adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
contaminated (= water that has harmful substances in it )
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They became ill from drinking contaminated water.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
blood
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Surely she accepts that the Government were right to provide compensation for haemophiliacs who became infected through contaminated blood factor 8.
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Does she agree that haemophiliacs and others who are given contaminated blood transfusions receive them from the national health service?
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There are more than 1,000 haemophiliacs and nearly 100 others who received contaminated blood transfusions.
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They were given contaminated blood before tests were introduced in 1985.
food
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The concern is that most contaminated food is caused by incorrect storage at home, where fridge temperatures may be too high.
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The virus is spread through contact with contaminated food and water.
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If you eat some contaminated food , you will not necessarily feel the ill-effects immediately.
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There is no single agency responsible either for monitoring food safety or for prosecuting those who sell contaminated food.
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Humans can be affected by pesticides through breathing in spray, brushing against treated plants and eating contaminated food .
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Children pick up the eggs from contaminated food or pets, and the worms hatch out at night.
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As a result, there has been a steady inflow of contaminated food since July 1986.
land
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Friends of the Earth accused the government of retreating from a firmly-stated commitment to identify contaminated land .
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Registers of contaminated land would be available for public scrutiny from April 1993.
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Other factors include two years of drought, acid rain, run-off from contaminated land and reduced governmental expenditure on sewage treatment.
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For two decades therefore villagers lived near cyanide- contaminated land without even knowing.
site
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Bioremediation appears to be a very attractive, and in many cases a cost-effective way of cleaning up many contaminated sites .
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He foresees truck-mounted accelerator X-ray units being driven to contaminated sites .
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By last week, government and state officials had doubled their estimates of contaminated sites to about 100.
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Most of the debate about cleaning contaminated sites has concentrated on the Superfund programme.
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It would have obliged local authorities to draw up a register of contaminated sites in their area, and supervise their clean-up.
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The Agency has also pledged to triple the number of cleanups of contaminated sites conducted under the Superfund programme by 1993.
soil
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The programme will involve stripping lead paint from housing, replacing lead water pipes and removing contaminated soil from Tehranmany areas.
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There is also the question of whether it is better to treat on-site or to transport contaminated soil to a specialist plant.
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Sometimes conventional biological reactors are used to clean-up groundwater and/or contaminated soils .
water
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It spread fast in the contaminated water of the great cities, killing in all four epidemics about 100,000 people.
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The allegation was that the defendants had supplied contaminated water to the plaintiffs thereby causing them personal injury.
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Or Pavitra, who drinks contaminated water in her Delhi slum.
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Its hold is estimated to contain some 2,000 tons of contaminated water .
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Many had no time to save their possessions as the filthy, sewage contaminated water surged into their homes.
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This contaminated water eventually resurfaces as a spring, and effectively poisons the plants all around.
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From 200 years on, risks are mainly from contaminated water infecting crops.
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More than eight thousand gallons of contaminated water had to be pumped out of Cannop Brook.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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contaminated drinking water
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Contaminated water leaked from the nuclear reactor.
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Several people became ill after eating hamburger meat contaminated with the E.coli bacteria.
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The soil around the plant is heavily contaminated .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bioremediation appears to be a very attractive, and in many cases a cost-effective way of cleaning up many contaminated sites.
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But it later emerged that the first of three contaminated cargoes arrived on October 5.
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He foresees truck-mounted accelerator X-ray units being driven to contaminated sites.
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It arises when an immune animal is suddenly exposed to a massive larval challenge, usually from a heavily contaminated field.
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No one knows whether the area is contaminated or not.
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Surely she accepts that the Government were right to provide compensation for haemophiliacs who became infected through contaminated blood factor 8.
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The virus is spread through contact with contaminated food and water.
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When whales eat contaminated prey, organochlorines go first to the digestive system, and are then deposited in fatty tissues.