
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The concrete mixers with lethal faults.
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He was working on a building site at Middle Barton in North Oxfordshire when a concrete mixer rolled back toward a workman.
operation
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Consider two of the characteristic features of the first sub-stage of the period Piaget calls the period of concrete operations .
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During concrete operations , affect acquires a measure of stability and consistency that was not present earlier.
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With the attainment of concrete operations , the ability to reason logically about and solve conservation problems emerges.
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The child at the stage of concrete operations can assume the viewpoint of others and spoken language is social and communicative.
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During concrete operations , the use of language becomes more fully communicative in function.
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With the development of concrete operations , language becomes less egocentric.
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Not until the stage of concrete operations do accurate concepts appear.
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Some will be in concrete operations .
path
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Barak led them up a narrow concrete path to the unpainted door and opened it.
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Stepping off the concrete path on to gravel was a new sensation and he felt himself slide and stumble.
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Peter walked up the concrete path and let himself into the house.
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Footsteps clicked on the concrete path that led along the side of the bungalow.
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Then they both creep along the pavement, on to the concrete path , up the concrete stairs to the waiting concrete flat.
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This concrete path is cracking up under the strain of thousands of paws padding over it.
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It makes very loud crunching, splitting noises on the concrete path .
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The concrete paths had been cleared of snow and ice.
problem
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It will always be based on the concrete problems encountered by communities in real situations.
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But an awareness of history and an appreciation of the aims of the Founding Fathers do not always resolve concrete problems .
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If we can not help in the analysis of concrete problems , we should keep our mouths firmly shut.
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In addition, they can not correctly reason about concrete problems that involve many variables.
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We want to address ourselves to concrete problems in today's world.
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It is interesting to note that the two problems just presented are concrete problems.
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It was rather to identify some of the concrete problems which would have to be faced in any such exercise.
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Children can solve conservation problems and most concrete problems.
proposal
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A lot of words, and a few concrete proposals .
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He had concrete proposals and made his case simply.
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Although the White paper states the importance of the informal sector there are few concrete proposals as to how this will develop.
reality
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But what concrete reality lies behind that abstraction?
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Media education, therefore, should respect the concrete reality of the media situation in each region or sub-region.
result
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Talks with commercial bank creditors over two days were reported on June 21 to have failed to produce concrete results .
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It is an elegant procedure, producing satisfyingly concrete results when it works, which it did for us.
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The main concrete result of the discussions was a preliminary agreement on chemical weapons.
situation
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But many statutory duties are couched in quite vague terms which leave it unclear what the duty-bearer must do in concrete situations .
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Scientists holding these values may make different choices in the same concrete situation .
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The debate over the middle peasantry can only be resolved by referring to concrete situations .
slab
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Previous development may also have left old foundations, concrete slabs and basements which must be identified and quantified for additional cost.
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Very important to know, because suppose you got permafrost under your concrete slab ?
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Now the club lies under pulverised concrete slabs .
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Speedo changed position on the concrete slab .
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The wall was topped with rolls of barbed wire and jagged ends of glass stuck into the eight-foot concrete slabs .
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Crisp precast concrete slabs are teamed with brick, the latter helping to soften the overall surface.
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This block is made out of a steel structure covered with concrete slabs and masked with a red brick shell.
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And over it had meshed a concrete slab , which now the lever of the house was painfully and irresistibly easing up.
structure
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It was the first major concrete structure to be built in Britain since Roman times.
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Collagen normally functions like steel reinforcing rods in a concrete structure .
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The concrete structure should be sufficiently dense to limit water ingress to ensure that the system can cope.
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Some specialize-for example, in structural steel or reinforced concrete structures .
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Cladding for the concrete structure is once again in tune with the surrounding area.
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She pointed to a concrete structure , the size of a one-car garage, with a metal roof.
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The four zones are contained within a single reinforced concrete structure made both with concrete cast in-situ and precast concrete.
