adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
eastern/southern etc extremity of sth
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the southern extremity of New Zealand
eastern/western/Pacific etc seaboard
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the eastern seaboard of the US
the eastern/northern etc slopes of sth
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Vines are grown on the eastern slopes of Mont Bernon.
the southern/eastern etc border
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They renewed their attacks on Ethiopia’s northern border.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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bank
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It sits amid wide lawns and giant cedar trees high above the eastern banks of the wide and winding River Dart.
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Western banks gained 67 % for the year and eastern banks jumped 64 %.
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Even so, Bicker and Luib had to hunt on the eastern bank to supplement what food they had left.
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A group photo showed his tank company on the eastern bank of the Rhine River.
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Proceeding north along a plateau high above the eastern bank of the river, he had stumbled upon the Nez Perce.
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The last battle was only ten miles east of Vicksburg on the eastern bank of the Big Black.
border
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The bad dream had been there all the time, of course, up in the jungles on the eastern border .
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On his eastern border , Ine brought pressure to bear on the eastern Saxons who were sheltering exiles from his kingdom.
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For the eastern border of the Saxons was the River Elbe, and that too was an artery of Saxon communication.
bosnia
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Gen Morillon was also negotiating with local commanders yesterday to try to get aid convoys moving again in eastern Bosnia .
city
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Experts also point to the oil and gas pipelines that feed the eastern cities .
coast
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His findings mirror those of other studies elsewhere on the eastern coast .
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The island's best beaches lie along the norther and eastern coasts with plenty of sand to choose from.
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It will become misty near some eastern coasts .
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The mainland of Yvresse lies along the eastern coast of Ulthuan but the realm also encompasses the islands of the Eastern Ocean.
county
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The Somerset commoners succeeded in fighting off most attempts at drainage where their contemporaries in the eastern counties had failed.
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He returned to the medicine trade and peddled his goods throughout London and the eastern counties .
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Migration from the eastern counties , while on a smaller scale, was forced by no less desperate circumstances.
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Completion of the eastern counties railway network removed the last barrier; now labour was prepared to move rather than tolerate chronic want.
edge
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Louth Park Abbey was founded on the eastern edge of the town in 1139.
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Built for horse carts, it linked the eastern edge of the village with the fields.
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The Constellation crashed on Auchinweet Farm, on the eastern edge of Tarbolton parish, about 5 miles east of the airport.
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Or so it was until the white man first appeared, out of the forests on the grasslands' eastern edge .
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About 1,000 protesters, many from groups that were active in Seattle, demonstrated at the eastern edge of the village.
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The campus is located on the eastern edge of Walt Disney World.
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Ostermark Ostermark is a large and mostly rural province, lying at the north eastern edge of the Empire.
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I headed back toward the eastern edge of town.
end
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The whole eastern end was sealed off.
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Three days later we held a service on the beach at Sagaponack near the eastern end of Long Island.
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Round the eastern end is an ambulatory with radiating chapels.
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The eastern end of the church has an apse of Byzantine form, that is, semi-circular inside and polygonal outside.
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Thwing is a small village on the eastern end of the Wolds of East Yorkshire.
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Internal divisions were positioned at the eastern ends sub-dividing 1/3 or 1/5 of the area.
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An infants school, at the eastern end , was completed in 1850 and closed in 1923.
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The association reported one item of progress, welcoming the recent closure order for the eastern end of Fairview Road.
extremity
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The yard was situated at the eastern extremity of Polruan, where the forest rises steeply from the water's edge.
half
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The eastern half was a warehouse, a storey higher than the mill and built later, around 1890.
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The most southerly of the three enclosures had also been subdivided, although little of its eastern half lay within the trench.
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Through such Promethean effort, the eastern half of the continent was radically made over, for better or worse.
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After her experience in Managua, Kegl wondered whether deaf people in the remote eastern half of the country had a language.
