adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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quarry
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They looked down into the big disused quarry .
railway
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The route is waymarked throughout its length and uses footpaths, sections of disused railway line and some minor roads.
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They and their disused railway lines remind us of wealth in the last century - but unemployment during the last 50 years.
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Car blaze: Firemen attended a car fire on a disused railway line near Letch Lane, Stockton.
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Sites investigated included a disused railway tunnel and bogland in Nad.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The drugs were found in a disused warehouse.
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They have been given a grant to convert the disused church into luxury flats.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A disused Victorian toilet block has just gone up for sale.
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Home territory is the disused runway at the Dalton Barracks in Abingdon.
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I parted some grass and wondered why Cawthorne had bothered to run electric and telephone cables to a disused toilet for farmhands.
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Seven people were arrested for public order offences at the illegal party, whiCH was held in a disused colliery near Cinderford.
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The organisation wants to turn the disused school into a community centre offering religious, educational and leisure facilities.
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There was no bubbling of water from inside, and the culvert seemed to be disused and silted up with debris.
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Valleys in the Yorkshire Dales are scattered with dozens of these field barns, virtually all disused .