noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
whole
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A good autumn wind would bring the whole edifice crashing to earth.
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If so, the whole edifice so carefully reconstructed by Finnis is in danger of collapse.
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Managerial authority, and indeed the whole edifice of organisational power, represent the rights of ownership delegated to management.
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Why did she feel then that the whole edifice was about to crumble and fall down, leaving her exposed and defenceless?
■ VERB
build
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Because after all, you built this edifice to be accepted by the world.
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What is the overall impression of the built edifice to the human experience of visitors to that place?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The Times is housed in an imposing edifice on 1st Street.
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The whole edifice of the family's thinking rested on the notion of hard work.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And this was an edifice that would house the greatest mystery of all: wine into blood, bread into flesh.
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Dauntless regarded this imposing edifice with dismay.
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Eventually the theory becomes a creaking and ugly edifice .
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Evidence such as this serves to undermine the apparently monolithic edifice of Victorianism.
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Replacing that foundation, we fear, will topple the edifice .
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The primary edifice , Mandeville Center, is about as inviting as a concrete bunker.
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Then he crossed the street in front of the National Gallery, glancing up at the massive edifice of the building in the process.
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To cast doubt on the importance of production is thus to bring into questIon the foundation of the entire edifice .