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A row of eighteenth-century baroque merchants' houses was interrupted half-way along by a steel and concrete structure .
wall
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Collisions with concrete walls have broken three of his ribs and shattered a kneecap.
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The Noedings have put in a L-shaped concrete wall 2 feet above ground and 2 feet below to protect their house.
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Freed of its burden, the cab sped on, rammed into a low concrete wall .
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Otherwise, the basement is well underground, and Jasper had himself forced the hooks into the concrete wall .
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Concrete beams and a concrete wall will tend to move as one.
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It swerved wildly towards the wall , bounced over the pavement and came to a stop four feet from the concrete wall.
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The method is more environmentally friendly than building concrete walls .
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He was in a bare cellar: concrete floor, concrete walls , perhaps a wine-cellar converted to a new purpose.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be faced with stone/concrete etc
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It is faced with stone on the outside and red marble inside.
lay bricks/carpet/concrete/cables etc
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Compact the base, then lay concrete, using a 1 cement to 5 parts ballast mix.
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During the week I found work in town painting houses, laying carpets and delivering telephone books.
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Trying to raise efficiency and morale without first setting this structure to rights is like trying to lay bricks without mortar.
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Why didn't he lay concrete you ask?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Just tell him what you want in clear and concrete terms.
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No mention is made of any concrete plans to address workers' complaints.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Concrete beams and a concrete wall will tend to move as one.
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He fell and hit his head on the concrete floor.
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It was the first major concrete structure to be built in Britain since Roman times.
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It would, by virtue of the fact that it was scientifically detectable, be concrete .
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They were following the concrete channel of the serpentine rill, which emptied itself into a pool of stygian blackness.
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Trent dived belly flat into the protection of a bush sprouting from beside the concrete piling.
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With the attainment of concrete operations, the ability to reason logically about and solve conservation problems emerges.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
build
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A composite building of steel plus concrete is extremely difficult to achieve in New York City.
pour
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Thermocouples are placed in the freshly poured concrete to measure the concrete temperature.
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When you pour the concrete , be sure the threads are clean so nothing interferes with installing the nut.
reinforced
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Each of the Apollo launch pads was 0.65 square kilometres in size and constructed of heavily reinforced concrete .
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Roebling had pioneered fireproof construction methods, especially the use of reinforced concrete .
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The place was losing the look of old photographs. Reinforced concrete was gaining the light.
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Problem: Footings under masonry walls are not reinforced concrete .
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Public works inspectors may specialize in highways, structural steel, reinforced concrete , or ditches.
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If steel and concrete were incompatible in any of these areas, reinforced concrete would sooner or later degrade.
set
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I do not regard the United Kindom constitution as set in concrete .
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Until the job is actually offered and refused, however, nothing is set in concrete .
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To set that in concrete seems beside the point.
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Here, too, metal reinforcements set in the concrete have rusted because the concrete contained too much calcium chloride.
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The bright red benches were attached to the ground by bolts set in concrete .
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Then install some form of perimeter edging: path-edging stones or brick pavers, for example, set in concrete .
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We can not regard the present statements as necessarily being set in concrete .
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It was wet before harvest and then it set like concrete .
use
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Many of New York's bridges are made using inadequately reinforced concrete .
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Instead, consider using interlocking concrete blocks.
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Storage of materials and the effort of mixing are eliminated by using ready-mixed concrete , which is available in two forms.
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He hopes to install an adobe-making plant at his Redford ranch, using a commercial concrete truck as his mixer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A twenty-five-foot wave carrying huge pieces of concrete flattened schools and ripped away bridges.
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For instance, one person may estimate only electrical work, whereas another may concentrate on excavation, concrete , and forms.
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He returned to the North to work on the problems of reinforced concrete for a commercial company.
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She was on her knees, tights torn by rough concrete .
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To set that in concrete seems beside the point.
III. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As far as I could see, a holy well pointed out to me by my 1973 taxi driver had also been concreted.
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Cutting Edges On boundaries that don't butt up to existing walls, blocks must first be concreted in position.