noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dwelling house
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
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As the scheme applies to nearly all new dwellings , the Act is usually limited to alterations and conversions.
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However, the Act did not apply to new dwellings built after 1919 or to dwellings converted to flats after that date.
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As almost 12,000 houses had been started by 1987, the overall target was raised to 25,000 new dwellings .
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However, since the 1950s some 226 new dwellings have been built.
private
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Over 2800 private sector dwellings were built between 1931 and 1940.
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Even private dwellings follow the same pattern.
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Public or private - the dwelling exception Under the previous law, the offence could be committed in public only.
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It was incorporated by the architect, Alexander Skirving, into a private dwelling house he was building in Langside Avenue.
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In order to exclude domestic disputes, there is a proviso that the offence can not be committed inside a private dwelling .
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It has now been sold and is a private dwelling and pottery workshop.
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Safety glazing is effective but the high cost sometimes prohibits its use in private dwellings .
small
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A few fields have the remains of small sunken stone dwellings , intimate as those at Skara Brae.
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He made a pass across the small cluster of dwellings , wheeled and dipped down for a second pass.
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Various small dwellings pressed against its sides like the farrow of a sow.
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I entered one of the roofless, small dwellings .
■ NOUN
house
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A dwelling house was let at the rent of 16s. 5d. per week.
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It was incorporated by the architect, Alexander Skirving, into a private dwelling house he was building in Langside Avenue.
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Tenby Tudor Merchant's House A beautifully furnished late medieval dwelling house near the harbour.
place
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It was not designed as a dwelling place in the first instance.
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But this is my dwelling place and has been for nearly four months now.
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It was economical, thought Lydia, and reassuring to make your dwelling place of the same indigenous material as your grave.
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Tell me, he said, your ideal dwelling place .
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Any emptying should not involve the contents being taken through a dwelling place or place of work other than an open covered space.
■ VERB
build
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Many mages build their dwellings along these channels and many places of power occur where the lines intersect.
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When land had been apportioned, each family built their own dwelling .
convert
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It was not long before the empty site was converted into dwellings .
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They in turn sold the property, which has now been converted into a dwelling .
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But it would take 10 to 20 years to convert every dwelling .
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A fire destroyed some parts of the western end, and then with more rebuilding it was converted into four dwellings .
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The former was converted into a dwelling during the 1920s; the latter two have both been demolished.
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By the late 1930s it had been converted to a dwelling and remains so to this day.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Building models found in various places make explicit the connection between the Goddess and temples or dwellings.
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By 1951 the Labour government had built 900,000 houses, falling short of its target of 240,000 dwellings a year.
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In the morning sunlight Dent was no longer a fantasy but a solid and compact cluster of dwellings of a past age.
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It is not surprising, therefore, that by the 1970s, more of the newly built dwellings were privately built.
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Most of them are single-family dwellings, which is like calling the Taj Mahal nice digs.
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The Housing Act 1988 is likely to reduce the stock of public-sector dwellings substantially.
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Various small dwellings pressed against its sides like the farrow of a sow.