noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
byzantine
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But the Byzantine emperors were themselves no more trusting and would generally keep their foreign envoys in virtual isolation.
new
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In 1152, the first plan was revealed by the new emperor .
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The new emperor seems a shy, quiet man, an intellectual.
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The move may have been connected with the fact that the new emperor , Julius Nepos, was an eastern appointment.
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He was dying for a long time, then there was a year of mourning, now we have a new emperor .
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He explains that the whole calendar changes with a new emperor .
roman
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Hadrian Road was named after the Roman emperor who, we agreed, must have genetically bequeathed to us some superlative qualities.
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A number of the Roman emperors were great patrons of building and endorsed and encouraged extensive schemes of architectural development.
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The deposition of Nepos and then that of Romulus Augustulus in 476 saw the end of the line of western Roman emperors .
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Atop their pillars round the Sheldonian Theatre, the busts of Roman emperors cast classically guarded looks at his retreating figure.
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He left with the boy's quilt across his shoulder, swaggering like a Roman emperor .
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He ought to be jolly, but in fact he's a bully, pettish, pampered like a Roman emperor .
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Anyone entering the shrine committed the insult of literally stepping on the head of the Roman emperor .
■ VERB
become
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One day I shall be married, to another Charles, who will become an emperor .
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In 962, Otto became emperor of Rome.
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You can't say that your reason for taking some one's life is because they might change if they become emperor .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Clothes, the emperor thought, made him what he was.
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He seemed to thrive under prison conditions, which caused the emperors to suspect their guards of going easy on the prisoner.
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He was dying for a long time, then there was a year of mourning, now we have a new emperor .
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In retaliation, the emperor gathered fifty pagan scholars, then challenged her to a religious debate.
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It is no wonder that the emperor thought Albrecht Wallenstein a threat.
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The emperor , in particular, needed coronation.
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The coexistence in Francia of Louis and Lothar as co- emperors was possible so long as Lothar remained unmarried.
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There was never any question of dispensing with the services of an emperor .