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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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big
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The Big East alone will be on all three networks this winter.
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For most newcomers to the rough-and-tumble Big East , it can take some time to get up to speed.
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The Owls have a contract with the Big East through the 2005 season.
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But by being there first, the Big East still enjoys an advantage.
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And now Tranghese has the added responsibility of leading a separate Big East football conference.
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But at 8-10 in the Big East , does their entry reflect East Coast bias?
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No team in the history of the Big East has won that many games in succession.
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UMass is 4-0 against Big East foes since 1991, and it defeated Pitt, 85-57, last season in Amherst.
far
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Whereas in the Far East , until just last week, everyone was going to work on an ox cart.
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No such process took place in the Far East .
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It was also the most despised city in the Far East .
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One grunt in the Far East read one of my papers.
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This ended on the Far East circuits on December 2I, 1918.
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Huge areas of the Far East remain wild or primitive.
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That the reviews were positive did not surprise Alvin, but he had seen far past that horizon in the Far East .
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The immobility of the Far East , its extraordinary fidelity to its own ways, was partly the result of internal factors.
middle
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What is preventing peace in the Middle East is two sides refusing to control their extremists.
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In short, the Middle East sets true believer against true believer with survival as the issue.
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Since the end of the cold war there has been no one to fund conflicts in the Middle East .
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But it will take more than words to bring peace back to the Middle East .
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Clinton, sweeping smoothly over the recent nastiness, this week presented his friend as the visionary of a new Middle East .
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The question then became how the frankincense got to the Middle East .
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The weight of import dependence on Middle East oil supply has shifted from west to east.
near
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The international carriage of goods by road is also to distant destinations, such as the Near East and Middle East.
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Its real origins lie deep in the immemorial history of the Near East .
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Nature, as we know, has accorded it generously to the Near East .
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As a colony, the Near East disliked its masters.
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In any case, oil is and will remain the starting-point of endless conflicts in the Near East .
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The Near East surrendered, abandoning itself to the invaders.
■ NOUN
coast
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Fine weather stayed with us for the remainder of our passage down the East coast .
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Government traders could have been mistaken for socially conscious East Coast WASPs, had they only been a bit more repressed.
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Or perhaps you prefer the same type of opportunistic scenario on the East Coast ?
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But traffic was light as airports up and down the East Coast lumbered back to life.
end
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A lavish East End funeral is in prospect.
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They were sitting in a basement place on the East End , Berryman s idea of a bar.
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In the real East End you will find plates of whelks with more emotional depth.
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We walk on through two small clusters of cottages, the East End and the West End.
peace
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Such was the impetus for the new phase of Middle East peace-making launched in October 1991.
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It could also set back his plans for Middle East peace .
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The Middle East peace process was stalemated; negotiations were stymied.
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S.-sponsored Middle East peace process appeared to be on track.
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President Bill Clinton remained involved in Middle East peace efforts until the last days of his administration.
river
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He floated up the East River wearing a stolen watch.
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When her body was found in the frozen marshes of the East River , the death was ruled an accidental drowning.
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Because of cancer, you say, and five cars smack up on the East RIver Drive because of her.
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The Triborough Bridge was reported to be slow because of potholes while traffic on the other East River crossings was moving.
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Whistles, horns, screeching of gears Mulcahey dropped pebbles into the black water of the East River .
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Each morning I was going to take a handful or your dust and drop it on the East River Drive.
side
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The East side of the city is flanked by the slums of the underworld.
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The average tenure in the Lower East Side was about fifteen years.
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I stopped at some lights on the East side .
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She grew up in exceedingly cramped quarters on the Lower East Side .
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But the Lower East Side was merely squalid-an intolerable affront to respectable folk.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A lavish East End funeral is in prospect.
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A little jingle in his head: East is east and lost is lost...
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In the East , they have understood the need to put their internal world in order.
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Its real origins lie deep in the immemorial history of the Near East .
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Not many people will recognize him amid the East Room crowd.
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Some of those children live in the Crossroads shelter in East Boston.
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The Triborough Bridge was reported to be slow because of potholes while traffic on the other East River crossings was moving.