adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a continental breakfast (= coffee and bread with butter and jam )
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Continental breakfast can be served in your room.
continental breakfast
continental drift
continental quilt
continental shelf
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
breakfast
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Room service is available for continental breakfast and daytime drinks and snacks.
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A continental breakfast , with cheeses and meats, is served and dinner is four courses and consists of good home cooking.
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The continental breakfast is supplemented by cheese and ham, and dinner is three courses.
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Each voucher pays for a room with private bath or shower, continental breakfast , hotel service charges and taxes.
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He did not like the continental breakfasts on offer.
country
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But the deepening recession in most continental countries is hitting sales across the Channel.
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It is considerably worse than that in other continental countries .
crust
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Sumatra is composed of old, thick continental crust comprising volcanic rocks of Permian, Cretaceous and Cenozoic age.
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Like a cracked china cup, the continental crust is still fragile where it has been damaged in the past.
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Continental lithosphere stands higher than oceanic lithosphere because continental crust is both of greater thickness and lower density than oceanic crust.
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The Supercontinent Cycle alone has left the continental crust riddled with the scars of former rifts and mergers.
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The upper layer of a plate is composed of either oceanic or continental crust or both.
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The extent of subduction of continental crust below the Himalayas is also in dispute.
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Subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath a plate carrying continental crust gives rise to a continental-margin orogen.
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Alternatively, subducted oceanic crust may be able to pull adjacent continental crust down into the asthenosphere.
drift
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He waxed vehement about dinosaurs and extinction, about continental drift and the good old Galapagos finch.
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Once viewed as a relic, continental drift and seafloor spreading evolved into the modern concept of plate tectonics.
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Plate tectonics is not the same as continental drift .
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We learn, too, that the great geophysicist, Sir Harold Jeffreys, refused to accept the evidence for continental drift .
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Pollution is no longer simply a product of local industry; it often moves in continental drifts as weather patterns change.
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An earth science example is the publication of Wegener's theory of continental drift in 1912.
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So long as no viable cause for continental drift could be demonstrated, however, belief in it remained an act of faith.
lithosphere
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Oceanic lithosphere , however, is young and effectively of uniform age relative to continental lithosphere.
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The heavy oceanic lithosphere descends into the mantle, beneath the lighter continental lithosphere.
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Each of these areas of continental lithosphere are thought to have overridden regions of hot asthenosphere associated with former mid-oceanic spreading ridges.
margin
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Except where subduction zones lie adjacent to mountain belts on continental margins , plate boundaries do not coincide with continental coastlines.
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Many continental margins are not separated by subduction zones from the divergent boundaries marked by mid-oceanic ridges.
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It is possible that a similar flexural effect is associated with great escarpments along passive continental margins .
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The sequence of continental-margin orogen development begins with the subduction of oceanic lithosphere at, or close to, a continental margin .
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The first sections of the converging continental margins to collide suffer the most intense deformation.
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The resulting orogen would be a modified continental margin type.
neighbours
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In this respect we compare very unfavourably with our continental neighbours .
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Child care vouchers Britain seriously lags behind its continental neighbours in provision for child care for working parents.
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Historically, she has laid much greater stress than her continental neighbours on sophisticated external examinations at the end of compulsory schooling.
plate
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In continental plate tectonics what seems static, the surface of the earth, is in reality in constant flux.
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The geophysicist must probe deeper to look at the forces generated below the surface of the earth by the continental plates .
shelf
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The government has announced the opening of the first tender for exploration on its continental shelf .
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This basin, called the Chicxulub crater, formed on the continental shelf in shallow water.
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Most species of marine organism live on the continental shelf .
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The southern component spreads over the continental shelf .
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The shallow drilling programme is central to the systematic survey of the continental shelf .
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Five more oilfields were producing oil from the North Sea continental shelf in 1976, including the massive Brent and Alpha fields.
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The submarine extension of a continent is called the continental shelf .
state
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They also argued that their place in the world economy entitled them to special and separate treatment from the continental states .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The cafe serves continental style cuisine.
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The store is trying to expand into continental Europe.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An and Ganschow have also added items to their already intriguing continental menu.
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Except where subduction zones lie adjacent to mountain belts on continental margins, plate boundaries do not coincide with continental coastlines.
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It is very continental and it gives a great feel to the place.
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Ocean island and continental flood basalt occurrences represent different expressions of plume activity.
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Reliable walking guidebooks cover many of the most popular continental routes.
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She cast a regretful look at the big double bed with its luxurious continental quilt.
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The earthquake triggered submarine landslides that dislodged hundreds of cubic kilometers of sediment on the continental slope.