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Carrillo controls the eastern half of the 2, 000-mile border, the Arellanos the western half.
part
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This granodiorite temper was found to be similar to the outcrop close to Mountsorrel on the eastern part of Charnwood Forest.
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While design work is continuing on all sections of the bridge, the eastern part poses the most problems.
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Drier weather will follow south with sunny spells, particularly in the more eastern parts .
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Only six of the 10 tracts are expected to attract strong attention, mostly in the eastern part of the country.
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The peak of Mount Etna dominates the eastern part of the island.
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We were in Agusan del Sur, in the eastern part of the island.
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Industrial estates in the eastern parts of the town will be regenerated by offering grants and business advice.
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The reverse is happening in the eastern part of the Ocean.
region
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Food and medical supplies are desperately needed in the whole eastern region .
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Chemical has traditionally concentrated its underwriting activity in New York and the eastern region .
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Most of the people live in the eastern region .
seaboard
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The new port at Laem Chabang, on the eastern seaboard , was scheduled for completion in 1991.
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Along the eastern seaboard , army units were moved from northern states into the South to prevent suspected insurrection.
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The effects of the storm rippled through the economy of New York and the eastern seaboard , punishing some, rewarding others.
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She carried with her the values of the eastern seaboard , sought to perpetuate them, and succeeded.
shore
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It does so when the eye catches the castle of Rapperswil towards the end of the lake on the eastern shore .
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Almost overnight, it transformed this sleepy village on the eastern shores of Baja California Sur.
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Thus, the eastern shore is saltier than the western shore.
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As the eastern shore of the future United States became the new landscape, it awaited the new pilgrims.
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Meg sat facing him, looking across at the eastern shore .
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As we rounded the lake's southern edge and moved up to the eastern shore , a faint tinkle filled the air.
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Situated on the eastern shore of the lake with a backdrop of terraced vineyards, olive groves and cypress trees.
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We are an odd collection assembled here, stuck fast like stubborn limpets to that eastern shore throughout the winter.
side
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Our plot occupied a compact square nested in a palm of earth on the eastern side of the river.
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Although this road emerges on the eastern side of the town, attempts to trace it much further have failed.
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We made a mistake putting it on the eastern side .
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There are also liquid fertilizer mixing plants strategically placed on the eastern side of the country.
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The atmosphere of grey repression that clung to the eastern side of the city is being purged at an astonishing speed.
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Their site is over the sea west of Wrath, at the eastern side of the Isle of Lewis.
sky
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The brain drifts back to full consciousness now that there is a vague hint of light spreading across the eastern sky .
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The second celestial apparition was a faint, pearly cone of light slanting up the eastern sky .
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Low in the eastern sky was a sliver of white.
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But I saw torches moving, less powerful than lighted matches against the first crack of tarnished gold in the eastern sky .
slope
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Forest situated on eastern slopes of Slieve Croob.
state
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Ruptures would cut the eastern states off from their supply of oil and contaminate ground water.
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Five years after reunification, twice as many women as men were unemployed in the five eastern states .
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Many eastern states are near the end of their landfill capacity.
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Each of these reservoirs would be as long as smaller eastern states .
town
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On Jan 25 one man was killed in the eastern town of Talvan during nationwide anti-war protests.
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Fighting at this stage centred around Mostar and the eastern towns of Visegrad and Foca.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Eastern philosophies
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There was heavy snow in eastern Minnesota yesterday.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As far as temperatures are concerned the brighter eastern areas will do better.
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At this stage of the itinerary I propose to suspend the journey south and visit the eastern glens.
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Jobs had immediately disappeared, as inefficient eastern industries and bureaucracies were shut down.
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On the other hand, people in Britain grew increasingly impressed by the success of the Soviet troops on the eastern front.
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Roughly one-third of the sites in eastern Berlin are state-owned; establishing who owns the rest could take years.
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The company that gets Conrail would dominate eastern railroading.